Nathalie Dechy


Nathalie Dechy is a former professional tour tennis player from France.
Dechy is a three-time doubles Grand Slam champion, winning the 2006 US Open women's doubles title with Vera Zvonareva, the 2007 French Open mixed doubles title with Andy Ram, and the 2007 US Open women's doubles title with Dinara Safina. Her biggest singles achievement is reaching the semifinals of the 2005 Australian Open.
At the 2008 Wimbledon Championships, she faced World No. 1 and reigning French Open champion Ana Ivanovic. She had a match point during the second before losing 6–7, 7–6, 10–8.

Grand Slam finals

Women's doubles (2 titles)

ResultYearChampionshipSurfacePartnerOpponentsScore
Win2006US OpenHard Vera Zvonareva Katarina Srebotnik
Dinara Safina		7–6, 7–5
Win2007US OpenHard Dinara Safina Yung-Jan Chan
Chia-Jung Chuang		6–4, 6–2

Mixed doubles (1 title)

ResultYearChampionshipSurfacePartnerOpponentsScore
Win2007French OpenClay Andy Ram Katarina Srebotnik
Nenad Zimonjić		7–5, 6–3
Loss2009Australian OpenHard Andy Ram Sania Mirza
Mahesh Bhupathi		3–6, 1–6

WTA Finals

Singles (1-4)

Doubles (7-7)

ITF Finals

Singles (1-2)

Doubles (1-1)

Grand Slam singles performance timeline

Tournament1994199519961997199819992000200120022003200420052006200720082009
Australian Open---1R1R1R1R1R3R3R4RSF1R1R1R2R
French Open-1R2R1R3R3R1R3R3R3R1R3R3R2R2R1R
Wimbledon--1R2R1R4R3R2R3R3R3R4R1R1R2R1R
US Open--2R2R4R1R2R2R3R2R3R4R1R1R1R-
Year-end ranking58629484904825274420292112516972n/a

Personal life

Dechy was born to a father from continental France and a Canadian mother from the Eastern Townships of Quebec. She holds dual French-Canadian citizenship. On 25 January 2010 she gave birth to a son.