Nathalie Dechy

Nathalie Dechy

Country (sports)	France
Residence	Tournai, Belgium
Born	(1979-02-21) 21 February 1979 (age 46) Les Abymes, Guadeloupe
Height	1.78 m (5 ft 10 in)
Turned pro	1995
Retired	21 July 2009
Plays	Right-handed (two-handed backhand)
Prize money	US$4,216,795
Singles
Career record	429–337
Career titles	1 WTA, 1 ITF
Highest ranking	No. 11 (9 January 2006)
Grand Slam singles results
Australian Open	SF (2005)
French Open	3R (1998, 1999, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2005, 2006)
Wimbledon	4R (1999, 2005)
US Open	4R (1998, 2005)
Doubles
Career record	189–178
Career titles	7 WTA, 1 ITF
Highest ranking	No. 8 (21 May 2007)
Grand Slam doubles results
Australian Open	SF (2009)
French Open	QF (2000, 2003, 2006)
Wimbledon	SF (2008)
US Open	W (2006, 2007)
Grand Slam mixed doubles results
French Open	W (2007)
Team competitions
Fed Cup	W (2003)

Nathalie Dechy (born 21 February 1979) is a former professional 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, ^[1] the 2007 French Open mixed doubles title with Andy Ram, ^[2] and the 2007 US Open women's doubles title with Dinara Safina. ^[3] 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 set, before losing in the super-tiebreak, 7–6, 6–7, 8–10.

Since 2015, Nathalie Dechy has been the director of the Biarritz Tennis Tournament, a women's tennis tournament organized every year by the Quarterback agency at Biarritz Olympic Tennis. This tournament is part of the ITF (International Tennis Federation) category and has $80,000 in prize money. ^[4]

Grand Slam finals

Doubles: 2 (2 titles)

Result	Year	Championship	Surface	Partner	Opponents	Score
Win	2006	US Open	Hard	Vera Zvonareva	Katarina Srebotnik Dinara Safina	7–6(7–5), 7–5
Win	2007	US Open	Hard	Dinara Safina	Chan Yung-jan Chuang Chia-jung	6–4, 6–2

Mixed doubles: 2 (1 title, 1 runner-up)

Result	Year	Championship	Surface	Partner	Opponents	Score
Win	2007	French Open	Clay	Andy Ram	Katarina Srebotnik Nenad Zimonjić	7–5, 6–3
Loss	2009	Australian Open	Hard	Andy Ram	Sania Mirza Mahesh Bhupathi	3–6, 1–6

Grand Slam singles performance timeline

Key

W

F

SF

QF

#R

RR

Q#

DNQ

A

NH

(W) winner; (F) finalist; (SF) semifinalist; (QF) quarterfinalist; (#R) rounds 4, 3, 2, 1; (RR) round-robin stage; (Q#) qualification round; (DNQ) did not qualify; (A) absent; (NH) not held; (SR) strike rate (events won / competed); (W–L) win–loss record.

Tournament	1994	1995	1996	1997	1998	1999	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008	2009
Australian Open	A	A	A	1R	1R	1R	1R	1R	3R	3R	4R	SF	1R	1R	1R	2R
French Open	A	1R	2R	1R	3R	3R	1R	3R	3R	3R	1R	3R	3R	2R	2R	1R
Wimbledon	A	A	1R	2R	1R	4R	3R	2R	3R	3R	3R	4R	1R	1R	2R	1R
US Open	A	A	2R	2R	4R	1R	2R	2R	3R	2R	3R	4R	1R	1R	1R	A
Year-end ranking	586	294	84	90	48	25	27	44	20	29	21	12	51	69	72	n/a

WTA career finals

Singles: 5 (1 title, 4 runner-ups)

Result	W/L	Date	Tournament	Surface	Opponent	Score
Loss	0–1	Feb 2000	Cellular South Cup, United States	Hard (i)	Monica Seles	1–6, 6–7(3–7)
Loss	0–2	Apr 2000	Estoril Open, Portugal	Clay	Anke Huber	2–6, 6–1, 5–7
Win	1–2	Jan 2003	Australian Hardcourts	Hard	Marie-Gaïané Mikaelian	6–3, 3–6, 6–3
Loss	1–3	Aug 2004	New Haven Open, United States	Hard	Elena Bovina	2–6, 6–2, 5–7
Loss	1–4	Aug 2008	Cincinnati Masters, United States	Hard	Nadia Petrova	2–6, 1–6

Doubles: 14 (7 titles, 7 runner-ups)

Result	W/L	Date	Tournament	Surface	Partner	Opponents	Score
Loss	0–1	Oct 2001	Bratislava Open, Slovakia	Hard (i)	Meilen Tu	Elena Bovina Dája Bedáňová	3–6, 4–6
Win	1–1	Feb 2002	Paris Indoors, France	Carpet (i)	Meilen Tu	Elena Dementieva Janette Husárová	w/o
Loss	1–2	Feb 2002	Antwerp Open, Belgium	Hard (i)	Meilen Tu	Magdalena Maleeva Patty Schnyder	3–6, 7–6(3), 3–6
Loss	1–3	Oct 2002	Bratislava Open, Slovakia	Hard (i)	Meilen Tu	Maja Matevžič Henrieta Nagyová	4–6, 0–6
Loss	1–4	Dec 2002	Australian Hardcourts	Hard	Émilie Loit	Svetlana Kuznetsova Martina Navratilova	4–6, 4–6
Loss	1–5	Feb 2003	Antwerp Open, Belgium	Carpet (i)	Émilie Loit	Kim Clijsters Ai Sugiyama	2–6, 0–6
Loss	1–6	Oct 2004	Linz Open, Austria	Hard (i)	Patty Schnyder	Janette Husárová Elena Likhovtseva	2–6, 5–7
Win	2–6	Sep 2006	US Open	Hard	Vera Zvonareva	Dinara Safina Katarina Srebotnik	7–6(5), 7–5
Win	3–6	May 2007	Rome Masters, Italy	Clay	Mara Santangelo	Tathiana Garbin Roberta Vinci	6–4, 6–1
Win	4–6	Sep 2007	US Open	Hard	Dinara Safina	Chan Yung-jan Chuang Chia-jung	6–4, 6–2
Win	5–6	Jan 2009	Auckland Open, New Zealand	Hard	Mara Santangelo	Nuria Llagostera Vives Arantxa Parra Santonja	4–6, 7–6(3), [12–10]
Loss	5–7	Jan 2009	Sydney International, Australia	Hard	Casey Dellacqua	Hsieh Su-wei Peng Shuai	0–6, 1–6
Win	6–7	Mar 2009	Monterrey Open, Mexico	Hard	Mara Santangelo	Iveta Benešová Barbora Záhlavová-Strýcová	6–3, 6–4
Win	7–7	May 2009	Strasbourg Open, France	Clay	Mara Santangelo	Claire Feuerstein Stéphanie Foretz	6–0, 6–1

ITF Circuit finals

Singles (1–2)

$50,000 tournaments

$25,000 tournaments

$10,000 tournaments

Result	No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Opponent	Score
Loss	1.	9 May 1994	ITF Mollet, Spain	Clay	Mariam Ramón Climent	0–6, 0–6
Win	2.	14 December 1997	ITF Bad Gögging, Germany	Carpet (i)	Els Callens	6–4, 6–1
Loss	3.	6 December 1998	ITF Cergy-Pontoise, France	Hard (i)	Sarah Pitkowski-Malcor	5–7, 6–3, 6–7(4)

Doubles (1–1)

Result	No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Partner	Opponents	Score
Win	1.	20 March 1995	ITF Moulins, France	Hard (i)	Catherine Tanvier	Jessica Fernández Aarthi Venkatesan	6–1, 6–3
Loss	2.	29 March 1997	ITF Woodlands, United States	Hard	Lea Ghirardi	Els Callens Liezel Horn	4–6, 2–6

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. ^[5]

References

1. "Vera Zvonareva, Laura Siegemund win US Open women's doubles title". ESPN. Retrieved 22 July 2025.
2. "Dechy and Ram to lift mixed doubles crown". Australian Broadcasting Corporation. Retrieved 22 July 2025.
3. "Dechy and Safina take women's doubles at U.S. Open". Reuters. Retrieved 21 July 2025.
4. "Engie open de Biarritz". www.engie-open-biarritz.fr. Archived from the original on 2016-10-17. Retrieved 2022-10-24.
5. "La championne de tennis Nathalie Dechy est maman !". PurePeople (in French). 5 February 2010.

External links

• Nathalie Dechy at the Women's Tennis Association
• Nathalie Dechy at the International Tennis Federation
• Nathalie Dechy at the Billie Jean King Cup (archived)
• Nathalie Dechy at ESPN.com
• Nathalie Dechy at Olympedia
• Nathalie Dechy at Olympics.com