Meghann Shaughnessy

Meghann Shaughnessy

Meghann Shaughnessy at the 2011 Australian Open
Country	United States
Residence	Scottsdale, Arizona, U.S.
Born	April 13, 1979 (1979-04-13) (age 32) Richmond, Virginia, U.S.
Height	1.80 m (5 ft 11 in)
Turned pro	1996
Plays	Right-handed (two-handed backhand)
Career prize money	$3,975,223
Singles
Career record	378 - 343
Career titles	6 WTA, 6 ITF
Highest ranking	No. 11 (10 September 2001)
Grand Slam results
Australian Open	QF (2003)
French Open	4R (2001)
Wimbledon	4R (2001)
US Open	4R (2003)
Doubles
Career record	315 - 185
Career titles	17 WTA, 2 ITF
Highest ranking	No. 4 (March 21, 2005)
Grand Slam Doubles results
Australian Open	SF (2006)
French Open	SF (2005)
Wimbledon	QF (2004, 2005, 2006)
US Open	QF (2002, 2007, 2010)
Last updated on: October 13, 2011.

Meghann Shaughnessy (April 13, 1979 in Richmond, Virginia) is an American professional tennis player. She achieved a career-high singles ranking of #11 in 2001, and has won six WTA Tour singles titles. She is best known for her serve, which is one of the most powerful on tour, and has produced as many as 22 aces in a match.

Shaughnessy is coached by Rafael Font de Mora (managed by him since age 13 and coached by him for over 20 years). She is the niece of Dan Shaughnessy, a Boston Globe sports columnist.^[1]

Opening serves

Shaughnessy made her debut on the WTA Tour in 1996 at a tournament in Budapest, and broke into the top 100 in 1998. In 2000, Shaughnessy won her first WTA singles title at Beijing, defeating Iroda Tulyaganova in the final, and breaking into the top fifty. In her breakout year of 2001, Shaughnessy achieved a career-high singles ranking of #11, won the second singles title of her career at Quebec City, and reached the finals of Hamburg and her home tournament in Scottsdale.^[2] She also recorded wins over world number five Conchita Martínez, world number four Monica Seles,^[3] and world number two Venus Williams.^[4]

In 2002, Shaughnessy began the season by reaching the final of Sydney, and recaptured her career-high #11 ranking. She also reached the quarterfinals or better of four other tournaments that year,^[2] with wins over top five players Jelena Dokić and Serena Williams.^[5][6] In 2003, Shaughnessy had another excellent year, featuring the second year end top twenty finish of her career. Shaughnessy captured her third career singles title in Canberra, and also had strong Grand Slam results, reaching her first career Slam quarterfinal at the Australian Open, and reaching the Round of 16 at both the US Open and Australian Open.^[2] Shaughnessy also scored an upset over world number two Venus Williams in the Round of 16 of the NASDAQ-100 Open in Miami. In 2004, Shaughnessy produced sub-par results, finishing just inside of the top 40, with only one top five win, over Anastasia Myskina in Dubai. However, in 2004 Shaughnessy produced the best doubles results of her career, winning seven tournaments with partner Nadia Petrova, including the WTA Year End Championships in Los Angeles.^[2] This doubles partnership is now over as Petrova is looking for a new partner for 2006.

Current form

In 2005, Shaughnessy struggled with injuries and consistency. Her year began with a right leg injury, which forced her to withdraw from the Australian Open doubles competition, and from a tournament in Hyderabad. However, Shaughnessy showed signs of recovery in February, reaching the final of Memphis, defeating Nicole Vaidišová in the semifinals. The match featured Shaughnessy serving 22 aces in her 7–6 7–6 win. After Memphis, Shaughnessy struggled with back injuries for the duration of the spring, not reaching another semifinal until June at a grass tournament in 's-Hertogenbosch.

By July, Shaughnessy's ranking had dropped so low that she was forced to qualify for the Palo Alto tournament. She successfully qualified, and then surprised number five seed Vera Zvonareva in the first round,^[7] before losing to Daniela Hantuchová in the second round. A back injury forced Shaughnessy to withdraw from tournaments in Carlsbad, California and Los Angeles. As a wildcard in New Haven, she defeated number nine seed Nathalie Dechy for the first time in ten attempts,^[8] before losing to doubles partner Anna-Lena Grönefeld in the second round. At the US Open, Shaughnessy led sixteen year old Sesil Karatantcheva 6–3 5–2 in the opening round, and held two match points, before losing 3–6 7–5 7–5.

However, on March 24, 2006, Shaughnessy demolished Number 3 seed Justine Henin 7–5, 6–4 in the second round (Henin's 1st round) of the Nasdaq 100 Tournament in Miami. Shaughnessy then won a WTA-level event in Rabat, beating 8th seeded Martina Suchá in three sets, 6–2, 3–6, 6–3. It was her 4th tour title. She became the first American to win a WTA-level title in 2006 as well as the first to reach a WTA final in 2006. Shaughnessy afterwards reached the second round at Istanbul, beating 3rd seeded Anna Chakvetadze in the first round. Then she fell in the first round in the French Open to top seeded and crowd favorite Amélie Mauresmo, 6–4, 6–4.

The next year, she faced the previous year's runner-up, Svetlana Kuznetsova, in the second round of the French Open. Shaughnessy raced into a 5–0 lead in the first set, and in the sixth game held three set points on Svetlana's serve. However, Kuznetsova saved them all, won the game and recovered dramatically to clinch the set on a tie-break, before winning the second set 6–3 for the match.

Shaughnessy currently concentrates on doubles, and regularly partners with fellow American Bethanie Mattek-Sands. The pair made it to the doubles finals of the 2011 Indian Wells Masters, by defeating Alisa Kleybanova & Yan Zi (round 1), Raquel Kops-Jones & Abigail Spears (round 2), Liezel Huber & Nadia Petrova (quarter-finals) and Victoria Azarenka & Maria Kirilenko (semi-finals), but lost to Sania Mirza and Elena Vesnina in the finals.

Personal life

Her coach had been romantically involved with her since before she turned 18.^[9] Their romantic and coaching relationship ended in 2005; however, Shaughnessy re-united with Font De Mora as her coach during the latter part of 2006.^[10]

WTA Career Finals

Singles 10 (6-4)

Legend: Before 2009	Legend: Starting in 2009
Grand Slam tournaments (0/0)
Olympic Gold (0/0)
WTA Championships (0/0)
Tier I (0/0)	Premier Mandatory (0/0)
Tier II (1/3)	Premier 5 (0/0)
Tier III (1/1)	Premier (0/0)
Tier IV & V (4/0)	International (0/0)

Outcome	No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Opponent in the final	Score in the final
Winner	1.	22 October 2000	Shanghai	Hard (i)	Iroda Tulyaganova	7–6, 7–5
Runner-up	1.	26 February 2001	Scottsdale	Hard	Lindsay Davenport	6–2, 6–3
Runner-up	2.	30 April 2001	Hamburg	Clay	Venus Williams	6–3, 6–0
Winner	2.	23 September 2001	Quebec City	Hard (i)	Iva Majoli	6–1, 6–3
Runner-up	3.	13 January 2002	Sydney	Hard	Martina Hingis	6–2, 6–3
Winner	3.	12 January 2003	Canberra	Hard	Francesca Schiavone	6–1, 6–1
Runner-up	4.	19 February 2005	Memphis	Hard (i)	Vera Zvonareva	7–6(3), 6–2
Winner	4.	21 May 2006	Rabat	Clay	Martina Suchá	6–2, 3–6, 6–3
Winner	5.	26 August 2006	Forest Hills	Hard	Anna Smashnova	1–6, 6–0, 6–4
Winner	6.	16 June 2007	Barcelona	Clay	Edina Gallovits	6–3, 6–2

Doubles: 33 (17-16)

Legend: Before 2009	Legend: Starting in 2009
Grand Slam tournaments (0/0)
WTA Championships (1/0)
Tier I (5/4)	Premier Mandatory (0/1)
Tier II (4/5)	Premier 5 (0/0)
Tier III (5/1)	Premier (2/2)
Tier IV & V (0/2)	International (0/1)

Outcome	No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Partner	Opponents in Final	Score in Final
Runner-up	1.	26 April 1999	Bol	Clay	Andreea Vanc	Jelena Kostanić Michaela Paštikov	7–5, 6-7(1), 6-2
Runner-up	2.	16 May 1999	Antwerp	Clay	Louise Pleming	Laura Golarsa Katarina Srebotnik	6–4, 6–2
Runner-up	3.	22 October 2000	Shanghai	Hard (i)	Rita Grande	Tamarine Tanasugarn Lilia Osterloh	7–5, 6–1
Winner	1.	5 November 2000	Quebec City	Hard (i)	Nicole Pratt	Kimberly Po-Messerli Els Callens	6–3, 6–4
Runner-up	4.	7 January 2001	Gold Coast	Hard	Katie Schlukebir	Giulia Casoni Janette Husárová	7–6, 7–5
Runner-up	5.	4 March 2001	Scottsdale	Hard	Kim Clijsters	Lisa Raymond Rennae Stubbs	w/o
Winner	2.	13 May 2001	Berlin	Clay	Els Callens	Cara Black Elena Likhovtseva	6–4, 6–3
Runner-up	6.	14 October 2001	Filderstadt	Hard (i)	Justine Henin	Lindsay Davenport Lisa Raymond	6–4, 6–7(4), 7–5
Winner	3.	31 December 2001	Gold Coast	Hard	Justine Henin	Åsa Svensson Miriam Oremans	6–1, 7–6(6)
Runner-up	7.	13 October 2002	Filderstadt	Hard (i)	Paola Suárez	Lindsay Davenport Lisa Raymond	6–2, 6-4
Winner	4.	29 September 2003	Moscow	Carpet (i)	Nadia Petrova	Anastasia Myskina Vera Zvonareva	6–3, 6–4
Runner-up	8.	12 January 2004	Sydney	Hard	Dinara Safina	Cara Black Rennae Stubbs	7-5, 3-6, 6-4
Winner	5.	22 March 2004	Key Biscayne	Hard	Nadia Petrova	Svetlana Kuznetsova Elena Likhovtseva	6–2, 6–3
Winner	6.	5 April 2004	Amelia Island	Clay	Nadia Petrova	Myriam Casanova Alicia Molik	3–6, 6–2, 7–5
Winner	7.	3 May 2004	Berlin	Clay	Nadia Petrova	Janette Husárová Conchita Martínez	6–2, 2–6, 6–1
Winner	8.	10 May 2004	Rome	Clay	Nadia Petrova	Paola Suárez Virginia Ruano Pascual	2–6, 6–3, 6–3
Winner	9.	19 July 2004	Los Angeles	Hard	Nadia Petrova	Conchita Martínez Virginia Ruano Pascual	6–7(2), 6–4, 6–3
Winner	10.	23 August 2004	New Haven	Hard	Nadia Petrova	Martina Navrátilová Lisa Raymond	6–1, 1–6, 7–6(4)
Winner	11.	8 November 2004	Los Angeles	Hard	Nadia Petrova	Cara Black Rennae Stubbs	7–5, 6–2
Runner-up	9.	19 March 2005	Indian Wells	Hard	Nadia Petrova	Virginia Ruano Pascual Paola Suárez	7–6(3), 6–1
Winner	12.	13 September 2005	Bali	Hard	Anna-Lena Grönefeld	Yan Zi Zheng Jie	6–3, 6–3
Winner	13.	7 January 2006	Gold Coast	Hard	Dinara Safina	Cara Black Rennae Stubbs	6–2, 6–3
Winner	14.	5 March 2006	Acapulco	Clay	Anna-Lena Grönefeld	Shinobu Asagoe Émilie Loit	6–1, 6–3
Runner-up	10.	18 March 2006	Indian Wells	Hard	Virginia Ruano Pascual	Lisa Raymond Samantha Stosur	6–2, 7–5
Runner-up	11.	16 April 2006	Charleston	Hard	Virginia Ruano Pascual	Lisa Raymond Samantha Stosur	3-6, 6-1, 6-1
Runner-up	12.	31 July 2006	San Diego	Hard	Anna-Lena Grönefeld	Cara Black Rennae Stubbs	6–2, 6–2
Winner	15.	8 January 2007	Sydney	Hard	Anna-Lena Grönefeld	Marion Bartoli Meilen Tu	6–3, 3–6, 7–6(2)
Runner-up	13.	21 February 2010	Memphis	Hard (i)	Bethanie Mattek-Sands	Michaëlla Krajicek Vania King	7–5, 6–2
Winner	16.	17 May 2010	Warsaw	Clay	Virginia Ruano Pascual	Cara Black Yan Zi	6-3, 6-4
Runner-up	14.	28 August 2010	New Haven	Hard	Bethanie Mattek-Sands	Květa Peschke Katarina Srebotnik	7–5, 6–0
Winner	17.	7 February 2011	Paris	Hard (i)	Bethanie Mattek-Sands	Vera Dushevina Ekaterina Makarova	6-4, 6-2
Runner-up	15.	19 March 2011	Indian Wells	Hard	Bethanie Mattek-Sands	Elena Vesnina Sania Mirza	6-0, 7-5
Runner-up	16.	10 April 2011	Charleston	Clay	Bethanie Mattek-Sands	Sania Mirza Elena Vesnina	6-4, 6-4

References

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External links

• Meghann Shaughnessy at the Women's Tennis Association
• Meghann Shaughnessy at the International Tennis Federation

Persondata
Name	Shaughnessy, Meghann
Alternative names
Short description	Tennis player
Date of birth	April 13, 1979
Place of birth	Richmond, Virginia
Date of death
Place of death