Caroline Garcia

Caroline Garcia

Garcia at the 2015 Internazionali BNL d'Italia
Country (sports)	France
Residence	Lyon, France
Born	(1993-10-16) 16 October 1993 Saint-Germain-en-Laye, France
Height	1.77 m (5 ft 10 in)
Turned pro	2011
Plays	Right-handed (two-handed backhand)
Prize money	$3,954,071
Singles
Career record	214–185 (53.63%)
Career titles	3 WTA Tour, 1 WTA 125K Series, 1 ITF Women's Circuit
Highest ranking	No. 23 (24 October 2016)
Current ranking	No. 24 (21 November 2016)
Grand Slam Singles results
Australian Open	3R (2015)
French Open	2R (2011, 2013, 2016)
Wimbledon	3R (2014)
US Open	3R (2016)
Doubles
Career record	148 - 87
Career titles	6 WTA Tour, 1 WTA 125K Series, 4 ITF Women's Ciruit
Highest ranking	No. 2 (24 October 2016)
Current ranking	No. 2 (21 November 2016)
Grand Slam Doubles results
Australian Open	3R (2014, 2015, 2016)
French Open	W (2016)
Wimbledon	QF (2016)
US Open	F (2016)
Mixed doubles
Career titles	0
Grand Slam Mixed Doubles results
French Open	1R (2015)
Wimbledon	2R (2015)
Team competitions
Fed Cup	6–3
Hopman Cup	RR (2016)
Last updated on: 21 November 2016.

Caroline Garcia (born 16 October 1993) is a French professional tennis player.

Garcia has had significant success in doubles, as well as a promising start of career in singles. She has won three singles and six doubles titles on the WTA tour, as well as one singles and four doubles titles on the ITF tour in her career. On 24 October 2016, she reached her best singles ranking of world number 23 and on the same date she peaked at world number 2 in the doubles rankings, tied with fellow Frenchwoman Kristina Mladenovic.

Garcia's breakthrough in doubles stemmed from her partnership with Mladenovic in 2016. The pair won four titles together, the greatest of which is the 2016 French Open doubles title. The Frenchwomen are the 2016 Doubles Team of the Year.

Playing for France at the Fed Cup, Garcia has a win-loss record of 6–3. She was awarded a Heart Award for her sportsmanship.

Career

2011

At the 2011 Australian Open, she earned a wild card and beat Varvara Lepchenko in the first round in her first appearance in the main draw of a WTA tournament. However she lost to Ayumi Morita in the second round.

Garcia made entry into the 2011 French Open as a wild card. Garcia played Zuzana Ondrášková and defeated her in straight sets. In the second round, Garcia had a 6–3, 4–1, 15–0 lead against former no. 1 Maria Sharapova. Maria won 11 games in a row after being down 1–4 in the set. Caroline Garcia gained a lot of respect for her upcoming talent. Andy Murray said the following via Twitter account, "The girl Sharapova is playing is going to be number one in the world one day ... what a player".^[1]

2013

At the 2013 Australian Open, Garcia lost in the first round to no. 47 Elena Vesnina. She then beat qualifier Yuliya Beygelzimer, before losing to eventual champion, Serena Williams, at the French Open. She qualified for Wimbledon.^[2] This marks the first Grand Slam for which she qualified; she received a wild card for the previous five. Caroline beat Zheng Jie in the first round, before losing again to Serena Williams in the second round.

She was ranked high enough to gain direct entry to the main draw of the US Open, and beat American wild card Shelby Rogers in the first round, before losing to 30th seed Laura Robson of Great Britain. Her first round win meant that Garcia reached the world's top 70 for the first time.

2014: First career WTA singles title

At the 2014 Sony Open Tennis tournament, Garcia was the only player to win a set against the eventual winner, Serena Williams, as Williams was on her way toward winning her seventh title and setting the record for the most number of titles held by a man or woman at the tournament. At the 2014 Copa Claro Colsanitas in Bogotá, Colombia, Garcia won her maiden WTA tour singles title, beating the defending champion and former world no. 1 Jelena Janković, winning in straight sets.

At the Mutua Madrid Open in May, Garcia reached the quarterfinals of any Premier event for the first time, defeating Angelique Kerber in the first round after the German retired with a lower back injury, receiving a walkover from Maria Kirilenko after the Russian withdrew with a wrist injury, and then defeating tenth seed Sara Errani in three sets in the third round. She eventually lost to third seed Agnieszka Radwańska in the quarterfinals in three sets.^[3] Garcia lost in the first round of the 2014 French Open to Ana Ivanovic.

Garcia made the third round of the Wimbledon, eventually losing to Ekaterina Makarova. She lost early at the US Open to American Nicole Gibbs. Garcia rebounded at the 2014 Wuhan Open, defeating Venus Williams and Agnieszka Radwańska back to back, with a 7–6 score in the final-set tiebreak. She also defeated American Coco Vandeweghe in straight sets to reach the quarterfinals, where she was defeated by eventual champion Petra Kvitová. Despite the loss, Garcia moved up to a career high of no. 36 in the rankings.

2016: Second/Third career WTA singles title; first Grand Slam women's doubles title

Garcia represented France at the 2016 Hopman Cup alongside Kenny de Schepper. She was undefeated in her singles matches, beating Heather Watson, Sabine Lisicki, and eventual champion Daria Gavrilova. Garcia and de Schepper were beaten in all of their mixed doubles matches. At the Sydney International, Garcia defeated fellow French Kristina Mladenovic, but lost in three sets to eventual semifinalist Simona Halep. She then fell short in the first round of the Australian Open, losing to Barbora Strýcová in straight sets.

At the Fed Cup, however, Garcia rebounded and helped France in their tie against Italy, earning singles wins over Sara Errani and Camila Giorgi. In her next tournament, the Dubai Tennis Championships, she lost her singles semifinal match, defeating Anna Karolína Schmiedlová, Carla Suárez Navarro and Andrea Petkovic en route. Two weeks later, she reached her second WTA Tour singles semifinals of the year at the tournament in Monterrey, losing her semifinal match to Heather Watson. Garcia then lost in her opening match in Indian Wells to Christina McHale. Her next tournament was the Miami Open, where she beat Mirjana Lucic-Baroni and Andrea Petkovic before losing in three sets to eventual finalist Svetlana Kuznetsova.

She then played in Charleston, losing her 1st rd match to Irina-Camelia Begu. However, Garcia won the doubles title alongside fellow frenchwoman Kristina Mladenovic.

Playing for France in the Fed Cup semifinal, Garcia lost her first match against Kiki Bertens in staight sets, but managed to beat Arantxa Rus. France eventually won the tie after the doubles match, in which Garcia once again played with Mladenovic. Her next tournament was the Porsche Tennis Grand Prix, where, despite another 1st rd defeat in the singles to Monica Niculescu, she won another title in doubles with Mladenovic after beating No. 1 seeds Martina Hingis and Sania Mirza in the final.

In May, Garcia won her first Premier Mandatory/Premier 5 doubles title at the Madrid Open, partnering Mladenovic. In the same month, Garcia won the Internationaux de Strasbourg singles title by defeating Mirjana Lučić-Baroni in straight sets in the final, becoming only the third Frenchwoman to win the Internationaux de Strasbourg singles title since it became a WTA Tour event in 1987.

At the French Open, Garcia won the women's doubles event partnering Kristina Mladenovic, beating Ekaterina Makarova and Elena Vesnina in the final. It was the first Grand Slam women's doubles crown for Garcia and Mladenovic and they became the first all-French pair to win the French Open women's doubles title since Gail Chanfreau and Françoise Dürr in 1971.^[4]

On 19 June, Garcia won her second WTA singles title of 2016 and her first one on grass, by beating Anastasija Sevastova in straight sets in the final of the inaugural Mallorca Open. She had defeated a pair of former Wimbledon singles semifinalists in Ana Ivanovic and Kirsten Flipkens to reach the final. On 20 June, she returned to the top 32 of the WTA singles rankings and replaced Kristina Mladenovic as the French singles No.1.^[5]

Garcia participated in both the women's singles and women's doubles of the 2016 Summer Olympics. Garcia and Kristina Mladenovic, seeded no.2, lost in the first round of the women's doubles.

At the 2016 US Open, Garcia was seeded no. 25 in singles. She reached the third round of the draw, defeating Kiki Bertens and Katerina Siniakova before falling to the no. 4 seed, Agnieszka Radwanska. As a result, Garcia reached a career-high ranking of 24. In the doubles event, Garcia yet again partnered with Kristina Mladenovic. The Frenchwomen were the number 1 seed of the event. Garcia and Mladenovic reached the final, where they were defeated by Bethanie Mattek-Sands and Lucie Safarova. As a result of reaching the final, Garcia and Mladenovic qualified for the 2016 WTA Finals. They were the second doubles team to qualify.

Garcia kicked off the Asian swing at the Wuhan Open. She was scheduled to play singles at the Guangzhou Open one week earlier, but withdrew before the tournament started. In Wuhan, Garcia played in both singles and doubles. In singles, she was defeated in the second round by no. 8 seed Madison Keys. In doubles, Garcia and Mladenovic, the no. 1 seeds, lost their opening second round to Christina McHale and Peng Shuai. Next, at the China Open, Garcia reached the third round of the singles draw, before falling to Daria Gavrilova. In doubles, she was once again seeded no. 1 with Mladenovic. The French team fought their way to the final, defeating no. 3 seeds Chan Hao-ching and Chan Yung-jan in the semifinals. This was Garcia and Mladenovic's eighth final together. They would end up losing to Bethanie Mattek-Sands and Lucie Safarova, the US Open champions.

Garcia ended her run in Asia at the Hong Kong Tennis Open, where she was seeded no. 5 in singles. She passed the first round before losing to her doubles rival, Bethanie Mattek-Sands, in the second round.

Garcia played singles at her last regular-season tournament of the year, the Luxembourg Open, where she was seeded 4th. She had a hard-fought match against Anett Kontaveit, and just barely won. She was then defeated by Andrea Petkovic.

Garcia and Mladenovic received the WTA Award for Best Doubles Team of the Year shortly before the start of the WTA Finals. Garcia also won the Heart Award for the Fed Cup World Group Semifinals stage. At the Finals, Garcia and Mladenovic started strong, defeating Julia Görges and Karolina Pliskova in the quarterfinals. However, in the semifinals, they were once again defeated by their rivals, Bethanie Mattek-Sands and Lucie Safarova. Garcia and Mladenovic missed the chance to become the WTA year-end doubles world no. 1s.

Garcia made a last-minute appearance at the WTA Elite Trophy. She was originally one place short of qualifying, but was able to join the tournament when Venus Williams withdrew. She played in the Azalea Group against Johanna Konta and Samantha Stosur. Garcia won her first match against Stosur, 6-4, 6-3. She then lost her second match against Konta, the top seed, and thus did not reach the semifinals. However, she walks away with a year-end ranking of 23, her best ranking yet.

Garcia played in the Fed Cup final in November against the Czech Republic. She defeated two-time Wimbledon champion Petra Kvitova, then upset US Open finalist and Czech no. 1 Karolina Pliskova. Unfortunately, Garcia and Mladenovic then lost their doubles rubber against Pliskova and Barbora Strycova, which meant that the Czech won the Fed Cup final 3-2.

Significant finals

Grand Slam finals

Doubles: 2 (1 title, 1 runner-up)

Outcome	Year	Championship	Surface	Partner	Opponents in Final	Score in Final
Winner	2016	French Open	Clay	Kristina Mladenovic	Ekaterina Makarova Elena Vesnina	6–3, 2–6, 6–4
Runner-up	2016	US Open	Hard	Kristina Mladenovic	Bethanie Mattek-Sands Lucie Šafářová	6–2, 6–7(5–7), 4–6

WTA Premier Mandatory & Premier 5 finals

Doubles: 4 (1 title, 3 runner-up, )

Outcome	Year	Championship	Surface	Partner	Opponents	Score
Runner-up	2014	Wuhan	Hard	Cara Black	Martina Hingis Flavia Pennetta	4–6, 7–5, [10–12]
Runner-up	2015	Toronto	Hard	Katarina Srebotnik	Bethanie Mattek-Sands Lucie Šafářová	1–6, 2–6
Winner	2016	Madrid	Clay	Kristina Mladenovic	Martina Hingis Sania Mirza	6–4, 6–4
Runner-Up	2016	Beijing	Hard	Kristina Mladenovic	Bethanie Mattek-Sands Lucie Safarova	4-6, 4-6

WTA career finals

WTA Tour finals

Singles: 5 (3 titles, 2 runner-up)

Outcome	No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Opponent	Score
Winner	1.	13 April 2014	Copa Colsanitas, Bogotá, Colombia	Clay	Jelena Janković	6–3, 6–4
Runner-up	1.	28 February 2015	Abierto Mexicano Telcel, Acapulco, Mexico	Hard	Timea Bacsinszky	3–6, 0–6
Runner-up	2.	9 March 2015	Monterrey Open, Monterrey, Mexico	Hard	Timea Bacsinszky	6–4, 2–6, 4–6
Winner	2.	21 May 2016	Internationaux de Strasbourg, Strasbourg, France	Clay	Mirjana Lučić-Baroni	6–4, 6–1
Winner	3.	19 June 2016	Mallorca Open, Mallorca, Spain	Grass	Anastasija Sevastova	6–3, 6–4

Doubles: 16 (6 titles, 10 runners-up, )

Outcome	No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Partner	Opponents	Score
Winner	1.	12 April 2014	Copa Colsanitas, Bogotà, Colombia	Clay	Lara Arruabarrena	Vania King Chanelle Scheepers	7–6(7–5), 6–4
Runner-up	1.	27 September 2014	Wuhan Open, Wuhan, China	Hard	Cara Black	Martina Hingis Flavia Pennetta	4–6, 7–5, [10–12]
Runner-up	2.	12 October 2014	Generali Ladies Linz, Linz, Austria	Hard (i)	Annika Beck	Raluca Olaru Anna Tatishvili	2–6, 1–6
Runner-up	3.	18 October 2014	Kremlin Cup, Moscow, Russia	Hard (i)	Arantxa Parra Santonja	Martina Hingis Flavia Pennetta	3–6, 5–7
Runner-up	4.	10 January 2015	Brisbane International, Brisbane, Australia	Hard	Katarina Srebotnik	Martina Hingis Sabine Lisicki	2–6, 5–7
Runner-up	5.	26 April 2015	Porsche Tennis Grand Prix, Stuttgart, Germany	Clay (i)	Katarina Srebotnik	Bethanie Mattek-Sands Lucie Šafářová	4–6, 3–6
Winner	2.	27 May 2015	Aegon International, Eastbourne, UK	Grass	Katarina Srebotnik	Chan Yung-jan Zheng Jie	7–6(7–5), 6–2
Runner-up	6.	16 August 2015	Rogers Cup, Toronto, Canada	Hard	Katarina Srebotnik	Bethanie Mattek-Sands Lucie Šafářová	1–6, 2–6
Runner-up	7.	16 January 2016	Apia International Sydney, Sydney, Australia	Hard	Kristina Mladenovic	Martina Hingis Sania Mirza	6–1, 5–7, [5–10]
Runner-up	8.	20 February 2016	Dubai Tennis Championships, Dubai, United Arab Emirates	Hard	Kristina Mladenovic	Chuang Chia-jung Darija Jurak	4–6, 4–6
Winner	3.	10 April 2016	Charleston Open, Charleston, United States	Clay (green)	Kristina Mladenovic	Bethanie Mattek-Sands Lucie Šafářová	6–2, 7–5
Winner	4.	24 April 2016	Porsche Tennis Grand Prix, Stuttgart, Germany	Clay (i)	Kristina Mladenovic	Martina Hingis Sania Mirza	2–6, 6–1, [10–6]
Winner	5.	7 May 2016	Madrid Open, Madrid, Spain	Clay	Kristina Mladenovic	Martina Hingis Sania Mirza	6–4, 6–4
Winner	6.	5 June 2016	Roland Garros, Paris, France	Clay	Kristina Mladenovic	Ekaterina Makarova Elena Vesnina	6–3, 2–6, 6–4
Runner-up	9.	11 September 2016	US Open, New York, United States	Hard	Kristina Mladenovic	Bethanie Mattek-Sands Lucie Šafářová	6–2, 6–7(5–7), 4–6
Runner-up	10.	9 October 2016	China Open, Beijing, China	Hard	Kristina Mladenovic	Bethanie Mattek-Sands Lucie Safarova	4-6, 4-6

WTA 125K series finals

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

Outcome	No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Opponent	Score
Winner	1.	15 November 2015	Limoges, France	Hard (i)	Louisa Chirico	6–1, 6–3
Runner-up	1.	20 November 2016	Limoges, France	Hard (i)	Ekaterina Alexandrova	4–6, 0–6

Team competition: 1 (1 runner-up)

Outcome	No.	Date	Team competition	Surface	Partner/Team	Opponents	Score
Runner–up	1.	12–13 November 2016	Fed Cup, Strasbourg, France	Hard (i)	Kristina Mladenovic Alizé Cornet Pauline Parmentier	Karolína Plíšková Lucie Hradecká Petra Kvitová Barbora Strýcová	2–3

Other tennis statistics

ITF Women's Circuit singles finals: 4 (1–3)

Outcome	No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Opponent	Score
Runner-up	1.	11 July 2010	Aschaffenburg, Germany	Clay	Mădălina Gojnea	1–6, 0–6
Runner-up	2.	17 April 2011	Osprey, Florida, USA	Clay	Claire de Gubernatis	4–6, 4–6
Runner-up	3.	8 August 2011	Kazan, Russia	Hard	Yulia Putintseva	4–6, 2–6
Winner	1.	12 May 2013	Cagnes-sur-Mer, France	Clay	Maryna Zanevska	6–0, 4–6, 6–3

ITF Women's Circuit doubles finals: 4 (2–2)

Outcome	No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Partner	Opponents	Score
Winner	1.	21 September 2009	Espinho, Portugal	Clay	Elixane Lechemia	Mishel Okhremchuk Morgane Pons	7–5, 6–1
Runner–up	1.	10 August 2010	Limoges, France	Clay	Claire Feuerstein	Lyudmyla Kichenok Nadiya Kichenok	7–6(7–5), 4–6, [8–10]
Winner	2.	10 May 2011	Saint-Gaudens, France	Clay	Aurélie Védy	Anastasia Pivovarova Olga Savchuk	6–3, 6–3
Runner-up	2.	15 October 2012	Makinohara, Japan	Grass	Monique Adamczak	Eri Hozumi Miyu Kato	6–7(6–8), 3–6

Singles performance timeline

Doubles performance timeline

Updated as of 2016 Wuhan Open

Top-10 wins per season

#	Player	Rank	Event	Surface	Round	Score
2014
1.	Jelena Janković	No. 9	Bogota, Colombia	Clay	Final	6–3, 6–4
2.	Angelique Kerber	No. 8	Madrid, Spain	Clay	1st Round	6–3, 2–0, retired
3.	Agnieszka Radwańska	No. 6	Wuhan, China	Hard	2nd Round	3–6, 7–6(7–4), 7–6(9–7)
2015
4.	Ana Ivanovic	No. 6	Monterrey, Mexico	Hard	Semifinals	6–1, 6–4
5.	Ana Ivanovic	No. 6	Indian Wells, United States	Hard	3rd Round	6–2, 5–7, 6–2
6.	Ana Ivanovic	No. 6	Stuttgart, Germany	Clay (i)	1st Round	7–6(8–6), 6–4
7.	Petra Kvitová	No. 4	Cincinnati, United States	Hard	2nd Round	7–5, 4–6, 6–2
2016
8.	Karolína Plíšková	No. 6	Fed Cup, Strasbourg, France	Hard (i)	Final	6–3, 3–6, 6–3

References

External links

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Awards and achievements
Preceded by Martina Hingis & Sania Mirza	WTA Doubles Team of the Year (with Kristina Mladenovic) 2016	Succeeded by Incumbent

Women's Tennis Association: Top French female singles tennis players as of 31 October 2016
1. Caroline Garcia (23 ) 2. Kristina Mladenovic (42 ) 3. Alizé Cornet (46 ) 4. Océane Dodin (71 12) 5. Pauline Parmentier (73 4)
6. Virginie Razzano (169 3) 7. Myrtille Georges (187 ) 8. Amandine Hesse (204 1) 9. Alizé Lim (213 6) 10. Fiona Ferro (234 5)

Women's Tennis Association: Top French female doubles tennis players as of 24 October 2016
1. Caroline Garcia (2 2) 1. Kristina Mladenovic (2 1) 3. Alizé Cornet (151 6) 4. Alizé Lim (155 5) 5. Amandine Hesse (187 6)
6. Stéphanie Foretz (206 6) 7. Manon Arcangioli (265 6) 8. Shérazad Reix (273 4) 9. Pauline Parmentier (305 ) 10. Fiona Ferro (398 61)