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Mauresmo was leading in both matches at the time of the retirements, by 6 – 1, 2 – 0 against Henin.
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Davenport then reached the semifinals, where her match against Amélie Mauresmo was interrupted by rain and was completed over the course of two days.
1 Amélie Mauresmo in the quarterfinals, but was forced to retire with a right shoulder injury while playing Justine Henin in the final.
Davenport's last competitive match before the announcement of her pregnancy was a quarterfinal loss in Beijing to top-ranked Mauresmo.
In the final, Williams was a set and a service break up against Mauresmo before eventually losing.
Mauresmo was born in Saint-Germain-en-Laye.
Mauresmo was only the second Frenchwoman ever to reach the Australian Open final ; ( Mary Pierce was the first, winning the championship in 1995 ).
Mauresmo reached the semifinals at Wimbledon, where she lost to Serena Williams in three sets after Mauresmo had won the first set and was up a break in the second set.
Mauresmo won a silver medal in singles at the Olympic Games in Athens, where she was defeated by Belgian Justine Henin in the final.
Mauresmo reached the quarter-finals of the Australian Open, but was defeated there by eventual champion Serena Williams.
At the French Open, seeded third, Mauresmo was upset in the third round by the then little-known 17-year-old Ana Ivanovic of Serbia in three sets.
Mauresmo was the top seed at Wimbledon.
Mauresmo's next tournament was the Open Gaz de France, where she lost in the semifinals to Nadia Petrova, 7 – 5, 4 – 6, 6 – 7 ( 7 ), after Mauresmo led 4 – 1 in the final set and had a match point in the tiebreak.
Mauresmo was scheduled to play the Sony Ericsson Open in Key Biscayne, Florida, but was forced to withdraw because of acute appendicitis.
After losing to Henin in the final of the International Women's Open in Eastbourne, 5 – 7, 7 – 6 ( 4 ), 6 – 7 ( 2 ), after being up 4 – 1 in the deciding set, defending champion Mauresmo went into Wimbledon saying that she was ready to win another major title.
At the Tier II Barclays Dubai Tennis Championships, Mauresmo reached her third quarterfinal of the year, but was unable to hold off second seed and eventual finalist Svetlana Kuznetsova, losing 1 – 6, 6 – 7.
At the International Women's Open in Eastbourne, United Kingdom, Mauresmo defeated sixth-seeded French woman Alizé Cornet in the first round, 6 – 1, 4 – 6, 7 – 5, but lost in the second round after retiring due to injury from her match with Australian Samantha Stosur while Mauresmo was leading 2 – 1.
Mauresmo said after the match, " I was not 100 % in my movement but overall I thought there were some good moments in the first set.
She defeated Clijsters ( who was seeded second ) in a semifinal 6 – 4, 7 – 6 ( 4 ) but lost the final to Mauresmo.
She and Mauresmo reached the final, which was the first time in nearly 30 years that the Eastbourne final included both finalists from Wimbledon the previous year.
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In 1996, Mauresmo captured both the junior French Open and Wimbledon women's singles titles.
Mauresmo played both tournaments in the Middle East.
Pennetta won both her singles matches over Amélie Mauresmo ( 2 – 6, 7 – 6 ( 6 ), 6 – 4 ) and Alizé Cornet ( 6 – 2, 6 – 2 ).
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At the Australian Open, Mauresmo lost in the fourth round to Lucie Šafářová, 4 – 6, 3 – 6, after winning her first three matches in straight sets.
At the Australian Open, Henin defeated top-ranked Lindsay Davenport and fourth ranked Maria Sharapova in three-set matches to set up a final against third ranked Amélie Mauresmo.
In round-robin play with her assigned group of four players, she won all three matches: against Clijsters in three sets ; Mauresmo in three sets ; and Dementieva in straight sets.
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Mauresmo won two Grand Slam singles titles at the Australian Open and at Wimbledon.
After the defeat of Davenport at the Australian Open Mauresmo, 19 at the time, came out as a lesbian to the international press.
Mauresmo at the 2005 Australian Open
Mauresmo claimed her first singles title at the WTA Tour Championships.
Mauresmo next suffered a first-round loss at the Wimbledon warm-up tournament in Eastbourne.
Mauresmo started the year in Australia with a quarterfinal loss to Jelena Janković at the tournament in Sydney.
Amélie Mauresmo at Wimbledon 2007
In her next tournament at the Proximus Diamond Games in Antwerp, Belgium, Mauresmo defeated Kim Clijsters in the final.
At the Qatar Telecom German Open in Berlin, Mauresmo lost in the third round to Julia Vakulenko of Ukraine, and at the Internazionali d ' Italia in Rome, she lost in the second round to Australian Samantha Stosur, 7 – 5, 7 – 6 ( 4 ), 6 – 7 ( 7 ), after Mauresmo led 5 – 3 in the third set.
On clay at the Bausch & Lomb Championships in Amelia Island, Florida, Mauresmo lost in the quarterfinals to eventual runner-up Dominika Cibulková.
After months of layoff because of a virus, Henin returned to competition in August and won the women's singles gold medal at the Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece, defeating Amélie Mauresmo of France in the final 6 – 3, 6 – 3.
Capriati's streak of six consecutive Grand Slam semifinals was broken at Wimbledon, where she lost to Amélie Mauresmo in three sets in the quarterfinals.
She reached her third career final at the Qatar Total German Open in May, beating Mary Pierce, Amélie Mauresmo and Jelena Janković, before losing to Justine Henin.
She followed it with a quarterfinal showing at the NASDAQ-100 Open, losing to Mauresmo 6 – 3, 6 – 1.
Early in 2006, Sun suffered some extremely tough draws, but fought every inch of the way in tight three-set losses to Amélie Mauresmo in the first round of the Australian Open and Nuria Llagostera Vives in the first round at Gold Coast, only to lose in qualifying for Doha and Dubai.
Three weeks later at the Tier II Dubai Tennis Championships, Hantuchová defeated Maria Kirilenko in the second round, 2 – 6, 6 – 4, 7 – 6 ( 4 ), before losing her quarterfinal match against Amélie Mauresmo in three sets.
She was runner-up at the Tier I events Rome ( to Amélie Mauresmo ) and Zurich ( to Lindsay Davenport ).
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