Francesca Di Lorenzo

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Francesca Di Lorenzo Tennis player
Francesca Di Lorenzo
Francesca Di Lorenzo 2019 in London
Nation: United StatesUnited States United States
Birthday: 22nd July 1997 (age 23)
1st professional season: 2018
Playing hand: Left, two-handed backhand
Trainer: Ann Grossman
Ty Tucker
Prize money: $ 384,876
singles
Career record: 114: 73
Career title: 0 WTA , 3 ITF
Highest ranking: 125 (August 26, 2019)
Current placement: 141
Grand Slam record
Grand Slam title: 00000  0
Australian Open -
French Open -
Wimbledon -
US Open 2R (2018, 2019)
Double
Career record: 39:34
Career title: 0 WTA, 2 ITF
Highest ranking: 244 (June 18, 2018)
Current placement: 379
Grand Slam record
Grand Slam title: 00000  0
Australian Open -
French Open -
Wimbledon -
US Open 1R (2017, 2019)
Last update of the infobox:
September 9, 2019
Sources: official player profiles at the ATP / WTA and ITF (see web links )

Francesca Di Lorenzo (born July 22, 1997 in Pittsburgh ) is an American tennis player .

Career

Di Lorenzo started tennis at the age of seven and prefers to play on clay courts. She mainly plays tournaments on the ITF Women's World Tennis Tour , where she has so far won three tournaments in singles and two in doubles.

In the junior singles of the US Open 2014 , she reached the second round. In 2015 she reached the semi-finals in junior singles at the US Open .

As a college player, she played for Ohio State University from 2014 to 2017 . She won the singles title of the ITA National Intercollegiate Indoor Championships twice in a row in the 2015/16 college tennis season in 2015 and in 2016 in the 2016/17 college tennis season . In the same year she was invited to the American Collegiate Invitational 2016 , which was taking place parallel to the Us Open, but was unsuccessful in the first round. At the 2017 NCAA Division I Tennis Championships she won the doubles title with her partner Miho Kowase .

In 2017 she won the American Collegiate Invitational 2017 in the women's singles against her compatriot Ingrid Neel with 4: 6, 6: 4 and 6: 4. In the same year she received a wildcard for qualifying for the US Open 2017 in women's singles, where she lost to Nicole Gibbs 6: 7 0 and 5: 7. In women's doubles , she and her partner Allie Kiick also received a wildcard for the main draw , where they failed very close in the first round on Japanese doubles Eri Hozumi and Miyu Katō with 6: 7 5 and 6: 7 4 .

Tournament victories

singles

No. date competition category Topping Final opponent Result
1. July 28, 2015 United StatesUnited States Austin ITF $ 10,000 Hard court United StatesUnited States Lauren Herring 4: 6, 7: 6 2 , 6: 2
2. July 11, 2016 CanadaCanada Winnipeg ITF $ 25,000 Hard court CanadaCanada Erin Routliffe 6: 4, 6: 1
3. 23rd January 2018 United StatesUnited States Wesley Chapel ITF $ 25,000 sand United StatesUnited States Whitney Osuigwe 6: 2, 1: 6, 6: 4

Double

No. date competition category Topping Partner Final opponents Result
1. July 11, 2016 CanadaCanada Winnipeg ITF $ 25,000 Hard court United StatesUnited States Ronit Yurovsky CanadaCanada Marie-Alexandre Leduc Charlotte Robillard-Millette
CanadaCanada  		1: 6, 7: 5, [10: 6]
2. 18th May 2018 FranceFrance Saint-Gaudens ITF $ 60,000 sand AustraliaAustralia Naiktha Bains FranceFrance Manon Arcangioli Shérazad Reix
FranceFrance  		6: 4, 1: 6, [11: 9]

Personal

Di Lorenzo is fluent in Italian. As a child, she played both soccer and tennis.

Award

In the 2016/17 season she was named Player of the Year by the OSU.

Web links

Commons : Francesca Di Lorenzo  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ What happened in Ohio State sports during winter break (thelatern.com January 8, 2018, accessed March 11, 2018)
  2. ↑ a b Brimming with Italian pride, American Di Lorenzo into girls' semis (usopen.org, September 11, 2015, accessed March 11, 2018)
  3. ↑ OSU sophomore Francesca Di Lorenzo claims second ITA women's National Indoors Championship title (thelatern.com from November 6, 2016, accessed on March 11, 2018)
  4. ↑ US Open Shows One Road to the Top Goes Through College (nytimes.com, September 11, 2017, accessed March 11, 2018)
  5. ↑ Women's tennis championship: Ohio State's Francesca Di Lorenzo and Miho Kowase take the doubles title (ncaa.com from May 29, 2017, accessed on March 11, 2018)
  6. ↑ Women's Tennis: Francesca Di Lorenzo misses Ohio State, but couldn't pass up per opportunity (thelatern.com, February 7, 2018, accessed March 11, 2018)
  7. ↑ Kyle Snyder and Francesca Di Lorenzo Named Ohio State Athletes of the Year (elevenwarriors.com, July 13, 2017, accessed March 11, 2018)
personal data
SURNAME Di Lorenzo, Francesca
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American tennis player
DATE OF BIRTH July 22, 1997
PLACE OF BIRTH Pittsburgh , United States