Myrtille Georges (French pronunciation: [miʁtij ʒɔʁʒ]; born 21 December 1990) is a French former tennis player.

Myrtille Georges
Country (sports) France
ResidenceOsny, France
Born (1990-12-21) 21 December 1990 (age 33)
Granville, France
Height1.74 m (5 ft 9 in)
Retired2020
PlaysRight-handed (two-handed backhand)
Prize moneyUS$ 516,845
Singles
Career record375–317 (54.2%)
Career titles9 ITF
Highest rankingNo. 168 (18 July 2016)
Grand Slam singles results
Australian Open1R (2017)
French Open2R (2016)
WimbledonQ3 (2017)
US OpenQ3 (2016)
Doubles
Career record90–113 (44.3%)
Career titles6 ITF
Highest rankingNo. 287 (21 August 2017)
Grand Slam doubles results
French Open2R (2017)
Grand Slam mixed doubles results
French Open1R (2017)

She has career-high WTA rankings of 168 in singles (achieved on 18 July 2016) and world No. 287 in doubles (21 August 2017). She won nine singles and six doubles titles on the ITF Women's World Tennis Tour.

Career edit

Georges made her debut on the ITF Women's Circuit in November 2006 at a $10k event in Le Havre; she only played in the singles draw and was eliminated in the second round of qualifying. Her next stop was in November 2007 at a $50k tournament in Deauville, France (it was the only tournament that she played in 2007); she only played the singles event and was eliminated in the qualifying first round.

In 2008, she played the singles events of five tournaments (all of them in France and four of them in the last four months of the year) on the ITF Circuit.[1]

From 2009 onwards, Georges started to play more regularly; she played in the singles events of 23 tournaments on the 2009 ITF Circuit.[1]

She made her WTA Tour doubles debut at the 2010 Internationaux de Strasbourg after receiving a main-draw wildcard; she and her partner Émilie Bacquet lost in the first round to the top-seeded pair of Chuang Chia-jung and Lucie Hradecká, 1–6, 3–6.[1]

Georges made her WTA Tour singles debut at the 2011 Open GdF Suez also thanks to a wildcard; she lost in the first round of qualifying to Maria-Elena Camerin, 3–6, 3–6.[1]

Making her Grand Slam singles main-draw debut at the 2016 French Open after obtaining a wildcard, she was eliminated in the first or second singles qualifying rounds of the French Open for four consecutive years, from 2012 (the year of her Grand Slam singles debut) to 2015. In the first round of the 2016 French Open, she defeated world No. 67, Christina McHale, 6–7, 6–0, 6–3, to register her first career-win over a player ranked in the top 100 of the WTA singles rankings, before losing in the second round to the No. 4 seed Garbiñe Muguruza, 2–6, 0–6 in 53 minutes.[2][3]

She announced her retirement from professional tennis in September 2020.[4]

Grand Slam performance timeline edit

Key
W  F  SF QF #R RR Q# DNQ A NH
(W) winner; (F) finalist; (SF) semifinalist; (QF) quarterfinalist; (#R) rounds 4, 3, 2, 1; (RR) round-robin stage; (Q#) qualification round; (DNQ) did not qualify; (A) absent; (NH) not held; (SR) strike rate (events won / competed); (W–L) win–loss record.

Singles edit

Tournament 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 W–L
Australian Open A A A A A 1R Q1 Q1 A 0–1
French Open Q1 Q1 Q2 Q1 2R 1R 1R Q1 A 1–3
Wimbledon A A A A Q1 Q3 A Q1 NH 0–0
US Open A A A A Q3 Q1 Q1 A A 0–0
Win–loss 0–0 0–0 0–0 0–0 1–1 0–2 0–1 0–0 0–0 1–4

ITF Circuit finals edit

Singles: 23 (9 titles, 14 runner–ups) edit

Legend
$60,000 tournaments
$25,000 tournaments
$10/15,000 tournaments
Finals by surface
Hard (5–7)
Clay (4–7)
Result W–L Date Tournament Tier Surface Opponent Score
Loss 0–1 Aug 2010 ITF Bree, Belgium 10,000 Clay   Valeria Solovieva 7–5, 4–6, 3–6
Win 1–1 Sep 2011 ITF Apeldoorn, Netherlands 10,000 Clay   Lesley Kerkhove 7–5, 6–4
Loss 1–2 Nov 2011 ITF Loughborough, United Kingdom 10,000 Hard (i)   Tara Moore 6–7(5), 7–5, 4–6
Win 2–2 Apr 2012 ITF Le Havre, France 10,000 Clay (i)   Ysaline Bonaventure 5–7, 7–5, 6–0
Loss 2–3 Apr 2012 ITF San Severo, Italy 10,000 Clay   Anastasia Grymalska 6–4, 1–6, 1–6
Loss 2–4 Aug 2012 ITF Rebecq, Belgium 25,000 Clay   Kirsten Flipkens 2–6, 1–6
Loss 2–5 Jan 2013 GB Pro-Series Glasgow, UK 10,000 Hard (i)   Tara Moore 4–6, 1–6
Loss 2–6 Aug 2013 ITF Braunschweig, Germany 15,000 Clay   Kristina Barrois 6–4, 2–6, 3–6
Loss 2–7 Jan 2014 GB Pro-Series Glasgow, UK 10,000 Hard (i)   Tara Moore 3–6, 1–6
Win 3–7 Jan 2015 ITF Port El Kantaoui, Tunisia 10,000 Hard   Estelle Cascino 6–4, 6–2
Win 4–7 Mar 2015 ITF Port El Kantaoui, Tunisia 10,000 Hard   Isabella Shinikova 6–4, 6–0
Loss 4–8 Aug 2015 ITF Koksijde, Belgium 25,000 Clay   Kiki Bertens 6–3, 2–6, 3–6
Win 5–8 Sep 2015 ITF Barcelona, Spain 15,000 Clay   Georgina García Pérez 6–3, 7–6(3)
Win 6–8 Feb 2016 Open de l'Isère, France 25,000 Hard (i)   Indy de Vroome 7–6(4), 6–2
Win 7–8 May 2017 ITF La Marsa, Tunisia 25,000 Clay   Alexandra Panova 6–1, 6–1
Win 8–8 Oct 2017 ITF Cherbourg-en-Cotentin, France 25,000 Hard (i)   Audrey Albié 6–4, 3–6, 7–5
Loss 8–9 Oct 2017 Open de Touraine, France 25,000 Hard (i)   Tereza Smitková 3–6, 5–7
Loss 8–10 Feb 2018 ITF Perth, Australia 25,000 Hard   Gabriella Taylor 2–6, 5–7
Loss 8–11 Apr 2018 ITF Pula, Italy 25,000 Clay   Tamara Zidanšek 1–6, 6–7(4)
Loss 8–12 Jun 2018 ITF Périgueux, France 25,000 Clay   Nadia Podoroska 2–6, 0–6
Loss 8–13 Oct 2018 Open de Touraine, France 25,000 Hard (i)   Chloé Paquet 6–7(5), 2–6
Win 9–13 Mar 2019 ITF Mâcon, France 25,000 Hard (i)   Lesley Kerkhove 6–3, 6–3
Loss 9–14 Jul 2019 ITF Porto, Portugal 25,000 Hard   Eva Guerrero Álvarez 4–6, 7–6(4), 3–6

Doubles: 8 (6 titles, 2 runner–ups) edit

Result No. Date Tournament Surface Partner Opponents Score
Win 1. 8 August 2010 ITF Rebecq, Belgium Clay   Émilie Bacquet   Kika Hogendoorn
  Elke Lemmens
6–3, 4–6, [11–9]
Win 2. 1 April 2012 ITF Le Havre, France Clay (i)   Céline Ghesquière   Manon Arcangioli
  Kinnie Laisné
6–4, 6–2
Win 3. 8 July 2012 ITF Denain, France Clay   Céline Ghesquière   Michaela Hončová
  Isabella Shinikova
6–4, 6–2
Loss 1. 12 August 2012 ITF Koksijde, Belgium Clay   Céline Ghesquière   Diana Buzean
  Daniëlle Harmsen
6–3, 3–6, [5–10]
Win 4. 18 January 2015 ITF Port El Kantaoui, Tunisia Hard   Céline Ghesquière   Kristýna Hrabalová
  Vendula Žovincová
6–7(6), 6–2, [10–5]
Win 5. 14 March 2015 ITF Port El Kantaoui, Tunisia Hard   Isabella Shinikova   Chanel Simmonds
  Magali Kempen
1–6, 6–4, [10–2]
Loss 2. 12 October 2019 ITF Cherbourg, France Hard (i)   Kimberley Zimmermann   Naomi Broady
  Samantha Murray
3–6, 2–6
Win 6. 23 February 2020 GB Pro-Series Glasgow, UK Hard (i)   Kimberley Zimmermann   Lara Salden
  Clara Tauson
7–6(2), 7–6(5)

References edit

  1. ^ a b c d "ITF profile of Myrtille Georges". ITF.
  2. ^ "Muguruza flashes past wildcard Georges". French Open official website. 25 May 2016.
  3. ^ "Portrait de Myrtille Georges". Les Reporters Incrédules. 20 November 2017.
  4. ^ "Portrait de Myrtille Georges se-retire-de-la-scene-internationale". Ouest-France. 10 November 2020.

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