Sandrine Testud

Sandrine Testud

Country (sports)	France
Residence	Lyon, France
Born	(1972-04-03) 3 April 1972 Lyon, France
Height	1.76 m (5 ft 9 in)
Turned pro	1989
Retired	2005
Plays	Right-handed (two-handed backhand)
Prize money	$3,782,307
Singles
Career record	398–279
Career titles	3
Highest ranking	No. 9 (7 February 2000)
Grand Slam Singles results
Australian Open	QF (1998)
French Open	4R (1998, 2001)
Wimbledon	4R (1997, 1998, 2001)
US Open	QF (1997)
Doubles
Career record	223–190
Career titles	4
Highest ranking	No. 8 (21 August 2000)

Sandrine Testud (born 3 April 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, 2000, she became the sixth Frenchwoman after Françoise Dürr, Mary Pierce, Nathalie Tauziat, Amélie Mauresmo and Julie Halard to break into the singles top 10 rankings. This marked the first time France had four women ranked in the singles Top 10 simultaneously (Mary Pierce at No. 5, Nathalie Tauziat at No. 6, Julie Halard at no.8 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 Amélie 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 February 19, 2003. Their second child, Sophie, was born in 2006.^[1]

Career finals

Singles (3 titles, 7 runners-up)

Outcome	No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Opponent in final	Score in final
Winner	1.	14 July 1997	Palermo, Italy	Clay	Elena Makarova	7–5, 6–3
Runner-up	1.	18 August 1997	Atlanta, USA	Hard	Lindsay Davenport	4–6, 1–6
Runner-up	2.	6 July 1998	Prague, Czech Republic	Clay	Jana Novotná	3–6, 0–6
Winner	2.	5 October 1998	Filderstadt, Germany	Hard (i)	Lindsay Davenport	7–5, 6–3
Runner-up	3.	25 October 1999	Linz, Austria	Carpet (i)	Mary Pierce	6–7(2–7), 1–6
Runner-up	4.	31 January 2000	Tokyo, Japan	Carpet (i)	Martina Hingis	3–6, 5–7
Runner-up	5.	8 January 2001	Canberra, Australia	Hard	Justine Henin	2–6, 2–6
Runner-up	6.	12 February 2001	Doha, Qatar	Hard	Martina Hingis	3–6, 2–6
Winner	3.	10 September 2001	Waikoloa Village, Hawaii	Hard	Justine Henin	6–3, 2–0, retired
Runner-up	7.	18 February 2002	Dubai, UAE	Hard	Amélie Mauresmo	4–6, 6–7(5–7)

WTA Tour doubles finals

Wins (4)

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No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Partner	Opponents in the final	Score
1.	4 October 1999	Filderstadt, Germany	Hard (i)	Chanda Rubin	Larisa Neiland Arantxa Sánchez Vicario	6–3, 6–4
2.	7 February 2000	Paris, France	Carpet (i)	Julie Halard	Émilie Loit Åsa Svensson	3–6, 6–3, 6–4
3.	24 July 2000	Stanford, U.S.	Hard	Chanda Rubin	Cara Black Amy Frazier	6–4, 6–4
4.	12 February 2001	Doha, Qatar	Hard	Roberta Vinci	Kristie Boogert Miriam Oremans	7–5, 7–6(7–4)

Runners-up (7)

No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Partner	Opponents in the final	Score
1.	13 April 1992	Pattaya City, Thailand	Hard	Pascale Paradis	Isabelle Demongeot Natalia Medvedeva	1–6, 1–6
2.	31 July 1995	San Diego, U.S.	Hard	Alexia Dechaume	Gigi Fernández Natasha Zvereva	2–6, 1–6
3.	26 October 1998	Quebec City, Canada	Hard (i)	Chanda Rubin	Lori McNeil Kimberly Po	7–6(7–3), 5–7, 4–6
4.	30 August 1999	US Open	Hard	Chanda Rubin	Serena Williams Venus Williams	6–4, 1–6, 4–6
5.	8 November 1999	Philadelphia, U.S.	Carpet (i)	Chanda Rubin	Lisa Raymond Rennae Stubbs	1–6, 6–7(2–7)
6.	15 October 2001	Zurich, Switzerland	Hard (i)	Roberta Vinci	Lindsay Davenport Lisa Raymond	3–6, 6–1, 2–6
7.	18 February 2002	Dubai, U.A.E.	Hard	Roberta Vinci	Barbara Rittner María Vento-Kabchi	3–6, 2–6

Grand Slam singles performance timeline

A = did not participate in the tournament.

SR = the ratio of the number of Grand Slam singles tournaments won to the number of those tournaments played.

Head vs. Head

• Anke Huber 5-2
• Martina Hingis 16-0
• Lindsay Davenport 12-2
• Silvia Farina Elia 5-2
• Anna Kournikova 3-0

References

External links

• Sandrine Testud at the Women's Tennis Association
• Sandrine Testud at the International Tennis Federation
• Sandrine Testud at the Fed Cup