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WTABest WTA ranking No. 15

Aravane Rezaï

FRA39 yrs5' 5" (1.65 m)

Best WTA ranking No. 15

The only French player to win the WTA 1000 in Madrid.

Plays: Right-handed, two-handed backhand
Coached by Patrick Mouratoglou: 2009–2010

Figures as of 30 September 2026.

Profile & career

A meteoric rise with Patrick Mouratoglou at her side.

Aravane Rezaï, a French player of huge talent, enjoyed a meteoric rise and made an immediate impact in her early years on the tour. She reached the last 16 of her first US Open in 2006, aged 19.

She went on to win four WTA titles, all in 2009 and 2010, the biggest of them in Madrid in 2010, which lifted her to world No. 15 and made her France's No. 1 player. Physical and personal problems then held her back. She joined the Mouratoglou Academy in 2009 and was coached personally by Patrick Mouratoglou in 2009 and 2010.

Did you know?She is the only French player to have won the WTA 1000 tournament in Madrid, in 2010.

GRAND SLAMS

Aravane & the Grand Slams.

Twice in the second week of a Grand Slam: the 2006 US Open and Roland-Garros 2009.

Australian OpenHard courtBest result3rd round2008

Roland-GarrosClay courtBest resultLast 162009

WimbledonGrass courtBest result3rd round2009

US OpenHard courtBest resultLast 162006

CAREER

Titles, year by year.

The product of a family project, coached for many years by her father and then her older brother, Aravane Rezaï turned professional at 16 and quickly made her mark. At 18 she reached her first WTA final, in Istanbul, beating Venus Williams and Maria Sharapova before being forced to retire in the final against Elena Dementieva. A finalist again in Auckland, she won her first title in Strasbourg in May 2009 and became the terror of the women's tour in 2010. That May, coached by Patrick Mouratoglou, she won the Premier event in Madrid (now a WTA 1000) on clay, beating three former world No. 1s, Justine Henin, Jelena Janković and Venus Williams in the final, the greatest success of her career. She added a third clay-court title in Båstad in July 2010 and also won the indoor tournament in Bali. She has six wins over top-10 players, including world No. 1 Dinara Safina in Toronto in 2009, Caroline Wozniacki (No. 3) in Eastbourne in 2010 and Janković (No. 8) in Sydney in 2011. At Grand Slam level she lost to Dementieva at the 2006 US Open and to eventual finalist Safina at Roland-Garros in 2009.

Junior career: French champion.

2001
Finalist at the French Championships in the 13-14 age group.
2003
Finalist at the French Championships in the 15-16 age group.
2004
French champion in the 17-18 age group, at Roland-Garros. She then chose not to spend long on the ITF junior circuit.

WTA titles

2009
Strasbourg
2010
Madrid · Båstad

STATISTICS & RECORDS

Highlights of her career.

French winner in Madrid

The only French player to win the WTA 1000 in Madrid.

Top-10 wins

Six wins over top-10 players, including world No. 1 Dinara Safina in 2009.

2010

Fed Cup

A member of the French Fed Cup team in 2010.

MOURATOGLOU ACADEMY

Her link with the Mouratoglou Academy.

Already a regular visitor, Aravane Rezaï joined the Mouratoglou Academy in 2009 and was coached personally by Patrick Mouratoglou until the end of 2010. It marked the start of the most successful period of her career, crowned by her Madrid title and a ranking of world No. 15.

“My father taught me the basics of my game, Patrick gave it a tactical dimension and gave me a much more professional framework,” she said at the time. After their split in 2010, she returned to the academy in 2012 to try to relaunch her career, without success.

DISCOVER THE ACADEMY

GALLERY

Aravane at the Academy.

GAME & EQUIPMENT

How Aravane plays.

Her game

Strongly inspired by Andre Agassi, who shares her Iranian origins, Aravane Rezaï built her tennis on devastating groundstrokes off both wings. Few champions of her generation, apart from the Williams sisters and Maria Sharapova, could match the weight of her shot. She loves to take the ball early, smothering opponents like a steamroller, and likes to finish points at the net, or sometimes to surprise them with a drop shot.

Train in the gear of the Academy: rackets, apparel and accessories.

SHOP MOURATOGLOU

OFF THE COURT

Personal life & interests.

Aravane Rezaï has a dual French and Iranian culture, and dual nationality, which has shaped a rich, engaging and spiritual personality. She speaks French, Persian, English and Spanish, and once walked alone for weeks on the Way of St James, from Le Puy-en-Velay to Saint-Jean-Pied-de-Port, to reflect on the next step of her journey.