Nathalie Dechy

Nathalie Dechy

Country	France
Residence	Tournai, Belgium
Born	February 21, 1979 (1979-02-21) Les Abymes, Guadeloupe
Height	1.78 m (5 ft 10 in)
Weight	63 kg (140 lb; 9.9 st)
Turned pro	1995
Retired	July 21, 2009
Plays	Right-handed (two-handed backhand)
Career prize money	$4,216,795
Singles
Career record	429–337
Career titles	1 WTA, 1 ITF
Highest ranking	No. 11 (January 9, 2006)
Grand Slam results
Australian Open	SF (2005)
French Open	3r (1998, 1999, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2005, 2006)
Wimbledon	4r (1999, 2005)
US Open	4r (1998, 2005)
Doubles
Career record	189–178
Career titles	7 WTA, 1 ITF
Highest ranking	No. 8 (May 21, 2007)
Grand Slam Doubles results
Australian Open	SF (2009)
French Open	QF (2000, 2003, 2006)
Wimbledon	SF (2008)
US Open	W (2006, 2007)
Last updated on: May 25, 2009.

Nathalie Dechy (born on February 21, 1979 in Les Abymes, Guadeloupe) is a French former professional tour tennis player.

Dechy is a three-time doubles Grand Slam champion, winning the 2006 US Open women's doubles title with Vera Zvonareva, the 2007 French Open mixed doubles title with Andy Ram, and the 2007 US Open women's doubles title with Dinara Safina. Her biggest singles achievement is reaching the semifinals of the 2005 Australian Open, where she was just two points away from the final, before eventually losing to Lindsay Davenport.

At the 2008 Wimbledon Championships, she faced World No.1 and reigning French Open champion, Ana Ivanović. She took the first set and even had match point during the second before succumbing 6–7, 7–6, 10–8.

She is a member of the notorious "generation 1979" alongside Amélie Mauresmo, Anne-Gaëlle Sidot, Emilie Loit and Séverine Brémond.

Grand Slam finals

Women's doubles

Wins (2)

Year	Championship	Partner	Opponents in Final	Score in Final
2006	US Open	Vera Zvonareva	Katarina Srebotnik Dinara Safina	7–6(5), 7–5
2007	US Open	Dinara Safina	Yung-Jan Chan Chia-Jung Chuang	6–4, 6–2

Mixed doubles

Wins (1)

Year	Championship	Partner	Opponents in Final	Score in Final
2007	French Open	Andy Ram	Katarina Srebotnik Nenad Zimonjić	7–5, 6–3

Runners-up (1)

Year	Championship	Partner	Opponents in Final	Score in Final
2009	Australian Open	Andy Ram	Sania Mirza Mahesh Bhupati	6–3, 6–1

Titles (8)

Legend (Singles)

WTA Tour Championship (0)

Grand Slam Title (0)

Tier I (0)

Tier II (0)

Tier III (1)

Tier IV (0)

Singles (1)

No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Opponent in the final	Score
1.	January 5, 2003	Gold Coast, Australia	Hard	Marie-Gayanay Mikaelian	6–3, 3–6, 6–3

Doubles (7)

Legend (Doubles)

WTA Tour Championship (0)

Grand Slam Title (2)

WTA Tour (pre-2009)

Tier I (1)

Tier II (1)

Tier III (0)

Tier IV (0)

WTA Tour (post-2009)

Premier (0)

International (3)

No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Partner	Opponent in the final	Score
1.	February 10, 2002	Paris, France	Carpet	Meilen Tu	Elena Dementieva Janette Husárová	Walkover
2.	September 10, 2006	U.S. Open	Hard	Vera Zvonareva	Dinara Safina Katarina Srebotnik	7–6(5), 7–5
3.	May 14, 2007	Rome, Italy	Clay	Mara Santangelo	Tathiana Garbin Roberta Vinci	6–4, 6–1
4.	September 9, 2007	U.S. Open	Hard	Dinara Safina	Chan Yung-jan Chuang Chia-jung	6–4, 6–2
5.	January 5, 2009	Auckland, New Zealand	Hard	Mara Santangelo	Nuria Llagostera Vives Arantxa Parra Santonja	4–6, 7–6(3), [12–10]
6.	March 2, 2009	Monterrey, Mexico	Hard	Mara Santangelo	Iveta Benešová Barbora Záhlavová-Strýcová	6–3, 6–4
7.	May 18, 2009	Strasbourg, France	Clay	Mara Santangelo	Claire Feuerstein Stéphanie Foretz	6–0, 6–1

Grand Slam singles performance timeline

Tournament	2009	2008	2007	2006	2005	2004	2003	2002	2001	2000	1999	1998	1997	1996	1995
Australian Open	2r	1r	1r	1r	SF	4r	3r	3r	1r	1r	1r	1r	1r	-	-
French Open	1r	2r	2r	3r	3r	1r	3r	3r	3r	1r	3r	3r	1r	2r	1r
Wimbledon	1r	2r	1r	1r	4r	3r	3r	3r	2r	3r	4r	1r	2r	1r	-
US Open	-	1r	1r	1r	4r	3r	2r	3r	2r	2r	1r	4r	2r	2r	-

Personal

Dechy was born to a father from continental France and a Canadian mother from the Eastern Townships of Quebec. She holds dual French-Canadian citizenship, but has never, she says, considered representing Canada in tennis competition. On 25 January 2010 she gave birth to a baby boy Lucas

External links

• Nathalie Dechy's biography on the WTA Tour website