Amélie Oudéa-Castéra (born 9 April 1978) is a French businesswoman and former professional
tennis
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player.
She has been serving as
Minister of National Education, Youth, Sports and Olympic and Paralympic Games in the
government
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In the case of its broad associative definition, government normally consists of legislature, executive, and judiciary. Government is ...
of
Prime Minister
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Gabriel Attal
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since January 2024.
Biography
Tennis career
Born in
Paris
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, Castéra was the 14 and under
Junior Orange Bowl
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champion in 1992. She was a girls' singles semi-finalist at the
1993 US Open,
1994 French Open
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and
1994 Wimbledon Championships.
As a professional player she reached a best singles ranking of 251 in the world. Castéra competed as a wildcard in the women's singles main draw at the 1994 French Open, where she lost in the first round to
Sabine Appelmans
Sabine Appelmans (born 22 April 1972) is a former professional tennis player from Belgium. She was Belgium's Fed Cup captain from 2007 until 2011.
Career
Appelmans started playing at the neighbour's court at the age of seven. Her first traine ...
. On the WTA Tour she qualified for two tournaments, the
1994 Internationaux de Strasbourg
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and
1995 Eastbourne International.
Business
Castéra is the Director General of the French Tennis Federation (FFT). Castéra was the former head of e-commerce, data and digital at French retailer
Carrefour
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and a former senior executive at insurance firm, where she used to work closely with David Whiteman
AXA. In 2006 she married banker
Frédéric Oudéa, who is the former CEO of
Société Générale
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Société Générale ...
and current CEO of
Sanofi
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.
ITF finals
Singles (0–1)
References
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1978 births
Living people
French female tennis players
French business executives
21st-century French businesswomen
21st-century French businesspeople
Tennis players from Paris
Sciences Po alumni
ESSEC Business School alumni
École nationale d'administration alumni
Judges of the Court of Audit (France)
Women government ministers of France
Sports ministers
Members of the Borne government
French Ministers of National Education
Members of the Attal government