Nathalie Tauziat
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| Bio | She is a French former professional tennis player and coach. She was the runner-up in women's singles at the 1998 Wimbledon Championships and runner-up in the women's doubles at the 2001 US Open partnering Kimberly Po-Messerli. She reached a career-high ranking of world No. 3 in both singles and doubles. She demonstrated great consistency, being ranked almost continuously among the top twenty players in the world from 1990 to 2001. Proof of her longevity at the highest level, she was a member of the top 50 from March 16, 1987 to December 31, 2001, without interruption, for 14 years and 9 months. To date, only Martina Navratilova and Chris Evert have surpassed this record since the introduction of the WTA ranking in 1975. Tauziat turned professional in 1984 and became French singles champion in 1985 . Having established herself firmly in the top 50 in the late 1980s, she entered the top 20 in 1990. That year, she won her first WTA title in Bayonne, defeating Anke Huber in the final. For the first time in her career, she also reached the round of 16 at Roland Garros , Wimbledon and the US Open . In the following years, she managed to stay in the top 20 thanks to consistent results and prestigious victories against top 10 players ( Natasha Zvereva , Martina Navrátilová , Manuela Maleeva ). She also reached the quarter-finals at Roland Garros in 1991 and at Wimbledon in 1992. She played the Hopman Cup in 1993 with Guy Forget where they reached the semi-final, then in 1994 with Cédric Pioline. Although effective, her flat baseline game did not allow her to move up the ranking led by more powerful players in this sector. From then on, she decided, at the age of 27, to push her game towards attack and serve-and-volley under the guidance of her coach Régis de Camaret. Between 1994 and 1996, her ranking suffered from these changes and she was demoted to around 30th place in the world. Nevertheless, her victory at the Eastbourne grass tournament in 1995 heralded better times for her. At almost 30 years old, Nathalie Tauziat had an excellent 1997, which marked the start of her second career in Indian summer form. She was part of the French team that won the Fed Cup against the Netherlands in the final. Undefeated in singles and doubles throughout the campaign, she won a historic duel in the first round against Japan, beating Naoko Sawamatsu (7-5, 4-6, 17-15) in the match with the most games played (54) in the history of the Fed Cup. That same year, she qualified for the quarter-finals at Wimbledon by beating her compatriot Sandrine Testud (4-6, 7-5, 12-10), after saving two match points. She also won the grass-court tournament in Birmingham and reached two finals in Chicago and Zurich. Back in the top 15, she qualified for the Chase Championships in singles and doubles. She reached the semi-finals in singles for the first time in her career and reached the final of doubles paired with Alexandra Fusai. The year 1998 marked the Frenchwoman's consecration at the highest level. A late adopter of serve-and-volley , she played her first (and only) final in a Grand Slam tournament, on the July 4, 1998 at Wimbledon. Beating Lindsay Davenport in the quarterfinals and Natasha Zvereva in the semifinals, she was defeated by Jana Novotná. Her appearance in this final was the first by a Frenchwoman since Suzanne Lenglen in 1925. A few weeks later, she entered the top 10 for the first time, at world number eight on August 17, 1998. She and Alexandra Fusai were doubles runners-up again at the 1998 Chase Championships. After a difficult start to 1999, where she reached the quarterfinals only once in 11 tournaments played, she reached two finals on grass in Birmingham and Eastbourne, before reaching the quarterfinals at Wimbledon. She subsequently won the Tier I tournament in Moscow, the most prestigious of her career, and the one in Leipzig. Thanks to her victory in Moscow, she became at 32 years old the third oldest player to win a Tier I tournament, after Chris Evert and Martina Navrátilová. In addition, she reached the semifinals of the Masters singles for the second time in her career and finished the season ranked seventh in the world. In February 2000, she won the Gaz de France Open in Paris, defeating Serena Williams in the final. A few weeks later, at the age of thirty-two, she reached world number 3, becoming the fourth oldest player in history to be ranked in the top three. At the US Open, she qualified for the quarter-finals by beating Arantxa Sánchez Vicario for the first time, after eleven consecutive defeats. The year 2001 marked the Frenchwoman's last singles season on the tour. At the Open Gaz de France, she saved ten match points to win against her compatriot Nathalie Dechy, before losing in the semifinals to Amélie Mauresmo. She won her last singles tournament in Birmingham and reached the quarterfinals at Wimbledon, losing to Venus Williams. Nathalie Tauziat reached the round of 16 at the US Open, where she was defeated in three sets by Mauresmo. That year, she achieved her best ranking in doubles (No.3), notably winning the most important title of her career in Miami with Sánchez Vicario and reaching the final of the women's doubles at the US Open alongside Kimberly Po losing to the team of Lisa Raymond and Rennae Stubbs. She played her last professional singles match in the first round of the 2001 Masters against her nemesis, Arantxa Sánchez Vicario. Tauziat reached her career-high singles ranking of world No. 3 at the age of 32 years and 6 months in the spring of 2000, making her the oldest woman to debut in the top three and the fourth oldest to be ranked in the top three. She retired from the WTA Tour after the 2003 French Open, after having played only doubles in 2002 and 2003. Tauziat won 8 singles titles and 25 doubles titles on the WTA Tour in her career. From the age of thirteen until her retirement from sport in 2003, she remained faithful to the same trainer, Régis de Camaret. She was an official WTA Tour mentor to French tennis player Marion Bartoli, beginning in 2003. Since retiring from sport, Nathalie Tauziat has run a tennis club in Capbreton. Between June 2011 and October 2013, she trains the young Canadian hopeful Eugenie Bouchard. From 2014 to 2016, she coached the Canadian Aleksandra Wozniak then Bianca Andreescu and her compatriot Harmony Tan. In 2025, she trained Canadian Victoria Mboko. |
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