Alizé Cornet

Alizé Cornet is a professional French tennis player. She is the daughter of Michel Cornet, who was also a professional tennis player. Alizé has won one WTA Tour singles title (in 2010), five ITF Women’s Circuit singles titles, and three doubles titles on the WTA Tour. Her best result in Grand Slam tournaments to date is reaching the quarterfinals at Wimbledon in 2011 and 2014. Cornet started playing Tennis when she was four years old after her father introduced her to the sport while he trained with her older brother. At age 14, she left school to focus on becoming a professional tennis player full-time.

Alizé Cornet turned pro in 2004 and reached world ranking #78 in April 2005 after winning her first professional tournament, a $25,000 event in Oriana. In November of the same year, she reached another ITF final and won a $25,000 tournament in Philadelphia. She lost to Anna-Lena Grönefeld in three sets at the WTA Tier III event in Strasbourg. In December 2005, Cornet was #79 of the world, entering for the first time into the main draw of a Grand Slam at Roland Garros as a qualifier ranked world #305. She beat Alicia Molik and María Emilia Salerni before losing to Amélie Mauresmo 3–6, 7–5, 7–5 in the third round despite having two points on her own serve 5–4 in the second set and leading 40–15 on Mauresmo’s serve.