Bethanie Mattek-Sands

2011

Mattek-Sands in 2011

In January 2011, Mattek-Sands got the biggest win of her career by defeating world No. 7, Francesca Schiavone. Mattek-Sands later teamed with John Isner for the USA and reached the Hopman Cup final, defeating the Belgian team of Justine Henin and Ruben Bemelmans.

Her good form continued into the Hobart International, where she reached her third career WTA singles final, before losing to Jarmila Groth.

At the Australian Open, Mattek-Sands lost to qualifier Arantxa Rus in the first round. She reached the quarterfinals of the women's doubles with partner Meghann Shaughnessy, and made the semifinals of mixed doubles. Her next event was a Fed Cup tie against Belgium in Antwerp, where she lost to Yanina Wickmayer in the opening rubber, and later to Kim Clijsters.

At the indoor tournament in Paris, she advanced to her second semifinal in her third WTA event of the season. She lost to eventual champion, Petra Kvitová. Mattek-Sands and Shaughnessy then made it to the final of the doubles event without dropping a set and defeated the team of Dushevina/Makarova to win their first doubles title as a team. It was her ninth career WTA doubles title.

After her success in Paris, Mattek-Sands rushed off to Dubai, where she suffered an opening round loss to Peng Shuai. At the Indian Wells Masters, she made it to the second round before losing to 10th seeded Shahar Pe'er. Pairing with Shaughnessy, the American duo made it to the doubles finals losing to Sania Mirza and Elena Vesnina. In her next tournament in Miami, Mattek-Sands lost in the second round to world No. 1 Caroline Wozniacki.

After Miami, Mattek-Sands was off to Charleston for the start of the clay-court season, where she was beaten in the second round by Elena Vesnina. In doubles, Mattek-Sands/Shaughnessy made the finals of Charleston, but were once again defeated by the team of Vesnina/Mirza. Mattek-Sands next entered a small clay event in Estoril where she was the fifth-seeded player in singles, but was then upset in the first round by Monica Niculescu.

At the Mutua Madrid Open, she caused an upset in the first round when she defeated former French Open champion Ana Ivanovic after coming back from a first-set loss at love. She eventually made it to the quarterfinals before losing to Li Na in three sets.

Mattek-Sands faced Italy's own Flavia Pennetta in her opening-round match in Rome. She defeated Pennetta in three sets, but lost to Jarmila Gajdošová in the second round.

Mattek-Sands played in the French Open and made it to the third round before losing to the higher-seeded as well as her good friend, Jelena Janković.

At Wimbledon, Mattek-Sands (then ranked 30th)^[1] was upset in the first round against then ranked 133rd^[2] Misaki Doi from Japan.

She then had to withdraw from her heavily scheduled U.S. hard-court series events due to a shoulder injury. She did try to play at the US Open, but lost to Polona Hercog in the first round. In the women's doubles competition, she acquired a new partner due to the retirement of Meghann Shaughnessy. She teamed up with Jarmila Gajdošová, and they reached the third round where they lost to the team of Huber/Raymond.

2012

Mattek-Sands started her year representing the U.S. in the 2012 Hopman Cup with Mardy Fish. She came up short in her singles matches against Wimbledon champion, Petra Kvitová of the Czech Republic and Denmark's world No. 1, Caroline Wozniacki, but beat Bulgaria's Tsvetana Pironkova in the third tie. After an early exit from the Hopman Cup, she played singles at the Moorilla Hobart International, where she was a finalist, and doubles with partner Gajdošová. In singles, she lost in the second round to Sorana Cîrstea, and in doubles, she reached the semifinals, before having to retire due to a neck injury.

At the Australian Open, Mattek-Sands lost to Agnieszka Radwańska in the first round. In the doubles competition, she reached the third round with Jarmila Gajdošová, before losing to the Indian/Russian pairing of Sania Mirza and Elena Vesnina. In the mixed doubles competition, she and Romanian partner, Horia Tecău finally had their breakthrough moment, defeating title favorites, Bhuphati/Mirza in the semifinals. They then went on to win the title by defeating the team of Elena Vesnina and Leander Paes in the final.

Mattek-Sands made it through the qualifying draw at the Paris Indoors Open GDF Suez tournament. In the main draw, she made it to the second round, before losing to Roberta Vinci in three sets.

Mattek-Sands started to play on the doubles circuit with Sania Mirza, with whom she had had success in the past. In only their second tournament as a team in 2012, the Indian-American duo won the Premier-level event in Brussels, Belgium. However, they could not hold on to the good form as they were upset in the first round at Roland Garros. They made it to the third round of Wimbledon, but were eliminated by the Williams sisters.

Mattek-Sands and Mirza were beaten in the first round of the WTA event in Carlsbad, California by Hao-Ching Chan and Yung-Jan Chan.^[3]

After reaching an ITF quarterfinal in Lexington, Kentucky, Mattek-Sands failed to win another main-draw match in singles. However, with Mirza in doubles, she reached the quarterfinals of Montreal and the third round of the US Open, playing eventual champions Sara Errani and Roberta Vinci to three sets.

2013

Mattek-Sands received a wildcard to play in Kuala Lumpur, and justified it, as she reached final ranked at No. 197. She lost to Karolína Plíšková, despite winning first set. At home event in Charleston, she brushed aside fellow American and that year's Aussie Open semifinalist Sloane Stephens, before losing to Madison Keys in third round. At Premier event in Stuttgart, Bethanie reached semifinals as qualifier, stunning No. 7 Sara Errani and Sabine Lisicki in second round and quarterfinals, respectively. There she lost to Li Na.

At the French Open, Mattek-Sands won against the sixth seeded Li Na in the second round, beating her in three sets. Mattek-Sands was placed 61 places lower than Li, the 2011 champion, in the WTA rankings. She subsequently reached the fourth round, where she lost to Maria Kirilenko.

After successful clay court season, she didn't continue in that style, losing in first or second round at all tournaments. At Wimbledon she lost in first round to Angelique Kerber and to Ekaterina Makarova in second round of US Open.

2014

At Sydney International, she qualified for tournament and then beat Eugenie Bouchard and No. 5, Agnieszka Radwanska. Both defeated players would go on to reach semifinals of first Grand Slam event of season, which made Bethanie's wins bigger. But in quarterfinals she retired against Madison Keys in first set due to lumbar spine injury. At Australian Open, she wasn't happy with draw, as she was the first opponent of third seed Maria Sharapova, losing in two sets. At the PTT Pattaya Open, Mattek-Sands lost in the first round to Karolína Plíšková. In Doha she beat again Bouchard, before losing to Monica Niculescu.

After losing in first round of Miami, Bethanie underwent hip surgery.^[4] She came back on court in September, when she played in Wuhan and lost in qualifying. She qualified for China Open, but lost in first round to another qualifier Mona Barthel in three sets. Soon the season was finished, after playing two more events without success.

2015: Australian Open & French Open doubles champion

Bethanie Mattek-Sands, 2015 Wimbledon Qualifying

In 2015, Mattek-Sands won the Australian Open and French Open women's doubles alongside Lucie Šafářová. She also won the 2015 French Open mixed doubles title with partner Mike Bryan.

2016: Olympic Gold medalist and US Open champion

In 2016, Mattek-Sands had an immense success in both, doubles and mixed doubles.

At the Australian Open, Mattek-Sands was unable to defend her title with Lucie Šafářová, because of a bacterial infection. Mattek-Sands competed with Sabine Lisicki instead, and lost in the second round.

In March, she competed in the BNP Paribas Open women's doubles event. She competed with fellow American CoCo Vandeweghe. Mattek-Sands and Vandeweghe claimed the title, defeating Julia Görges and Karolina Pliskova. Next, in Miami, Mattek-Sands (partnering with Šafářová, her regular partner, again) reached the final, in which she and Safarova won against Tímea Babos and Yaroslava Shvedova. These were Mattek-Sands' second and third Premier-Mandatory/Premier-5 titles, respectively.

At the French Open in May, Mattek-Sands and Šafářová (the defending champions) lost in the first round to Kiki Bertens and Johanna Larsson.

In June, at Wimbledon, Mattek-Sands and Šafářová had another first-round exit, losing to Daria Gavrilova and Daria Kasatkina.

At the 2016 Summer Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, Mattek-Sands became an Olympic gold medalist when she won the mixed-doubles title with Jack Sock against Venus Williams and Rajeev Ram in an all-American match-up.

Her success with Šafářová was reignited at the US Open, when the pair won the title against Caroline Garcia and Kristina Mladenovic, the No. 1 seeds. This was Mattek-Sands' third Grand Slam title with Šafářová, and third overall (in women's doubles).

Mattek-Sands and Šafářová had an excellent finish during the Asian leg, the final leg of the WTA Tour. The pair competed at the Wuhan Open, their first Premier-Mandatory/Premier-5 tournament since May. They ended up winning the title, defeating the doubles world No. 1 and defending champion, Sania Mirza, and Barbora Strycova. Their winning streak continued over in Beijing, where Mattek-Sands and Safarova claimed the title again Caroline Garcia and Kristina Mladenovic. These were their fourth and fifth Premier-Mandatory/Premier-5 titles together, respectively, and their fourth and fifth titles of 2016. These victories also allowed Mattek-Sands and Safarova to qualify for the 2016 WTA Finals. They were the fourth team to do so.

At the WTA Finals, Mattek-Sands and Šafářová defeated Timea Babos and Yaroslava Shvedova in the quarterfinals, and their rivals Caroline Garcia and Kristina Mladenovic in the semifinals. Had the pair won in the final, Mattek-Sands would have become the WTA doubles year-end No. 1. However, the American-Czech team was defeated by Makarova and Vesnina.

2017: World No. 1 doubles ranking and second Australian and French Open title

Mattek-Sands played at the Brisbane International with Sania Mirza, the defending champion, in doubles. The duo defeated Makarova and Vesnina in the final, with Mattek-Sands succeeding Mirza as the new world No. 1 in doubles.

At the Australian Open, Mattek-Sands competed with Šafářová. The pair won their second Australian Open doubles title in three years, and their second straight Grand Slam tournament, defeating Andrea Hlaváčková and Peng Shuai in the final in three sets.

Mattek-Sands won the French Open women's doubles title, again with Šafářová, by beating Ashleigh Barty and Casey Dellacqua from Australia in straight sets.

Playing Sorana Cîrstea in the second round of the Wimbledon singles, Mattek-Sands was running to the net at the beginning of the third set when she collapsed in agony, clutching at her right knee. She shouted out a large number of swear words for which she later apologized. She was treated on the court before being rushed to a local hospital with an "acute knee injury" which was later revealed to be a dislocated kneecap and ruptured patellar ligament, for which surgery was required.^[5] Mattek-Sands had suffered a torn medial collateral ligament on the same knee in September 2013.^[6]

2018: Comeback and US Open mixed-doubles win

In September 2018, Mattek-Sands returned to compete in the US Open mixed doubles and won the title, partnering Scotsman Jamie Murray in their first entry as a pair; it was her eighth Grand Slam doubles title overall and Murray's sixth (including the same tournament the previous year).^[7]

Grand Slam tournaments

Doubles: 5 (5 titles)

Outcome	Year	Championship	Surface	Partner	Opponent	Score
Win	2015	Australian Open	Hard	Lucie Šafářová	Chan Yung-jan Zheng Jie	6–4, 7–6(7–5)
Win	2015	French Open	Clay	Lucie Šafářová	Casey Dellacqua Yaroslava Shvedova	3–6, 6–4, 6–2
Win	2016	US Open	Hard	Lucie Šafářová	Caroline Garcia Kristina Mladenovic	2–6, 7–6(7–5), 6–4
Win	2017	Australian Open (2)	Hard	Lucie Šafářová	Andrea Hlaváčková Peng Shuai	6–7(4–7), 6–3, 6–3
Win	2017	French Open (2)	Clay	Lucie Šafářová	Ashleigh Barty Casey Dellacqua	6–2, 6–1

Mixed doubles: 4 (3 titles, 1 runner-up)

Outcome	Year	Championship	Surface	Partner	Opponent	Score
Win	2012	Australian Open	Hard	Horia Tecău	Elena Vesnina Leander Paes	6–3, 5–7, [10–3]
Win	2015	French Open	Clay	Mike Bryan	Lucie Hradecká Marcin Matkowski	7–6(7–3), 6–1
Loss	2015	US Open	Hard	Sam Querrey	Martina Hingis Leander Paes	4–6, 6–3, [7–10]
Win	2018	US Open	Hard	Jamie Murray	Alicja Rosolska Nikola Mektić	2–6, 6–3, [11–9]

WTA Tour Championships

Doubles: 1 (1 runner-up)

Outcome	Year	Championship	Surface	Partner	Opponent	Score
Loss	2016	WTA Finals, Singapore	Hard (i)	Lucie Šafářová	Ekaterina Makarova Elena Vesnina	6–7(5–7), 3–6

Premier Mandatory/Premier 5 tournaments

Doubles: 6 (5 titles, 1 runner-up)

Outcome	Year	Championship	Surface	Partner	Opponent	Score
Loss	2011	Indian Wells Masters	Hard	Meghann Shaughnessy	Sania Mirza Elena Vesnina	0–6, 5–7
Win	2015	Canadian Open	Hard	Lucie Šafářová	Caroline Garcia Katarina Srebotnik	6–1, 6–2
Win	2016	Indian Wells Masters	Hard	CoCo Vandeweghe	Julia Görges Karolína Plíšková	4–6, 6–4, [10–6]
Win	2016	Miami Open	Hard	Lucie Šafářová	Tímea Babos Yaroslava Shvedova	6–3, 6–4
Win	2016	Wuhan Open	Hard	Lucie Šafářová	Sania Mirza Barbora Strýcová	6–1, 6–4
Win	2016	China Open	Hard	Lucie Šafářová	Caroline Garcia Kristina Mladenovic	6–4, 6–4

Olympic games

Mixed doubles: 1 (1 title)

Outcome	Year	Championship	Surface	Partner	Opponents	Score
Gold medal	2016	Rio de Janeiro Olympics	Hard	Jack Sock	Venus Williams Rajeev Ram	6–7(3–7), 6–1, [10–7]

Singles: 4 (4 runner-ups)

Result	W–L	Date	Tournament	Tier	Surface	Opponent	Score
Loss	0–1	Nov 2008	Tournoi de Québec, Canada	International	Hard (i)	Nadia Petrova	6–4, 4–6, 1–6
Loss	0–2	Sep 2010	Tournoi de Québec, Canada	International	Carpet (i)	Tamira Paszek	6–7(6–8), 6–2, 5–7
Loss	0–3	Jan 2011	Hobart International, Australia	International	Hard	Jarmila Gajdošová	4–6, 3–6
Loss	0–4	Mar 2013	Malaysian Open	International	Hard	Karolína Plíšková	6–1, 5–7, 3–6

Doubles: 38 (26 titles, 12 runners-up)

Outcome	No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Partner	Opponents	Score
Winner	1.	August 15, 2004	Odlum Brown Vancouver Open	Hard	Abigail Spears	Els Callens Anna-Lena Grönefeld	6–3, 6–3
Runner-up	1.	August 14, 2005	JPMorgan Chase Open, Los Angeles	Hard	Angela Haynes	Elena Dementieva Flavia Pennetta	2–6, 4–6
Runner-up	2.	May 14, 2006	ECM Prague Open	Clay	Ashley Harkleroad	Marion Bartoli Shahar Pe'er	4–6, 4–6
Runner-up	3.	May 21, 2006	Grand Prix SAR La Princesse Lalla Meryem, Rabat	Clay	Ashley Harkleroad	Zheng Jie Yan Zi	1–6, 3–6
Winner	2.	July 22, 2007	Cincinnati Masters	Hard	Sania Mirza	Alina Jidkova Tatiana Poutchek	7–6(7–4), 7–5
Winner	3.	February 23, 2008	Copa Colsanitas, Bogotá	Clay	Iveta Benešová	Jelena Kostanić Tošić Martina Müller	6–3, 6–3
Winner	4.	April 13, 2008	Bausch & Lomb Championships, Amelia Island	Clay	Vladimíra Uhlířová	Victoria Azarenka Elena Vesnina	6–3, 6–1
Winner	5.	April 19, 2009	Family Circle Cup, Charleston	Clay	Nadia Petrova	Līga Dekmeijere Patty Schnyder	6–7(5–7), 6–2, [11–9]
Winner	6.	May 3, 2009	Porsche Tennis Grand Prix, Stuttgart	Clay	Nadia Petrova	Gisela Dulko Flavia Pennetta	5–7, 6–3, [10–7]
Winner	7.	May 23, 2009	Warsaw Open	Clay	Raquel Kops-Jones	Yan Zi Zheng Jie	6–1, 6–1
Runner-up	4.	February 21, 2010	Cellular South Cup, Memphis	Hard (i)	Meghann Shaughnessy	Michaëlla Krajicek Vania King	5–7, 2–6
Winner	8.	April 11, 2010	MPS Group Championships, Ponte Vedra	Clay	Yan Zi	[[Chuang Chia-jung] Peng Shuai	4–6, 6–4, [10–8]
Runner-up	5.	June 13, 2010	Aegon Classic, Birmingham	Grass	Liezel Huber	Cara Black Lisa Raymond	3–6, 2–3 ret
Runner-up	6.	August 28, 2010	Pilot Pen Tennis, New Haven	Hard	Meghann Shaughnessy	Květa Peschke Katarina Srebotnik	5–7, 0–6
Runner-up	7.	September 19, 2010	Challenge Bell, Quebec City	Carpet (i)	Barbora Záhlavová-Strýcová	Sofia Arvidsson Johanna Larsson	1–6, 6–2, [6–10]
Winner	9.	February 13, 2011	Open GDF Suez, Paris	Hard (i)	Meghann Shaughnessy	Vera Dushevina Ekaterina Makarova	6–4, 6–2
Runner-up	8.	March 19, 2011	BNP Paribas Open, Indian Wells	Hard	Meghann Shaughnessy	Elena Vesnina Sania Mirza	0–6, 5–7
Runner-up	9.	April 10. 2011	Family Circle Cup, Charleston	Clay	Meghann Shaughnessy	Sania Mirza Elena Vesnina	4–6, 4–6
Winner	10.	May 26, 2012	Brussels Open, Bruxelles	Clay	Sania Mirza	Alicja Rosolska Zheng Jie	6–3, 6–2
Winner	11.	January 5. 2013	Brisbane International	Hard	Sania Mirza	Anna-Lena Grönefeld Květa Peschke	4–6, 6–4, [10–7]
Winner	12.	February 23, 2013	Dubai Tennis Championships	Hard	Sania Mirza	Nadia Petrova Katarina Srebotnik	6–4, 2–6, [10–7]
Runner-up	10.	April 28, 2013	Porsche Tennis Grand Prix, Stuttgart	Clay (i)	Sania Mirza	Mona Barthel Sabine Lisicki	4–6, 5–7
Winner	13.	16 January 2015	Sydney International	Hard	Sania Mirza	Abigail Spears Raquel Kops-Jones	6–3, 6–3
Winner	14.	30 January 2015	Australian Open, Melbourne	Hard	Lucie Šafářová	Chan Yung-jan Zheng Jie	6–4, 7–6(7–5)
Winner	15.	April 26, 2015	Porsche Tennis Grand Prix, Stuttgart (2)	Clay (i)	Lucie Šafářová	Caroline Garcia Katarina Srebotnik	6–4, 6–3
Winner	16.	June 7, 2015	French Open, Paris	Clay	Lucie Šafářová	Casey Dellacqua Yaroslava Shvedova	3–6, 6–4, 6–2
Winner	17.	August 16, 2015	Rogers Cup, Toronto	Hard	Lucie Šafářová	Caroline Garcia Katarina Srebotnik	6–1, 6–2
Winner	18.	March 20, 2016	BNP Paribas Open, Indian Wells	Hard	CoCo Vandeweghe	Julia Görges Karolína Plíšková	4–6, 6–4, [10–6]
Winner	19.	3 April 2016	Miami Open	Hard	Lucie Šafářová	Timea Babos Yaroslava Shvedova	6–3, 6–4
Runner-up	11.	10 April 2016	Charleston Open	Clay (green)	Lucie Šafářová	Caroline Garcia Kristina Mladenovic	2–6, 5–7
Winner	20.	11 September 2016	US Open, New York	Hard	Lucie Šafářová	Caroline Garcia Kristina Mladenovic	2–6, 7–6(7–5), 6–4
Winner	21	1 October 2016	Wuhan Open	Hard	Lucie Šafářová	Barbora Strycova Sania Mirza	6–1, 6–4
Winner	22.	9 October 2016	China Open, Beijing	Hard	Lucie Šafářová	Caroline Garcia Kristina Mladenovic	6-4, 6-4
Runner-up	12.	30 October 2016	WTA Finals, Singapore	Hard (i)	Lucie Šafářová	Ekaterina Makarova Elena Vesnina	6–7(5–7), 3–6
Winner	23.	7 January 2017	Brisbane International (2)	Hard	Sania Mirza]]	Ekaterina Makarova Elena Vesnina	6–2, 6–3
Winner	24.	27 January 2017	Australian Open, Melbourne (2)	Hard	Lucie Šafářová	Andrea Hlaváčková Peng Shuai	6–7(4–7), 6–3, 6–3
Winner	25.	9 April 2017	Volvo Car Open, Charleston (2)	Clay	Lucie Šafářová	Lucie Hradecka Katerina Siniakova	6–1, 4–6, [10–7]
Winner	26.	11 June 2017	French Open, Paris (2)	Clay	Lucie Šafářová	Ashleigh Barty Casey Dellacqua	6–2, 6–1

Singles

Only main-draw results on WTA Tour, Grand Slam tournaments and Olympic Games are included in Win–Loss records.

Doubles

Only maindraw results on WTA Tour, Grand Slam tournaments and Olympic Games are included in Win–Loss records.

Team

Levels of Fed Cup in which United States did not compete in a particular year are marked "Not Participating" or "NP".