Barbara Schett

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**Barbara Schett**

Nickname(s)	Babsi
Country	Austria
Residence	Innsbruck, Austria
Date of birth	March 10, 1976
Place of birth	Innsbruck, Austria
Height	5' 9 1/4 (1.76 m)
Weight	148 lbs. (67 kg)
Turned pro	1992
Retired	2005
Plays	Right-handed (two-handed backhand)
Career prize money	$3,109,510
Singles
Career record:	349-279
Career titles:	3 WTA, 1 ITF
Highest ranking:	No. 7 (September 13, 1999)
Grand Slam results
Australian Open	4r (1996, 1998-2000)
French Open	4r (2000-2001)
Wimbledon	4r (1999)
US Open	QF (1999)
Doubles
Career record:	214-179
Career titles:	10 WTA
Highest ranking:	No. 8 (January 15, 2001)
Infobox last updated on: N/A.

Barbara Schett (born 10 March 1976 in Innsbruck) is a former Austrian tennis player, who began playing professionally in 1992. She ended her career at the 2005 Australian Open. Between 1993 to 2004 she played in 48 games for the Austrian Fed Cup team, winning 30. She also represented Austria at the Sydney 2000 Olympics in singles and doubles reaching the quarterfinals in the singles.

1 Achievements
2 Career in review
3 WTA Titles
- 3.1 Singles (3 WTA, 1 ITF)
  - 3.1.1 Singles Finalist (3)
- 3.2 Doubles (10)
4 Grand slam performance timeline (singles)
5 End of year ranking (singles)
6 External links

[edit] Achievements

Barbara Schett won a total of 13 WTA tournaments, 3 in the singles category and 10 in the doubles. She has also won one ITF tournament. In 1999 she qualified for the season ending WTA Tour Championships reaching the quarterfinals and was named TENNIS Magazine's Most Improved Player.

[edit] Career in review

1991 - Made Tour debut at Kitzbuhel as a Wild Card (WC) and reached the quarter finals at ITF/Lyss-SUI.

1992 - Won first pro singles title at ITF/Zaragoza-ESP.

1993 - Broke into the Top 200, reaching the quarter-finals at Kitzbuhel (d. world No. 17 K. Maleeva) and Montpellier, both times as a qualifier.

1994 - Played her first Grand Slam, qualifying at the Australian Open & made her debut at Roland Garros (as a qualifier). Reached first WTA Tour semi final at Linz (d. world No. 26 K. Maleeva). Schett broke into Top 100 at No. 99 (April 4) & reached quarter-finals at Tokyo [Japan Open] and Prague.

1995 - Reached Palermo semi-final, Prague quarter-final and played her first Fed Cup singles rubbers for Austria (against U.S.).

1996 - Schett finished in the Top 50 for the first time at No. 38 and won her first Tour singles title and first doubles title (with Husarova) at Palermo. In addition, she reached her first Tier I semi-final at Moscow, won her first Grand Slam matches en route to the Australian Open 4th round and defeated world No. 8 Magdalena Maleeva (first Top 10 victory) in reaching the Amelia Island quarter-finals.

1997 - Won her second Tour singles title at Maria Lankowitz in native Austria and reached Palermo semi-final for the third straight year. Also a quarter-finalist at Hamburg.

1998 - Reached consecutive finals at Palermo and Boston (l. to de Swardt after leading 5–1 and holding match point in third set), semi-finals at Hamburg and Madrid and quarter-finals at Hobart, Maria Lankowitz and Zurich. Also won the Hamburg doubles title (with Schndyer).

1999 - Schett's first Top 10 finish, winning $725,865 (career-best) and scoring 47 Tour singles wins (equal fourth on Tour for season). Defeated world No. 9 Conchita Martinez and No. 4 Arantxa Sanchez-Vicario en route to Sydney semi-final (l. to No. 2 Hingis 76 third set). Reached her first Tier I final at Moscow, and Grand Slam quarter-final at the US Open. Broke into the Top 10 at a career-high No. 7 following US Open (September 13) and reached the semi-finals at Auckland and Hamburg. Also qualified for the WTA Tour Championships and Grand Slam Cup.

2000 - Won her third career Tour singles title at Klagenfurt. Recorded victories over No. 5 seed Amanda Coetzer and No. 3 Nathalie Tauziat en route to Zurich semi-final. Reached six more quarter-finals, but also struggled with nagging injuries. She withdrew from Paris & Hannover in February with a stomach muscle injury, retired at Hamburg & withdrew from Strasbourg in May with a sinus infection and retired at Linz with an infected right toe.

2001 - Semi-finalist at Doha (l. to Hingis) and quarter-finalist at Vienna and Moscow. First victory over a world number 2 in six meetings, against Venus Williams at the French Open. Won the Sydney doubles title (with Kournikova), reaching a career-high No. 8 doubles ranking afterwards (January 15) then went on to the Australian Open as mixed doubles runner-up (with Eagle).

2002 - Seventh consecutive Top 50 finish, reaching five quareter-finals, including the Canadian Open (d. world No. 15 Rubin and No. 7 Clijsters, marking fourth time in her career she defeated two Top 20 players in one tournament). Also won the Hamburg doubles (with Hingis).

2003 - Apart from reaching the Madrid semi-final (first in more than two years), Gold Coast quarter-final and Roland Garros 3rd round, she did not win consecutive matches all season. In doubles she won Paris [Indoors] (with Schnyder) and reached the Hobart final (with Wartusch).

2004 - As world No.77 at Indian Wells, defeated world No.13 Paola Suarez 6–3 6–4 (first Top 20 win in nearly 18 months) en route to the 4th round but lost to No.20 C.Martinez. Quarter-finalist at Estoril and s'Hertogenbosch but failed to qualify at three Tour events. In doubles, she won titles at Paris [Indoors] (defended with Schnyder), Budapest (with Mandula) and Stockholm - her 10th career doubles title (with Molik). Also a finalist at Hobart (with Callens), and semi-finalist at 's-Hertogenbosch, Los Angeles, US Open (all with Schnyder) and Linz (with Wartusch). Member of the Austrian Fed Cup team that upset US team 4–1 in the quarter-finals to reach second semi-final in three years (second upset over the US in as many years. She handed Martina Navratilova her first Fed Cup loss after 40 singles/doubles victories dating back to 1975). Schett announced plans in October to retire following the 2005 Australian Open.

2005 - Played final professional event at Australian Open, picking up last victory with defeat of wild card Welford in the 1st round. Fell to No.26 seed Daniela Hantuchova, 6–4 6–0 in the 2nd round in her last professional singles match.

[edit] WTA Titles

[edit] Singles (3 WTA, 1 ITF)

Legend (Singles)
Grand Slam (0)
Tour Championships (0)
Tier I Event (0)
Tier II Event (0)
Tier III Event (1)
Tier IV Event (2)
ITF Circuit (1)

No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Opponent in the final	Score
1.	March 22, 1992	Zaragoza, Spain	Clay	Eva Jimenez Sanz	6–4, 6–4
2.	July 21, 1996	Palermo, Italy	Clay	Sabine Hack	6–3, 6–3
3.	August 3, 1997	Maria Lankowitz, Austria	Clay	Henrieta Nagyová	3–6, 6–2, 6–3
4.	July 16, 2000	Klagenfurt, Austria	Clay	Patty Schnyder	5–7, 6–4, 6–4

[edit] Singles Finalist (3)

July 19, 1998: Palermo (lost to Patty Schnyder 6–1, 5–7, 6–2)
August 16, 1998: Boston (lost to Mariaan de Swardt 3–6, 7–6, 7–5)
October 24, 1999: Moscow (lost to Nathalie Tauziat 2–6, 6–4, 6–1)

[edit] Doubles (10)

Legend (Doubles)
Grand Slam (0)
Tour Championships (0)
Tier I Event (0)
Tier II Event (5)
Tier III Event (0)
Tier IV & V Event (5)
ITF Circuit (0)

No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Partner	Finalists	Score
1.	July 21, 1996	Palermo, Italy	Clay	Janette Husárová	Florencia Labat Barbara Rittner	6–1, 6–2
2.	July 20, 1997	Palermo, Italy	Clay	Silvia Farina Elia	Florencia Labat Mercedes Paz	2–6, 6–1, 6–4
3.	May 3, 1998	Hamburg, Germany	Clay	Patty Schnyder	Martina Hingis Jana Novotná	7–6, 3–6, 6–3
4.	January 10, 1999	Auckland, New Zealand	Hard	Silvia Farina Elia	Seda Noorlander Marlene Weingartner	6–2, 7–6
5.	January 14, 2001	Sydney, Australia	Hard	Anna Kournikova	Lisa Raymond Rennae Stubbs	6–2, 7–5
6.	May 5, 2002	Hamburg, Germany	Clay	Martina Hingis	Daniela Hantuchová Arantxa Sánchez-Vicario	6–1, 6–1
7.	February 9, 2003	Paris, France	Carpet	Patty Schnyder	Marion Bartoli Stéphanie Cohen-Aloro	2–6, 6–2, 7–6
8.	February 15, 2004	Paris, France	Carpet	Patty Schnyder	Silvia Farina Elia Francesca Schiavone	6–3, 6–2
9.	May 2, 2004	Budapest, Hungary	Clay	Petra Mandula	Virág Németh Ágnes Szávay	6–3, 6–2
10.	August 8, 2004	Stockholm, Sweden	Hard	Alicia Molik	Emmanuelle Gagliardi Anna-Lena Grönefeld	6–3, 6–3