| 1 | PRESENTATION |
Mauresmo, Amelie (1979 -), French tennis player.
Amelie Mauresmo has won 23 titles on the professional circuit (January 2006), including two Grand Slams and Masters. She was world number one in 2004 and 2006.
| 2 YEARS OF TRAINING |
Born in Saint-Germain-en-Laye (Yvelines), Amelie Mauresmo discovered a passion for tennis since the age of four at during the final of the Internationaux de France between Yannick Noah Mats Wilander. She began her training two years later and was quickly spotted by the French Tennis Federation. It plays its first international tournament in 1993. The following year, she joined the National Training Centre at Roland Garros. His career as a junior was crowned by a first place worldwide in 1996, including two victories for the Internationals in France and Great Britain.
| 3 | THE ADVENT INTERNATIONAL TO HIGHEST LEVEL |
Amelie Mauresmo joined the professional circuit in 1997. The following year, she ranks among the top 50 players in the world. But it's in 1999 at the Australian Open, her career took a new dimension, both sports and media: his journey to the final of this Grand Slam tournament (after beating world number one's time, Lindsay Davenport in the semifinals) propels the effect on the cover of many newspapers and among the elite women's tennis. She won her first tournament a few months later, in Bratislava (Slovakia).
Regularly injured in 2001 and 2002, but it continues to rise towards the top of WTA rankings, particularly for the semi-finals of the International Great Britain and the United States. Amelie Mauresmo became a player feared by his opponents for the quality and power of these blows to the baseline, that possesses one of the best backhand of the circuit. Alongside his compatriot Mary Pierce, Belgians Justine Henin-Hardenne and Kim Clijsters, or even American Lindsay Davenport, Venus and Serena Williams, she embodies the modern women's tennis, physical, committed and spectacular.
| CONSECRATION |
Increasingly regular at the highest level, Amelie Mauresmo won the 2003 Fed Cup team from France, reached the final of the Masters, also in 2003 , and the Olympic Games in Athens (Greece) in August 2004. A few weeks later, after the U.S. International (which she reached the quarter-finals), she became the first world number one in the history of French tennis.
After several podium places in major tournaments (semifinals Wimbledon in 2004 and 2005 in particular), Amelie Mauresmo reached in November 2005 one of the main goals of his career: she became the first French woman to win the Masters (at the expense of compatriot Mary Pierce). She also finished the 2005 season at the 3 th place world ranking. Then, in January 2006, she won the first Grand Slam tournament of her career at the Australian Open. This victory is followed by a success on grass at Wimbledon (the first of a French woman since Suzanne Lenglen in 1925) and a final at the Masters.
| 5 | difficult years |
The year 2007 is a test for Amelie Mauresmo, who lost the third round of Roland Garros, and must abandon her title at Wimbledon in the fourth round. She embarks on a long break, losing its place as number one French, and many points in international rankings. His 2009 season begins with encouraging results, but his fall in the first round of Roland Garros, Wimbledon and its failure to indicate that confidence is not back yet.
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