Chanelle Scheepers

Chanelle Scheepers

Country (sports)	South Africa
Residence	Boca Raton, Florida, U.S.
Born	(1984-03-13) 13 March 1984 (age 37) Harrismith, South Africa
Height	1.74 m (5 ft 8+1⁄2 in)
Turned pro	2000
Retired	April 2015
Plays	Right-handed (two-handed backhand)
Prize money	$1,949,415
Singles
Career record	436–346
Career titles	1 WTA, 12 ITF
Highest ranking	No. 37 (10 October 2011)
Grand Slam Singles results
Australian Open	3R (2011)
French Open	4R (2010)
Wimbledon	2R (2014)
US Open	3R (2011)
Doubles
Career record	240–186
Career titles	1 WTA, 20 ITF
Highest ranking	No. 42 (10 April 2014)
Grand Slam Doubles results
Australian Open	2R (2013, 2015)
French Open	1R (2011)
Wimbledon	SF (2013)
US Open	2R (2012)

Chanelle Scheepers (/ʃəˈnɛl ˈskɛpərz/ born 13 March 1984) is a retired South African tennis player.

She won one singles and one doubles title on the WTA Tour, as well as 12 singles and 20 doubles titles on the ITF Women's Circuit in her career. On 10 October 2011, she reached her best singles ranking of world No. 37. On 10 April 2014, she peaked at No. 42 in the doubles rankings.

Career[]

Scheepers turned pro in 2000 and played two ITF events.

In 2001, she reached four finals on ITF level and won all, with three of them coming from Durban, South Africa a local tournament, and one in the United States.

In 2002, she reached three ITF finals winning one in Mackay, Australia and losing in the other two in Liechtenstein and Switzerland.

In 2003, she played her first tour-level event in the Mondial Australian Women's Hardcourts and won her first main-draw tour-level match after getting through the qualifying draw over Samantha Stosur but lost to Tathiana Garbin in the next round. She then had a 19 match losing streak in the qualifying draws of tour-level and ITF events and main draw of ITF events.

2004 was a better year for Scheepers, she returned playing in ITF events where she won four titles; two in Benin City, Nigeria and two in Pretoria, South Africa. She also reached four other finals in Torre del Greco and Taranto both in Italy, in Pétange, Luxembourg and Lagos, Nigeria.

In 2005, Scheepers once again started playing in the qualifying draw of tour-level events but she didn't produce results as she only reached one semifinals and one quarterfinals in ITF events.

2006 was not a better year for Scheepers despite returning to the ITF circuit as she only reached two semifinals and one quarterfinal.

In 2007, Scheepers won her first ITF titles in three years as she won two titles in Lagos, Nigeria and Allentown, Pennsylvania, United States.

In 2008, her form went down as she only reached one semifinal and two quarterfinals.

2009 was a breakthrough year for the South African player as she made her Grand Slam main-draw debut getting through the qualifying draw in the Australian Open and French Open. She also made four main-draw wins and won a title in Irapuato, Mexico.

In 2010, Scheepers continued to play in the tour-level events and her persistence paid off as she reached her first main-draw quarterfinals in the Malaysian Open losing to Japanese Ayumi Morita. She then won in the ITF event of Fort Walton Beach, United States. In the French Open, after coming through the qualifying draw, she won her first Grand Slam main-draw match over Frenchwoman Mathilde Johansson in straight sets. She then continued her form by upsetting both, Gisela Dulko and Akgul Amanmuradova. She lost to world No. 5, Elena Dementieva in the fourth round in two sets. As a result of this performance, she was awarded a wildcard into the main draw of Wimbledon, where she lost in the first round to ninth seed and eventual quarter-finalist Li Na.

In 2011, she made the third round of the Australian Open. Following modest results for much of the rest of the year, Scheepers reached the third round of the US Open, where she even held match points against Francesca Schiavone before losing the match in three sets. Following that, she won her first WTA single titles at Guangzhou, China as the seventh seed defeating the eighth seed Magdaléna Rybáriková in the final. Scheepers achieved her career-high singles rank of world No. 37 following the tournament. On 13 July 2012, she lost to Serena Williams in the Stanford Classic.

In July 2012, she reached the second round of Mercury Insurance Open, Carlsbad losing to Varvara Lepchenko.^[1]

At the 2013 Wimbledon Championships, she teamed with Shuko Aoyama to advance to the semifinals in women's doubles.^[2]

In 2015, after the Family Cup in Charleston, she retired from the WTA Tour and later started coaching American tennis player Alison Riske.^[3]

Personal life[]

Scheepers married Roger Anderson, her former coach, on 10 November 2012, in the KwaZulu-Natal Midlands.^[4]

WTA career finals[]

Singles: 2 (1 title, 1 runner-up)[]

Result	W/L	Date	Tournament	Surface	Opponent	Score
Win	1.	Sep 2011	Guangzhou Open, China	Hard	Magdaléna Rybáriková	6–2, 6–2
Loss	1.	Jul 2014	Swedish Open, Båstad	Clay	Mona Barthel	3–6, 6–7(3–7)

Doubles: 5 (1 title, 4 runner-ups)[]

Result	W/L	Date	Tournament	Surface	Partner	Opponents	Score
Loss	1.	Oct 2009	Japan Open, Osaka	Hard	Abigail Spears	Lisa Raymond Chuang Chia-jung	2–6, 4–6
Loss	2.	Aug 2012	Citi Open, Washington D.C.	Hard	Irina Falconi	Shuko Aoyama Chang Kai-chen	5–7, 2–6
Win	1.	May 2013	Internationaux de Strasbourg, France	Clay	Kimiko Date-Krumm	Cara Black Marina Erakovic	6–4, 3–4, [14–12]
Loss	3.	Feb 2014	Rio Open, Brazil	Clay	Johanna Larsson	Irina-Camelia Begu María Irigoyen	2–6, 0–6
Loss	4.	Apr 2014	Copa Colsanitas, Bogotá	Clay	Vania King	Lara Arruabarrena Caroline Garcia	6–7(5–7), 4–6

Grand Slam performance timelines[]

Singles[]

Doubles[]

ITF Circuit finals[]

Singles: 18 (12–6)[]

Outcome	No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Opponent	Score
Winner	1.	27 May 2001	ITF Durban, South Africa	Hard	Lara Van Looyen	7–5, 6–2
Winner	2.	3 June 2001	ITF Durban, South Africa	Hard	Lara Van Looyen	4–6, 6–3, 7–6(7–3)
Winner	3.	21 July 2001	ITF Evansville, United States	Hard	Kristen Schlukebir	6–1, 6–3
Runner-up	1.	10 June 2002	Vaduz, Liechtenstein	Clay	Myriam Casanova	1–6, 3–6
Runner-up	2.	17 June 2002	ITF Lenzerheide, Switzerland	Clay	Eva Birnerová	5–7, 4–6
Winner	4.	14 October 2002	ITF Mackay, Australia	Hard	Amanda Grahame	7–6(8–6), 7–5
Winner	5.	22 February 2004	ITF Benin City, Nigeria	Hard	Meghha Vakaria	6–1, 6–3
Winner	6.	29 February 2004	Benin City, Nigeria	Hard	Susanne Aigner	6–1, 4–6, 6–4
Runner-up	3.	5 April 2004	Torre del Greco, Italy	Clay	Emma Laine	6–3, 4–6, 0–6
Runner-up	4.	17 June 2004	Pétange, Luxembourg	Clay	Stanislava Hrozenská	7–6(14–12), 1–6, 4–6
Runner-up	5.	10 October 2004	Lagos, Nigeria	Hard	Sania Mirza	6–4, 6–7, 5–7
Winner	7.	22 November 2004	Pretoria, South Africa	Hard	Lizaan du Plessis	6–1, 6–3
Winner	8.	28 November 2004	Pretoria, South Africa	Hard	Karoline Borgersen	6–1, 6–3
Runner-up	6.	4 June 2007	Hilton Head, United States	Hard	Angela Haynes	6–3, 2–6, 4–6
Winner	9.	11 June 2007	Allentown, United States	Hard	Angela Haynes	6–2, 2–6, 6–1
Winner	10.	17 December 2007	Lagos, Nigeria	Hard	Zuzana Kučová	6–2, 6–0
Runner-up	6.	26 January 2009	ITF Laguna Niguel, United States	Hard	Alexa Glatch	1–6, 0–6
Winner	11.	16 March 2009	ITF Irapuato, Mexico	Hard	Natalia Rizhonkova	6–1, 7–5
Winner	12.	15 March 2010	ITF Fort Walton Beach, United States	Hard	Sophie Ferguson	7–5, 7–5

Doubles: 36 (20–16)[]

Outcome	No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Partner	Opponents	Score
Runner-up	1.	11 June 2000	ITF Pretoria, South Africa	Hard	Carien Venter	Natalie Grandin Nicole Rencken	6–7(4–7), 2–6
Winner	1.	3 June 2001	ITF Durban, South Africa	Hard	Lara Van Rooyen	Maretha van Niekerk Karin Vermeulen	7–6(7–2), 6–0
Winner	2.	10 June 2001	ITF Durban, South Africa	Hard	Lara Van Rooyen	Marcela Evangelista Letícia Sobral	6–2, 6–2
Winner	3.	24 June 2001	ITF Algiers, Algeria	Clay	Karin Vermeulen	Evghenia Ablovatchi Lenka Tvarošková	7–6(7–2), 6–4
Winner	4.	1 July 2001	Algiers, Algeria	Clay	Karin Vermeulen	Isabel Collischonn Marnie Mahler	7–5, 6–2
Runner-up	2.	25 Nov 2002	Mount Gambier, Australia	Hard	Jane O'Donoghue	Daniella Dominikovic Evie Dominikovic	w/o
Winner	5.	30 March 2003	Rabat, Morocco	Clay	Daniela Klemenschits	Helena Ejeson Helena Norfeldt	6–3, 6–2
Runner-up	3.	28 February 2004	Benin City, Nigeria	Hard	Jennifer Schmidt	Zuzana Černá Franziska Etzel	0–6, 7–5, 3–6
Winner	6.	7 March 2004	Benin City, Nigeria	Hard	Alanna Broderick	Zuzana Černá Franziska Etzel	6–2, 6–2
Winner	7.	11 April 2004	Torre del Greco, Italy	Clay	Jolanda Mens	Michelle Gerards Marielle Hoogland	6–3, 6–0
Runner-up	4.	9 October 2004	Lagos, Nigeria	Hard	Surina De Beer	Shelley Stephens Sania Mirza	1–6, 4–6
Winner	8.	16 October 2004	Lagos, Nigeria	Hard	Surina De Beer	Shelley Stephens Sania Mirza	6–0, 6–0
Winner	9.	3 December 2004	Pretoria, South Africa	Hard	Melissa Berry	Karoline Borgersen Leonie Mekel	6–2, 3–6, 7–5
Winner	10.	15 January 2006	Tampa, United States	Hard	Aleke Tsoubanos	Chan Chin-Wei Hsu Wen-hsin	3–6, 7–6(7–4), 6–3
Runner-up	5.	22 Jan 2006	Fort Walton Beach, United States	Hard	Zuzana Kučová	Maureen Drake Vladimíra Uhlířová	6–2, 4–6, 5–7
Runner-up	6.	5 March 2006	Clearwater, United States	Hard	Natalie Grandin	Kelly Liggan Lina Stančiūtė	3–6, 1–6
Runner-up	7.	9 April 2006	ITF Pelham, United States	Clay	Tiffany Dabek	Tetiana Luzhanska Romana Tedjakusuma	4–6, 1–6
Winner	11.	23 May 2006	ITF Grado, Italy	Clay	Tiffany Dabek	Mailyne Andrieux Nika Ožegović	6–4, 4–6, 7–6
Winner	12.	12 June 2006	ITF Gorizia, Italy	Clay	Soledad Esperón	Matilde Muñoz Gonzalves Sílvia Soler Espinosa	6–4, 6–3
Runner-up	8.	8 October 2006	ITF Troy, United States	Hard	Neha Uberoi	Nicole Kriz Leanne Baker	7–6(7–1), 5–7, 3–6
Runner-up	9.	29 October 2006	ITF Augusta, United States	Hard	Neha Uberoi	Nicole Kriz Leanne Baker	6–7(3–7), 1–6
Runner-up	10.	31 October 2006	ITF Mexico City, Mexico	Hard	Maria Fernanda Alves	María José Argeri Letícia Sobral	3–6, 5–7
Winner	13.	6 March 2007	ITF Toluca, Mexico	Hard	Courtney Nagle	María Irigoyen Andrea Benítez	6–2, 1–6, 6–2
Runner-up	11.	13 March 2007	ITF Mérida, Mexico	Hard	Robin Stephenson	Maria Fernanda Alves Vanina García Sokol	3–6, 2–6
Winner	14.	20 March 2007	ITF Coatzacoalcos, Mexico	Hard	Robin Stephenson	Līga Dekmeijere Story Tweedie-Yates	6–2, 6–2
Runner-up	12.	29 April 2007	ITF Sea Island, United States	Clay	Anda Perianu	Raquel Kops-Jones Lilia Osterloh	5–7, 3–6
Winner	15.	13 October 2007	ITF Saltillo, Mexico	Hard	Soledad Esperón	Debbrich Feys Leonie Mekel	6–0, 6–4
Winner	16.	20 October 2007	ITF San Luis Potosí, Mexico	Hard	Debbrich Feys	Estefanía Craciún Betina Jozami	6–1, 6–4
Winner	17.	15 December 2007	ITF Lagos, Nigeria	Hard	Kelly Anderson	Iryna Brémond Ágnes Szatmári	0–6, 6–3, [10–8]
Winner	18.	22 December 2007	ITF Lagos, Nigeria	Hard	Kelly Anderson	Iryna Brémond Ágnes Szatmári	1–6, 6–3, [10–6]
Runner-up	13.	21 March 2008	ITF Noida, India	Hard	Kelly Anderson	Teodora Mirčić Lenka Tvarošková	2–6, 7–6 (9–7) , [6–10]
Runner-up	14.	18 May 2008	ITF Saint-Gaudens, France	Clay	Aurélie Védy	Hsieh Su-wei Marie-Ève Pelletier	4–6, 0–6
Runner-up	15.	21 March 2009	ITF Irapuato, Mexico	Hard	Soledad Esperón	Jorgelina Cravero	1–6, 0–6
Winner	19.	17 May 2009	ITF Saint-Gaudens, France	Clay	Rika Fujiwara	Kimiko Date-Krumm Sun Tiantian	7–5, 6–4
Winner	20.	20 March 2010	Fort Walton Beach, United States	Hard	Johanna Larsson	Christina Fusano Courtney Nagle	2–6, 7–6, [10–7]
Runner-up	16.	1 November 2010	ITF Grapevine, United States	Hard	Julie Ditty	Ahsha Rolle Mashona Washington	7–5, 2–6, 2–6

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