Virginie Razzano

Razzano's numbers, two WTA titles and a career-high ranking of 16, only hint at what makes her compelling to me. The Dijon native delivered one of the great upsets in tennis at Roland Garros, but her real story is resilience: she kept competing through profound personal grief, and that quiet strength outshines any ranking. Representing France in the Fed Cup from 2001 to 2014, she carried her country's flag for over a decade. I am drawn to athletes whose human drama runs deeper than their results, and Razzano is one of them. The scoreboard fades; the image of her facing forward, racket in hand, stays.

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Name (English)

Virginie Razzano

Name (Japanese)

ビルジニ・ラザノ

Reading

びるじに・らざの

Born

May 12, 1983 (age 43)

Origin

Dijon, Côte-d’Or, France

Height

173 cm

Occupation

tennis player

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Taurus / Boar

• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virginie%20Razzano
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%93%E3%83%AB%E3%82%B8%E3%83%8B%E3%83%BB%E3%83%A9%E3%82%B6%E3%83%8E
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q220425

Tags

• Côte-d’Or
• tennis player

Last updated

November 2, 2026

Only publicly available facts are listed; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. Base data was compiled from Wikidata from June 2026 onward; ages are recalculated daily and deaths are checked against Wikidata on an ongoing basis. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.