Chelsea Fontenel

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Chelsea Fontenel
Country (sports)Flag of Switzerland (Pantone).svg  Switzerland
Born (2004-06-25) 25 June 2004 (age 21)
Kaiseraugst, Switzerland
PlaysRight-handed
Prize money$21,210
Singles
Career record48–59
Highest rankingNo. 746 (15 July 2024)
Current rankingNo. 868 (28 July 2025)
Doubles
Career record37–27
Career titles3 ITF
Highest rankingNo. 306 (28 July 2025)
Current rankingNo. 306 (28 July 2025)
Last updated on: 28 July 2025.

Chelsea Fontenel (born 25 June 2004) is a Swiss tennis player, singer and songwriter.

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Fontenel has a career-high singles ranking by the WTA of 746, achieved on 15 July 2024. has a career-high doubles ranking of 306 achieved on 28 July 2025. [1]

Personal

Born and raised in Kaiseraugst, Fontenel's family originally comes from the Caribbean island of St. Lucia. [2] Her dream is to be the first singing tennis player. Her tennis role models are Serena Williams and Roger Federer. [3]

Career

Fontenel, who enjoys writing and singing songs as well as playing tennis, became known to a wide audience when she participated in the competition program The Voice Kids in 2013 at the age of nine, and thus became the brand ambassador of the Suzuki automobile and motorcycle company. [4]

In 2015, Fontenel sang at the Match for Africa between Roger Federer and Stan Wawrinka at the Hallenstadion in Zurich. She, IMG, sang the US national anthem at the National College Basketball Finals. [5]

In 2018, Fontenel released her debut single, Showers of Blessings. At the end of the year, Fontenel released her second single, New Day. [6]

She dedicated her song Never Forget You, which she released in 2022, to legendary coach Nick Bollettieri, who founded the IMG Academy, where she met and studied for years when she was 10 years old. [7]

Fontenel played for the University of Georgia Bulldogs women's tennis team starting in the 2022 season. [8] She will be playing for the Arizona State University Sun Devils women's tennis team starting in the 2023/24 season. [9]

Partnering Ksenia Zaytseva, Fontenel won her first major $50k tournament in March 2025 at the ITF event in Bujumbura, Burundi. [10] [11]

ITF Circuit finals

Doubles: 9 (3 titles, 7 runner–ups)

Legend
W50 tournaments (1–1)
W35 tournaments (1–4)
W15 tournaments (1–2)
Finals by surface
Hard (0–2)
Clay (3–5)
ResultW–LDateTournamentTierSurfacePartnerOpponentsScore
Loss0–1Sep 2021ITF Cancún, MexicoW15Hard Flag of the United States.svg Qavia Lopez Flag of Mexico.svg María Portillo Ramírez
Flag of Mexico.svg Victoria Rodríguez
1–6, 1–6
Loss0–2May 2022ITF Daytona Beach, United StatesW25Clay Flag of the United States.svg Hina Inoue Flag of Chinese Taipei for Olympic games.svg Hsieh Yu-chieh
Flag of Chinese Taipei for Olympic games.svg Hsu Chieh-yu
5–7, 0–6
Loss0–3Jul 2024ITF Casablanca, MoroccoW35Clay Flag of Egypt.svg Sandra Samir Flag of Morocco.svg Malak El Allami
Flag of Morocco.svg Aya El Aouni
2–6, 2–6
Loss0–4Oct 2024 Open de Touraine, FranceW35Hard (i) Flag of Ukraine.svg Anastasiia Firman Flag of the United Kingdom.svg Sarah Beth Grey
Flag of Switzerland (Pantone).svg Leonie Küng
4–6, 2–6
Loss0–5Mar 2025ITF Alaminos, CyprusW15Clay Flag of Ukraine.svg Anastasiia Firman Flag of Romania.svg Ștefania Bojică
Flag of Switzerland (Pantone).svg Marie Mettraux
2–6, 6–4, [7–10]
Win1–5Mar 2025ITF Bujumbura, BurundiW50ClayFlag placeholder.svg Ksenia Zaytseva Flag of the Netherlands.svg Demi Tran
Flag of the Netherlands.svg Lian Tran
4–6, 6–1, [11–9]
Win2–5 May 2025 ITF Merzig, GermanyW15Clay Flag of France.svg Tiphanie Lemaître Flag of the Czech Republic.svg Ivana Šebestová
Flag of Romania.svg Arina Vasilescu
6–3, 6–3
Loss2–6 Jun 2025 ITF Stuttgart-Vaihingen, GermanyW35ClayFlag placeholder.svg Alevtina Ibragimova Flag of Greece.svg Martha Matoula
Flag of Slovakia.svg Radka Zelníčková
6–7(5), 5–7
Loss2–7 Jul 2025 ITF Aschaffenburg, GermanyW50Clay Flag of Germany.svg Laura Boehner Flag of the United States.svg Rasheeda McAdoo
Flag of Kenya.svg Angella Okutoyi
6–1, 2–6, [7–10]
Win3–7 Jul 2025 ITF Darmstadt, GermanyW35Clay Flag of France.svg Marie Mattel Flag of Chile.svg Fernanda Labraña
Flag of Brazil.svg Rebeca Pereira
6–3, 6–4

References

  1. "Chelsea Fontenel | Player Stats & More – WTA Official". Women's Tennis Association.
  2. "Profil". chelseafontenel.com.
  3. "Ambitious Swiss sensation Chelsea Fontenel balances tennis stardom, rising music career at ASU". cronkitenews.azpbs.org.
  4. "Tennis-Jungtalent Chelsea Fontenel glänzt mit Top-Leistungen". auto.suzuki.ch.
  5. "Chelsea Fontenel (15) startet in Florida durch". www.blick.ch.
  6. "Schweizer Tennis-Talent singt Hoffnungs-Song". www.blick.ch.
  7. "Tennis-Juwel Fontenel (18) huldigt Trainer-Legende Bollettieri mit Song". www.blick.ch.
  8. "Fontenel signs to play tennis with Bulldogs". peachtreetimes.com.
  9. "Arizona State Sun Devils 2023-24 Women's Tennis Roster". thesundevils.com.
  10. "Erster Turniersieg als Profi in Burundi". chelseafontenel.com.
  11. "ITF W50 Bujumbura Main Draws". www.itftennis.com.