Nathalie Dechy

Nathalie Dechy (born 21 February 1979) is a former professional tennis player from France.

Dechy is a three-time doubles Grand Slam champion, winning the 2006 US Open women's doubles title with Vera Zvonareva, the 2007 French Open mixed doubles title with Andy Ram, and the 2007 US Open women's doubles title with Dinara Safina. Her biggest singles achievement is reaching the semifinals of the 2005 Australian Open.

At the 2008 Wimbledon Championships, she faced world No. 1 and reigning French Open champion, Ana Ivanovic. She had a match point during the second set, before losing in the super-tiebreak, 7–6, 6–7, 8–10.

Since 2015, Nathalie Dechy has been the director of the Biarritz Tennis Tournament, a women's tennis tournament organized every year by the Quarterback agency at Biarritz Olympic Tennis. This tournament is part of the ITF (International Tennis Federation) category and has $80,000 in prize money.

Grand Slam finals Doubles: 2 (2 titles) ResultYearChampionship SurfacePartnerOpponentsScoreWin 2006 US Open Hard Vera Zvonareva Katarina Srebotnik Dinara Safina 7–6(7–5), 7–5Win 2007 US Open Hard Dinara Safina Chan Yung-jan Chuang Chia-jung 6–4, 6–2

Mixed doubles: 2 (1 title, 1 runner-up) ResultYearChampionship SurfacePartnerOpponentsScoreWin 2007 French Open Clay Andy Ram Katarina Srebotnik Nenad Zimonjić 7–5, 6–3Loss 2009 Australian Open Hard Andy Ram Sania Mirza Mahesh Bhupathi 3–6, 1–6

Grand Slam singles performance timeline

WTA career finals Singles: 5 (1 title, 4 runner-ups)

Doubles: 14 (7 titles, 7 runner-ups)

ITF Circuit finals Singles (1–2) $50,000 tournaments $25,000 tournaments $10,000 tournaments ResultNo.DateTournamentSurfaceOpponentScoreLoss 1. 9 May 1994 ITF Mollet, Spain Clay Mariam Ramón Climent 0–6, 0–6Win 2. 14 December 1997 ITF Bad Gögging, Germany Carpet (i) Els Callens 6–4, 6–1Loss 3. 6 December 1998 ITF Cergy-Pontoise, France Hard (i) Sarah Pitkowski-Malcor 5–7, 6–3, 6–7(4)

Doubles (1–1) ResultNo.DateTournamentSurfacePartnerOpponentsScoreWin 1. 20 March 1995 ITF Moulins, France Hard (i) Catherine Tanvier Jessica Fernández Aarthi Venkatesan 6–1, 6–3Loss 2. 29 March 1997 ITF Woodlands, United States Hard Lea Ghirardi Els Callens Liezel Horn 4–6, 2–6

Personal life Dechy was born to a father from continental France and a Canadian mother from the Eastern Townships of Quebec. She holds dual French-Canadian citizenship. On 25 January 2010 she gave birth to a son.