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Sandrine Testud

Sandrine Testud (born April 3, 1972) in Lyon

Lyon

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, France is a former professional female tennis

Tennis

Tennis is a sport played between two players or between two teams of two players each . Each player uses a strung racquet to strike a hollow rubber Tennis ball covered with felt over a net into the opponent's tennis court....
player from France.

Career
Testud broke into top 20 singles rankings in July 1997. On February 7, 1999, she became the fourth Frenchwoman after Françoise Durr

Françoise Durr

Fran?oise Durr is a former tennis player from France. She won 26 singles titles and 60 doubles titles. According to Lance Tingay of Daily Telegraph and the Daily Mail, Bud Collins, and the Women's Tennis Association, Durr was ranked in the world top ten from 1965 through 1967, from 1970 through 1972, and from 1974 through 1976, reaching a...
, Mary Pierce

Mary Pierce

Mary Pierce is a tennis professional playing on the WTA Tour. She is a citizen of France, Canada, and the United States but plays for France in team competitions and the Olympics....
and Nathalie Tauziat

Nathalie Tauziat

Nathalie Tauziat is a former tennis from France....
to break into singles top 10 rankings. This marked the first time France had three women ranked in singles Top 10 simultaneously.

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Sandrine Testud (born April 3, 1972) in Lyon

Lyon

Tennis

Career

Testud broke into top 20 singles rankings in July 1997. On February 7, 1999, she became the fourth Frenchwoman after Françoise Durr

Françoise Durr

Mary Pierce

Nathalie Tauziat

Nathalie Tauziat is a former tennis from France....
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

Filderstadt

Filderstadt is a town in the Esslingen in Baden-W?rttemberg in southern Germany. It is located approximately 13 km south of Stuttgart.Filderstadt is located next to the Stuttgart Airport and the new land fair....
, Germany, where she defeated world number two Lindsay Davenport

Lindsay Davenport

Lindsay Ann Davenport is a former World No. 1 American professional tennis player. She has won three Grand Slam singles tournaments and an Olympic Games gold medal in singles....
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

Dubai

Dubai is one of the seven Emirates of the United Arab Emirates and the most populous city of the United Arab Emirates . It is located along the southern coast of the Persian Gulf on the Arabian Peninsula....
where she lost to Amélie Mauresmo

Amélie Mauresmo

Am?lie Simone Mauresmo is a French professional tennis player. She is a former List of WTA number 1 ranked players. Mauresmo won two Grand Slam singles titles in 2006, at the 2006 Australian Open and at 2006 Wimbledon Championships....
in what was the fourth all-French final in WTA Tour history. She has gone beyond the fourth round of a Grand Slam

Grand Slam (tennis)

The four Grand Slam tournaments are the most important tennis events of the year in terms of world ranking points, tradition, prize-money awarded, and public attention....
tournament on two occasions: She reached the quarter-finals at the 1997 US Open and the 1998 Australian Open

Australian Open

The Australian Open is the first of the four Grand Slam tennis tournaments held each year. The tournament is held each January at Melbourne Park....
. 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

Chanda Rubin

Chanda Rubin is a professional tennis player from the United States.Throughout her long career, she has been ranked as high as No. 6 in the world even though she has been plagued by injuries....
, 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

Fed Cup

Fed Cup is the premier team competition in women's tennis, launched in 1963 Federation Cup to celebrate the 50th Anniversary of the International Tennis Federation ....
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

Olympic Games

The Olympic Games are an international multi-sport event established for both summer and winter sports. There have been two generations of the Olympic Games; the first were the Ancient Olympic Games held at Olympia, Greece, Greece....
in Athens

Athens

Athens , the Capital and largest city of Greece, dominates the Attica periphery; as one of the List of cities by time of continuous habitation, its recorded history spans around 3,400 years....
, where she lost in the singles first round and reached the doubles QF with Nathalie Dechy

Nathalie Dechy

Nathalie Dechy is a French professional tennis player. She is a three-time doubles Grand Slam champion, winning the 2006 U.S. Open women's doubles title with Vera Zvonareva, the 2007 French Open mixed doubles title with Andy Ram, and the 2007 U.S....
.

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

WTA Tour singles finals

Wins (3)

Legend (Singles)
WTA Championship (0)
Grand Slam (0)
Tier I (0)
Tier II (1)
Tier III (0)
Tier IV (2)

Titles by Surface
Hard (2)
Clay (1)
Grass (0)
Carpet (0)

No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Opponent in the final	Score
1.	July 14, 1997	Palermo Internazionali Femminili di Palermo The Internazionali Femminili di Palermo is a tennis tournament held in Palermo, Italy. Held since 1988, this Women's Tennis Association event is a Tier IV-tournament and is played on outdoor clay courts.... , Italy	Clay	Elena Makarova Elena Makarova Elena Makarova is a Russian tennis player.Makarova played in the Sony Ericsson WTA Tour between 1991 and 1999. Her best performances were in 1995, when she was ranked no....	7–5, 6–3
2.	October 5, 1998	Filderstadt Porsche Tennis Grand Prix The Porsche Tennis Grand Prix is a tennis tournament held in Stuttgart, Germany . Held since 1978, the tournament is a part of the Women's Tennis Association schedule and is a Tier II tournament.... , Germany	Hard (i)	Lindsay Davenport Lindsay Davenport Lindsay Ann Davenport is a former World No. 1 American professional tennis player. She has won three Grand Slam singles tournaments and an Olympic Games gold medal in singles....	7–5, 6–3
3.	September 10, 2001	Waikoloa Village Waikoloa Championships The Waikoloa Championships was a WTA Tour tournament held in 2001 and 2002 in Waikoloa Village, Hawaii, Hawai?i. It was a Tier IV event and was played on outdoor hardcourts.... , Hawaii Hawaii File:Pahoehoe and Aa flows at Hawaii.jpgThe State of Hawaii is a U.S. state in the United States, located on an archipelago in the central Pacific Ocean southwest of the continental United States, southeast of Japan, and northeast of Australia....	Hard		6–3, 2–0, retired

Runners-up (7)

No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Opponent in the final	Score
1.	August 18, 1997	Atlanta, U.S.	Hard	Lindsay Davenport Lindsay Davenport Lindsay Ann Davenport is a former World No. 1 American professional tennis player. She has won three Grand Slam singles tournaments and an Olympic Games gold medal in singles....	6–4, 6–1
2.	July 6, 1998	Prague ECM Prague Open The ECM Prague Open is a tennis tournament held in Prague, the capital of the Czech Republic . Held since 1992 but interrupted between 1999 and 2005, this Women's Tennis Association event is a Tier IV-tournament and is played on outdoor clay courts.... , Czech Republic Czech Republic The Czech Republic , is a landlocked country in Central Europe. The country borders Poland to the northeast, Germany to the west, Austria to the south and Slovakia to the east....	Clay	Jana Novotná Jana Novotná Jana Novotn? is a former professional tennis player from the Czech Republic. She is best remembered for winning the women's singles title at Wimbledon Championships in 1998 and for crying on the shoulder of the Katharine, Duchess of Kent after losing the Wimbledon singles final in 1993....	6–3, 6–0
3.	October 25, 1999	Linz Generali Ladies Linz The Generali Ladies Linz is a tennis tournament held in Linz, Austria. Held since 1987, this Women's Tennis Association event is a Tier II-tournament and is played on indoor hardcourts.... , Austria	Carpet (i)	Mary Pierce Mary Pierce Mary Pierce is a tennis professional playing on the WTA Tour. She is a citizen of France, Canada, and the United States but plays for France in team competitions and the Olympics....	7–6², 6–1
4.	January 31, 2000	Tokyo Toray Pan Pacific Open The Toray Pan Pacific Open is a Women's Tennis Association affiliated professional List of tennis tournaments for women, held every year since 1984 on in Tokyo, Japan.... , Japan	Carpet (i)	Martina Hingis Martina Hingis Martina Hingis is a retired professional tennis player who spent a total of 209 weeks as World No. 1. She won five Grand Slam singles titles ....	6–3, 7–5
5.	January 8, 2001	Canberra Richard Luton Properties Canberra International The Richard Luton Properties Canberra International was a women's tennis tournament held in Canberra, Australia. The event was affiliated with the Women's Tennis Association , and was classed variously as a Tier III , a Tier V , and a Tier IV on the WTA Tour.... , Australia	Hard		6–2, 6–2
6.	February 12, 2001	Doha Qatar Total Open The Qatar Total Open was tennis tournament held in Doha, Qatar. Held since 2001, this Women's Tennis Association event is a WTA Tier I Events-tournament from 2008 WTA Tour, and is played on outdoor hardcourts.... , Qatar Qatar Qatar , officially the State of Qatar , is an Arab emirate in Southwest Asia, occupying the small Qatar Peninsula on the northeasterly coast of the larger Arabian Peninsula....	Hard	Martina Hingis Martina Hingis Martina Hingis is a retired professional tennis player who spent a total of 209 weeks as World No. 1. She won five Grand Slam singles titles ....	6–3, 6–2
7.	February 18, 2002	Dubai Dubai Tennis Championships The Barclays Dubai Tennis Championships is a professional tennis tournament owned and organized by Dubai Duty Free and held annually in Dubai, United Arab Emirates on outdoor hardcourts.... , U.A.E. United Arab Emirates The United Arab Emirates is a federation of seven states situated in the southeast of the Arabian Peninsula in Southwest Asia on the Persian Gulf, bordering Oman and Saudi Arabia....	Hard	Amélie Mauresmo Amélie Mauresmo Am?lie Simone Mauresmo is a French professional tennis player. She is a former List of WTA number 1 ranked players. Mauresmo won two Grand Slam singles titles in 2006, at the 2006 Australian Open and at 2006 Wimbledon Championships....	6–4, 7–6⁵

WTA Tour doubles finals

Wins (4)

Legend (Singles)
WTA Championship (0)
Grand Slam (0)
Tier I (0)
Tier II (3)
Tier III (1)
Tier IV/V (0)

Titles by Surface
Hard (3)
Clay (0)
Grass (0)
Carpet (1)

No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Partner	Opponents in the final	Score
1.	October 4, 1999	Filderstadt Porsche Tennis Grand Prix The Porsche Tennis Grand Prix is a tennis tournament held in Stuttgart, Germany . Held since 1978, the tournament is a part of the Women's Tennis Association schedule and is a Tier II tournament.... , Germany	Hard (i)	Chanda Rubin Chanda Rubin Chanda Rubin is a professional tennis player from the United States.Throughout her long career, she has been ranked as high as No. 6 in the world even though she has been plagued by injuries....	Larisa Neiland Larisa Neiland Larisa Savchenko Neiland is a retired Ukrainians-born tennis player who represented Latvia in play. She turned professional in 1988, one of a group of other Soviet players that emerged in time for tennis's full re-entry into the Olympics.... Arantxa Sánchez Vicario Arantxa Sánchez Vicario *Ar?nzazu Arantxa* Isabel Maria S?nchez Vicario** is a Spanish professional tennis player. She won four Grand Slam singles titles, six Grand Slam women's doubles titles, and four Grand Slam mixed doubles titles....	6–3, 6–4
2.	February 7, 2000	Paris Open Gaz de France Open GDF Suez, formerly Open Gaz de France, is a WTA Premier tournaments tennis tournament on the WTA Tour held in Paris, France. Held since 1993, the tournament is played on indoor hardcourts.... , France	Carpet (i)		Émilie Loit Emilie Loit ?milie Loit is a France professional List of female tennis players. She was born in Cherbourg-Octeville, France.She rose to fame when she played against American Serena Williams 6?3, 6?7, 5?7 in this tough match at first round of Australian Open 2003.... Åsa Svensson Åsa Svensson ?sa Svensson is a female tennis player from Sweden, who turned professional in 1992. She won two singles and seven doubles titles in her career....	3–6, 6–3, 6–4
3.	July 24, 2000	Stanford Bank of the West Classic The Bank of the West Classic is a week-long tennis tournament on the Women's Tennis Association held on the campus of Stanford University in Stanford, California, California, United States.... , U.S.	Hard	Chanda Rubin Chanda Rubin Chanda Rubin is a professional tennis player from the United States.Throughout her long career, she has been ranked as high as No. 6 in the world even though she has been plagued by injuries....	Cara Black Cara Black Cara Black is a professional female tennis player from Zimbabwe. She is the current World No.1 in Doubles.... Amy Frazier Amy Frazier Amy Frazier is a professional female tennis player from the United States.She will be most remembered for her longevity on the WTA Tour. In her 20 years on the tour, she manages to play well enough to qualify for major tournaments, though once there she rarely advances to the finals....	6–4, 6–4
4.	February 12, 2001	Doha Qatar Total Open The Qatar Total Open was tennis tournament held in Doha, Qatar. Held since 2001, this Women's Tennis Association event is a WTA Tier I Events-tournament from 2008 WTA Tour, and is played on outdoor hardcourts.... , Qatar Qatar Qatar , officially the State of Qatar , is an Arab emirate in Southwest Asia, occupying the small Qatar Peninsula on the northeasterly coast of the larger Arabian Peninsula....	Hard	Roberta Vinci Roberta Vinci Roberta Vinci is an Italy tennis player, who reached the semi-finals of the women's doubles competition with Sandrine Testud at the French Open in 2004....	Kristie Boogert Kristie Boogert Kristie Boogert was a professional List of female tennis players from the Netherlands. On 5 February 1996 she reached her career-high singles ranking of number 29.... Miriam Oremans Miriam Oremans Miriam Oremans is a former professional List of female tennis players from the Netherlands. On 26 July 1993 she reached her career-high singles ranking of number 25....	7–5, 7–6⁴

Runners-up (7)

No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Partner	Opponents in the final	Score
1.	April 13, 1992	Pattaya City Pattaya Women's Open The Pattaya Women's Open is a tennis tournament held in Pattaya City, Thailand. Held since 1991, this Women's Tennis Association event is currently a Tier IV-tournament and is played on hardcourts.... , Thailand Thailand The Kingdom of Thailand is an independent country that lies in the heart of Southeast Asia. It is bordered to the north by Laos and Myanmar, to the east by Laos and Cambodia, to the south by the Gulf of Thailand and Malaysia, and to the west by the Andaman Sea and Myanmar....	Hard	Pascale Paradis Pascale Paradis Pascale Paradis-Mangon is a former professional tennis player from France. She was the World Junior Champion in women's singles in 1983. Although she failed to reach the heights predicted for her at that time, she did reach the quarter finals at The Championships, Wimbledon in 1988 Wimbledon Championships before falling to Steffi Graf....	Isabelle Demongeot Isabelle Demongeot Isabelle Demongeot is a former tennis from France, who turned professional on May 1, 1983. She lived in Saint-Tropez in the French Riviera in the early stages of her career and later settled down further south in Gassin.... Natalia Medvedeva Natalia Medvedeva Natalia Medvedeva is a former professional tennis player. She was born on Kiev. She played on the WTA tour from 1987 to 1998. Her four singles titles were won in VS of Nashville in 1990, Generali Ladies Linz in 1992, and Prague and Essen in 1993....	6–1, 6–1
2.	July 31, 1995	San Diego Acura Classic The Acura Classic was a Women's Tennis Association affiliated professional tennis tournament for women, held every summer at the La Costa Resort and Spa in Carlsbad, California.... , U.S.	Hard		Gigi Fernández Gigi Fernández Beatriz "Gigi" Fern?ndez is a former professional Puerto Rico tennis player. She is widely considered to be one of the greatest doubles players of all time.... Natasha Zvereva Natasha Zvereva Natalya "Natasha" Zvereva is a retired tennis player from Belarus. Zvereva was the first major athlete in the Soviet Union to demand publicly that she be able to keep her tournament earnings....	6–2, 6–1
3.	October 26, 1998	Quebec City Bell Challenge The Bell Challenge is a Women's Tennis Association Tier III tennis tournament held in Quebec City, Canada since 1993. The tournament is played on indoor hardcourt.... , Canada	Hard (i)	Chanda Rubin Chanda Rubin Chanda Rubin is a professional tennis player from the United States.Throughout her long career, she has been ranked as high as No. 6 in the world even though she has been plagued by injuries....	Lori McNeil Lori McNeil Lori McNeil is an African American tennis coach and former professional tennis player from the United States. McNeil was a childhood friend of fellow African American pro Zina Garrison.... Kimberly Po Kimberly Po Kimberly Po-Messerli is a former professional tennis player from the United States. During her career, she won the mixed doubles title at The Championships, Wimbledon in 2000 ....	³6–7, 7–5, 6–4
4.	August 30, 1999	U.S. Open U.S. Open (tennis) The US Open tennis tournament is one of the oldest tennis championships in the world, first contested in 1881. The tournament is chronologically the fourth and final Grand Slam tennis tournament each year....	Hard	Chanda Rubin Chanda Rubin Chanda Rubin is a professional tennis player from the United States.Throughout her long career, she has been ranked as high as No. 6 in the world even though she has been plagued by injuries....	Serena Williams Serena Williams Serena Jameka Williams is an American professional tennis player who, as of February 2, 2009, is ranked World No. 1 by the Women's Tennis Association, having now held that ranking on four different occasions.... Venus Williams Venus Williams Venus Ebony Starr Williams is a former List of WTA number 1 ranked players American tennis player who, as of February 23, 2009, is ranked World No....	4–6, 6–1, 6–4
5.	November 8, 1999	Philadelphia Advanta Championships Philadelphia The Advanta Championships Philadelphia was a WTA Tour professional tennis tournament for women played from 1972 through 2005 in Philadelphia, United States.... , U.S.	Carpet (i)	Chanda Rubin Chanda Rubin Chanda Rubin is a professional tennis player from the United States.Throughout her long career, she has been ranked as high as No. 6 in the world even though she has been plagued by injuries....	Lisa Raymond Lisa Raymond Lisa Raymond is a professional female tennis player from the United States. On June 12, 2000, she reached the World No. 1 ranking in doubles. Her career high singles ranking was World No.... Rennae Stubbs Rennae Stubbs Rennae Stubbs is an Australian professional female tennis player. She has won several Grand Slam doubles titles and represented Australia at three successive Olympic Games....	6–1, 7–6²
6.	October 15, 2001	Zurich Zurich Open The Zurich Open is a Women's Tennis Association affiliated professional tennis tournament for women, formerly held every winter in Zurich, Switzerland.... , Switzerland Switzerland Switzerland is a landlocked Swiss Alps country of roughly 7.7 million people in Western Europe with an area of 41,285 km?. Switzerland is a federal republic consisting of 26 states called Cantons of Switzerland....	Hard (i)	Roberta Vinci Roberta Vinci Roberta Vinci is an Italy tennis player, who reached the semi-finals of the women's doubles competition with Sandrine Testud at the French Open in 2004....	Lindsay Davenport Lindsay Davenport Lindsay Ann Davenport is a former World No. 1 American professional tennis player. She has won three Grand Slam singles tournaments and an Olympic Games gold medal in singles.... Lisa Raymond Lisa Raymond Lisa Raymond is a professional female tennis player from the United States. On June 12, 2000, she reached the World No. 1 ranking in doubles. Her career high singles ranking was World No....	6–3, 2–6, 6–2
7.	February 18, 2002	Dubai Dubai Tennis Championships The Barclays Dubai Tennis Championships is a professional tennis tournament owned and organized by Dubai Duty Free and held annually in Dubai, United Arab Emirates on outdoor hardcourts.... , U.A.E. United Arab Emirates The United Arab Emirates is a federation of seven states situated in the southeast of the Arabian Peninsula in Southwest Asia on the Persian Gulf, bordering Oman and Saudi Arabia....	Hard	Roberta Vinci Roberta Vinci Roberta Vinci is an Italy tennis player, who reached the semi-finals of the women's doubles competition with Sandrine Testud at the French Open in 2004....	Barbara Rittner Barbara Rittner Barbara Rittner is a former professional tennis player who comes from Germany. Her career high ranking was No. 24 in the world, a ranking she achieved on February 1, 1993.... Maria Vento-Kabchi Maria Vento-Kabchi Maria Alejandra Vento-Kabchi is a professional List of female tennis players from Venezuela. On July 19, 2004 she reached her career-high singles ranking: World No....	6–3, 6–2

Sandrine Testud

Career

WTA Tour singles finals

Wins (3)

Runners-up (7)

WTA Tour doubles finals

Wins (4)

Runners-up (7)

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