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 45)
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 in the super-tiebreak, 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

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Women's doubles: 2 (2 titles)

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Result Year Championship Surface Partner Opponents Score
Win 2006 US Open Hard   Vera Zvonareva   Katarina Srebotnik
  Dinara Safina
7–6(7–5), 7–5
Win 2007 US Open Hard   Dinara Safina   Chan Yung-jan
  Chuang Chia-jung
6–4, 6–2

Mixed doubles: 2 (1 title, 1 runner-up)

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Result Year Championship Surface Partner Opponents Score
Win 2007 French Open Clay   Andy Ram   Katarina Srebotnik
  Nenad Zimonjić
7–5, 6–3
Loss 2009 Australian Open Hard   Andy Ram   Sania Mirza
  Mahesh Bhupathi
3–6, 1–6

Grand Slam singles performance timeline

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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.
Tournament 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009
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

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

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Result No. Date Tournament Surface Opponent Score
Loss 1. Feb 2000 Cellular South Cup, United States Hard (i)   Monica Seles 1–6, 6–7(3–7)
Loss 2 Apr 2000 Estoril Open, Portugal Clay   Anke Huber 2–6, 6–1, 5–7
Win 3. Jan 2003 Australian Hardcourts Hard   Marie-Gaïané 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)

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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

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Singles (1–2)

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$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)

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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

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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

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  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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