Stéphanie Cohen-Aloro

Stéphanie Cohen-Aloro
Country (sports)	France
Residence	Seine, France
Born	18 March 1983; Paris
Height	1.75 m (5 ft 9 in)
Turned pro	15 October 2001
Retired	12 February 2011
Plays	Right-handed (one-handed backhand)
Prize money	$1,080,922
Singles
Career record	294–251
Career titles	7 ITF
Highest ranking	No. 61 (23 October 2003)
Grand Slam Singles results
Australian Open	2R (2005, 2009)
French Open	3R (2007)
Wimbledon	1R (2003, 2004, 2008)
US Open	2R (2003)
Doubles
Career record	135–118
Career titles	12 ITF
Highest ranking	No. 54 (18 July 2005)
Team competitions
Fed Cup	W (2003)

Stéphanie Cohen-Aloro (born 18 March 1983) is a former professional tennis player from France.

Her career-high singles ranking is world number 61, achieved on 5 October 2003. Her highest doubles ranking position of 54, she set on 18 July 2005.

Cohen-Aloro won five singles and nine doubles titles on tournaments of the ITF Circuit.

Professional career

Cohen-Aloro turned professional on 15 October 2001, at the age of 18.

In April 2005, she beat world No. 21, Daniela Hantuchová, in Miami in two sets. Cohen-Aloro upset heavy favorite Mary Pierce (seeded 24 and ranked No. 29 in the world) in the first round of the 2005 Australian Open, 6–2, 6–2.

Cohen-Aloro and Tunisian Selima Sfar pulled off a major upset in the first round of the 2005 Wimbledon Championships ladies doubles, beating third seeds Lisa Raymond and Rennae Stubbs 6–4, 3–6, 6–2. However, they lost in the second round.

In 2006, she captured her fifth career ITF singles title at the $25K Biarritz, and won the ninth ITF Circuit doubles title of her career at the $50K Joué-lès-Tours with Martinez Sanchez.

On 12 February 2011, she played her last professional match, losing in the semifinals of the Open GDF Suez doubles event to Bethanie Mattek-Sands and Meghann Shaughnessy. Two days earlier in the same tournament, she had played her last professional singles match, losing to Mattek-Sands in the second round of the main draw.[1]

WTA career finals

Doubles: 1 (runner-up)

Legend
Tier I
Tier II
Tier III, IV & V

Result	Date	Tournament	Surface	Partner	Opponents	Score
Loss	Feb 2003	Open Gaz de France, Paris	Carpet (i)	Marion Bartoli	Barbara Schett Patty Schnyder	6–2, 2–6, 6–7^(5–7)

ITF Circuit finals

$100,000 tournaments
$75,000 tournaments
$50,000 tournaments
$25,000 tournaments
$10,000 tournaments

Singles: 10 (7–3)

Result	No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Opponent	Score
Win	1.	9 December 2001	ITF Nonthaburi, Thailand	Hard	Marina Caiazzo	6–4, 7–5
Win	2.	13 October 2002	ITF Cardiff, Great Britain	Hard (i)	Sandra Kleinová	6–1, 6–1
Win	3.	1 December 2002	Mount Gambier, Australia	Hard	Melinda Czink	6–4, 6–2
Win	4.	4 May 2003	Cagnes-sur-Mer, France	Clay	Yulia Beygelzimer	6–4, 6–3
Loss	1.	24 October 2004	Saint-Raphaël, France	Hard (i)	Barbora Strýcová	1–6, 2–6
Win	5.	16 April 2006	Biarritz, France	Clay	Mădălina Gojnea	6–7^(1–7), 6–4, 6–4
Loss	2.	17 June 2007	Marseille, France	Clay	Jorgelina Cravero	2–6, 4–6
Win	6.	20 April 2008	ITF Saint-Malo, France	Clay	Jelena Kostanić Tošić	6–2, 7–5
Win	7.	13 September 2009	ITF Denain, France	Clay	Ksenia Pervak	6–3, 6–4
Loss	3.	12 September 2010	ITF Denain, France	Clay	Anaïs Laurendon	3–6, 5–7

Doubles: 23 (12–11)

Outcome	No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Partner	Opponents	Score
Winner	1.	15 September 2001	ITF Madrid, Spain	Clay	Kildine Chevalier	Sonia Delgado Anna Floris	2–6, 6–2, 6–2
Winner	2.	5 May 2002	Cagnes-sur-Mer, France	Clay	Dally Randriantefy	Iveta Benešová Caroline Dhenin	6–2, 6–4
Runner-up	1.	28 July 2002	Les Contamines, France	Hard	Anne-Laure Heitz	Maria Kondratieva Katarina Mišić	1–6, 6–7^(4–7)
Winner	3.	18 July 2004	Vittel, France	Clay	Séverine Beltrame	Maria Goloviznina Maria Wolfbrandt	6–1, 6–3
Winner	4.	19 September 2004	Bordeaux, France	Clay	Selima Sfar	Erica Krauth Jasmin Wöhr	3–6, 6–3, 6–3
Runner-up	2.	17 October 2004	Joué-lès-Tours, France	Carpet (i)	Selima Sfar	Květa Peschke Angelika Rösch	w/o
Winner	5.	23 October 2004	Saint-Raphaël, France	Hard (i)	Selima Sfar	Barbora Strýcová Galina Voskoboeva	7–6^(7–3), 2–6, 6–4
Winner	6.	28 November 2004	Poitiers, France	Hard (i)	Selima Sfar	Gabriela Chmelinová Michaela Paštiková	7–5, 6–4
Winner	7.	17 April 2005	Open GDF Suez de Biarritz, France	Clay	Selima Sfar	Timea Bacsinszky Aurélie Védy	6–2, 6–1
Winner	8.	19 November 2005	Deauville, France	Clay (i)	Selima Sfar	Alona Bondarenko Kateryna Bondarenko	6–3, 6–1
Runner-up	3.	18 June 2006	Marseille, France	Clay	Séverine Beltrame	Conchita Martínez Granados María José Martínez Sánchez	5–7, 4–6
Winner	9.	14 October 2006	Joué-lès-Tours, France	Hard (i)	María José Martínez Sánchez	Barbora Strýcová Renata Voráčová	7–5, 7–5
Runner-up	4.	31 March 2007	Latina, Italy	Hard	Selima Sfar	Sara Errani Giulia Gabba	3–6, 6–1, 6–7^(2–7)
Runner-up	5.	6 April 2008	Torhout, Belgium	Hard (i)	Selima Sfar	Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova Yanina Wickmayer	4–6, 6–4, [8–10]
Runner-up	6.	7 September 2008	Denain, France	Clay	Marie-Ève Pelletier	Maret Ani Lourdes Domínguez Lino	0–6, 5–7
Runner-up	7.	19 July 2009	Contrexéville, France	Clay	Pauline Parmentier	Yvonne Meusburger Kathrin Wörle-Scheller	2–6, 2–6
Winner	10.	26 July 2009	Pétange, Luxembourg	Clay	Selima Sfar	Darija Jurak Kathrin Wörle-Scheller	6–2, 3–6, [10–7]
Runner-up	8.	17 October 2009	Joué-lès-Tours, France	Hard (i)	Aurélie Védy	Youlia Fedossova Selima Sfar	6–4, 0–6, [8–10]
Winner	11.	28 February 2010	Biberach, Germany	Hard (i)	Selima Sfar	Mona Barthel Carmen Klaschka	5–7, 6–1, [10–5]
Runner–up	9.	2 May 2010	Cagnes-sur-Mer, France	Clay	Kristina Mladenovic	Mervana Jugić-Salkić Darija Jurak	6–0, 2–6, [5–10]
Runner-up	10.	12 June 2010	ITF Marseille, France	Clay	Aurélie Védy	Johanna Larsson Yvonne Meusburger	4–6, 2–6
Runner-up	11.	17 October 2010	ITF Joué-lès-Tours, France	Hard (i)	Selima Sfar	Tatjana Malek Irena Pavlovic	4–6, 7–5, [8–10]
Winner	12.	30 January 2011	ITF Grenoble, France	Hard (i)	Selima Sfar	Iryna Brémond Aurélie Védy	6–1, 6–3

Personal

Cohen-Aloro is Jewish.[2]

References

"ITF retired women players". Retrieved 27 May 2013.
"Roads' Beth David Congregation to honor Jewish, Israeli Sony Ericsson players; A congregation will recognize Jewish and Israeli tennis players in the Sony Ericsson Open," The Miami Herald, 22 March 2009; accessed 4 June 2009

External links

Stéphanie Cohen-Aloro at the Women's Tennis Association
Stéphanie Cohen-Aloro at the International Tennis Federation
Stéphanie Cohen-Aloro at the Billie Jean King Cup

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[1] "ITF retired women players". Retrieved 27 May 2013.

[2] "Roads' Beth David Congregation to honor Jewish, Israeli Sony Ericsson players; A congregation will recognize Jewish and Israeli tennis players in the Sony Ericsson Open," The Miami Herald, 22 March 2009; accessed 4 June 2009