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Sanex WTA
TOUR singles titles: 3
Sanex WTA TOUR doubles titles: 0
Grand Slam titles: 0
ITF Women's Circuit singles titles: 7
2001 HIGHLIGHTS - SINGLES
WINNER: Gold Coast, Canberra
SEMIFINALIST: Roland Garros, Estoril, German Open
QUARTERFINALIST: Hamburg
FOURTH ROUND: Australian Open
THIRD ROUND: Indian Wells, Miami
FINALIST: Wimbledon
2001
HIGHLIGHTS - DOUBLES
SEMIFINALIST: Roland Garros (w/Tatarkova)
QUARTERFINALIST: Canberra (w/Grahame), Scottsdale (w/Serna), Hamburg (w/Shaughnessy)
GRAND SLAM (SINGLES) AND CHASE CHAMPIONSHIPS (S/D) HISTORY
01 00 99 98 97
AUSTRALIAN 4r 2r -- -- --
ROLAND GARROS SF -- 2r -- --
WIMBLEDON FI 1r -- -- --
UNITED STATES -- 4r 1r -- --
CHASE CHAMPS (S) -- -- -- -- --
CHASE CHAMPS (D) -- -- -- -- --
CAREER HIGHLIGHTS - SINGLES
WINNER (3 Sanex WTA TOUR): 2001 - Gold Coast, Canberra; 2000 - ITF/Liege-BEL;
1999 -
Antwerp, ITF/Reims-FRA; 1998 - ITF/Gelos-FRA, ITF/Grenelefe-USA, ITF/Ramat
Hasharon-
ISR; 1997 - ITF/Le Touquet-FRA, ITF/Koksijde-BEL, FINALIST: Wimbledon
2001
SEMIFINALIST (3): 2001 – Roland Garros, Estoril, German Open
QUARTERFINALIST (6): 2001 – Hamburg; 2000 - Hobart, Palermo, Bratislava;
1999 -
Luxembourg, Quebec City
CAREER HIGHLIGHTS - DOUBLES
SEMIFINALIST (2): 2001 - Roland Garros (w/Tatarkova); 1999 - Antwerp (w/Kremer)
ADDITIONAL: Belgian Fed Cup Team 2000.
QUICK FACTS
* Seeded eighth, won the first tournament of 2001 at Gold Coast with a
7-6, 6-4 win in
the final over Silvia Farina Elia after trailing 1-4 in the first set
* Extended her 2001 record to 10-0 by winning her second tournament of
the year in
Canberra with upsets of four seeds, including world No. 13 Chanda Rubin
and No. 17
Sandrine Testud
* In 2001 became the first player in 13 years (Shriver, 1988) to win two
straight
tournaments coming into the year's first Grand Slam
* Extended her 2001 undefeated string to 13 matches with a fourth-round
finish at the
Australian Open, including an upset of 14th seed Sandrine Testud before
falling to
world No. 4 Monica Seles in three sets; improved her world ranking to
No. 20
* Semifinalist at 2001 Estoril
* Stunned world No. 2 Venus Williams en route to her first Tier I semifinal
at the 2001
German Open, and battled fourth-ranked Jennifer Capriati into the third
set before
spraining her right ankle and retiring from the match
* Reached her first Grand Slam semifinal at the 2001 French Open, winning
her third-
round match on Court Centrale on her 19th birthday; fell in a three-set
semifinal to
compatriot Kim Clijsters and following the tournament entered the world's
Top 10
rankings at No. 9, marking, along with Clijsters, the first time two Belgians
were
ranked simultaneously in the Top 10; also reached the doubles semifinals
* Withdrew from 2001 Birmingham with a recurrence of an ankle injury first
suffered in
Berlin a month earlier
* Enjoyed then-career-best Grand Slam at the 2000 U.S. Open, upsetting
12th seed (14th-
ranked) Anna Kournikova to reach the fourth round and break into the world's
Top 50
rankings for the first time at No. 47
* As a qualifier into 2000 Hobart, reached the quarterfinals with a win
over seventh
seed Sylvia Plischke 6-3, 6-1 before falling to finalist Chanda Rubin
in three sets
* Defeated Magdalena Maleeva in the first round of 2000 Paris Indoors
before falling to
world No. 6 and eventual champion Nathalie Tauziat 7-6, 2-6, 6-4
* Suffered nagging injuries throughout 2000: forced to withdraw from Antwerp
and Roland
Garros in the spring due to a continuing arm injury, and retired in Filderstadt
and
withdrew from Quebec City in the fall due to a right foot injury, metatarsalgia,
an
inflammation of the toe joints
* Lost to second seed Sandrine Testud in a third-set tie-break in the
second round of
2000 s'Hertogenbosch, a grass court event; quarterfinalist at 2000 Palermo
after
upsetting third seed Anastasia Myskina in the first round
* Ranked 66th at 2000 New Haven, won three qualifying-round matches to
reach the main
draw, then upset 22nd-ranked countrywoman Sabine Appelmans before falling
to world No.
14 Amanda Coetzer in three sets
* Became the fifth player to win her debut Sanex WTA TOUR event, winning
1999 Antwerp,
where she received a wild card into the main draw; ranked No. 178, defeated
top seed
and world No. 35 Sarah Pitkowski in the final 6-1, 6-2
* In 1999 Fed Cup play for Belgium, won both her singles matches over
Miriam Oremans
and Amanda Hopmans of Holland to lead Belgium to a 3-2 win; member of
the 2000 Belgian
Fed Cup semifinal squad
* As a wild card into 1999 Luxembourg, reached her second quarterfinal
on the Sanex WTA
TOUR despite spraining her left ankle in her first-round match
* Ranked No. 81, defeated No. 39 Corina Morariu at 1999 Quebec City to
reach third
quarterfinal on the Sanex WTA TOUR in 1999 in sixth career Sanex WTA TOUR
event; fell
to 20th-ranked Amy Frazier 3-6, 7-6, 7-5
* As a wild card ranked 70th, saved double-set-point to oust No. 12 Anna
Kournikova in
the first round at 1999 Philadelphia for her best victory to date and
moved up to a
then-career-high ranking of No. 65
* In 1997, became the youngest winner ever of the Belgian National Championships
at age
15 years, two months, and defeated Top 40 pro Dominique Van Roost
* In junior competition, won 1997 Roland Garros as a wild card, becoming
the first
Belgian to win there since 1947; won the 1996 Orange Bowl 14s and European
Championships 14s; quarterfinalist at 1997 Wimbledon and U.S. Open
* In 1997, received the "Trophy 40-15" as Belgium's most popular
tennis personality
* Baseliner who prefers clay courts; backhand is strongest shot
* Began playing tennis at age five with her father
* Coached by Carlos Rodrigues; trains at the Association Francophone de
Tennis
* Sanex WTA TOUR mentor is Virginia Ruzici in the Partners for Success
program, the
mentor division of the tour's Player Development Program