Julie Halard-Decugis
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Residence | Pully, Switzerland |
Born |
Versailles, France | 10 September 1970
Height | 1.73 m (5 ft 8 in) |
Turned pro | 1986 |
Retired | 2000 |
Plays | Right-handed (two handed-backhand) |
Prize money | US$ 3,081,132 |
Singles | |
Career record | 386–233 |
Career titles | 12 |
Highest ranking | No. 7 (14 February 2000) |
Grand Slam Singles results | |
Australian Open | QF (1993, 2000) |
French Open | QF (1994) |
Wimbledon | 4R (1992) |
US Open | 4R (1999) |
Doubles | |
Career record | 253–156 |
Career titles | 15 |
Highest ranking | No. 1 (11 September 2000) |
Grand Slam Doubles results | |
Australian Open | QF (2000) |
French Open | SF (1994, 2000) |
Wimbledon | F (2000) |
US Open | W (2000) |
Julie Halard-Decugis (born 10 September 1970) is a French former professional tennis player.
Tennis career
Halard-Decugis lived in La Baule, France during the initial stages of her career and later moved to Pully, Switzerland. She turned professional in 1986. She won the French Open junior singles title in 1988 and was the Wimbledon junior singles runner-up in 1987. She retired from the WTA Tour tennis circuit at the end of the 2000 season. Her highest WTA Tour singles and doubles rankings was number seven and number one respectively. She had been coached by Arnaud Decugis since 1989.
Halard-Decugis won her first WTA Tour singles title in Puerto Rico. She enjoyed her best season in 1996, when she won her first WTA Tour Tier II singles title in Paris and finished the year with a career-high season-ending singles ranking of No. 15 and as the No. 1 singles player from France. This occurred despite the fact that her playing schedule in the second half of 1996 was curtailed because of a wrist injury sustained during the Fed Cup semifinal match against Spain. She only played two tournaments in late 1997 because of injuries.
By winning the singles title in Rosmalen in 1998, she became the 20th player to have won singles titles on all four surfaces in the Open Era. Halard also won the singles and doubles titles in Pattaya that year, and broke into the top 10 singles ranking in August 1999, becoming the fifth Frenchwoman after Françoise Dürr, Mary Pierce, Nathalie Tauziat and Amélie Mauresmo to do so. In 1999, she won WTA Tour singles titles in Auckland and Birmingham and was runner-up on three other occasions.[1] Between 15 November 1999 and 9 January 2000, Julie Halard, Nathalie Tauziat, Amélie Mauresmo and Mary Pierce were all ranked inside the singles top 10, the first time France had four players ranked among the singles top 10.
2000 was to be the final and perhaps the finest year of Halard's professional playing career. She reached the Australian Open singles quarterfinal for the second time, captured the second WTA Tour Tier II title of her career in Eastbourne and reached her career-high singles ranking of No. 7 in February. Halard was also runner-up in Tokyo's Princess Cup in the month of October and won the doubles title with Ai Sugiyama. The following week, she won both the singles and doubles titles at the Japan Open in Tokyo, saving three match points in the final to defeat the defending champion Amy Frazier.
On her 30th birthday, Halard won the 2000 US Open women's doubles title with Ai Sugiyama, her only Grand Slam title as a professional. The pair also reached the final at Wimbledon, the semifinal at the French Open and the quarterfinal at the Australian Open that year. Halard-Decugis won nine other doubles titles in 2000, five of them with Sugiyama, and became the first Frenchwoman to attain the No. 1 doubles ranking in the Open Era.
Halard-Decugis represented her country in the Federation Cup Fed Cup from 1990 to 2000 and in the Olympic Games in 1992 and 2000.
Personal life
She married her coach, Arnaud Decugis, on 22 September 1995.[2][3] Arnaud Decugis is the great nephew of Max Decugis, a leading tennis player from France during the early 20th century. The couple have two children: Camille, born on 10 February 2002 and another child born in July 2003.
Major finals
Grand Slam finals
Women's doubles: 2 (1 title, 1 runner-up)
Outcome | Year | Tournament | Surface | Partner | Opponents | Score |
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Runner-up | 2000 | Wimbledon | Grass | ![]() | ![]() ![]() | 3–6, 2–6 |
Winner | 2000 | US Open | Hard | ![]() | ![]() ![]() | 6–0, 1–6, 6–1 |
WTA Tour singles finals
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Wins (12)
No. | Date | Tournament | Surface | Opponent | Score |
1. | 21 October 1991 | San Juan, Puerto Rico | Hard | ![]() |
7–5, 7–5 |
2. | 27 April 1992 | Taranto, Italy | Clay | ![]() |
6–0, 7–5 |
3. | 25 April 1994 | Taranto, Italy | Clay | ![]() |
6–2, 6–3 |
4. | 8 May 1995 | Prague, Czech Republic | Clay | ![]() |
6–4, 6–4 |
5. | 8 January 1996 | Hobart, Australia | Hard | ![]() |
6–1, 6–2 |
6. | 12 February 1996 | Paris, France | Carpet (i) | ![]() |
7–5, 7–6(7–4) |
7. | 15 June 1996 | Rosmalen, Netherlands | Grass | ![]() |
6–3, 6–4 |
8. | 16 November 1998 | Pattaya, Thailand | Hard | ![]() |
6–1, 6–2 |
9. | 4 January 1999 | Auckland, New Zealand | Hard | ![]() |
6–4, 6–1 |
10. | 7 June 1999 | Birmingham, United Kingdom | Grass | ![]() |
6–2, 3–6, 6–4 |
11. | 19 June 2000 | Eastbourne, United Kingdom | Grass | ![]() |
7–6(7–4), 6–4 |
12. | 9 October 2000 | Tokyo, Japan | Hard | ![]() |
5–7, 7–5, 6–4 |
Runners-up (9)
No. | Date | Tournament | Surface | Opponentl | Score |
1. | 5 October 1987 | Athens, Greece | Clay | ![]() |
6–0, 6–1 |
2. | 5 August 1991 | Albuquerque, U.S. | Hard | ![]() |
6–0, 6–2 |
3. | 14 February 1994 | Paris, France | Carpet (i) | ![]() |
7–5, 6–3 |
4. | 26 February 1996 | Linz, Austria | Carpet (i) | ![]() |
6–2, 6–4 |
5. | 18 May 1998 | Strasbourg, France | Clay | ![]() |
7–6(7–5), 6–3 |
6. | 26 April 1999 | Bol, Croatia | Clay | ![]() |
6–2, 6–0 |
7. | 10 May 1999 | Berlin, Germany | Clay | ![]() |
6–0, 6–1 |
8. | 9 August 1999 | Los Angeles, U.S. | Hard | ![]() |
6–1, 6–4 |
9. | 2 October 2000 | Tokyo, Japan | Hard | ![]() |
7–5, 6–1 |
WTA Tour doubles finals
Wins (15)
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No. | Date | Tournament | Surface | Partner | Opponents in the final | Score |
1. | 8 August 1994 | Los Angeles, U.S. | Hard | ![]() |
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6–1, 0–6, 6–1 |
2. | 19 September 1994 | Tokyo, Japan | Hard | ![]() |
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6–1, 0–6, 6–1 |
3. | 1 January 1996 | Auckland, New Zealand | Hard | ![]() |
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6–0, 6–1 |
4. | 8 June 1998 | Birmingham, United Kingdom | Grass | ![]() |
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2–6, 6–4, 6–4 |
5. | 16 November 1998 | Pattaya City, Thailand | Hard | ![]() |
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3–6, 6–2, 6–2 |
6. | 3 January 2000 | Gold Coast, Australia | Hard | ![]() |
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6–3, 6–0 |
7. | 10 January 2000 | Sydney, Australia | Hard | ![]() |
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6–0, 6–3 |
8. | 7 February 2000 | Paris, France | Carpet (i) | ![]() |
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3–6, 6–3, 6–4 |
9. | 20 March 2000 | Miami, U.S. | Hard | ![]() |
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4–6, 7–5, 6–4 |
10. | 1 May 2000 | Bol, Croatia | Clay | ![]() |
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6–2, 6–2 |
11. | 21 August 2000 | New Haven, U.S. | Hard | ![]() |
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6–4, 5–7, 6–2 |
12. | 28 August 2000 | US Open | Hard | ![]() |
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6–0, 1–6, 6–1 |
13. | 2 October 2000 | Tokyo, Japan | Hard | ![]() |
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6–0, 6–2 |
14. | 9 October 2000 | Tokyo, Japan | Hard | ![]() |
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6–1, 6–2 |
15. | 23 October 2000 | Moscow, Russia | Carpet (i) | ![]() |
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4–6, 6–4, 7–65 |
Runners-up (10)
No. | Date | Tournament | Surface | Partner | Opponents in the final | Score |
1. | 16 September 1991 | Paris, France | Clay | ![]() |
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6–4, 6–4 |
2. | 18 April 1994 | Barcelona, Spain | Clay | ![]() |
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6–2, 6–4 |
3. | 12 February 1996 | Paris, France | Carpet (i) | ![]() |
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6–4, 6–3 |
4. | 4 March 1996 | Indian Wells, U.S. | Hard | ![]() |
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6–1, 6–4 |
5. | 15 September 1997 | Tokyo, Japan | Hard | ![]() |
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6–1, 6–0 |
6. | 5 January 1998 | Auckland, New Zealand | Hard | ![]() |
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7–61, 6–4 |
7. | 12 January 1998 | Hobart, Australia | Hard | ![]() |
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7–66, 6–3 |
8. | 18 October 1999 | Moscow, Russia | Carpet (i) | ![]() |
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6–0, 6–1 |
9. | 26 June 2000 | Wimbledon | Grass | ![]() |
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6–3, 6–2 |
10. | 14 August 2000 | Montreal, Canada | Hard | ![]() |
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6–3, 3–6, 6–4 |
Grand Slam doubles history
Tournament | 1987 | 1988 | 1989 | 1990 | 1991 | 1992 | 1993 | 1994 | 1995 | 1996 | 1997 | 1998 | 1999 | 2000 | SR | W–L | ||||||||
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Australian Open | A | 1R | 2R | 2R | A | 1R | 1R | 1R | 2R | 3R | A | A | 3R | QF | 0 / 10 | 10–10 | ||||||||
French Open | A | 1R | 2R | 1R | 3R | 2R | 1R | SF | QF | 3R | A | 2R | 1R | SF | 0 / 12 | 18–12 | ||||||||
Wimbledon | A | A | A | A | 1R | 1R | 2R | 3R | 3R | A | A | QF | 2R | F | 0 / 8 | 14–8 | ||||||||
US Open | A | A | A | A | 1R | 1R | 1R | 1R | QF | A | A | 3R | 3R | W | 1 / 8 | 13–7 | ||||||||
Overall Win–Loss | 0–0 | 0–2 | 2–2 | 1–2 | 2–3 | 1–4 | 1–4 | 6–4 | 9–4 | 4–2 | 0–0 | 6–3 | 5–4 | 18–3 | 1 / 38 | 55–37 |
Head-to-Head record
- Arantxa Sánchez Vicario 4—8
- Dominique Monami 2—2
- Serena Williams 0—4
- Martina Hingis 0—5
- Venus Williams 1—1
- Anna Kournikova 1—1
- Elena Dementieva 1—0
- Jelena Dokic 1—0
- Steffi Graf 1—9
- Lindsay Davenport 2—9
- Mary Pierce 3-0
References
- ↑ "Tennis — DFS Classic; Halard-Decugis beats Tauziat". The New York Times. 14 June 1999.
- ↑ Gene Frenette (16 April 2000). "When Love is a good game". jacksonville.com.
- ↑ Iain Carter (June 2000). "Julie Halard-Decugis". BBC Sport.