Fiona Ferro (born 12 March 1997) is a French-Belgian professional tennis player. She has career-high WTA rankings of No. 39 in singles, attained on 8 March 2021, and No. 257 in doubles, reached on 17 May 2021. Ferro has won two singles titles on the WTA Tour and two at WTA 125 tournaments.
Early life
Fiona Ferro was born on 12 March 1997 in Libramont-Chevigny, Belgium, to a Belgian mother, Catherine, and a French-Italian father, Fabrizio. Her parents owned a restaurant in Belgium before moving to southern France when she was one year old. She has two older brothers, Gianni and Paolo, and a younger brother, Flavio. By 2018, her parents owned two hotels in Valbonne, France, while her older brothers operated an Italian restaurant in the town.
Ferro began playing tennis in Valbonne at around the age of eight, following the example of her two older brothers. Before taking up tennis, she had tried other sports, including dancing and basketball. By the age of 12, she was pursuing her education through distance learning to accommodate her tennis training.
Ferro was the national girls' champion of France in the 12-13 year-old, 15-16 year-old and 17-18 year-old categories. She had a career-high ITF junior combined ranking of world No. 27, attained on 3 June 2013.
2012–2016: WTA Tour debut
Ferro made her ITF Women's Circuit debut at the $25k indoor hardcourt tournament held in late January 2012 in Grenoble, France; she only entered that tournament's singles competition, losing in the first round of qualifying. She played (only in the singles draws of) eight tournaments on the 2012 ITF Circuit.
She played (only in the singles draws of) eleven tournaments on the 2013 ITF Circuit. Her 2013 year-end WTA singles ranking was 557, compared to world No. 1062 on 11 February 2013.
She made her major singles debut at the 2014 French Open, after receiving a wildcard for the singles main draw, before losing in the first round to 16th seed Sabine Lisicki.
In June 2016, Ferro ended her player-coach collaboration with Pierre Bouteyre. He had been her coach since 2010.
Ferro then made her WTA 125 singles debut at the 2016 Open de Limoges, after receiving a wildcard for the main draw, wherein she lost in the first round to the unseeded Ivana Jorović.
2017: Success in qualifying rounds
At the end of February, Ferro played her year-first and just her third career WTA Tour singles main-draw match at the Mexican Open, after defeating two higher-ranked players (Samantha Crawford and Tatjana Maria) in qualifying matches, losing in the first round to fifth seed Christina McHale. In April, Ferro played her second and third Tour singles main-draw matches of 2017 in Bogotá and Istanbul, respectively, after winning two qualifying matches in each tournament; she lost in the first round to seeded players (to Johanna Larsson in Bogotá and Sorana Cîrstea in Istanbul) in both tournaments.
At the end of 2017, Ferro moved to Paris to train at the Centre National d'Entraînement (CNE) to take advantage of the facilities there. Her tennis coach was Stéphane Huet, and she also had a fitness coach and a mental coach that she shared with other players training at the CNE.
2018: First ITF title, top 100
On 11 February, Ferro won her first ITF singles title in Grenoble. She had to win three qualifying matches to reach the singles main-draw of a WTA Tour event for the first time in 2018, at the International tournament in Rabat, losing in the first round to another qualifier, Paula Badosa Gibert. Ferro also played in Strasbourg, where she had entered the singles main draw as a wildcard, losing in the first round to the sixth seed Tímea Babos.
Ferro received a singles main-draw wildcard for the French Open, just like she did in 2014, 2015 and 2017. She won the first Grand Slam singles main-draw match of her career and also picked up her first career win over a player ranked in the top-100 at the French Open when she defeated world No. 61, Carina Witthöft, in the first round. She lost to third seed Garbiñe Muguruza in the second round.
On 22 October 2018, Ferro attained a career-high of world No. 100 in the singles rankings and became the 43rd Frenchwoman to break inside the top 100 of those rankings.
In July, Ferro won her first Tour singles title in Lausanne, beating defending champion Alizé Cornet in the final.
On 18 December 2019, Ferro announced on her Instagram account that Emmanuel Planque would henceforth be her new coach. Her two-year player-coach collaboration with Stéphane Huet had ended at the end of October 2019.
2020: French Open 4th round, top 50
On 9 August, Ferro won her second WTA Tour title, defeating Anett Kontaveit in the final of the Palermo Ladies Open. This was the first tournament since the tour had shut down due to the coronavirus pandemic.
Ferro reached the fourth round of the French Open, her best showing at a Grand Slam tournament in her career thus far, where she was defeated by fourth seed and eventual runner-up, Sofia Kenin.
Ferro finished the year in the top 50, at No. 42, for the first time in her career.
2021–2022: Major 3rd round, career-high ranking, Olympics
Ferro at Roland Garros, 2021
Ferro reached the third round of the 2021 Australian Open, her best showing at this Grand Slam event in her career so far, defeating 17th seed Elena Rybakina before falling to 15th seed Iga Świątek. She reached a career-high of No. 39 on 8 March 2021.
After that, her season was plagued by injuries, including one in April that forced her to retire from her quarterfinal in Istanbul, and then one injury (foot) before Roland Garros. She still managed to deliver, despite the loss, a great fight against 13th seed Jennifer Brady in the second round (losing 5–7 in the third set).[citation needed] After a winless grass-court season, Ferro came back on clay and reached the quarterfinals in Lausanne, beaten by compatriot Clara Burel. She was defeated in the second round of the Olympic Games in Tokyo by Sara Sorribes Tormo. Ferro came close to upsetting Iga Świątek in the second round of the 2021 US Open: she was up 6–3, 2–0, but lost 6–3, 6–7, 0–6.[citation needed]
Ranked No. 462, Ferro qualified for the main-draw of the 2023 French Open, having received a wildcard entry for the qualifying tournament. She lost in the first round to Rebecca Peterson.
She won her first WTA 125 title at the 2026 Oeiras Open, defeating Polina Kudermetova in the final. As a result, she returned to the top 200 in the singles rankings on 4 May 2026. In July 2026, Ferro was runner-up at the WTA 125 Palermo Ladies Open, losing to top seed and defending champion Francesca Jones in the final which was decided in a third set tiebreak.
In February 2022, Ferro filed a criminal complaint against her former coach, Pierre Bouteyre, alleging repeated rape and sexual assault between 2012 and 2015, when she was aged between 15 and 18. Bouteyre was formally placed under investigation in August 2022. He acknowledged having had a relationship with Ferro but denied the allegations of rape and maintained that the relationship had been consensual. In November 2025, the Aix-en-Provence Court of Appeal upheld the decision to send Bouteyre to trial before the criminal court of Var.
Performance timelines
Key
W
F
SF
QF
#R
RR
Q#
P#
DNQ
A
Z#
PO
G
S
B
NMS
NTI
P
NH
(W) winner; (F) finalist; (SF) semifinalist; (QF) quarterfinalist; (#R) rounds 4, 3, 2, 1; (RR) round-robin stage; (Q#) qualification round; (P#) preliminary round; (DNQ) did not qualify; (A) absent; (Z#) Davis/Fed Cup Zonal Group (with number indication) or (PO) play-off; (G) gold, (S) silver or (B) bronze Olympic/Paralympic medal; (NMS) not a Masters tournament; (NTI) not a Tier I tournament; (P) postponed; (NH) not held; (SR) strike rate (events won / competed); (W–L) win–loss record.
To avoid confusion and double counting, these charts are updated at the conclusion of a tournament or when the player's participation has ended.
↑Edition is split into the two years due to COVID-19.
↑The first Premier 5 event of the year has switched back and forth between the Dubai Tennis Championships and the Qatar Ladies Open since 2009. Dubai was classified as a Premier 5 event from 2009 to 2011 before being succeeded by Doha for the 2012–2014 period. In 2015, Dubai regained its Premier 5 status while Doha was demoted to Premier status. The Premier 5 tournaments were reclassified as WTA 1000 tournaments in 2021.
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