Nathalie Dechy

Nathalie Dechy
Country (sports) France
ResidenceTournai, Belgium
Born (1979-02-21) 21 February 1979
Les Abymes, Guadeloupe
Height1.78 m (5 ft 10 in)
Turned pro1995
Retired21 July 2009
PlaysRight-handed (two-handed backhand)
Prize moneyUS$4,216,795
Singles
Career record429–337
Career titles1 WTA, 1 ITF
Highest rankingNo. 11 (9 January 2006)
Grand Slam singles results
Australian OpenSF (2005)
French Open3R (1998, 1999, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2005, 2006)
Wimbledon4R (1999, 2005)
US Open4R (1998, 2005)
Doubles
Career record189–178
Career titles7 WTA, 1 ITF
Highest rankingNo. 8 (21 May 2007)
Grand Slam doubles results
Australian OpenSF (2009)
French OpenQF (2000, 2003, 2006)
WimbledonSF (2008)
US OpenW (2006, 2007)
Grand Slam mixed doubles results
French OpenW (2007)
Team competitions
Fed CupW (2003)

Nathalie Dechy (born 21 February 1979) is a former professional tennis player from France.

Dechy is a three-time doubles Grand Slam champion, winning the 2006 US Open women's doubles title with Vera Zvonareva,[1] the 2007 French Open mixed doubles title with Andy Ram,[2] and the 2007 US Open women's doubles title with Dinara Safina.[3] Her biggest singles achievement is reaching the semifinals of the 2005 Australian Open.

At the 2008 Wimbledon Championships, she faced world No. 1 and reigning French Open champion, Ana Ivanovic. She had a match point during the second set, before losing in the super-tiebreak, 7–6, 6–7, 8–10.

Since 2015, Nathalie Dechy has been the director of the Biarritz Tennis Tournament, a women's tennis tournament organized every year by the Quarterback agency at Biarritz Olympic Tennis. This tournament is part of the ITF (International Tennis Federation) category and has $80,000 in prize money.[4]

Grand Slam finals

Doubles: 2 (2 titles)

Result Year Championship Surface Partner Opponents Score
Win 2006 US Open Hard Russia Vera Zvonareva Slovenia Katarina Srebotnik
Russia Dinara Safina		 7–6(7–5), 7–5
Win 2007 US Open Hard Russia Dinara Safina Chinese Taipei Chan Yung-jan
Chinese Taipei Chuang Chia-jung		 6–4, 6–2

Mixed doubles: 2 (1 title, 1 runner-up)

Result Year Championship Surface Partner Opponents Score
Win 2007 French Open Clay Israel Andy Ram Slovenia Katarina Srebotnik
Serbia Nenad Zimonjić		 7–5, 6–3
Loss 2009 Australian Open Hard Israel Andy Ram India Sania Mirza
India Mahesh Bhupathi		 3–6, 1–6

Grand Slam singles performance timeline

Key
W  F  SF QF #R RR Q# DNQ A NH
(W) winner; (F) finalist; (SF) semifinalist; (QF) quarterfinalist; (#R) rounds 4, 3, 2, 1; (RR) round-robin stage; (Q#) qualification round; (DNQ) did not qualify; (A) absent; (NH) not held; (SR) strike rate (events won / competed); (W–L) win–loss record.
Tournament 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009
Australian Open A A A 1R 1R 1R 1R 1R 3R 3R 4R SF 1R 1R 1R 2R
French Open A 1R 2R 1R 3R 3R 1R 3R 3R 3R 1R 3R 3R 2R 2R 1R
Wimbledon A A 1R 2R 1R 4R 3R 2R 3R 3R 3R 4R 1R 1R 2R 1R
US Open A A 2R 2R 4R 1R 2R 2R 3R 2R 3R 4R 1R 1R 1R A
Year-end ranking 586 294 84 90 48 25 27 44 20 29 21 12 51 69 72 n/a

WTA career finals

Singles: 5 (1 title, 4 runner-ups)

Result W/L Date Tournament Surface Opponent Score
Loss 0–1 Feb 2000 Cellular South Cup, United States Hard (i) United States Monica Seles 1–6, 6–7(3–7)
Loss 0–2 Apr 2000 Estoril Open, Portugal Clay Germany Anke Huber 2–6, 6–1, 5–7
Win 1–2 Jan 2003 Australian Hardcourts Hard Switzerland Marie-Gaïané Mikaelian 6–3, 3–6, 6–3
Loss 1–3 Aug 2004 New Haven Open, United States Hard Russia Elena Bovina 2–6, 6–2, 5–7
Loss 1–4 Aug 2008 Cincinnati Masters, United States Hard Russia Nadia Petrova 2–6, 1–6

Doubles: 14 (7 titles, 7 runner-ups)

Result W/L Date Tournament Surface Partner Opponents Score
Loss 0–1 Oct 2001 Bratislava Open, Slovakia Hard (i) United States Meilen Tu Russia Elena Bovina
Czech Republic Dája Bedáňová 		3–6, 4–6
Win 1–1 Feb 2002 Paris Indoors, France Carpet (i) United States Meilen Tu Russia Elena Dementieva
Slovakia Janette Husárová 		w/o
Loss 1–2 Feb 2002 Antwerp Open, Belgium Hard (i) United States Meilen Tu Bulgaria Magdalena Maleeva
Switzerland Patty Schnyder 		3–6, 7–6(3), 3–6
Loss 1–3 Oct 2002 Bratislava Open, Slovakia Hard (i) United States Meilen Tu Slovenia Maja Matevžič
Slovakia Henrieta Nagyová 		4–6, 0–6
Loss 1–4 Dec 2002 Australian Hardcourts Hard France Émilie Loit Russia Svetlana Kuznetsova
United States Martina Navratilova 		4–6, 4–6
Loss 1–5 Feb 2003 Antwerp Open, Belgium Carpet (i) France Émilie Loit Belgium Kim Clijsters
Japan Ai Sugiyama 		2–6, 0–6
Loss 1–6 Oct 2004 Linz Open, Austria Hard (i) Switzerland Patty Schnyder Slovakia Janette Husárová
Russia Elena Likhovtseva 		2–6, 5–7
Win 2–6 Sep 2006 US Open Hard Russia Vera Zvonareva Russia Dinara Safina
Slovenia Katarina Srebotnik 		7–6(5), 7–5
Win 3–6 May 2007 Rome Masters, Italy Clay Italy Mara Santangelo Italy Tathiana Garbin
Italy Roberta Vinci 		6–4, 6–1
Win 4–6 Sep 2007 US Open Hard Russia Dinara Safina Chinese Taipei Chan Yung-jan
Chinese Taipei Chuang Chia-jung 		6–4, 6–2
Win 5–6 Jan 2009 Auckland Open, New Zealand Hard Italy Mara Santangelo Spain Nuria Llagostera Vives
Spain Arantxa Parra Santonja 		4–6, 7–6(3), [12–10]
Loss 5–7 Jan 2009 Sydney International, Australia Hard Australia Casey Dellacqua Chinese Taipei Hsieh Su-wei
China Peng Shuai 		0–6, 1–6
Win 6–7 Mar 2009 Monterrey Open, Mexico Hard Italy Mara Santangelo Czech Republic Iveta Benešová
Czech Republic Barbora Záhlavová-Strýcová 		6–3, 6–4
Win 7–7 May 2009 Strasbourg Open, France Clay Italy Mara Santangelo France Claire Feuerstein
France Stéphanie Foretz 		6–0, 6–1

ITF Circuit finals

Singles (1–2)

$50,000 tournaments
$25,000 tournaments
$10,000 tournaments
Result No. Date Tournament Surface Opponent Score
Loss 1. 9 May 1994 ITF Mollet, Spain Clay Spain Mariam Ramón Climent 0–6, 0–6
Win 2. 14 December 1997 ITF Bad Gögging, Germany Carpet (i) Belgium Els Callens 6–4, 6–1
Loss 3. 6 December 1998 ITF Cergy-Pontoise, France Hard (i) France Sarah Pitkowski-Malcor 5–7, 6–3, 6–7(4)

Doubles (1–1)

Result No. Date Tournament Surface Partner Opponents Score
Win 1. 20 March 1995 ITF Moulins, France Hard (i) France Catherine Tanvier Mexico Jessica Fernández
Australia Aarthi Venkatesan 		6–1, 6–3
Loss 2. 29 March 1997 ITF Woodlands, United States Hard France Lea Ghirardi Belgium Els Callens
South Africa Liezel Horn 		4–6, 2–6

Personal life

Dechy was born to a father from continental France and a Canadian mother from the Eastern Townships of Quebec. She holds dual French-Canadian citizenship. On 25 January 2010 she gave birth to a son.[5]

References

  1. ^ "Vera Zvonareva, Laura Siegemund win US Open women's doubles title". ESPN. Retrieved 22 July 2025.
  2. ^ "Dechy and Ram to lift mixed doubles crown". Australian Broadcasting Corporation. Retrieved 22 July 2025.
  3. ^ "Dechy and Safina take women's doubles at U.S. Open". Reuters. Retrieved 21 July 2025.
  4. ^ "Engie open de Biarritz". www.engie-open-biarritz.fr. Archived from the original on 2016-10-17. Retrieved 2022-10-24.
  5. ^ "La championne de tennis Nathalie Dechy est maman !". PurePeople (in French). 5 February 2010.
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