Caroline Maes


Caroline Maes 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, Jelena Kostanić, Akiko Morigami. 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 instead.

ITF Circuit finals

Singles: 11 (8–3)

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

OutcomeNo.DateTournamentSurfaceOpponent in the finalScore
Winner1.13 August 2000Rebecq, BelgiumClay Claudine Schaul1–6, 7–6, 6–3
Winner2.12 November 2000Villenave-d'Ornon, FranceClay Claudine Schaul4–0 4–1 4–5 4–1
Winner3.11 November 2001Villenave-d'Ornon, FranceClay Stéphanie Rizzi6–2, 4–6, 6–2
Winner4.2 December 2001Mallorca, SpainClay Adriana Basaric2–6, 6–1, 7–5
Winner5.21 August 2005Koksijde, BelgiumClay Nadege Vergos2–6, 6–1, 7–5
Runner-up1.30 April 2006Cavtat, CroatiaClay Irina Buryachok6–3, 4–6, 1–6
Winner6.7 May 2006Dubrovnik, CroatiaClay Karolina Jovanović6–1, 6–1
Winner7.13 August 2006Rebecq, BelgiumClay Sylvia Montero6–1, 6–2
Runner-up2.2 October 2006Nantes, FranceHard Iryna Brémond6–1, 5–7, 1–6
Winner8.13 May 2007Rome, ItalyClay Marta Marrero6–4, 7–6
Runner-up3.20 March 2008Tessenderlo, BelgiumClay Kirsten Flipkens5–7, 1–6

Doubles: 19 (9–10)

OutcomeNo.DateTournamentSurfacePartnerOpponent in the finalScore
Winner1.10 July 2000Brussels, BelgiumClay Ekaterina Kozhokina Kaori Aoyama
Kumiko Iijima
6–1, 6–4
Runner-up1.21 August 2000Westende, BelgiumClay Elke Clijsters Natasha Galouza
Anouk Sterk
1–6, 0–6
Winner2.6 November 2000Villenave-d'Ornon, FranceClay Shelley Stephens Diana Brunel
Edith Nunes-Bersot
4–1 1–4 4–2 4–0
Runner-up2.11 November 2001Villenave-d'Ornon, FranceClay Leslie Butkiewicz Daniela Olivera
Natacha Randriantefy
4–6, 2–6
Winner3.24 March 2002Cholet, FranceClay Gabriela Navrátilová Leslie Butkiewicz
Patty Van Acker
4–1 RET
Runner-up3.12 October 2003Joué-lès-Tours, FranceHard Leslie Butkiewicz Līga Dekmeijere
Bianka Lamade
1–6, 2–6
Winner4.9 November 2003Villenave-d'Ornon, FranceClay Aurélie Védy Iryna Kuryanovich
Yevgenia Savransky
6–3, 7–6
Runner-up4.2 March 2004Buchen, GermanyHard Elke Clijsters Lucie Hradecká
Eva Hrdinová
1–6, 4–6
Winner5.21 March 2004Amiens, FranceClay Virginie Pichet Florence Haring
Natacha Randriantefy
3–6, 6–2, 7–5
Runner-up5.12 July 2005Brussels, BelgiumClay Leslie Butkiewicz Iveta Gerlová
Carmen Klaschka
5–7, 2–6
Winner6.24 July 2005Zwevegem, BelgiumClay Leslie Butkiewicz Petra Cetkovská
Gabriela Velasco Andreu
6–3, 6–2
Runner-up6.30 April 2006Cavtat, CroatiaClay Christina Horiatopoulos Tina Obrež
Anja Prislan
W\O
Winner7.22 July 2006Zwevegem, BelgiumClay Leslie Butkiewicz Olga Brózda
Natalia Kołat
6–2, 6–2
Runner-up7.29 July 2006Les Contamines-Montjoie, FranceHard Christina Horiatopoulos Catarina Ferreira
Laura Siegemund
4–6, 6–2, 5–7
Runner-up8.26 August 2006Alphen aan den Rijn, NetherlandsClay Leslie Butkiewicz Andreja Klepač
Danica Krstajić
2–6, 6–7
Runner-up9.7 May 2007Rome, ItalyClay Maret Ani Marta Domachowska
Emma Laine
1–0, ret.
Winner8.24 September 2007Nottingham, United KingdomHard Emma Laine Anna Fitzpatrick
Ana Veselinović
3–6, 7–6
Runner-up10.07 10 2007Nantes, FranceHard Melanie South Sofia Arvidsson
Johanna Larsson
6–4, 5–7,
Winner9.2 December 2007Sintra, PortugalClay Teodora Mirčić Neuza Silva
Roxane Vaisemberg
6–4, 6–1