Pauline Parmentier
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Pauline Parmentier is a professional tennis player from France. Her career high was #40, achieved on 21 July 2008 and her highest ranking in doubles was World Number 146 on 15 June 2009.

Background

Parmentier was born to parents Dominique and Jean-Philippe. She has two brothers. With her favorite surface being clay, Parmentier first took the courts at age 6.

Career

Parmentier has received wildcards into French Open tournaments in singles since 2005 and in doubles since 2004. Parmentier reached the second round of the 2007 US Open singles competition, as a qualifier, defeating Tatjana Malek
Tatjana Malek
Tatjana Malek is a professional German tennis player. She achieved her highest singles ranking of World No. 64 on 14 September 2009. Her highest doubles ranking of World No. 73 came on 3 May 2010. Malek has won 8 ITF singles titles and 7 ITF doubles title but no WTA tour singles or doubles titles...

 before falling to Martina Hingis
Martina Hingis
Martina Hingis is a retired Swiss professional tennis player who spent a total of 209 weeks as World No. 1. She won five Grand Slam singles titles...

. In her career, she has won two titles on the WTA Tour
Women's Tennis Association
The Women's Tennis Association , founded in 1973 by Billie Jean King, is the principal organizing body of Women's Professional Tennis. It governs the WTA Tour which is the worldwide professional tennis tour for women. Its counterpart organization in the men's professional game is the Association of...

. She has also won seven ITF
International Tennis Federation
The International Tennis Federation is the governing body of world tennis, made up of 205 national tennis associations.It was established as the International Lawn Tennis Federation by 12 national associations meeting at a conference in Paris, France on 1 March 1913...

 singles titles, and two ITF doubles titles. She won three of the seven singles titles in 2007. Parmentier won her first WTA Tour title in October 2007, at the Tashkent Open
Tashkent Open
The Tashkent Open by Zeromax is a tennis tournament held in Tashkent, the capital city of Uzbekistan. Held since 1999, this WTA Tour event is an International tournament and is played on outdoor hard courts.-Women's Singles:-Women's Doubles:...

 in Uzbekistan.

Parmentier was the No.4 seed in Bad Gastein
Bad Gastein
Bad Gastein is a spa town in the Austrian state of Salzburg, situated at the northern rim of the Hohe Tauern national park. It has 5,838 inhabitants. The name "Bad" means "spa", reflecting the town's history as a health resort. It is located at the head of the Gastein valley, about 1,000 metres ...

 in July 2008. She won the title, which was her second WTA title and her first Tier III. She defeated top seed Ágnes Szávay
Ágnes Szávay
Ágnes Szávay is a professional tennis player from Hungary. She is the country's highest ranked tennis player. She was the WTA Newcomer of the Year in 2007. She achieved her career high ranking of World No. 13 on April 14, 2008.- Background :...

 6–4, 6–2 in the semifinals before defeating surprise qualifier Lucie Hradecká
Lucie Hradecká
Lucie Hradecká is a professional tennis player from the Czech Republic. In her career, Hradecká has won ten WTA doubles titles. This total includes the 2011 French Open, in which she won her first Grand Slam title.-Career:...

 6–4, 6–4 in the final after trailing 1–4 in the first set.

Parmentier was nominated to play in the 2008 Olympic Games
2008 Summer Olympics
The 2008 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XXIX Olympiad, was a major international multi-sport event that took place in Beijing, China, from August 8 to August 24, 2008. A total of 11,028 athletes from 204 National Olympic Committees competed in 28 sports and 302 events...

 after Mary Pierce
Mary Pierce
Mary Pierce is a French-American tennis professional playing on the Women's Tennis Association tour. She is a citizen of France, Canada, and the United States but plays for France in team competitions and the Olympics.Pierce has won four Grand Slam titles, two in singles and two in doubles...

 and Amélie Mauresmo
Amélie Mauresmo
Amélie Simone Mauresmo ; is a French former professional tennis player, and a former World No. 1. Mauresmo won two Grand Slam singles titles at the Australian Open and at Wimbledon....

 withdrew.

In 2010 she qualified for the 2010 Sony Ericsson Open
2010 Sony Ericsson Open
The 2010 Sony Ericsson Open , was a tennis tournament for men and women held from March 22 to April 4, 2010. It was the 26th edition of the Miami Masters event and is played on outdoor hard courts at the Tennis Center at Crandon Park in Key Biscayne, Florida, located near Miami...

 by defeating American teenager Lauren Davis
Lauren Davis
Lauren Davis is a professional American tennis player. Her highest WTA singles ranking is 328, which she reached on August 1, 2011.-Personal life:...

 2–6, 6–0, 6–0 and Tamarine Tanasugarn
Tamarine Tanasugarn
Tamarine Tanasugarn is a professional Thai tennis player. She was born in Los Angeles, United States, and turned professional in 1994. She has been in the top 20 in both singles and doubles....

 6–3, 6–2.

Singles: 2 (2–0)

Outcome No. Date Tournament Surface Opponent Score
Winner 1. October 2, 2007   Tashkent
Tashkent Open
The Tashkent Open by Zeromax is a tennis tournament held in Tashkent, the capital city of Uzbekistan. Held since 1999, this WTA Tour event is an International tournament and is played on outdoor hard courts.-Women's Singles:-Women's Doubles:...

Hard   Victoria Azarenka
Victoria Azarenka
Victoria Azarenka is a Belarusian professional tennis player. Her career high and current ranking is world no. 3, which she first achieved on 12 September 2011. She became the highest-ranked Belarusian player ever, surpassing Natasha Zvereva by two spots....

7–5, 6–2
Winner 2. July 14, 2008   Bad Gastein
Gastein Ladies
Nürnberger Gastein Ladies is a tennis tournament held in Bad Gastein, Austria since 2007. It is an International event on the WTA Tour with total prize money of $220,000 and is played on red clay.-Singles:-Doubles:- External links :* *...

Clay   Lucie Hradecka
Lucie Hradecká
Lucie Hradecká is a professional tennis player from the Czech Republic. In her career, Hradecká has won ten WTA doubles titles. This total includes the 2011 French Open, in which she won her first Grand Slam title.-Career:...

6–4, 6–4

Doubles: 1 (0–1)

Outcome No. Date Tournament Surface Partner Opponents Score
Runner-up 1. 27 August 2011   Dallas
Texas Tennis Open
The Texas Tennis Open is a future professional tennis tournament for women. After some contradictory statements, WTA has made it a late addition to the 2011 WTA Tour. It will be played at the Hilton Lakes Tennis & Sports Club in Grapevine , Texas in the USA...

Hard   Alizé Cornet
Alizé Cornet
Alizé Cornet is a French professional tennis player and the current French number three . She was born in Nice, Alpes-Maritimes, and has a career-high ranking of No. 11, achieved on 16 February 2009; as of 4 July 2011 she is ranked World No. 69...

  Alberta Brianti
Alberta Brianti
Alberta Brianti is a professional female tennis player from Italy.On June 13, 2011, Brianti achieved her career-high singles ranking of 55...


  Sorana Cîrstea
Sorana Cîrstea
Sorana Mihaela Cîrstea, is a Romanian tennis player. Her career high rank was World No. 23, achieved on 17 August 2009, after she reached the quarterfinals of the 2009 French Open and the semifinals of the 2009 Los Angeles Open.- Playing style :...

5–7, 3–6

ITF Circuit titles

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

Single titles

No. Date Tournament Surface Opponent Score
1. November 29, 2004   Cairo
Cairo
Cairo , is the capital of Egypt and the largest city in the Arab world and Africa, and the 16th largest metropolitan area in the world. Nicknamed "The City of a Thousand Minarets" for its preponderance of Islamic architecture, Cairo has long been a centre of the region's political and cultural life...

 5
Clay   Yuliya Ustyuzhanina 6–1, 6–1
2. January 16, 2007   Fort Walton Beach Hard   Jana Juricova 6–4, 6–3
3. April 10, 2007   Biarritz
Biarritz
Biarritz is a city which lies on the Bay of Biscay, on the Atlantic coast, in south-western France. It is a luxurious seaside town and is popular with tourists and surfers....

Clay   Selima Sfar
Selima Sfar
Selima Sfar is a Tunisian female professional tennis player. She turned professional in 1999 and has been ranked as high as 75th in the world . She has experienced most of her success in ITF tournaments, winning eleven singles tournaments and twenty doubles tournaments...

6–2, 6–4
4. April 10, 2007   Pétange
Pétange
Pétange is a commune and town in south-western Luxembourg. It is part of the canton of Esch-sur-Alzette, which is part of the district of Luxembourg. Pétange lies on the borders with both Belgium and France....

Clay   Martina Muller
Martina Muller
Martina Müller is a former professional tennis player from Germany. On April 2, 2007 she reached a career high WTA-ranking of No. 33....

6–1, 6–4
5. October 19, 2009   Saint Raphaël
Saint-Raphaël, Var
Saint-Raphaël is a commune in the Var department in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region in southeastern France.Immediately to the west of Saint-Raphaël lies another, older, town called Fréjus, and together they form an urban agglomeration known as Fréjus Saint-Raphaël...

Hard   Sandra Zahlavova
Sandra Záhlavová
Sandra Záhlavová is a Czech tennis player. On 21 June 2010, she achieved her career-high WTA Event singles ranking of No. 78. On June 12, 2006, she claimed her highest Doubles rank of No. 165...

7–6(4), 6–2
6. June 6, 2011   Marseille
Marseille
Marseille , known in antiquity as Massalia , is the second largest city in France, after Paris, with a population of 852,395 within its administrative limits on a land area of . The urban area of Marseille extends beyond the city limits with a population of over 1,420,000 on an area of...

Clay   Irina-Camelia Begu 6–3, 6–2
7. July 4, 2011   Biarritz
Biarritz
Biarritz is a city which lies on the Bay of Biscay, on the Atlantic coast, in south-western France. It is a luxurious seaside town and is popular with tourists and surfers....

Clay   Andreea Govor 1–6, 6–4, 6–4

Double titles

No. Date Tournament Surface Partner Score Opponents
1. November 16, 2003   Deauville
Deauville
Deauville is a commune in the Calvados département in the Basse-Normandie region in northwestern France.With its racecourse, harbour, international film festival, marinas, conference centre, villas, Grand Casino and sumptuous hotels, Deauville is regarded as the "queen of the Norman beaches" and...

Clay   Aurélie Védy
Aurélie Védy
Aurélie Védy is a French professional tennis player. Her career high WTA doubles ranking is 85, set on May 4, 2009...

  Maria Geznenge
  Zuzana Hejdova
5–7, 6–2, 6–1
2. November 23, 2004   Cairo
Cairo
Cairo , is the capital of Egypt and the largest city in the Arab world and Africa, and the 16th largest metropolitan area in the world. Nicknamed "The City of a Thousand Minarets" for its preponderance of Islamic architecture, Cairo has long been a centre of the region's political and cultural life...

 4
Clay   Petra Cetkovská
Petra Cetkovská
Petra Cetkovská is a professional female tennis player from the Czech Republic and is of ethnic Macedonian origin. She reached her career high singles ranking No.30 on 24 October 2011.-Career:...

  Galina Fokina
Galina Fokina
Galina Fokina is a Russian tennis player. She took part in the 2004 Hyderabad Open but lost in the second round to Marion Bartoli. She has won numerous ITF titles in 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004 and 2005....


  Raissa Gourevitch
6–4, 6–2

Single Performance Statistics

Tournament200520062007
2007 WTA Tour
The 2007 Sony Ericsson WTA Tour was the 35th season since the founding of the Women's Tennis Association. It commenced on January 1, 2007, and concluded on November 11, 2007 after 61 events. Two new events were added to the schedule for the 2007 season: the Barcelona KIA and Gastein Ladies. It also...

2008
2008 WTA Tour
The 2008 Sony Ericsson WTA Tour was the 36th season since the founding of the Women's Tennis Association. It commenced on December 31, 2007, and concluded on November 9, 2008 after 59 events.The season was characterised by its frequent changes in the No...

2009
2009 WTA Tour
The 2009 Sony Ericsson WTA Tour was the 37th season since the founding of the Women's Tennis Association. It commenced on January 5, 2009, and concluded on November 8, 2009 after 56 events....

2010
2010 WTA Tour
The Women's Tennis Association Tour is the elite professional tennis circuit organized by the WTA. The 2010 WTA Tour calendar comprises the Grand Slam tournaments , the WTA Premier tournaments , the WTA International tournaments, the Fed Cup , and the year-end...

2011
2011 WTA Tour
The WTA Tour is the elite tour for women's professional tennis organized by the Women's Tennis Association . The 2011 WTA Tour includes the Grand Slam tournaments , the WTA Premier tournaments, the WTA International tournaments, the Fed Cup , the Commonwealth Bank Tournament of Champions, and the WTA...

W-L
Grand Slam Tournaments
Australian Open
Australian Open
The Australian Open is the only Grand Slam tennis tournament held in the southern hemisphere. The tournament was held for the first time in 1905 and was last contested on grass in 1987. Since 1972 the Australian Open has been held in Melbourne, Victoria. In 1988, the tournament became a hard court...

LQ
2005 Australian Open - Women's Singles
Defending champion Justine Henin was not competing, and thus did not defend her title. Instead, seventh-seeded Serena Williams of the United States defeated top-seeded Lindsay Davenport, also of the United States, 2–6, 6–3, 6–0, to win the Women's Singles title at the 2005 Australian...

LQ
2006 Australian Open - Women's Singles
Serena Williams was the defending champion, but lost in the third round to Daniela Hantuchová.Amélie Mauresmo, the third seed, ultimately won the tournament, her first major championship. Her finals opponent, eighth-seeded Justine Henin-Hardenne, retired down 2–0 in the second set, already down a...

LQ
2007 Australian Open - Women's Singles
-Seeds:# Maria Sharapova # Amélie Mauresmo # Svetlana Kuznetsova # Kim Clijsters # Nadia Petrova # Martina Hingis # Elena Dementieva ...

2R
2009 Australian Open - Women's Singles
Maria Sharapova was the defending champion, but chose not to participate this year, due to a shoulder injury.Serena Williams won in the final 6–0, 6–3, against Dinara Safina.-Seeds:# Jelena Janković ...

A 1R 1R 1–3
French Open 1R 1R 2R 1R 1R
2009 French Open – Women's Singles
Ana Ivanović was the defending champion, but lost in the fourth round to Victoria Azarenka.Svetlana Kuznetsova won in the final 6–4, 6–2, against Dinara Safina in 74 minutes. It was the third all-Russian final in Grand Slam history, and the first since 2004...

1R
2010 French Open – Women's Singles
Svetlana Kuznetsova was the defending champion, but lost in the third round to Maria Kirilenko.Francesca Schiavone defeated Samantha Stosur 6–4, 7–6 in the final and became the first Italian woman to win a Grand Slam tournament.-Seeds:...

2R
2011 French Open – Women's Singles
Francesca Schiavone was the defending champion, but lost in the final to Li Na, 6–4, 7–6, making Li the first Asian and Chinese Grand Slam singles champion.-Seeds:# Caroline Wozniacki # Kim Clijsters ...

2–7
Wimbledon LQ LQ LQ 2R 2R 1R
2010 Wimbledon Championships – Women's Singles
The Women's Singles event at the 2010 Wimbledon Championships saw defending champion and top seed Serena Williams successfully defend her title with a 6–3, 6–2 win over Vera Zvonareva in the final, whilst failing to lose a set throughout the entire tournament...

2R
2011 Wimbledon Championships – Women's Singles
Serena Williams was the two-time defending champion, but lost to 2007 finalist Marion Bartoli in the fourth round.For the first time since 1913, all eight quarter-finalists were European....

3–4
US Open 2R LQ 2R 2R A 2R
2010 US Open – Women's Singles
Kim Clijsters was the defending champion, and successfully defended her 2009 title, after she won 6–2, 6–1, against Vera Zvonareva in the final. This match lasted only one hour.-Seeds:# Caroline Wozniacki # Kim Clijsters ...

2R
2011 US Open – Women's Singles
Kim Clijsters was the two-time defending champion, but withdrew due to an abdominal injury.Ninth seed Samantha Stosur won her first Grand Slam championship, defeating the favourite Serena Williams, a three-time US Open champion and the 28th seed, 6–2, 6–3 in the final...

5–5
Win–Loss 1–2 0–1 2–2 3–4 1–2 1–4 3–4 11–19
Year End Ranking 197 119 59 62 109 102 62 N/A

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