Sybille Bammer

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**Sybille Bammer**

Country	Austria
Residence	Linz, Austria
Date of birth	April 27, 1980
Place of birth	Linz, Austria
Height	174cm (5ft 9in)
Weight	63kg (139lb)
Turned Pro	1997
Plays	Left; Two-handed backhand
Career Prize Money	$468,261
Singles
Career record:	256-238
Career titles:	1 WTA, 9 ITF
Highest ranking:	No. 29 (April 2, 2007)
Grand Slam results
Australian Open	3rd (2006)
French Open	1st (2006)
Wimbledon	3rd (2006)
U.S. Open	2nd (2006)
Doubles
Career record:	30-76
Career titles:	0
Highest ranking:	236 (January 15, 2007)

Sybille Bammer (born April 27, 1980 in Linz, Austria) is a professional female tennis player from Austria. Her career high ranking is No. 28, achieved on April 2, 2007.

1 Tennis Career
- 1.1 2007
2 Titles (11)
- 2.1 Singles (10)
3 Grend Slam performance timetable
4 References
5 External Links

Bammer made her WTA Tour main draw debut as a wildcard in 2000 at the Klagenfurt event. She lost to German player Andrea Glass at this event. She failed to qualify for Wimbledon, US Open and her home tournament in Linz.

During 2001 she took a break from tennis to give birth to her daughter Tina, and upon her comeback in 2002 she cruised to win her career-first singles title at the $10k event in Grenoble. She won another two in the same year at Mostar and Innsbruck, both $25k events on the ITF Tour. During 2003, she picked up another four $25k singles titles. She also made her debut for Austria in their Fed Cup team.

In 2005, Bammer made her career breakthrough, soaring into the top 100 on the rankings, including making her Grand Slam main draw debut at the US Open, where she fell in the first round to Martina Sucha as a qualifier. At the Tier III in Kolkatta, Bammer reached her first ever WTA Tour quarterfinal event, and then reaching her second at the Tier II event in Linz as a wildcard, defeating Virginie Razzano and Vera Dushevina. She was the first Austrian since Barbara Schett in 2000 to make it to the quarterfinals there. After her impressive run in Linz, she reached a new career high of No.77.

At the start of 2006, she got her best ever Grand Slam performance in only her second ever Grand Slam main draw, making the third round. Two weeks after, she reached her first career first Tour semifinal at Pattaya City, falling to the eventual champion Shahar Peer. She reached the third round in Indian Wells before losing to 19th seed Martina Hingis, and the second round in Charleston losing to top seed Justine Henin-Hardenne. During the Fed Cup, she fell 0-3 in Austria's 5-0 defeat to Spain.

She made her top 50 debut at No.42 following a third round appearance at Berlin, losing to No.6 seed Svetlana Kuznetsova. In her first Wimbledon main draw showing, she reached the third round, notching her best career win thus far over Nathalie Dechy, then ranked No.23. This was followed by a poor US Hardcourt season, falling first round at four events and reaching the second round in three, including the US Open. She then reached her third career quarterfinal in Bangkok, once again beating Nathalie Dechy before falling to Tamarine Tanasugarn, the eventual runner-up. She finished the season ranked No.53, her best year-ending ranking thus far.

2007 kicked off badly for her, losing in the first round of Gold Coast to eventual runner-up Martina Hingis 6-0 6-2. The next week at Hobart, a Tier IV event, she rose several eyebrows by defeating eight-time Grand Slam champion Serena Williams in the quarterfinals, who was playing her first tournament since the US Open. With this victory, she became one of only two players to have a winning head-to-head record over Williams, the other being Tiantian Sun of China. Williams would go onto win the Australian Open two weeks later. Bammer, however, fell in the first round of the Australian Open to Anna Chakvetadze. She lost 6-4 7-5, althoug she led 5-3 in the second.

In February 2007 she finally won her first WTA Tour title ten years after turning pro, beating Vasilisa Bardina in the first round to avenge her semifinal loss to her at Hobart, Anastassia Rodionova, Martina Sucha, Shuai Peng and topping it off with a victory over Gisela Dulko in the final, saving three match points en route to victory.^[1]

At Indian Wells, she became the No.33 seed after Elena Dementieva withdrew. She made the most of her luck, stunning everyone by making the semifinals of the Tier I event, her first ever semifinal at this level. In the fourth round, she stunned No. 10 seed Ana Ivanović and No.13 seed Tatiana Golovin in the quarterfinals. Unfortunately, her fairytale came to an end in the semifinals losing to Svetlana Kuznetsova, the second seed, with a result of 6⁵-7, 6-4, 6-1. Due to this amazing run, she rose to a new career high of No.30.

Legend (Singles)

Tier I (0)

Tier II (0)

Tier III (0)

Tier IV (1)

Grand Slam Title (0)

WTA Tour Championship (0)

ITF Circuit (9)

No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Opponent in the final	Score
1.	Jan. 27, 2002	ITF/Grenoble, France	Hard	Virginie Pichet	6-4, 6-4
2.	June 2, 2002	ITF/Mostar, Bosnia-Herzegovina	Clay	Zuzana Kucova	2-6, 6-4, 7-5
3.	Aug. 18, 2002	ITF/Innsbruck, Austria	Clay	Barbora Strycova	6-2, 6-3
4.	Oct. 12, 2003	ITF/Jersey, Great Britain	Hard	Sofia Arvidsson	7-6(1), 6-2
5.	Oct. 19, 2003	ITF/Cardiff, Great Britain	Hard	Irina Boulykina	6-0, 6-2
6.	Nov. 2, 2003	ITF/Nottingham, Great Britain	Hard	Kirsten Flipkens	6-4, 3-6, 6-2
7.	Dec. 21, 2003	ITF/Valasske Mezirici, Czech Republic	Hard	Lucie Šafářová	6-4, 6-1
8.	June 26, 2005	ITF/Fontanafredda, Italy	Clay	Alice Canepa	7-6(3), 6-2
9.	Aug. 21, 2005	ITF/Bronx, United States	Hard	Camille Pin	3-6, 6-4, 6-4
10.	11 February 2007	Pattaya City, Thailand	Hard	Gisela Dulko	7-5, 3-6, 7-5