Françoise Abanda

Biography

Françoise Abanda (born February 5, 1997 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada) is a Canadian professional tennis player. She reached her highest WTA singles ranking of 111 on October 9, 2017 and her highest WTA doubles ranking of 197 on September 8, 2014. She achieved a career high junior rank of No. 4 on April 29, 2013. She reached the semifinals of the junior Wimbledon in 2012. Also in 2012, she won the G1 tournament in Repentigny, becoming only the second Québécoise (after Eugenie Bouchard in 2011), and fourth Canadian to win the title there. In 2014 at the French Open, she advanced to her second junior Grand Slam semifinal. At the 2014 US Open, she qualified for her first Grand Slam after losing only six games in the three rounds. She lost to world No. 27 Sabine Lisicki in the first round. Abanda qualified for the 2017 French Open for the first time in her career and defeated local Tessah Andrianjafitrimo in the opening round. She lost to world No. 12 Caroline Wozniacki in her next match. The next month at Wimbledon, she qualified for her second straight Grand Slam main draw and won her first round match over world No. 94 Kurumi Nara. She was defeated by reigning French Open champion and world No. 13 Jeļena Ostapenko in the second round in three sets. Also in 2017 at the Coupe Banque Nationale, Abanda reached her first WTA quarterfinal defeating Asia Muhammad and world No. 74 Varvara Lepchenko respectively in the first two rounds, before falling to world No. 63 Tímea Babos.

Abanda started playing tennis at age 7, after her elder-by-three-years sister Élisabeth started playing two years earlier. She has been a member of Tennis Canada's National Training Centre in Montreal since 2009. Her parents, Blaise Abanda and Cicle Assono Ahibena, are from Cameroon. Her sister Élisabeth also played tennis professionally and studied at Barry University.

ITF Circuit finals

Singles: 4 (3 titles, 1 runner-up)

Legend
$100,000 tournaments (0–0)
$75,000 / $80,000 tournaments (0–0)
$50,000 / $60,000 tournaments (0–0)
$25,000 tournaments (3–1)
$10,000 / $15,000 tournaments (0–0)

Result	W–L	Date	Tournament	Tier	Surface	Opponent	Score
Win	1–0	Jan 2014	Port St. Lucie, United States	25,000	Clay	Heidi El Tabakh (CAN)	6–3, 6–4
Loss	1–1	Jul 2014	Gatineau, Canada	25,000	Hard	Stéphanie Foretz (FRA)	3–6, 6–3, 3–6
Win	2–1	Mar 2016	Irapuato, Mexico	25,000	Hard	Lesley Kerkhove (NED)	6–2, 6–4
Win	3–1	Oct 2016	Redding, United States	25,000	Hard	Sachia Vickery (USA)	3–6, 6–4, 6–4

Doubles: 3 (2 titles, 1 runner-up)

Legend
$100,000 tournaments (0–0)
$75,000 / $80,000 tournaments (0–0)
$50,000 / $60,000 tournaments (2–1)
$25,000 tournaments (0–0)
$10,000 / $15,000 tournaments (0–0)

Result	W–L	Date	Tournament	Tier	Surface	Partner	Opponents	Score
Loss	0–1	Oct 2013	Saguenay, Canada	50,000	Hard (i)	Victoria Duval (USA)	Marta Domachowska (POL) Andrea Hlaváčková (CZE)	5–7, 3–6
Win	1–1	Nov 2013	Toronto, Canada	50,000	Hard (i)	Victoria Duval (USA)	Melanie Oudin (USA) Jessica Pegula (USA)	7–6(7–5), 2–6, [11–9]
Win	2–1	May 2015	Charlottesville, United States	50,000	Clay	Maria Sanchez (USA)	Olga Ianchuk (UKR) Irina Khromacheva (RUS)	6–1, 6–3

Singles performance timeline

This table is current through the 2018 French Open.

Tournament	2014	2015	2016	2017	2018	SR	W–L	Win %
Grand Slam Tournaments
Australian Open	A	Q1	A	Q2	Q2	0 / 0	0–0	–
French Open	A	A	A	2R	Q1	0 / 1	1–1	50%
Wimbledon	A	A	A	2R		0 / 1	1–1	50%
US Open	1R	A	Q3	Q3		0 / 1	0–1	0%
Win–Loss	0–1	0–0	0–0	2–2	0–0	0 / 3	2–3	40%

Record against top-100 players

Abanda's win-loss record (12–22, 35%) against players who were ranked world No. 100 or higher when played is as follows:
Players who have been ranked world No. 1 are in boldface.

Player Top-100 record Overall record Yanina Wickmayer (BEL) 1–0 1–0 Varvara Lepchenko (USA) 1–0 1–0 Yulia Putintseva (KAZ) 1–0 1–0 Irina-Camelia Begu (ROU) 1–0 1–0 Yaroslava Shvedova (KAZ) 1–0 1–0 Misaki Doi (JPN) 1–0 1–0 Kurumi Nara (JPN) 1–0 1–0 Olga Govortsova (BLR) 1–0 1–0 Nao Hibino (JPN) 1–0 2–0 Zheng Saisai (CHN) 1–0 1–0 Natalia Vikhlyantseva (RUS) 1–0 2–0 Magda Linette (POL) 1–0 1–0 Karolína Plíšková (CZE) 0–1 0–1 Venus Williams (USA) 0–1 0–1 Caroline Wozniacki (DEN) 0–1 0–1 Kimiko Date-Krumm (JPN) 0–1 0–1 Lucie Šafářová (CZE) 0–1 0–1 Elina Svitolina (UKR) 0–1 0–1

Player Top-100 record Overall record Andrea Petkovic (GER) 0–1 0–1 Jeļena Ostapenko (LAT) 0–1 0–1 Sabine Lisicki (GER) 0–1 0–1 Kaia Kanepi (EST) 0–1 0–1 Tímea Babos (HUN) 0–1 0–1 Alexandra Dulgheru (ROU) 0–1 0–1 Monica Niculescu (ROU) 0–1 0–1 Vania King (USA) 0–1 0–1 Tatjana Maria (GER) 0–1 0–2 Aliaksandra Sasnovich (BLR) 0–1 0–1 Jennifer Brady (USA) 0–1 0–1 Evgeniya Rodina (RUS) 0–1 0–1 Dominika Cibulková (SVK) 0–2 0–2 Julia Görges (GER) 0–2 0–2 Total 12–22 14–23

*Statistics as of May 16, 2018