Alexandra Fusai

Alexandra Fusai

Country (sports)	France
Residence	Nantes, France
Born	(1973-11-22) 22 November 1973 Saint-Cloud, France
Height	1.76 m (5 ft 9 in)
Turned pro	September 1989
Retired	April 2003
Plays	Right-handed (two-handed backhand)
Prize money	US$1,608,170
Singles
Career record	284-269
Career titles	0 WTA, 6 ITF
Highest ranking	No. 37 (26 October 1998)
Grand Slam Singles results
Australian Open	3R (1996)
French Open	3R (1994, 1998)
Wimbledon	2R (1996, 1998)
US Open	3R (1997)
Doubles
Career record	300-225
Career titles	12 WTA, 2 ITF
Highest ranking	No. 6 (14 September 1998)
Grand Slam Doubles results
Australian Open	QF (2001)
French Open	SF (1997, 1999, 2000)
Wimbledon	3R (1997)
US Open	QF (1997)
Team competitions
Fed Cup	W (1997)

Alexandra Fusai (born 22 November 1973) is a former professional tennis player from France.

Fusai was born in Saint-Cloud, Hauts-de-Seine. Starting from September 1989 when she turned professional, Fusai played four tournaments (all of them part of the ITF Women's Circuit) on the international tennis circuit in 1989. She was 1.76m tall and weighed about 60 kg in 1997. She played right-handed and lived in Nantes during her career. She retired from the international tennis circuit in April 2003 when she discovered that she was pregnant with her first child. Fusai's highest WTA Tour singles and doubles rankings were World No. 37 and World No. 6 respectively, both attained in 1998. Her career prize money earnings were US$1,608,170; they reached the one million US dollars mark in 1999.^[1]

Fusai won 6 singles titles on the ITF Women's Circuit. She reached her only career WTA Tour singles final in Warsaw in 1995, losing to Barbara Paulus of Austria in three sets. She was a losing singles quarterfinalist on 6 occasions and a losing singles semifinalist on 3 occasions in WTA Tour tournaments. Fusai never advanced beyond the singles third round of the main draw of any Grand Slam tournament. She earned her career-best singles victory at the Italian Open in Rome in 1998 by beating world number 3 Jana Novotná. Fusai had a career singles win-loss record of 284-269 (89-148 for only main draw matches in WTA Tour tournaments).^[2]

Fusai excelled as a doubles player. She achieved her best results in doubles competition in partnership with fellow Frenchwoman Nathalie Tauziat from 1997 to 2000. She was a losing quarterfinalist on 4 occasions and a losing semifinalist on 3 occasions in 7 Grand Slam women's doubles tournaments; in 5 of those tournaments, her doubles partner was Tauziat. Fusai's doubles performances qualified her to play in the year-ending WTA Tour Championships in 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000. and 2001; her doubles partner was Tauziat in the 1997, 1998, 1999 and 2000 editions of the WTA Tour Championships. She and Tauziat were the runners-up there in 1997 and 1998. All in all, Fusai won a total of 12 WTA Tour doubles titles, 8 of them with Tauziat. She was the doubles runner-up in WTA Tour tournaments on 21 occasions, 11 of them with Tauziat. Fusai was a losing doubles semifinalist in WTA Tour tournaments on 27 occasions, excluding Grand Slam tournaments: 1992(1), 1993(1), 1994(1), 1995(2), 1996(1), 1997(3), 1998(4), 1999(4), 2000(3), 2001(6), 2003(1). Fusai had a career women's doubles win-loss record of 300-225 (260–192 for only main draw matches in WTA Tour tournaments).^[2]

Fusai achieved her best Grand Slam mixed doubles result at the 2001 French Open; she was paired with Jérôme Golmard and they lost in the quarterfinals.^[2]

Fusai was a member of the French Fed Cup team that won the title in 1997, winning all the three World Group doubles matches that she played from the opening round (quarterfinals) against Japan to the final against the Netherlands. She also played for her country in the Fed Cup in 1994 and 1998. She had a Fed Cup career record of 1-1 in singles and 5-1 in doubles. However, Fusai did not play for her country in the Olympic Games.^[3]

Fusai married David Crochu on 13 July 2002. Their son Oscar was born on 7 December 2003.

WTA Tour finals

Doubles titles (12)

Legend

Grand Slam (0)

WTA Championships (0)

Tier I (1)

Tier II (3)

Tier III (3)

Tier IV & V (5)

Outcome	No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Partner	Opponent	Score
Winner	1.	7 October 1996	Surabaya, Indonesia	Hard	Kerry-Anne Guse	Tina Križan Noëlle van Lottum	6–4, 6–4
Winner	2.	3 February 1997	Linz, Austria	Carpet (i)	Nathalie Tauziat	Eva Melicharová Helena Vildová	4–6, 6–3, 6–1
Winner	3.	21 April 1997	Budapest, Hungary	Clay	Amanda Coetzer	Eva Martincová Elena Wagner	6–3, 6–1
Winner	4.	3 November 1997	Chicago, U.S.	Carpet (i)	Nathalie Tauziat	Lindsay Davenport Monica Seles	6–3, 6–2
Winner	5.	23 February 1998	Linz, Austria	Carpet (i)	Nathalie Tauziat	Anna Kournikova Larisa Neiland	6–3, 3–6, 6–4
Winner	6.	18 May 1998	Strasbourg, France	Clay	Nathalie Tauziat	Yayuk Basuki Caroline Vis	6–4, 6–3
Winner	7.	24 August 1998	New Haven, U.S.	Hard	Nathalie Tauziat	Jana Novotná Mariaan de Swardt	6–1, 6–0
Winner	8.	8 February 1999	Prostějov, Czech Republic	Carpet (i)	Nathalie Tauziat	Květa Peschke Helena Vildová	3–6, 6–2, 6–1
Winner	9.	10 May 1999	Berlin, Germany	Clay	Nathalie Tauziat	Jana Novotná Patricia Tarabini	6–3, 7–5
Winner	10.	3 January 2000	Auckland, New Zealand	Hard	Cara Black	Barbara Schwartz Patricia Wartusch	3–6, 6–3, 6–4
Winner	11.	25 September 2000	Luxembourg City, Luxembourg	Carpet (i)	Nathalie Tauziat	Lubomira Bacheva Cristina Torrens Valero	6–3, 7–6(7–0)
Winner	12.	1 January 2001	Auckland, New Zealand	Hard	Rita Grande	Emmanuelle Gagliardi Barbara Schett	7–6(7–4), 6–3

References

External links

• Alexandra Fusai at the Women's Tennis Association
• Alexandra Fusai at the International Tennis Federation
• Alexandra Fusai at the Fed Cup