Then came her 2006 majors breakthroughs at Australia and Wimbledon. Early in her career, her critics claimed she lacked the mental toughness to make her a major champion. The same year, she made headlines off the court after telling a French newspaper that she was gay. She claimed her first WTA title in Bratislava in 1999.
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Mauresmo played in her first professional tournaments in 1995, and qualified for her first French Open the same year. They were her first major championships, but Amelie Mauresmo was already among the elite of women's tennis, known in particular for her powerful physique and athletic game. “Getting a medal in the Olympics is huge, winning the Fed Cup for my country, being number one in the world also is an amazing achievement, all those things but yes I would put Wimbledon on top.Amelie Mauresmo won both the Australian Open and Wimbledon tennis tournaments in 2006. “It was a feeling you really keep in yourself, you are not thinking about it every day in your life but it’s something that belongs to you and you cherish. “It was really the emotion, the exhilaration the relief, being so proud of what I did,” Mauresmo adds. “Wimbledon in 2006,” she replies, recalling a final in which she rallied from a set down to beat Justine Henin – who had denied her Olympic gold in Athens – and become the first Frenchwoman to win the prestigious title since Suzanne Lenglen in 1925. And when she does, what memory from her playing days will she treasure most? Given the knowledge and experience she has, tennis will miss Mauresmo when she departs. “It was a relief when it stopped but throughout your career it was really fulfilling you, and it’s quite interesting.” It’s all related with your tennis and it’s something that is really taking all your life, and I also enjoyed it. “It’s everything you do, how you eat, how you sleep, what time you go to bed, the activities you do outside. It’s an obsessive thing to be a professional athlete, it’s something you think about all the time. “And on the sports side you develop the competitiveness that you have inside of you, you really let it out. “I love that also to go on this journey but not alone – really having people next to me, beside me, guiding me, learning from them, listening to them and giving them some things – the exchange and the connection you have is quite interesting. “I owe so much to tennis as a person also because I really grew up and learned many things, I was talking earlier about the relationships with people and the strong connections that you get. “Tennis was all my life for 20 years,” she says. With 25 career singles titles to her name, and over $15 million accrued in prize money, Mauresmo’s name was, and still is, indelibly marked into the fabric of the women’s game. She has also had success in her short coaching career, helping propel Marion Bartoli to the 2013 Wimbledon title before her compatriot’s shock decision to quit the sport. For a great tennis vintage ) /uZsyGZNeZH- AmelieMauresmo February 22, 2014Īlize Cornet, one of those involved in France’s Group II win over Switzerland last month, says Mauresmo is the best captain she has ever played for. Mauresmo has a special place in her heart for the Fed Cup – the female equivalent of the Davis Cup – having won it in 2003, triumphing in all eight of her singles rubbers. In 2011 she was named tournament director of the GDF Suez Open in Paris, a competition she won three times as a player, before accepting the role of captain of France’s national women’s team in July 2012. “You are going into something and you have no clue what it is … and I am really happy, I don’t regret anything.”įast forward five years and Mauresmo is still intrinsically linked with tennis. (I thought) ‘What am I going to do? Is it going to be exciting enough? How exactly is it going to be?’ “I also felt that I achieved as a tennis player everything that I could have done, so I think it made it quite easy for me to take the step out of it and to do other things. I was finally able to live a normal life, let’s say, to enjoy the things that I could not enjoy before. “The pressure that came out of my shoulders was huge. 1 spot on several occasions and won a silver medal the 2004 Olympics.īut when injuries began to mount in 2009 and Mauresmo took the decision to quit the court, a whole new world presented itself to her. As well as clinching those two major championships in 2006 – the Australian Open and Wimbledon crowns – she attained the coveted world No.
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