Sabine Appelmans

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Sabine Appelmans

Country	Belgium
Residence	Asse, Belgium
Date of birth	April 22, 1972 (1972-04-22) (age 36)
Place of birth	Aalst, Belgium
Height	1.68 m (5 ft 6 in)
Weight	58 kg (130 lb)
Turned pro	1988
Retired	2001
Plays	Left-handed (two-handed backhand)
Career prize money	US$2,054,352
Singles
Career record:	346-237
Career titles:	7 (1 ITF title)
Highest ranking:	No. 16 (November 24, 1997)
Grand Slam results
Australian Open	QF (1997)
French Open	4th Round (1991)
Wimbledon	4th Round (1997, 2000)
US Open	4th Round (1992, 1999)
Doubles
Career record:	147-162
Career titles:	4 (1 ITF title)
Highest ranking:	No. 21 (August 25, 1997)
Infobox last updated on: N/A.

Sabine Appelmans listen (help·info) (born April 22, 1972) is a former tennis player from Belgium.

Contents 1 Career 2 Awards 3 WTA Tour Titles (11) 3.1 Singles (7) 3.2 Doubles (4) 3.3 Performance Timeline 4 External links

[edit] Career

Appelmans started playing at the neighbour's court at the age of seven. Her first trainer, Fred Debruyn, saw immediately that she was very talented. Although right-handed, she played left-handed. At a children's tennis training session she claimed to be left handed so she could stay with her friend in the left-handed group. Appelmans turned pro in 1988, and won her first title against Chanda Rubin in Phoenix in 1991. She made her first Fed Cup appearance in 1988, with a 2–1 loss against Austria. In 1997, she married Serge Haubourdin. Throughout her career, she won seven singles titles and 4 doubles titles.

[edit] Awards

Appelmans was elected as the Belgian Sportswoman of the year 1990 & 1991. She was nominated for the Karen Krantzcke Sportsmanship Award in 1994 & 1995.

[edit] WTA Tour Titles (11)

Legend

Grand Slam

WTA Championships

Tier I Event

WTA Tour

[edit] Singles (7)

No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Opponent in the final	Score
1.	November 3, 1991	Phoenix, USA	Hard	Chanda Rubin	7–5, 6–1
2.	November 10, 1991	Nashville, USA	Hard (i)	Katrina Adams	6–2, 6–4
3.	April 19, 1992	Pattaya, Thailand	Hard	Andrea Strnadová	7–5, 3–6, 7–5
4.	February 13, 1994	Linz, Austria	Carpet (i)	Meike Babel	6–1, 4–6, 7-6(3)
5.	April 17, 1994	Pattaya, Thailand	Hard	Patty Fendick	6-7(5), 7-6(5), 6–2
6.	April 30, 1995	Zagreb, Croatia	Clay	Silke Meier	6–4, 6–3
7.	March 3, 1996	Linz, Austria	Carpet (i)	Helena Suková	6–4, 7–5

[edit] Doubles (4)

No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Partnering	Opponents in the final	Score
1.	February 20, 1994	Paris, France	Carpet (i)	Laurence Courtois	Mary Pierce Andrea Temesvári	6–4, 6–4
2.	February 15, 1998	Paris, France	Carpet (i)	Miriam Oremans	Anna Kournikova Larisa Neiland	1–6, 6–3, 7–6
3.	June 21, 1998	's-Hertogenbosch, Netherlands	Grass	Miriam Oremans	Cătălina Cristea Eva Melicharová	6–7, 7–6, 7–6
4.	May 21, 2000	Antwerp, Belgium	Clay	Kim Clijsters	Jennifer Hopkins Petra Rampre	6–1, 6–1

[edit] Performance Timeline

Tournament	2001	2000	1999	1998	1997	1996	1995	1994	1993	1992	1991	1990	1989	1988
Australian Open	2r	3r	3r	1r	QF	4r	3r	3r	1r	1r	4r	3r	-	-
French Open	-	1r	1r	1r	1r	3r	3r	2r	2r	2r	4r	1r	-	2r
Wimbledon	-	4r	2r	3r	4r	4r	1r	1r	3r	2r	1r	-	-	-
U.S. Open	-	1r	4r	-	1r	1r	3r	1r	2r	4r	1r	3r	-	-
WTA Tour Championships	-	-	-	-	4r	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-

Yellow backgrounds for top-8 (quarter finals up to finalist).

[edit] External links

• Sabine Appelmans profile on the WTA Tour's official website
• Fed Cup profile for Sabine Appelmans
• Sabine Appelmans Fan Site

Preceded by Ingrid Berghmans

Belgian Sportswoman of the Year 1990–1991

Succeeded by Annelies Bredael