Bethanie Mattek-Sands

Bethanie Mattek-Sands
Mattek-Sands 2015
Nation:	United States
Birthday:	March 23, 1985
Size:	168 cm
1st professional season:	1999
Playing hand:	Right, two-handed backhand
Trainer:	Adam Altschuler
Prize money:	$ 7,423,792
singles
Career record:	360: 302
Career title:	0 WTA , 5 ITF
Highest ranking:	30 (July 11, 2011)
Current placement:	438
Grand Slam record
Double
Career record:	374: 195
Career title:	26 WTA, 3 ITF
Highest ranking:	1 (January 9, 2017)
Current placement:	66
Weeks as No. 1:	32
Grand Slam record
Mixed
Grand Slam record
Olympic games
Last update of the infobox: September 9, 2019
Sources: official player profiles at the ATP / WTA and ITF (see web links )

2011 at the Open GDF Suez in Paris

Bethanie Mattek-Sands (born March 23, 1985 in Rochester , Minnesota ) is an American tennis player .

Career

Mattek-Sands started playing tennis at the age of five. The hard court is their preferred terrain. From 2009 to 2011 she played for the US Fed Cup team (5 wins, 6 losses).

She achieved her best placings in the WTA world rankings in 2011 with 30th place in singles and in 2017 with 1st place in doubles. So far she has won 16 double titles on the WTA Tour as well as five singles and three doubles titles at ITF level. In 2012 she won the mixed competition at the Australian Open - the first of four titles in Grand Slam tournaments to date . In 2015, she won the title in the women's doubles at the Australian Open alongside Lucie Šafářová . Mattek-Sands and Šafářová also won the doubles competition at the French Open . In mixed she won the title there with Mike Bryan .

Mattek-Sands started the 2011 season with a success at the Hopman Cup . Together with John Isner , she managed a 2-1 final victory over the Belgian team. On February 13, she celebrated her ninth WTA title in doubles. At the side of Meghann Shaughnessy , she won the final against Vera Dushewina and Yekaterina Makarova at the WTA tournament in Paris . Title number ten followed in May 2012 at the tournament in Brussels alongside doubles specialist Sania Mirza .

Mattek-Sands and Mirza were successful again at the first tournaments of the 2013 season in Brisbane and Dubai . The last joint title with the Indian for the time being followed in Sydney in January 2015 . After that, Lucie Šafářová became Mattek-Sands' new permanent double partner. With her she won four titles this year, including the Grand Slam tournaments of the Australian Open and the French Open .

In July 2016, the total tournament prize money won by Mattek-Sands in professional tennis exceeded the US $ 5 million mark. At the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro , she won the mixed gold medal with Jack Sock . In the final they defeated the pairing Venus Williams and Rajeev Ram 6: 7 ³ , 6: 1 and [10: 7]. Her third Grand Slam title she celebrated in September at the US Open on the side of Lucie Safarova with a three-set victory (2: 6, 7: 6 ⁵ , 6: 4) against Caroline Garcia and Kristina Mladenovic .

On January 7, 2017, she and Sania Mirza won Brisbane International 6: 2 and 6: 3 against Jekaterina Makarowa and Jelena Wesnina . This success made her number 1 in doubles for the first time on January 9th. At the Australian Open she then won the title for the second time with Lucie Šafářová. Another success of the season followed in April in Charleston . At the French Open she won the title in Roland Garros on Šafářová's side for the second time. In her second round match against Sorana Cîrstea at Wimbledon , she suffered a torn patellar tendon in a slip . She made her comeback almost nine months later at the tournament in Miami . In September 2018, she secured her first title since her injury when she and Jamie Murray won the mixed competition at the US Open .

Personal

On November 29, 2008, Bethanie Mattek married insurance manager Justin Sands in Naples , Florida , and she has had the double name ever since.

Mattek-Sands is known for their penchant for fancy clothes and spectacular hairstyles.

Tournament victories

Double

No.	date	competition	category	Topping	Partner	Final opponents	Result
1.	August 15, 2004	Vancouver	WTA Tier V	Hard court	Abigail Spears	Els Callens Anna-Lena Grönefeld	6: 3, 6: 3
2.	July 22, 2007	Cincinnati	WTA Tier III	Hard court	Sania Mirza	Alina Schidkowa Tazzjana Putschak	7: 6 4 , 7: 5
3.	February 23, 2008	Bogotá	WTA Tier III	sand	Iveta Benešová	Jelena Kostanić Tošić Martina Müller	6: 3, 6: 3
4th	April 13, 2008	Amelia Island	WTA Tier II	sand	Vladimíra Uhlířová	Viktoria Azaranka Elena Veznina	6: 3, 6: 1
5.	April 19, 2009	Charleston	WTA Premier	sand	Nadia Petrova	Līga Dekmeijere Patty Schnyder	6: 7 5 , 6: 2, [11: 9]
6th	May 3, 2009	Stuttgart	WTA Premier	Sand (hall)	Nadia Petrova	Gisela Dulko Flavia Pennetta	5: 7, 6: 3, [10: 7]
7th	May 23, 2009	Warsaw	WTA Premier	sand	Raquel Kops-Jones	Yan Zi Zheng Jie	6: 1, 6: 1
8th.	April 11, 2010	Ponte Vedra Beach	WTA International	sand	Yan Zi	Chuang Chia-jung Peng Shuai	4: 6, 6: 4, [10: 8]
9.	February 13, 2011	Paris	WTA Premier	Hard court (hall)	Meghann Shaughnessy	Vera Dushevina Ekaterina Makarova	6: 4, 6: 2
10.	May 26, 2012	Brussels	WTA Premier	sand	Sania Mirza	Alicja Rosolska Zheng Jie	6: 3, 6: 2
11.	5th January 2013	Brisbane	WTA Premier	Hard court	Sania Mirza	Anna-Lena Grönefeld Květa Peschke	4: 6, 6: 4, [10: 7]
12.	February 23, 2013	Dubai	WTA Premier	Hard court	Sania Mirza	Nadja Petrowa Katarina Srebotnik	6: 4, 2: 6, [10: 7]
13.	January 16, 2015	Sydney	WTA Premier	Hard court	Sania Mirza	Raquel Kops-Jones Abigail Spears	6: 3, 6: 3
14th	January 30, 2015	Australian Open	Grand Slam	Hard court	Lucie Šafářová	Chan Yung-jan Zheng Jie	6: 4, 7: 6 5
15th	April 26, 2015	Stuttgart	WTA Premier	Sand (hall)	Lucie Šafářová	Caroline Garcia Katarina Srebotnik	6: 4, 6: 3
16.	June 7, 2015	French Open	Grand Slam	sand	Lucie Šafářová	Casey Dellacqua Jaroslawa Schwedowa	3: 6, 6: 4, 6: 2
17th	August 16, 2015	Toronto	WTA Premier 5	Hard court	Lucie Šafářová	Caroline Garcia Katarina Srebotnik	6: 1, 6: 2
18th	19th March 2016	Indian Wells	WTA Premier Mandatory	Hard court	Coco Vandeweghe	Julia Görges Karolína Plíšková	4: 6, 6: 4, [10: 6]
19th	3rd April 2016	Miami	WTA Premier Mandatory	Hard court	Lucie Šafářová	Tímea Babos Jaroslawa Schwedowa	6: 3, 6: 4
20th	11th September 2016	US Open	Grand Slam	Hard court	Lucie Šafářová	Caroline Garcia Kristina Mladenovic	2: 6, 7: 6 5 , 6: 4
21st	October 1, 2016	Wuhan	WTA Premier 5	Hard court	Lucie Šafářová	Sania Mirza Barbora Strýcová	6: 1, 6: 4
22nd	October 9, 2016	Beijing	WTA Premier Mandatory	Hard court	Lucie Šafářová	Caroline Garcia Kristina Mladenovic	6: 4, 6: 4
23.	January 7, 2017	Brisbane	WTA Premier	Hard court	Sania Mirza	Ekaterina Makarova Jelena Wesnina	6: 2, 6: 3
24.	January 27, 2017	Australian Open	Grand Slam	Hard court	Lucie Šafářová	Andrea Hlaváčková Peng Shuai	6: 7 4 , 6: 3, 6: 3
25th	April 9, 2017	Charleston	WTA Premier	Hard court	Lucie Šafářová	Lucie Hradecká Kateřina Siniaková	6: 1, 4: 6, [10: 7]
26th	June 11, 2017	French Open	Grand Slam	sand	Lucie Šafářová	Ashleigh Barty Casey Dellacqua	6: 2, 6: 1

Mixed

No.	date	competition	category	Topping	partner	Final opponent	Result
1.	January 29, 2012	Australian Open	Grand Slam	Hard court	Horia Tecau	Jelena Wesnina Leander Paes	6: 3, 5: 7, [10: 3]
2.	4th June 2015	French Open	Grand Slam	sand	Mike Bryan	Lucie Hradecká Marcin Matkowski	7: 6 3 , 6: 1
3.	August 14, 2016	Rio de Janeiro	Olympic games	Hard court	Jack Sock	Venus Williams Rajeev Ram	6: 7 3 , 6: 1, [10: 7]
4th	September 8, 2018	US Open (1)	Grand Slam	Hard court	Jamie Murray	Alicja Rosolska Nikola Mektić	2: 6, 6: 3, [11: 9]
5.	7th September 2019	US Open (2)	Grand Slam	Hard court	Jamie Murray	Chan Hao-ching Michael Venus	6: 2, 6: 3

Team competitions

No.	date	competition	category	Topping	partner	Final opponent	Result
1.	January 8, 2011	Hopman Cup	ITF	Hard court (hall)	John Isner	Justine Henin Ruben Bemelmans	2: 1

Performing in Grand Slam tournaments

Double

competition	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008	2009	2010	2011	2012	2013	2014	2015	2016	2017	2018	2019	Career
Australian Open	-	-	-	2	-	-	2	AF	-	VF	VF	AF	1	-	S.	2	S.	-	1	S.
French Open	-	-	-	AF	-	1	1	2	VF	AF	2	1	AF	-	S.	1	S.	2	-	S.
Wimbledon	-	-	-	2	-	2	2	VF	AF	HF	2	AF	-	-	VF	1	2	VF	1	HF
US Open	1	1	2	1	1	AF	VF	-	VF	VF	AF	AF	-	-	-	-	S.	2	1	S.

Web links

Commons : Bethanie Mattek-Sands  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• WTA profile of Bethanie Mattek-Sands (English)
• ITF profile of Bethanie Mattek-Sands (English)
• Fed Cup stats by Bethanie Mattek-Sands (English)
• Bethanie Mattek-Sands website

Individual evidence

1. ↑ BETHANIE MATTEK-SANDS BECOMES WTA DOUBLES WORLD NO.1. In: wtatennis.com. January 7, 2017, accessed January 7, 2017 . 
2. ↑ Bethanie Mattek-Sands suffers a rupture of the patellar tendon. In: eurosport.de. Eurosport , July 8, 2017, accessed September 8, 2018 . 
3. ↑ Ulrike Weinrich: Miami: Bethanie Mattek-Sands back after a horror bruise. In: spox.com. March 21, 2018, accessed September 8, 2018 . 
4. ↑ Congratulations, Bethanie! ( Memento from January 19, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) WTATour.com, January 19, 2009
5. ↑ FAZ.net, September 6, 2007: Losing ugly with Bethanie Mattek