Amélie Mauresmo

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Amélie Mauresmo Tennis player
Amélie Mauresmo
Nation: FranceFrance France
Birthday: 5th July 1979
Size: 175 cm
1st professional season: 1993
Resignation: December 3, 2009
Playing hand: Right
Prize money: $ 14,955,487
singles
Career record: 541: 224
Career title: 25th
Highest ranking: 1 (September 13, 2004)
Weeks as No. 1: 39
Grand Slam record
Grand Slam title: 00000  2
Australian Open S (2006)
French Open VF (2003, 2004)
Wimbledon S (2006)
US Open HF (2002, 2006)
Double
Career record: 91:61
Career title: 3
Highest ranking: 29 (June 26, 2006)
Grand Slam record
Grand Slam title: 00000  0
Australian Open AF (2006)
French Open 1R (2007)
Wimbledon 3R (2009)
US Open -
Olympic games
Olympic medals:
silver 2004 Athens singles
Sources: official player profiles at the ATP / WTA and ITF (see web links )

Amélie Mauresmo (born July 5, 1979 in Saint-Germain-en-Laye ) is a former French tennis player .

biography

Amélie Mauresmo lives with her partner in Geneva . She became the mother of a son on August 16, 2015 and a daughter on April 20, 2017.

Since July 19, 2012 she has been team leader of the French Fed Cup team ; from spring 2014 to May 2016 she was Andy Murray's trainer .

She made a guest appearance in the film Asterix at the Olympic Games .

In 2015 Mauresmo was inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame .

Career

In 1996 she won the women's junior title at the French Open and Wimbledon. The International Tennis Federation named her Junior World Champion that same year . She won her first tournament victory in 1999. She celebrated her first major success with the team in 2003 when she won the Fed Cup with the French team .

At the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens , she won the silver medal; in the final she was defeated by Justine Henin-Hardenne . On September 13, 2004, she became the first French tennis player to be number 1 in the WTA world rankings , although she had not yet won a Grand Slam tournament .

She won her first Grand Slam title on January 28, 2006. In the final of the Australian Open , she profited from her own leadership (6: 1, 2: 0) from giving up Henin-Hardenne, whose health was weakened. On July 8, 2006, her second Grand Slam title followed at the All England Championships in Wimbledon , when she again prevailed against Henin-Hardenne in the final. On December 3, 2009, she announced the end of her professional career.

Breakthrough in 1999: the final in Melbourne

In 1999, the unset Amélie Mauresmo reached the final of the Australian Open . She was the third French woman who managed to get into the final of a Grand Slam tournament in the Open Era. She was the first French tennis player to succeed after Mary Pierce (1995). On the way to the final, the French defeated two seeded players and in the semifinals the then world number one Lindsay Davenport with 4: 6, 7: 5 and 7: 5. After winning the semi-finals, she turned to the international press and came out as homosexual. This makes her the second tennis player after Martina Navrátilová to publicly acknowledge her homosexuality . In the final, however, Amélie Mauresmo was clearly defeated by Martina Hingis , second in the world, with 2: 6 and 3: 6. Mauresmo won all of the following important games against Martina Hingis.

Advance into the top of the world

Amélie Mauresmo quickly established herself in the WTA world rankings. At the end of 1997 Mauresmo was listed as 109th in the world rankings, a year later she was already 29th. In 1999 she reached the top ten and celebrated her first tournament victory in Bratislava with a final victory over Kim Clijsters .

The year 2000 began with a tournament victory in Sydney . Amélie Mauresmo achieved two- set victories in the final over Mary Pierce , who was seeded in 5th position , number 2 Lindsay Davenport and Martina Hingis, who was seeded 1st . The rest of the year was marked by various injury problems.

In 2001 she won a total of four tournaments and three in direct succession with Paris (Indoors), Nice and Amelia Island . After a defeat in Charleston , she won the German Open in Berlin. On the way to winning the tournament, she beat three of the top 5 seeded players: Hingis, Coetzer and Capriati. She also reached the final in Rome, again beating world number one Martina Hingis and moving up to fifth place in the world rankings before injury problems stopped again in the middle of the year.

In 2002, Mauresmo finished sixth. She won the Dubai and Montreal tournaments . At the US Open she reached the semifinals for the first time and as the first French woman since Françoise Durr .

After another four-month injury break that lasted into spring, Mauresmo reached at least the quarter-finals in 14 of 17 tournaments played in 2003. She won in Warsaw and Philadelphia and was now one of only three players who managed to beat Venus Williams and Serena Williams in the same year. But she achieved the greatest success in a team competition. She led the French team to victory over the USA in the Fed Cup . It was the French women’s first win against the United States after ten losses. In terms of victories in the individual, she is the most successful French woman of all time in this competition. Mauresmo finished the year number 4 in the world.

2004: world number one

2004 turned out to be the most successful for Mauresmo to date. She won five tournaments, reached at least the quarter-finals in all four Grand Slam tournaments, climbed to the top of the world rankings and made it into the final of the Olympic tournament.

She won the tournaments in Berlin and Rome and was only the third player, after Steffi Graf (1987) and Monica Seles (1990), to have achieved this within a year. She made it to the quarter-finals at the Australian Open , the French Open and the US Open . In Wimbledon , she reached the semifinals for the first time, in which she narrowly defeated Serena Williams with 7: 6, 5: 7 and 4: 6.

At the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens, she won the silver medal, and lost to Justine Henin-Hardenne in the women's singles final .

On September 13, 2004, she became the first French tennis player since the introduction of the computer ranking in the 1970s to be number 1 in the WTA world rankings. She is one of only a few tennis players (women and men) who reached the top position without having won a single Grand Slam victory. Before that, the women Kim Clijsters had succeeded. Mauresmo remained the best tennis player in the world for five weeks and finished the year in second place behind Lindsay Davenport.

2005: WTA Tour Championships

In 2005 she won the WTA Tour Championships for the first time at the end of the year , the greatest success of her career up to then. In the final, she made up for a set deficit, defeating her compatriot Mary Pierce 5: 7, 7: 6 and 6: 4 and so reciprocated for the three set defeat in the preliminary round. There she had also defeated the number 2 of the tournament, Kim Clijsters. In the semifinals, she beat defending champion Maria Sharapova 7: 6 and 6: 3.

2006: Victory at the Australian Open and at Wimbledon

On January 28, 2006, Mauresmo secured her first Grand Slam title by winning the Australian Open . In the final, she defeated the former world number one Henin-Hardenne, who was weakened by stomach cramps and circulatory problems when Mauresmo took the set with 6: 1 and 2: 0. Oddly enough, Mauresmo's semi-final opponent Kim Clijsters couldn't finish the game either. Mauresmo had also led there and controlled the match over long distances.

Subsequently, she also won the WTA tournaments in Paris and Antwerp . So she could win three consecutive tournaments by the end of March. Including the Australian Open, she won 16 games in a row.

At the Qatar Total Open, she defeated her long-term rival Martina Hingis 6: 2 and 6: 2 in the semifinals before losing the final to Nadja Petrowa . If Mauresmo had won, he would have taken the lead in the world rankings again. This she then reached - without a fight - on March 20th. Neither Clijsters nor Mauresmo could play at Indian Wells due to an injury, but the Belgian had more points to defend from last year.

The second Grand Slam tournament of the year, the French Open in Paris, turned out to be rather bad. Started as number 1 in the world and top seeded player, she failed in the round of 16 against 17-year-old Nicole Vaidišová . The Czech teenager destroyed all hopes of the French for a triumph of their compatriot in Roland Garros with 6: 7, 6: 1 and 6: 2. Mauresmo should never get past the quarter-finals on the "terre battue".

On July 8, she achieved her greatest triumph to date. She defeated Justine Henin-Hardenne on the "holy lawn" of Wimbledon. This was also the first title win by a French woman on Church Road since the legendary Suzanne Lenglen in 1925.

2007

In 2007, Mauresmo became the first player to win the diamond-studded racket worth one million euros from the Proximus Diamond Games (Antwerp), which is awarded to players who win the tournament three times in five years. In the final, she beat Kim Clijsters in straight sets, with which she managed a hat trick with victories in 2005, 2006 and 2007. On April 2, 2007, she received the Laureus Award in the Breakthrough of the Year category.

Not least because of injuries, she fell far behind during the season. For the first time in ten years, she did not finish in the top 20 in the 2008 season.

2009

Mauresmo won her first title in over two years in 2009 in front of a home crowd in Paris. After smooth wins in the first two rounds, she swept the top ten player Agnieszka Radwańska 6: 2, 6: 0 in the quarterfinals . Then she defeated the world number three Jelena Janković and in a high-class final the world number four Jelena Dementjewa . Due to the success, Mauresmo made it back into the top 20. She won the third WTA double title of her career in Miami . In the final, she and Svetlana Kuznetsova defeated the pairing Kveta Peschke / Lisa Raymond with 4: 6, 6: 3, [10: 3]. Peschke / Raymond were thus the third seeded team that Kuznetsova / Mauresmo lost on their way to the tournament victory in Miami. On December 3, 2009, Mauresmo announced the end of her professional career in Paris.

Tournament victories

singles

Legend
Grand Slam (2)
WTA Championships (1)
Tier I Event (6)
WTA Tour (16)
Titles per covering
Hard Court (15)
Sand (6)
Grass (1)
Carpet (3)
No. date competition Topping Final opponent Result
1. October 24, 1999 Bratislava Hard court (hall) BelgiumBelgium Kim Clijsters 6: 3, 6: 3
2. January 15, 2000 Sydney Hard court United StatesUnited States Lindsay Davenport 7: 6 2 , 6: 4
3. February 11, 2001 Paris Carpet (hall) GermanyGermany Anke Huber 7: 6 2 , 6: 1
4th February 18, 2001 Nice Carpet (hall) BulgariaBulgaria Magdalena Maleewa 6: 2, 6: 0
5. April 15, 2001 Amelia Island sand South AfricaSouth Africa Amanda Coetzer 6: 4, 7: 5
6th May 13, 2001 Berlin sand United StatesUnited States Jennifer Capriati 6: 4, 2: 6, 6: 3
7th February 23, 2002 Dubai Hard court FranceFrance Sandrine Testud 6: 4, 7: 6 3
8th. August 18, 2002 Montreal Hard court United StatesUnited States Jennifer Capriati 6: 4, 6: 1
9. May 4, 2003 Warsaw sand United StatesUnited States Venus Williams 6: 7 6 , 6: 0, 3: 0 Exercise.
10. November 2, 2003 Philadelphia Hard court (hall) RussiaRussia Anastassija Myskina 5: 7, 6: 0, 6: 2
11. May 9, 2004 Berlin sand United StatesUnited States Venus Williams without a fight
12. May 16, 2004 Rome sand United StatesUnited States Jennifer Capriati 3: 6, 6: 3, 7: 6 6
13. August 8, 2004 Montreal Hard court RussiaRussia Jelena Lichowzewa 6: 1, 6: 0
14th October 31, 2004 Linz Hard court (hall) RussiaRussia Jelena Bowina 6: 2, 6: 0
15th November 7, 2004 Philadelphia Hard court (hall) RussiaRussia Vera Swonarewa 3: 6, 6: 2, 6: 2
16. February 20, 2005 Antwerp Hard court (hall) United StatesUnited States Venus Williams 4: 6, 7: 5, 6: 4
17th May 15, 2005 Rome sand SwitzerlandSwitzerland Patty Schnyder 2: 6, 6: 3, 6: 4
18th November 6, 2005 Philadelphia Hard court (hall) RussiaRussia Jelena Dementjewa 7: 5, 2: 6, 7: 5
19th November 13, 2005 WTA Championships Hard court (hall) FranceFrance Mary Pierce 5: 7, 7: 6 3 , 6: 4
20th January 28, 2006 Australian Open Hard court BelgiumBelgium Justine Henin-Hardenne 6: 1, 2: 0 exercise
21st February 12, 2006 Paris Carpet (hall) FranceFrance Mary Pierce 6: 1, 7: 6 2
22nd February 19, 2006 Antwerp Hard court (hall) BelgiumBelgium Kim Clijsters 3: 6, 6: 3, 6: 3
23. July 8, 2006 Wimbledon race BelgiumBelgium Justine Henin-Hardenne 2: 6, 6: 3, 6: 4
24. February 18, 2007 Antwerp Hard court (hall) BelgiumBelgium Kim Clijsters 6: 4, 7: 6 4
25th February 15, 2009 Paris Hard court (hall) RussiaRussia Jelena Dementjewa 7: 6 4 , 2: 6, 6: 4

Double (3)

Performing in Grand Slam tournaments

singles

competition 2009 2008 2007 2006 2005 2004 2003 2002 2001 2000 1999 1998 1997 1996 1995 Balance sheet Career
Australian Open 3 3 AF S. VF VF - VF AF 2 F. 3 - - - 38:11 S.
French Open 1 2 3 AF 3 VF VF AF 1 AF 2 1 2 2 1 25:15 VF
Wimbledon AF 3 AF S. HF HF - HF 3 1 - 2 - - - 37:10 S.
US Open 2 AF - HF VF VF VF HF VF - AF 3 - - - 35:10 HF

Private

Mauresmo has two children.

Web links

Commons : Amélie Mauresmo  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b tagesspiegel.de: Balanced - October 11, 2002 , accessed on May 13, 2010
  2. ↑ Amélie Mauresmo became a mother , tennisnet.com from August 17, 2015, accessed on November 12, 2019
  3. ↑ https://www.tennisnet.com/news/amelie-mauresmo-mutter-baby-kind-tugt-ayla-wta
  4. ↑ Mauresmo takes over France's Fed Cup team (focus.de from July 19, 2012, accessed on May 12, 2016)
  5. ↑ Murray hires Mauresmo as a tennis trainer (welt.de June 8, 2014, accessed May 12, 2016)
  6. ↑ Murray separates from Mauresmo (nzz.ch May 9, 2016, accessed May 12, 2016)
  7. ↑ ATP: Andy Murray and trainer Amelie Mauresmo split up (sport1.de, May 9, 2016, accessed May 12, 2016)
  8. ↑ "They're crazy, the Greeks!" - Asterix and Obelix in the cinema (augsburger-allgemeine.de from August 30, 2008, accessed on May 12, 2016)
  9. ↑ Amelie Mauresmo, David Hall, Nancy Jeffett join Tennis Hall of Fame (espn.go.com July 18, 2015, accessed May 12, 2016)
  10. ↑ Mauresmo to be inducted into Hall of Fame (itftennis.com, March 10, 2015, accessed October 2, 2016)
  11. ↑ Diamonds Racket for Mauresmo (derstandard.de of February 28, 2007, accessed on May 12, 2016)
  12. ↑ Amelie Mauresmo hangs up a racket ( Memento from May 12, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) (stol.it from December 3, 2009, accessed on May 12, 2016)
  13. ↑ L-Mag.de:The Weddings, Engagements, Rainbow Babies and Farewells 2017
personal data
SURNAME Mauresmo, Amélie
BRIEF DESCRIPTION french tennis player
DATE OF BIRTH 5th July 1979
PLACE OF BIRTH Saint-Germain-en-Laye , France