Ysaline Bonaventure

Ysaline Bonaventure (; born 29 August 1994) is a Belgian former professional tennis player. On 6 March 2023, she reached her best singles ranking of world No. 81. On 1 February 2016, she peaked at No. 57 in the doubles rankings. Bonaventure won two doubles titles on the WTA Tour, as well as 12 singles and 14 doubles titles on the ITF Women's Circuit.

Playing for Belgium Fed Cup team, Bonaventure had a win–loss record of 10–9 (as of March 2024). She was selected for the Fed Cup team for the first time in 2012 when she played a doubles match alongside Alison Van Uytvanck in the World Group play-offs.

Career 2015-16: Two WTA Tour titles and top 60 in doubles Bonaventure lost in the first round of qualifying at the 2015 Australian Open and French Open. At the 2015 Wimbledon Championships, she also lost in the first round of qualifying, beaten in three sets by Michelle Larcher de Brito. She reached the third round of qualifying at the US Open of that year.

She won two WTA Tour doubles titles that year, showing her ability in doubles, her focus slowly shifting towards singles after 2015. She subsequently reached a career-high ranking in doubles of No. 57 in February 2016.

2018-20: Top 150 & major debut She lost again in the third and final round of qualifying at Roland Garros in 2018, before making her major main-draw debut in 2019, at the Australian Open and then at Wimbledon. She also reached as a qualifier the quarterfinals in Rabat, before losing to compatriot Alison Van Uytvanck, and the third round in Indian Wells, where she defeated wildcard Taylor Townsend and 28th seed Donna Vekić, before losing to Karolína Plíšková.

In 2020, she finally won a match in the main draw of a major at the US Open in New York.

2022: Top 100 At the French Open, she qualified to make her debut at this major thus finally completing the set of main-draw appearances at all four major tournaments.

She reached the top 100 on 31 October 2022, at world No. 94.

2023: First WTA Tour semifinal At the Auckland Open, she reached her first WTA Tour semifinal as a qualifier, defeating eighth seed Rebecca Marino and third seed Leylah Fernandez. She made her second quarterfinal of the season at the Monterrey Open with a win over qualifiers Despina Papamichail and Kamilla Rakhimova. She lost to eventual champion Donna Vekić in three sets and recorded a new career-high of world No. 84, on 6 March 2023.

2024–2025: Knee surgery and retirement Having withdrawn during qualifying at the 2024 Australian Open due to a knee injury which subsequently required surgery, Bonaventure won just one of eight matches following her return to competitive action and announced her final retirement from professional tennis in March 2025.

Performance timelines

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

Singles Current through the 2023 French Open.

Doubles

WTA Tour finals Doubles: 2 (2 titles) Finals by surfaceHard (1–0)Clay (1–0) ResultW–LDateTournamentTierSurfacePartnerOpponentsScoreWin 1–0 Rio Open, Brazil International Clay Rebecca Peterson Irina-Camelia Begu María Irigoyen 3–0 ret.Win 2–0 Katowice Open, Poland International Hard (i) Demi Schuurs Gioia Barbieri Karin Knapp 7–5, 4–6, [10–6]

ITF Circuit finals Singles: 25 (12 titles, 13 runner-ups) Legend$100,000 tournaments (0–2)$80,000 tournaments (0–1)$50/60,000 tournaments (4–1)$25,000 tournaments (3–4)$10/15,000 tournaments (5–5)Finals by surfaceHard (4–8)Clay (7–5)Carpet (1–0)

Doubles: 20 (14 titles, 6 runner-ups) Legend$100,000 tournaments (0–1)$80,000 tournaments (1–0)$60,000 tournaments (4–1)$25,000 tournaments (6–2)$10/15,000 tournaments (3–2)Finals by surfaceHard (7–2)Clay (6–4)Carpet (1–0)