Francesca Schiavone

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**Francesca Schiavone**

Country	Italy
Residence	London, England
Date of birth	June 23, 1980 (1980-06-23) (age 27)
Place of birth	Milan, Italy
Height	1.66 m (5 ft 5+¹⁄₂ in)
Weight	65 kg (140 lb/10.2 st)
Turned pro	1998
Retired	Active
Plays	Right (one-handed backhand)
Career prize money	$3,585,885
Singles
Career record:	357-247
Career titles:	1
Highest ranking:	11 (January 30, 2006)
Grand Slam results
Australian Open	4r (2006)
French Open	QF (2001)
Wimbledon	3r (2003)
US Open	QF (2003)
Doubles
Career record:	135-123
Career titles:	6 [1 ITF]
Highest ranking:	No. 8 (February 12, 2007)
Grand Slam doubles results
Australian Open	3R (2006, 2007)
French Open	F (2008)
Wimbledon	QF (2006)
US Open	SF (2006)
Infobox last updated on: June 9, 2008.

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

Her career high ranking was 11, achieved on January 30, 2006. She only won one singles title on the WTA tour but has reached eight finals, six of them since the Autumn of 2005. Schiavone has also been to two Grand Slam Quarter Finals in her career; once in her debut at the French Open in 2001 and again at the U.S. Open in 2003. She and her Italian team mates 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. One point in this game consisted of about five slam shots that each team managed to return.

She caused the win of her life in the quarterfinals of the 2008 Dubai Duty Free Women's Open, when she upset world no.1 and four-time champion Justine Henin in straight sets, 7–6, 7–6. She eventually lost to Elena Dementieva in the semi-finals.

1 Titles (8)
2 References
3 External links

[edit] Titles (8)

[edit] Singles wins (1)

Legend (Singles)

Tier I (0)

Tier II (0)

Tier III (1)

Tier IV (0)

Grand Slam Title (0)

WTA Tour Championship (0)

No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Opponent in the final	Score
1.	29 July 2007	Bad Gastein, Austria	Clay	Yvonne Meusburger	6–1, 6–4

[edit] Singles Finalist (8)

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)

[edit] Doubles (7)

Legend (Doubles)

Tier I (1)

Tier II (4)

Tier III (1)

Tier IV (0)

Grand Slam Title (0)

WTA Tour Championship (0)

ITF Circuit (1)

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