Barbara Schett Eagle (; born 10 March 1976) is an Austrian former professional

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player, who reached her highest singles ranking of world No. 7 in September 1999. Between 1993 and 2004 she played in 48 matches for the

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, winning 30. She also represented Austria at the

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in singles and doubles, reaching the quarterfinals of the singles event. She retired after the

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and now works for

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as a commentator and presenter.

Tennis career

1991–1995

Barbara Schett made her debut at the

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as a

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entrant for the tournament in

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. She played mostly at the ITF Circuit, and won the ITF tournament in

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in 1992. In 1993, Schett broke into the top 200, and reached the quarterfinals at Kitzbühel and

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. In Kitzbühel, Schett defeated world No. 17

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in the third round, and lost in the quarterfinals to

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. In 1994, Schett played her first

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tournament, qualifying at the

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. She fell in the second round of qualifications.

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Barbara Schett (AUT) – Career Highlights
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, losing to

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. She made her grand slam debut at the

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, but was defeated in the first round. On 4 April 1994, Schett broke into the top 100 at No. 99. The following year, she reached the semifinal of the Internazionali Femminili di Palermo and the quarterfinal of the

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, and also made her

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debut for

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versus the

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1996

Having started the season playing at the ASB Classic in

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, and the

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, Schett reached the fourth round at the

, losing to

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player

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. In the third round, she defeated

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. The year's singles highlights of Schett include the quarterfinal of the

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, her first title at the Internazionali Femminili di Palermo (victory over

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), the first

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semifinal at the

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in Moscow, and the defeat over world No. 8

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at the Bausch & Lomb Championships. That was her first victory over the top-10 player. She also played for Austria in the Fed Cup versus Germany, losing her singles match to

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. Schett also reached the semifinals of the

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(with

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), the Palermo title (with Janette Husárová) and the final of the

(with

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, losing to the second seeds Natalia Medvedeva and Larisa Neiland). This was the first year that Schett finished as a top 50 player, at the No. 38.

1997

She started the season with the loss at the first round of ASB Classic in Auckland, and then lost at the

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, also in the first round. She reached the third round of the

, losing to the fourth seed and eventual winner

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. Schett then made the chain of three consecutive first-round losses, at the

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(Paris), in

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and at the

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( Indian Wells). She then reached the fourth round of

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(lost to

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in three sets, 2–6, 6–4, 2–6) and the third round in

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(lost to Martina Hingis with 3–6, 3–6). Schett reached the second round of

(lost in the second round to

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), the quarterfinals in

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(lost to

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), the second round of the Italian Open (lost to

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) and the second round of the German Open (lost to

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). Playing with

, Schett reached the semifinals of the women's doubles tournament in Paris, and the quarterfinals of Hanover and Rome (Rome with Patty Schnyder). At the second Grand Slam tournament of the season, the

, Schett retired from her first-round match. Her next tournament was at

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where she lost in the second round to

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(6–4, 3–6, 2–6). Schett then reached her first consecutive final at Palermo, but lost to the second seed

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; also won the doubles title with Silvia Farina Elia. She then lost in the first round of J&S Cup in

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. Schett won her second tournament at the

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tournament in her native Austria, in

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. She defeated

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in the final. She then made the chain of four consecutive second round losses, at the

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tournament (lost to

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), US Open (lost to

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), in

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(lost to Iva Majoli) and in

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(lost to

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). Schett finished the 1997 season at the

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. She retired from her match of the first round, played against

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1998

Schett lost in the first round of ASB Classic to

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; then reached the quarterfinal of Moorilla Hobart International (lost to Patty Schnyder). She also reached the fourth round of the

, but was defeated by

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in straight sets, 6–3, 6–3. After losses in early phases of the tournaments (

, Hanover, Indian Wells,

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and

), Schett reached the semifinal in

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; she lost to the first seed Martina Hingis. In Hamburg, she also captured the doubles title with Patty Schnyder. Schett lost in the second round of both the Italian Open and the German Open, but then reached the semifinals of

(lost to

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). She lost to

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in the first round of

, and then to

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in the second round of

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. Schett reached the quarterfinal of

, losing to

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. She then reached her fourth consecutive final at the Internazionali Femminili di Palermo, but was defeated by Patty Schnyder. In

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, she played her second consecutive final, but lost to

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. After the first round losses at the Du Maurier Open and Pilot Pen Tennis New Heaven, she lost to

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in the third round of US Open. Schett lost in the first round of

in three sets, 6–1, 4–6, 6–7⁽⁵⁾. She then lost to

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in the quarterfinal the Zurich Open and to Monica Seles in the second round of the Kremlin Cup. She then lost in the second round of both Fortis Championships Luxembourg (lost to

) and Leipzig (lost to Anke Huber).

1999–2005

1999 – Schett's first top-10 finish, winning $725,865 (career-best) and scoring 47 Tour singles wins (equal fourth on Tour for season). Defeated world No. 9 Conchita Martínez and No. 4

en route to Sydney semifinal (lost to No. 2 Hingis 6–7 third set). Reached her first Tier I final at Moscow, and Grand Slam quarterfinal at the US Open. Broke into the top 10 at a career-high No. 7 following US Open (13 September) and reached the semifinals at Auckland and Hamburg. Also qualified for the WTA Tour Championships and

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. 2000 – Won her third career singles title at Klagenfurt. Recorded victories over No. 5 seed Amanda Coetzer and No. 3 Nathalie Tauziat en route to Zurich semifinal. Reached six more quarterfinals, but also struggled with nagging injuries. She withdrew from Paris & Hanover in February with a stomach muscle injury, retired at Hamburg & withdrew from Strasbourg in May with a sinus infection and retired at Linz with an infected right toe. 2001 – Semifinalist at Doha (l. to Hingis) and quarterfinalist at Vienna and Moscow. First victory over a world No. 2 in six meetings, against Venus Williams at the French Open. Won the Sydney doubles title (with Kournikova), reaching a career-high No. 8 doubles ranking afterwards (15 January) then went on to the Australian Open as mixed doubles runner-up (with Eagle). 2002 – Seventh consecutive top-50 finish, reaching five quarterfinals, including the Canadian Open (with world No. 15 Rubin and No. 7 Clijsters, marking fourth time in her career she defeated two top-20 players in one tournament). Also won the Hamburg doubles (with Hingis). Otherwise, she obtained an invite from Hong Kong Tennis Patrons' Association to play The Hong Kong Ladies Challenge. 2003 – Apart from reaching the Madrid semifinal (first in more than two years), Gold Coast quarterfinal and Roland Garros 3rd round, she did not win consecutive matches all season. In doubles she won Paris (indoors, with Schnyder) and reached the Hobart final (with Wartusch). At the

, she suffered a 6–0, 6–0 defeat to defending champion

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. 2004 – As world No. 77 at Indian Wells, defeated world No. 13,

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6–3, 6–4 (first top-20 win in nearly 18 months) en route to the 4th round but lost to No. 20, C. Martinez. Quarterfinalist at Estoril and s'Hertogenbosch but failed to qualify at three Tour events. In doubles, she won titles at Paris

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(defended with Schnyder), Budapest (with Mandula) and Stockholm – her tenth career doubles title (with Molik). Also a finalist at Hobart (with Callens), and semi-finalist at 's-Hertogenbosch, Los Angeles, US Open (all with Schnyder) and Linz (with Wartusch). Member of the Austrian Fed Cup team that upset US team 4–1 in the quarterfinals to reach second semifinal in three years (second upset over the US in as many years. She handed

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her first Fed Cup loss after 30 singles/doubles victories dating back to 1975). Schett announced plans in October to retire following the 2005 Australian Open. 2005 – Played final professional event at Australian Open, picking up last victory with defeat of wildcard Welford in the first round. Fell to No. 26 seed

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, 4–6, 0–6 in the second round in her last professional singles match.

Career achievements

Barbara Schett won a total of 13 WTA tournaments, three in the singles category and ten in the doubles. She has also won one ITF tournament. In 1999 she qualified for the season ending

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reaching the quarterfinals and was named ''

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s Most Improved Player.

Personal life

Schett is married to former

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tennis player

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.Baby Boom: Tennis Players Become Parents
Tennis.com, 30 December 2008 On 28 April 2009, Schett gave birth to a son.

WTA career finals

Singles: 6 (3 titles, 3 runners-up)

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Patty Schnyder Patty Schnyder (born 14 December 1978)
Weltwoche, 14. September 2011 is a Swiss reti ...

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, 6–2, 4–6, 1–6 , - , style="background:#98fb98;", Win , 3–3 , Jul 2000 , Austrian Open, Austria , Tier III , Clay , Patty Schnyder , 5–7, 6–4, 6–4

WTA doubles wins (10)

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Barbara Rittner , 6–1, 6–2 , - , bgcolor=98FB98, Win , , Jul 1997 , Palermo International, Italy , Tier IV , Clay ,

, Florencia Labat

Mercedes Paz Mercedes María Paz (; born 27 June 1966) is a former professional tennis player from Argentina. She won three singles titles on the WTA Tour and reached a career-high ranking of world No. 28 in April 1991. Her best Grand Slam result was the fou ...

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Patty Schnyder Patty Schnyder (born 14 December 1978)
Weltwoche, 14. September 2011 is a Swiss reti ...

, 7–6, 3–6, 6–3 , - , bgcolor=98FB98, Win , , Jan 1999 , Auckland Open, New Zealand , Tier IVb , Hard , Silvia Farina Elia , Seda Noorlander

Marlene Weingärtner Marlene Weingärtner (born 30 January 1980) is a retired tennis player from Germany. She is a former top 40 player in both singles and doubles. The most remarkable moment of her career was her first-round match at the 2003 Australian Open when ...

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Lisa Raymond Lisa Raymond (born August 10, 1973) is an American retired professional tennis player who has achieved notable success in Doubles (tennis), doubles tennis. Raymond has eleven Grand Slam (tennis), Grand Slam titles to her name: six in women's do ...

Rennae Stubbs Rennae Stubbs (born 26 March 1971) is an Australian tennis coach, television commentator, and former professional player. She is the host of The Power Hour on Amazon Prime Video Sports Talk. She worked at the Seven Network between 2011 and 201 ...

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Arantxa Sánchez-Vicario Arantza or Arantxa is a Basque feminine given name, meaning "thornbush". It is a hypocoristic for '' Our Lady of Arantzazu'', a shrine of Mary, mother of Jesus, in Gipuzkoa. People with the name Arantxa include: Tennis * Arantxa Parra Santon ...

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Marion Bartoli Marion Bartoli (; born 2 October 1984) is a French former professional tennis player. Bartoli won the 2013 Wimbledon Championships singles title after previously being runner-up in 2007, and was a semifinalist at the 2011 French Open. She als ...

Stéphanie Cohen-Aloro , 2–6, 6–2, 7–6 , - , bgcolor=98FB98, Win , , Feb 2004 , style="background:#d4f1c5;", Open Gaz de France, France , style="background:#d4f1c5;", Tier II , Carpet (i) , Patty Schnyder , Silvia Farina Elia

Francesca Schiavone Francesca Schiavone (; born 23 June 1980) is an Italian former professional tennis player. She turned professional in 1998 and won the 2010 French Open singles title, becoming the first Italian woman to win a Grand Slam event in singles. She wa ...

, 6–3, 6–2 , - , bgcolor=98FB98, Win , , May 2004 ,

Budapest Grand Prix The Budapest Grand Prix (also Hungarian Grand Prix) is a women's tennis tournament held in Budapest, Hungary. This WTA Tour event is an International-level tournament and is played on outdoor clay courts. The tournament was formerly known as ...

, Hungary , Tier V , Clay ,

Petra Mandula Petra Mandula (; born 17 January 1978) is a Hungarian former professional tennis player, who represented her native country at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney; in singles, she was eliminated in the first round by fourth seed Conchita Martíne ...

Virág Németh Virág Németh (born 19 June 1985) is a former professional tennis player from Hungary. She won eight singles and five doubles titles on the ITF Circuit and reached one WTA Tour doubles final, in Budapest in 2004, partnering with Ágnes Szávay ...

Ágnes Szávay Ágnes Szávay ( hu, Szávay Ágnes, ; born 29 December 1988) is a former professional tennis player from Hungary. The 2007 WTA Newcomer of the Year achieved her career-high ranking of world No. 13 in April 2008. Personal life Szávay was bor ...

, 6–3, 6–2 , - , bgcolor=98FB98, Win , , Aug 2004 ,

Nordea Nordic Light Open The Nordic Light Open (sponsored by Nordea) was a women's tennis tournament held in Stockholm, Sweden (in 2002 and 2003 the tournament was played in Espoo, Finland on clay courts). Held from 2002 to 2008, this WTA Tour event was a Tier IV-tourname ...

, Sweden , Tier IV , Hard ,

Alicia Molik Alicia Molik (born 27 January 1981) is an Australian former professional tennis player. She reached a career-high singles ranking of world No. 8 and a career-high doubles ranking of world No. 6. Molik won a bronze medal in singles for Australi ...

Anna-Lena Grönefeld Anna-Lena Grönefeld (also spelled Groenefeld; born 4 June 1985) is a German former professional tennis player. Competing as a professional from 2003 until 2019, she won one singles title on the WTA Tour, at the 2006 Mexican Open, and reached t ...

, 6–3, 6–3

ITF Circuit finals

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Singles: 2 (1–1)

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Paderborn Paderborn (; Westphalian: ''Patterbuorn'', also ''Paterboärn'') is a city in eastern North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, capital of the Paderborn district. The name of the city derives from the river Pader and ''Born'', an old German term for t ...

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Singles performance timeline

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1991 File:1991 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: Boris Yeltsin, elected as Russia's first president, waves the new flag of Russia after the 1991 Soviet coup d'état attempt, orchestrated by Soviet hardliners; Mount Pinatubo erupts in the Phil ...

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1992 File:1992 Events Collage V1.png, From left, clockwise: 1992 Los Angeles riots, Riots break out across Los Angeles, California after the Police brutality, police beating of Rodney King; El Al Flight 1862 crashes into a residential apartment buildi ...

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1994 File:1994 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The 1994 Winter Olympics are held in Lillehammer, Norway; The Kaiser Permanente building after the 1994 Northridge earthquake; A model of the MS Estonia, which Sinking of the MS Estonia, sank in ...

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1995 File:1995 Events Collage V2.png, From left, clockwise: O.J. Simpson is O. J. Simpson murder case, acquitted of the murders of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman from the 1994, year prior in "The Trial of the Century" in the United States; The ...

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1996 File:1996 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: A Centennial Olympic Park bombing, bomb explodes at Centennial Olympic Park in Atlanta, set off by a radical Anti-abortion violence, anti-abortionist; The center fuel tank explodes on TWA Flight 8 ...

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1997 File:1997 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The movie set of ''Titanic'', the highest-grossing movie in history at the time; ''Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone'', is published; Comet Hale-Bopp passes by Earth and becomes one of t ...

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1999 File:1999 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The funeral procession of King Hussein of Jordan in Amman; the 1999 İzmit earthquake kills over 17,000 people in Turkey; the Columbine High School massacre, one of the first major school shootin ...

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2000 File:2000 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: Protests against Bush v. Gore after the 2000 United States presidential election; Heads of state meet for the Millennium Summit; The International Space Station in its infant form as seen from ...

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2001 The September 11 attacks against the United States by Al-Qaeda, which Casualties of the September 11 attacks, killed 2,977 people and instigated the global war on terror, were a defining event of 2001. The United States led a Participants in ...

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2002 File:2002 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The 2002 Winter Olympics are held in Salt Lake City; Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother and her daughter Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon die; East Timor gains East Timor independence, indepe ...

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2003 File:2003 Events Collage.png, From top left, clockwise: The crew of STS-107 perished when the Space Shuttle Columbia disintegrated during reentry into Earth's atmosphere; SARS became an epidemic in China, and was a precursor to SARS-CoV-2; A des ...

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2004 2004 was designated as an International Year of Rice by the United Nations, and the International Year to Commemorate the Struggle Against Slavery and its Abolition (by UNESCO). Events January * January 3 – Flash Airlines Flight 6 ...

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2005 File:2005 Events Collage V2.png, From top left, clockwise: Hurricane Katrina in the Gulf of Mexico; the Funeral of Pope John Paul II is held in Vatican City; "Me at the zoo", the first video ever to be uploaded to YouTube; Eris was discovered in ...

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Tokyo Tokyo (; ja, 東京, , ), officially the Tokyo Metropolis ( ja, 東京都, label=none, ), is the capital and largest city of Japan. Formerly known as Edo, its metropolitan area () is the most populous in the world, with an estimated 37.468 ...

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Berlin Berlin ( , ) is the capital and largest city of Germany by both area and population. Its 3.7 million inhabitants make it the European Union's most populous city, according to population within city limits. One of Germany's sixteen constitue ...

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Rome , established_title = Founded , established_date = 753 BC , founder = King Romulus (legendary) , image_map = Map of comune of Rome (metropolitan city of Capital Rome, region Lazio, Italy).svg , map_caption ...

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San Diego San Diego ( , ; ) is a city on the Pacific Ocean coast of Southern California located immediately adjacent to the Mexico–United States border. With a 2020 population of 1,386,932, it is the List of United States cities by population, eigh ...

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Moscow Moscow ( , US chiefly ; rus, links=no, Москва, r=Moskva, p=mɐskˈva, a=Москва.ogg) is the capital and largest city of Russia. The city stands on the Moskva River in Central Russia, with a population estimated at 13.0 million ...

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Zürich Zürich () is the list of cities in Switzerland, largest city in Switzerland and the capital of the canton of Zürich. It is located in north-central Switzerland, at the northwestern tip of Lake Zürich. As of January 2020, the municipality has 43 ...

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Head-to-head vs. top-10 ranked players

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Amélie Mauresmo Amélie Simone Mauresmo (; born 5 July 1979) is a French former List of WTA number 1 ranked singles tennis players, world No. 1 tennis player and tournament director. Mauresmo won two Grand Slam (tennis)#Tournaments, major singles titles at the ...

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Jelena Janković Jelena Janković ( sr-Cyrl, Јелена Јанковић, ; born 28 February 1985) is a Serbian former tennis player. A former world No. 1, Janković reached the top ranking before her career-best major performance, a runner-up finish at the ...

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, 3–4 , 42.9% , 2–2 , 0–2 , 0–0 , 1–0 , - , align=left,

Jennifer Capriati Jennifer Maria Capriati (born March 29, 1976) is an American former world No. 1 tennis player. A member of the International Tennis Hall of Fame, she won three singles Grand Slam titles and was the gold medalist at the 1992 Summer Olympics. C ...

, 2–4 , 33.3% , 1–2 , 0–1 , 0–0 , 1–1 , - , align=left,

Kim Clijsters Kim Antonie Lode Clijsters (; born 8 June 1983) is a Belgian former professional tennis player. Clijsters reached the world No. 1 ranking in both singles and doubles, having held both rankings simultaneously in 2003. She won six major titles, ...

, 1–2 , 33.3% , 1–1 , 0–1 , 0–0 , 0–0 , - , align=left,

Justine Henin Justine Henin (; born 1 June 1982) is a Belgian former professional tennis player. She spent a total of 117 weeks as the world No. 1 and was the year-end No. 1 in 2003, 2006 and 2007. Henin, coming from a country with limited success in te ...

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Lindsay Davenport Lindsay Ann Davenport Leach (born June 8, 1976) is an American former professional tennis player. Davenport was ranked singles world No. 1 for a total of 98 weeks, and was the year-end singles world No. 1 four times (1998, 2001, 2004, and 2005) ...

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Anastasia Myskina Anastasia Andreyevna Myskina ( rus, Анастасия Андреевна Мыскина ; born 8 July 1981) is a Russian former professional tennis player. Myskina won the 2004 French Open singles title, becoming the first Russian woman to wi ...

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, 1–4 , 20% , 0–0 , 1–2 , 0–0 , 0–2 , - , align=left,

Vera Zvonareva Vera Igorevna Zvonareva ( rus, Вера Игоревна Звонарёва, p=ˈvʲɛrə ˈiɡərʲɪvnə zvənɐˈrʲɵvə, a=Vera zvonareva.ogg; born 7 September 1984) is a Russian professional tennis player. She was introduced to tennis at ...

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, 4–5 , 44.4% , 2–0 , 2–1 , 0–0 , 0–4 , - , align=left,

Elena Dementieva Elena Viacheslavovna Dementieva (, ; born 15 October 1981) is a Russian former professional tennis player. She won the singles gold medal at the 2008 Olympics in Beijing, having previously won the silver medal at the 2000 Olympics in Sydney. ...

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, 2–5 , 28.6% , 2–4 , 0–1 , 0–0 , 0–0 , - , align=left,

Mary Pierce Mary Caroline Pierce (born 15 January 1975) is a retired tennis professional who represented France internationally in team competitions and the Olympics. She was born in Canada to an American father and a French mother, and holds citizenship of ...

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Mary Joe Fernández Mary Joe Fernández Godsick (born María José Fernández; August 19, 1971) is an American former professional tennis player, who reached a career-high ranking of world No. 4 in both singles and doubles. In singles, Fernández was the runner-up ...

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Kimiko Date-Krumm is a Japanese former professional tennis player. She reached the semifinals of the 1994 Australian Open, the 1995 French Open and the 1996 Wimbledon Championships, and won the Japan Open a record four times. She reached a career-high ranking ...

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Jelena Dokić Jelena Dokic ( sr, Јелена Докић, Jelena Dokić; ; born 12 April 1983) is an Australian tennis coach, commentator, writer, and former professional tennis player. Her highest ranking as a tennis player was world No. 4, in August 2002. ...

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Natasha Zvereva Natallia Marataŭna Zvierava ( be, Наталля Маратаўна Зверава; russian: Наталья Маратовна Зверева, Natalia Maratovna Zvereva; born 16 April 1971) is a former professional tennis player from Belarus. ...

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Anna Chakvetadze Anna Djambuliovna Chakvetadze ( ; born 5 March 1987) is a Russian former professional tennis player. In her career, Chakvetadze won eight WTA Tour singles titles, the biggest being the 2006 Kremlin Cup. She booked her highest singles ranking o ...

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Chanda Rubin Chanda Rubin (born February 18, 1976) is an American former top-10 professional tennis player. During her career, she reached the semifinals at the 1996 Australian Open, the quarterfinals of the French Open three times, and had wins over world- ...

, 5–4 , 55.6% , 3–3 , 2–1 , 0–0 , 0–0 , - , align=left,

Flavia Pennetta Flavia Pennetta (; born 25 February 1982) is an Italian former professional tennis player. She became Italy's first top-ten female singles player on 17 August 2009 and the first Italian to be ranked world No. 1 in doubles, on 28 February 2011. ...

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Patty Schnyder Patty Schnyder (born 14 December 1978)
Weltwoche, 14. September 2011 is a Swiss reti ...

, 4–5 , 44.4% , 1–1 , 1–4 , 0–0 , 2–0 , - , align=left,

, 1–2 , 33.3% , 1–1 , 0–0 , 0–0 , 0–1 , - , align=left,

, 0–1 , 0% , 0–0 , 0–1 , 0–0 , 0–0 , - , align=left, Irina Spîrlea , 0–2 , 0% , 0–0 , 0–2 , 0–0 , 0–0 , -bgcolor=efefef , align=left, Number 8 ranked players, , colspan=6, , - , align=left,

, 3–2 , 60% , 2–1 , 1–1 , 0–0 , 0–0 , - , align=left,

, 1–5 , 16.7% , 1–4 , 0–1 , 0–0 , 0–0 , - , align=left,

, 0–3 , 0% , 0–1 , 0–0 , 0–0 , 0–2 , -bgcolor=efefef , align=left, Number 9 ranked players, , colspan=6, , - , align=left,

Lori McNeil Lori McNeil (born December 18, 1963) is an American tennis coach and former top 10 professional tennis player. McNeil was a singles semifinalist at the US Open in 1987 and Wimbledon in 1994, a women's doubles finalist at the Australian Open in ...

, 1–1 , 50% , 1–1 , 0–0 , 0–0 , 0–0 , - , align=left,

, 2–3 , 40% , 2–0 , 0–3 , 0–0 , 0–0 , - , align=left, Dominique Monami , 1–3 , 25% , 0–1 , 0–1 , 0–0 , 1–1 , - , align=left,

, 0–3 , 0% , 0–0 , 0–2 , 0–0 , 0–1 , -bgcolor=efefef , align=left, Number 10 ranked players, , colspan=6, , - , align=left, /

Karina Habšudová Karina Habšudová (; born 2 August 1973) is a Slovak former professional tennis player. She has been ranked as high as 10 in the world (1997). Together with Karol Kučera, she won the Hopman Cup in 1998. Her best performance at a Grand Slam to ...

, 3–2 , 60% , 1–1 , 1–1 , 0–0 , 1–0 , - , align=left,

Barbara Paulus Barbara Paulus (born 1 September 1970) is a former professional top-ten tennis player from Austria. She began playing on the WTA Tour in 1986 and retired in 2001. During her career, she won a total of seven WTA tournaments (six singles titles, on ...

, 0–3 , 0% , 0–1 , 0–1 , 0–0 , 0–1 , -class=sortbottom !Total !54–138 !% !29–64 (%) !14–44 (%) !1–4 (%) !11–25 (%)

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