Alexandra Fusai

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Alexandra Fusai (born November 22, 1973 in Saint-Cloud, France) is a former professional tennis player from France.

Fusai turned professional in 1991. She was 1.76m tall and weighed about 60 kg in 1997. She played right-handed and lived in Nantes during her career. She retired from the WTA Tour tennis circuit in April 2003 when she discovered that she was pregnant with her first child. Her highest WTA Tour singles and doubles ranking was 37 and 6 respectively. Her official career prize money earnings were US$1,608,170, her final career singles win-loss record was @284-269 and her final career doubles win-loss record was @300-225 (@includes main draw and qualifying matches in all WTA Tour//ITF Tour tournaments, Federation/Fed Cup and Olympic Games).

Fusai reached her only career WTA Tour singles final in Warsaw in 1995, losing to Barbara Paulus of Austria in three sets. She has never advanced beyond the third round of any Grand Slam event in singles competition. She earned her career-best singles victory at the Italian Open in Rome in 1998 by beating Jana Novotná. Her career prize money earnings exceeded one million dollars in 1999.

Fusai was an excellent doubles player. She achieved her best results in doubles competition in partnership with fellow Frenchwoman Nathalie Tauziat from 1997 to 2000. She reached the quarter-finals or semi-finals of Grand Slam tournaments on 7 occasions, 5 of them with Tauziat. Her excellent overall doubles performance qualified her to play in the season-ending Tour Championships in 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000 and 2001; she and Tauziat were the runners-up in 1997 and 1998. All in all, Fusai has won a total of 12 WTA Tour doubles titles, 8 of them with Tauziat. She was the runner-up in WTA Tour doubles tournaments on 21 occasions, 11 of them with Tauziat. She was also a WTA Tour doubles semi-finalist on 27 occasions, excluding Grand Slams: 1992(1), 1993(1), 1994(1), 1995(2), 1996(1), 1997(3), 1998(4), 1999(4), 2000(3), 2001(6), 2003(1)

Fusai was a member of the French Fed Cup-winning team in 1997. She won all the three doubles matches she played from the opening round against Japan to the final against the Netherlands. She also played for her country in 1994 and 1998.

Fusai married David Crochu on July 13, 2002. Their son Oscar was born on December 7, 2003.

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[edit] WTA Tour singles finals (0-1 record)

1995: RU - Warsaw(Poland)

[edit] WTA Tour doubles finals WTA(WITA) Tour doubles finals (12-21 record) and Grand Slam quarter finals and beyond

1994: RU - Maria Lankowitz(Austria) with Karina Habsudová(Slovakia), Taipei(Taiwan) with Nancy Feber(Bel); 1995: RU - Maria Lankowitz(Austria) with Wiltrud Probst(Ger); 1996: W - Surabaya(Indonesia) with Kerry-Anne Guse(Aus); RU - Bol(Croatia) with Alexia Dechaume-Balleret(Fra), Warsaw(Poland) with Laura Garrone(Ita); Fr Open QF with Mercedes Paz(Arg); 1997: W - Linz(Austria), Chicago(Illinois) with Tauziat, Budapest(Hungary) with Amanda Coetzer(SA); RU - Paris Indoor(France) with Rita Grande(Ita), Tour Championships, Atlanta(Georgia), Quebec City(Canada) with Tauziat, Fr Open SF with Tauziat, US Open QF with Tauziat; 1998: W - Linz(Austria), Strasbourg(France), New Haven(Connecticut) with Tauziat; RU - Tour Championships, Indian Wells(California), Berlin(Germany), Carlsbad(California) with Tauziat; Fr Open QF with Tauziat; 1999: W - Prostějov(Cze), Berlin(Germany) with Tauziat; RU – Hannover(Germany), Rome(Italy), Strasbourg(France) with Tauziat, Birmingham(England) with Inés Gorrochategui(Arg); Fr Open SF with Tauziat; 2000: W - Auckland(New Zealand) with Cara Black(Zim), Luxembourg(Luxembourg) with Tauziat; RU – Pan-Pacific Open(Tokyo,Japan) with Tauziat; Fr Open SF with Tauziat; 2001: W – Auckland(New Zealand) with Rita Grande(Ita); RU – Porto(Portugal) with Rita Grande(Ita); Australian Open QF with Rita Grande(Ita); French Open Mixed Doubles with Jérôme Golmard(Fra); 2002: RU – Doha(Qatar), Charleston(South Carolina) with Caroline Vis(Hol)

[edit] WTA Tour Championships(doubles record: 4-5)

1997: Doubles RU with Nathalie Tauziat; 1998: Doubles RU with Tauziat; 1999, 2000: Doubles – 1st rd with Tauziat; 2001: Doubles – 1st rd with Rita Grande(Ita)

[edit] Grand Slam records

Grand Slam singles record(excluding qualifying matches): A - 3-6; F - 8-12; W - 2-8; US - 6-7; overall - 19-33

Grand Slam women's doubles record(QF or better): Australian Open – QF(’01); French Open - SF('97,’99,’00), QF('96,'98); US Open - QF('97)

Grand Slam mixed doubles record (QF or better): French Open – QF(’01)

[edit] Federation/Fed Cup and Olympic Games

Federation Cup record[singles(doubles)]: 1994 - (1-0); 1997 - 1-1(3-0); 1998 - (1-1) singles and doubles record: 6-2; overall singles record: 1-1; overall doubles record: 5-1

Olympic Games: did not participate

[edit] Career summary

  • Year singles ranking win-lose Prize money in US$ A F W US SF QF
  • 1989 NR 0-0 Nil - - - - 0 0
  • 1990 297 0-1/0 Nil - Q1 - - 0 0
  • 1991 184 0-2/0 c.18,000 - 1 - - 0 0
  • 1992 141 4-10/29 c.59,000 Q2 1 - 1 0 0
  • 1993 77 16-17/48 e.78,541(90) 1 2 1 2 2 2
  • 1994 92 10-16/38 c.72,000 - 3 1 2 0 2
  • 1995 104 6-12/33 e.86,109(78) 1 1 1 Q1 0 0
  • 1996 72 12-17/41 e.122,534(>50) 3 2 2 2 0 1
  • 1997 51 17-16/52 e.265,781(31) 2 2 1 3 0 1
  • 1998 39 15-21/42 e.294,437(23) - 3 2 2 1 0
  • 1999 177 3-18/14 e.207,659(41) - 1 1 Q3 0 0
  • 2000 146 2-4/33 e.168,429(>50) 1 2 Q2 Q1 0 0
  • 2001 141 2-10/17 e.137,453(82) 1 1 Q3 1 0 0
  • 2002 196 2-4/33 e.96,425(111) Q1 1 1 Q1 0 0
  • 2003 1006 0-0 e.3,015(690) - - - - 0 0

Notes: WTA singles ranking was as of end of the WTA Tour season

  • "win-lose" record includes only WTA Tour singles matches and excludes qualifying matches, Federation Cup, Olympic Games tournaments before 2004 and other team competition matches. The singles match winning percentage is indicated after the slash
  • overall "win-lose" record: 89-147; overall winning percentage: 38%
  • A: Australian Open, F: French Open, W: Wimbledon, US: US Open - indicate the Grand Slam singles performance for each year; '-' means did not play, 'X' event not held in that year, Q1/Q2/Q3 means lost in the 1st/2nd/3rd qualifying round
  • "SF" and "QF" mean the number semi-final and quarter-final defeats respectively for each year and involve only WTA Tour non-Grand Slam events (excludes ITF Tour, Satellite events, Grand Slam tournaments and Olympic Games tournaments before 2004)
  • overall no. of SF defeats - 3
  • overall no. of QF defeats - 6

[edit] External links

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