Sybille Bammer Tennis Player

Sybille Bammer (born 27 April 1980 in Linz, Austria) is a professional female tennis player from Austria. Her career high ranking is No. 19, achieved on 17 December 2007. She is one of three mothers on the WTA Tour (Kim Clijsters and Rossana de los Ríos are the others), having taken time off at age 21 to have her daughter Tina before returning to the tour. When she won the 2007 Pattaya Women's Open, it was the first time in eighteen years that a mother won on tour, after Laura Arraya in 1989. Her daughter Tina is a frequent regular in the crowd. Bammer said of her daughter, "She is always telling other people to be quiet because Mummy is concentrating." Bammer made her WTA Tour main draw debut as a wildcard in 2000 at the Klagenfurt event. She lost to German player Andrea Glass at this event. She failed to qualify for Wimbledon, US Open and her home tournament in Linz.

During 2001 she took a break from tennis to give birth to her daughter Tina. Her boyfriend Christophe Gsthwendtner took a break from his engineering career to take care of Tina. Given that she was still to break into the top 200 at the time, this was a courageous decision for the young couple. It wasn't until two years later that she would break into the top 150. Upon her post-pregnancy comeback in 2002 she cruised to win her career-first singles title at the $10k event in Grenoble. She won another two in the same year at Mostar and Innsbruck, both $25k events on the ITF Tour. During 2003, she picked up another four $25k singles titles. She also made her debut for Austria in their Fed Cup team.

In 2005, Bammer made her career breakthrough, soaring into the top 100 on the rankings, including making her Grand Slam main draw debut at the US Open, where she fell in the first round to Martina Suchá as a qualifier. At the Tier III in Kolkatta, Bammer reached her first ever WTA Tour quarterfinal event, and then reaching her second at the Tier II event in Linz as a wildcard, defeating Virginie Razzano and Vera Dushevina. She was the first Austrian since Barbara Schett in 2000 to make it to the quarterfinals there. After her impressive run in Linz, she reached a new career high of No.77. At the start of 2006, she got her best ever Grand Slam performance in only her second ever Grand Slam main draw, making the third round.

Two weeks after, she reached her first career first Tour semifinal at Pattaya City, falling to the eventual champion Shahar Pe'er. She reached the third round in Indian Wells before losing to 19th seed Martina Hingis, and the second round in Charleston losing to top seed Justine Henin-Hardenne. During the Fed Cup, she fell 0–3 in Austria's 5–0 defeat to Spain. She made her top 50 debut at No.42 following a third round appearance at Berlin, losing to No.6 seed Svetlana Kuznetsova. In her first Wimbledon main draw showing, she reached the third round, notching her best career win thus far over Nathalie Dechy, then ranked No.23.

At the Bangalore Open, she lost in the second round to Anastasia Rodionova 7–6(5), 6–2, after holding a 5–2 lead in the first set. Bammer reached the quarterfinals at the Beijing Olympics, where she lost in three sets to ninth seed Vera Zvonareva 6–3, 3–6, 6–3. At the US Open, Bammer was seeded 29th. She defeated #12 Marion Bartoli, 7-6, 0-6, 6-4 in the 4th round. She struggled with unforced errors in a loss to #2 Jelena Janković in the quarterfinals.  

Was seeded at the Australian Open but lost 1st Round. At French Open Was 28th seed. d Nathalie Dechy 1st Round 3-6, 6-4, 6-1 then lost 2nd Round to M Czink 6-4, 3-6, 8-10. Partnering L Kubot of Poland, they won 2 matches and made it through to the Quarterfinals of the Mixed Doubles. At Wimbledon was 29th Seed but lost 1st Round to Melanie Oudin 6-7, 0-6. At Cincinnati defeat No.13 seed A.Radwańska 6-0 7-5 and No.2 seed S.Williams en route 7-5 6-4, falling to No.5 seed and eventual champion Janković; now 2-0 lifetime against S.Williams; At the US Open was 28th seed and lost 1st round to Maria Martinez Sanchez 2-6, 6-4, 1-6. Reached 2nd round at the Australian Open - lost to V. Williams 6-2 7-5. Reached semi-final at Kuala Lumper lost to No.1 seed Elena Dementieva.