Sandrine Testud (born 3 April 1972) is a former professional tennis player from France.

Sandrine Testud
Country (sports) France
ResidenceLyon, France
Born (1972-04-03) 3 April 1972 (age 51)
Lyon
Height1.76 m (5 ft 9 in)
Turned pro1989
Retired2005
PlaysRight-handed (two-handed backhand)
Prize money$3,782,307
Singles
Career record398–279 (58.8%)
Career titles3
Highest rankingNo. 9 (7 February 2000)
Grand Slam singles results
Australian OpenQF (1998)
French Open4R (1998, 2001)
Wimbledon4R (1997, 1998, 2001)
US OpenQF (1997)
Other tournaments
Tour FinalsSF (2001)
Olympic Games1R (2004)
Doubles
Career record223–190 (54.0%)
Career titles4
Highest rankingNo. 8 (21 August 2000)
Grand Slam doubles results
Australian Open3R (2001, 2002)
French OpenSF (2004)
Wimbledon3R (1996, 1998, 2000, 2002)
US OpenF (1999)
Other doubles tournaments
Tour Finals1R (2001)
Olympic GamesQF (2004)
Team competitions
Fed CupW (1997)

Career edit

Testud broke into top 20 singles rankings in July 1997. On February 7, 2000, she became the sixth Frenchwoman after Françoise Dürr, Mary Pierce, Nathalie Tauziat, Amélie Mauresmo and Julie Halard to break into the top 10 in the singles rankings. This marked the first time France had four women ranked in the singles top 10 simultaneously (Mary Pierce at No. 5, Nathalie Tauziat at No. 6, Julie Halard at No. 8 and Testud at No. 9). France was the third nation after the USA and Australia to have more than two representatives in the singles top 10 at any one time. She finished in the top 20 for five consecutive years between 1997 and 2001. In the summer of 2002, she took a break from the tour when she discovered that she was pregnant with her first child. She resumed her career 12 months after the birth of her child and retired in the summer of 2005.

She won a total of three singles and four doubles titles on the WTA Tour. Her biggest singles tournament victory was at the 1998 Tier-II tournament in Filderstadt, Germany, where she defeated world No. 2, Lindsay Davenport, in the final. She was the runner-up in singles and doubles WTA tournaments on seven occasions each. Her third career-title victory that came in Hawaii over Justine Henin happened in a final that was delayed for a day due to the terrorist attacks on the U.S. on September 11, 2001. Her last WTA Tour singles final was in Dubai where she lost to Amélie Mauresmo in what was the fourth all-French final in WTA Tour history. She has gone beyond the fourth round of a Grand Slam tournament on two occasions: she reached the quarterfinals at the 1997 US Open and the 1998 Australian Open. Testud played in the season-ending Tour Championships for five consecutive years from 1997 to 2001; reaching the singles semifinal and doubles quarterfinal in her last appearance in 2001.

In 1999, Testud was the women's doubles runner-up at the US Open with Chanda Rubin, and she reached the women's doubles quarterfinals or better in six Grand Slam tournaments. She was a doubles semifinalist on 21 WTA Tour occasions, excluding Grand Slam tournaments: 1991 (2), 1992 (2), 1993 (1), 1994 (1), 1995 (1), 1996 (4), 1997 (2), 1998 (1), 2000 (3), 2001 (2), 2002 (1), 2005 (1).

Testud represented her country in the Fed Cup between 1997 and 2002. She won her second singles match against the host country Netherlands to give France an unassailable 3–1 lead in the 1997 Fed Cup final in Den Bosch. That was the first time France had won the Fed Cup. She also represented her country in the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens, where she lost in the singles first round and reached the doubles QF with Nathalie Dechy.

Testud married her coach, Vittorio Magnelli, on 13 June 1998. Their daughter, Isabella, was born on 19 February 2003. Their second child, Sophie, was born in 2006.[1]

WTA career finals edit

Singles: 10 (3 titles, 7 runner-ups) edit

Finals by surface
Hard (2–4)
Clay (1–1)
Grass (0–0)
Carpet (0–2)
Outcome No. Date Tournament Surface Opponent Score
Winner 1. 14 July 1997 Palermo Ladies Open, Italy Clay   Elena Makarova 7–5, 6–3
Runner-up 1. 18 August 1997 Atlanta, United States Hard   Lindsay Davenport 4–6, 1–6
Runner-up 2. 6 July 1998 Prague Open, Czech Republic Clay   Jana Novotná 3–6, 0–6
Winner 2. 5 October 1998 Porsche Tennis Grand Prix, Germany Hard (i)   Lindsay Davenport 7–5, 6–3
Runner-up 3. 25 October 1999 Generali Ladies Linz, Austria Carpet (i)   Mary Pierce 6–7(2–7), 1–6
Runner-up 4. 31 January 2000 Pan Pacific Open, Japan Carpet (i)   Martina Hingis 3–6, 5–7
Runner-up 5. 8 January 2001 Canberra International, Australia Hard   Justine Henin 2–6, 2–6
Runner-up 6. 12 February 2001 Qatar Open Hard   Martina Hingis 3–6, 2–6
Winner 3. 10 September 2001 Waikoloa Championships, U.S. Hard   Justine Henin 6–3, 2–0 ret.
Runner-up 7. 18 February 2002 Dubai Championships, UAE Hard   Amélie Mauresmo 4–6, 6–7(5–7)

Doubles: 11 (4 titles, 7 runner-ups) edit

Outcome No. Date Tournament Surface Partner Opponents Score
Runner-up 1. 13 April 1992 Pattaya Open, Thailand Hard   Pascale Paradis   Isabelle Demongeot
  Natalia Medvedeva
1–6, 1–6
Runner-up 2. 31 July 1995 San Diego Classic, United States Hard   Alexia Dechaume   Gigi Fernández
  Natasha Zvereva
2–6, 1–6
Runner-up 3. 26 October 1998 Bell Challenge, Canada Hard (i)   Chanda Rubin   Lori McNeil
  Kimberly Po
7–6(7–3), 5–7, 4–6
Runner-up 4. 30 August 1999 US Open Hard   Chanda Rubin   Serena Williams
  Venus Williams
6–4, 1–6, 4–6
Winner 1. 4 October 1999 Porsche Tennis Grand Prix, Germany Hard (i)   Chanda Rubin   Larisa Neiland
  Arantxa Sánchez Vicario
6–3, 6–4
Runner-up 5. 8 November 1999 Philadelphia Championships, United States Carpet (i)   Chanda Rubin   Lisa Raymond
  Rennae Stubbs
1–6, 6–7(2–7)
Winner 2. 7 February 2000 Paris Indoor, France Carpet (i)   Julie Halard   Émilie Loit
  Åsa Carlsson
3–6, 6–3, 6–4
Winner 3. 24 July 2000 Stanford Classic, United States Hard   Chanda Rubin   Cara Black
  Amy Frazier
6–4, 6–4
Winner 4. 12 February 2001 Qatar Open Hard   Roberta Vinci   Kristie Boogert
  Miriam Oremans
7–5, 7–6(7–4)
Runner-up 6. 15 October 2001 Zurich Open, Switzerland Hard (i)   Roberta Vinci   Lindsay Davenport
  Lisa Raymond
3–6, 6–1, 2–6
Runner-up 7. 18 February 2002 Dubai Championships, UAE Hard   Roberta Vinci   Barbara Rittner
  María Vento-Kabchi
3–6, 2–6

ITF finals edit

Legend
$50,000 tournaments
$25,000 tournaments
$10,000 tournaments

Singles (5–0) edit

Outcome No. Date Tournament Surface Opponent Score
Winner 1. 10 April 1989 Limoges, France Clay   Emmanuelle Derly 3–6, 6–4, 6–4
Winner 2. 25 June 1990 Caltagiro, Italy Clay   Lorenza Jachia 7–6, 7–5
Winner 3. 5 November 1990 Eastbourne, United Kingdom Hard (i)   Katarzyna Nowak 2–6, 6–3, 6–4
Winner 4. 12 November 1990 Swindon, United Kingdom Carpet (i)   Dominique Monami 6–4, 6–4
Winner 5. 12 December 1994 Mildura, Australia Grass   Kerry-Anne Guse 6–1, 6–3

Doubles (4–2) edit

Outcome No. Date Tournament Surface Partner Opponents Score
Winner 1. 27 March 1989 Moulins, France Hard (i)   Catherine Tanvier   Mara Eijkenboom
  Noëlle van Lottum
6–4, 6–3
Runner-up 2. 26 March 1990 Limoges, France Carpet (i)   Catherine Tanvier   Ann Devries
  Iwona Kuczyńska
3–6, 6–3, 4–6
Winner 3. 2 July 1990 Brindisi, Italy Clay   Mary Pierce   Jennifer Fuchs
  Simone Schilder
6–1, 1–6, 6–0
Winner 4. 6 August 1990 Budapest, Hungary Clay   Sylvie Sabas   Denisa Krajčovičová
  Alice Noháčová
6–3, 6–4
Winner 5. 1 April 1991 Moulins, France Carpet (i)   Catherine Suire   Ingelise Driehuis
  Louise Pleming
6–3, 6–4
Runner-up 6. 9 December 1991 Val-d'Oise, France Hard (i)   Pascale Paradis-Mangon   Eva Pfaff
  Catherine Suire
6–4, 3–6, 4–6

Grand Slam singles performance timeline edit

Key
W  F  SF QF #R RR Q# DNQ A NH
(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.
Tournament 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 Career SR
Australian Open A LQ A 2R 1R 4R 3R 1R 2R QF 4R 4R 3R 1R A A 0 / 11
French Open A 1R 1R 2R 1R 1R 2R 3R 3R 4R 2R 3R 4R 1R A 1R 0 / 14
Wimbledon A A A 1R 1R 1R 2R 2R 4R 4R 3R 1R 4R 2R A A 0 / 11
US Open A A LQ 2R 1R 2R 3R 4R QF 3R 2R 4R 4R A A A 0 / 10
SR 0 / 0 0 / 1 0 / 1 0 / 4 0 / 4 0 / 4 0 / 4 0 / 4 0 / 4 0 / 4 0 / 4 0 / 4 0 / 4 0 / 3 0 / 0 0 / 1 0 / 46
Year-end ranking 265 167 118 106 98 81 41 41 13 14 13 17 11 38 NR 311

Head-to-head record edit

References edit

  1. ^ Tennis Magazine (France) August 2010 issue

External links edit