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WTABest WTA ranking No. 11

Alizé Cornet

FRA36 yrs5' 8" (1.73 m)

Best WTA ranking No. 11

Twenty years on the tour and a record 69 Grand Slams in a row.

Plays
Right-handed, two-handed backhand

Figures as of 30 September 2026.

Profile & career

A leading figure of French women's tennis.

Retired since Roland-Garros 2024, Alizé Cornet will remain one of the leading figures of French women's tennis in the first quarter of the 21st century, thanks to her results, her longevity and the sparkling personality that made her such a fierce competitor. A quarter-finalist at the 2022 Australian Open late in her career, she comes from Nice, has always prepared her seasons at the Mouratoglou Academy and has since embarked on a career as a writer.

She discovered tennis at the age of four at the Tennis Club des Arènes de Cimiez in Nice with her brother Sébastien, and never stopped playing. Over a professional career spanning twenty years, from 2004 to 2024, she won six WTA titles and the Fed Cup (now the Billie Jean King Cup) in 2019. French No. 1 and world No. 11 at her best, she reached the second week of every Grand Slam.

Patrick Mouratoglou describes her as a very hard worker: “She trains very hard, sometimes even beyond her limits. She's very competitive but that can sometimes backfire. When things don't go her way, she quickly gets frustrated and that has cost her a lot of matches. At the end of her career, she was much more relaxed and tolerant with herself and that was great to see.”

Did you know?She holds the women's record for consecutive Grand Slam appearances, with 69.

Alizé Cornet lunging for a backhand on a hard court

GRAND SLAMS

Alizé & the Grand Slams.

72 Grand Slam tournaments played, including 69 in a row, and the second week reached at all four.

Australian OpenHard courtBest resultQuarter-final2022
Roland-GarrosClay courtBest resultLast 162015, 2017
WimbledonGrass courtBest resultLast 162014, 2022
US OpenHard courtBest resultLast 162020

CAREER

Titles, year by year.

The love story between Alizé Cornet and the French public began at Roland-Garros in 2005: in her first main-tour event, at 15 and thanks to a wildcard, she won a match before facing one of her idols, Amélie Mauresmo, whose poster hung on her bedroom wall, in the second round. In 2008, perhaps the best season of her career, she established herself among the world's elite, where she stayed for the rest of her career. She won six WTA titles and reached nine other finals, including Rome in 2008 and Dubai in 2014, lost to Jelena Janković and Venus Williams respectively. A true giant-killer, she recorded 25 wins over top-10 players, including four over a reigning world No. 1: Serena Williams three times, most memorably in the third round of Wimbledon in 2014, and Iga Świątek at Wimbledon in 2022. Between the 2007 Australian Open and Roland-Garros 2024 she played 69 Grand Slams in a row, breaking the women's record previously held by Japan's Ai Sugiyama.

Junior career

  1. 2004

    French champion in the 13-14 age group.

  2. 2005

    European champion in the 15-16 age group.

  3. 2007

    Won the Roland-Garros junior title, her last tournament in the category and one of her three ITF junior titles, played alongside her professional debut.

WTA titles

  1. 2008

    Budapest

  2. 2012

    Bad Gastein

  3. 2013

    Strasbourg

  4. 2014

    Katowice

  5. 2016

    Hobart

  6. 2018

    Gstaad

STATISTICS & RECORDS

Records of a remarkable longevity.

69

Consecutive Grand Slams

The women's all-time record, from the 2007 Australian Open to Roland-Garros 2024.

16yrs

In the top 100

Sixteen consecutive years in the WTA top 100.

3

Wins over Serena Williams

The only French player to have beaten Serena Williams three times.

25

Top-10 wins

Including four over a reigning world No. 1.

Alizé Cornet training on clay at the Mouratoglou Academy with a coach

MOURATOGLOU ACADEMY

Her link with the Mouratoglou Academy.

Alizé Cornet has known the site all her life. Keen to stay in her region, she turned down every offer to join the Pôle France as a youngster and trained instead at the southern branch of Team Lagardère, which opened in Sophia-Antipolis in 2005.

A regular visitor, she has remained loyal to the academy, where her partner also worked as a coach for two years. Patrick Mouratoglou, to whom she is close, has often praised her incredible capacity for hard work: “She goes beyond her limits and can even faint during training,” he said in an interview. She liked to ask for male hitting partners to guarantee intense sessions.

At the end of her career she was coached part-time by Nicolas Beuque, a graduate of the Mouratoglou Academy, who was with her at Wimbledon 2022, where she reached the second week after beating Iga Świątek.

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This passing shot is incredible! Barros vs Cornet

GAME & EQUIPMENT

How Alizé plays.

Her game

Never the tallest or the strongest, Alizé Cornet carved out her place thanks to a phenomenal feel for the game and an innate competitive instinct, backed by great athletic qualities, especially endurance and explosiveness. Her varied, somewhat hybrid game, with a heavily top-spun forehand that she developed a great deal over her career and a flatter backhand, allowed her to adapt to every surface despite an early fondness for clay. Above all, her extraordinary fighting spirit and sometimes volcanic temperament always made her spectacular to watch: with Alizé, there was never a dull moment.

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OFF THE COURT

Personal life & interests.

A true all-rounder, Alizé Cornet did plenty before tennis took over, starring in an episode of the TV series L'Instit in 2000 and passing her baccalaureate two years early. Her life after tennis looks just as rich: after an autobiography, Sans compromis (Amphora), she published her first novel, La Valse des Jours (Flammarion), in 2022, followed by Ce qui manque à l'Amour (Albin Michel) in 2024. France Télévisions has asked her to work as a consultant at Roland-Garros, and she has already taken her first steps on beIN Sports.

Alizé Cornet smiling during a training session at the academy

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ON COURT

Train where Alizé trained.

The same courts, coaches and methodology, on the French Riviera: camps for juniors and adults, all year round.

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Aerial view of the Mouratoglou Academy clay and hard courts on the French Riviera