Patty Schnyder

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Patty Schnyder

Country	Switzerland
Residence	Baech, Switzerland
Date of birth	December 14, 1978 (1978-12-14) (age 29)
Place of birth	Basel, Switzerland
Height	1.68 m (5' 6 1/4")
Weight	56.6 kg (125 lbs.)
Turned pro	1994
Retired	Active
Plays	Left; Two-handed backhand
Career prize money	US$7,095,473
Singles
Career record:	486-309
Career titles:	10 WTA (3 ITF)
Highest ranking:	No. 7 (November 14, 2005)
Grand Slam results
Australian Open	SF (2004)
French Open	QF (1998, 2008)
Wimbledon	4r (2007)
US Open	QF (1998)
Doubles
Career record:	188-199
Career titles:	4
Highest ranking:	No. 15 (June 6, 2005)
Infobox last updated on: June 9, 2008.

Patty Schnyder (born December 14, 1978, Basel) is professional female tennis player. She has been playing on the WTA tour since the mid-1990s and is a former World No.7. She has had significant wins over World No. 1's.

During her long career, she has reached four Grand Slam quarterfinals, and one Grand Slam semifinal. She has won 10 WTA singles titles and 4 WTA doubles titles and has made over $6,906,000 in prize money.

Contents 1 Career 2 WTA Tour titles (14) 2.1 Singles (10) 2.2 Singles finalist (13) 2.3 Doubles (4) 3 ITF titles (3) 3.1 Singles (3) 4 Singles performance timeline 5 Sources 6 External links

[edit] Career

In 1996, Schnyder made her Grand Slam debut at the French Open. In 1997, she quickly rose up through the rankings, and by August 1998 she had entered the WTA Top 10. However, Schnyder fell out of the Top 10 in April 1999, and spent the next 6 years ranked in the 15-30 range before re-entering the Top 10 in May 2005.

In December 2003, Schnyder married Rainer Hofmann, a German private investigator and information technology specialist who has accompanied her on the WTA tour since 1999 and became her full-time tennis coach in early 2003. Hofmann carries a fraud conviction in Germany relating to his business dealings with German national communications firm Deutsche Telekom. Hofmann pled guilty in 2002 to embezzling the equivalent of $400,000 from the firm, and was put on probation for 3 years.^[1] In addition to coaching Schnyder, Hofmann has also worked with some other WTA players in a coaching capacity including Anna Chakvetadze and Sania Mirza.

Schnyder has won 10 singles titles, including a victory in Zurich (Tier I Event) over American Lindsay Davenport, and 4 doubles titles. Her first title on U.S. soil came in August, 2005, when she won at Cincinnati's Western & Southern Financial Group Women's Open. Schnyder is perhaps best known for defeating 4 top 10 players consecutively, including Serena Williams and then-world #1 Jennifer Capriati, in 2002 at the Family Circle Cup in Charleston, which is the largest women-only tennis event held in the United States.

Schnyder's best Grand Slam performance came at the 2004 Australian Open, where she reached the semifinal before falling to Kim Clijsters. Later that season, she also reached the semi-finals at the Tier 1 tournaments at Charleston and Zurich - two large WTA events where Schnyder has compiled an excellent record through the years.

2005 was Schnyder's most consistent overall season to date. She reached five tour finals, winning two of them (Gold Coast and Cincinnati, both Tier 3 events). She was runner-up at the Tier I events Rome (to Amelie Mauresmo) and Zurich (to Lindsay Davenport). She also reached the final in Linz (Tier 2), falling to Nadia Petrova. She reached the career high of World Number 7 after the end of season WTA Tour Championships. 2006 proved to be a good season for Schnyder also, staying within the top ten and reaching the finals in Charleston (defeating top seed and defending champion Justine Henin in the semis and also to end Henin's 27 match winning streak on clay, though lost to Petrova in the final), and in Stanford (falling to top seed and defending champion Kim Clijsters).

Schnyder had a mediocre year in 2007, where she lost her top 10 ranking. She reached the fourth round of the Australian Open, where she lost to Anna Chakvetadze 6–4, 6–1 after leading 4–1 in the first set. At the French Open, she managed to reach the fourth round, where she had 2 matchpoints against Maria Sharapova but ended up losing 6–3, 4–6, 7–9. At Wimbledon, she was beaten in the fourth round by Justine Henin 6–2, 6–2. At the Acura Classic, she reached the final, beating Elena Dementieva 7–6, 6–0 in the semifinals before again losing to Sharapova in three sets, 2–6, 6–3, 0–6. Schnyder briefly moved up due to this. However at the US Open she lost in the third round to the unseeded Austrian Tamira Paszek in a final set tie break, again wasting leads. After that she played at the Porsche Tennis Grand Prix at Stuttgart, where she fell 0–6 2–6 to Ana Ivanovic. She finished her year with a run to the Generali Ladies Linz final, beating Chakvetadze 6–1, 6–0 in a quarterfinal and Marion Bartoli 7–6, 6–3 in a semifinal, before convincingly losing in the final to Hantuchova 4–6, 2–6.

Schnyder began 2008 by beating Amelie Mauresmo in the quarterfinals of the Mondial Womens' Hardcourts tournament in the Gold Coast before losing to Li Na in the semifinals. At the Australian Open, she lost in the second round to Australian Casey Dellacqua 6–4, 5–7, 6–8, again wasting leads. She then lost in the second round of the Proximus Diamond Games to eventual finalist Karin Knapp, losing in a final set tiebreak. She entered the Qatar Total Open and beat Paszek easily 6–4, 6–0. She lost to Slovakia's Dominika Cibulkova in the second round 6–4 6–3. Cibulkova went on to defeat top ten player Venus Williams in the third round. Next on the calendar for Schnyder will be the Bangalore Open, a Tier II event in Bangalore, India. She defeated Akgul Amanmuradova 4–6, 6–4, 7–6 in the quarterfinals and then managed to beat Zi Yan 6–3, 6–4 in the semifinal. However, she lost to Serena Williams 5–7 3–6 in the final.

[edit] WTA Tour titles (14)

[edit] Singles (10)

Legend

Grand Slam (0)

WTA Championships (0)

Grand Slam Cup (0)

Tier I (1)

Tier II (1)

Tier III (4)

Tier IV-V (4)

No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Opponent in the final	Score
1.	January 18, 1998	Hobart, Australia	Hard	Dominique van Roost	6–3, 6–2
2.	February 22, 1998	Hannover, Germany	Carpet (i)	Jana Novotná	6–0, 3–6, 7–5
3.	May 24, 1998	Madrid, Spain	Clay	Dominique van Roost	3–6, 6–4, 6–0
4.	July 12, 1998	Maria Lankowitz, Austria	Clay	Gala León García	6–2, 4–6, 6–3
5.	July 19, 1998	Palermo, Italy	Clay	Barbara Schett	6–1, 5–7, 6–2
6.	January 10, 1999	Gold Coast, Australia	Hard	Mary Pierce	4–6, 7–6(5), 6–2
7.	November 11, 2001	Pattaya City, Thailand	Hard	Henrieta Nagyová	6–0, 6–4
8.	October 20, 2002	Zürich, Switzerland	Carpet (i)	Lindsay Davenport	6–7(5), 7–6(8), 6–3
9.	January 8, 2005	Gold Coast, Australia	Hard	Samantha Stosur	1–6, 6–3, 7–5
10.	July 24, 2005	Cincinnati, Ohio, USA	Hard	Akiko Morigami	6–4, 6–0

[edit] Singles finalist (13)

No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Opponent in the final	Score
1.	September 15, 1996	Karlovy Vary, Czech Republic	Clay	Ruxandra Dragomir	6–2, 3–6, 6–4
2.	September 28, 1998	Munich, Germany	Hard (i)	Venus Williams	6–2, 3–6, 6–2
3.	July 16, 2000	Klagenfurt, Austria	Clay	Barbara Schett	5–7, 6–4, 6–4
4.	July 12, 2001	Vienna, Austria	Clay	Iroda Tulyaganova	6–3, 6–2
5.	April 21, 2002	Hilton Head, South Carolina, USA	Clay	Iva Majoli	7–6(5), 6–4
6.	May 15, 2005	Rome, Italy	Clay	Amélie Mauresmo	2–6, 6–3, 6–4
7.	October 23, 2005	Zürich, Switzerland	Carpet (i)	Lindsay Davenport	7–6(5), 6–3
8.	October 30, 2005	Linz, Austria	Hard (i)	Nadia Petrova	4–6, 6–3, 6–1
9.	April 16, 2006	Charleston, South Carolina, USA	Clay	Nadia Petrova	6–3, 4–6, 6–1
10.	July 30, 2006	Stanford, California, USA	Hard	Kim Clijsters	6–4, 6–2
11.	April 16, 2007	San Diego, California, USA	Hard	Maria Sharapova	6–2, 3–6, 6–0
12.	October 28, 2007	Linz, Austria	Hard (i)	Daniela Hantuchová	6–4, 6–2
13.	March 9, 2008	Bangalore, India	Hard	Serena Williams	7–5, 6–3

[edit] Doubles (4)

No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Partner	Opponent in the final	Score
1.	May 3, 1998	Hamburg, Germany	Clay	Barbara Schett	Martina Hingis Jana Novotná	7–6, 3–6, 6–3
2.	February 17, 2002	Antwerp, Belgium	Carpet	Magdalena Maleeva	Nathalie Dechy Meilen Tu	6–3, 6–7, 6–3
3.	February 9, 2003	Paris, France	Carpet	Barbara Schett	Marion Bartoli Stéphanie Cohen-Aloro	2–6, 6–2, 7–6
4.	February 15, 2004	Paris, France	Carpet	Barbara Schett	Silvia Farina Elia Francesca Schiavone	6–3, 6–2

[edit] ITF titles (3)

[edit] Singles (3)

No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Opponent in the final	Score
1.	May 4, 1995	Nitra, Slovak Republic	Clay	Barbara Castro	1–6, 6–2, 6–3
2.	May 21, 1995	Presov, Slovak Republic	Clay	Jana Ondrouchová	6–1, 6–0
3.	June 25, 1995	Cureglia, Switzerland	Clay	Camilla Kremer	6–2, 6–1

[edit] Singles performance timeline

To prevent confusion and double counting, information in this table is updated only once a tournament or the player's participation in the tournament has concluded. This table is current through the 2007 US Open, which ended on September 8, 2007.

Tournament	1995	1996	1997	1998	1999	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008	Career SR	Career Win-Loss
Australian Open	A	A	4R	4R	2R	4R	1R	1R	4R	SF	QF	QF	4R	2R	0 / 12	30-12
French Open	A	1R	3R	QF	3R	1R	2R	4R	4R	2R	4R	4R	4R	QF	0 / 13	29-13
Wimbledon	A	1R	1R	2R	1R	2R	3R	2R	1R	2R	1R	2R	4R		0 / 11	10-12
US Open	A	A	3R	QF	3R	2R	2R	3R	2R	4R	4R	4R	3R		0 / 11	24-11
Grand Slam Win-Loss	0-0	0-2	7-4	12-4	5-4	5-4	4-4	6-4	7-4	10-4	10-4	11-4	11-4	1-1	N/A	89-47
WTA Tour Championships	A	A	A	1R	A	A	A	1R	A	A	RR	A	A		0 / 3	1–4
Doha1	Not Held						Not Tier I							2R	0 / 3	4–3
Indian Wells	A	A	A	A	3R	3R	2R	2R	A	A	A	A	A	A	0 / 4	3–4
Miami	A	A	2R	4R	4R	3R	2R	2R	A	A	3R	4R	2R	3R	0 / 10	11–10
Charleston	A	A	2R	QF	SF	3R	1R	F	2R	SF	SF	F	2R	QF	0 / 12	27-12
Berlin	A	A	1R	1R	QF	1R	3R	A	3R	3R	SF	QF	QF	1R	0 / 11	16-10
Rome	A	A	SF	1R	3R	1R	2R	2R	3R	2R	F	3R	SF	QF	0 / 12	21-12
Montreal/Toronto	A	A	A	1R	1R	2R	A	2R	A	A	A	A	3R		0 / 5	4–5
Tokyo	A	A	A	A	A	A	A	A	A	A	A	A	A		0 / 0	0–0
Moscow	NH	2R	2R	2R	1R	2R	A	A	1R	1R	2R	QF	2R		0 / 10	7-10
San Diego1	Not Tier I									1R	QF	SF	F	NH	0 / 4	9–4
Zürich1							1R	W	QF	SF	F	1R	2R	Not Tier I	1 / 7	15–6
Tournaments Won	0	0	0	5	1	0	1	1	0	0	2	0	0	0	N/A	10
Year End Ranking	152	58	26	11	21	25	37	15	23	14	7	9	16		N/A	N/A

• A = did not participate in the tournament
• SR = the ratio of the number of singles tournaments won to the number of those tournaments played
• ¹ The Doha tournament achieved Tier I status only in 2008. Zurich and San Diego are no longer Tier I titles.

[edit] Sources

• ^  Pagliaro, Richard. The Tennis Week Interview: Patty Schnyder Hofmann. Retrieved on 2006-04-17.

[edit] External links

• Official website
• Official website in English
• Official website for Patty Schnyder's book
• Patty Schnyder profile on the WTA Tour's official website