Nicole Pratt

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Nicole Pratt Tennis player
Nicole Pratt
Nation: AustraliaAustralia Australia
Birthday: March 5th 1973
Size: 163 cm
1st professional season: 1997
Resignation: 2008
Playing hand: Right (one-handed backhand)
Prize money: $ 2,404,645
singles
Career record: 456: 441
Career title: 1 WTA , 5 ITF
Highest ranking: 35 (June 17 2002)
Grand Slam record
Grand Slam title: 00000  0
Australian Open AF (2003)
French Open 2R (1998, 2001, 2002, 2004, 2007)
Wimbledon 3R (2006)
US Open 3R (2003)
Double
Career record: 350: 348
Career title: 9 WTA, 9 ITF
Highest ranking: 18 (September 17 2001)
Grand Slam record
Grand Slam title: 00000  0
Australian Open VF (2000, 2001, 2005)
French Open VF (2005)
Wimbledon 2R (1990, 2004, 2005, 2007)
US Open HF (2002)
Mixed
Grand Slam record
Grand Slam title: 00000  0
Australian Open AF (1999, 2005, 2007)
French Open AF (2002, 2006)
Wimbledon AF (1998, 2003)
US Open HF (2006)
Sources: official player profiles at the ATP / WTA and ITF (see web links )

Nicole Pratt (born March 5, 1973 in Mackay , Queensland ) is a former Australian tennis player .

Career

She was taught to play tennis by her father, George, who, in turn, was one of the top juniors. After attending school, she received a tennis scholarship at the Australian Institute of Sport in Canberra . At the age of 18 she became a professional.

In January 2001 she was number 1 in Australian women's tennis. She reached the third round of the Australian Open in 2004 and won the Indian Open .

In August 2006, Pratt reached her first quarterfinals on the WTA Tour at the Canada Masters in Toronto at the age of 33 . Shortly thereafter, she managed to return to the top 100 of the WTA world rankings . In 2007 she took part in the Sydney Medibank International , where she moved into the second round with a win over Dinara Safina , in which she was defeated by Kim Clijsters in straight sets. At the Australian Open , she lost her first round match against Virginie Razzano .

In 2008 Nicole Pratt tearfully announced her retirement from professional tennis after her opening defeat against Nadja Petrowa at the Australian Open .

In May 2012 she made her comeback at an ITF tournament in Portugal; however, it was her last appearance on the ladies tour.

Personal

Nicole Pratt, the third of five children of a sugar cane farmer, publicly claimed to be a lesbian.

successes

singles

Tournament victory

No. date competition category Topping Final opponent Result
1. February 21, 2004 IndiaIndia Hyderabad WTA Tier IV Hard court RussiaRussia Maria Kirilenko 7: 6 3 , 6: 1

Final participation

No. date competition category Topping Final opponent Result
1. October 14, 2001 China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China Shanghai WTA Tier IV Hard court United StatesUnited States Monica Seles 2: 6, 3: 6

Double

Tournament victories

No. date competition category Topping Partner Final opponents Result
1. June 25, 2000 NetherlandsNetherlands 's-Hertogenbosch WTA Tier III race United StatesUnited States Erika de Lone SlovakiaSlovakia Karina Habšudová Catherine Barclay
AustraliaAustralia 		7: 6 6 , 4: 3 problem
2. November 5, 2000 CanadaCanada Quebec WTA Tier III Carpet (hall) United StatesUnited States Meghann Shaughnessy United StatesUnited States Kimberly Po Els Callens
BelgiumBelgium 		6: 3, 6: 4
3. August 19, 2001 CanadaCanada Toronto WTA Tier I Hard court United StatesUnited States Kimberly Po SloveniaSlovenia Katarina Srebotnik Tina Križan
SloveniaSlovenia 		6: 3, 6: 1
4th September 21, 2003 China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China Shanghai WTA Tier II Hard court FranceFrance Emilie Loit ThailandThailand Tamarine Tanasu yarn Ai Sugiyama
JapanJapan 		6: 3, 6: 3
5. July 18, 2004 United StatesUnited States Stanford WTA Tier II Hard court GreeceGreece Eleni Daniilidou LuxembourgLuxembourg Claudine Schaul Iveta Benešová
Czech RepublicCzech Republic 		6: 2, 6: 4
6th May 15, 2005 Czech RepublicCzech Republic Prague WTA Tier IV sand FranceFrance Emilie Loit Czech RepublicCzech Republic Barbora Strýcová Jelena Kostanić
CroatiaCroatia 		6: 7 6 , 6: 4, 6: 4
7th January 13, 2006 AustraliaAustralia Hobart WTA Tier IV Hard court FranceFrance Emilie Loit CroatiaCroatia Jelena Kostanić Jill Craybas
United StatesUnited States 		6: 2, 6: 1
8th. February 11, 2007 ThailandThailand Pattaya WTA Tier IV Hard court ItalyItaly Mara Santangelo Chinese TaipeiChinese Taipei Chuang Chia-jung Chan Yung-jan
Chinese TaipeiChinese Taipei 		6: 4, 7: 6 4
9. February 24, 2007 United StatesUnited States Memphis WTA Tier III Hard court (hall) AustraliaAustralia Bryanne Stewart JapanJapan Akiko Morigami Jarmila Gajdošová
SlovakiaSlovakia 		7: 5, 4: 6, [10: 5]

Final participation

No. date competition category Topping Partner Final opponents Result
1. May 24, 1998 SpainSpain Madrid WTA Tier III sand AustraliaAustralia Rachel McQuillan BelgiumBelgium Dominique van Roost Florencia Labat
ArgentinaArgentina 		3: 6, 1: 6
2. September 16, 2001 United StatesUnited States Waikoloa WTA Tier IV Hard court BelgiumBelgium Els Callens SloveniaSlovenia Katarina Srebotnik Tina Križan
SloveniaSlovenia 		2: 6, 3: 6
3. September 14, 2003 IndonesiaIndonesia Bali WTA Tier III Hard court FranceFrance Emilie Loit IndonesiaIndonesia Angelique Widjaja María Vento-Kabchi
VenezuelaVenezuela 		5: 7, 2: 6
4th March 3, 2007 MexicoMexico Acapulco WTA Tier III sand FranceFrance Emilie Loit SpainSpain Arantxa Parra Santonja Lourdes Domínguez Lino
SpainSpain 		3: 6, 3: 6

ITF title

Single (5)

Double (9)

Individual evidence

  1. ^ [1] Pratt's resignation
  2. ↑ http://www.nationmaster.com/encyclopedia/Nicole-Pratt

Web links

Commons : Nicole Pratt  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files


personal data
SURNAME Pratt, Nicole
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Australian tennis player
DATE OF BIRTH March 5th 1973
PLACE OF BIRTH Mackay , Queensland , Australia