Patty Schnyder

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Patty Schnyder Tennis player
Patty Schnyder
Patty Schnyder (2018)
Nation: SwitzerlandSwitzerland Switzerland
Birthday: December 14, 1978
Size: 168 cm
Weight: 57 kg
1st professional season: 1994
Resignation: 1) May 28, 2011
2) November 21, 2018
Playing hand: Left, two-handed backhand
Prize money: 8,570,479 US dollars
singles
Career record: 669: 430
Career title: 11 WTA , 7 ITF
Highest ranking: 7 (November 14, 2005)
Grand Slam record
Grand Slam title: 00000  0
Australian Open HF (2004)
French Open VF (1998, 2008)
Wimbledon AF (2007)
US Open VF (1998, 2008)
Double
Career record: 230: 245
Career title: 5 WTA, 0 ITF
Highest ranking: 15 (June 6, 2005)
Grand Slam record
Grand Slam title: 00000  0
Australian Open VF (2009)
French Open HF (2005)
Wimbledon AF (2004)
US Open HF (2004)
Sources: official player profiles at the ATP / WTA and ITF (see web links )

Patty Schnyder [ ˈʃniːdər ] (born December 14, 1978 in Basel ) is a former Swiss tennis player .

career

Patty Schnyder grew up in Bottmingen in the canton of Basel-Landschaft . She started tennis at an early age and took part in a training program for tennis talent. From 1994 to 2011 she played on the WTA Tour , in the summer of 2015 she began her comeback on the ITF Women's Circuit .

In her first years as a professional, Schnyder and her then coach Eric van Harpen already reached number 11 in the world rankings . In 1998 it fell back to 37th place. In the last phase of her career, she was looked after by her then husband Rainer Hofmann.

Between 1996 and 2011 Schnyder played a total of 72 games for the Swiss Fed Cup team ; their record shows 50 wins out of 22 defeats. In 2004 she reached the semifinals of the Australian Open . It reached its highest world ranking position in November 2005 with 7th place. In the following years she did not get past a quarter-finals at Grand Slam tournaments .

After a first round defeat by Kateryna Bondarenko at the French Open in 2009, Schnyder said she would resign in spring 2010 at the latest. Regardless of this, she continued her career and reached two final games, on July 11, 2010 at the WTA tournament in Budapest and in October 2010 at the WTA tournament in Linz. After leaving the first round of the French Open in 2011 , she announced her resignation.

In 2015 Patty Schnyder was a trainer at the DTB federal base in Hanover. She also competed in the German tennis Bundesliga for the second division Braunschweiger THC .

In the summer of 2015 she made her comeback on the ITF Pro Circuit . She lost her first game on July 22, 2015 in a $ 25,000 tournament in Darmstadt to Sofiya Kovalets. She reached the quarter-finals on her third appearance before taking the tournament victory in a $ 10,000 event in Prague. In 2017 she won two more ITF titles. In April 2018 Schnyder competed for the Swiss team in the Fed Cup for the first time in seven years; in the match against Romania she lost her individual against world number one Simona Halep . In November 2018 she finally ended her career.

Schnyder has been commenting on Swiss Fed Cup matches for Swiss television SRF since 2016.

Tournament victories

singles

No. date competition category Topping Final opponent Result
1. January 17, 1998 AustraliaAustralia Hobart WTA Tier IV Hard court BelgiumBelgium Dominique van Roost 6: 3, 6: 2
2. February 22, 1998 GermanyGermany Hanover WTA Tier II Carpet (hall) Czech RepublicCzech Republic Jana Novotná 6: 0, 2: 6, 7: 5
3. May 23, 1998 SpainSpain Madrid WTA Tier III sand BelgiumBelgium Dominique van Roost 3: 6, 6: 4, 6: 0
4th July 12, 1998 AustriaAustria Maria Lankowitz WTA Tier IV sand SpainSpain Gala León García 6: 2, 4: 6, 6: 3
5. July 19, 1998 ItalyItaly Palermo WTA Tier IV sand AustriaAustria Barbara Schett 6: 1, 5: 7, 6: 2
6th January 9, 1999 AustraliaAustralia Gold coast WTA Tier III Hard court FranceFrance Mary Pierce 4: 6, 7: 6, 6: 2
7th November 11, 2001 ThailandThailand Pattaya WTA Tier V Hard court SloveniaSlovenia Henrieta Nagyová 6-0, 6-4
8th. October 20, 2002 SwitzerlandSwitzerland Zurich WTA Tier I Hard court (hall) United StatesUnited States Lindsay Davenport 6: 7 5 , 7: 6 8 , 6: 3
9. January 8, 2005 AustraliaAustralia Gold coast WTA Tier III Hard court AustraliaAustralia Samantha Stosur 1: 6, 6: 3, 7: 5
10. July 24, 2005 United StatesUnited States Cincinnati WTA Tier III Hard court JapanJapan Akiko Morigami 6: 4, 6: 0
11. September 14, 2008 IndonesiaIndonesia Bali WTA Tier III Hard court AustriaAustria Tamira Paszek 6: 3, 6: 0
12. September 6, 2015 Czech RepublicCzech Republic Prague ITF $ 10,000 sand SlovakiaSlovakia Zuzana Luknárová 6: 1, 6: 2
13. May 21, 2016 SwedenSweden Båstad ITF $ 10,000 sand NorwayNorway Melanie Stokke 6: 1, 6: 3
14th July 1, 2017 FranceFrance Périgueux ITF $ 25,000 sand ItalyItaly Camilla Rosatello 6: 4, 7: 5
15th July 30, 2017 GermanyGermany Horb ITF $ 25,000 sand SwitzerlandSwitzerland Conny Perrin 6: 3, 6: 1

Double

No. date competition category Topping Partner Final opponents Result
1. May 3, 1998 GermanyGermany Hamburg WTA Tier II sand AustriaAustria Barbara Schett SwitzerlandSwitzerland Martina Hingis Jana Novotná
Czech RepublicCzech Republic  		7: 6 3 , 3: 6, 6: 3
2. February 17, 2002 BelgiumBelgium Antwerp WTA Tier II Carpet (hall) BulgariaBulgaria Magdalena Maleewa FranceFrance Nathalie Dechy Miles Tu
United StatesUnited States  		6: 3, 7: 6 3 , 6: 3
3. February 9, 2003 FranceFrance Paris WTA Tier II Carpet (hall) AustriaAustria Barbara Schett FranceFrance Marion Bartoli Stéphanie Cohen-Aloro
FranceFrance  		2: 6, 6: 2, 7: 6 5
4th February 15, 2004 FranceFrance Paris WTA Tier II Carpet (hall) AustriaAustria Barbara Schett ItalyItaly Silvia Farina Elia Francesca Schiavone
ItalyItaly  		6: 3, 6: 2
5. October 5, 2008 GermanyGermany Stuttgart WTA Tier II Hard court (hall) GermanyGermany Anna-Lena Grönefeld Czech RepublicCzech Republic Květa Peschke Rennae Stubbs
AustraliaAustralia  		6: 2, 6: 4

Performing in Grand Slam tournaments

singles

competition 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2018 Career
Australian Open - AF AF 2 AF 1 1 AF HF VF VF AF 2 2 - 1 - HF
French Open 1 3 VF 2 1 2 AF AF 2 AF AF AF VF 1 1 1 - VF
Wimbledon 1 1 2 1 1 3 2 1 2 1 2 AF 1 1 1 - - AF
US Open - 3 VF 3 2 2 3 2 AF AF AF 3 VF 2 3 - 1 VF

Double

competition 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 Career
Australian Open 1 2 AF AF 1 1 1 2 1 - AF 2 VF - AF VF
French Open AF VF AF - 2 VF AF AF HF 2 1 1 VF 1 2 HF
Wimbledon 2 1 1 1 2 2 1 AF - - 2 - - 1 - AF
US Open 1 VF 1 2 1 2 2 HF VF - 2 AF AF 1 - HF

World ranking at the end of the season

1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2015 2016 2017
singles 786 152 58 26th 11 21st 25th 37 15th 23 14th 7th 9 16 14th 43 44 740 303 144
Double 0 441 104 59 29 41 47 77 56 40 18th 32 - 87 52 31 110 - - -

Web links

Commons : Patty Schnyder  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ But I will not resign immediately, Basler Zeitung, May 29, 2009, page 36.
  2. ↑ Patty Schnyder resigns . news.ch. May 28, 2011. Retrieved May 28, 2011.
  3. ↑ ntv-tennis.de/sport/tennisbase/trainerteam ( Memento of the original from May 18, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.ntv-tennis.de
  4. ↑ Arrived in the second division ( Memento of the original from May 18, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.unser38.de
  5. ↑ $ 25,000 Darmstadt. Retrieved July 22, 2015 .
  6. ↑ $ 10,000 Oldenzaal (NL). Retrieved September 8, 2015 .
  7. ↑ $ 10,000 Prague (CZ). Retrieved September 8, 2015 .
  8. ↑ Florian Goosmann: Patty Schnyder finally says good-bye. In: spox.com. November 24, 2018. Retrieved November 24, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Schnyder, Patty
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss tennis player
DATE OF BIRTH December 14, 1978
PLACE OF BIRTH Basel , Switzerland