Fiona Ferro


Fiona Ferro is a French professional tennis player born in Belgium.
Ferro has won one singles title on the WTA Tour and four singles titles on the ITF Women's Circuit. She has career-high WTA rankings of No. 61 in singles and No. 280 in doubles.

Personal life

Fiona Ferro was born in Libramont, Belgium to a Belgian mother Catherine and a French-Italian father Fabrizio. Fiona's parents owned a restaurant in Belgium when Fiona was born. The Ferro family moved to southern France when Fiona was one year old. As of 2018, Fiona's parents were the owners of two hotels in Valbonne, France. Fiona has two older brothers and one younger brother. Fiona started playing tennis when she was seven in her hometown of Valbonne.

Career

Junior

Ferro was the national girls' champion of France in the 12-13 year-olds, 15-16 year-olds and 17-18 year-olds categories. She had a career-high ITF junior combined ranking of world No. 27, attained on 3 June 2013.

2012-2016

Ferro made her ITF Women's Circuit debut at the $25K indoor hardcourt tournament held in late January 2012 in Grenoble, France; she only entered that tournament's singles event, losing in the first qualifying round. She played eight tournaments on the 2012 ITF Women's Circuit.
She played eleven tournaments on the 2013 ITF Women's Circuit. Her 2013 year-end WTA singles ranking was world No. 557, compared to world No. 1062 on 11 February 2013.
Ferro made her WTA Tour singles debut at the 2014 Internationaux de Strasbourg; as a wild card, she lost in the first qualifying round to Yuliya Beygelzimer.
She made her Grand Slam singles debut at the 2014 French Open after receiving a wild card for the singles main draw, where she lost in the first round to the No. 16 seed Sabine Lisicki.
In June 2016, Ferro ended her player-coach collaboration with Pierre Bouteyre. Bouteyre had been her coach since 2010.
Ferro then made her WTA 125K series singles debut at the Open de Limoges after receiving a wild card for the main draw, where she lost in the first round to the unseeded Ivana Jorović.

2017

At the end of February, Ferro played her year-first and just her third career WTA Tour singles main-draw match at the Abierto Mexicano Telcel after defeating two higher-ranked players in qualifying matches, losing in the first round to the No. 5 seed Christina McHale. In April, Ferro played her second and third WTA Tour singles main-draw matches of 2017 in Bogotá and Istanbul respectively after winning two qualifying matches in each tournament; she lost in the first round to seeded players in both tournaments.
At the end of 2017, Ferro packed up and moved to Paris to train at the Centre National d'Entraînement to take advantage of the very good facilities there. Her tennis coach was Stéphane Huet and she also had a fitness coach and a mental coach that she shared with other players training at the CNE.

2018

On 11 February 2018, Ferro won her first ITF singles title in Grenoble. Ferro had to win three qualifying matches to reach the singles main-draw of a WTA Tour event for the first time in 2018, at the International tournament in Rabat, losing in the first round to another qualifier, Paula Badosa Gibert. Ferro also played in Strasbourg, where she had entered the singles main draw as a wild card, losing in the first round to the No. 6 seed Tímea Babos.
Ferro received a singles main-draw wild card for the French Open, just like she did in 2014, 2015 and 2017. She won the first Grand Slam singles main-draw match of her career and also picked up her first career win over a player ranked in the top 100 at the French Open when she defeated world No. 61 Carina Witthöft in the first round. She lost to the No. 3 seed Garbiñe Muguruza in the second round.
On 22 October 2018, Ferro attained a career-high of world no. 100 in the WTA singles rankings and became the 43rd Frenchwoman to break inside the top 100 of those rankings.

2019

In early February, Ferro was selected for the first time in her career in the France Fed Cup team, for the Fed Cup World Group quarterfinal against Belgium. She played only the doubles match, which was a dead rubber, of that tie which France won 3-1. She and Parmentier lost their match against Ysaline Bonaventure and Kirsten Flipkens in three sets.
In July, Ferro won her first career WTA Tour singles title in Lausanne, beating defending champion Alizé Cornet in the final.
On 18 December 2019, Ferro announced on her Instagram account that Emmanuel Planque would henceforth be her new coach. Her two-year player-coach collaboration with Stéphane Huet had ended at the end of October 2019.

Performance timelines

Only main-draw results in WTA Tour, Grand Slam tournaments, Fed Cup and Olympic Games are included in these records.

Singles

Current through the suspension of the 2020 WTA Tour.

WTA career finals

Singles: 1 (1 title)

ResultW–LDateTournamentTierSurfaceOpponentScore
Win1–02019 Ladies Open Lausanne – Singles|Swiss Open Lausanne, SwitzerlandInternationalClay Alizé Cornet6–1, 2–6, 6–1

ITF Circuit finals

Singles: 9 (4 titles, 5 runner–ups)

ResultW–LDateTournamentTierSurfaceOpponentScore
Loss0–1Jul 2014ITF Denain, France25,000Clay Andreea Mitu6–4, 2–6, 1–6
Loss0–2Jul 2015ITF Aschaffenburg, Germany25,000Clay Tena Lukas5–7, 4–6
Loss0–3Jul 2016ITF Darmstadt, Germany25,000Clay Tamara Korpatsch2–6, 2–6
Loss0–4Nov 2017ITF Hammamet, Tunisia15,000Clay Varvara Gracheva4–6, 6–7
Win1–4Feb 2018ITF Grenoble, France25,000Hard Eléonora Molinaro6–4, 6–7, 7–6
Loss1–5Feb 2018ITF Curitiba, Brazil25,000Clay Tamara Zidanšek5–7, 4–6
Win2–5Jun 2018ITF Padua, Italy25,000Clay Liudmila Samsonova7–5, 6–3
Win3–5Jun 2018Open Montpellier, France25,000Clay Catalina Pella6–4, 6–3
Win4–5Jul 2018ITS Cup, Czech Republic80,000+HClay Karolína Muchová6–4, 6–4