Sandrine Testud
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| Country (sports) |
 France
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|---|---|
| Residence | Lyon, France |
| Born |
3 April 1972 Lyon, France |
| Height | 1.76 m (5 ft 9 in) |
| Turned pro | 1989 |
| Retired | 2005 |
| Plays | Right-handed (two-handed backhand) |
| Prize money | $3,782,307 |
| Singles | |
| Career record | 398–279 |
| Career titles | 3 |
| Highest ranking | No. 9 (7 February 2000) |
| Grand Slam Singles results | |
| Australian Open | QF (1998) |
| French Open | 4R (1998, 2001) |
| Wimbledon | 4R (1997, 1998, 2001) |
| US Open | QF (1997) |
| Doubles | |
| Career record | 223–190 |
| Career titles | 4 |
| Highest ranking | No. 8 (21 August 2000) |
Sandrine Testud (born 3 April 1972 in Lyon, France) is a former professional female tennis player from France.
Testud broke into top 20 singles rankings in July 1997. On February 7, 2000, she became the sixth Frenchwoman after Françoise Dürr, Mary Pierce, Nathalie Tauziat, Amélie Mauresmo and Julie Halard to break into the singles top 10 rankings. This marked the first time France had four women ranked in the singles Top 10 simultaneously (Mary Pierce at No. 5, Nathalie Tauziat at No. 6, Julie Halard at no.8 and Testud at No. 9). France was the third nation after the USA and Australia to have more than two representatives in the singles Top 10 at any one time. She finished in the top 20 singles rankings for five consecutive years between 1997 and 2001. In the summer of 2002, she took a break from the tennis circuit when she discovered that she was pregnant with her first child. She resumed her career 12 months after the birth of her child and retired in the summer of 2005.
She won a total of 3 WTA Tour singles and 4 WTA Tour doubles titles. Her biggest singles tournament victory was at the 1998 Tier II tournament in Filderstadt, Germany, where she defeated world number two Lindsay Davenport in the final. She was the runner-up in WTA Tour singles and doubles tournaments on 7 occasions each. Her third career-title victory that came in Hawaii over Justine Henin happened in a final that was delayed for a day due to the terrorist attacks on the U.S. on September 11, 2001. Her last WTA Tour singles final was in Dubai where she lost to Amélie Mauresmo in what was the fourth all-French final in WTA Tour history. She has gone beyond the fourth round of a Grand Slam tournament on two occasions: She reached the quarter-finals at the 1997 US Open and the 1998 Australian Open. Testud played in the season-ending Tour Championships for five consecutive years from 1997 to 2001; reaching the singles semi-final and doubles quarterfinal in her last appearance in 2001.
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