Pauline Parmentier


Pauline Parmentier is a French, professional tennis player.
Her career-high WTA singles ranking is world No. 40, which she attained on 21 July 2008. On 30 April 2012, she peaked at world No. 89 on the WTA doubles rankings. She has won four singles titles on the WTA Tour, as well as ten singles and three doubles titles on the ITF Women's Circuit. She competed in the singles and women's doubles events at the 2008 Summer Olympics, and has been playing for France in the Fed Cup since 2010.

Personal life

Parmentier was born in the northern French town of Cucq. Parmentier's parents are named Dominique and Jean-Philippe and she has two older brothers named Olivier and Julien. Pauline began to play tennis at age six and trained at the Mouratoglou Tennis Academy for five years.

Career

2000–2003

In 2000, Parmentier played only one tournament on the ITF Women's Circuit; she lost her main-draw opening match in both the singles and doubles events of a $10,000 tournament held in November 2000 in the French commune of Villenave-d'Ornon.
In 2001, she played just three ITF tournaments and only took part in their singles events; she was eliminated in the qualifying rounds of all of them.
Parmentier did not play a single ITF tournament in 2002.
She did not have any year-end WTA singles or doubles ranking for 2000, 2001 and 2002.
Parmentier played 13 tournaments in the 2003 ITF Women's Circuit, appearing in their singles or doubles events or both.

2004–2005

In May 2004, Parmentier made her WTA Tour singles debut at the Internationaux de Strasbourg, losing in the second qualifying round to Henrieta Nagyová. At her Grand Slam debut at the 2004 French Open, she lost in the second singles qualifying round to Roberta Vinci and in the first round of the women's doubles.
It was in 2005 at the French Open and US Open that Parmentier appeared in the singles main draw of a WTA tournament for the first two times in her career. At the French Open, she entered as a wild card and lost in the first round to Iveta Benešová. At the US Open, she won three qualifying matches to reach the main draw, where she lost to No. 2 seed Lindsay Davenport in the second round.

2007: First WTA singles title

Parmentier won three qualifying matches to reach the main draw of the US Open where she defeated Tatjana Malek in the first round and fell to Martina Hingis in the second. She broke into the top 100 of the WTA rankings for the first time in her career on 10 September 2007. Parmentier won her first career WTA singles title at the Tashkent Open as an unseeded player in October 2007; she did not drop a set during the tournament, defeating the three top seeds Dominika Cibulková, Olga Govortsova and Victoria Azarenka ] en route to winning the title.
She also won three ITF singles titles in 2007.

2008: Second WTA singles title

On 18 February 2008, two days after losing in the semifinals of the Tier III Cachantún Cup in Viña del Mar to top seed Flavia Pennetta, Parmentier made her debut in the top 50 of the singles rankings; she rose from world No. 53 at the start of the 2008 Cachantún Cup to No. 47. She won the title at Bad Gastein in July - it was her second career WTA singles title. Seeded No. 4, she defeated top seed Ágnes Szávay in the semifinals before defeating qualifier Lucie Hradecká in the final. Parmentier was nominated to play in the 2008 Summer Olympics after Mary Pierce and Amélie Mauresmo withdrew. She lost her singles first-round match to the No. 16 seed Dominika Cibulková and her women's doubles first-round match to the Indian pair of Sania Mirza and Sunitha Rao by walkover.

2010

Parmentier made her Fed Cup debut at the World Group quarterfinal tie against the team of the United States in February 2010. She lost her first match against Melanie Oudin but won her second match against Christina McHale by the same scoreline. France lost the tie 1–4.
Parmentier qualified for the singles main draw of the Sony Ericsson Open by defeating American teenager Lauren Davis and Tamarine Tanasugarn in the qualifying rounds; in the main draw she beat Sybille Bammer in the first round before losing to No. 25 seed Ana Ivanovic in the second round.

2012

In late May, the unseeded Parmentier upset the top seed Sabine Lisicki in the first round of the Internationaux de Strasbourg. She then defeated Stéphanie Foretz in the second round and Alexandra Panova in the quarterfinals to reach her first WTA singles semifinal since winning the title in Bad Gastein; she lost her semifinal to her compatriot and unseeded wildcard Alizé Cornet in three sets.
At the US Open, as an unseeded player, Parmentier defeated No. 25 seed Yanina Wickmayer in the second round before losing to No. 5 seed Petra Kvitová in the third; it was the first time that she had advanced to the third round of the main draw in a Grand Slam tournament.

2013

In 2013, Parmentier won only one match and exited the first round nine times in ten WTA singles main-draw events, including the Australian Open, French Open and Wimbledon. She missed several events in April and May because of a right shoulder injury. In the second half of the year, she played the singles events of eleven tournaments, including the US Open qualifying event.

2014: French Open fourth round

In the first week of January, the unseeded Parmentier lost in the semifinals of the 25k tournament in Hong Kong to Elizaveta Kulichkova in three sets after having defeated top seed Magda Linette in the first round and eighth-seeded Mayo Hibi in the quarterfinals.
At the French Open, Parmentier achieved her career-best singles showing in a Grand Slam tournament. She had received a main-draw wildcard and was ranked world No. 145 in the WTA rankings coming into that tournament. There she defeated three players then ranked in the top 100 before losing to the unseeded Garbiñe Muguruza in the fourth round.

2016

In the first five months of 2016, Parmentier reached at least the last eight of the singles main draw in four WTA tournaments as a lucky loser, unseeded player or wildcard; she lost to No. 8 seed Dominika Cibulková in the semifinals in Katowice and was defeated in the singles quarterfinals in Monterrey, Rabat and Strasbourg.
She was the No. 88 in the singles rankings coming into the French Open, defeating No. 31 seed Monica Niculescu in the first round and Irina Falconi in the second before losing to No. 8 seed Timea Bacsinszky 4–6, 2–6 in the third.
In July, the unseeded Parmentier reached her fifth and final WTA singles quarterfinal of the year at the Bucharest tournament, where she lost to Vania King.

2017

In February, Parmentier played only one match in the Fed Cup World Group quarterfinal against Switzerland. She lost it to Belinda Bencic, what enabled Switzerland to take an unassailable 3-1 lead and sent France to the World Group Play-offs. Three weeks after her Fed Cup defeat, the unseeded Parmentier lost in the quarterfinals of the WTA Tour tournament in Acapulco to top seed Mirjana Lučić-Baroni.
Coming into the Premier Mandatory BNP Paribas Open held in March, Parmentier had never in her singles career beaten a player ranked in the top ten of the WTA singles rankings. In that tournament, Parmentier came close to doing so, holding a set point in the first set and leading 4–1 in the third set of her third-round match against world No. 2 Angelique Kerber before losing 5–7, 6–3, 5–7. She also lost in the third round of the Miami Open to world No. 11 Johanna Konta, after causing an upset by beating No. 24 seed Tímea Babos in the second round.
After her good performances at the BNP Paribas Open and Miami Open, Parmentier lost in the first round of her next four tournaments - Biel, Rabat, Madrid and Strasbourg. At the Strasbourg tournament, she failed to convert two match points while leading 6–5 in the final set against the American qualifier Madison Brengle. She ended her run of four consecutive singles main-draw first-round defeats at the French Open when she defeated Irina Khromacheva before losing to Carina Witthöft in the second round.
In July, she reached her second WTA Tour singles quarterfinal of the year at the tournament in Bucharest, where she eliminated No. 5 seed Elise Mertens in the second round before losing her quarterfinal match against No. 7 seed Irina-Camelia Begu. In her third-last event of the year in Luxembourg City, Parmentier won three qualifying and three main-draw matches to reach her first and only singles semifinal of the 2017 WTA Tour, where she lost to Carina Witthöft in three sets. In November, Parmentier narrowly failed to qualify for her first WTA 125K series singles final when she was beaten in three sets in the semifinals by Monica Niculescu at the Open de Limoges. However, she reached her first career 125K series doubles final at Limoges; she and her partner Chloé Paquet lost the final to Valeria Savinykh and Maryna Zanevska.

2018: Two more WTA singles titles ten years after her last one

In the first 15 weeks of the year, Parmentier compiled a singles match record of two wins and 13 defeats. During that period, she won her first-round match but lost her second-round match in the singles main draw events at the Taiwan Open and in Croissy-Beaubourg. She registered eleven other singles defeats during that period by losing both her matches in the Fed Cup World Group quarterfinal tie against Belgium on February 10–11, and her opening matches at seven WTA tournaments and two ITF tournaments. On April 21–22, Parmentier played in France's Fed Cup World Group semifinal tie against the United States in Aix-en-Provence. She pushed two players ranked in the top 20 to tight losses, losing first to Sloane Stephens and then to Madison Keys; the Americans won the tie 3–2.
At the Istanbul Cup held in the last week of April, Parmentier registered her first career singles win over a player ranked in the top ten of the WTA singles rankings in her 16th attempt by defeating the top seed and world No. 2 Caroline Wozniacki who retired in the quarterfinals after leading 4–6, 6–3 due to a left abdominal injury. She then defeated the No. 7 seed Irina-Camelia Begu 6–3, 6–4 in the semifinals to reach her first WTA singles final since winning the 2008 Gastein Ladies title. In the final, she defeated the unseeded Polona Hercog to win her third career WTA singles title. On 30 April, the day after winning the Istanbul Cup singles title, Parmentier rose from No. 122 to world No. 76 in the singles rankings.
She lost in the first and second round in her next two tournaments, in Cagnes-sur-Mer and Strasbourg respectively. She entered the main draw of the French Open as a wildcard, and defeated Chloé Paquet and Alizé Cornet in the first and second rounds respectively, both in three sets. She lost to second seeded Caroline Wozniacki in the third round. Parmentier played only one pre-Wimbledon grass-court tournament in June, in Southsea, where she was defeated by Kirsten Flipkens in the semifinals. Parmentier lost her opening matches in her next two tournaments to Taylor Townsend and Zheng Saisai respectively. Parmentier entered the Bucharest Open as the No. 7 seed and defeated Alexandra Dulgheru in three sets. In her second-round match against Wang Yafan, Parmentier was trailing 6–7, 0–3 when she was forced to retire because of a neck injury. The following week, she was beaten in the first round in Moscow by third-seeded Anastasija Sevastova. Parmentier entered the main draw of the New Haven tournament as a lucky loser, losing in the first round to Anett Kontaveit. She lost her opening matches in her next two tournaments to Madison Keys and Dayana Yastremska respectively.

Performance timeline

Only the main-draw appearances and results on the WTA Tour and in the Summer Olympics are included in these records

Singles

Doubles

WTA Tour finals

Singles: 4 (4 titles)

ResultW–LDateTournamentTierSurfaceOpponentScore
Win1–02007 Tashkent Open – Singles|Tashkent Open, UzbekistanTier IVHard Victoria Azarenka7–5, 6–2
Win2–02008 Gastein Ladies – Singles|Gastein Ladies, AustriaTier IIIClay Lucie Hradecká6–4, 6–4
Win3–02018 İstanbul Cup – Singles|İstanbul Cup, TurkeyInternationalClay Polona Hercog6–4, 3–6, 6–3
Win4–02018 Coupe Banque Nationale – Singles|Tournoi de Québec, CanadaInternationalCarpet Jessica Pegula7–5, 6–2

Doubles: 1 (1 runner–up)

ResultW–LDateTournamentTierSurfacePartnerOpponentsScore
Loss0–12011 Texas Tennis Open – Doubles|Texas Open, United StatesInternationalHard Alizé Cornet Alberta Brianti
Sorana Cîrstea		5–7, 3–6

WTA 125K series finals

Doubles: 1 (1 runner–up)

ITF Circuit finals

Singles: 25 (10 titles, 15 runner–ups)

ResultW–LDateTournamentTierSurfaceOpponentScore
Win1–0Dec 2004ITF Cairo, Egypt10,000Clay Yuliya Ustyuzhanina6–1, 6–1
Loss1–1Dec 2004ITF Cairo, Egypt10,000Clay Galina Fokina4–6, 3–6
Loss1–2Jul 2006ITF Périgueux, France25,000Clay Yevgenia Savransky6–1, 6–7, 2–6
Win2–2Jan 2007ITF Fort Walton Beach, United States25,000Hard Jana Juricová6–4, 6–3
Win3–2Apr 2007ITF Biarritz, France25,000Clay Selima Sfar6–2, 6–4
Win4–2Jul 2007ITF Pétange, Luxembourg75,000Clay Martina Müller6–1, 6–4
Loss4–3Oct 2009ITF Barnstaple, England50,000Hard Johanna Larsson2–6, 2–6
Win5–3Oct 2009ITF Saint Raphaël, France50,000Hard Sandra Záhlavová7–6, 6–2
Loss5–4Jul 2010ITF Cuneo, Italy100,000Clay Romina Oprandi0–6, 2–6
Loss5–5Oct 2010ITF Poitiers, France100,000Hard Sofia Arvidsson2–6, 6–7
Loss5–6May 2011ITF Cagnes-sur-Mer, France100,000Clay Sorana Cîrstea7–6, 2–6, 2–6
Win6–6Jun 2011ITF Marseille, France100,000Clay Irina-Camelia Begu6–3, 6–2
Win7–6Jul 2011ITF Biarritz, France100,000Clay Patricia Mayr-Achleitner1–6, 6–4, 6–4
Loss7–7Jun 2012ITF Marseille, France100,000Clay Lourdes Domínguez Lino3–6, 3–6
Loss7–8Sep 2013ITF Mont-de-Marsan, France25,000Clay Teliana Pereira1–6, 4–6
Loss7–9Sep 2013ITF Saint-Malo, France25,000Clay Teliana Pereira2–6, 1–6
Win8–9Feb 2014ITF Grenoble, France25,000Hard Anastasiya Vasylyeva2–6, 6–0, 6–4
Loss8–10Feb 2014ITF Nottingham, England25,000Hard Ekaterina Bychkova0–3 ret.
Loss8–11Apr 2014ITF Edgbaston, England25,000Hard Çağla Büyükakçay4–6, 6–2, 2–6
Loss8–12May 2014ITF Saint-Gaudens, France50,000Clay Danka Kovinić1–6, 2–6
Loss8–13Jun 2015ITF Marseille, France100,000Clay Monica Niculescu2–6, 5–7
Win9–13Jun 2015ITF Essen, Germany25,000Clay Viktorija Golubic3–6, 7–6, 6–3
Loss9–14Nov 2015ITF Poitiers, France100,000Hard Monica Niculescu5–7, 2–6
Loss9–15Apr 2016ITF Croissy-Beaubourg, France50,000Hard Ivana Jorović1–6, 6–4, 4–6
Win10–15Jul 2016ITF Contrexéville, France$100,000Clay Océane Dodin6–1, 6–1

Doubles: 5 (3 titles, 2 runner–ups)

ResultW–LDateTournamentTierSurfacePartnerOpponentsScore
Loss0–1Jul 2003ITF Le Touquet, France10,000Clay Mandy Minella Natacha Randriantefy
Aurélie Védy		2–6, 2–6
Win1–1Nov 2003ITF Deauville, France25,000Clay Aurélie Védy Maria Geznenge
Zuzana Hejdová		5–7, 6–2, 6–1
Win2–1Nov 2004ITF Cairo, Egypt10,000Clay Petra Cetkovská Galina Fokina
Raissa Gourevitch		6–4, 6–2
Loss2–2Jul 2009ITF Contrexéville, France50,000Clay Stéphanie Cohen-Aloro Yvonne Meusburger
Kathrin Wörle-Scheller		2–6, 2–6
Win3–2Mar 2015ITF Campinas, Brazil25,000Clay Olivia Rogowska Andrea Gámiz
Paula Cristina Gonçalves		7–5, 4–6,

Top-10 wins per season

Team competition: 1 (1 runner–up)