Raphaël Lévy is a professional player. He was inducted to the in November 2006. He is the first player to have been inducted while active on the. He is one of only six players to have won a Grand Prix on three different continents. He also currently holds the record for lifetime Pro Points.
Career
Raphaël Lévy began his career in at Pro TourParis. A 130th-place finish meant he did not qualify for the next Pro Tour. After missing Pro Tour New York, he qualified for the 1997, and did not miss a Pro Tour until Pro Tour Ixalan due to the birth of his child. Lévy first began to attract attention the first by winning Grand Prix |Grand Prix Lyon and then reaching the top eight of the World Championship. He was the only non-American in an impressive top eight whose players now have a combined 37 Pro Tour Sunday appearances. In, Lévy continued to perform well with fourth-place finishes in Grand Prix Barcelona and the in Berlin. Before the turn of the millennium, Lévy put up his second Pro Tour Top eight. A semifinal loss to Brian Davis saw Lévy put up yet another fourth-place finish. Over the following six years, Lévy did well without standing out. He remained continuously qualified for the Pro Tour, and put up nine Grand Prix top eights. However, his third Pro Tour Top Eight would not come until seven years after his second. In, Lévy's two Pro Tour Top Eights and streak of then 47 consecutive Pro Tours attended were enough to get him inducted into the. This honour served to reinvigorate Lévy's game., he won back to back Grand Prix in Dallas and Singapore. He made his third Pro Tour Top eight in Yokohama, making him the first Hall of Famer to make it back to the Sunday stage. Since then, Lévy has returned to putting up solid Pro Tour finishes without reaching the top eight, and has put up five more Grand Prix top eights, one of which was his fourth Grand Prix title. In 2012, at Lévy earned 6 pro points equalling the 500 lifetime pro points record of Kai Budde. Raphael Levy also became the 2012 FrenchNational Champion by being the highest ranked French player after, and as a result was part of the French National Team at the inaugural, where they finished in 10th place. Levy was in 2013 once again the highest ranking French player, and at the he captained the French team to victory. The win qualified Levy for the, where he finished 17th.
