Julie Coin

Infobox Tennis player
playername = Julie Coin


country = FRA
residence =
datebirth = birth date and age|df=yes|1982|12|2
placebirth =Amiens, France
height =
weight =
turnedpro =
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careerprizemoney = US$ 147,895
singlesrecord = 147–96
singlestitles = 4 ITF
highestsinglesranking = No. 126 (6 October, 2008)
AustralianOpenresult = Q1 (2008)
FrenchOpenresult = Q2 (2008)
Wimbledonresult = Q1 (2008)
USOpenresult = 3r (2008)
doublesrecord = 46–30
doublestitles = 6 ITF
highestdoublesranking = No. 152 (7 July 2008)
updated = (October 11, 2008)

Julie Coin (IPA2|ʒyli kwɛ̃; born 2 December 1982cite web |url=http://sports.espn.go.com/sports/tennis/players/profile?playerId=789 |title=Julie Coin Stats |publisher=ESPN |accessdate=2008-09-03] [cite web |url=http://www.sonyericssonwtatour.com/2/players/playerprofiles/playerbio.asp?PlayerID=30548 |title=Julie Coin (FRA) |publisher=Sony Ericsson |accessdate=2008-09-03] in Amiens, France) is a professional French tennis player. Coin recorded the biggest victory of her career by defeating the world's #1 ranked female singles player, and #1 seed, Ana Ivanović at the 2008 US Open.cite news |url=http://sports.espn.go.com/sports/tennis/usopen08/news/story?id=3558003 |title=Coin ousts Ivanovic; Williams sisters, Safina, Mauresmo advance |accessdate=2008-09-03 |date=2008-08-28 |publisher=ESPN] cite news |url=http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,413004,00.html |title=Top-Seeded Ivanovic Upset by Coin at U.S. Open |publisher=Fox News |accessdate=2008-10-03 |date=2008-08-28] cite news |title=Ivanovic stunned in second round; Venus, Nadal easily advance |accessdate=2008-09-03 |date=2008-08-28| publisher=SI.com |url=http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2008/tennis/specials/us_open/2008/08/28/open.thursday.ap/index.html]

Family

Her parents are Philippe and Doriane Coin. They were competitive team handball players.cite news |title=Julie Coin Interview |date=2008-08-28 |accessdate=2008-09-06 |publisher=Tennis X |url=http://www.tennis-x.com/story/2008-08-28/h.php US Open Interview at www.tennis-x.com]

College Career

Coin played at Clemson University, where she was an All-American, All-ACC, and ACC Player of the Yearcite web |url=http://clemsontigers.cstv.com/sports/w-tennis/mtt/coin_julie00.html |title=Player Bio: Julie Coin |publisher=Clemson Tigers |accessdate=2008-09-03] . She also holds numerous Clemson Womens' Tennis records. Coin graduated from Clemson with a degree in mathematics [cite news |url=http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080829/ap_on_sp_te_ga_su/ten_us_open |title= Kuznetsova loses at US Open, Jankovic works OT |last=Walker |first=Ben |date=2008-08-29 |publisher=Yahoo News |accessdate=2008-09-03] and was entered on the deans list.

2008 French Open

Coin and her doubles partner, Violette Huck, made it to the second round of the 2008 French Open Womens Doubles tournament.

2008 US Open

Coin's breakthrough came at the 2008 U.S. Open when she was ranked 188th in the world. She entered the main draw as a qualifier after defeating Amanda McDowell, Sesil Karatantcheva and Elena Baltacha in the qualification rounds. cite news |title=Former Clemson Women's Tennis Standout Julie Coin Advances At US Open |url=http://clemsontigers.cstv.com/sports/w-tennis/spec-rel/082608aaa.html |date=2008-08-26 |accessdate=2008-09-06 |publisher=Clemson Tigers] This was the first time she had entered the main draw in singles at a WTA tournament. [cite web |url=http://www.sportsnetwork.com/merge/tsnform.aspx?c=sportsnetwork&page=tennis-w/news/news.aspx?id=4176054 |title=Ivanovic shocked by French qualifier Coin |publisher=The Sports Network |date=2008-08-28 |accessdate=2008-09-06|accessdate=2008-09-06]

In the first round, she defeated Australian Casey Dellacqua in tiebreaks, 7-6(6), 7-6(4).

Coin rose to prominence and made worldwide headlines when she defeated world #1 and #1 seed Ana Ivanovic in the second round, 6-3, 4-6, 6-3. ESPN and Sports Illustrated both called the win one of the greatest upsets in tennis history.

Prior to Coin's upset victory, it had been 41 years since the top-seed had lost so early at the US Open, the previous time being when Maria Bueno lost in the second round of the 1967 U.S. National Championships. At the time of her victory against Ivanović, Coin was ranked 188th. [cite web | title =Ivanovic beaten by qualifier Coin | work =BBC Sport | publisher =BBC | date =2008-08-28 | url =http://newsvote.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/tennis/7586573.stm | accessdate =2008-08-29 ]

She then lost 4-6, 4-6 to compatriot Amélie Mauresmo in the third round.

References

External links

*Wta|id=30548
*ITF female profile|number=20012137