Fiona Ferro

Fiona Ferro
Country (sports)  France
Residence Valbonne, France
Born (1997-03-12) March 12, 1997
Libramont, Belgium
Height 1.70 m (5 ft 7 in)
Turned pro 2012
Plays Right-handed (two-handed backhand)
Coach Pierre Bouteyre (2010-2016)
Georges Goven (2017)
Stéphane Huet (2017-present)
Prize money $379,652
Singles
Career record 163-132
Career titles 0 WTA Tour, 4 ITF Women's Circuit
Highest ranking No. 106 (1 October 2018)
Current ranking No. 108 (8 October 2018)
Grand Slam Singles results
Australian Open Q1 (2015)
French Open 2R (2018)
US Open Q2 (2018)
Doubles
Career record 16-36
Career titles 0 WTA Tour, 0 ITF Women's Circuit
Highest ranking No. 341 (15 May 2017)
Current ranking No. 594 (8 October 2018)
Grand Slam Doubles results
French Open 1R (2016, 2017, 2018)
Grand Slam Mixed Doubles results
French Open 1R (2018)
Last updated on: 10 October 2018.

Fiona Ferro (born 12 March 1997 in Libramont, Belgium) is a Belgian-born French professional tennis player. Ferro has a career high WTA singles ranking of world no. 106 (attained on 1 October 2018) and a career high WTA doubles ranking of world no. 341 (attained on 15 May 2017).

Career

Junior

Ferro was the national girls' champion of France in the 12-13 year-olds, 15-16 year-olds and 17-18 year-olds categories.[1] She had a career-high ITF junior combined ranking of world no. 27, attained on 3 June 2013.[2]

2012-2016

Ferro made her ITF Women's Circuit debut at the $25,000 indoor hardcourt tournament held in January 2012 in Grenoble, France; she only entered that tournament's singles event, losing in the first qualifying round. She played (only in the singles events of) eight tournaments in the 2012 ITF Women's Circuit.[3]

Ferro played (only in the singles events of) eleven tournaments in the 2013 ITF Women's Circuit.[3]

Ferro made her WTA Tour singles debut at the 2014 Internationaux de Strasbourg; as a wild card, she lost in the first qualifying round to Yuliya Beygelzimer 5-7, 1-6.[3]

Ferro made her Grand Slam singles debut at the 2014 French Open after receiving a wild card for the singles main draw, where she lost in the first round to the number 16 seed Sabine Lisicki of Germany 1-6, 5-7.[3]

Ferro made her WTA 125K series tournament singles debut at the 2016 Open de Limoges after receiving a wild card for the singles main draw, where she lost in the first round to the unseeded Ivana Jorović 5-7, 4-6.[3]

2017

Ferro made her non-Grand Slam WTA Tour singles main draw debut at the 2017 Abierto Mexicano Telcel after defeating two higher-ranked players (Samantha Crawford and Tatjana Maria) in qualifying matches; she lost in the first round of the singles main draw to the number 5 seed Christina McHale 4-6, 4-6. In April 2017, Ferro played her second and third career non-Grand Slam WTA Tour singles main draw matches in Bogotá and Istanbul respectively after winning two qualifying matches in each tournament; she lost in the first round of the singles main draw to seeded players (to Johanna Larsson in Bogotá and Sorana Cîrstea in Istanbul) in both tournaments.[3][4]

2018

On 11 February 2018, Ferro won her first career ITF Women's Circuit singles title in Grenoble.[3] Ferro had to win three qualifying matches to reach the singles main draw of a WTA Tour tournament for the first time in 2018, in the International tournament in Rabat, losing in the first round to Paula Badosa Gibert. Ferro played her second WTA Tour singles main draw match of 2018 in Strasbourg (she had entered the singles main draw as a wild card), losing in the first round to the no. 6 seed Tímea Babos.[4]

Ferro received a French Open singles main draw wild card for the 2018 tournament, just like she did in 2014, 2015 and 2017. She won the first WTA Tour and Grand Slam singles main draw match of her career and also picked up her first career win over a player ranked in the top 100 of the WTA singles rankings at the 2018 French Open when she defeated Carina Witthöft 6-4, 6-2 in the first round. She lost to the no. 3 seed Garbiñe Muguruza 4-6, 3-6 in the second round.[4][5]

ITF Women's Circuit finals

Singles (4–5)

Legend
$100,000 tournaments
$80,000 tournaments
$75,000 tournaments
$60,000 tournaments
$50,000 tournaments
$25,000 tournaments
$15,000 tournaments
$10,000 tournaments
Finals by surface
Hard (1–0)
Clay (3–5)
Grass (0–0)
Carpet (0–0)
Outcome No. Date Tournament Surface Opponent Score
Runner-up 1. 6 July 2014 Denain, France Clay Romania Andreea Mitu 6–4, 2–6, 1–6
Runner-up 2. 19 July 2015 Aschaffenburg, Germany Clay Croatia Tena Lukas 5–7, 4–6
Runner-up 3. 24 July 2016 Darmstadt, Germany Clay Germany Tamara Korpatsch 2–6, 2–6
Runner-up 4. 26 November 2017 Hammamet, Tunisia Clay Russia Varvara Gracheva 4–6, 6–7(1–7)
Winner 1. 11 February 2018 Grenoble, France Hard (i) Luxembourg Eléonora Molinaro 6–4, 6–7(5–7), 7–6(7–3)
Runner-up 5. 25 February 2018 Curitiba, Brazil Clay Slovenia Tamara Zidanšek 5–7, 4–6
Winner 2. 17 June 2018 Padua, Italy Clay Russia Liudmila Samsonova 7–5, 6–3
Winner 3. 24 June 2018 Montpellier, France Clay Argentina Catalina Pella 6–4, 6–3
Winner 4. 22 July 2018 Olomouc, Czech Republic Clay Czech Republic Karolína Muchová 6–4, 6–4

References

  1. "Roland-Garros : Fiona Ferro, une première au plus haut niveau". L'Équipe. 29 May 2018.
  2. "ITF juniors profile of Fiona Ferro". ITF.
  3. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 "ITF pro circuit profile of Fiona Ferro". ITF.
  4. 1 2 3 "Fiona Ferro's matches". WTA Tour official website.
  5. "Muguruza fells Ferro to reach French Open third round". WTA Tour official website. 31 May 2018.


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