Barbara Schett

Barbara Schett

Barbara Schett as a reporter for Eurosport in 2014

Nation:

Austria

Birthday:

March 10, 1976

Size:

176 cm

1st professional season:

1992

Resignation:

2005

Playing hand:

Right, two-handed backhand

Prize money:

$ 3,109,510

singles

Career record:

349: 279

Career title:

3 WTA , 1 ITF

Highest ranking:

7 (September 13, 1999)

Grand Slam record

Grand Slam title: 00000 0

Australian Open	AF (1996, 1998-2000)
French Open	AF (2000, 2001)
Wimbledon	AF (1999)
US Open	VF (1999)

Double

Career record:

214: 179

Career title:

10 WTA, 0 ITF

Highest ranking:

8 (January 15, 2001)

Grand Slam record

Grand Slam title: 00000 0

Australian Open	HF (2000)
French Open	VF (1998, 2000, 2003)
Wimbledon	HF (2000)
US Open	HF (1999, 2004)

Mixed

Grand Slam record

Grand Slam title: 00000 0

Australian Open	F (2001)
French Open	AF (2002, 2003)
Wimbledon	VF (2004)
US Open	AF (2001)

Sources: official player profiles at the ATP / WTA and ITF (see web links )

Barbara "Babsi" Schett-Eagle (born March 10, 1976 in Innsbruck ) is a former Austrian tennis player , sports reporter and presenter .

Career

Barbara Schett was a professional player on the WTA Tour from 1992 under her maiden name . She won three tournaments there in singles and ten in doubles. Her greatest success in a Grand Slam tournament was the quarter-finals at the US Open in 1999. She reached her highest world ranking position in 1999 with seventh place. In the same year she qualified for the season finale, the WTA Tour , for the only time in her career Championships where she made it to the quarterfinals.

From 1993 to 2004 Schett played 48 games for the Austrian Fed Cup team, of which she won 30.

In 2001 Schett was in the German tennis Bundesliga with the TC Blau-Weiss Bocholt , among others together with Kim Clijsters and Miriam Schnitzer , German team champion.

Barbara Schett ended her tennis career in 2005 with the Australian Open . In the same year she received the Silver Medal of Honor from Federal President Heinz Fischer for services to the Republic of Austria .

successes

singles

Tournament victories

No.	date	competition	category	Topping	Final opponent	Result
1.	July 21, 1996	Italy Palermo	WTA Tier IV	sand	Germany Sabine Hack	6: 3, 6: 3
2.	August 3, 1997	Austria Maria Lankowitz	WTA Tier IV	sand	Slovakia Henrieta Nagyová	3: 6, 6: 2, 6: 3
3.	July 16, 2000	Austria Klagenfurt	WTA Tier III	sand	Switzerland Patty Schnyder	5: 7, 6: 4, 6: 4

Final participation

No.	date	competition	category	Topping	Final opponent	Result
1.	July 19, 1998	Italy Palermo	WTA Tier IV	sand	Switzerland Patty Schnyder	1: 6, 7: 5, 2: 6
2.	August 16, 1998	United States Boston	WTA Tier III	Hard court	South Africa Mariaan de Swardt	6: 3, 6: 7, 5: 7
3.	October 24, 1999	Russia Moscow	WTA Tier I	Carpet (hall)	France Nathalie Tauziat	6: 2, 4: 6, 1: 6

Double

Tournament victories

No.	date	competition	category	Topping	Partner	Final opponents	Result
1.	July 21, 1996	Italy Palermo	WTA Tier IV	sand	Slovakia Janette Husárová	Argentina Florencia Labat Barbara Rittner Germany	6: 1, 6: 2
2.	July 20, 1997	Italy Palermo	WTA Tier IV	sand	Italy Silvia Farina Elia	Argentina Florencia Labat Mercedes Paz Argentina	2: 6, 6: 1, 6: 4
3.	May 3, 1998	Germany Hamburg	WTA Tier II	sand	Switzerland Patty Schnyder	Switzerland Martina Hingis Jana Novotná Czech Republic	7: 6 ³ , 3: 6, 6: 3
4th	January 9, 1999	New Zealand Auckland	WTA Tier IVb	Hard court	Italy Silvia Farina	Netherlands Seda Noorlander Marlene Weingärtner Germany	6: 2, 7: 6 ²
5.	January 13, 2001	Australia Sydney	WTA Tier II	Hard court	Russia Anna Kurnikowa	United States Lisa Raymond Rennae Stubbs Australia	6: 2, 7: 5
6th	May 5, 2002	Germany Hamburg	WTA Tier II	sand	Switzerland Martina Hingis	Slovakia Daniela Hantuchová Arantxa Sánchez Vicario Spain	6: 1, 6: 1
7th	February 9, 2003	France Paris	WTA Tier II	Carpet (hall)	Switzerland Patty Schnyder	France Marion Bartoli Stéphanie Cohen-Aloro France	2: 6, 6: 2, 7: 6 ⁵
8th.	February 15, 2004	France Paris	WTA Tier II	Carpet (hall)	Switzerland Patty Schnyder	Italy Silvia Farina Elia Francesca Schiavone Italy	6: 3, 6: 2
9.	May 2, 2004	Hungary Budapest	WTA Tier V	sand	Hungary Petra Mandula	Hungary Virág Németh Ágnes Szávay Hungary	6: 3, 6: 2
10.	August 8, 2004	Sweden Stockholm	WTA Tier IV	Hard court	Australia Alicia Molik	Switzerland Emmanuelle Gagliardi Anna-Lena Grönefeld Germany	6: 3, 6: 3

Performing in Grand Slam tournaments

singles

competition	1994	1995	1996	1997	1998	1999	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	Career
Australian Open	-	1	AF	3	AF	AF	AF	3	3	1	2	2	AF
French Open	1	1	1	1	1	3	AF	AF	2	3	1	-	AF
Wimbledon	1	-	2	2	2	AF	1	3	2	2	1	-	AF
US Open	1	1	2	2	3	VF	2	AF	2	2	1	-	VF

Double

competition	1995	1996	1997	1998	1999	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	Career
Australian Open	-	-	1	1	AF	HF	VF	2	1	2	1	HF
French Open	-	-	-	VF	AF	VF	VF	AF	VF	AF	-	VF
Wimbledon	-	-	1	1	1	AF	1	AF	1	AF	-	AF
US Open	1	1	1	VF	HF	VF	2	1	2	HF	-	HF

Personal

Schett has been a sports reporter at Eurosport since the end of her active career . On July 6, 2007 she married the former Australian tennis professional Joshua Eagle and has been called Barbara Schett-Eagle since then. On April 28, 2009, the two parents of a son.

Web links

Commons : Barbara Schett - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Barbara Schett's website
WTA profile of Barbara Schett (English)
ITF profile of Barbara Schett (English)
Fed Cup Statistics for Barbara Schett (English)

Individual evidence

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personal data
SURNAME	Schett, Barbara
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Schett-Eagle, Barbara; Schett, Babsi
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Austrian tennis player
DATE OF BIRTH	March 10, 1976
PLACE OF BIRTH	innsbruck

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