Tara Moore

Tara Moore

Moore during 2018 Wimbledon qualifying
Country (sports)	United Kingdom
Residence	Doncaster, England
Born	(1992-08-06) 6 August 1992 Hong Kong, China S.A.R.
Height	1.63 m (5 ft 4 in)
Turned pro	2010
Plays	Right-handed (two-handed backhand)
Coach	Charles Homewood
Prize money	$474,511
Singles
Career record	352–288 (55.0%)
Career titles	9 ITF
Highest ranking	No. 145 (8 May 2017)
Current ranking	No. 455 (12 October 2020)
Grand Slam singles results
Australian Open	Q1 (2014, 2017)
French Open	Q1 (2013)
Wimbledon	2R (2016)
US Open	Q2 (2016)
Doubles
Career record	215–179 (54.6%)
Career titles	12 ITF
Highest ranking	No. 151 (2 May 2016)
Current ranking	No. 243 (12 October 2020)
Grand Slam doubles results
Wimbledon	1R (2012, 2013, 2014, 2016)
Grand Slam mixed doubles results
Wimbledon	1R (2013, 2016)
Team competitions
Fed Cup	Europe/Africa Zone Group I – Play-offs (2014)
Last updated on: 14 Octcber 2020.

Tara Shanice Moore (born 6 August 1992) is a Hong Kong-born British tennis player. She has a career-high singles ranking of world No. 145, which she achieved on 8 May 2017. She has won nine singles and twelve doubles titles on the ITF Circuit. Her highest WTA doubles ranking is No. 151, reached on 2 May 2016.

As a junior, she was coached by the American tennis coach, Nick Bollettieri. In September 2006, he referred to Moore as one of the best young players in his school, the Bollettieri Tennis Academy, along with Michelle Larcher de Brito. Current coach is Charles Homewood. Her favourite surface is stated as being grass although most of her titles to date have come on hard court.

Career

2006–2007

Moore's first professional tennis match came in August 2006 at the $10k tournament in Guayaquil, Ecuador. She won two matches to qualify before losing in the first round of the tournament. Moore then moved on to qualify and reach the quarterfinals in only the second ITF tournament of her career in Caracas, Venezuela, another $10k event.

In 2007, Moore reached the quarterfinals of another $10k event in Irapuato before losing to Ana Clara Duarte of Brazil, in straight sets. In July, she entered her first $25k tournament in Felixstowe, Great Britain, where she lost in the qualifying stages. Her next two tournaments were both $10k events in Great Britain (Ilkley and Wrexham) and she managed to reach the quarterfinal stages of both of these. She ended the year with three consecutive first round losses in $25k events. Her year-end ranking for 2007 was world No. 823.

2008

April and May 2008 resulted in three failures to qualify for ITF tournaments, two of which were $25k events, the other a $50k event. She became a quarterfinalist yet again in her next tournament, the $10k in Izmir, Turkey. She then began a successful grass-court season with a wild card into the qualifying tournament of Wimbledon where she lost in the first round in a valiant three-set battle against former top-40 player Olga Puchkova of Russia. She followed this up immediately with her first ever semifinal in the $25k tournament held in Felixstowe and continued the momentum in the following tournament ($10k Frinton) where she won, beating fellow teenager Mona Barthel of Germany in the final.

Her next noteworthy result of 2008 came on the ITF Circuit in early November at the $10k event in Sunderland, England. She won through two tough three-set matches in the first and second rounds before winning her quarterfinal match in two sets and coming up against Laura Robson, in one of two all-British semifinals. She lost in straight sets to Robson (who was the eventual champion). Immediately after this was the $10k tournament in Jersey. In the second round of this tournament she played a rematch of her second round match in the previous tournament in Sunderland. She beat Tetyana Arefyeva in three sets for the second time in two weeks to reach the quarterfinal stage where she was beaten by Katarzyna Piter. She ended 2008 with a singles ranking of world No. 712.

2009

Moore struggled throughout the year and did not go beyond the quarterfinals in any of the events she competed in. She enjoyed a straight-sets win over former top-20 player Eleni Daniilidou as she qualified for the $50 event in Nottingham. She also competed at the ITF junior events at Roehampton and Wimbledon but lost early in both events as she was drawn against junior world No. 3, Tímea Babos. Post Wimbledon, Moore's best result was qualifying for a $75k event in Shrewsbury before losing to Angelique Kerber. Moore was also asked to leave the Lawn Tennis Association (LTA) National Tennis Centre (NTC) as a result of her perceived lack of professionalism and poor attitude. She would end the year in India before heading back to Hong Kong.

2010

New season started very much as 2009 ended for Moore with early losses in her first handful of events. She was training and working out of Hong Kong following her expulsion from the LTA although in March Moore began working with British tennis coach John Morris who was also the coach of Tímea Babos, ranked a lowly 790 on the WTA rankings, Moore moved back to Britain to train at Gosling Tennis Academy under the watchful eye of John Morris. Her results started to pick up in spring time of 2010 as she reached the final of a $10k event in Edinburgh losing to stable mate Tímea Babos, following this up with her first career top-100 win at the $50k event in Nottingham beating Chang Kai-chen in three tough sets. During the grass-court season, Moore represented Great Britain in the Maureen Connolly trophy, a sign that the LTA were beginning to see the improvements in Moore both on and off court. This was quickly followed by a wildcard into the ITF junior event at Roehampton where Moore beat world junior No. 1, Daria Gavrilova, 6–0, 6–1, before beating the 2010 Australian Open junior champion, Karolína Plíšková, 6–3, 6–1. But Moore found Karolina's twin sister Kristýna Plíšková too hot to handle as Plíšková achieved a rare double of winning both titles at Roehampton and Wimbledon. On to Wimbledon, Moore had some impressive wins and reached her first Grand Slam quarterfinal where she played fellow Brit Laura Robson and despite controlling much of the match, Moore lost in two-set although she put herself firmly on the tennis map during the grass-court season and credited John Morris for much of the improvements. Post Wimbledon, Moore won her second career title at a $10k event in Chiswick, as well as her first ITF doubles title alongside Francesca Stephenson at a $25k in Wrexham beating Sania Mirza and Emma Laine in the final. She also made the singles quarterfinals in the latter event, with wins over Emilia Baños Gregorians and Manisha Foster. Moore would go on to reach several quarter- and semifinals before ending the year at the $75k event in Dubai. She achieved several career-high rankings through the year and ended 2010 ranked 370. Moore also became a professional in August 2010 when she signed professional terms with London-based management company Global Tennis Connections (GTC), she also signed a long term deal with Adidas International on the back of her upsurge in form and ranking.

2011

Moore was runner-up in the $10k tournament in Sunderland, and won the $10k in Loughborough where she also won the doubles, partnering country-woman Francesca Stephenson. She also reached doubles finals in a $10k tournaments in Istanbul, partnering Lisa Whybourn, and in Bath, partnering Emma Laine. She ended 2011 with a singles ranking of No. 332.

2012

Moore won no titles in 2012, but finished as runner up in singles in a $50k tournament in Kazan, Russia, and in doubles, partnering fellow British player Lucy Brown in a $10k in Antalya, Turkey. However, she improved her ranking throughout the year, and achieved her highest year-end ranking to date, of No. 249 in singles.

2013

Moore started new season winning the $10k singles titles in Glasgow and Preston, and following that with the $25k title in Surprise, Arizona. In partnership with compatriot Melanie South, also winning the doubles titles in Glasgow and in the $25k in Rancho Mirage, California, and was runner-up in Preston and in Phuket, Thailand.

Moore debuted in the top 200 in the singles rankings on 22 April and made the cut for the Roland Garros qualifying tournament, her first Grand Slam outside of Wimbledon, where she has played qualifiers courtesy of wildcards. There she lost to seventh seed Sesil Karatancheva in the first round of qualifying.

On grass in the UK, Moore was awarded a wildcard into the $75k Aegon Trophy in Nottingham. She reached the second round, beating 143-ranked Slovenian Tadeja Majerič before falling to 110-ranked Hungarian, Melinda Czink. She then received a wildcard into the WTA Tour Aegon Classic at Edgbaston where she narrowly lost to 12th seeded Kristina Mladenovic in the first round. This followed with a wildcard into Wimbledon in June, where she faced 46-ranked Estonian, Kaia Kanepi, in the first round. Kanepi went on to win in a close three-setter.

Back on the ITF Circuit, Moore reached the finals of both the singles and the doubles tournament of the $25k Woking tournament on outdoor hardcourt. She lost the singles final to Pemra Özgen in three sets, having held matchpoints. However, she and her Russian partner, Marta Sirotkina, won the doubles, beating Mari Tanaka and Kanae Hisami in the final.

However, in December the LTA cut her funding, citing a lack of results.

2014

In 2014, Moore made her debut for the British Fed Cup team in the ninth/tenth placed playoff against Austria, and won her first singles rubber.

She impressively saw off Tamira Paszek, a former top-30 player. She also played in Wimbledon as a wildcard but lost in the first round to former Wimbledon finalist Vera Zvonareva in a match that spanned two days. Moore failed to build on her Wimbledon performance on her return to ITF play, as she won just three singles matches in the rest of the year. She saw her ranking slip outside the top 250 in the world as a consequence.

2015

Her poor form continued in 2015. Playing solely at ITF level, Moore's best result was reaching the semifinals of a $10k tournament in Antalya and a $15k event in Loughborough. This was the first year since 2009 that she had failed to make a singles tournament final. She had more success in doubles, reaching three finals and winning the event Antalya in partnership with Cornelia Lister.

2016: First WTA doubles final

Moore's 2016 campaign got off to a bright start, as she won her first tournament of the year, a $10k in Antalya, beating Anne Schaefer in the final. Following this, Moore and semi-regular doubles partner Conny Perrin played the WTA event in Rio de Janeiro. This was Moore's first WTA event in over two years. Entering would prove a wise choice as Moore and Perrin reached their first ever WTA final, after a run that included a quarterfinal victory over second seeds Marina Erakovic and Sílvia Soler Espinosa. They were beaten by fourth seeds Verónica Cepede Royg and María Irigoyen in the title match.

2019

In April 2019, in a match against Jessika Ponchet, Moore was trailing 0–6, 0–5 and facing match point, but made a comeback to win 0–6, 7–6, 6–3.

Personal life

Moore is openly lesbian, and is married to fellow professional tennis player Emina Bektas. She was previously in a long-term relationship with her former doubles partner Conny Perrin

WTA career finals

Doubles: 1 (runner-up)

Legend
Grand Slam tournaments (0–0)
Premier Mandatory & Premier 5 (0–0)
Premier (0–0)
International (0–1)

Outcome	No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Partner	Opponents	Score
Runner–up	1.	20 February 2016	Rio Open, Brazil	Clay	Conny Perrin	Verónica Cepede Royg María Irigoyen	1–6, 6–7(1–7)

ITF Circuit finals

Singles: 17 (9–8)

Legend $100,000 tournaments $80,000 tournaments $50,000 tournaments $25,000 tournaments $15,000 tournaments $10,000 tournaments

Finals by surface Hard (7–6) Clay (1–1) Grass (1–1) Carpet (0–0)

Result	No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Opponent	Score
Win	1.	19 July 2008	ITF Frinton, Great Britain	Grass	Mona Barthel	7–5, 6–1
Loss	1.	9 May 2010	ITF Edinburgh, Great Britain	Clay	Tímea Babos	2–6, 2–6
Win	2.	1 August 2010	ITF Chiswick, Great Britain	Hard	Amy Bowtell	6–3, 6–4
Loss	2.	6 November 2011	ITF Sunderland, Great Britain	Hard (i)	Alison Van Uytvanck	4–6, 1–6
Win	3.	11 November 2011	ITF Loughborough, Great Britain	Hard (i)	Myrtille Georges	7–6(7–5), 5–7, 6–4
Loss	3.	18 August 2012	ITF Kazan, Russia	Hard	Kateryna Kozlova	3–6, 3–6
Win	4.	20 January 2013	ITF Glasgow, Great Britain	Hard (i)	Myrtille Georges	6–4, 6–1
Win	5.	27 January 2013	ITF Preston, Great Britain	Hard (i)	Amy Bowtell	7–6(7–2), 6–1
Win	6.	25 February 2013	ITF Surprise, United States	Hard	Louisa Chirico	6–3, 6–1
Loss	4.	15 July 2013	ITF Woking, Great Britain	Hard	Pemra Özgen	6–3, 5–7, 6–7(8–10)
Win	7.	19 January 2014	ITF Glasgow	Hard	Myrtille Georges	6–3, 6–1
Win	8.	10 January 2016	ITF Antalya, Turkey	Clay	Anne Schäfer	2–6, 7–5, 6–0
Loss	5.	4 June 2016	ITF Eastbourne, Great Britain	Grass	Alison Riske	6–4, 6–7(5–7), 3–6
Loss	6.	6 August 2016	ITF Fort Worth, United States	Hard	Caitlin Whoriskey	0–6, 4–6
Loss	7.	7 January 2017	ITF Hong Kong, China	Hard	Lee Ya-hsuan	6–2, 6–7(4–7), 3–6
Win	9.	8 April 2018	ITF Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt	Hard	Eleni Kordolaimi	6–0, 6–1
Loss	8.	15 April 2018	ITF Sharm El Sheikh	Hard	Julia Terziyska	2–6, 6–4, 4–6

Doubles: 36 (14 titles, 22 runner-ups)

Legend $100,000 tournaments $80,000 tournaments $50,000/$60,000 tournaments $25,000 tournaments $15,000 tournaments $10,000 tournaments

Finals by surface Hard (12–15) Clay (2–4) Grass (0–2) Carpet (0–1)

External links

• Tara Moore at the Women's Tennis Association
• Tara Moore at the International Tennis Federation
• Tara Moore at the Billie Jean King Cup

Result	No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Partner	Opponents	Score
Loss	1.	9 November 2008	ITF Sunderland, Great Britain	Hard (i)	Katharina Brown	Danielle Harmsen Kim Kilsdonk	7–6(7–4), 4–6, [4–10]
Loss	2.	16 November 2008	ITF Jersey, United Kingdom	Hard (i)	Elizabeth Thomas	Danielle Harmsen Kim Kilsdonk	6–7(4–7), 4–6
Loss	3.	8 May 2010	ITF Edinburgh, Great Britain	Clay	Tímea Babos	Amanda Elliott Jocelyn Rae	6–7(5–7), 4–6
Win	1.	24 July 2010	ITF Wrexham, Great Britain	Hard	Francesca Stephenson	Emma Laine Sania Mirza	2–6, 6–3, [13–11]
Loss	4.	3 November 2010	ITF Sunderland	Hard (i)	Francesca Stephenson	Amanda Elliott Anna Fitzpatrick	2–6, 3–6
Loss	5.	15 March 2011	ITF Bath, Great Britain	Hard (i)	Emma Laine	Giulia Gatto-Monticone Anastasia Grymalska	4–6, 6–2, [6–10]
Loss	6.	20 August 2011	ITF İstanbul, Turkey	Hard (i)	Lisa Whybourn	Christina Shakovets Ashvarya Shrivastava	6–3, 6–1
Win	2.	12 November 2011	ITF Loughborough, Great Britain	Hard (i)	Francesca Stephenson	Malou Ejdesgaard Amanda Elliott	3–6, 6–2, [10–3]
Loss	7.	3 April 2012	ITF Antalya, Turkey	Hard	Lucy Brown	Lu Jiajing Lu Jiaxiang	1–6, 0–6
Win	3.	16 January 2013	ITF Glasgow, Great Britain	Hard (i)	Melanie South	Anna Smith Francesca Stephenson	7–6(7–5), 6–3
Loss	8.	23 January 2013	ITF Preston, Great Britain	Hard (i)	Melanie South	Samantha Murray Jade Windley	3–6, 6–3, [5–10]
Win	4.	5 February 2013	ITF Rancho Mirage, United States	Hard (i)	Melanie South	Jan Abaza Louisa Chirico	4–6, 6–2, [12–10]
Loss	9.	22 April 2013	ITF Phuket, Thailand	Hard (i)	Melanie South	Nicha Lertpitaksinchai Peangtarn Plipuech	6–3, 5–7, [11–9]
Win	5.	15 July 2013	ITF Woking, Great Britain	Hard	Marta Sirotkina	Kanae Hisami Mari Tanaka	4–6, 6–1, [10–7]
Win	6.	8 March 2014	ITF Preston	Hard	Marta Sirotkina	Timea Bacsinszky Kristina Barrois	3–6, 6–1, [13–11]
Loss	10.	7 February 2015	ITF Glasgow	Hard (i)	Conny Perrin	Corinna Dentoni Claudia Giovine	6–0, 1–6, [7–10]
Win	7.	7 March 2015	ITF Antalya, Turkey	Clay	Cornelia Lister	Kim Grajdek Alexandra Nancarrow	7–6(7–0), 7–5
Loss	11.	14 June 2015	ITF Surbiton, Great Britain	Grass	Nicola Slater	Lyudmyla Kichenok Xenia Knoll	6–7(6–8), 3–6
Loss	12.	31 July 2015	ITF Rome, Italy	Clay	Conny Perrin	Claudia Giovine Despina Papamichail	4–6, 6–7(2–7)
Loss	13.	26 February 2016	ITF São Paulo, Brazil	Clay	Conny Perrin	Catalina Pella Daniela Seguel	3–6, 1–6
Loss	14.	19 February 2017	ITF Altenkirchen, Germany	Carpet (i)	Conny Perrin	Alexandra Cadanțu Cornelia Lister	2–6, 6–3, [9–11]
Loss	15.	25 March 2017	ITF Pula, Italy	Clay	Conny Perrin	Olesya Pervushina Dayana Yastremska	4–6, 4–6
Win	8.	24 September 2017	Albuquerque Championships, United States	Hard	Conny Perrin	Viktorija Golubic Amra Sadiković	6–3, 6–3
Loss	16.	21 October 2017	ITF Florence, United States	Hard	Amra Sadikovic	Maria Sanchez Taylor Townsend	1–6, 2–6
Loss	17.	10 February 2018	ITF Loughborough	Hard (i)	Conny Perrin	Michaëlla Krajicek Bibiane Schoofs	7–6(7–5), 1–6, [6–10]
Win	9.	2 March 2018	ITF São Paulo	Clay	Conny Perrin	Hsu Chieh-yu Marcela Zacarías	6–4, 3–6, [13–11]
Win	10.	14 April 2018	ITF Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt	Hard	Eleni Kordolaimi	Rutuja Bhosale Kanika Vaidya	6–4, 6–1
Loss	18.	13 May 2018	ITF Fukuoka, Japan	Carpet	Amra Sadikovic	Naomi Broady Asia Muhammad	2–6, 0–6
Loss	19.	20 October 2018	ITF Florence	Hard	Conny Perrin	Anna Danilina Ulrikke Eikeri	7–6(11–9), 2–6, [8–10]
Win	11.	27 October 2018	ITF Saguenay, Canada	Hard (i)	Conny Perrin	Sharon Fichman Maria Sanchez	6–0, 5–7, [10–7]
Loss	20.	16 March 2019	ITF Nishitama, Japan	Hard	Emina Bektas	Haruna Arakawa Minori Yonehara	4–6, 3–6
Loss	21.	23 March 2019	ITF Kōfu, Japan	Hard	Emina Bektas	Chang Kai-chen Hsu Ching-wen	1–6, 3–6
Loss	22.	13 April 2019	ITF Sunderland, Great Britain	Hard (i)	Emina Bektas	Maja Chwalińska Ulrikke Eikeri	4–6, 6–3, [9–11]
Win	12.	14 September 2019	ITF Redding, United States	Hard	Emina Bektas	Catherine Harrison Paige Hourigan	6–3, 6–1
Win	13.	19 October 2019	Florence, United States	Hard	Emina Bektas	Olivia Tjandramulia Marcela Zacarias	7-5, 6–4
Win	14.	25 Jan 2021	Rome, United States	Hard	Emina Bektas	Olga Govortsova Jovana Jovic	5–7, 6–2, [10–8]

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