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Francesca Schiavone

Overview

Francesca Schiavone (born June 23, 1980, Milan) is a professional tennis player from Italy. She turned professional in 1998.

Her career high ranking was 11, achieved on January 30, 2006. She only won one singles title on the WTA tour but has reached eight finals, six of them since the Autumn of 2005. Schiavone has also been to two Grand Slam Quarter Finals in her career; once in her debut at the French Open in 2001 and again at the U.S. Open in 2003. She and her Italian team mates Mara Santangelo, Flavia Pennetta and Roberta Vinci beat the Belgium team 3-2 in the 2006 Fed Cup final. Justine Henin had to retire in the fifth and final match due to an injury in her right knee, which let Italy win their first Fed Cup trophy. This match was a doubles match and Kirsten Flipkens partnered Henin, and Roberta Vinci partenered Schiavone. One point in this game consisted of about five slam shots that each team managed to return.

Titles (8)

Singles wins (1)
Singles Finalist (8)
* 2000: Tashkent (lost to Iroda Tulyaganova) * 2003: Canberra (lost to Meghann Shaughnessy) * 2005: Bali (lost to Lindsay Davenport) * 2005: Moscow (lost to Mary Pierce) * 2005: Hasselt (lost to Kim Clijsters) * 2006: Sydney (lost to Justine Henin) * 2006: Amelia Island (lost to Nadia Petrova) * 2006: Luxembourg (lost to Alona Bondarenko)
Doubles (7)

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...In 2003, Golovin won her first WTA Tour main draw match at Indian Wells against No.146 Gisela Dulko (losing in the second round to Italian Francesca Schiavone). Golovin lost in the first round at Miami, Strasbourg and Roland Garros. She also played in four ITF Circuit events.

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* 2000: Tashkent (lost to Iroda Tulyaganova) * 2003: Canberra (lost to Meghann Shaughnessy) * 2005: Bali (lost to Lindsay Davenport) * 2005: Moscow (lost to Mary Pierce) * 2005: Hasselt (lost to Kim Clijsters) * 2006: Sydney (lost to Justine Henin) * 2006: Amelia Island (lost to Nadia Petrova) * 2006: Luxembourg (lost to Alona Bondarenko)

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...In Amelia Island, Petrova began her unstoppable run that would take her to three titles, winning fifteen straight matches. Here at the Bausch & Lomb Championships, she defeated Francesca Schiavone in the final 6-4, 6-4 to pick up her third title in the past six months. One week later, she won her second straight title and fourth overall at the Family Circle Cup, beating Alona Bondarenko, Lucie Šafářová, Catalina Castaño, Anna-Lena Grönefeld and capping it off with a victory over Patty Schnyder 6-3, 4-6, 6-1...

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...Her main successes in doubles have come at three of the four grand slams, reaching the quarter-finals of the French Open, the quarter-finals of Wimbledon and, more recently, the semi-finals of the 2006 U.S. Open, her partner being Francesca Schiavone each time, and lost in the 2006 U.S. Open mixed doubles final aside Martin Damm to Bob Bryan and Martina Navratilova...

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...Pe'er reached the fourth round of the 2006 U.S. Open, defeating world # 15 Francesca Schiavone of Italy 6-3, 6-7(3), 7-6(3) along the way, but fell to Justine Henin Hardenne, 6-0, 6-1...

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...In her seventh event of the year Hantuchová won just her second title at the same tournament she had won five years prior in Indian Wells, California. She defeated Kaia Kanepi 6-1 2-6 6-2, Francesca Schiavone 6-2 7-6(3), Martina Hingis 6-4 6-3, Shahar Peer 6-2 5-7 7-6(5), Li Na 7-5 4-6 6-1 and Svetlana Kuznetsova 6-3 6-4...

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...At the East West Bank Classic she lost to Sharapova 6-3, 6-4. At the Rogers Cup held in Toronto, she was a shock early casualty when she lost to Francesca Schiavone 6-7, 6-3, 6-2. Her last event before the U.S. Open was the Pilot Pen Tennis tournament in New Haven...

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...In July, she qualified for a WTA event at Palermo by defeating Zheng Jie and Ivana Abramovic, then fell in the main draw first round to Italian rising star Francesca Schiavone in another three-setter in which she won more games than her victorious opponent, the scoreline this time being 6-0, 4-6, 3-6...

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* 2000: Tashkent (lost to Iroda Tulyaganova) * 2003: Canberra (lost to Meghann Shaughnessy) * 2005: Bali (lost to Lindsay Davenport) * 2005: Moscow (lost to Mary Pierce) * 2005: Hasselt (lost to Kim Clijsters) * 2006: Sydney (lost to Justine Henin) * 2006: Amelia Island (lost to Nadia Petrova) * 2006: Luxembourg (lost to Alona Bondarenko)

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...By winning the match, Davenport was assured of recapturing the World No.1 ranking from Maria Sharapova the following week. In subsequent matches, she inched past Francesca Schiavone 6-4, 4-6, 6-4 and defeated seventh seed Anastasia Myskina 6-0, 6-4 to reach her sixth Zurich final in as many visits and set up a rematch of the 2002 final with Swiss Patty Schnyder...

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...She made her début at Roland Garros, defeating Lucie Šafářová in the first round before falling in No. 22 seed Francesca Schiavone in the next round....

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Li Na started the year by participating a Tier III event in Gold Coast, Australia where she reached the second round. The week after, she competed in Sydney (Medibank International). She defeated Francesca Schiavone in the first round, Elena Dementieva in the second saving five match points, and Katarina Srebotnik in the quarterfinal...

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...But Zheng remained in fine form, and reached the her second WTA final at Rabat, Morocco in May, losing to Nuria Llagostera Vives after wins over Catalina Castano, Maureen Drake and Tathiana Garbin, followed by a walk-over against Na Li who had to retire at 3-3 from an ankle sprain. A three-set loss to Francesca Schiavone in the first round of the French Open prevented Zheng from defending her ranking points accrued there the previous year...

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...She debuted on the 2007 U.S. Open, reaching fourth round, beating on the way #24 and #11 seed, Francesca Schiavone and Patty Schnyder. She lost to #6 seed, Anna Chakvetadze....

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...She made consecutive third rounds at Indian Wells and Miami as well, losing to Vera Zvonareva and Vaidisova, respectively. In Estoril, Azarenka reached her first final on the tour, defeating Virginie Razzano, Francesca Schiavone, Gisela Dulko, and top seed Lucie Safarova on the way. She lost to Greta Arn 2-6, 6-1, 7-6(3)...

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* 2000: Tashkent (lost to Iroda Tulyaganova) * 2003: Canberra (lost to Meghann Shaughnessy) * 2005: Bali (lost to Lindsay Davenport) * 2005: Moscow (lost to Mary Pierce) * 2005: Hasselt (lost to Kim Clijsters) * 2006: Sydney (lost to Justine Henin) * 2006: Amelia Island (lost to Nadia Petrova) * 2006: Luxembourg (lost to Alona Bondarenko)

This biography says:

...She and her Italian team mates Mara Santangelo, Flavia Pennetta and Roberta Vinci beat the Belgium team 3-2 in the 2006 Fed Cup final. Justine Henin had to retire in the fifth and final match due to an injury in her right knee, which let Italy win their first Fed Cup trophy...

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...She then defeated former U.S. Open champion Svetlana Kuznetsova in a semifinal 6-3, 6-1, before defeating Francesca Schiavone in the final 4-6, 7-5, 7-5....

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2006 began well with the much-improved Chinese rising star qualifying for Gold Coast with wins over Cara Black, Kaia Kanepi (again) and Casey Dell'Acqua. But Top 20 player Francesca Schiavone was a challenge too far in the main draw first round, defeating Yuan for the loss of just five games...

This biography says:

...Justine Henin had to retire in the fifth and final match due to an injury in her right knee, which let Italy win their first Fed Cup trophy. This match was a doubles match and Kirsten Flipkens partnered Henin, and Roberta Vinci partenered Schiavone. One point in this game consisted of about five slam shots that each team managed to return.

That biography says:

...Bondarenko won her first WTA tour singles title on October 1, 2006 at the FORTIS Championships in Luxembourg City, defeating Mary Pierce 6-3, 6-3 in the first round and No. 5 seed Francesca Schiavone 6-3, 6-2....

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...She was then defeated by Conchita Martinez in straight sets. In Bratislava (Tier V), Rossana stunned Francesca Schiavone in straight sets and reached the Quarterfinals. She led Slovenian Maja Matevzic 6-1 5-2 but bowed out 1-6 7-5 6-1...

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...She came through three qualification rounds and beat players such as Anne Kremer, Nathalie Dechy, Eleni Daniilidou, Francesca Schiavone and Michaella Krajicek to eventually play the final against Kim Clijsters, where she lost, 3-6, 6-3, 4-6...

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...Three weeks after that in Hasselt she beat Anna Chakvetadze, Lucie Safarova and the No. 13 in the world Nathalie Dechy on her way to the semifinals where she lost to Francesca Schiavone....
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