However, Mauresmo and Kuznetsova won the doubles title there, their first as a team and Mauresmo's second overall. Mauresmo next suffered a first-round loss at the Wimbledon warm-up tournament in Eastbourne. Mauresmo lost in the fourth round of the French Open to Czech teenager Nicole Vaidišová, 6–7, 6–1, 6–2. Mauresmo then reached the semifinals of the Miami Open in Key Biscayne, Florida, where she lost to the eventual champion Svetlana Kuznetsova. Nonetheless, the outcome was sufficient to ensure Mauresmo's return to the world number-one ranking on 20 March 2006. Had she won the final, she would have immediately regained the world No. Mauresmo then won her next two tournaments, the Open Gaz de France tournament in Paris (defeating Mary Pierce in the final) and the Proximus Diamond Games in Antwerp, Belgium (defeating Clijsters in the final).Īt the Qatar Open in Doha, Mauresmo defeated Martina Hingis in a semifinal, 6–2, 6–2, but lost to Nadia Petrova in the final. Mauresmo was leading in both matches at the time of the retirements, by 6–1, 2–0 against Henin. Both opponents retired from their respective matches, Clijsters with a right ankle sprain in the third set of their semifinal and Henin from gastroenteritis in the final. 1 players, Kim Clijsters and Justine Henin, en route. 1Īt the Australian Open, Mauresmo captured her first Grand Slam singles title, defeating Belgian former world No. She defeated Pierce in the final after losing to Pierce in a round-robin match at that tournament, in three sets. Mauresmo claimed her first singles title at the WTA Tour Championships. That followed a semifinal loss to Lindsay Davenport at Wimbledon. Mauresmo had, at the Australian Open earlier in the year, become the first player to defeat the Serb in the main draw of a Grand Slam tournament, winning in straight sets also in the third round.Īt the US Open, Mauresmo lost in the quarterfinals to Mary Pierce, in straight sets. Mauresmo reached the quarterfinals of the Australian Open, but was defeated there by eventual champion Serena Williams.Īt the French Open, seeded third, Mauresmo was upset in the third round by the then little-known 17-year-old Ana Ivanovic, in three sets. She held that ranking for five weeks and was the second woman, after Kim Clijsters, to have attained the top spot without having won a Grand Slam title. 1 since the computer rankings began in the 1970s. On 13 September 2004, Mauresmo became the first French tennis player to become world No. Mauresmo won a silver medal in singles at the Olympic Games in Athens, where she was defeated by Justine Henin in the final. She reached the quarterfinals of the three other Grand Slam tournaments and won three Tier I titles in Rome, Berlin, and Montreal. Mauresmo reached the semifinals at Wimbledon, where she lost to Serena Williams in three sets after winning the first set and up a break in the second set. Mauresmo defeated Hingis later in the year, en route to the final of the Paris indoor event.Īfter the defeat of Davenport at the Australian Open, Mauresmo, 19 at the time, came out as gay to the international press." 2004: Olympic silver, world No. She was only the third Frenchwoman to reach any Grand Slam final during the Open Era. Mauresmo was only the second Frenchwoman ever to reach the Australian Open final ( Mary Pierce was the first, winning the championship in 1995). 1, Lindsay Davenport, before falling to world No. The unseeded Mauresmo reached the Australian Open final in 1999 with wins over three seeded players, including world No. She was named 1996 Junior World Champion by the International Tennis Federation. In 1996, Mauresmo won both the junior French Open and Wimbledon women's singles titles. She has a brother, Fabien, who is an engineer. Her mother Françoise is a housewife and her father Francis, who died in March 2004, was an engineer. In 1998 Noah picked her on the French team for the Fed Cup. It was after his win that Mauresmo's parents bought her her first tennis racket. She began playing tennis at the age of four, after being inspired by Yannick Noah's win in the 1983 French Open on television. Mauresmo was born in Saint-Germain-en-Laye, slightly northwest of Paris. Grand Slam singles performance timeline.2006: Two Grand Slam titles, back to No.
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