Chanelle Scheepers

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Chanelle Scheepers Tennis player
Chanelle Scheepers
Scheepers 2013 at Wimbledon
Nation: South AfricaSouth Africa South Africa
Birthday: March 13, 1984
Size: 176 cm
1st professional season: 2000
Resignation: 2015
Playing hand: Right, two-handed backhand
Prize money: $ 1,949,415
singles
Career record: 436: 346
Career title: 1 WTA , 12 ITF
Highest ranking: 37 (October 10, 2011)
Grand Slam record
Grand Slam title: 00000  0
Australian Open 3R (2011)
French Open AF (2010)
Wimbledon 2R (2014)
US Open 3R (2011)
Double
Career record: 240: 186
Career title: 1 WTA, 20 ITF
Highest ranking: 42 (April 14, 2014)
Grand Slam record
Grand Slam title: 00000  0
Australian Open 2R (2013, 2015)
French Open 1R (2011, 2013, 2014)
Wimbledon HF (2013)
US Open 2R (2012)
Mixed
Grand Slam record
Grand Slam title: 00000  0
Australian Open -
French Open -
Wimbledon 1R (2012)
US Open -
Sources: official player profiles at the ATP / WTA and ITF (see web links )

Chanelle Scheepers (born March 13, 1984 in Pretoria ) is a former South African tennis player .

Career

Scheepers, who preferred hard courts, won a total of 12 singles and 20 doubles titles on the ITF Women's Circuit . In 2009 she made it into the main draw of a Grand Slam tournament for the first time at the Australian Open ; however, she lost her first round match against Dominika Cibulková with 0: 6 and 0: 6.

At the French Open , Scheepers reached the main round as a qualifier in 2010 and was only eliminated in the round of 16 against Jelena Dementjewa with 1: 6, 3: 6. Before that she defeated Mathilde Johansson 6: 2, 6: 4, Gisela Dulko 3: 6, 6: 3, 6: 4 and Oqgul Omonmurodova 6: 3, 6: 3.

On September 24, 2011, she finally won her first WTA title. In the final in Guangzhou , she defeated Magdaléna Rybáriková 6-2, 6-2. Her first double title on the WTA Tour followed in May 2013 ; at the side of the already 42-year-old Japanese Kimiko Date-Krumm , she won in three sets the clay court tournament in Strasbourg, which is in preparation for the French Open, with a final victory over the doubles Cara Black and Marina Eraković .

Between 2002 and 2015, she played 19 games for the South African Fed Cup team . She won twelve of her 18 singles and all five doubles games.

In May 2015 she ended her career and became a trainer.

Tournament victories

singles

No. date competition category Topping Final opponent Result
1 September 24, 2011 China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China Guangzhou WTA International Hard court SlovakiaSlovakia Magdaléna Rybáriková 6: 2, 6: 2

Double

No. date competition category Topping Partner Final opponents Result
1 May 25, 2013 FranceFrance Strasbourg WTA International sand JapanJapan Kimiko Date-Krumm ZimbabweZimbabwe Cara Black Marina Eraković
New ZealandNew Zealand  		6: 4, 3: 6, [14:12]

Performing in Grand Slam tournaments

singles

competition 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 Career
Australian Open 1 - 3 1 1 1 1 3
French Open 1 AF 2 2 1 1 - AF
Wimbledon - 1 1 1 1 2 - 2
US Open - 1 3 1 2 1 - 3

Double

competition 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 Career
Australian Open - - - 1 2 1 2 2
French Open - - 1 - 1 1 - 1
Wimbledon - AF 2 2 HF 2 - HF
US Open - 1 1 2 1 1 - 2

Web links

Commons : Chanelle Scheepers  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Chanelle Scheepers is stepping down - and starting her second career , tennisnet.com, accessed on May 14, 2015
personal data
SURNAME Scheepers, Chanelle
BRIEF DESCRIPTION South African tennis player
DATE OF BIRTH March 13, 1984
PLACE OF BIRTH Pretoria , South Africa