PATTY SCHNYDER

'Patty Schnyder' (born December 14 1978, Basel) is professional female tennis player. She has been playing on the WTA tour since the mid-1990s and is a former World ''No.7''. She has had significant wins over World No. 1's.
During her long career, she has reached four Grand Slam quarterfinals, and one Grand Slam semifinal. She has won 10 WTA singles titles and 4 WTA doubles titles and has made over ''$5,940,000'' in prize money.

Contents

Career

WTA Tour titles (14)

Singles (10)

Singles finalist (10)

ITF titles (3)

Singles (3)

Singles performance timeline

Sources

External links

Career

In 1996, Schnyder made her Grand Slam debut at the French Open. In 1997, she quickly rose up through the rankings, and by August 1998 she had entered the WTA Top 10. However, she fell out of the Top 10 in April 1999, and spent the next 6 years ranked in the 15-30 range before re-entering the Top 10 in May 2005.
In December 2003, Schnyder married Rainer Hofmann, a German private investigator and information technology specialist who has accompanied her on the WTA tour since 1999 and became her full-time tennis coach in early 2003. Hofmann carries a fraud conviction in Germany relating to his business dealings with German national communications firm Deutsche Telekom. Hofmann pled guilty in 2002 to embezzling the equivalent of 400,000$ from the firm, and was put on probation for 3 years. In addition to coaching Schnyder, Hofmann has also worked with some other WTA players in a coaching capacity including Anna Chakvetadze and Sania Mirza.
Schnyder has won 10 singles titles, including a victory in Zurich (Tier I Event) over American Lindsay Davenport, and 4 doubles titles. Her first title on U.S. soil came in August, 2005, when she won at Cincinnati's Western & Southern Financial Group Women's Open. Schnyder is perhaps best known for defeating 4 top 10 players consecutively, including Serena Williams and then-world #1 Jennifer Capriati, in 2002 at the Family Circle Cup in Charleston, which is the largest women-only tennis event held in the United States.
Schnyder has struggled with consistency until the start of 2004 when she unexpectedly has a solid run to the Semi-finals of the Australian Open and reached the semi-finals of two Tier I events Charleston and Zurich.
2005 was Schnyder's best season on the tour to date, reaching a total of five tour finals winning two of them (Gold Coast and Cincinnati). She became runner up at the Tier I events Rome (to Amelie Mauresmo) and Zurich (to Lindsay Davenport). She also reached the final in Linz, falling to Nadia Petrova. She reached the career high of World Number 7 after the end of season WTA Tour Championships. 2006 proved to be a good season for Schnyder also, staying within the top ten and reaching the finals in Charleston (defeating top seed and defending champion Justine Henin in the semis and also to end Henin's 27 match winning streak on clay, though lost to Petrova in the final, and in Stanford (falling to top seed and defending champion Kim Clijsters).

WTA Tour titles (14)

Singles (10)

'Legend'

Grand Slam (0)

WTA Championships (0)

Tier I (1)

Tier II (1)

Tier III (4)

Tier IV-V (4)

'No.'	'Date'	'Tournament'	'Surface'	'Opponent in the final'	'Score'
1.	January 18 1998	Hobart	Hard	Dominique Van Roost	6-3 6-2
2.	February 22 1998	Hannover	Carpet	Jana Novotná	6-0 3-6 7-5
3.	May 24 1998	Madrid	Clay	Dominique Van Roost	3-6 6-4 6-0
4.	July 12 1998	Maria Lankowitz	Clay	Gala Leon Garcia	6-2 4-6 6-3
5.	July 19 1998	Palermo	Clay	Barbara Schett	6-1 5-7 6-2
6.	January 10 1999	Gold Coast	Hard	Mary Pierce	4-6 7-6 6-2
7.	November 11 2001	Pattaya City	Hard	Henrieta Nagyová	6-0 6-4
8.	October 20 2002	Zürich	Carpet	Lindsay Davenport	6-7 7-6 6-3
9.	January 8 2005	Gold Coast	Hard	Samantha Stosur	1-6 6-3 7-5
10.	July 24 2005	Cincinnati	Hard	Akiko Morigami	6-4 6-0

Singles finalist (10)

★ 1996: Karlovy Vary (lost to Ruxandra Dragomir) 2-6 6-3 4-6

★ 1998: Grand Slam Cup (lost to Venus Williams) 2-6 6-3 2-6

★ 2000: Klagenfurt (lost to Barbara Schett) 7-5 4-6 4-6

★ 2001: Vienna (lost to Iroda Tulyaganova) 3-6 2-6

★ 2002: Charleston (lost to Iva Majoli) 6-7⁵ 4-6

★ 2005: Rome (lost to Amélie Mauresmo) 6-2 3-6 4-6

★ 2005: Zürich (lost to Lindsay Davenport) 6-7⁵ 3-6

★ 2005: Linz (lost to Nadia Petrova) 6-4 3-6 1-6

★ 2006: Charleston (lost to Nadia Petrova) 3-6 6-4 1-6

★ 2006: Stanford (lost to Kim Clijsters) 4-6 2-6

★ 2007: San Diego (lost to Maria Sharapova) 2-6 6-3 0-6
===Doubles (4)===

'No.'	'Date'	'Tournament'	'Surface'	'Partner'	'Opponent in the final'	'Score'
1.	May 3 1998	Hamburg, Germany	Clay	Barbara Schett	Martina Hingis Jana Novotná	7-6 3-6 6-3
2.	February 17 2002	Antwerp, Belgium	Carpet	Magdalena Maleeva	Nathalie Dechy Meilen Tu	6-3 6-7 6-3
3.	February 9 2003	Paris, France	Carpet	Barbara Schett	Marion Bartoli Stéphanie Cohen-Aloro	2-6 6-2 7-6
4.	February 15 2004	Paris, France	Carpet	Barbara Schett	Silvia Farina Elia Francesca Schiavone	6-3 6-2

ITF titles (3)

Singles (3)

'No.'	'Date'	'Tournament'	'Surface'	'Opponent in the final'	'Score'
1.	May 4 1995	Nitra, Slovak Republic	Clay	Barbara Castro	1-6 6-2 6-3
2.	May 21 1995	Presov, Slovak Republic	Clay	Jana Ondrouchova	6-1 6-0
3.	June 25 1995	Cureglia, Switzerland	Clay	Camilla Kremer	6-2 6-1

Singles performance timeline

''To prevent confusion and double counting, information in this table is updated only once a tournament or the player's participation in the tournament has concluded. This table is current through the 2007 French Open, which ended on June 8, 2007.''

Tournament	1995	1996	1997	1998	1999	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007	Career SR	Career Win-Loss
Australian Open	A	A	4R	4R	2R	4R	1R	1R	4R	SF	QF	QF	4R	'0 / 11'	'29-11'
French Open	A	1R	3R	QF	3R	1R	2R	4R	4R	2R	4R	4R	4R	'0 / 12'	'25-12'
Wimbledon	A	1R	1R	2R	1R	2R	3R	2R	1R	2R	1R	2R	4R	'0 / 11'	'10-12'
US Open	A	A	3R	QF	3R	2R	2R	3R	2R	4R	4R	4R	3R	'0 / 11'	'24-11'
'Grand Slam Win-Loss'	'0-0'	'0-2'	'7-4'	'12-4'	'5-4'	'5-4'	'4-4'	'6-4'	'7-4'	'10-4'	'10-4'	'11-4'	'9-3'	N/A	'83-44'
WTA Tour Championships	A	A	A	1R	A	A	A	1R	A	A	RR	A		'0 / 3'	1-4
Tokyo	A	A	A	A	A	A	A	A	A	A	A	A	A	'0 / 0'	0-0
Indian Wells	A	A	A	A	3R	3R	2R	2R	A	A	A	A	A	'0 / 4'	3-4
Miami	A	A	2R	4R	4R	3R	2R	2R	A	A	3R	4R	2R	'0 / 9'	9-8
Charleston	A	A	2R	QF	SF	3R	1R	F	2R	SF	SF	F	2R	'0 / 11'	25-11
Berlin	A	A	1R	1R	QF	1R	3R	A	3R	3R	SF	QF	QF	'0 / 10'	16-9
Rome	A	A	SF	1R	3R	1R	2R	2R	3R	2R	F	3R	SF	'0 / 11'	18-11
San Diego1	A	A	A	A	1R	A	A	A	A	1R	QF	SF	F	'0 / 4'	10-5
Montreal/Toronto	A	A	A	1R	1R	2R	A	2R	A	A	A	A	3R	'0 / 5'	4-5
Moscow	A	2R	2R	2R	1R	2R	A	A	1R	1R	2R	QF		'0 / 9'	6-9
Zurich	2R	1R	1R	2R	2R	1R	1R	'W'	QF	SF	F	1R		'1 / 12'	17-12
'Tournaments Won'	'0'	'0'	'0'	'5'	'1'	'0'	'1'	'1'	'0'	'0'	'2'	'0'		'N/A'	'10'
'Year End Ranking'	'152'	'58'	'26'	'11'	'21'	'25'	'37'	'15'	'23'	'14'	'7'	'9'		'N/A'	'N/A'

★ A = did not participate in the tournament

★ SR = the ratio of the number of singles tournaments won to the number of those tournaments played

★ ¹ The San Diego tournament achieved Tier I status only in 2004.

Sources

★ The Tennis Week Interview: Patty Schnyder Hofmann Pagliaro, Richard

External links

★ Official website

★ Official website in English

★ Official website for Patty Schnyder's book

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