French tennis player (born 1979)
Nathalie Dechy Country (sports) France Residence Tournai , BelgiumBorn (1979-02-21 ) 21 February 1979 (age 46) Height 1.78 m (5 ft 10 in) Turned pro 1995 Retired 21 July 2009 Plays Right-handed (two-handed backhand) Prize money US$4,281,064 Singles Career record 429–337 Career titles 1 WTA, 1 ITF Highest ranking No. 11 (9 January 2006) Grand Slam singles results Australian Open SF (2005 ) French Open 3R (1998 ,1999 ,2001 ,2002 ,2003 ,2005 ,2006 ) Wimbledon 4R (1999 ,2005 ) US Open 4R (1998 ,2005 ) Doubles Career record 189–178 Career titles 7 WTA, 1 ITF Highest ranking No. 8 (21 May 2007) Grand Slam doubles results Australian Open SF (2009) French Open QF (2000, 2003, 2006) Wimbledon SF (2008) US Open W (2006, 2007)Grand Slam mixed doubles results French Open W (2007 )Team competitions Fed Cup W (2003 )
Nathalie Dechy (born 21 February 1979) is a former professionaltennis player from France.
Dechy is a three-time doubles Grand Slam champion, winning the2006 US Open women's doubles title withVera Zvonareva ,[ 1] 2007 French Open mixed doubles title withAndy Ram ,[ 2] 2007 US Open women's doubles title withDinara Safina .[ 3] 2005 Australian Open .
At the2008 Wimbledon Championships , she faced world No. 1 and reigningFrench Open champion,Ana Ivanovic . She had a match point during the second set, before losing in the super-tiebreak, 7–6, 6–7, 8–10.
Since 2015, Nathalie Dechy has been the director of the Biarritz Tennis Tournament, a women's tennis tournament organized every year by the Quarterback agency at Biarritz Olympic Tennis. This tournament is part of the ITF (International Tennis Federation) category and has $80,000 in prize money.[ 4]
[ edit ] [ edit ] Grand Slam singles performance timeline [ edit ] (W) winner; (F) finalist; (SF) semifinalist; (QF) quarterfinalist; (#R) rounds 4, 3, 2, 1; (RR) round-robin stage; (Q#) qualification round; (DNQ) did not qualify; (A) absent; (NH) not held; (SR) strike rate (events won / competed); (W–L) win–loss record.
[ edit ] Result W/L Date Tournament Surface Opponent Score Loss 0–1 Feb 2000 Cellular South Cup , United StatesHard (i) Monica Seles 1–6, 6–7(3–7) Loss 0–2 Apr 2000 Estoril Open , PortugalClay Anke Huber 2–6, 6–1, 5–7 Win 1–2 Jan 2003 Australian Hardcourts Hard Marie-Gaïané Mikaelian 6–3, 3–6, 6–3 Loss 1–3 Aug 2004 New Haven Open , United StatesHard Elena Bovina 2–6, 6–2, 5–7 Loss 1–4 Aug 2008 Cincinnati Masters , United StatesHard Nadia Petrova 2–6, 1–6
[ edit ] Result W/L Date Tournament Surface Partner Opponents Score Loss 0–1 Oct 2001 Bratislava Open, Slovakia Hard (i) Meilen Tu Elena Bovina Dája Bedáňová 3–6, 4–6 Win 1–1 Feb 2002 Paris Indoors , FranceCarpet (i) Elena Dementieva Janette Husárová w/o Loss 1–2 Feb 2002 Antwerp Open , BelgiumHard (i) Magdalena Maleeva Patty Schnyder 3–6, 7–6(3) , 3–6 Loss 1–3 Oct 2002 Bratislava Open, Slovakia Hard (i) Maja Matevžič Henrieta Nagyová 4–6, 0–6 Loss 1–4 Dec 2002 Australian Hardcourts Hard Émilie Loit Svetlana Kuznetsova Martina Navratilova 4–6, 4–6 Loss 1–5 Feb 2003 Antwerp Open, Belgium Carpet (i) Kim Clijsters Ai Sugiyama 2–6, 0–6 Loss 1–6 Oct 2004 Linz Open , AustriaHard (i) Janette Husárová Elena Likhovtseva 2–6, 5–7 Win 2–6 Sep 2006 US Open Hard Vera Zvonareva Dinara Safina Katarina Srebotnik 7–6(5) , 7–5 Win 3–6 May 2007 Rome Masters , ItalyClay Mara Santangelo Tathiana Garbin Roberta Vinci 6–4, 6–1 Win 4–6 Sep 2007 US Open Hard Chan Yung-jan Chuang Chia-jung 6–4, 6–2 Win 5–6 Jan 2009 Auckland Open , New ZealandHard Nuria Llagostera Vives Arantxa Parra Santonja 4–6, 7–6(3) , [12–10] Loss 5–7 Jan 2009 Sydney International , AustraliaHard Casey Dellacqua Hsieh Su-wei Peng Shuai 0–6, 1–6 Win 6–7 Mar 2009 Monterrey Open , MexicoHard Iveta Benešová Barbora Záhlavová-Strýcová 6–3, 6–4 Win 7–7 May 2009 Strasbourg Open , FranceClay Claire Feuerstein Stéphanie Foretz 6–0, 6–1
$50,000 tournaments $25,000 tournaments $10,000 tournaments
Result No. Date Tournament Surface Opponent Score Loss 1. 9 May 1994 ITF Mollet, Spain Clay Mariam Ramón Climent 0–6, 0–6 Win 2. 14 December 1997 ITF Bad Gögging, Germany Carpet (i) Els Callens 6–4, 6–1 Loss 3. 6 December 1998 ITF Cergy-Pontoise, France Hard (i) Sarah Pitkowski-Malcor 5–7, 6–3, 6–7(4)
Dechy was born to a father from continental France and a Canadian mother from theEastern Townships of Quebec. She holds dual French-Canadian citizenship. On 25 January 2010 she gave birth to a son.[ 5]
France
Vera Zvonareva
Katarina Srebotnik
Chan Yung-jan
Andy Ram
Nenad Zimonjić
Sania Mirza
Monica Seles
Anke Huber
Marie-Gaïané Mikaelian
Dája Bedáňová
Janette Husárová
Magdalena Maleeva
Kim Clijsters
Ai Sugiyama
Mara Santangelo
Nuria Llagostera Vives
Casey Dellacqua
Peng Shuai
Jessica Fernández
Liezel Horn
