Fiona Ferro was born on 12 March 1997 and is a French professional tennis player born in Belgium.
28 Facts About Fiona Ferro
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Fiona Ferro has career-high WTA rankings of No 39 in singles, attained on 8 March 2021, and No 257 in doubles, reached on 17 May 2021.
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Fiona Ferro was born in Libramont, Belgium, to a Belgian mother, Catherine, and a French-Italian father, Fabrizio.
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Fiona Ferro's parents owned a restaurant in Belgium when she was born.
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The Ferros moved to southern France when Fiona was one year old.
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Fiona Ferro has two older brothers, Gianni and Paolo, and one younger brother, Flavio.
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Fiona Ferro started playing tennis when she was seven in her hometown of Valbonne.
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Fiona Ferro had a career-high ITF junior combined ranking of world No 27, attained on 3 June 2013.
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Fiona Ferro made her ITF Women's Circuit debut at the $25k indoor hardcourt tournament held in late January 2012 in Grenoble, France; she only entered that tournament's singles event, losing in the first qualifying round.
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Fiona Ferro played eight tournaments on the 2012 ITF Circuit.
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Fiona Ferro played eleven tournaments on the 2013 ITF Circuit.
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Fiona Ferro made her WTA Tour singles debut at the 2014 Internationaux de Strasbourg; as a wildcard, she lost in the first qualifying round to Yuliya Beygelzimer.
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Fiona Ferro made her Grand Slam singles debut at the 2014 French Open, after receiving a wildcard for the singles main draw, where she lost in the first round to the No 16 seed Sabine Lisicki.
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In June 2016, Fiona Ferro ended her player-coach collaboration with Pierre Bouteyre.
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Fiona Ferro then made her WTA 125K series singles debut at the Open de Limoges, after receiving a wildcard for the main draw wherein she lost in the first round to the unseeded Ivana Jorovic.
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Fiona Ferro had to win three qualifying matches to reach the singles main-draw of a WTA Tour event for the first time in 2018, at the International tournament in Rabat, losing in the first round to another qualifier, Paula Badosa Gibert.
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Fiona Ferro played in Strasbourg, where she had entered the singles main draw as a wildcard, losing in the first round to the sixth seed Timea Babos.
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Fiona Ferro received a singles main-draw wildcard for the French Open, just like she did in 2014,2015 and 2017.
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Fiona Ferro won the first Grand Slam singles main-draw match of her career and picked up her first career win over a player ranked in the top 100 at the French Open when she defeated world No 61, Carina Witthoft, in the first round.
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Fiona Ferro lost to the No 3 seed Garbine Muguruza in the second round.
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On 22 October 2018, Fiona Ferro attained a career-high of world No 100 in the WTA singles rankings and became the 43rd Frenchwoman to break inside the top 100 of those rankings.
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On 18 December 2019, Fiona Ferro announced on her Instagram account that Emmanuel Planque would henceforth be her new coach.
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Fiona Ferro reached the fourth round of the French Open, her best showing at a Grand Slam tournament in her career thus far, where she was defeated by fourth seeded and eventual runner-up, Sofia Kenin.
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Fiona Ferro finished the year in the top 50 at No 42 for the first time in her career.
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Fiona Ferro reached the third round of the Australian Open, her best showing at this Grand Slam event in her career so far, where she was defeated by 15th seed Iga Swiatek.
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Fiona Ferro reached a career-high of No 39 on 8 March 2021.
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Fiona Ferro still managed to deliver, despite the loss, a great fight against Jennifer Brady in the second round though.
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Fiona Ferro then reached the semifinals of the ITF tournament of Santa Fe in California, where she retired in the third set against Elvina Kalieva.