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Nathalie Dechy (born 21 February 1979) is a former professional tennis player from France.

Nathalie Dechy
Country (sports) France
ResidenceTournai, Belgium
Born (1979-02-21) 21 February 1979 (age 43)
Les Abymes, Guadeloupe
Height1.78 m (5 ft 10 in)
Turned pro1995
Retired21 July 2009
PlaysRight-handed (two-handed backhand)
Prize moneyUS$4,216,795
Singles
Career record429–337
Career titles1 WTA, 1 ITF
Highest rankingNo. 11 (9 January 2006)
Grand Slam singles results
Australian OpenSF (2005)
French Open3R (1998, 1999, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2005, 2006)
Wimbledon4R (1999, 2005)
US Open4R (1998, 2005)
Doubles
Career record189–178
Career titles7 WTA, 1 ITF
Highest rankingNo. 8 (21 May 2007)
Grand Slam doubles results
Australian OpenSF (2009)
French OpenQF (2000, 2003, 2006)
WimbledonSF (2008)
US OpenW (2006, 2007)
Grand Slam mixed doubles results
French OpenW (2007)
Team competitions
Fed CupW (2003)

Dechy is a three-time doubles Grand Slam champion, winning the 2006 US Open women's doubles title with Vera Zvonareva, the 2007 French Open mixed doubles title with Andy Ram, and the 2007 US Open women's doubles title with Dinara Safina. Her biggest singles achievement is reaching the semifinals of the 2005 Australian Open.

At the 2008 Wimbledon Championships, she faced world No. 1 and reigning French Open champion Ana Ivanovic. She had a match point during the second set before losing 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.[1]


Grand Slam finals



Women's doubles: 2 (2 titles)


Result Year Championship Surface Partner Opponents Score
Win2006US OpenHard Vera Zvonareva Katarina Srebotnik
Dinara Safina		7–6(7–5), 7–5
Win2007US OpenHard Dinara Safina Chan Yung-jan
Chuang Chia-jung		6–4, 6–2

Mixed doubles: 1 (title)


Result Year Championship Surface Partner Opponents Score
Win2007French OpenClay Andy Ram Katarina Srebotnik
Nenad Zimonjić		7–5, 6–3
Loss2009Australian OpenHard Andy Ram Sania Mirza
Mahesh Bhupathi		3–6, 1–6

Grand Slam singles performance timeline


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.
Tournament1994199519961997199819992000200120022003200420052006200720082009
Australian Open A A A 1R 1R 1R 1R 1R 3R 3R 4R SF 1R 1R 1R 2R
French Open A 1R 2R 1R 3R 3R 1R 3R 3R 3R 1R 3R 3R 2R 2R 1R
Wimbledon A A 1R 2R 1R 4R 3R 2R 3R 3R 3R 4R 1R 1R 2R 1R
US Open A A 2R 2R 4R 1R 2R 2R 3R 2R 3R 4R 1R 1R 1R A
Year-end ranking 586 294 84 90 48 25 27 44 20 29 21 12 51 69 72 n/a

WTA career finals



Singles: 5 (1 title, 4 runner-ups)


Result No. Date Tournament Surface Opponent Score
Loss 1. Feb 2000 Cellular South Cup, United States Hard (i) Monica Seles 1–6, 6–7(3)
Loss 2 Apr 2000 Estoril Open, Portugal Clay Anke Huber 2–6, 6–1, 5–7
Win 3. Jan 2003 Australian Hardcourts Hard Marie-Gayanay Mikaelian 6–3, 3–6, 6–3
Loss 4. Aug 2004 New Haven Open, United States Hard Elena Bovina 2–6, 6–2, 5–7
Loss 5. Aug 2008 Cincinnati Masters, United States Hard Nadia Petrova 2–6, 1–6

Doubles: 14 (7 titles, 7 runner-ups)


Result No. Date Tournament Surface Partner Opponents Score
Loss 1. Oct 2001 Bratislava Open, Slovakia Hard (i) Meilen Tu Elena Bovina
Dája Bedáňová		 3–6, 4–6
Win 1. Feb 2002 Paris Indoors, France Carpet (i) Meilen Tu Elena Dementieva
Janette Husárová		 w/o
Loss 2. Feb 2002 Antwerp Open, Belgium Hard (i) Meilen Tu Magdalena Maleeva
Patty Schnyder		 3–6, 7–6(3), 3–6
Loss 3. Oct 2002 Bratislava Open, Slovakia Hard (i) Meilen Tu Maja Matevžič
Henrieta Nagyová		 4–6, 0–6
Runner-up 4. Dec 2002 Australian Hardcourts Hard Émilie Loit Svetlana Kuznetsova
Martina Navratilova		 4–6, 4–6
Runner-up 5. Feb 2003 Antwerp Open, Belgium Carpet (i) Émilie Loit Kim Clijsters
Ai Sugiyama		 2–6, 0–6
Loss 6. Oct 2004 Linz Open, Austria Hard (i) Patty Schnyder Janette Husárová
Elena Likhovtseva		 2–6, 5–7
Win 2. Sep 2006 US Open Hard Vera Zvonareva Dinara Safina
Katarina Srebotnik		 7–6(5), 7–5
Win 3. May 2007 Rome Masters, Italy Clay Mara Santangelo Tathiana Garbin
Roberta Vinci		 6–4, 6–1
Win 4. Sep 2007 US Open Hard Dinara Safina Chan Yung-jan
Chuang Chia-jung		 6–4, 6–2
Win 5. Jan 2009 Auckland Open, New Zealand Hard Mara Santangelo Nuria Llagostera Vives
Arantxa Parra Santonja		 4–6, 7–6(3), [12–10]
Loss 7. Jan 2009 Sydney International, Australia Hard Casey Dellacqua Hsieh Su-wei
Peng Shuai		 0–6, 1–6
Win 6. Mar 2009 Monterrey Open, Mexico Hard Mara Santangelo Iveta Benešová
Barbora Záhlavová-Strýcová		 6–3, 6–4
Win 7. May 2009 Strasbourg Open, France Clay Mara Santangelo Claire Feuerstein
Stéphanie Foretz		 6–0, 6–1

ITF Circuit finals



Singles (1-2)


$50,000 tournaments
$25,000 tournaments
$10,000 tournaments
Outcome No. Date Tournament Surface Opponent Score
Runner-up 1. 9 May 1994 ITF Mollet, Spain Clay Mariam Ramón Climent 0–6, 0–6
Winner 2. 14 December 1997 ITF Bad Gögging, Germany Carpet (i) Els Callens 6–4, 6–1
Runner-up 3. 6 December 1998 ITF Cergy-Pontoise, France Hard (i) Sarah Pitkowski-Malcor 5–7, 6–3, 6–7(4)

Doubles (1-1)


Outcome No. Date Tournament Surface Partner Opponents Score
Winner 1. 20 March 1995 ITF Moulins, France Hard (i) Catherine Tanvier Jessica Fernández
Aarthi Venkatesan		 6–1, 6–3
Runner-up 2. 29 March 1997 ITF Woodlands, United States Hard Lea Ghirardi Els Callens
Liezel Horn		 4–6, 2–6

Personal life


Dechy was born to a father from continental France and a Canadian mother from the Eastern Townships of Quebec. She holds dual French-Canadian citizenship. On 25 January 2010 she gave birth to a son.[2]


References


  1. "Engie open de Biarritz". www.engie-open-biarritz.fr. Retrieved 2022-10-24.
  2. "La championne de tennis Nathalie Dechy est maman !". PurePeople (in French). 5 February 2010.


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[de] Nathalie Dechy

Nathalie Dechy (* 21. Februar 1979 in Les Abymes, Guadeloupe) ist eine ehemalige französische Tennisspielerin.
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Nathalie Dechy (21 de febrero de 1979, Les Abymes, Guadeloupe) es una tenista profesional francesa.

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Натали́ Деши́ (фр. Nathalie Dechy; родилась 21 февраля 1979 года в Лез-Абиме, Гваделупа, Франция) — французская теннисистка; победительница двух турниров Большого шлема в парном разряде (US Open-2006, -2007); победительница одного турнира Большого шлема в миксте (Roland Garros-2007); полуфиналистка одного турнира Большого шлема в одиночном разряде (Australian Open-2005); победительница восьми турнира WTA (один — в одиночном разряде); победительница Кубка Федерации (2003) в составе национальной команды Франции; бывшая восьмая ракетка мира в парном разряде; финалистка одного юниорского турнира Большого шлема в одиночном разряде (Australian Open-1996); полуфиналистка двух юниорских турниров Большого шлема в одиночном разряде (Уимблдон-1996, Roland Garros-1997).


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