Pauline Parmentier

Pauline Parmentier

Parmentier at the 2015 Open GDF Suez de Cagnes-sur-Mer Alpes-Maritimes
Country (sports)	France
Residence	Paris, France
Born	31 January 1986 Cucq, France
Height	1.75 m (5 ft 9 in)
Turned pro	2000
Plays	Right-handed (two-handed backhand)
Prize money	$2,287,899
Singles
Career record	397 - 344
Career titles	2 WTA, 10 ITF
Highest ranking	No. 40 (21 July 2008)
Current ranking	No. 73 (31 October 2016)
Grand Slam Singles results
Australian Open	2R (2008, 2012)
French Open	4R (2014)
Wimbledon	2R (2008, 2009, 2011)
US Open	3R (2012)
Other tournaments
Olympic Games	1R (2008)
Doubles
Career record	74 - 118
Career titles	0 WTA, 3 ITF
Highest ranking	No. 89 (30 April 2012)
Current ranking	No. 368 (31 October 2016)
Grand Slam Doubles results
Australian Open	2R (2013)
French Open	3R (2014)
Wimbledon	2R (2008, 2013)
US Open	1R (2008, 2011, 2012)
Other doubles tournaments
Olympic Games	1R (2008)
Team competitions
Fed Cup	5–7
Last updated on: 1 November 2016.

Pauline Parmentier (born 31 January 1986) is a French tennis player. Her career-high ranking is world number 40, which she achieved on 21 July 2008, and her highest ranking in doubles is world number 89, which she reached on 30 April 2012.

Background

Parmentier was born in Cucq. Her parents are named Dominique and Jean-Philippe. She has two brothers. Her favorite surface is clay. Parmentier began to play tennis at age 6.

Career

2005–2009

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 fourth 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 in the semifinals before defeating Lucie Hradecká in the final.

Parmentier was nominated to play in the 2008 Olympic Games after Mary Pierce and Amélie Mauresmo withdrew.^[1]

2010–2015

In 2010 Parmentier qualified for the 2010 Sony Ericsson Open by defeating American teenager Lauren Davis and Tamarine Tanasugarn.

In 2012, she reached the third round of the US Open.

In January 2014, she reached the semifinals of an $25,000 ITF event in Hong Kong after defeating top seed Magda Linette in the first round. At the French Open, she had her career-best showing at a grand slam tournament, reaching the fourth round by defeating 17th seed Roberta Vinci, Yaroslava Shvedova and Mona Barthel.

2016

In May 2016, Parmentier reached her fourth WTA Tour singles quarterfinal of the year at the Internationaux de Strasbourg, losing to Mirjana Lučić-Baroni. Earlier in the year, she reached the singles semifinals of the Katowice tournament and the singles quarterfinals of the tournaments in Monterrey and Rabat.

At the French Open, Parmentier defeated no. 31 seed Monica Niculescu in the first round and Irina Falconi in the second round. She lost to Timea Bacsinszky in the third round.

In July 2016, Parmentier reached her fifth WTA Tour singles quarterfinal of the year at the Bucharest tournament, where she lost to Vania King.

WTA finals

Singles (2–0)

Winner – Legend (pre/post 2009) Grand Slam tournaments (0–0) Year-End Finals (0–0) Tier I / Premier Mandatory & Premier 5 (0–0) Tier II / Premier (0–0) Tier III, IV & V / International (2–0)

Titles by Surface Hard (1–0) Grass (0–0) Clay (1–0) Carpet (0–0)

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

Doubles (0–1)

Winner – Legend (pre/post 2009) Grand Slam tournaments (0–0) Year-End Finals (0–0) Tier I / Premier Mandatory & Premier 5 (0–0) Tier II / Premier (0–0) Tier III, IV & V / International (0–1)

Titles by Surface Hard (0–1) Grass (0–0) Clay (0–0) Carpet (0–0)

Outcome	No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Partner	Opponents	Score
Runner-up	1.	27 August 2011	Texas Tennis Open, Dallas, United States	Hard	Alizé Cornet	Alberta Brianti Sorana Cîrstea	5–7, 3–6

Team competition: 1 (0–1)

Outcome	No.	Date	Team competition	Surface	Partner/Team	Opponents	Score
Runner–up	1.	12–13 November 2016	Fed Cup, Strasbourg, France	Hard (i)	Caroline Garcia Kristina Mladenovic Alizé Cornet	Karolína Plíšková Lucie Hradecká Petra Kvitová Barbora Strýcová	2–3

ITF

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

Singles finals: 25 (10–15)

Outcome	No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Opponent	Score
Winner	1.	29 November 2004	Cairo, Egypt	Clay	Yuliya Ustyuzhanina	6–1, 6–1
Runner-up	1.	6 December 2004	Cairo, Egypt	Clay	Galina Fokina	6–4, 6–3
Runner-up	2.	2 July 2006	Périgueux, France	Clay	Yevgenia Savransky	6–1, 6–7, 2–6
Winner	2.	16 January 2007	Fort Walton Beach, United States	Hard	Jana Jurićová	6–4, 6–3
Winner	3.	10 April 2007	Biarritz, France	Clay	Selima Sfar	6–2, 6–4
Winner	4.	10 April 2007	Pétange, Luxembourg	Clay	Martina Müller	6–1, 6–4
Runner-up	3.	5 October 2009	Barnstaple, United Kingdom	Hard (i)	Johanna Larsson	2–6, 2–6
Winner	5.	19 October 2009	Saint Raphaël, France	Hard	Sandra Záhlavová	7–6^(7–4), 6–2
Runner-up	4.	4 July 2010	Cuneo, Italy	Clay	Romina Oprandi	0–6, 2–6
Runner-up	5.	25 October 2010	Poitiers, France	Hard (i)	Sofia Arvidsson	2–6, 6–7
Runner-up	6.	8 May 2011	Cagnes-sur-Mer, France	Clay	Sorana Cîrstea	7–6 2–6 2–6
Winner	6.	6 June 2011	Marseille, France	Clay	Irina-Camelia Begu	6–3, 6–2
Winner	7.	4 July 2011	Biarritz, France	Clay	Patricia Mayr-Achleitner	1–6, 6–4, 6–4
Runner-up	7.	17 June 2012	Marseille, France	Clay	Lourdes Domínguez Lino	3–6, 3–6
Runner-up	8.	16 September 2013	Mont-de-Marsan, France	Clay	Teliana Pereira	1–6, 4–6
Runner-up	9.	22 September 2013	Saint-Malo, France	Clay	Teliana Pereira	2–6, 1–6
Winner	8.	9 February 2014	Grenoble, France	Hard (i)	Anastasiya Vasylyeva	2–6, 6–0, 6–4
Runner-up	10.	23 February 2014	Nottingham, United Kingdom	Hard (i)	Ekaterina Bychkova	0–3 ret.
Runner-up	11.	31 March 2014	Edgbaston, United Kingdom	Hard (i)	Çağla Büyükakçay	4–6, 6–2, 2–6
Runner-up	12.	18 May 2014	Saint-Gaudens, France	Clay	Danka Kovinić	1–6, 2–6
Runner-up	13.	6 June 2015	Marseille, France	Clay	Monica Niculescu	2–6, 5–7
Winner	9.	14 June 2015	Essen, Germany	Clay	Viktorija Golubic	3–6, 7–6^(7–4), 6–3
Runner-up	14.	1 November 2015	Poitiers, France	Hard (i)	Monica Niculescu	5–7, 2–6
Runner-up	15.	2 April 2016	Croissy-Beaubourg, France	Hard (i)	Ivana Jorović	1–6, 6–4, 4–6
Winner	10.	10 July 2016	Contrexéville, France	Clay	Océane Dodin	6–1, 6–1

Doubles finals: 5 (3–2)

Outcome	No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Partner	Opponents	Score
Runner-up	1.	14 July 2003	Le Touquet, France	Clay	Mandy Minella	Natacha Randriantefy Aurélie Védy	2–6, 2–6
Winner	1.	16 November 2003	Deauville, France	Clay	Aurélie Védy	Maria Geznenge Zuzana Hejdová	5–7, 6–2, 6–1
Winner	2.	23 November 2004	Cairo, Egypt	Clay	Petra Cetkovská	Galina Fokina Raissa Gourevitch	6–4, 6–2
Runner-up	2.	19 July 2009	Contrexéville, France	Clay	Stéphanie Cohen-Aloro	Yvonne Meusburger Kathrin Wörle-Scheller	2–6, 2–6
Winner	3.	28 February 2015	Campinas, Brazil	Clay	Olivia Rogowska	Andrea Gámiz Paula Cristina Gonçalves	7–5, 4–6, [10–8]

Single performance statistics

Tournament	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008	2009	2010	2011	2012	2013	2014	2015	2016	W-L
Grand Slam tournaments
Australian Open	A	A	Q2	A	2R	A	1R	1R	2R	1R	1R	1R	Q1	2–7
French Open	Q2	1R	1R	2R	1R	1R	1R	2R	1R	1R	4R	1R	3R	7–12
Wimbledon	A	A	Q1	A	2R	2R	1R	2R	1R	1R	Q1	1R	1R	3–8
US Open	A	2R	Q2	2R	2R	Q3	2R	2R	3R	Q2	1R	Q1	1R	7–8
Win–Loss	0-0	1–2	0–1	2–2	3–4	1–2	1–4	3–4	3–4	0–3	3–3	0–3	2–3	19–35
Year End Ranking	261	207	197	59	62	109	102	74	66	225	79	116

Doubles performance statistics

Tournament	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008	2009	2010	2011	2012	2013	2014	2015	2016	W-L
Grand Slam tournaments
Australian Open	A	A	A	A	1R	A	A	A	1R	2R	A	1R	A	1–4
French Open	1R	1R	1R	1R	2R	2R	1R	2R	1R	2R	3R	1R	2R	7–13
Wimbledon	A	A	A	A	2R	1R	A	1R	1R	2R	1R	A	A	2–6
US Open	A	A	A	A	1R	A	A	1R	1R	A	2R	A	1R	1–5
Win–Loss	0–1	0–1	0–1	0–1	2–4	1–2	0–1	1–3	0–4	3–3	3–3	0-2	1–3	11–28

References

1. "French stars to miss the Olympics". BBC Sport. 21 July 2008. Retrieved 22 July 2008.

External links

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