Sandrine Testud

Sandrine Testud

Infobox Tennis player
playername = Sandrine Testud


country = FRA
residence = Lyon, France
datebirth = birth date and age|1972|4|3
placebirth = Lyon, France
height = 1.76 m (5 ft 9 in)
weight = 68 kg (150 lb)
turnedpro = 1989
retired = 2005
plays = Right
careerprizemoney = $3,782,307
singlesrecord = 398–279
singlestitles = 3
highestsinglesranking = 9 (February 7, 2000)
AustralianOpenresult = QF
FrenchOpenresult = 4r
Wimbledonresult = 4r
USOpenresult = QF
doublesrecord = 223–190
doublestitles = 4
highestdoublesranking = 8 (August 21, 2000)
updated= July 12, 2006

Sandrine Testud (born April 3, 1972) in Lyon, France is a former professional female tennis player from France.

Career

Testud broke into top 20 singles rankings in July 1997. On February 7, 1999, she became the fourth Frenchwoman after Francoise Durr, Mary Pierce and Nathalie Tauziat to break into singles top 10 rankings. This marked the first time France had three women ranked in singles Top 10 simultaneously. (Mary Pierce at No. 5, Nathalie Tauziat at No. 6 and Testud at No. 9). France was the third nation after the USA and Australia to have more than two representatives in the singles Top 10 at any one time. She finished in the top 20 singles rankings for five consecutive years between 1997 and 2001. In the summer of 2002, she took a break from the tennis circuit when she discovered that she was pregnant with her first child. She resumed her career 12 months after the birth of her child and retired in the summer of 2005.

She won a total of 3 WTA Tour singles and 4 WTA Tour doubles titles. Her biggest singles tournament victory was at the 1998 Tier II tournament in Filderstadt, Germany, where she defeated world number two Lindsay Davenport in the final. She was the runner-up in WTA Tour singles and doubles tournaments on 7 occasions each. Her third career-title victory that came in Hawaii over Justine Henin happened in a final that was delayed for a day due to the terrorist attacks on the U.S. on September 11, 2001. Her last WTA Tour singles final was in Dubai where she lost to Amelie Mauresmo in what was the fourth all-French final in WTA Tour history. She has gone beyond the fourth round of a Grand Slam tournament on two occasions: She reached the quarter-finals at the 1997 US Open and the 1998 Australian Open. Testud played in the season-ending Tour Championships for five consecutive years from 1997 to 2001; reaching the singles semi-final and doubles quarterfinal in her last appearance in 2001.

In 1999, Testud was the women's doubles runner-up at the US Open with Chanda Rubin, and she reached the women's doubles quarter-finals or better in six Grand Slam tournaments. She was a WTA Tour doubles semi-finalist on 21 occasions, excluding Grand Slams: 1991(2), 1992(2), 1993(1), 1994(1), 1995(1), 1996(4), 1997(2), 1998(1), 2000(3), 2001(2), 2002(1), 2005(1)

Testud represented her country in the Fed Cup between 1997 and 2002. She won her second singles match against the host country Netherlands to give France an unassailable 3–1 lead in the 1997 Fed Cup final in Den Bosch. That was the first time France had won the Fed Cup. She also represented her country in the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens, where she lost in the singles first round and reached the doubles QF with Nathalie Dechy.

Testud married her coach, Vittorio Magnelli, on June 13, 1998. Their daughter, Isabella, was born on Feb 19, 2003.

WTA Tour singles finals

*1997: W - Palermo (Italy); RU - Atlanta (Georgia)
*1998: W - Filderstadt (Germany); RU -Prague (Czech Republic)
*1999: RU – Linz (Austria)
*2000: RU – Pan-Pacific Open (Tokyo, Japan)
*2001: W – Hawaii; RU – Canberra (Australia), Doha (Qatar)
*2002: RU –Dubai (United Arab Emirates)

WTA Tour doubles finals

*1992: RU - Pattaya(Thailand) with Paradis-Mangon
*1995: RU - Carlsbad(California) with Alexia Dechaume-Balleret
*1998: RU - Quebec City(Canada) with Chanda Rubin
*1999: W – Filderstadt(Germany) with Rubin; RU – Philadelphia(Pennsylvania) with Rubin; US Open RU with Rubin;
*2000: W – Paris Indoor Open(France) with Julie Halard-Decugis, Stanford(California) with Rubin
*2001: W – Doha(Qatar) with Roberta Vinci; RU – Zürich with Vinci
*2002: RU – Dubai(United Arab Emirates) with Vinci

External links

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