Caroline Maes
| Country (sports) |
.svg.png){kind=small} Belgium |
|---|---|
| Residence | Zele, Belgium |
| Born |
9 November 1982 Dendermonde, Belgium |
| Height | 1.67 m (5 ft 6 in) |
| Turned pro | 1997 |
| Retired | 2009 |
| Plays | Right-handed (two-handed backhand) |
| Prize money | $159,891 |
| Singles | |
| Career record | 251–193 |
| Career titles | 0 WTA, 8 ITF |
| Highest ranking | No. 151 (28 May 2007) |
| Grand Slam Singles results | |
| French Open | Q2 (2008) |
| Wimbledon | Q1 (2007) |
| US Open | Q1 (2007) |
| Doubles | |
| Career record | 125–124 |
| Career titles | 0 WTA, 9 ITF |
| Highest ranking | No. 135 (11 February 2008) |
| Last updated on: 10 September 2009. | |
Caroline Maes (born 9 November 1982 in Dendermonde, Belgium) is a former Belgian tennis player.
Maes is active in the singles game since 1997 and doubles since 1999. The highest place she ever achieved on the WTA-ranking in singles is 151st on 28 May 2007. In doubles she got to the 135rd place on 11 February 2008. She has yet to win her first WTA-tournament, but has won eight ITF-tournaments in singles and nine in doubles. Her last and most important ITF-title was the 2007 $100,000 Rome – Tiro A Volo tournament on 19 May, defeating Yuliya Beygelzimer and Stéphanie Cohen-Aloro in her way to the final, where she beat former top-50 player Marta Marrero from Spain. So far, she performed three top-100 wins: Yuliana Fedak (WTA-66, Hasselt 2006), Jelena Kostanić (WTA-46, Dubai 2 2006), Akiko Morigami (WTA-51, Strasbourg 2007). In 2006 she also made it to the last 16 of the doubles tournament of Miami together with Kim Clijsters.
Fed Cup experience
Maes was a member of the Belgian Fed Cup team in 2002, 2003, 2004, 2006 and 2007. She made 3 singles and 4 doubles appearances. However, she did not win any singles match and won only one doubles match partnering Els Callens against the Slovak Republic.
She is very close friends with Kim Clijsters. She made herself unavailable for selection in Fed Cup tie against China in 2007, because she wished to attend the wedding of Clijsters and American basketball player Brian Lynch that week-end (14 July 2007) instead.
ITF Circuit finals
Singles: 11 (8–3)
| $100,000 tournaments |
| $75,000 tournaments |
| $50,000 tournaments |
| $25,000 tournaments |
| $10,000 tournaments |
| Outcome | No. | Date | Tournament | Surface | Opponent in the final | Score |
| Winner | 1. | 13 August 2000 | Rebecq, Belgium | Clay |  Claudine Schaul |
1–6 7–6 6–3 |
| Winner | 2. | 12 November 2000 | Villenave-d'Ornon, France | Clay (I) | Claudine Schaul |
4–0 4–1 4–5 4–1 |
| Winner | 3. | 11 November 2001 | Villenave-d'Ornon, France | Clay (I) |  Stéphanie Rizzi |
6–2 4–6 6–2 |
| Winner | 4. | 2 December 2001 | Mallorca, Spain | Clay |  Adriana Basaric |
2–6 6–1 7–5 |
| Winner | 5. | 21 August 2005 | Koksijde, Belgium | Clay | Nadege Vergos |
2–6 6–1 7–5 |
| Runner-up | 1. | 30 April 2006 | Cavtat, Croatia | Clay |  Irina Buryachok |
6–3, 4–6, 1–6 |
| Winner | 6. | 7 May 2006 | Dubrovnik, Croatia | Clay |  Karolina Jovanović |
6–1 6–1 |
| Winner | 7. | 13 August 2006 | Rebecq, Belgium | Clay | Sylvia Montero |
6–1 6–2 |
| Runner-up | 2. | 2 October 2006 | Nantes, France | Hard | Iryna Brémond |
6-1 5-7 1-6 |
| Winner | 8. | 13 May 2007 | Rome, Italy | Clay |  Marta Marrero |
6–4 7–6 |
| Runner-up | 3. | 20 March 2008 | Tessenderlo, Belgium | Clay (i) | Kirsten Flipkens |
5–7 1–6 |
Doubles: 19 (9–10)
| Outcome | No. | Date | Tournament | Surface | Partner | Opponent in the final | Score |
| Winner | 1. | 10 July 2000 | Brussels, Belgium | Clay |  Ekaterina Kozhokina |
 Kaori Aoyama Kumiko Iijima |
6–1 6–4 |
| Runner-up | 1. | 21 August 2000 | Westende, Belgium | Clay | Elke Clijsters |
 Natasha Galouza Anouk Sterk |
1-6 0-6 |
| Winner | 2. | 6 November 2000 | Villenave-d'Ornon, France | Clay |  Shelley Stephens |
Diana Brunel Edith Nunes-Bersot |
4–1 1–4 4–2 4–0 |
| Runner-up | 2. | 11 November 2001 | Villenave-d'Ornon, France | Clay (I) | Leslie Butkiewicz |
 Daniela Olivera  Natacha Randriantefy |
4-6, 2-6 |
| Winner | 3. | 24 March 2002 | Cholet, France | Clay |  Gabriela Navrátilová |
Leslie Butkiewicz Patty Van Acker |
4–1 RET |
| Runner-up | 3. | 12 October 2003 | Joué-lès-Tours, France | Hard (I) | Leslie Butkiewicz |
 Līga Dekmeijere  Bianka Lamade |
1-6, 2-6 |
| Winner | 4. | 9 November 2003 | Villenave-d'Ornon, France | Clay | Aurélie Védy |
 Iryna Kuryanovich  Yevgenia Savransky |
6–3 7–6(6) |
| Runner-up | 4. | 2 March 2004 | Buchen, Germany | Hard (i) | Elke Clijsters |
Lucie Hradecká Eva Hrdinová |
1-6 4-6 |
| Winner | 5. | 21 March 2004 | Amiens, France | Clay | Virginie Pichet |
Florence Haring Natacha Randriantefy |
3–6 6–2 7–5 |
| Runner-up | 5. | 12 July 2005 | Brussels, Belgium | Clay | Leslie Butkiewicz |
Iveta Gerlová Carmen Klaschka |
5-7, 2-6 |
| Winner | 6. | 24 July 2005 | Zwevegem, Belgium | Clay | Leslie Butkiewicz |
Petra Cetkovská Gabriela Velasco Andreu |
6–3 6–2 |
| Runner-up | 6. | 30 April 2006 | Cavtat, Croatia | Clay |  Christina Horiatopoulos |
 Tina Obrež Anja Prislan |
W\O |
| Winner | 7. | 22 July 2006 | Zwevegem, Belgium | Clay | Leslie Butkiewicz |
 Olga Brózda Natalia Kołat |
6–2 6–2 |
| Runner-up | 7. | 29 July 2006 | Les Contamines-Montjoie, France | Hard | Christina Horiatopoulos |
 Catarina Ferreira Laura Siegemund |
4-6, 6-2, 5-7 |
| Runner-up | 8. | 26 August 2006 | Alphen aan den Rijn, Netherlands | Clay | Leslie Butkiewicz |
Andreja Klepač  Danica Krstajić |
2-6, 6-7 |
| Runner-up | 9. | 7 May 2007 | Rome, Italy | Clay |  Maret Ani |
Marta Domachowska  Emma Laine |
1–0, ret. |
| Winner | 8. | 24 September 2007 | Nottingham, United Kingdom | Hard | Emma Laine |
 Anna Fitzpatrick Ana Veselinović |
3–6 7–6(4) |
| Runner–up | 10. | 7 October 2007 | Nantes, France | Hard | Melanie South |
 Sofia Arvidsson Johanna Larsson |
6–4, 5–7, [7–10] |
| Winner | 9. | 2 December 2007 | Sintra, Portugal | Clay | Teodora Mirčić |
Neuza Silva  Roxane Vaisemberg |
6–4 6–1 |