Chelsea Fontenel (born 25 June 2004) is a Swiss tennis player, singer and songwriter.
Fontenel has a career-high singles ranking by the WTA of 635, achieved on 27 July 2026, and a career-high doubles ranking of 291, achieved on 6 October 2025.
Personal Born and raised in Kaiseraugst, Fontenel's family originally comes from the Caribbean island of St. Lucia. Her dream is to be the first singing tennis player. Her tennis role models are Serena Williams and Roger Federer.
Fontenel, who enjoys writing and singing songs as well as playing tennis, became known to a wide audience when she participated in the competition program The Voice Kids in 2013 at the age of nine, and thus became the brand ambassador of the Suzuki automobile and motorcycle company. In 2015, she sang at the Match for Africa between Roger Federer and Stan Wawrinka at the Hallenstadion in Zurich. She, IMG, sang the US national anthem at the National College Basketball Finals.
In 2018, Fontenel released her debut single, Showers of Blessings. At the end of the year, Fontenel released her second single, New Day.
She dedicated her song Never Forget You, which she released in 2022, to legendary coach Nick Bollettieri, who founded the IMG Academy, where she met and studied for years when she was 10 years old.
Career Fontenel played for the University of Georgia Bulldogs women's tennis team starting in the 2022 season. She will be playing for the Arizona State University Sun Devils women's tennis team starting in the 2023/24 season.
Partnering Ksenia Zaytseva, Fontenel won her first major $50k tournament in March 2025 at the ITF event in Bujumbura, Burundi.
ITF Circuit finals Singles: 1 (runner-up) LegendW15 tournaments (0–1)Finals by surfaceHard (0–1) ResultW–LDateTournamentTierSurfaceOpponentScoreLoss 0–1 Dec 2025ITF Monastir, TunisiaW15 Hard Sapfo Sakellaridi 6–4, 4–6, 3–6
Doubles: 13 (4 titles, 9 runner-ups) LegendW50 tournaments (1–2)W35 tournaments (1–4)W15 tournaments (2–3)Finals by surfaceHard (1–4)Clay (3–5) ResultW–LDateTournamentTierSurfacePartnerOpponentsScoreLoss 0–1 Sep 2021ITF Cancún, MexicoW15 Hard Qavia Lopez María Portillo Ramírez Victoria Rodríguez 1–6, 1–6Loss 0–2 May 2022ITF Daytona Beach, United StatesW25 Clay Hina Inoue Hsieh Yu-chieh Hsu Chieh-yu 5–7, 0–6Loss 0–3 Jul 2024ITF Casablanca, MoroccoW35 Clay Sandra Samir Malak El Allami Aya El Aouni 2–6, 2–6Loss 0–4 Oct 2024Open de Touraine, FranceW35 Hard (i) Anastasiia Firman Sarah Beth Grey Leonie Küng 4–6, 2–6Loss 0–5 Mar 2025ITF Alaminos, CyprusW15 Clay Anastasiia Firman Ștefania Bojică Marie Mettraux 2–6, 6–4, [7–10]Win 1–5 Mar 2025ITF Bujumbura, BurundiW50 Clay Ksenia Zaytseva Demi Tran Lian Tran 4–6, 6–1, [11–9]Win 2–5 May 2025ITF Merzig, GermanyW15 Clay Tiphanie Lemaître Ivana Šebestová Arina Vasilescu 6–3, 6–3Loss 2–6 Jun 2025ITF Stuttgart-Vaihingen, GermanyW35 Clay Alevtina Ibragimova Martha Matoula Radka Zelníčková 6–7(5), 5–7Loss 2–7 Jul 2025ITF Aschaffenburg, GermanyW50 Clay Laura Boehner Rasheeda McAdoo Angella Okutoyi 6–1, 2–6, [7–10]Win 3–7 Jul 2025ITF Darmstadt, GermanyW35 Clay Marie Mattel Fernanda Labraña Rebeca Pereira 6–3, 6–4Loss 3–8 Apr 2026ITF Monastir, TunisiaW15 Hard Esther Adeshina Kaat Coppez Sarah van Emst 2–6, 2–6Win 4–8 Apr 2026ITF Monastir, TunisiaW15 Hard Amelia Paszun Lavinia Luciano Matilde Mariani 7–5, 4–6, [10–7] Loss 4–9 Aug 2026ITF Leiria, PortugalW50 Hard Stéphanie Visscher Madeleine Brooks Amelia Rajecki 4–6, 6–7(1–7)
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