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2007 Team Canada Fed Cup Bios | TEAM CANADA | |
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STEPHANIE DUBOIS
Plays: Right (Double-handed backhand)
Birthdate: October 31, 1986
Height: 5’4" (1.62m)
Weight: 127 lbs
Birthplace: Laval, Quebec
Hometown: Laval, Quebec
Fed Cup Experience: 4 years
Sony Ericsson WTA Tour Singles Ranking: No. 109 (As of January 28, 2008)
ABOUT DUBOIS: Biggest Fed Cup win came in July 2006 when she defeated Clarisa Fernandez of Argentina, 6-2, 6-4, in the fourth rubber to advance Canada to the World Group II for the first time since 1996 … Collected two singles titles and four doubles titles in 2007 … Compiled a 46-28 singles record for the year … Reached a career-best No. 105 in doubles rankings on November 5, 2007 after capturing the title at the $75K Pittsburgh Challenger with partner Alisa Kleybanova of Russia … Achieved a career-high singles ranking of No.101 on November 12, 2007 after reaching the semifinals at the $75K Pittsburgh Challenger and the final at the $50K La Quinta Challenger … Other 2007 singles titles include the $25K Hamilton Challenger and the $50K Lexington Challenger … Claimed doubles title with fellow Canadian Marie-Eve Pelletier at $50K Vancouver Challenger … Finalist in singles at $50K Challengers in Vancouver, Troy, Alabama and La Quinta, California … Year-end ranking of No.107 qualified her for the main draw of the 2008 Australian Open, her first direct entry into the main draw of a Grand Slam … Caught the attention of Canadian tennis fans in 2004 when she burst onto the professional scene, beginning her career with a 10-match winning streak and collecting a title in her first tournament at the $25K Hamilton Challenger … Named 2005 Canadian Female Tennis Player of the Year and Singles Player of the Year … Seven-time national junior champion (one singles, six doubles) … Highest ranking of No. 31 as an ITF junior.
2007 FED CUP RESULTS
July 14-15, 2007
Argentina 4, Canada 1
World Group II Playoff Round One
Cordoba Lawn Tennis Club, Cordoba, Argentina – Clay (O)
Lost to Maria-Emilia Salerni, 4-6, 1-6
Lost to Jorgelina Cravero and Betinna Jozami, W/O (with Marie-Eve Pelletier)
April 21-22, 2007
Israel 3, Canada 2
World Group II Round One
Kamloops Fieldhouse, Kamloops, British Columbia – Carpet (I)
Lost to Shahar Peer, 4-6, 4-6
Defeated Shahar Peer and Tzipora Obziler, 6-3, 4-6, 7-5 (with Marie-Eve Pelletier)
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MARIE-ÈVE PELLETIER
Plays: Right (Double-handed backhand)
Birthdate: May 18, 1982
Height: 5’8" (1.73m)
Weight: 139 lbs
Birthplace:
Repentigny, Quebec
Hometown:
Repentigny, Quebec
Fed Cup Experience:
5 years
Sony Ericsson WTA Tour Singles Ranking: No. 169 (As of January 28, 2008)
ABOUT PELLETIER: Despite being just 25-years old, she plays the role of veteran on Canada’s young Fed Cup squad … Has represented her nation in Fed Cup play every year since 2002, two years longer than any other member of the current group … Earned two victories in Canada’s World Group playoff against Israel in April 2007 … Won four doubles championships in 2007 including the $50K Vancouver Challenger with Fed Cup teammate Stephanie Dubois … Was very successful with Czech partner Eva Hrdinova capturing the $75K Denain Challenger and the $25K Challengers in Galatina, Italy and Perigeux, France … In singles, reached the semifinals of the $75K Albuquerque Challenger and the $25K Fort Walton Beach Challenger … Was a quarter-finalist in six other ITF Challenger events … Reached three other doubles finals in 2007 with three different partners … During what has thus far been a successful career, the former No. 1 player in Canada has collected two professional singles titles and nine doubles titles … Cracked Top 200 of the Sony Ericsson WTA Tour in her first year as a professional in 2000 … She reached a career-high ranking of No. 106 in the world on June 20, 2005 … Junior career offered a glimpse into the feisty play for which she has become known, as she climbed as high as No. 14 in the world junior rankings … Five-time national junior champion.
2007 FED CUP RESULTS
July 14-15, 2007
Argentina 4, Canada 1
World Group II Playoff Round One
Cordoba Lawn Tennis Club, Cordoba, Argentina – Clay (O)
Lost to Gisela Dulko, 5-7, 4-6
Lost to Jorgelina Cravero and Betinna Jozami, W/O (with Stephanie Dubois)
April 21-22, 2007
Israel 3, Canada 2
World Group II Round One
Kamloops Fieldhouse, Kamloops, British Columbia – Carpet (I)
Defeated Julia Glushko, 6-1, 6-1
Defeated Shahar Peer and Tzipora Obziler, 6-3, 4-6, 7-5 (with Stephanie Dubois)
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VALERIE TETREAULT
Plays: Right (Double-handed backhand)
Birthdate: January 21, 1988
Height: 5’7" (1.70m)
Weight: 126 lbs
Birthplace: St-Jean-sur-Richelieu, Quebec
Hometown: St-Jean-sur-Richelieu, Quebec
Fed Cup Experience: Rookie
Sony Ericsson WTA Tour Singles Ranking: No. 256
(As of March 19, 2007)
ABOUT TETREAULT: Making her first Canadian Fed Cup appearance … Fourth-highest ranked Canadian female on the Sony Ericsson WTA Tour (Wozniak, Dubois, Pelletier) … Rankings umped 697 spots in one year from No. 936 at the end of 2005 to 236 at the end of 2006 … A singles finalist in three challengers during the 2006 campaign: $25K Vancouver; $25K BC Decker (Hamilton); $10K Bath1 (United Kingdom) … Also a doubles finalist with partner Lorena Villalobos-Cruz of Mexico at the Monterry (Mexico) $10K Challenger … Semifinalist at the 2006 $25K Tevlin Challenger in Toronto and a quarter-finalist at two $50K events in the United States (Troy, Alabama and Ashland, Kentucky) … Ranked as high as No. 25 as a junior (October, 2005) … Captured the singles and doubles titles at the 2005 ITF Gr. 3 event in Montreal, just a week after winning the Chanda Rubin Pan American Closed Championship … Semifinalist at the Japan Open Junior Championship … Advanced to the Round of 16 at the 2005 Junior Australian Open … Finalist in singles at the 2004 Under 18 national championship and claimed the doubles crown with partner Tania Rice.
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 ALEKSANDRA WOZNIAK
Plays: Right (Double-handed backhand)
Birthdate: September 7, 1987
Height: 5’9" (1.75m)
Weight: 140 lbs
Birthplace: Montreal, Quebec
Hometown: Blainville, Quebec
Fed Cup Experience: 4 years
Sony Ericsson WTA Tour Singles Ranking: No. 140
(As of January 28, 2008)
ABOUT WOZNIAK: Her 15 singles victories is second on the all-time Canadian Fed Cup list (19, Jana Nejedly) and her 19 total victories is fourth (29, Sonya Jeyaseelan) …Played in the longest rubber (3 hours, 49 minutes) in Canadian Fed Cup history, 7-5, 4-6, 11-9 to Vilmarie Castellvi of Puerto Rico in 2005 … Reached No. 91 on November 13, 2006, becoming the first Canadian female since Sonya Jeyaseelan (2002) to crack the Top 100 on the Sony Ericsson WTA Tour … Improved that mark by reaching a career-high No. 83 on the Sony Ericsson WTA Tour on May 21, 2007 after reaching her first Tour final at a Tier IV clay event in Fes, Morocco… She gained direct entry into all four Grand Slams of the 2007 season … Received Tennis Canada Excellence Awards in 2006 for Canadian Female Player of the Year, Singles Player of the Year and Most Improved Female … In 2006, captured the $25K Hamilton Challenger, $50K Ashland Challenger and $75K Pittsburgh Challenger … Holds the mark for highest ITF junior ranking (No. 3) for a Canadian … During her junior career, reached the semifinals of the 2005 Junior Australian Open and the quarter-finals of 2005 Junior Wimbledon … Speaks English, French and Polish… Favourite surface is clay.
2007 FED CUP RESULTS
July 14-15, 2007
Argentina 4, Canada 1
World Group II Playoff Round One
Cordoba Lawn Tennis Club, Cordoba, Argentina – Clay (O)
Lost to Maria-Emilia Salerni, 3-6, 4-6
Defeated Gisela Dulko, 0-6, 6-2, 6-2
April 21-22, 2007
Israel 3, Canada 2
World Group II Round One
Kamloops Fieldhouse, Kamloops, British Columbia – Carpet (I)
Lost to Tzipora Obziler, 4-6, 6-4, 4-6
Lost to Shahar Peer, 4-6, 0-6
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RENE COLLINS
TEAM CANADA
CAPTAIN
As a player, coach and now captain, Rene Collins continues to make a big impact on Canadian women’s tennis. Under her tuteledge, Canada has reached an all-time best No. 10 ranking on the ITF Fed Cup listings and competes in World Group II for the first time since 1996. As current Canadian Fed Cup captain, she tied the national record for consecutive 3-0 sweeps with four during the Americas Zone Group I tournament last year in Colombia. The last time the feat was achieved was May 1997 when Collins, as a player, joined her teammates in four straight sweeps in the same tournament.
As a player, she registered a career Fed Cup record of 20-16, including 18-9 on clay courts. Collins represented Canada in Fed Cup play from 1998-98 and holds the national mark for best Canadian doubles Fed Cup record at 6-1 with Sonya Jayaseelan. She captured three WTA Tour doubles titles and enjoyed a career high ranking of No. 70.
Collins led the Canadian Junior Fed Cup team in Mexico to compete for a spot in the world championships, a feat she accomplished as coach in 2003. She won the Tennis Canada Coaching Excellence Award in 2000 and 2001. Collins was Fed Cup coach from 19980-2000 and became the team captain in 2001.
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