Aravane Rezaï

Aravane Rezaï
Aravane Rezaï 2013 at the French Open
Nation:	France
Birthday:	March 14, 1987
Size:	165 cm
Weight:	62 kg
1st professional season:	2005
Playing hand:	Right, two-handed backhand
Prize money:	$ 2,811,046
singles
Career record:	287: 212
Career title:	4 WTA , 8 ITF
Highest ranking:	15 (October 11, 2010)
Grand Slam record
Double
Career record:	9:29
Career title:	0 WTA, 0 ITF
Highest ranking:	118 (March 9, 2009)
Grand Slam record
Mixed
Grand Slam record
Last update of the infobox: March 16, 2020
Sources: official player profiles at the ATP / WTA and ITF (see web links )

Aravane Rezaï (born March 14, 1987 in Saint-Étienne ) is a French tennis player of Iranian origin.

Career

In 2001 and 2005 Rezaï represented Iran at the Women's Islamic Games and won gold in each case. Immediately afterwards, as a French citizen, she became a professional player on the WTA Tour . Her greatest success so far in Grand Slam tournaments was her move into the 2006 round of 16 of the US Open , which she lost to Jelena Dementjewa . In 2007 she reached the final of the Tier III tournament in Istanbul , and in 2008 the final of the Tier IV tournament in Auckland . In October 2010 Aravane Rezaï was number 15 in the WTA world rankings. In 2010 and 2011 she played a total of four individual games for the French Fed Cup team (2-2).

2009

In 2009 she celebrated her first major successes. On May 23, she defeated the 24-year-old Lucie Hradecká 7: 6 ² , 6: 1 in the final in Strasbourg , thus winning her first WTA title. She equalized her best performance in a Grand Slam tournament by making it into the round of 16 of the French Open, in which she was clearly defeated by world number one Dinara Safina . On the way there she defeated u. a. number 37 in the world, Ai Sugiyama . At the end of the season, she won the $ 600,000 tour invitation tournament in Bali . In the final, however, with a 7: 5 lead, she benefited from the abandonment of her compatriot Marion Bartoli .

2010

Rezaï started the year with a semi-final at Medibank International in Sydney, where she was only stopped by Serena Williams (6: 3, 5: 7, 4: 6). In the following tournaments it went less well, only in Indian Wells at the BNP Paribas Open she came, u. a. after a win against Francesca Schiavone , up to the round of 16.

Rezaï celebrated the greatest success of her career in May 2010 when she surprisingly won the third Premier Mandatory tournament of the year, the Madrid Open . After victories and a. via Justine Henin (4: 6, 7: 5, 6: 0 in round one) and Jelena Janković (7: 5, 6: 4 in the quarter-finals) she defeated Venus Williams in two sets in the final .

Since 2011

At Wimbledon in 2011, she finished after the first round match against defending champion Serena Williams, who had returned after a nearly one-year break (3: 6, 6: 3, 1: 6). She finished the season in 113th place in the world rankings.

At the WTA tournaments in Auckland (against Peng Shuai ), Barcelona (against Julia Görges ) and Montreal (again against Peng), she lost her first round match in 2012 after qualifying. Also in Melbourne she was eliminated in round one against Peng, in Wimbledon and in New York she missed the main draw.

In 2013 she skipped the Australian Open and at the French Open she again suffered a first round defeat (against Petra Kvitová ). At Wimbledon, she failed in the first qualifying round. She didn't play another match for the rest of the year.

At the Australian Open in 2014, she also did not get beyond the first qualifying match. In February she also suffered a defeat in the opening match at the ITF tournament in Grenoble. Then Rezaï took another break until the 2015 French Open . There she started with the status protected ranking , but already lost in the first qualifying round against her compatriot Julie Coin with 5-7 and 3-6. In the further course of the year she only took part in two smaller ITF tournaments, but even there she did not get past the second round.

Since the middle of September 2016, Rezai is no longer in the world rankings.

Personal

Rezaï has a sister, Caminde, and a brother, Anauch, who is a tennis coach. Her mother Nouchine is a physiotherapist and her father Arsalan was a car mechanic. Both parents are Iranian nationals.

In 2009 she took part in a congress for Iranians abroad in Tehran, to which hundreds of participants from all over the world were invited. During the visit, she expressed her support for Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad by giving him two of her tennis rackets. She later answered a journalist's question about why she sympathized with Ahmadinejad: "Because he showed the whole world the strength of Iran."

In June 2011, during the French Open, it became known that Rezaï had filed a criminal complaint against her father a few days earlier for stealing from her. He had already been excluded from the tournament at the Australian Open after a dispute with her. Rezaï later denied further allegations against him. At the 2013 French Open, she announced that she was back in contact and had a better relationship with her father.

Tournament victories

singles

No.	date	competition	category	Topping	Final opponent	Result
1.	October 17, 2004	Castel Gandolfo	ITF $ 10,000	sand	Anna Floris	3: 6, 6: 2, 7: 5
2.	October 23, 2004	Settimo San Pietro	ITF $ 10,000	sand	Liana-Gabriela Balici	6: 3, 6: 4
3.	May 20, 2005	Rome	ITF $ 10,000	sand	Maria Penkova	6: 2, 6: 3
4th	May 15, 2005	Saint-Gaudens	ITF $ 50,000	sand	Stephanie Gehrlein	6: 4, 2: 6, 6: 2
5.	May 11, 2006	Telde	ITF $ 25,000	sand	Magui Serna	6: 4, 6: 1
6th	November 26, 2006	Poitiers	ITF $ 75,000	Hard court	Ivana Lisjak	7: 6 0 , 6; 1
7th	November 18, 2007	Deauville	ITF $ 50,000	sand	Kirsten Flipkens	6: 4, 6: 3
8th.	May 18, 2009	Strasbourg	WTA International	sand	Lucie Hradecká	7: 6 2 , 6: 1
9.	November 8, 2009	Bali	WTA Tournament of Champions	Hard court	Marion Bartoli	7: 5, task
10.	May 16, 2010	Madrid	WTA Premier Mandatory	sand	Venus Williams	6: 2, 7: 5
11.	July 10, 2010	Båstad	WTA International	sand	Gisela Dulko	6: 3, 4: 6, 6: 4
12.	July 22, 2012	Contrexéville	ITF $ 50,000	sand	Yvonne Meusburger	6: 3, 2: 6, 6: 3

Performing in Grand Slam tournaments

singles

competition	2005	2006	2007	2008	2009	2010	2011	2012	2013	Career
Australian Open	-	-	1	3	1	2	1	1	-	3
French Open	2	3	1	1	AF	3	1	1	1	AF
Wimbledon	-	-	3	1	2	2	1	-	-	3
US Open	-	AF	2	2	1	2	1	-	-	AF

Double

competition	2005	2006	2007	2008	2009	2010	2011	2012	2013	Career
Australian Open	-	-	1	1	-	1	-	-	-	1
French Open	-	-	1	AF	1	2	2	1	1	AF
Wimbledon	-	-	1	2	1	2	1	-	-	2
US Open	-	1	1	2	1	1	-	-	-	2

Web links

Commons : Aravane Rezaï  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• WTA profile Aravane Rezai (English)
• ITF profile Aravane Rezai (English)
• Fed Cup stats by Aravane Rezai (English)
• Aravane Rezai: Against all odds

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Aravane Rezai Biography. (No longer available online.) In: vtennis.co.uk. Archived from the original on May 12, 2014 ; accessed on May 9, 2014 (English). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
2. ^ Christopher Clarey: Carrying Hopes of France Can Become a Heavy Load. In: New York Times . May 21, 2010, accessed May 9, 2014 . 
3. ↑ Malcolm Folley: Why the new poster girl of France, Aravane Rezai, is torn between two nations. In: Daily Mail . May 23, 2010, accessed May 9, 2014 . 
4. ↑ Stolen money? Rezai reports own father. In: tennisnet.com. June 9, 2011, accessed May 9, 2014 . 
5. ↑ Reunited: Rezai gives her father a "second chance". In: tennisnet.com. May 31, 2013, accessed May 9, 2014 .