Tessah Andrianjafitrimo

Tessah Andrianjafitrimo (born 11 October 1998) is a French professional female tennis player of Malagasy descent.

Tessah Andrianjafitrimo

French Open 2018
Country (sports)	France
Residence	Nogaro, France
Born	11 October 1998 Montpellier, France
Height	1.69 m (5 ft 7 in)
Plays	Right-handed (two-handed backhand)
Coach	Teddy Andrianjafitrimo
Prize money	US$ 206,484
Singles
Career record	175–132
Career titles	4 ITF
Highest ranking	No. 242 (14 October 2019)
Current ranking	No. 258 (31 August 2020)
Grand Slam Singles results
Australian Open	Q2 (2021)
French Open	1R (2016, 2017)
Doubles
Career record	33–51
Career titles	2 ITF
Highest ranking	No. 389 (2 July 2018)
Current ranking	No. 915 (31 August 2020)
Grand Slam Doubles results
French Open	1R (2016, 2017, 2018, 2020)
Grand Slam Mixed Doubles results
French Open	1R (2018)
Last updated on: 7 September 2020.

On 14 October 2019, she reached her highest WTA singles ranking of No. 242. On 2 July 2018, she peaked at No. 389 in the WTA doubles rankings. Andrianjafitrimo has won four singles and two doubles titles on the ITF Circuit.

Personal life

Her father, Teddy Andrianjafitrimo, was born in Madagascar. Teddy was an excellent amateur tennis player. A tennis champion of Madagascar and Africa, he did not become a professional tennis player because of lacking financial support to do so. Teddy immigrated to France and worked as a club coach; he is currently Tessah's coach. Tessah was born in Montpellier and has been living in Nogaro since 2010. She has two younger siblings.[1]

Career

Junior

Andrianjafitrimo started playing tennis when she was five years old. She was the 2014 national girls' champion of France in the 15-16 year-olds category.[1] She had a career-high ITF junior combined ranking of world No. 29, attained on 14 September 2015.[2]

2013–2014

Andrianjafitrimo made her ITF Women's Circuit debut in September at the $25k indoor hardcourt tournament held in Clermont-Ferrand, France; she only entered that tournament's singles event, losing in the first qualifying round. She played a total of seven ITF Circuit tournaments in 2013 and 2014.[3]

2015–2016

Andrianjafitrimo made her Grand Slam singles debut thanks to a wildcard at the 2015 French Open qualifying, where she defeated Patricia Mayr-Achleitner in the first round before losing to Olivia Rogowska.

She also made her WTA Tour singles main-draw debut at the BGL Luxembourg Open thanks to a wildcard, losing her first-round match to Tatjana Maria. Three weeks later, Andrianjafitrimo made her WTA 125K series singles debut at the Open de Limoges; she entered the singles main draw as a wildcard and lost her first-round match to Carina Witthöft.

Andrianjafitrimo received a wildcard for the singles main draw of the 2016 French Open (that was her Grand Slam singles main-draw debut), where she lost 0–6, 0–6 to the unseeded Wang Qiang. She also played in the girls' singles main draw of the French Open, where she was defeated in the second round by Lucrezia Stefanini.

2019

At the French Open, Andrianjafitrimo failed to convert two match points in the third set of the singles qualifying first-round match against Rebecca Marino who won the match 6–7, 6–4, 7–5.[4]

ITF Circuit finals

Singles: 8 (4 titles, 4 runner–ups)

Legend $100,000 tournaments $80,000 tournaments $60,000 tournaments $25,000 tournaments $15,000 tournaments $10,000 tournaments

Finals by surface Hard (1–1) Clay (3–3) Grass (0–0) Carpet (0–0)

Result	W–L	Date	Tournament	Tier	Surface	Opponent	Score
Loss	0–1	Aug 2015	ITF Valladolid, Spain	10,000	Hard	María José Luque Moreno	2–6, 2–6
Win	1–1	Dec 2015	ITF Lagos, Nigeria	25,000	Hard	Tadeja Majerič	6–3, 5–7, 6–4
Loss	1–2	Apr 2016	ITF Pula, Italy	10,000	Clay	Jasmine Paolini	1–0 ret.
Win	2–2	Aug 2016	ITF Vinkovci, Croatia	10,000	Clay	Ivania Martinich	6–4, 6–1
Win	3–2	Apr 2017	ITF Hammamet, Tunisia	15,000	Clay	Camilla Scala	6–2, 6–4
Loss	3–3	Dec 2017	ITF Nules, Spain	25,000	Clay	Isabelle Wallace	1–6, 6–4, 3–6
Win	4–3	Jun 2019	ITF Périgueux, France	25,000	Clay	Alice Ramé	6–7^(5), 6–2, 6–2
Loss	4–4	Sep 2019	ITF Pula, Italy	25,000	Clay	Yuki Naito	6–3, 5–7, 2–6

Doubles: 3 (2 titles, 1 runner–up)

Legend $100,000 tournaments $80,000 tournaments $60,000 tournaments $25,000 tournaments $10,000 tournaments

Finals by surface Hard (2–0) Clay (0–0) Grass (0–1) Carpet (0–0)

Result	W–L	Date	Tournament	Tier	Surface	Partner	Opponents	Score
Win	1–0	Dec 2014	ITF Djibouti City, Djibouti	10,000	Hard	Ashmitha Easwaramurthi	Magali Kempen Wang Xiyao	3–6, 6–1, [10–8]
Win	2–0	Feb 2015	ITF Port El Kantaoui, Tunisia	10,000	Hard	Anna Blinkova	Arabela Fernández Rabener Eva Wacanno	6–4, 6–0
Loss	2–1	Mar 2017	ITF Mildura, Australia	25,000	Grass	Shérazad Reix	Noppawan Lertcheewakarn Lu Jiajing	4–6, 6–1, [8–10]

References

1. "Tessah, la perle de Nogaro". La Dépêche du Midi. 24 August 2014.
2. "ITF juniors profile of Tessah Andrianjafitrimo". ITF.
3. "ITF pro circuit profile of Tessah Andrianjafitrimo". ITF.
4. "Rebecca Marino passe au deuxième tour des qualifications à Roland-Garros". Métro. 22 May 2019.

External links

• Tessah Andrianjafitrimo at the Women's Tennis Association
• Tessah Andrianjafitrimo at the International Tennis Federation