Céline Beigbeder

Céline Beigbeder
Full name Céline Beigbeder
Country (sports)  France
Born (1975-02-25) 25 February 1975
Bayonne, France
Plays Right-handed
Prize money $149,062
Singles
Highest ranking No. 84 (15 April 2002)
Grand Slam Singles results
Australian Open 1R (2002)
French Open 1R (2001, 2002, 2003)
Wimbledon 1R (2002)

Céline Beigbeder (born 25 February 1975) is a former professional tennis player from France.

Biography

Beigbeder was born in Bayonne, a city in south-western France, the daughter of Jean-Pierre and Nicole. The highlights of her junior career include winning the French national championships in 1993 and making the Orange Bowl quarter-finals in 1994. Finishing school in 1994, she competed for several years on the ITF circuit.[1]

It wasn't until 2001, aged 26, that she committed to professional tennis full-time. At her first WTA Tour tournament, the 2001 Internationaux de Strasbourg, she made it into the main draw as a qualifier and reached the semi-finals, with wins over Tamarine Tanasugarn, Sarah Pitkowski and Ai Sugiyama. She was granted a wilcard into the 2001 French Open and was beaten in the first round by Elena Dementieva.[2] Her five ITF titles in 2001 included two $50,000 events as well as a win over Jelena Jankovic en route to the title at Lenzerheide. By the end of the year her ranking had risen to 101 in the world.

In 2002 she broke into the world's top 100, peaking at 84 in April, with main draw appearance at the Australian Open, French Open and Wimbledon. She was a quarter-finalist at both the Copa Colsanitas and the Internazionali Femminili di Palermo in the 2002 season.

ITF titles

Singles (9)

No. Date Category Tournament Surface Opponent Score
1. August, 2000 $10,000 Périgueux, France Clay France Virginie Pichet 6–1, 6–1
2. April, 2001 $25,000 Gelos, France Clay France Laurence Andretto 6–2, 6–2
3. June, 2001 $25,000 Lenzerheide, Switzerland Clay Netherlands Anousjka van Exel 6–3, 6–0
4. July, 2001 $25,000 Mont-de-Marsan, France Clay Germany Angelika Rösch 6–1, 6–1
5. August, 2001 $50,000 Saint-Gaudens, France Clay Ukraine Julia Vakulenko 6–4, 6–1
6. September, 2001 $50,000 Denain, France Clay Bulgaria Lubomira Bacheva 6–4, 6–0
7. July, 2002 $25,000 Mont-de-Marsan, France Clay Ukraine Alexandra Kravets 7–5, 6–1
8. August, 2003 $10,000 San Marino Clay France Kildine Chevalier 6–3, 6–1
9. November, 2003 $10,000 Villenave-d'Ornon, France Clay Austria Betina Pirker 6–1, 6–1

Doubles (1)

No. Date Category Tournament Surface Partner Opponent Score
1. October, 2003 $10,000 Carcavelos, Portugal Clay Spain Rosa María Andrés Rodríguez Colombia Romy Farah
Portugal Neuza Silva		 6–2, 1–0 RET

References

  1. ↑ "Bio". WTA Tennis. Retrieved 2 February 2018.
  2. ↑ Roberts, Selena (6 June 2001). "Grand Slam Events Study Increasing Seedings to 32 Players". The New York Times. Retrieved 2 February 2018.
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