Francesca Schiavone

Country	Italy
Residence	London
Date of birth	23 June 1980 (1980-06-23) (age 29)
Place of birth	Milan, Italy
Height	1.68 m (5 ft 6 in)
Weight	64 kg (140 lb; 10.1 st)
Turned pro	1998
Retired	Active
Plays	Right (one-handed backhand)
Career prize money	US$4,588,625
Singles
Career record	408–285
Career titles	2
Highest ranking	No. 11 (30 January 2006)
Current ranking	No. 16 (2 November 2009)
Grand Slam results
Australian Open	4r (2006)
French Open	QF (2001)
Wimbledon	QF (2009)
US Open	QF (2003)
Doubles
Career record	167–143
Career titles	7 WTA & 1 ITF
Highest ranking	No. 8 (12 February 2007)
Grand Slam Doubles results
Australian Open	SF (2009)
French Open	F (2008)
Wimbledon	QF (2006)
US Open	SF (2006)
Last updated on: 26 October 2009.

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

Her career high ranking is World No. 11, achieved on 30 January 2006. She has won only two singles titles on the WTA tour, but has reached ten finals, eight of them since the autumn of 2005. Schiavone has also reached three Grand Slam singles quarterfinals. She and her Italian teammates Mara Santangelo, Flavia Pennetta, and Roberta Vinci beat the Belgium team 3–2 in the 2006 Fed Cup final. Justine Henin 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 and Roberta Vinci partnered Schiavone.

She realized the best win of her career in the quarterfinals of the 2008 Dubai Duty Free Women's Open, when she upset World No. 1 and four-time champion Henin 7–6, 7–6. She eventually lost to Elena Dementieva in the semifinals.

Partnering Australian Casey Dellacqua, Schiavone was the runner-up in the women's doubles competition at the 2008 French Open.

Contents 1 Major finals 1.1 Playing Style 1.2 Grand Slam finals 1.2.1 Doubles: 1 (0-1) 2 Career finals 2.1 Singles win (2) 2.2 Singles runner-ups (10) 2.3 Doubles wins (8) 3 Singles performance timeline 4 References 5 External links

[edit] Major finals

[edit] Playing Style

Schiavone employs an all court game, similar to that of Justine Henin. She regularly slices her backhand and finds her way to the net to finish off the point. She also has a strong forehand and can dictate with that wing. Schiavone's serve is also fairly good. She is currently ranked at number 17 in the world, due to her success at reaching the 2009 Wimbledon Ladies' Singles quarterfinals and her title in Moscow later in the year.

[edit] Grand Slam finals

[edit] Doubles: 1 (0-1)

Outcome	Year	Championship	Surface	Partner	Opponents in the final	Score in the final
Runner-up	2008	French Open	Clay	Casey Dellacqua	Anabel Medina Virginia Ruano	2–6, 7–5, 6–4

[edit] Career finals

[edit] Singles win (2)

Legend: Before 2009	Legend: Starting in 2009
Grand Slam tournaments (0)
WTA Championships (0)
Tier I (0)	Premier Mandatory (0)
Tier II (0)	Premier 5 (0)
Tier III (1)	Premier (1)
Tier IV (0)	International (0)
ITF Circuit (1)

No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Opponent in Final	Score in Final
1.	29 July 2007	Bad Gastein, Austria	Clay	Yvonne Meusburger	6–1, 6–4
2.	25 October 2009	Moscow, Russia	Hard(i)	Olga Govortsova	6–3, 6–0

[edit] Singles runner-ups (10)

• 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)
• 2006: Amelia Island (lost to Nadia Petrova)
• 2006: Luxembourg (lost to Alona Bondarenko)
• 2009: Prague (lost to Sybille Bammer)
• 2009: Osaka (lost to Samantha Stosur)

[edit] Doubles wins (8)

Legend: Before 2009	Legend: Starting in 2009
Grand Slam tournaments (0)
WTA Championships (0)
Tier I (1)	Premier Mandatory (0)
Tier II (4)	Premier 5 (1)
Tier III (1)	Premier (0)
Tier IV (0)	International (0)
ITF Circuit (1)

No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Partner	Opponents in Final	Score in Final
1.	13 September 1998	Edinburgh	Clay	Antonella Serra Zanetti	Louise Latimer Helen Reesby	6–3 6–3
2.	29 July 2001	Sopot	Clay	Joannette Kruger	Yulia Beygelzimer Anastassia Rodionova	6–4 6–0
3.	2 May 2004	Warsaw	Clay	Silvia Farina Elia	Gisela Dulko Patricia Tarabini	3–6 6–2 6–1
4.	26 February 2005	Doha	Hard	Alicia Molik	Cara Black Liezel Huber	6–3 6–4
5.	25 February 2006	Dubai	Hard	Květa Peschke	Svetlana Kuznetsova Nadia Petrova	3–6 7–6 6–3
6.	1 October 2006	Luxembourg City	Hard Indoors	Květa Peschke	Anna-Lena Grönefeld Liezel Huber	2–6 6–4 6–1
7.	15 October 2006	Moscow	Carpet	Květa Peschke	Iveta Benešová Galina Voskoboeva	6–4 6–7 6–1
8.	October 3, 2009	Tokyo, Japan	Hard (i)	Alisa Kleybanova	Daniela Hantuchová Ai Sugiyama	6–4, 6–2

[edit] Singles performance timeline

To help interpret the performance table, the legend below explains what each abbreviation and color coded box represents in the performance timeline.

Terms to know
SR	the ratio of the number of singles tournaments won to the number of those tournaments played	W-L	player's Win-Loss record
Performance Table Legend
NH	tournament not held in that calendar year	A	did not participate in the tournament
LQ	lost in qualifying draw	#R	lost in the early rounds of the tournament (RR = round robin)
QF	advanced to but not past the quarterfinals	SF	advanced to but not past the semifinals
F	advanced to the final, tournament runner-up	W	won the tournament

NM5				means an event that is neither a Premier Mandatory nor a Premier 5 tournament.

Tournament	1996	1997	1998	1999	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008	2009	Career SR	Career Win-Loss
Grand Slam Tournaments
Australian Open	A	A	A	A	A	1R	3R	1R	2R	3R	4R	2R	3R	1R	0 / 9	11–9
French Open	A	A	A	A	LQ	QF	3R	2R	4R	4R	4R	3R	3R	1R	0 / 10	22–10
Wimbledon	A	A	A	A	LQ	2R	2R	3R	2R	1R	1R	2R	2R	QF	0 / 10	11–10
US Open	A	A	A	LQ	3R	1R	4R	QF	4R	3R	3R	2R	2R	4R	0 / 11	24–11
Olympic Games
Summer Olympics	A	Not Held			A	Not Held			QF	Not Held			3R	NH	0 / 2	5–2
Year-End Championship
WTA Tour Championships	A	A	A	A	A	A	A	A	A	A	A	A	A		0 / 0	0–0
WTA Premier Mandatory Tournaments
Indian Wells	A	A	A	A	A	3R	2R	3R	2R	2R	A	3R	4R	1R	0 / 8	6–8
Key Biscayne	A	A	A	A	LQ	1R	2R	2R	4R	3R	2R	2R	2R	2R	0 / 10	7–10
Madrid	Not Held													3R	0 / 1	2–1
Beijing	Not Held								Not Tier I					2R	0 / 1	1-1
WTA Premier 5 Tournaments
Dubai	Not Held					Not Tier I								2R	0 / 1	1–1
Rome	A	A	LQ	1R	1R	QF	2R	1R	QF	QF	3R	1R	2R	2R	0 / 12	16–12
Cincinnati	Not Held								Not Tier I					1R	0 / 1	0–1
Montreal / Toronto	A	A	A	A	A	A	3R	2R	3R	A	2R	3R	1R	2R	0 / 8	9–8
Tokyo	A	A	A	A	A	A	A	A	A	A	A	2R	2R	1R	0 / 3	2–3
Former WTA Tier I Tournaments (currently neither Premier Mandatory nor Premier 5 events)
Doha	Not Held					Not Tier I							2R	NH	0 / 1	0–1
Charleston	A	A	A	A	A	A	1R	A	A	A	A	2R	A	NM5	0 / 2	1–2
Moscow	NM5	A	A	A	LQ	QF	A	QF	QF	F	2R	A	1R		0 / 7	14–7
Berlin	A	A	A	A	A	1R	1R	2R	A	A	A	1R	2R	Not Held	0 / 5	4–5
Zurich	A	A	A	A	A	A	A	A	1R	QF	2R	SF	NM5		0 / 4	6–4
San Diego	Not Tier I								1R	3R	A	A	Not Held		0 / 1	2–0
Career Statistics
Finals Reached	0	0	1	1	2	0	0	1	0	3	3	1	0	1	N/A	13
Tournaments Won	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	N/A	1
Overall Win-Loss	2–3	14–10	26–13	27–17	39–21	33–24	22–24	32–25	38–26	41–23	38–25	29–24	29–24	28–22	N/A	398–281
Year End Ranking	945	496	295	184	80	30	41	20	19	13	15	25	30		N/A	N/A

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• Francesca Schiavone profile on the WTA Tour's official website
• A forum dedicated to Francesa Schiavone