Els Callens

Els Callens
Els Callens 2003
Nation:	Belgium
Birthday:	20th August 1970
Size:	178 cm
1st professional season:	1990
Resignation:	2005
Playing hand:	Right, two-handed backhand
Prize money:	$ 1,666,023
singles
Career record:	358: 309
Career title:	0 WTA , 4 ITF
Highest ranking:	43 (February 17 1997)
Grand Slam record
Double
Career record:	315: 224
Career title:	10 WTA, 5 ITF
Highest ranking:	12 (May 14, 2001)
Grand Slam record
Olympic games
Sources: official player profiles at the ATP / WTA and ITF (see web links )

Els Callens (born August 20, 1970 in Antwerp ) is a former Belgian tennis player .

Career

Els Callens was above all a successful doubles player. In her professional career she won ten WTA tournaments in doubles, but not a single one in singles; after all, she came up with four ITF singles titles.

At the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney, she won the bronze medal in women's doubles for Belgium together with Dominique Van Roost . In the semifinals they lost to Serena and Venus Williams .

Callens played for the Belgian Fed Cup team from 1994 to 2005 . Your personal Fed Cup record shows 9: 7 wins in singles and 17: 6 in doubles. In 2001 she was part of the Belgian team led by Justine Henin and Kim Clijsters , which won the Fed Cup with a 2-1 win over Russia . In the same year, the Fed Cup team was voted Belgium's Team of the Year .

Els Callens ended her professional career in 2005. In 2011 she returned to the courts in doubles for five ITF tournaments in Germany and the Netherlands.

Tournament victories

singles

No.	date	competition	category	Topping	Final opponent	Result
1.	March 27, 1994	Brest	ITF $ 25,000	Hard court	Dally Randriantefy	6: 4, 6: 3
2.	October 24, 1999	Southampton	ITF $ 50,000	Carpet (hall)	Patricia Wartusch	6: 3, 6: 3
3.	November 4, 2001	Bolton	ITF $ 25,000	Hard court (hall)	Bahia Mouhtassine	4: 6, 6: 4, 6: 1
4th	March 3, 2002	Minneapolis	ITF $ 50,000	Hard court (hall)	Stanislava Hrozenská	7: 5, 6: 3

Double

No.	date	competition	category	Topping	Partner	Final opponents	Result
1.	March 27, 1994	Brest	ITF $ 25,000	Hard court	Karin Ptaszek	Susanna Attili Elena Savoldi	6: 4, 6: 1
2.	January 6, 1996	Auckland	WTA Tier IV	Hard court	Julie Halard-Decugis	Jill Hetherington Kristine Radford	6: 1, 6: 0
3.	March 29, 1998	The Woodlands	ITF $ 25,000	Hard court	Liezel Huber	Nathalie Dechy Ghirardi Lea	6: 4, 6: 2
4th	June 14, 1998	Birmingham	WTA Tier III	race	Julie Halard-Decugis	Lisa Raymond Rennae Stubbs	2: 6, 6: 4, 6: 4
5.	September 27, 1998	Seattle	ITF $ 50,000	Hard court (hall)	Liezel Huber	Lilia Osterloh Mashona Washington	6: 2, 3: 6, 6: 3
6th	October 18, 1998	Southampton	ITF $ 50,000	Carpet (hall)	Laurence Courtois	Amelie Cocheteux Emilie Loit	6: 2, 6: 2
7th	November 22, 1998	Pattaya	WTA Tier IV	Hard court	Julie Halard-Decugis	Rika Hiraki Aleksandra Olsza	3: 6, 6: 2, 6: 2
8th.	August 13, 2000	los Angeles	WTA Tier II	Hard court	Dominique Van Roost	Kimberly Po Anne-Gaëlle Sidot	6: 2, 7: 5
9.	May 13, 2001	Berlin	WTA Tier I	sand	Meghann Shaughnessy	Cara Black Jelena Lichowzewa	6: 4, 6: 3
10.	May 19, 2001	Antwerp	WTA Tier V	sand	Virginia Ruano Pascual	Kristie Boogert Miriam Oremans	6: 3, 3: 6, 6: 4
11.	March 2, 2002	Minneapolis	ITF $ 50,000	Hard court (hall)	Shinobu Asagoe	Rika Hiraki Nana Miyagi	7: 6 3 , 7: 6 3
12.	June 16, 2002	Birmingham	WTA Tier III	race	Shinobu Asagoe	Kimberly Po Nathalie Tauziat	6: 4, 6: 3
13.	June 15, 2003	Birmingham	WTA Tier III	race	Miles Tu	Alicia Molik Martina Navrátilová	7: 5, 6: 4
14th	February 22, 2004	Antwerp	WTA Tier II	Hard court (hall)	Cara Black	Myriam Casanova Eleni Daniilidou	6: 2, 6: 1
15th	February 20, 2005	Antwerp	WTA Tier II	Hard court (hall)	Cara Black	Anabel Medina Garrigues Dinara Safina	3: 6, 6: 4, 6: 4

Performing in Grand Slam tournaments

singles

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

Double

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

Web links

Commons : Els Callens  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• WTA profile Els Callens (English)
• ITF profile Els Callens (English)
• Fed Cup Statistics for Els Callens (English)