Shelby Rogers Biography

Shelby Rogers (born October 13, 1992) is an American professional tennis player. She won the girls junior national championship at 17. Her best result on the WTA Tour came at the 2016 French Open where she reached the quarterfinals.

Personal life

Rogers followed her sister, Sabra, into tennis at the age of 6. She was quickly identified by her coaches for her natural athletic ability and started competing on the national stage by the age of 11. Home-schooled during high school, Rogers was able to focus on her tennis and quickly started receiving scholarship offers from the top schools in the US. In 2009, she decided to forgo college and become a professional tennis player. She is good friends with fellow American players Coco Vandeweghe and Irina Falconi.

Her tennis idol is Steffi Graf.

Career

Early years

In 2010, Rogers won the USTA 18s Girls National Championship to earn a wild card into the U.S. Open, her first appearance in the main draw of a Grand Slam. She lost to Peng Shuai in the first round in three sets.

Rogers earned another wild card into the main draw of the 2013 French Open three years later by winning the Har-Tru USTA Pro Circuit Wild Card Challenge. With the wild card, she won her first career Grand Slam match over Irena Pavlovic.

She finished 2014 ranked inside the Top 100 at No. 72.

2015

In 2015, Rogers played in all four Grand Slam main draws for the first time in her career, reaching the 3rd round at the U.S. Open.

2016

Although she missed the Australian Open due to injury, Rogers began the year strongly by reaching her second career WTA final, losing to Francesca Schiavone at the Rio Open on clay in February.

At the French Open, she continued her success on clay by becoming the first American other than Serena Williams to reach the quarterfinals since Venus Williams in 2006. Along the way, she defeated three seeded players including No. 12 Petra Kvitov. With this run, she also rose to a career high ranking inside the Top 60.

2017

Rogers started out the year with a stunning upset, 6-3, 6-1, over World No.4 Simona Halep in the first round of the Australian Open.

WTA career finals

Singles: 2 (2 runners-up)

Winner "? Legend Grand Slam tournaments (0-0) WTA Tour Championships (0-0) Premier Mandatory & Premier 5 (0-0) Premier (0-0) International (0-2)

Titles by Surface Hard (0-0) Grass (0-0) Clay (0-2) Carpet (0-0)

Outcome	No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Opponent	Score
Runner-up	1.	13 July 2014	Gastein Ladies, Bad Gastein, Austria	Clay	Andrea Petkovic	3-6, 3-6
Runner-up	2.	21 February 2016	Rio Open, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil	Clay	Francesca Schiavone	6-2, 2-6, 2-6

Doubles: 1 (1 runner-up)

Legend
Grand Slam tournaments (0-0)
WTA Tour Championships (0-0)
Premier Mandatory & Premier 5 (0-0)
Premier (0-0)
International (0-1)

Outcome	No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Partner	Opponents	Score
Runner-up	1.	19 April 2015	Copa Colsanitas, Bogot, Colombia	Clay	Irina Falconi	Paula Cristina Gonalves Beatriz Haddad Maia	3-6, 6-3, [6-10]

ITF career finals

Singles: 7 (4-3)

$100,000 tournaments

$75,000 tournaments

$50,000 tournaments

$25,000 tournaments

$10,000 tournaments

Outcome	No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Opponent	Score
Runner-up	1.	May 4, 2010	Indian Harbour Beach, United States	Clay	Edina Gallovits-Hall	2-6, 6-3, 6-4
Winner	1.	July 10, 2012	Yakima, United States	Hard	Samantha Crawford	6-4, 6-7(3-7), 6-3
Runner-up	2.	September 25, 2012	Las Vegas, United States	Hard	Lauren Davis	6-7(5-7), 6-2, 6-2
Winner	2.	April 23, 2013	Charlottesville, United States	Clay	Allie Kiick	6-3, 7-5
Winner	3.	July 28, 2013	Lexington, United States	Hard	Julie Coin	6-4, 7-6(7-3)
Winner	4.	September 16, 2013	Albuquerque, United States	Hard	Anna Tatishvili	6-2, 6-3
Runner-up	2.	September 28, 2015	Las Vegas, United States	Hard	Michalla Krajicek	3-6, 1-6

Doubles 7 (2-5)

$100,000 tournaments $75,000 tournaments $50,000 tournaments $25,000 tournaments $10,000 tournaments

Finals by surface Hard (1-3) Clay (0-2) Grass (1-0) Carpet (0-0)

Outcome	No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Partner	Opponents in the final	Score
Runner-up	1.	June 15, 2010	Mount Pleasant, United States	Hard	Petra Rampre	Kaitlyn Christian Caitlin Whoriskey	6-4, 6-2
Winner	1.	July 3, 2012	Denver, United States	Hard	Marie-ve Pelletier	Lauren Embree Nicole Gibbs	6-3, 3-6, [12-10]
Runner-up	2.	April 23, 2013	Charlottesville, United States	Clay	Nicole Gibbs	Nicola Slater Coco Vandeweghe	6-3, 7-6(7-4)
Runner-up	3.	April 14, 2014	Dothan, United States	Hard	Olivia Rogowska	Anett Kontaveit Ilona Kremen	1-6, 7-5, [5-10]
Winner	2.	June 5, 2015	Eastbourne, United Kingdom	Grass	Coco Vandeweghe	Jocelyn Rae Anna Smith	7-5, 7-6(7-1)
Runner-up	4.	February 7, 2016	Midland, United States	Hard (i)	Naomi Broady	CiCi Bellis Ingrid Neel	2-6, 4-6
Runner-up	5.	April 30, 2016	Charlottesville, United States	Clay	Alexandra Panova	Asia Muhammad Taylor Townsend	6-7(4-7), 0-6

Singles performance timeline

Tournament	2010	2011	2012	2013	2014	2015	2016	2017	W-L
Grand Slam Tournaments
Australian Open	A	A	A	Q1	Q2	1R	A	2R	1-2
French Open	A	A	A	2R	1R	1R	QF	3R	7-5
Wimbledon	A	A	A	Q1	Q2	1R	1R		0-2
US Open	1R	A	Q2	1R	2R	3R	2R		4-5
Win-Loss	0-1	0-0	0-0	1-2	1-2	2-4	5-3	1-1	10-13
Year-end Ranking	341	434	217	123	72	146	60

Wins over top 10 players

#	Player	Rank	Event	Surface	Rd	Score	SR Rank
2014
1.	Eugenie Bouchard	No. 8	Montreal, Canada	Hard	2R	6-0, 2-6, 6-0	113
2017
2.	Simona Halep	No. 4	Australian Open, Melbourne, Australia	Hard	1R	6-3, 6-1	57