Patty Schnyder
Tennis Player
1978 –
Who is Patty Schnyder?
Patty Schnyder is a former Swiss professional tennis player. She played on the WTA tour from 1993 to 2011 and reached number 7 in the world rankings. She twice defeated a reigning world no. 1 player in her career: Martina Hingis at the 1998 Grand Slam Cup and Jennifer Capriati at the 2002 Family Circle Cup. In addition, she defeated former number 1's Lindsay Davenport, Serena Williams, Arantxa Sánchez Vicario, Steffi Graf, Kim Clijsters, Justine Henin, Amélie Mauresmo, Jelena Janković, Ana Ivanovic, Caroline Wozniacki and Maria Sharapova.
During her career she reached six Grand Slam singles quarterfinals and one Grand Slam singles semifinal. She won 11 WTA singles titles and 5 WTA doubles titles and earned over US$8.4 million in prize money.
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- Born
- Dec 14, 1978
Basel - Parents
- Siblings
- Spouses
- Rainer Hofmann
(2003/12/05 - )
- Rainer Hofmann
- Nationality
- Switzerland
- Profession
- Lived in
- Switzerland
- Chemnitz
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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