Pauline Parmentier

Pauline Parmentier

Country	France
Residence	Paris, France
Born	31 January 1986 (1986-01-31) Cucq, France
Height	1.75 m (5 ft 9 in)
Weight	65 kg (140 lb)
Retired	Active
Plays	Right-handed (two-handed backhand)
Career prize money	$1,030,617
Singles
Career record	244–218
Career titles	2 WTA (7 ITF)
Highest ranking	No. 40 (21 July 2008)
Current ranking	No. 59 (13 February 2012)
Grand Slam results
Australian Open	2R (2008)
French Open	2R (2007, 2011)
Wimbledon	2R (2008, 2009, 2011)
US Open	2R (2005, 2007, 2008, 2010, 2011)
Doubles
Career record	31–49
Career titles	0 WTA (2 ITF)
Highest ranking	No. 146 (15 June 2009)
Grand Slam Doubles results
Australian Open	1R (2008)
French Open	2R (2008, 2009)
Wimbledon	2R (2008)
US Open	1R (2008)
Last updated on: 13 February 2012.

Pauline Parmentier (31 January 1986 in Cucq) 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 before falling to Martina Hingis. In her career, she has won two titles on the WTA Tour. She has also won seven ITF 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 in Uzbekistan.

Parmentier was the No.4 seed in Bad Gastein in July 2008. She won the title, which was her second WTA title and her first Tier III. She defeated top seed Ágnes Szávay 6–4, 6–2 in the semifinals before defeating surprise qualifier Lucie Hradecká 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 after Mary Pierce and Amélie Mauresmo withdrew.

In 2010 she qualified for the 2010 Sony Ericsson Open by defeating American teenager Lauren Davis 2–6, 6–0, 6–0 and Tamarine Tanasugarn 6–3, 6–2.

WTA career finals

Singles: 2 (2–0)

Outcome	No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Opponent	Score
Winner	1.	2 October 2007	Tashkent	Hard	Victoria Azarenka	7–5, 6–2
Winner	2.	14 July 2008	Bad Gastein	Clay	Lucie Hradecká	6–4, 6–4

Doubles: 1 (0–1)

Outcome	No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Partner	Opponents	Score
Runner-up	1.	27 August 2011	Dallas	Hard	Alizé Cornet	Alberta Brianti Sorana Cîrstea	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.	29 November 2004	Cairo 5	Clay	Yuliya Ustyuzhanina	6–1, 6–1
2.	16 January 2007	Fort Walton Beach	Hard	Jana Juricová	6–4, 6–3
3.	10 April 2007	Biarritz	Clay	Selima Sfar	6–2, 6–4
4.	10 April 2007	Pétange	Clay	Martina Müller	6–1, 6–4
5.	19 October 2009	Saint Raphaël	Hard	Sandra Záhlavová	7–6(4), 6–2
6.	6 June 2011	Marseille	Clay	Irina-Camelia Begu	6–3, 6–2
7.	4 July 2011	Biarritz	Clay	Patricia Mayr-Achleitner	1–6, 6–4, 6–4

Double titles

No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Partner	Score	Opponents
1.	16 November 2003	Deauville	Clay	Aurélie Védy	Maria Geznenge Zuzana Hejdová	5–7, 6–2, 6–1
2.	23 November 2004	Cairo 4	Clay	Petra Cetkovská	Galina Fokina Raissa Gourevitch	6–4, 6–2

Single Performance Statistics

Tournament	2005	2006	2007	2008	2009	2010	2011	W-L
Grand Slam Tournaments
Australian Open	LQ	LQ	LQ	2R	A	1R	1R	1–3
French Open	1R	1R	2R	1R	1R	1R	2R	2–7
Wimbledon	LQ	LQ	LQ	2R	2R	1R	2R	3–4
US Open	2R	LQ	2R	2R	A	2R	2R	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

External links

• Pauline Parmentier at the Women's Tennis Association
• Pauline Parmentier at the International Tennis Federation