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Francesca Schiavone
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Francesca Schiavone is an Italian professional tennis player who achieved significant success in the sport. She is notable for being one of Italy's top tennis competitors, contributing to her country's presence in international tennis.
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Sports profile
- Sport
- Tennis
- Position
- Tennis Player
- Nationality
- Italy
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Francesca
- Gender
- female
- Citizenship
- Italy
- Place of birth
- Milan
- Occupation
- tennis player
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Native language
- Italian
- Participant in
- tennis at the 2012 Summer Olympics
- Sport
- tennis
- Member of team
- Italy Billie Jean King Cup team
- Country for sport
- Italy
- Mass
- 60
- Official website
- www.schiavonefrancesca.com
- Image
- Schiavone MA14 (14239282528).jpg
- Height
- 166
- Residence
- Milan
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- Commons category
- Francesca Schiavone
- date of birth
- 1980-06-23
- singles record
- 614–479
- doubles record
- 224–205
- prize money
- 11324245
- ranking
- 8
- end of work period
- 2018-00-00
- start of work period
- 1998-00-00
- handedness
- right-handedness
- birth name
- Francesca Lizzy Schiavone
- social media followers
- 19597
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Encyclopedic overview
Francesca Schiavone ( Italian pronunciation: [franˈtʃeska skjaˈvoːne]; born 23 June 1980) is an Italian former professional tennis player. She had career-high rankings of world No. 4 in women's singles and No. 8 in women's doubles by the Women's Tennis Association (WTA). Schiavone won eight WTA Tour-level singles titles, including a major at the 2010 French Open, the first Italian woman to win a singles major. To date, Schiavone is the last one-handed backhand player to win a major women's title.
Schiavone was also runner-up in singles at the 2011 French Open and in women's doubles at the 2008 French Open. She helped Italy win the Fed Cup in 2006, 2009 and 2010, and has the most match wins of any player for the Italian team.
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