Chanelle Scheepers

Chanelle Scheepers (/ʃəˈnɛl ˈskɛpərz/ born 13 March 1984) is a retired South African tennis player.

Chanelle Scheepers
Country (sports) South Africa
ResidenceBoca Raton, Florida, U.S.
Born (1984-03-13) 13 March 1984
Harrismith, South Africa
Height1.74 m (5 ft 8 1⁄2 in)
Turned pro2000
RetiredApril 2015
PlaysRight-handed (two-handed backhand)
Prize money$1,949,415
Singles
Career record436–346
Career titles1 WTA, 12 ITF
Highest rankingNo. 37 (10 October 2011)
Grand Slam Singles results
Australian Open3R (2011)
French Open4R (2010)
Wimbledon2R (2014)
US Open3R (2011)
Doubles
Career record240–186
Career titles1 WTA, 20 ITF
Highest rankingNo. 42 (10 April 2014)
Grand Slam Doubles results
Australian Open2R (2013, 2015)
French Open1R (2011)
WimbledonSF (2013)
US Open2R (2012)

She won one singles and one doubles title on the WTA Tour, as well as 12 singles and 20 doubles titles on the ITF Women's Circuit in her career. On 10 October 2011, she reached her best singles ranking of world No. 37. On 10 April 2014, she peaked at No. 42 in the doubles rankings.

Career

Scheepers turned pro in 2000 and played two ITF events.

In 2001, she reached four finals on ITF level and won all, with three of them coming from Durban, South Africa a local tournament, and one in the United States.

In 2002, she reached three ITF finals winning one in Mackay, Australia and losing in the other two in Liechtenstein and Switzerland.

In 2003, she played her first tour-level event in the Mondial Australian Women's Hardcourts and won her first main-draw tour-level match after getting through the qualifying draw over Samantha Stosur but lost to Tathiana Garbin in the next round. She then had a 19 match losing streak in the qualifying draws of tour-level and ITF events and main draw of ITF events.

2004 was a better year for Scheepers, she returned playing in ITF events where she won four titles; two in Benin City, Nigeria and two in Pretoria, South Africa. She also reached four other finals in Torre del Greco and Taranto both in Italy, in Pétange, Luxembourg and Lagos, Nigeria.

In 2005, Scheepers once again started playing in the qualifying draw of tour-level events but she didn't produce results as she only reached one semifinals and one quarterfinals in ITF events.

2006 was not a better year for Scheepers despite returning to the ITF circuit as she only reached two semifinals and one quarterfinal.

In 2007, Scheepers won her first ITF titles in three years as she won two titles in Lagos, Nigeria and Allentown, Pennsylvania, United States.

In 2008, her form went down as she only reached one semifinal and two quarterfinals.

2009 was a breakthrough year for the South African player as she made her Grand Slam main-draw debut getting through the qualifying draw in the Australian Open and French Open. She also made four main-draw wins and won a title in Irapuato, Mexico.

In 2010, Scheepers continued to play in the tour-level events and her persistence paid off as she reached her first main-draw quarterfinals in the Malaysian Open losing to Japanese Ayumi Morita. She then won in the ITF event of Fort Walton Beach, United States. In the French Open, after coming through the qualifying draw, she won her first Grand Slam main-draw match over Frenchwoman Mathilde Johansson in straight sets. She then continued her form by upsetting both, Gisela Dulko and Akgul Amanmuradova. She lost to world No. 5, Elena Dementieva in the fourth round in two sets. As a result of this performance, she was awarded a wildcard into the main draw of Wimbledon, where she lost in the first round to ninth seed and eventual quarter-finalist Li Na.

In 2011, she made the third round of the Australian Open. Following modest results for much of the rest of the year, Scheepers reached the third round of the US Open, where she even held match points against Francesca Schiavone before losing the match in three sets. Following that, she won her first WTA single titles at Guangzhou, China as the seventh seed defeating the eighth seed Magdaléna Rybáriková of Slovakia 6–2, 6–2 in the final. Chanelle achieved her career-high singles rank of world No. 37 following the tournament. On 13 July 2012, Scheepers lost to Serena Williams in the Stanford Classic.

In July 2012, she reached the second round of Mercury Insurance Open, Carlsbad losing to Varvara Lepchenko.[1]

At the 2013 Wimbledon Championships, she teamed with Shuko Aoyama to advance to the semifinals in women's doubles.[2]

In 2015, after the Family Cup in Charleston, she retired from the WTA Tour and later started coaching American tennis player Alison Riske.[3]

Personal life

Scheepers married Roger Anderson, her former coach, on 10 November 2012, in the KwaZulu-Natal Midlands.[4]

WTA career finals

Singles: 2 (1 title, 1 runner-up)
Winner
Grand Slam tournaments (0–0)
Tour Championships (0–0)
Premier Mandatory & Premier 5 (0–0)
Premier (0–0)
International (1–1)
Outcome No. Date Tournament Surface Opponent Score
Winner 1. 24 September 2011 Guangzhou International Women's Open Hard Magdaléna Rybáriková 6–2, 6–2
Runner-up 1. 20 July 2014 Swedish Open, Båstad Clay Mona Barthel 3–6, 6–7(3–7)

Doubles: 5 (1 title, 4 runner-ups)
Legend
Grand Slam tournaments (0–0)
Tour Championships (0–0)
Tier I / Premier Mandatory & Premier 5 (0–0)
Tier II / Premier (0–0)
Tier III, IV & V / International (1–4)
Outcome No. Date Tournament Surface Partner Opponents Score
Runner-up 1. 18 October 2009 HP Open, Osaka, Japan Hard Abigail Spears Lisa Raymond
Chuang Chia-jung		 2–6, 4–6
Runner-up 2. 3 August 2012 Citi Open, Washington, D.C. Hard Irina Falconi Shuko Aoyama
Chang Kai-chen		 5–7, 2–6
Winner 1. 25 May 2013 Internationaux de Strasbourg, France Clay (red) Kimiko Date-Krumm Cara Black
Marina Erakovic		 6–4, 3–4, [14–12]
Runner-up 3. 22 February 2014 Rio Open, Brazil Clay Johanna Larsson Irina-Camelia Begu
María Irigoyen		 2–6, 0–6
Runner-up 4. 12 April 2014 Copa Colsanitas, Bogotá Clay Vania King Lara Arruabarrena
Caroline Garcia		 6–7(5–7), 4–6

Grand Slam performance timelines

Singles
Tournament2003200420052006200720082009201020112012201320142015SRW–L
Australian Open LQ A LQ A A A 1R LQ 3R 1R 1R 1R 1R 0 / 6 2–6
French Open LQ A LQ A A LQ 1R 4R 2R 2R 1R 1R A 0 / 6 5–6
Wimbledon LQ A LQ A A A LQ 1R 1R 1R 1R 2R A 0 / 5 1–5
US Open LQ A LQ A LQ LQ LQ 1R 3R 1R 2R 1R A 0 / 5 3–5
Win–Loss 0–0 0–0 0–0 0–0 0–0 0–0 0–2 3–3 5–4 1–4 1–4 1–4 0–1 0 / 22 11–22

Doubles
Tournament201020112012201320142015SRW–L
Australian Open A A 1R 2R 1R 2R 0 / 4 2–4
French Open A 1R A 1R 1R A 0 / 3 0–3
Wimbledon 3R 2R 2R SF 2R A 0 / 5 9–5
US Open 1R 1R 2R 1R 1R A 0 / 5 1–5
Win–Loss 2–2 1–3 2–3 5–4 0–2 1–1 0 / 17 12–17

ITF finals

Singles: 18 (12–6)
$100,000 tournaments
$75,000 tournaments
$50,000 tournaments
$25,000 tournaments
$10,000 tournaments
Outcome No. Date Tournament Surface Opponent Score
Winner 1. 27 May 2001 Durban, South Africa Hard Lara Van Looyen 7–5, 6–2
Winner 2. 3 June 2001 Durban, South Africa Hard Lara Van Looyen 4–6, 6–3, 7–6(7–3)
Winner 3. 21 July 2001 Evansville, United States Hard Kristen Schlukebir 6–1, 6–3
Runner-up 1. 10 June 2002 Vaduz, Liechtenstein Clay Myriam Casanova 1–6, 3–6
Runner-up 2. 17 June 2002 Lenzerheide, Switzerland Clay Eva Birnerová 5–7, 4–6
Winner 4. 14 October 2002 Mackay, Australia Hard Amanda Grahame 7–6(8–6), 7–5
Winner 5. 22 February 2004 Benin City, Nigeria Hard Meghha Vakaria 6–1, 6–3
Winner 6. 29 February 2004 Benin City, Nigeria Hard Susanne Aigner 6–1, 4–6, 6–4
Runner-up 3. 5 April 2004 Torre del Greco, Italy Clay Emma Laine 6–3, 4–6, 0–6
Runner-up 4. 17 June 2004 Pétange, Luxembourg Clay Stanislava Hrozenská 7–6(14–12), 1–6, 4–6
Runner-up 5. 10 October 2004 Lagos, Nigeria Hard Sania Mirza 6–4, 6–7, 5–7
Winner 7. 22 November 2004 Pretoria, South Africa Hard Lizaan du Plessis 6–1, 6–3
Winner 8. 28 November 2004 Pretoria, South Africa Hard Karoline Borgersen 6–1, 6–3
Runner-up 6. 4 June 2007 Hilton Head, United States Hard Angela Haynes 6–3, 2–6, 4–6
Winner 9. 11 June 2007 Allentown, United States Hard Angela Haynes 6–2, 2–6, 6–1
Winner 10. 17 December 2007 Lagos, Nigeria Hard Zuzana Kučová 6–2, 6–0
Runner-up 6. 26 January 2009 Laguna Niguel, United States Hard Alexa Glatch 1–6, 0–6
Winner 11. 16 March 2009 Irapuato, Mexico Hard Natalia Rizhonkova 6–1, 7–5
Winner 12. 15 March 2010 Fort Walton Beach, United States Hard Sophie Ferguson 7–5, 7–5

Doubles: 36 (20–16)
$100,000 tournaments
$75,000 tournaments
$50,000 tournaments
$25,000 tournaments
$10,000 tournaments
Outcome No. Date Tournament Surface Partner Opponents Score
Runner-up 1. 11 June 2000 Pretoria, South Africa Hard Carien Venter Natalie Grandin
Nicole Rencken		 6–7(4–7), 2–6
Winner 1. 3 June 2001 Durban, South Africa Hard Lara Van Rooyen Maretha van Niekerk
Karin Vermeulen		 7–6(7–2), 6–0
Winner 2. 10 June 2001 Durban, South Africa Hard Lara Van Rooyen Marcela Evangelista
Letícia Sobral		 6–2, 6–2
Winner 3. 24 June 2001 Algiers, Algeria Clay Karin Vermeulen Evghenia Ablovatchi
Lenka Tvarošková		 7–6(7–2), 6–4
Winner 4. 1 July 2001 Algiers, Algeria Clay Karin Vermeulen Isabel Collischonn
Marnie Mahler		 7–5, 6–2
Runner-up 2. 25 Nov 2002 Mount Gambier, Australia Hard Jane O'Donoghue Daniella Dominikovic
Evie Dominikovic		 w/o
Winner 5. 30 March 2003 Rabat, Morocco Clay Daniela Klemenschits Helena Ejeson
Helena Norfeldt		 6–3, 6–2
Runner-up 3. 28 February 2004 Benin City, Nigeria Hard Jennifer Schmidt Zuzana Cerna
Franziska Etzel		 0–6, 7–5, 3–6
Winner 6. 7 March 2004 Benin City, Nigeria Hard Alanna Broderick Zuzana Cerna
Franziska Etzel		 6–2, 6–2
Winner 7. 11 April 2004 Torre del Greco, Italy Clay Jolanda Mens Michelle Gerards
Marielle Hoogland		 6–3, 6–0
Runner-up 4. 9 October 2004 Lagos, Nigeria Hard Surina De Beer Shelley Stephens
Sania Mirza		 1–6, 4–6
Winner 8. 16 October 2004 Lagos, Nigeria Hard Surina De Beer Shelley Stephens
Sania Mirza		 6–0, 6–0
Winner 9. 3 December 2004 Pretoria, South Africa Hard Melissa Berry Karoline Borgersen
Leonie Mekel		 6–2, 3–6, 7–5
Winner 10. 15 January 2006 Tampa, United States Hard Aleke Tsoubanos Chan Chin-Wei
Hsu Wen-hsin		 3–6, 7–6(7–4), 6–3
Runner–up 5. 22 Jan 2006 Fort Walton Beach, United States Hard Zuzana Kučová Maureen Drake
Vladimíra Uhlířová		 6–2, 4–6, 5–7
Runner-up 6. 5 March 2006 Clearwater, United States Hard Natalie Grandin Kelly Liggan
Lina Stančiūtė		 3–6, 1–6
Runner-up 7. 9 April 2006 Pelham, United States Clay Tiffany Dabek Tetiana Luzhanska
Romana Tedjakusuma		 4–6, 1–6
Winner 11. 23 May 2006 Grado, Italy Clay Tiffany Dabek Mailyne Andrieux
Nika Ožegović		 6–4, 4–6, 7–6
Winner 12. 12 June 2006 Gorizia, Italy Clay Soledad Esperón Matilde Muñoz Gonzalves
Sílvia Soler Espinosa		 6–4, 6–3
Runner-up 8. 8 October 2006 Troy, United States Hard Neha Uberoi Nicole Kriz
Leanne Baker		 7–6(7–1), 5–7, 3–6
Runner-up 9. 29 October 2006 Augusta, United States Hard Neha Uberoi Nicole Kriz
Leanne Baker		 6–7(3–7), 1–6
Runner-up 10. 31 October 2006 Mexico City, Mexico Hard Maria Fernanda Alves María José Argeri
Letícia Sobral		 3–6, 5–7
Winner 13. 6 March 2007 Toluca, Mexico Hard Courtney Nagle María Irigoyen
Andrea Benítez		 6–2, 1–6, 6–2
Runner-up 11. 13 March 2007 Mérida, Mexico Hard Robin Stephenson Maria Fernanda Alves
Vanina García Sokol		 3–6, 2–6
Winner 14. 20 March 2007 Coatzacoalcos, Mexico Hard Robin Stephenson Līga Dekmeijere
Story Tweedie-Yates		 6–2, 6–2
Runner-up 12. 29 April 2007 Sea Island, United States Clay Anda Perianu Raquel Kops-Jones
Lilia Osterloh		 5–7, 3–6
Winner 15. 13 October 2007 Saltillo, Mexico Hard Soledad Esperón Debbrich Feys
Leonie Mekel		 6–0, 6–4
Winner 16. 20 October 2007 San Luis Potosí, Mexico Hard Debbrich Feys Estefanía Craciún
Betina Jozami		 6–1, 6–4
Winner 17. 15 December 2007 Lagos, Nigeria Hard Kelly Anderson Iryna Brémond
Ágnes Szatmári		 0–6, 6–3, [10–8]
Winner 18. 22 December 2007 Lagos, Nigeria Hard Kelly Anderson Iryna Brémond
Ágnes Szatmári		 1–6, 6–3, [10–6]
Runner–up 13. 21 March 2008 Noida, India Hard Kelly Anderson Teodora Mirčić
Lenka Tvarošková		 2–6, 7–6 (9–7) , [6–10]
Runner–up 14. 18 May 2008 Saint-Gaudens, France Clay Aurélie Védy Hsieh Su-wei
Marie-Ève Pelletier		 4–6, 0–6
Runner–up 15. 21 March 2009 Irapuato, Mexico Hard Soledad Esperón Jorgelina Cravero
Veronica Spiegel		 1–6, 0–6
Winner 19. 17 May 2009 Saint-Gaudens, France Clay Rika Fujiwara Kimiko Date-Krumm
Sun Tiantian		 7–5, 6–4
Winner 20. 20 March 2010 Fort Walton Beach, United States Hard Johanna Larsson Christina Fusano
Courtney Nagle		 2–6, 7–6, [10–7]
Runner-up 16. 1 November 2010 Grapevine, United States Hard Julie Ditty Ahsha Rolle
Mashona Washington		 7–5, 2–6, 2–6

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  2. "UPDATE 1-Tennis-Wimbledon women's doubles semifinal results". Reuters. 5 July 2013.
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