The professional tennis player from France named Alize Cornet was born on January 22, 1990. Cornet has triumphed in six singles matches, three doubles matches, and three singles and three doubles matches on the ITF Circuit while competing on the WTA Tour. On February 16, 2009, she reached her highest WTA singles ranking of No. 11. At all four Grand Slam tournaments, Cornet has also moved past the second round, reaching the quarterfinals of the 2022 Australian Open, the fourth round of the 2014 Wimbledon Championships, the 2015 and 2017 French Opens, and the 2020 US Open. With 67 appearances overall, she ranks ninth, and her 64 consecutive Grand Slam appearances set a record. Because of her three victories over Serena Williams, the world’s best player, Cornet rose to fame in 2014. Cornet reached her biggest singles final in over six years at the Dubai Tennis Championships after defeating Williams in the semifinals in straight sets. She overcame a set deficit to defeat Williams in the third round of the Wimbledon Championships in July, bringing the American her earliest elimination from the competition since 2005. Later that year, when Williams retired due to sickness, she earned her third victory in the second round in Wuhan.
At the German Open in June 2021, at the start of the grass-court season, Cornet advanced to the semifinals by defeating the third-seeded Bianca Andreescu (her first top-10 win for 2021) and the sixth-seeded Garbie Muguruza in a close three-set battle. In the semifinal, she was defeated by Belinda Bencic. In the first round of Wimbledon, she overcame fifth-seeded Andreescu once more, earning her second top-10 victory of the year. Cornet competed in the first Chicago Women’s Open in August, making it to the final where she was defeated by Elina Svitolina. Leylah Fernandez defeated her in straight sets in the second round of Indian Wells in October.
2022 Journey
Cornet defeated Bulgarian qualifier Viktoriya Tomova, world No. 3 Garbie Muguruza, 29th seed Tamara Zidanek, and 14th seed Simona Halep on her way to the Australian Open quarterfinals. Cornet made her maiden Grand Slam quarterfinal appearance in this round after 63 attempts to make it to the last eight. She fell to Danielle Collins in the quarterfinal match, though. Cornet’s participation in the Wimbledon Championships brought her even with Ai Sugiyama’s record of 62 straight Grand Slam appearances. She defeated the number one player in the world, Iga Witek, in the third round, snapping a 37-match winning streak. She defeated the current world No. 1 for the second time at Wimbledon with this victory (after Serena Williams in 2014). Cornet was defeated by Ajla Tomljanovi in the fourth round after a match that lasted three sets and 2 hours and 34 minutes. Making her record-breaking 63rd consecutive major appearance at the US Open, she defeated the defending champion, Emma Raducanu, in straight sets. She then overcame Kateina Siniaková. In the third round, she was defeated by Danielle Collins in a set and a half.
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Alize Cornet and her Parents, Family
Francis and Patricia, Cornet’s parents, pushed both her and her brother to pursue athletic endeavours from a young age. Cornet was born in Nice, France. Alize started playing tennis when she was four years old, shortly after her brother Sebastien. She later outperformed her brother in juvenile competitions, and Sebastien finally became her agent.
Who is Michael Kuzaj, the boyfriend of Alize Cornet?
Tennis player agent Michael Kuzaj. He also competed nationally in tennis while playing college tennis for University of Southern Indiana (NCAA II). Along with co-founding the clothing and accessories business “Twenty By Ten,” he also founded the Padel Business League by MPPI. In addition to this, he also works in the south of France’s Patrick Mouratoglou Tennis Academy. He is French-born and has represented Cornet since 2017. Considering each other since 2014, they have been.
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