Chanelle Scheepers
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Country |
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Residence | Boca Raton, Florida, United States |
Born |
Harrismith, South Africa | 13 March 1984
Height | 1.74 m (5 ft 9 in) |
Turned pro | 2000 |
Plays | Right-handed (two-handed backhand) |
Prize money | $1,830,070 |
Singles | |
Career record | 433–334 |
Career titles | 1 WTA, 12 ITF |
Highest ranking | 37 (10 October 2011) |
Current ranking | 72 (18 August 2014) |
Grand Slam Singles results | |
Australian Open | 3R (2011) |
French Open | 4R (2010) |
Wimbledon | 2R (2014) |
US Open | 3R (2011) |
Doubles | |
Career record | 239–183 |
Career titles | 1 WTA, 20 ITF |
Highest ranking | 42 (10 April 2014) |
Current ranking | 108 (18 August 2014) |
Grand Slam Doubles results | |
Australian Open | 2R (2013, 2015) |
French Open | 1R (2011) |
Wimbledon | SF (2013) |
US Open | 2R (2012) |
Last updated on: 18 August 2014. |
Chanelle Scheepers (/ʃəˈnɛl ˈskɛpərz/ born 13 March 1984 in Harrismith) is a South African professional tennis player.
Scheepers has won one singles and one doubles title on the WTA tour, as well as twelve singles and twenty doubles titles on the ITF tour in her career. On 10 October 2011, she reached her best singles ranking of world number 37. On 10 April 2014, she peaked at world number 42 in the doubles rankings.
Career
Scheepers turned pro in 2000 and played two ITF events.
In 2001 She reach 4 finals in the ITF level and won all with 3 of them coming from Durban, South Africa a local tournament and one in the United States.
In 2002, she reached 3 ITF finals winning one in Mackay, Australia and losing in the other two in Liechtenstein and Switzerland.
In 2003, she played her first Tour level event in the Mondial Australian Women's Hardcourts and won her first main draw tour level match after getting through the Qualifying draw over Samantha Stosur but lost to Tathiana Garbin in the next round. She then had a 19 match losing streak in the Qualifying draws of Tour Level and ITF events and Main Draw of ITF events.
2004 was a better year for Scheepers, she returned playing in the ITF events where she won 4 titles 2 in Benin City, Nigeria and 2 in Pretoria, South Africa. She also reached 4 other finals in Torre del Greco and Taranto both in Italy, in Pétange, Luxembourg and Lagos, Nigeria.
In 2005 Scheepers once again started playing in the Qualifying draw of Tour Level events but she didn't produce results as she only reached 1 semifinals and 1 quarterfinals in ITf events.
2006, was not a better year for Scheepers despite returning to the ITF Circuit as she only reached 2 Semifinals and 1 Quarterfinals.
In 2007 Scheepers won her first ITF titles in 3 years as she won 2 titles in Lagos, Nigeria and Allentown, Pennsylvania, United States.
2008, Scheepers form went down as she only reached 1 Semifinals and 2 Quarterfinals.
2009, was a breakthrough year for the African player as she made her Grand Slam main draw debut getting through the Qualifying draw in the 2009 Australian Open and 2009 French Open. She also made 4 Main draw wins and won a title in Irapuato, Mexico
In 2010 Scheepers continued to play in the Tour level events and her diffidence paid off as she reached her first Main Draw Quarterfinals in the 2010 Malaysian Open losing to Japanese Ayumi Morita 6–3, 7–5. She then won in the ITF event of Fort Walton Beach, United States. In the 2010 French Open after coming through the Qualifying Draw, she won her first Grand Slam Main Draw match over Frenchwoman Mathilde Johansson 6–2, 6–4. She then continued her surprising form by upsetting both Gisela Dulko 3–6, 6–3, 7–5 and Akgul Amanmuradova 6–3, 6–3. She then lost to World No.5 Elena Dementieva 6–1, 6–3. As a result of this performance she was awarded a wildcard into the main draw of Wimbledon, where she lost in the first round to ninth seed and eventual quarter-finalist Li Na.
In 2011 she made the 3rd round of the Australian Open. Following modest results for much of the rest of the year, Scheepers reached the 3rd round of the US Open, where she even held match points against Francesca Schiavone before losing the match in 3 sets. Following that, she won her first WTA single titles at Guangzhou, China as the 7th seed defeating the 8th seed Magdaléna Rybáriková of Slovakia 6–2, 6–2 in the final. Chanelle achieved her career-high singles rank of World No. 37 following the tournament. On 13 July 2012, Scheepers lost to Serena Williams in the Stanford Classic.(6-4, 6-0).[1]
In July 2012, She reached the second round of Mercury Insurance Open 2012, Carlsbad losing to Varvara Lepchenko, 4-6 2-6.[2]
At The 2013 Wimbledon Championships, she teamed with Shuko Aoyama to advance to the semi-finals in women's doubles.[3]
Personal life
Scheepers married Roger Anderson, her former coach, on 10 November 2012, in the KwaZulu-Natal Midlands.[4]
She is sponsored by Babolat racquets and K-Swiss for clothing.
WTA career finals
Singles: 2 (1 title, 1 runner-up)
Winner |
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Grand Slam tournaments (0–0) |
WTA Tour Championships (0–0) |
Tier I / Premier Mandatory & Premier 5 (0–0) |
Tier II / Premier (0–0) |
Tier III, IV & V / International (1–1) |
Outcome | No. | Date | Championship | Surface | Opponent | Score |
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Winner | 1. | 24 September 2011 | Guangzhou International Women's Open, Guangzhou, China | Hard | ![]() |
6–2, 6–2 |
Runner-up | 1. | 20 July 2014 | Swedish Open, Båstad, Sweden | Clay | ![]() |
3–6, 6–7(3–7) |
Doubles: 5 (1 title, 4 runners-up)
Legend |
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Grand Slam tournaments (0–0) |
WTA Tour Championships (0–0) |
Tier I / Premier Mandatory & Premier 5 (0–0) |
Tier II / Premier (0–0) |
Tier III, IV & V / International (1–4) |
Outcome | No. | Date | Tournament | Surface | Partner | Opponents | Score |
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Runner-up | 1. | 18 October 2009 | HP Open, Osaka, Japan | Hard | ![]() |
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2–6, 4–6 |
Runner-up | 2. | 3 August 2012 | Citi Open, Washington, D.C., United States | Hard | ![]() |
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5-7, 2-6 |
Winner | 1. | 25 May 2013 | Internationaux de Strasbourg, Strasbourg, France | Clay (red) | ![]() |
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6-4, 3-4, [14-12] |
Runner-up | 3. | 22 February 2014 | Rio Open, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil | Clay | ![]() |
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2-6, 0-6 |
Runner-up | 4. | 12 April 2014 | Copa Colsanitas, Bogotà, Colombia | Clay | ![]() |
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6–7(5–7), 4–6 |
Singles performance timeline
Tournament | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | SR | W–L | ||
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Grand Slam Tournaments | ||||||||||||||||
Australian Open | LQ | A | LQ | A | A | A | 1R | LQ | 3R | 1R | 1R | 1R | 0 / 5 | 2–5 | ||
French Open | LQ | A | LQ | A | A | LQ | 1R | 4R | 2R | 2R | 1R | 1R | 0 / 6 | 5–6 | ||
Wimbledon | LQ | A | LQ | A | A | A | LQ | 1R | 1R | 1R | 1R | 2R | 0 / 5 | 1–5 | ||
US Open | LQ | A | LQ | A | LQ | LQ | LQ | 1R | 3R | 1R | 2R | 1R | 0 / 5 | 3–5 | ||
Win–Loss | 0–0 | 0–0 | 0–0 | 0–0 | 0–0 | 0–0 | 0–2 | 3–3 | 5–4 | 1–4 | 1–4 | 1–4 | 0 / 21 | 11–21 |
Doubles performance timeline
Tournament | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | SR | W–L | |||||
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Grand Slam Tournaments | ||||||||||||
Australian Open | 1R | 2R | 1R | 0 / 3 | 1–3 | |||||||
French Open | 1R | 1R | 1R | 0 / 3 | 0–3 | |||||||
Wimbledon | 3R | 2R | 2R | SF | 0 / 4 | 8–4 | ||||||
US Open | 1R | 1R | 2R | 1R | 0 / 4 | 1–4 | ||||||
Win–Loss | 2–2 | 1–3 | 2–3 | 5–4 | 0–2 | 0 / 14 | 10–14 |
ITF Finals
Singles: 18 (12-6)
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Outcome | No. | Date | Championship | Surface | Opponent | Score |
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Winner | 1. | 3 June 2001 | ![]() |
Hard | ![]() |
4–6, 6–3, 7–6(3) |
Winner | 2. | 18 June 2001 | ![]() |
Hard | ![]() |
6–4, 6–3 |
Winner | 3. | 21 July 2001 | ![]() |
Hard | ![]() |
6–1, 6–3 |
Runner-Up | 1. | 10 June 2002 | ![]() |
Clay | ![]() |
1-6, 3-6 |
Runner-Up | 2. | 17 June 2002 | ![]() |
Clay | ![]() |
5-7, 4-6 |
Winner | 4. | 14 October 2002 | ![]() |
Hard | ![]() |
7-6 (6) 7-5 |
Winner | 5. | 22 February 2004 | ![]() |
Hard | ![]() |
6–1, 6–3 |
Winner | 6. | 29 February 2004 | ![]() |
Hard | ![]() |
6–1, 4–6, 6–4 |
Runner-Up | 3. | 5 April 2004 | ![]() |
Clay | ![]() |
6-3, 4-6, 0-6 |
Runner-Up | 4. | 17 June 2004 | ![]() |
Clay | ![]() |
7-6(12), 1-6, 4-6 |
Runner-Up | 5. | 10 October 2004 | ![]() |
Hard | ![]() |
6-4, 6-7, 5-7 |
Winner | 7. | 22 November 2004 | ![]() |
Hard | ![]() |
6–1, 6–3 |
Winner | 8. | 28 November 2004 | ![]() |
Hard | ![]() |
6–1, 6–3 |
Runner-Up | 6. | 4 June 2007 | ![]() |
Hard | ![]() |
6-3, 2-6, 4-6 |
Winner | 9. | 11 June 2007 | ![]() |
Hard | ![]() |
6–2, 2–6, 6–1 |
Winner | 10. | 17 December 2007 | ![]() |
Hard | ![]() |
6–2, 6–0 |
Runner-Up | 6. | 26 January 2009 | ![]() |
Hard | ![]() |
1-6, 0-6 |
Winner | 11. | 16 March 2009 | ![]() |
Hard | ![]() |
6–1, 7–5 |
Winner | 12. | 15 March 2010 | ![]() |
Hard | ![]() |
7–5, 7–5 |
Doubles: 36 (20-16)
$100,000 tournaments |
$75,000 tournaments |
$50,000 tournaments |
$25,000 tournaments |
$10,000 tournaments |
Outcome | No. | Date | Tournament | Surface | Partner | Opponents in the final | Score |
Runner-up | 1. | 11 June 2000 | ![]() |
Hard | ![]() |
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6-7 (4) 2-6 |
Winner | 2. | 3 June 2001 | ![]() |
Hard | ![]() |
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7-6 (2) 6-0 |
Winner | 3. | 10 June 2001 | ![]() |
Hard | ![]() |
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6-2 6-2 |
Winner | 4. | 24 June 2001 | ![]() |
Clay | ![]() |
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7-6 (2) 6-4 |
Winner | 5. | 1 July 2001 | ![]() |
Clay | ![]() |
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7-5 6-2 |
Runner-up | 6. | 25 Nov 2002 | ![]() |
Hard | ![]() |
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w/o |
Winner | 7. | 30 March 2003 | ![]() |
Clay | ![]() |
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6-3 6-2 |
Runner-up | 8. | 28 February 2004 | ![]() |
Hard | ![]() |
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0-6 7-5 3-6 |
Winner | 9. | 7 March 2004 | ![]() |
Hard | ![]() |
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6-2 6-2 |
Winner | 10. | 11 April 2004 | ![]() |
Clay | ![]() |
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6-3 6-0 |
Runner-up | 11. | 9 October 2004 | ![]() |
Hard | ![]() |
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1–6, 4–6 |
Winner | 12. | 16 October 2004 | ![]() |
Hard | ![]() |
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6-0 6-0 |
Winner | 13. | 3 December 2004 | ![]() |
Hard | ![]() |
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6-2 3-6 7-5 |
Winner | 14. | 15 January 2006 | ![]() |
Hard | ![]() |
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3-6 7-6 (4) 6-3 |
Runner–up | 15. | 22 Jan 2006 | ![]() |
Hard | ![]() |
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6-2 4-6 5-7 |
Runner-up | 16. | 5 March 2006 | ![]() |
Hard | ![]() |
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3-6 1-6 |
Runner-up | 17. | 9 April 2006 | ![]() |
Clay | ![]() |
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4-6 1-6 |
Winner | 18. | 23 May 2006 | ![]() |
Clay | ![]() |
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6-4 4-6 7-6 |
Winner | 19. | 12 June 2006 | ![]() |
Clay | ![]() |
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6-4 6-3 |
Runner-up | 20. | 8 October 2006 | ![]() |
Hard | ![]() |
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7-6 (1) 5-7 3-6 |
Runner-up | 21. | 29 October 2006 | ![]() |
Hard | ![]() |
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6-7 (3) 1-6 |
Runner-up | 22. | 31 October 2006 | ![]() |
Hard | ![]() |
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3-6, 5-7 |
Winner | 23. | 6 March 2007 | ![]() |
Hard | ![]() |
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6-2 1-6 6-2 |
Runner-up | 24. | 13 March 2007 | ![]() |
Hard | ![]() |
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3-6, 2-6 |
Winner | 25. | 20 March 2007 | ![]() |
Hard | ![]() |
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6-2 6-2 |
Runner-up | 26. | 29 April 2007 | ![]() |
Clay | ![]() |
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5-7 3-6 |
Winner | 27. | 13 October 2007 | ![]() |
Hard | ![]() |
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6-0 6-4 |
Winner | 28. | 20 October 2007 | ![]() |
Hard | ![]() |
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6-1 6-4 |
Winner | 29. | 15 December 2007 | ![]() |
Hard | ![]() |
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0–6 6–3 [10–8] |
Winner | 30. | 22 December 2007 | ![]() |
Hard | ![]() |
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1–6 6–3 [10–6] |
Runner–up | 31. | 21 March 2008 | ![]() |
Hard | ![]() |
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2–6 7–6 (9–7) [6–10] |
Runner–up | 32. | 18 May 2008 | ![]() |
Clay | ![]() |
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4-6 0-6 |
Runner–up | 33. | 21 March 2009 | ![]() |
Hard | ![]() |
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1-6 0-6 |
Winner | 34. | 17 May 2009 | ![]() |
Clay | ![]() |
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7-5 6-4 |
Winner | 35. | 20 March 2010 | ![]() |
Hard | ![]() |
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2–6, 7–6, [10–7] |
Runner-up | 36. | 1 November 2010 | ![]() |
Hard | ![]() |
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7-5, 2-6, 2-6 |
References
- ↑ "Sleepy Serena reaches Stanford semis". The Times Of India. 14 July 2012.
- ↑ "Bartoli Outlasts King, Chan's Ninth & Biggest". Retrieved 2012-07-22.
- ↑ "UPDATE 1-Tennis-Wimbledon women's doubles semifinal results". Reuters. 5 July 2013.
- ↑ "Scheepers ties the knot". Sport24. 11 November 2012. Retrieved 27 January 2013.
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