Career
Scheepers turned pro in 2000 and played two ITF events.
In 2001 She reach 4 finals in the ITF level and won all with 3 of them coming from Durban, South Africa a local tournament and one in the United States.
In 2002, she reached 3 ITF finals winning one in Mackay, Australia and losing in the other two in Liechtenstein and Switzerland.
In 2003, she played her first Tour level event in the Mondial Australian Women's Hardcourts and won her first main draw tour level match after getting through the Qualifying draw over Samantha Stosur but lost to Tathiana Garbin in the next round. She then had a 19 match losing streak in the Qualifying draws of Tour Level and ITF events and Main Draw of ITF events.
2004 was a better year for Scheepers, she returned playing in the ITF events where she won 4 titles 2 in Benin City, Nigeria and 2 in Pretoria, South Africa. She also reached 4 other finals in Torre del Greco and Taranto both in Italy, in Pétange, Luxembourg and Lagos, Nigeria.
In 2005 Scheepers once again started playing in the Qualifying draw of Tour Level events but she didn't produce results as she only reached 1 semifinals and 1 quarterfinals in ITf events.
2006, was not a better year for Scheepers despite returning to the ITF Circuit as she only reached 2 Semifinals and 1 Quarterfinals.
In 2007 Scheepers won her first ITF titles in 3 years as she won 2 titles in Lagos, Nigeria and Allentown, Pennsylvania, United States.
2008, Scheepers form went down as she only reached 1 Semifinals and 2 Quarterfinals.
2009, was a breakthrough year for the African player as she made her Grand Slam main draw debut getting through the Qualifying draw in the 2009 Australian Open and 2009 French Open. She also made 4 Main draw wins and won a title in Irapuato, Mexico
In 2010 Scheepers continued to play in the Tour level events and her diffidence paid off as she reached her first Main Draw Quarterfinals in the 2010 Malaysian Open losing to Japanese Ayumi Morita 6–3, 7–5. She then won in the ITF event of Fort Walton Beach, United States. In the 2010 French Open after coming through the Qualifying Draw, she won her first Grand Slam Main Draw match over Frenchwoman Mathilde Johansson 6–2, 6–4. She then continued her surprising form by upsetting both Gisela Dulko 3–6, 6–3, 7–5 and Akgul Amanmuradova 6–3, 6–3. She then lost to World No.5 Elena Dementieva 6–1, 6–3. As a result of this performance she was awarded a wildcard into the main draw of Wimbledon.
In 2011 she made the 3rd round of the Australian Open. Following modest results for much of the rest of the year, Scheepers reached the 3rd round of the US Open, where she even held match points against Francesca Schiavone before losing the match in 3 sets. Following that, she won her first WTA single titles at Guangzhou, China as the 7th seed defeating the 8th seed Magdalena Rybarikova of Slovakia 6–2, 6–2 in the final. Chanelle achieved her career-high singles rank of World No. 37 following the tournament. On 13 July 2012, Scheepers lost to Serena Williams in the Stanford Classic.(6-4, 6-0).
In July 2012, She reached the second round of Mercury Insurance Open 2012, Carlsbad losing to Varvara Lepchenko, 4-6 2-6.
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