Céline Beigbeder (born 25 February 1975) is a former professional tennis player from France.
Biography Beigbeder was born in Bayonne in south-western France, the daughter of Jean-Pierre and Nicole. The highlights of her junior career include winning the French national championships in 1993 and making the Orange Bowl quarterfinals in 1994. Her coach and educator was Jean Michel Etchebarne. Finishing school in 1994, she competed for several years on the ITF Women's Circuit.
It wasn't until 2001, aged 26, that she committed to professional tennis full-time. At her first WTA Tour tournament, the 2001 Internationaux de Strasbourg, she made it into the main draw as a qualifier and reached the semifinals, with wins over Tamarine Tanasugarn, Sarah Pitkowski and Ai Sugiyama. She was granted a wildcard into the 2001 French Open and was beaten in the first round by Elena Dementieva. Her five ITF titles in 2001 included two $50k events as well as a win over Jelena Janković en route to the title at Lenzerheide. By the end of the year, her ranking had risen to No. 101 in the world.
In 2002, she broke into the world's top 100, peaking at No. 84 in April, with main-draw appearances at the Australian Open, French Open and in Wimbledon. She was a quarterfinalist that year at both the Copa Colsanitas and Palermo Ladies Open.
ITF finals Legend$50,000 tournaments$25,000 tournaments$10,000 tournaments
Singles (9–2) ResultNo.DateTournamentSurfaceOpponentScoreLoss 1 15 November 1998 ITF Le Havre, France Clay (i) Stéphanie Foretz 6–1, 4–6, 3–6Win 2 13 August 2000 ITF Périgueux, France Clay Virginie Pichet 6–1, 6–1Win 3 22 April 2001 ITF Gelos, France Clay Laurence Andretto 6–2, 6–2Win 4 24 June 2001 ITF Lenzerheide, Switzerland Clay Anousjka van Exel 6–3, 6–0Win 5 1 July 2001 ITF Mont-de-Marsan, France Clay Angelika Rösch 6–1, 6–1Win 6 5 August 2001 Open Saint-Gaudens, France Clay Julia Vakulenko 6–4, 6–1Win 7 September 2001 Open Denain, France Clay Lubomira Bacheva 6–4, 6–0Win 8 July 2002 ITF Mont-de-Marsan, France Clay Alexandra Kravets 7–5, 6–1Loss 9 June 2003 ITF Perigueux, France Clay Anabel Medina Garrigues 1–6, 2–6Win 10 August 2003 ITF San Marino Clay Kildine Chevalier 6–3, 6–1Win 11 November 2003 ITF Villenave-d'Ornon, France Clay (i) Bettina Pirker 6–1, 6–1
Doubles (1–0) ResultNo.DateTournamentSurfacePartnerOpponentsScoreWin 1 October 2003 ITF Carcavelos, Portugal Clay Rosa María Andrés Rodríguez Romy Farah Neuza Silva 6–2, 1–0 ret.
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