Fiona Ferro

Fiona Ferro (born 12 March 1997) is a French-Belgian professional tennis player. She has career-high WTA rankings of world No. 39 in singles, attained on 8 March 2021, and No. 257 in doubles, reached on 17 May 2021. Ferro has won two WTA Tour and one WTA 125 singles titles.

Personal life Ferro was born in Libramont, Belgium, to a Belgian mother, Catherine, and a French-Italian father, Fabrizio. Ferro's parents owned a restaurant in Belgium when she was born. The Ferros moved to southern France when Fiona was one year old. As of 2018, Fiona's parents were the owners of two hotels in Valbonne, France. Fiona has two older brothers, Gianni and Paolo, and one younger brother, Flavio. Fiona started playing tennis when she was seven in her hometown of Valbonne.

In 2022, Ferro pressed charges against former coach Pierre Bouteyre for alleged rape and sexual assault that took place when she was aged between 15 and 18 years old.

She is sponsored by Lacoste, Yonex and WellJob.

Career Junior

Ferro was the national girls' champion of France in the 12-13 year-old, 15-16 year-old and 17-18 year-old categories. She had a career-high ITF junior combined ranking of world No. 27, attained on 3 June 2013.

2012–2016: WTA Tour debut 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. She played (only in the singles events of) eight tournaments on the 2012 ITF Circuit.

She played (only in the singles events of) eleven tournaments on the 2013 ITF Circuit. Her 2013 year-end WTA singles ranking was 557, compared to world No. 1062 on 11 February 2013.

Ferro then made her WTA 125 singles debut at the 2016 Open de Limoges, after receiving a wildcard for the main-draw, wherein she lost in the first round to the unseeded Ivana Jorović.

At the end of 2017, Ferro moved to Paris to train at the Centre National d'Entraînement (CNE) to take advantage of the facilities there. Her tennis coach was Stéphane Huet, and she also had a fitness coach and a mental coach that she shared with other players training at the CNE.

On 22 October 2018, 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.

In July, Ferro won her first Tour singles title in Lausanne, beating defending champion Alizé Cornet in the final.

On 18 December 2019, Ferro announced on her Instagram account that Emmanuel Planque would henceforth be her new coach. Her two-year player-coach collaboration with Stéphane Huet had ended at the end of October 2019.

2020: French Open fourth round, Top 50 On 9 August, Ferro won her second WTA Tour title, defeating Anett Kontaveit in the final of the Palermo Ladies Open. This was the first tournament since the tour had shut down due to the coronavirus pandemic.

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 seed and eventual runner-up, Sofia Kenin.

Ferro finished the year in the top 50, at No. 42, for the first time in her career.

2021–2022: Major third round, career-high ranking, Olympics

Ferro reached the third round of the 2021 Australian Open, her best showing at this Grand Slam event in her career so far, defeating 17th seed Elena Rybakina before falling to 15th seed Iga Świątek.

She reached her first WTA 125 final at the 2023 Barranquilla Open, losing to top seed Tatjana Maria in straight sets.

Ferro qualified for the 2024 Australian Open, making her fifth appearance in Melbourne, but went out in the first round to McCartney Kessler.

She won her first WTA 125 title at the 2026 Oeiras CETO Open, defeating Polina Kudermetova in the final. As a result she returned to the top 200 in the singles rankings on 4 May 2026.

Performance timelines

Only main-draw results in WTA Tour, Grand Slam tournaments, Billie Jean King Cup, United Cup, Hopman Cup and Olympic Games are included in win–loss records.

Singles Current through the 2023 China Open.

Doubles

WTA Tour finals Singles: 2 (2 titles) LegendGrand Slam WTA 1000 WTA 500 International / WTA 250 (2–0)Finals by surfaceHard (0–0)Clay (2–0)Grass (0–0)Carpet (0–0) ResultW–LDateTournamentTierSurfaceOpponentScoreWin 1–0 Ladies Open Lausanne, Switzerland International Clay Alizé Cornet 6–1, 2–6, 6–1Win 2–0 Aug 2020 Palermo Ladies Open, Italy International Clay Anett Kontaveit 6–2, 7–5

WTA Challenger finals Singles: 3 (1 title, 2 runner-ups)

ITF Circuit finals Singles: 14 (6 titles, 8 runner–ups) Legend$80,000 tournaments (1–0)$60/75,000 tournaments (1–3)$25,000 tournaments (3–4)$15,000 tournaments (1–1)Finals by surfaceHard (2–1)Clay (4–7)

Doubles: 1 (title) Legend$80,000 tournamentsFinals by surfaceHard (1–0)