Tessah Andrianjafitrimo (born 11 October 1998) is a French professional female

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player of Malagasy descent. She was born in

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, France. On 20 June 2022, she reached her highest WTA singles ranking of 139. Andrianjafitrimo has won six singles and two doubles titles on the ITF Circuit.

Personal life

Her father, Teddy Andrianjafitrimo, was born in

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. Teddy was an excellent amateur tennis player. A tennis champion of Madagascar and Africa, he did not become a professional tennis player because of lacking financial support to do so. Teddy immigrated to France and worked as a club coach; he is currently Tessah's coach. Tessah was born in

and has been living in

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since 2010. She has two younger siblings.

Career

Junior

Andrianjafitrimo started playing tennis when she was five years old. She was the 2014 national girls' champion of France in the 15-16 year-olds category. She had a career-high ITF junior combined ranking of world No. 29, attained on 14 September 2015.

2013–2014

Andrianjafitrimo made her

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debut in September 2013 at the $25k indoor hardcourt tournament held in

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, France; she only entered that tournament's singles event, losing in the first qualifying round. She played a total of seven ITF Circuit tournaments in 2013 and 2014.

2015–2016

Andrianjafitrimo made her Grand Slam singles debut thanks to a

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at the 2015 French Open qualifying, where she defeated

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in the first round before losing to

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. She also made her

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singles main-draw debut at the

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thanks to a wildcard, losing her first-round match to

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. Three weeks later, Andrianjafitrimo made her

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; she entered the singles main draw as a wildcard and lost her first-round match to

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. Andrianjafitrimo received a wildcard for the singles main draw of the 2016 French Open (that was her Grand Slam singles main-draw debut), where she lost 0–6, 0–6 to the unseeded Wang Qiang. She also played in the girls' singles main draw of the French Open, where she was defeated in the second round by

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2019

At the

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, Andrianjafitrimo failed to convert two match points in the third set of the singles qualifying first-round match against

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, who won the match 6–7, 6–4, 7–5.

Grand Slam performance timeline

Singles

Doubles

ITF Circuit finals

Singles: 12 (6 titles, 6 runner–ups)

Doubles: 3 (2 titles, 1 runner–up)

Notes

References

External links

* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Andrianjafitrimo, Tessah 1998 births Living people French female tennis players Sportspeople from Montpellier Sportspeople from Gers French sportspeople of Malagasy descent Black French sportspeople