Francesca Schiavone

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**Francesca Schiavone**
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Country	Image:Flag of Italy.svg Italy
Residence	London, England
Date of birth	23 June, 1980
Place of birth	Milan, Italy
Height	1.66m (5 ft 5 1/2 in)
Weight	65kg (141 lbs)
Turned Pro	1998
Plays	Right (one-handed backhand)
Career Prize Money	$2,062,560
Singles
Career record:	283-192
Career titles:	0
Highest ranking:	11 (January 30, 2006)
Grand Slam results
Australian Open	4r (2006)
French Open	QF (2001)
Wimbledon	3r (2003)
U.S. Open	QF (2003)
Doubles
Career record:	84-92
Career titles:	1
Highest ranking:	No. 25 (March 21, 2005)

Francesca Schiavone (June 23, 1980, Milan) is a professional tennis player from Italy. She turned professional in 1998.

She has finished the 2005 season on the WTA Tour ranked #13 in the world in singles. She has yet to win a singles title on the WTA tour but has reached eight finals, six of them since the Autumn of 2005. Schiavone has also been to two Grand Slam Quarter Finals in her career; once in her debut at the French Open in 2001 and again at the US Open in 2003. She is however yet to win a major title. She and her Italian team mates Mara Santangelo, Flavia Pennetta and Roberta Vinci beat the Belgium team 3-2 in the 2006 Fed Cup final. Justine Henin-Hardenne had to retire in the fifth and final match due to an injury in her right knee, which let Italy win their first Fed Cup trophy.<ref>Italy wins the Fed Cup for the first time, fedcup.com, September 17</ref>

1 Titles (7)
2 References
3 External links

[edit] Titles (7)

[edit] Singles (0)

[edit] Singles Finalist (8)

2000: Tashkent (lost to Iroda Tulyaganova)
2003: Canberra (lost to Meghann Shaughnessy)
2005: Bali (lost to Lindsay Davenport)
2005: Moscow (lost to Mary Pierce)
2005: Hasselt (lost to Kim Clijsters)
2006: Sydney (lost to Justine Henin-Hardenne)
2006: Amelia Island (lost to Nadia Petrova)
2006: Luxembourg (lost to Alona Bondarenko)

Legend (Doubles)

Tier I (1)

Tier II (4)

Tier III (1)

Tier IV (0)

Grand Slam Title (0)

WTA Tour Championship (0)

ITF Circuit (1)

[edit] Doubles (11)

No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Partner	Opponent in the final	Score
1.	September 13 1998	Edinburgh, Great Britain	Clay	Image:Flag of Italy.svg Antonella Serra Zanetti	Image:Flag of the United Kingdom.svg Louise Latimer and Image:Flag of the United Kingdom.svg Helen Reesby	6-3 6-3
2.	July 29 2001	Sopot, Poland	Clay	Image:Flag of South Africa.svg Joanette Kruger	Image:Flag of Ukraine.svg Yulia Beygelzimer and Image:Flag of Russia (bordered).svg Anastassia Rodionova	6-4 6-0
3.	May 2 2004	Warsaw, Poland	Clay	Image:Flag of Italy.svg Silvia Farina Elia	Image:Flag of Argentina.svg Gisela Dulko and Image:Flag of Argentina.svg Patricia Tarabini	3-6 6-2 6-1
4.	February 26 2005	Doha, Qatar	Hard	Image:Flag of Australia.svg Alicia Molik	Image:Flag of Zimbabwe.svg Cara Black and Image:Flag of South Africa.svg Liezel Huber	6-3 6-4
5.	February 25 2006	Dubai, UAE	Hard	Image:Flag of the Czech Republic (bordered).svg Kveta Peschke	Image:Flag of Russia (bordered).svg Svetlana Kuznetsova and Image:Flag of Russia (bordered).svg Nadia Petrova	3-6 7-6 6-3
6.	October 1 2006	Luxembourg, Luxembourg	Hard Indoors	Image:Flag of the Czech Republic (bordered).svg Kveta Peschke	Image:Flag of Germany.svg Anna-Lena Groenefeld and Image:Flag of South Africa.svg Liezel Huber	2-6 6-4 6-1
7.	October 15 2006	Moscow, Russia	Carpet	Image:Flag of the Czech Republic (bordered).svg Kveta Peschke	Image:Flag of the Czech Republic (bordered).svg Iveta Benesova and Image:Flag of Russia (bordered).svg Galina Voskoboeva	6-4 6-7 6-1