Sandrine Testud

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**Sandrine Testud**

Country	France
Residence	Lyon, France
Date of birth	3 April 1972
Place of birth	Lyon, France
Height	1.76 m (5 ft 9 in)
Weight	68 kg (150 lb)
Turned Pro	1989
Plays	Right
Career Prize Money	$3,782,307
Singles
Career record:	398-279
Career titles:	3
Highest ranking:	9 (February 7, 2000)
Grand Slam results
Australian Open	QF
French Open	4r
Wimbledon	4r
U.S. Open	QF
Doubles
Career record:	223-190
Career titles:	4
Highest ranking:	8 (August 21, 2000)
Infobox last updated on: July 12, 2006.

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

1 Career
2 WTA Tour singles final
3 WTA Tour doubles finals
4 External links

[edit] Career

Testud broke into top 20 singles rankings in July 1997. On February 7, 1999, she became the fourth Frenchwoman after Françoise Durr, Mary Pierce and Nathalie Tauziat to break into singles top 10 rankings. This marked the first time France had three women ranked in singles Top 10 simultaneously. (Mary Pierce at No. 5, Nathalie Tauziat at No. 6 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 singles rankings for five consecutive years between 1997 and 2001. In the summer of 2002, she took a break from the tennis circuit 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 3 WTA Tour singles and 4 WTA Tour doubles titles. Her biggest singles tournament victory was at the 1998 Tier II tournament in Filderstadt, Germany, where she defeated world number two Lindsay Davenport in the final. She was the runner-up in WTA Tour singles and doubles tournaments on 7 occasions each. 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 quarter-finals 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 semi-final 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 quarter-finals or better in six Grand Slam tournaments. She was a WTA Tour doubles semi-finalist on 21 occasions, excluding Grand Slams: 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 June 13, 1998. Their daughter, Isabella, was born on Feb 19, 2003.

[edit] WTA Tour singles final

1997: W - Palermo(Italy); RU - Atlanta(Georgia)
1998: W - Filderstadt(Germany); RU -Prague(Czech Republic)
1999: RU – Linz(Austria)
2000: RU – Pan-Pacific Open(Tokyo, Japan)
2001: W – Hawaii; RU – Canberra(Australia), Doha(Qatar)
2002: RU –Dubai(United Arab Emirates)

[edit] WTA Tour doubles finals

1992: RU - Pattaya(Thailand) with Paradis-Mangon
1995: RU - Carlsbad(California) with Alexia Dechaume-Balleret
1998: RU - Quebec City(Canada) with Chanda Rubin
1999: W – Filderstadt(Germany) with Rubin; RU – Philadelphia(Pennsylvania) with Rubin; US Open RU with Rubin;
2000: W – Paris Indoor Open(France) with Julie Halard-Decugis, Stanford(California) with Rubin
2001: W – Doha(Qatar) with Roberta Vinci; RU – Zürich with Vinci
2002: RU – Dubai(United Arab Emirates) with Vinci