Francesca Schiavone

Italian Born 1980 166 cm Right handed
Head to heads vs Svetlana Kuznetsova (16)vs Samantha Stosur (14)vs Elena Dementieva (13)vs Alize Cornet (12)vs Kim Clijsters (12)vs Vera Zvonareva (11)

Match log

2018

GstaadClay, July
R32LSamantha Stosur3-6 2-6
MallorcaGrass, June
R32LCarina Witthoeft1-6 7-6(2) 3-6
Roland GarrosClay, May
R128LViktoria Hruncakova6-7(2) 6-7(2)
Q3WEvgeniya Rodina6-0 6-1
Q2WJamie Loeb6-1 6-4
Q1WCarol Zhao6-4 3-6 6-3
RomeClay, May
R64LDominika Cibulkova1-6 7-6(5) 2-6
Indian Wells, qualifyingHard, March
Q1LJil Teichmann7-5 5-7 1-6
Indian Wells 125K, challengerHard, February
R32LYanina Wickmayer1-6 3-6
Doha, qualifyingHard, February
Q1LSofya Zhuk3-6 2-6
Newport Beach, challengerHard, January
R32LAnna Karolina Schmiedlova6-3 2-6 1-6
Australian OpenHard, January
R128LJelena Ostapenko1-6 4-6

2017

US OpenHard, August
R128LKaia Kanepi6-0 4-6 2-6
Cincinnati, qualifyingHard, August
Q2LAleksandra Krunic6-7(5) 6-4 2-6
Q1WNicole Gibbs6-7(1) 6-2 6-1
StanfordHard, July
R32LKateryna Bondarenko3-6 4-6
WimbledonGrass, July
R64LElina Svitolina3-6 0-6
R128WMandy Minella6-1 6-1
EastbourneGrass, June
R64LShuai Peng3-6 4-6
Q3WMona Barthel
Q2WLauren Davis6-3 0-6 6-1
Q1WHarriet Dart6-2 6-2
CalviaGrass, June
R16LKristyna Pliskova3-6 6-7(7)
R32WEugenie Bouchard6-7(5) 6-4 6-3
Roland GarrosClay, May
R128LGarbine Muguruza2-6 4-6
MadridClay, May
R64LJohanna Larsson7-5 3-6 1-6
RabatClay, May
FLAnastasia Pavlyuchenkova5-7 5-7
SFWVarvara Lepchenko7-5 6-4
QFWTatjana Maria6-1 4-6 6-3
R16WGabriela Dabrowski6-4 6-4
R32WTimea Babos6-4 6-1
BogotaWon the titleClay, April
FWLara Arruabarrena6-4 7-5Won the title
SFWJohanna Larsson7-5 6-4
QFWKiki Bertens6-1 6-4
R16WDalila Jakupovic6-1 6-2
R32WPatricia Maria Tig6-3 6-4
MonterreyHard, April
R32LAngelique Kerber6-4 0-6 4-6
Miami, qualifyingHard, March
Q2LKurumi Nara3-6 0-6
Q1WKateryna Baindl6-3 6-0
Indian WellsHard, March
R128LLouisa Chirico3-6 3-6
Q2WElitsa Kostova1-6 6-0 6-0
Q1WKateryna Baindl3-6 6-1 6-4
AcapulcoHard, February
R32LMonica Puig4-6 6-7(4)
Fed Cup WG2 R1: SVK vs ITAClay, February
RRWAnna Karolina Schmiedlova6-3 6-1
RRLRebecca Sramkova2-6 4-6
TaipeiHard, January
R32LDalila Jakupovic6-7(2) 3-6
Australian OpenHard, January
R128LJulia Boserup2-6 4-6
HobartHard, January
R32LJana Fett3-6 2-6
Brisbane, qualifyingHard, January
Q3LAleksandra Krunic1-6 2-6
Q2WJennifer Brady6-4 6-7(6) 6-3
Q1WAyumi Morita7-6(5) 2-0 RET

Francesca Schiavone

At 29, seeded seventeenth and never past a Grand Slam quarterfinal, Francesca Schiavone won Roland Garros in 2010, beating Samantha Stosur 6-4, 7-6(2) to become the first Italian woman to win a major singles title, then dropped to her knees and kissed the Chatrier clay. The tennis matched the theatre: a one-handed backhand carved with an extreme grip, drop shots, angles and net rushes, improvisation on every surface but clay above all.

The next year proved Paris was no accident. She reached world No. 4 in January 2011, outlasted Svetlana Kuznetsova 6-4, 1-6, 16-14 at the Australian Open in four hours and 44 minutes, still the longest women's singles match at a major, then returned to the Roland Garros final, where Li Na beat her in two tight sets. She retired at the 2018 US Open at 38, with 1 major among 8 career titles. A year later she met Hodgkin lymphoma with the same fight, and in December 2019 announced she had beaten it.