Catherine Tanvier

Catherine Tanvier
Nation:	France
Birthday:	May 28, 1965
1st professional season:	1980
Resignation:	1993
Playing hand:	Right (two-handed backhand)
Prize money:	$ 685,408
singles
Career record:	205: 198
Career title:	1
Highest ranking:	20 (September 27 1984)
Grand Slam record
Double
Career record:	285: 180
Career title:	9
Highest ranking:	16 (December 21 1986)
Grand Slam record
Mixed
Grand Slam record
Sources: official player profiles at the ATP / WTA and ITF (see web links )

Catherine Tanvier (born May 28, 1965 in Toulouse , Occitania ) is a former French tennis player .

Career

Her highest place in the world rankings was 20th in singles and 16th in doubles. She won one tournament in singles and nine in doubles. Her greatest successes in the Grand Slam tournaments were reaching the round of 16 at the French Open 1983 , Wimbledon Championships 1985 , French Open 1988 and the US Open from 1989 to 1991 in singles as well as reaching the semi-finals at the French Open 1983 in doubles .

In 1982 she won the women's singles competition at the Wimbledon Championships with a win against Helena Suková from what was then Czechoslovakia .

She won ten titles, nine of them in doubles.

Victories

singles

No.	date	competition	category	Topping	Final opponent	Result
1.	17th July 1983	Freiburg in Breisgau	WTA tour	sand	Laura Arraya	6: 4, 7: 5

Double

No.	date	competition	category	Topping	Partner	Final opponents	Result
01.	July 18, 1982	Monte Carlo	WTA tour	sand	Virginia Ruzici	Patricia Medrado Cláudia Monteiro	7: 6, 6: 2
02.	August 8, 1982	Indianapolis	WTA tour	sand	Ivanna Madruga	JoAnne Russell Virginia Ruzici	7: 5, 7: 6
03.	November 11, 1985	Hilversum	WTA tour	Carpet (hall)	Marcella Mesker	Sandra Cecchini Sabrina Goleš	6: 2, 6: 2
04th	May 11, 1986	Barcelona	WTA tour	sand	Iva Budařová	Petra Huber Petra Keppeler	6: 2, 6: 1
05.	17th July 1988	Nice	WTA Tier V	sand	Catherine Suire	Isabelle Demongeot Nathalie Tauziat	6: 4, 4: 6, 6: 2
06th	July 24, 1988	Aix-en-Provence	WTA Tier V	sand	Nathalie Herreman	Sandra Cecchini Arantxa Sánchez Vicario	6: 4, 7: 5
07th	October 22, 1989	Bayonne	WTA Tier V	carpet	Manon Bollegraf	Elna Reinach Raffaella Reggi	7: 6, 7: 5
08th.	September 30, 1990	Bayonne	WTA Tier V	Hard court	Louise Field	Jo-Anne Faull Rachel McQuillan	7: 6 3 , 6: 7 5 , 7: 6 5
09.	February 23, 1992	Cesena	WTA Tier V	Carpet (hall)	Catherine Suire	Sabine Appelman's Raffaella Reggi-Contano	without a fight

Others

In 2010 she was an actress in Jean-Luc Godard's film Film socialisme .

Web links

• WTA profile of Catherine Tanvier (English)
• ITF profile Catherine Tanvier (English)
• Fed Cup stats by Catherine Tanvier (English)
• Catherine Tanvier in the Internet Movie Database (English)