Patty Schnyder

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**Patty Schnyder**

Country	Switzerland
Residence	Baech, Switzerland
Date of birth	December 14, 1978
Place of birth	Basel, Switzerland
Height	1.68 m (5' 6 1/4")
Weight	56.6 kg (125 lbs.)
Turned Pro	1994
Retired	Active
Plays	Left; Two-handed backhand
Career Prize Money	US$5,789,669
Singles
Career record:	426-274
Career titles:	10
Highest ranking:	No. 7 (November 14, 2005)
Grand Slam results
Australian Open	SF (2004)
French Open	QF (1998)
Wimbledon	3r (2001)
U.S. Open	QF (1998)
Doubles
Career record:	180-182
Career titles:	4
Highest ranking:	No. 15 (June 6, 2005)
Infobox last updated on: February 3, 2007.

Patty Schnyder (born December 14, 1978, Basel, Switzerland) is a professional tennis player from Switzerland. She has been playing on the WTA tour since the mid-1990s and is a former member of the world top ten in the WTA rankings.

1 Career
2 WTA Tour titles (14)
3 ITF titles (3)
- 3.1 Singles (3)
4 Singles performance timeline
5 Sources
6 External links

[edit] Career

In 1996, Schnyder made her Grand Slam debut at the French Open. In 1997, she quickly rose up through the rankings, and by August 1998 she had entered the WTA Top 10. However, she fell out of the Top 10 in April 1999, and spent the next 6 years ranked in the 15-30 range before re-entering the Top 10 in May 2005.

In December 2003, Schnyder married Rainer Hofmann, a German private investigator and information technology specialist who has accompanied her on the WTA tour since 1999 and became her full-time tennis coach in early 2003. Hofmann carries a fraud conviction relating to his business dealings with German national communications firm Deutsche Telekom, a crime for which he was put on probation.^[1]

Schnyder has won 10 singles titles, including a victory in Zurich (Tier I Event) over American Lindsay Davenport, and 4 doubles titles. Her first title on U.S. soil came in August, 2005, when she won at Cincinnati's Western & Southern Financial Group Women's Open. Schnyder is perhaps best known for defeating 4 consecutive Top 10 players, including Serena Williams and then-world #1 Jennifer Capriati, in 2002 at the Family Circle Cup in Charleston, which is the largest women-only tennis event held in the United States.

Schnyder has struggled with consistency until the start of 2004 when she unexpectedly has a solid run to the Semi-finals of the Australian Open and reached the semi-finals of two Tier I events Charleston and Zurich.

2005 was Schnyder's best season on the tour to date, reaching a total of five tour finals winning two of them (Gold Coast and Cincinnati). She became runner up at the Tier I events Rome (to Amelie Mauresmo) and Zurich (to Lindsay Davenport). She also reached the final in Linz, falling to Nadia Petrova. She reached the career high of World Number 7 after the end of season WTA Tour Championships. 2006 proved to be a good season for Schnyder also, staying within the top ten and reaching the finals in Charleston (defeating top seed and defending champion Justine Henin Hardenne in the semis and also to end Henin's 27 match winning streak on clay, though lost to Petrova in the final, and in Stanford (falling to top seed and defending champion Kim Clijsters).

[edit] WTA Tour titles (14)

[edit] Singles (10)

Legend
Grand Slam (0)
WTA Championships (0)
Tier I (1)
Tier II (1)
Tier III (4)
Tier IV-V (4)

No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Opponent in the final	Score
1.	January 18, 1998	Hobart, Australia	Hard	Dominique Van Roost	6-3 6-2
2.	February 22, 1998	Hannover, Germany	Carpet	Jana Novotná	6-0 3-6 7-5
3.	May 24, 1998	Madrid, Spain	Clay	Dominique Van Roost	3-6 6-4 6-0
4.	July 12, 1998	Maria Lankowitz, Austria	Clay	Gala Leon Garcia	6-2 4-6 6-3
5.	July 19, 1998	Palermo, Italy	Clay	Barbara Schett	6-1 5-7 6-2
6.	January 10, 1999	Gold Coast, Australia	Hard	Mary Pierce	4-6 7-6 6-2
7.	November 11, 2001	Pattaya City, Thailand	Hard	Henrieta Nagyová	6-0 6-4
8.	October 20, 2002	Zürich, Switzerland	Carpet	Lindsay Davenport	6-7 7-6 6-3
9.	January 8, 2005	Gold Coast, Australia	Hard	Samantha Stosur	1-6 6-3 7-5
10.	July 24, 2005	Cincinnati, United States	Hard	Akiko Morigami	6-4 6-0

[edit] Singles finalist (10)

1996: Karlovy Vary (lost to Ruxandra Dragomir) 2-6 6-3 4-6
1998: Grand Slam Cup (lost to Venus Williams) 2-6 6-3 2-6
2000: Klagenfurt (lost to Barbara Schett) 7-5 4-6 4-6
2001: Vienna (lost to Iroda Tulyaganova) 3-6 2-6
2002: Charleston (lost to Iva Majoli) 6-7⁵ 4-6
2005: Rome (lost to Amélie Mauresmo) 6-2 3-6 4-6
2005: Zürich (lost to Lindsay Davenport) 6-7⁵ 3-6
2005: Linz (lost to Nadia Petrova) 6-4 3-6 1-6
2006: Charleston (lost to Nadia Petrova) 3-6 6-4 1-6
2006: Stanford (lost to Kim Clijsters) 4-6 2-6

[edit] Doubles (4)

No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Partner	Opponent in the final	Score
1.	May 3, 1998	Hamburg, Germany	Clay	Barbara Schett	Martina Hingis Jana Novotná	7-6 3-6 6-3
2.	February 17, 2002	Antwerp, Belgium	Carpet	Magdalena Maleeva	Nathalie Dechy Meilen Tu	6-3 6-7 6-3
3.	February 9, 2003	Paris, France	Carpet	Barbara Schett	Marion Bartoli Stéphanie Cohen-Aloro	2-6 6-2 7-6
4.	February 15, 2004	Paris, France	Carpet	Barbara Schett	Silvia Farina Elia Francesca Schiavone	6-3 6-2

[edit] ITF titles (3)

[edit] Singles (3)

No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Opponent in the final	Score
1.	May 4, 1995	Nitra, Slovak Republic	Clay	Barbara Castro	1-6 6-2 6-3
2.	May 21, 1995	Presov, Slovak Republic	Clay	Jana Ondrouchova	6-1 6-0
3.	June 25, 1995	Cureglia, Switzerland	Clay	Camilla Kremer	6-2 6-1

[edit] Singles performance timeline

To prevent confusion and double counting, information in this table is updated only once a tournament or the player's participation in the tournament has concluded. This table is current through the 2007 Australian Open, which ended on January 28, 2007.

Tournament	1995	1996	1997	1998	1999	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007	Career SR	Career Win-Loss
Australian Open	A	A	4R	4R	2R	4R	1R	1R	4R	SF	QF	QF	4R	0 / 11	29-11
French Open	A	1R	3R	QF	3R	1R	2R	4R	4R	2R	4R	4R		0 / 11	22-11
Wimbledon	A	1R	1R	2R	1R	2R	3R	2R	1R	2R	1R	2R		0 / 11	7-11
US Open	A	A	3R	QF	3R	2R	2R	3R	2R	4R	4R	4R		0 / 10	22-10
Grand Slam Win-Loss	0-0	0-2	7-4	12-4	5-4	5-4	4-4	6-4	7-4	10-4	10-4	11-4	3-1	N/A	80-43
WTA Tour Championships	A	A	A	1R	A	A	A	1R	A	A	RR	A		0 / 3	1-4
Tokyo	A	A	A	A	A	A	A	A	A	A	A	A	A	0 / 0	0-0
Indian Wells	A	A	A	A	3R	3R	2R	2R	A	A	A	A		0 / 4	3-4
Miami	A	A	2R	4R	4R	3R	2R	2R	A	A	3R	4R		0 / 8	9-7
Charleston	A	A	2R	QF	SF	3R	1R	F	2R	SF	SF	F		0 / 10	25-10
Berlin	A	A	1R	1R	QF	1R	3R	A	3R	3R	SF	QF		0 / 9	13-8
Rome	A	A	SF	1R	3R	1R	2R	2R	3R	2R	F	3R		0 / 10	14-10
San Diego¹	A	A	A	A	1R	A	A	A	A	1R	QF	SF		0 / 4	5-4
Montreal/Toronto	A	A	A	1R	1R	2R	A	2R	A	A	A	A		0 / 4	2-4
Moscow	A	2R	2R	2R	1R	2R	A	A	1R	1R	2R	QF		0 / 9	6-9
Zurich	2R	1R	1R	2R	2R	1R	1R	W	QF	SF	F	1R		1 / 12	17-12
Tournaments Won	0	0	0	5	1	0	1	1	0	0	2	0		N/A	10
Year End Ranking	152	58	26	11	21	25	37	15	23	14	7	9		N/A	N/A