Chanelle Scheepers

Career

Scheepers turned pro in 2000 and played two ITF events.

In 2001 She reached 4 finals in the ITF level and won all with 3 of them coming from Durban, South Africa a local tournament and one in the United States.

In 2002, she reached 3 ITF finals winning one in Mackay, Australia and losing in the other two in Liechtenstein and Switzerland.

In 2003, she played her first Tour level event in the Mondial Australian Women's Hardcourts and won her first main draw tour level match after getting through the Qualifying draw over Samantha Stosur but lost to Tathiana Garbin in the next round. She then had a 19 match losing streak in the Qualifying draws of Tour Level and ITF events and Main Draw of ITF events.

2004 was a better year for Scheepers, she returned playing in the ITF events where she won four titles; two in Benin City, Nigeria and two in Pretoria, South Africa. She also reached four other finals in Torre del Greco and Taranto both in Italy, in Pétange, Luxembourg and Lagos, Nigeria.

In 2005 Scheepers once again started playing in the Qualifying draw of Tour Level events but she didn't produce results as she only reached one semifinals and one quarterfinals in ITF events.

2006, was not a better year for Scheepers despite returning to the ITF Circuit as she only reached two semifinals and a quarterfinal.

In 2007 Scheepers won her first ITF titles in three years as she won two titles in Lagos, Nigeria and Allentown, Pennsylvania, United States.

2008, Scheepers form went down as she only reached one semifinals and two quarterfinals.

2009, was a breakthrough year for the South African player as she made her Grand Slam main draw debut getting through the Qualifying draw in the 2009 Australian Open and 2009 French Open. She also made four main draw wins and won a title in Irapuato, Mexico.

In 2010 Scheepers continued to play in the Tour level events and her persistence paid off as she reached her first Main Draw Quarterfinals in the 2010 Malaysian Open losing to Japanese Ayumi Morita. She then won in the ITF event of Fort Walton Beach, United States. In the 2010 French Open after coming through the Qualifying Draw, she won her first Grand Slam Main Draw match over Frenchwoman Mathilde Johansson in straight sets. She then continued her form by upsetting both Gisela Dulko and Akgul Amanmuradova. She lost to World No.5 Elena Dementieva in the fourth round in two sets. As a result of this performance she was awarded a wildcard into the main draw of Wimbledon, where she lost in the first round to ninth seed and eventual quarter-finalist Li Na.

In 2011, she made the 3rd round of the Australian Open. Following modest results for much of the rest of the year, Scheepers reached the 3rd round of the US Open, where she even held match points against Francesca Schiavone before losing the match in 3 sets. Following that, she won her first WTA single titles at Guangzhou, China as the 7th seed defeating the 8th seed Magdaléna Rybáriková of Slovakia 6–2, 6–2 in the final. Chanelle achieved her career-high singles rank of World No. 37 following the tournament.g On 13 July 2012, Scheepers lost to Serena Williams in the Stanford Classic.

In July 2012, she reached the second round of Mercury Insurance Open 2012, Carlsbad losing to Varvara Lepchenko.

At The 2013 Wimbledon Championships, she teamed with Shuko Aoyama to advance to the semi-finals in women's doubles.

In 2015 after The Family Cup in Charleston she retired from the WTA tour and is now coaching American tennis player, Alison Riske.

Personal life

Scheepers married Roger Anderson, her former coach, on 10 November 2012, in the KwaZulu-Natal Midlands.

She is sponsored by Babolat racquets and K-Swiss for clothing.