Amélie Mauresmo

French tennis player

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Amélie Mauresmo is a French tennis player who achieved significant success in professional tennis during her career. She matters because she was one of France's top tennis talents and made notable contributions to the sport at the international level.

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Born: 1979-07-05

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Type: Person
Country: BE
Active from: 1990-05-31

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5 total works indexed

Guidelines for the use and interpretation of assays for monitoring autophagy (3rd edition)
· 2016 · cited 4,396x
Towards a proteome-scale map of the human protein–protein interaction network
· 2005 · cited 2,467x
Guidelines for the use and interpretation of assays for monitoring autophagy (4th edition)<sup>1</sup>
· 2021 · cited 2,388x

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Amélie Simone Mauresmo ( French pronunciation: [ameli simɔn moʁɛsmo]; born 5 July 1979) is a French former professional tennis player, tennis coach, and tournament director. She was ranked as the world No. 1 in women's singles by the Women's Tennis Association (WTA) for 39 weeks. Mauresmo won 25 WTA Tour-level singles titles, including two majors, at the 2006 Australian Open and the 2006 Wimbledon Championships, as well as the 2005 WTA Tour Championships. She also won an Olympic silver medal in singles at the 2004 Athens Olympics. Mauresmo was known for her powerful one-handed backhand and strong net play.

Mauresmo officially announced her retirement from professional tennis on 3 December 2009, ending a career of 15 years. The following year, she started her coaching career, covering both WTA and ATP players, including ATP world No. 1 Andy Murray. She was inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame in 2015. In 2021, Mauresmo was named the director of the French Open.