Aravane Rezaï
Aravane Rezai ( born March 14, 1987 in Saint- Étienne ) is a French tennis player of Iranian descent. In October 2010 she was number 15 in the WTA world rankings. Since that year she played for France in the Fed Cup.
- 3.1 Individual
Career
2001 and 2005 represented Rezaï Iran at the Women's Islamic Games and each won gold. Immediately thereafter, she was as a French citizen elite player on the WTA Tour. Was your biggest success at Grand Slam tournaments her collection in 2006 to the second round of the U.S. Open, she lost to Elena Dementieva. In 2007, she reached the final of the Tier III tournament in Istanbul, 2008, the final of the Tier IV tournament in Auckland.
2009
This year they celebrated their first major success: on 23 May 2009 they defeated in the final of the Strasbourg 24 -year-old Czech Lucie Hradecká with 7:62, 6:1, and thus won her first WTA title. Her best result at a Grand Slam tournament she leveled with the first knockout round of the French Open, where she then clearly the world number one Dinara Safina defeated. On the way she had, inter alia, the number 37 in the world, Japan's Ai Sugiyama defeated in straight sets. At the end of the season they won the $ 600,000 with doped and counting the Tour Invitational tournament in Bali. In the final, they benefited there, with 7:5 in the lead, but the task of her compatriot Marion Bartoli.
2010
The year began with a Rezaï semi-finals at the Medibank International in Sydney, where they only Serena Williams ( 6:3, 5:7, 4:6 ) was stopped. In the following tournaments, there was less good, only in Indian Wells at the BNP Paribas Open, she was, among other things, after defeating Francesca Schiavone, to the last sixteen.
The greatest success of her career was celebrating Rezaï in May 2010, when she was the third Premier Mandatory tournament of the year, the Madrid Open winning, surprisingly. Inter alia After victories over Justine Henin ( 4:6, 7:5, 6:0 in the first round ) and Jelena Jankovic ( 7-5, 6-4, in the quarterfinals ) they beat in the final Venus Williams in straight sets.
2011
At Wimbledon was for them after the first round ( 3:6, 6:3, 1:6 against after almost one year break returned defending champion Serena Williams) circuit. She finished the season ranked 113 in the world rankings.
2012
In the WTA tournaments of Auckland ( against Peng Shuai ), Barcelona ( against Julia Goerges ) and Montreal ( again against Peng ) she lost after recovering from her first round match each qualification. In Melbourne she was eliminated in the first round against Peng, Wimbledon and Flushing Meadows (New York) she did not come into the main draw.
Personal
Aravane Rezai has a sister ( Caminde ) and a brother ( Anauch ), who is also a tennis coach. Her mother is a physiotherapist Nouchine. Both parents are Iranian nationals.
In 2009 she took part in a conference for expatriate Iranians in Tehran, were invited to the hundreds of participants from around the world. During the visit, they showed their support for the Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad by giving him two of her tennis racket. Afterwards they responded to a journalist's question why they cherish sympathy for Ahmadinejad: ". Why Because he has led the strength of Iran before eyes of the world "
On June 10, 2011 it was announced that Aravane Rezai to have a few days earlier filed against her father criminal charges of " moral and intentional violence and death threats ."