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Testud played right-handed, had a height of 1.76m and weighed 68kg in 1996. She lived in Lyon and Rome during her career. She joined the WTA Tour tennis circuit in 1989. She retired from the WTA Tour tennis circuit in July 2005. Her highest WTA Tour singles and doubles ranking was number 9 and 8 respectively. She had career official prize money earnings of US$3,782,307. Her final career singles win-loss record was @398-279 and doubles win-loss record was @223-190 (@includes main draw and qualifying matches in all WTA Tour/ITF Tour tournaments, Federation/Fed Cup and Olympic Games). She was coached by Vittorio Magnelli for the last few years of her career. Testud broke into top 20 singles rankings in July 1997. On February 7, 1999, she became the fourth Frenchwoman after Françoise Durr , Mary Pierce and Nathalie Tauziat to break into singles top 10 rankings. This marked the first time France had three women ranked in singles Top 10 simultaneously ( Mary Pierce at No. 5, Nathalie Tauziat at No. 6 and Testud at No. 9). France was the third nation after the USA and Australia to have more than two representatives in the singles Top 10 at any one time. She finished in the top 20 singles rankings for five consecutive years between 1997 and 2001. Following the tournament in the spring of 2002 in Berlin , she moved back into the Top 10 singles ranking at No. 10 and became the top-ranked French player for the very first time. In the summer of 2002, she took a break from the tennis circuit when she discovered that she was pregnant with her first child. She resumed her career about 12 months after the birth of her child and retired in the summer of 2005. Testud won a total of 3 WTA Tour singles and 4 WTA Tour doubles titles. Her biggest singles tournament victory was at the 1998 Tier II tournament in Filderstadt , Germany , where she defeated world number two Lindsay Davenport in the final. She was the runner-up in WTA Tour singles and doubles tournaments on 7 occasions each. Her last WTA Tour singles final was in Dubai where she lost to Amélie Mauresmo in what was only the fourth all-French final in WTA Tour history. She has gone beyond the fourth round of a Grand Slam tournament only on 2 occasions; she reached the quarter-finals at the 1997 US Open and the 1998 Australian Open . She played in the season-ending Tour Championships for five consecutive years from 1997 to 2001; she lost in the singles opening round in her first four appearances but reached the singles semi-final and doubles quarterfinal in her last appearance in 2001. However, she made further progress in Grand Slam doubles competition. She was the women's doubles runner-up in the 1999 US Open with Chanda Rubin . She reached the women's doubles quarter-finals or better in 6 Grand Slam tournaments. She was a WTA Tour doubles semi-finalist on 21 occasions, excluding Grand Slams: 1991(2), 1992(2), 1993(1), 1994(1), 1995(1), 1996(4), 1997(2), 1998(1), 2000(3), 2001(2), 2002(1), 2005(1) Testud represented her country in the Fed Cup between 1997 and 2002. She won her second singles match against the host country Netherlands to give France an unassailable 3-1 lead in the 1997 Cup ] final in S'Hertogenbosch . That was the first time France had won the Fed Cup . She also represented her country in the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens , where she lost in the singles first round and reached the doubles QF with Nathalie Dechy . Testud married her Italian coach, Vittorio Magnelli, on June 13, 1998. Their daughter, Isabella Magnelli, was born on Feb 19, 2003. WTA TOUR SINGLES FINAL (3-7 RECORD) 1997: W - Palermo(Italy); RU - Atlanta(Georgia); 1998: W - Filderstadt(Germany); RU -Prague(Czech Republic); 1999: RU – Linz(Austria); 2000: RU – Pan-Pacific Open(Tokyo, Japan); 2001: W – Hawaii; RU – Canberra(Australia), Doha(Qatar); 2002: RU –Dubai(United Arab Emirates) WTA TOUR DOUBLES FINALS (4-7 RECORD) , GRAND SLAM QF AND BEYOND 1992: RU - Pattaya(Thailand) with Paradis-Mangon; 1995: RU - Carlsbad(California) with Alexia Dechaume-Balleret(Fra); 1996: US Open mixed dou QF with Paul Kilderry(Aus); 1998: RU - Quebec City(Canada) with Chanda Rubin(US); 1999: W – Filderstadt(Germany) with Rubin; RU – Philadelphia(Pennsylvania) with Rubin; US Open RU with Rubin; 2000: W – Paris Indoor Open(France) with Julie Halard-Decugis(Fra), Stanford(California) with Rubin; US Open QF with Rubin; 2001: W – Doha(Qatar) with Roberta Vinci(Ita); RU – Zürich with Vinci; US Open SF with Vinci; Fr Open QF with Vinci; 2002: RU – Dubai(United Arab Emirates) with Vinci; Fr Open QF with Vinci; 2004: Fr Open SF with Vinci; 2005: Fr Open mixed dou QF with Marc Gicquel(Fra) WTA TOUR CHAMPIONSHIPS (SINGLES RECORD: 2-5; DOUBLES: 0-1) 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000: Singles - 1st rd; 2001: Singles – SF; Doubles - QF GRAND SLAM RECORDS Grand Slam singles record(excluding qualifying matches; 2005, year-end): A - 19-11; F - 15-14; W - 14-11; US - 20-10; overall - 68-46 Grand Slam women's doubles record(QF or better): French Open - SF('04), QF('01,'02,); US Open – RU(’99), SF(’01), QF('00) Grand Slam mixed doubles record (QF or better): French Open – QF(’05); US Open – QF(’96) FED CUP AND OLYMPIC GAMES Federation Cup record {Link without Title} : 1997 - 3-1; 1998 - 1-1; 2000 – 1-1; 2001 – 3-1(0-1); 2002 – 0-1; overall singles and doubles record: 8-6; overall singles record: 8-5; overall doubles record: 0-1 Olympic Games: Athens 2004 (singles 1st rd; doubles QF with Nathalie Dechy); overall singles record: 0-1; overall doubles record: 2-1 CAREER SUMMARY
Notes: WTA Tour singles ranking was as of end of the WTA Tour season
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