Nathalie Dechy (born 21 February 1979) is a former professional tennis player from France.
Personal life 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.
Career 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 event organized every year by the Quarterback agency at Biarritz Olympic Tennis. It is part of the ITF Circuit and has $80,000 in prize money.
Grand Slam singles performance timeline
Tournament 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009Australian OpenAAA1R1R1R1R1R3R3R4RSF1R1R1R2RFrench OpenA1R2R1R3R3R1R3R3R3R1R3R3R2R2R1RWimbledonAA1R2R1R4R3R2R3R3R3R4R1R1R2R1RUS OpenAA2R2R4R1R2R2R3R2R3R4R1R1R1RAYear-end ranking58629484904825274420292112516972n/a
Grand Slam tournament finals Doubles: 2 (2 titles) ResultYearChampionship SurfacePartnerOpponentsScoreWin 2006 US Open Hard Vera Zvonareva Katarina Srebotnik Dinara Safina 7–6(7–5), 7–5Win 2007 US Open Hard Dinara Safina Chan Yung-jan Chuang Chia-jung 6–4, 6–2
Mixed doubles: 2 (1 title, 1 runner-up) ResultYearChampionship SurfacePartnerOpponentsScoreWin 2007 French Open Clay Andy Ram Katarina Srebotnik Nenad Zimonjić 7–5, 6–3Loss 2009 Australian Open Hard Andy Ram Sania Mirza Mahesh Bhupathi 3–6, 1–6
WTA Tour finals Singles: 5 (1 title, 4 runner-ups) ResultW/LDateTournamentSurfaceOpponentScoreLoss 0–1 Feb 2000 National Indoors, United States Hard (i) Monica Seles 1–6, 6–7(3–7)Loss 0–2 Apr 2000 Estoril Open, Portugal Clay Anke Huber 2–6, 6–1, 5–7Win 1–2 Jan 2003 Australian Hardcourts Hard Marie-Gaïané Mikaelian 6–3, 3–6, 6–3Loss 1–3 Aug 2004 New Haven Open, United States Hard Elena Bovina 2–6, 6–2, 5–7Loss 1–4 Aug 2008 Cincinnati Masters, United States Hard Nadia Petrova 2–6, 1–6
Doubles: 14 (7 titles, 7 runner-ups) ResultW/LDateTournamentSurfacePartnerOpponentsScoreLoss 0–1 Oct 2001 Bratislava Open, Slovakia Hard (i) Meilen Tu Elena Bovina Dája Bedáňová 3–6, 4–6Win 1–1 Feb 2002 Paris Indoors, France Carpet (i) Meilen Tu Elena Dementieva Janette Husárová w/oLoss 1–2 Feb 2002 Antwerp Open, Belgium Hard (i) Meilen Tu Magdalena Maleeva Patty Schnyder 3–6, 7–6(3), 3–6Loss 1–3 Oct 2002 Bratislava Open, Slovakia Hard (i) Meilen Tu Maja Matevžič Henrieta Nagyová 4–6, 0–6Loss 1–4 Dec 2002 Australian Hardcourts Hard Émilie Loit Svetlana Kuznetsova Martina Navratilova 4–6, 4–6Loss 1–5 Feb 2003 Antwerp Open, Belgium Carpet (i) Émilie Loit Kim Clijsters Ai Sugiyama 2–6, 0–6Loss 1–6 Oct 2004 Linz Open, Austria Hard (i) Patty Schnyder Janette Husárová Elena Likhovtseva 2–6, 5–7Win 2–6 Sep 2006 US Open, United States Hard Vera Zvonareva Dinara Safina Katarina Srebotnik 7–6(5), 7–5Win 3–6 May 2007 Rome Masters, Italy Clay Mara Santangelo Tathiana Garbin Roberta Vinci 6–4, 6–1Win 4–6 Sep 2007 US Open Hard Dinara Safina Chan Yung-jan Chuang Chia-jung 6–4, 6–2Win 5–6 Jan 2009 Auckland Open, New Zealand Hard Mara Santangelo Nuria Llagostera Vives Arantxa Parra Santonja 4–6, 7–6(3), [12–10]Loss 5–7 Jan 2009 Sydney International, Australia Hard Casey Dellacqua Hsieh Su-wei Peng Shuai 0–6, 1–6Win 6–7 Mar 2009 Monterrey Open, Mexico Hard Mara Santangelo Iveta Benešová Barbora Záhlavová-Strýcová 6–3, 6–4Win 7–7 May 2009 Strasbourg Open, France Clay Mara Santangelo Claire Feuerstein Stéphanie Foretz 6–0, 6–1
ITF Circuit finals Singles (1–2) $50,000 tournaments$25,000 tournaments$10,000 tournaments ResultNo.DateTournamentSurfaceOpponentScoreLoss 1. 9 May 1994 ITF Mollet, Spain Clay Mariam Ramón Climent 0–6, 0–6Win 2. 14 December 1997 ITF Bad Gögging, Germany Carpet (i) Els Callens 6–4, 6–1Loss 3. 6 December 1998 ITF Cergy-Pontoise, France Hard (i) Sarah Pitkowski-Malcor 5–7, 6–3, 6–7(4)
Doubles (1–1) ResultNo.DateTournamentSurfacePartnerOpponentsScoreWin 1. 20 March 1995 ITF Moulins, France Hard (i) Catherine Tanvier Jessica Fernández Aarthi Venkatesan 6–1, 6–3Loss 2. 29 March 1997 ITF Woodlands, United States Hard Lea Ghirardi Els Callens Liezel Horn 4–6, 2–6
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