Minella at the 2015 Wimbledon
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Country (sports) | Luxembourg | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Born |
Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg |
22 November 1985 ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Turned pro | 2001 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Plays | Right-handed (two-handed backhand) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Prize money | $1,262,731 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Singles | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Career record | 389–323 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Career titles | 0 WTA, 1 WTA 125K, 10 ITF | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Highest ranking | 66 (17 September 2012) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Current ranking | 105 (16 January 2017) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Grand Slam Singles results | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Australian Open | 2R (2014, 2017) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French Open | 1R (2012, 2013, 2014) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Wimbledon | 2R (2016) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
US Open | 3R (2010, 2012) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Doubles | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Career record | 144–161 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Career titles | 2 WTA, 2 WTA 125K, 7 ITF | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Highest ranking | 47 (29 April 2013) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Current ranking | 105 (16 January 2017) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Grand Slam Doubles results | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Australian Open | 2R (2013, 2015, 2017) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French Open | 2R (2012) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Wimbledon | 3R (2012) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
US Open | 1R (2012, 2013, 2015) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Mixed doubles | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Grand Slam Mixed Doubles results | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French Open | 1R (2013) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Team competitions | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Fed Cup | 20–34 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Last updated on: 6 June 2016. |
Mandy Minella (born 22 November 1985) is a Luxembourgish tennis player.
Minella has won two doubles titles on the WTA tour, as well as nine singles and five doubles titles on the ITF tour in her career. On 17 September 2012, she reached her best singles ranking of world number 66. On 29 April 2013, she peaked at world number 47 in the doubles rankings.
Minella was born in Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg, to parents Mario and Anna Minella and started playing tennis aged 5.
In 2000, Minella debuted for the Luxembourg Fed Cup team, partnering Celine Francois in the doubles matches against Ukraine and Great Britain, losing both times. After again participating in Fed Cup in 2001 (where she won her first rubber), she began competing on the ITF Women's Circuit in the same year. In 2002, she received a qualifying wildcard into the WTA Tier III SEAT Open Luxembourg, losing the first round. She reached her first ITF tour singles final in 2003, losing to Liana-Gabriela Balaci in three sets.
She lost again in ITF finals in 2004 (in both singles and doubles at the same tournament in Napoli), before winning her first singles title in Zadar later that year. A year later she won her second title, in Gardone Val Trompia.
In 2006 she won an ITF tournament in Caserta, as well as being a finalist a week later (both matches versus Alisa Kleybanova). In 2009, three years later, she won her fourth ITF tournament, in Tessenderlo, Belgium. In 2010, Minella had more success on the ITF Women's Circuit, winning two $25,000 events, in Lutz, Florida and in Stuttgart-Vaihingen, Germany, and finishing runner-up at one in Laguna Niguel, California.