Francesca Schiavone

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**Francesca Schiavone**
Francesca Schiavone at Medibank International 2006.
Country	Italy
Residence	London, England
Date of birth	23 June 1980
Place of birth	Milan, Italy
Height	1.66 m (5 ft 5 in)
Weight	65 kg (143 lb)
Turned Pro	1998
Retired	Active
Plays	Right (one-handed backhand)
Career Prize Money	$2,742,899
Singles
Career record:	313-213
Career titles:	0
Highest ranking:	11 (January 30, 2006)
Grand Slam results
Australian Open	4r (2006)
French Open	QF (2001)
Wimbledon	3r (2003)
U.S. Open	QF (2003)
Doubles
Career record:	84-92
Career titles:	6 [1]
Highest ranking:	No. 9 (November 13, 2006)
Infobox last updated on: December 14, 2006.

Francesca Schiavone (June 23, 1980, Milan) is a professional tennis player from Italy. She turned professional in 1998.

She has finished the 2005 season on the WTA Tour ranked #13 in the world in singles. She has yet to win a singles title on the WTA tour but has reached eight finals, six of them since the Autumn of 2005. Schiavone has also been to two Grand Slam Quarter Finals in her career; once in her debut at the French Open in 2001 and again at the US Open in 2003. She is however yet to win a major title. She and her Italian team mates Mara Santangelo, Flavia Pennetta and Roberta Vinci beat the Belgium team 3-2 in the 2006 Fed Cup final. Justine Henin-Hardenne had to retire in the fifth and final match due to an injury in her right knee, which let Italy win their first Fed Cup trophy.^[1] This match was a doubles match and Kirsten Flipkens partnered Henin-Hardenne, and Roberta Vinci partenered Schiavone. One point in this game consisted of about fifteen slam shots that each team managed to return.

1 Titles (7)
2 References
3 External links

[edit] Titles (7)

[edit] Singles (0)

[edit] Singles Finalist (8)

2000: Tashkent (lost to Iroda Tulyaganova)
2003: Canberra (lost to Meghann Shaughnessy)
2005: Bali (lost to Lindsay Davenport)
2005: Moscow (lost to Mary Pierce)
2005: Hasselt (lost to Kim Clijsters)
2006: Sydney (lost to Justine Henin-Hardenne)
2006: Amelia Island (lost to Nadia Petrova)
2006: Luxembourg (lost to Alona Bondarenko)

Legend (Doubles)

Tier I (1)

Tier II (4)

Tier III (1)

Tier IV (0)

Grand Slam Title (0)

WTA Tour Championship (0)

ITF Circuit (1)

[edit] Doubles (7)

No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Partner	Opponent in the final	Score
1.	September 13, 1998	Edinburgh, Great Britain	Clay	Antonella Serra Zanetti	Louise Latimer and Helen Reesby	6-3 6-3
2.	July 29, 2001	Sopot, Poland	Clay	Joanette Kruger	Yulia Beygelzimer and Anastassia Rodionova	6-4 6-0
3.	May 2, 2004	Warsaw, Poland	Clay	Silvia Farina Elia	Gisela Dulko and Patricia Tarabini	3-6 6-2 6-1
4.	February 26, 2005	Doha, Qatar	Hard	Alicia Molik	Cara Black and Liezel Huber	6-3 6-4
5.	February 25, 2006	Dubai, UAE	Hard	Kveta Peschke	Svetlana Kuznetsova and Nadia Petrova	3-6 7-6 6-3
6.	October 1, 2006	Luxembourg, Luxembourg	Hard Indoors	Kveta Peschke	Anna-Lena Groenefeld and Liezel Huber	2-6 6-4 6-1
7.	October 15, 2006	Moscow, Russia	Carpet	Kveta Peschke	Iveta Benesova and Galina Voskoboeva	6-4 6-7 6-1