Sabine Appelmans

Country	Belgium
Residence	Asse, Belgium
Born	22 April 1972 (1972-04-22) (age 39) Aalst, Belgium
Height	1.68 m (5 ft 6 in)
Turned pro	1988
Retired	2001
Plays	Left-handed (two-handed backhand)
Career prize money	US$2,054,352
Singles
Career record	346–237
Career titles	7 (1 ITF title)
Highest ranking	No. 16 (24 November 1997)
Grand Slam results
Australian Open	QF (1997)
French Open	4th Round (1991)
Wimbledon	4th Round (1997, 2000)
US Open	4th Round (1992, 1999)
Doubles
Career record	147–162
Career titles	4 (1 ITF title)
Highest ranking	No. 21 (25 August 1997)
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Sabine Appelmans  listen (help·info) (born 22 April 1972 in Aalst, East Flanders) is a former tennis player from Belgium, and is Belgium's current Fed Cup captain.

Career

Appelmans started playing at the neighbour's court at the age of seven. Her first trainer, Fred Debruyn, saw immediately that she was very talented. Although right-handed, she played left-handed. At a children's tennis training session she claimed to be left-handed so she could stay with her friend in the left-handed group. Appelmans turned pro in 1988, and won her first title against Chanda Rubin in Phoenix in 1991. She made her first Fed Cup appearance in 1988, with a 2–1 loss against Austria. In 1997, she married Serge Haubourdin. Throughout her career, she won seven singles titles and 4 doubles titles.

In February 2007 she was appointed captain of Belgium's Fed Cup squad in replacement of Carl Maes.

Awards

Appelmans was elected as the Belgian Sportswoman of the year 1990 & 1991. She was nominated for the Karen Krantzcke Sportsmanship Award in 1994 & 1995.

WTA Tour Titles (11)

Singles (7)

No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Opponent in the final	Score
1.	3 November 1991	Scottsdale, USA	Hard	Chanda Rubin	7–5, 6–1
2.	10 November 1991	Nashville, USA	Hard (i)	Katrina Adams	6–2, 6–4
3.	19 April 1992	Pattaya, Thailand	Hard	Andrea Strnadová	7–5, 3–6, 7–5
4.	13 February 1994	Linz, Austria	Carpet (i)	Meike Babel	6–1, 4–6, 7–6(3)
5.	17 April 1994	Pattaya, Thailand	Hard	Patty Fendick	6–7(5), 7–6(5), 6–2
6.	30 April 1995	Zagreb, Croatia	Clay	Silke Meier	6–4, 6–3
7.	3 March 1996	Linz, Austria	Carpet (i)	Helena Suková	6–4, 7–5

Doubles (4)

No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Partnering	Opponents in the final	Score
1.	20 February 1994	Paris, France	Carpet (i)	Laurence Courtois	Mary Pierce Andrea Temesvári	6–4, 6–4
2.	15 February 1998	Paris, France	Carpet (i)	Miriam Oremans	Anna Kournikova Larisa Neiland	1–6, 6–3, 7–6
3.	21 June 1998	's-Hertogenbosch, Netherlands	Grass	Miriam Oremans	Cătălina Cristea Eva Melicharová	6–7, 7–6, 7–6
4.	21 May 2000	Antwerp, Belgium	Clay	Kim Clijsters	Jennifer Hopkins Petra Rampre	6–1, 6–1

Performance Timeline

Yellow backgrounds for top-8 (quarter finals up to finalist).

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