Myrtille Georges

Myrtille Georges

Georges at the 2016 Wimbledon qualifying
Country (sports)	France
Residence	Osny, France
Born	(1990-12-21) 21 December 1990 (age 33) Granville, France
Height	1.74 m (5 ft 9 in)
Retired	2020
Plays	Right-handed (two-handed backhand)
Prize money	US$ 516,845
Singles
Career record	375–317
Career titles	9 ITF
Highest ranking	No. 168 (18 July 2016)
Grand Slam singles results
Australian Open	1R (2017)
French Open	2R (2016)
Wimbledon	Q3 (2017)
US Open	Q3 (2016)
Doubles
Career record	90–113
Career titles	6 ITF
Highest ranking	No. 287 (21 August 2017)
Grand Slam doubles results
French Open	2R (2017)
Grand Slam mixed doubles results
French Open	1R (2017)

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

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

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

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

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

Singles: 23 (9 titles, 14 runner–ups)

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)

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

1. "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.

External links

• Myrtille Georges at the Women's Tennis Association
• Myrtille Georges at the International Tennis Federation