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Gail Brodsky
	Brodsky at the 2011 Open Cagnes-sur-Mer
Native name	Гейл Бродскі
Country (sports)	United States
Residence	Brooklyn, New York
Born	June 5, 1991 (age 33); Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine
Height	1.65 m (5 ft 5 in)
Turned pro	2007
Plays	Right (two-handed backhand)
Prize money	$179,263
Singles
Career record	188–136
Career titles	6 ITF
Highest ranking	No. 182 (March 19, 2012)
Grand Slam singles results
French Open	Q1 (2012)
Wimbledon	Q1 (2012)
US Open	1R (2008, 2009)
Doubles
Career record	47–73
Career titles	2 ITF
Highest ranking	No. 348 (May 2, 2011)
Grand Slam doubles results
US Open	1R (2008, 2009)

Gail Brodsky^[a] (born June 5, 1991) is an American former professional tennis player. Her career-high WTA singles ranking is 182, reached on March 19, 2012. On May 2, 2011, she peaked at No. 348 in the doubles rankings.^[1] On the ITF Circuit, she won six singles titles and two doubles titles.^[1] In 2008, she won the USTA Girls’ 18s national title.^[2]

Career

Brodsky was born in Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine, to Eduard and Julia, moved to Ocean Parkway across the street from Coney Island Hospital in Brighton Beach, Brooklyn, when she was six, and is Jewish.^[3]^[2]^[4]^[1] As a youth, she trained on public courts in Manhattan Beach, Brooklyn.^[5] She and her husband and two children live in Kirkland, Washington.^[4]

She won the 2008 USTA Girls’ 18s national title, defeating Sloane Stephens, the 2017 US Open champion, and CoCo Vandeweghe, the 2017 US Open semifinalist, at 17 years of age.^[2]^[4] She thus earned a wildcard to the 2008 US Open, where she lost in the first round, 5–7, 3–6, to world No. 14, Agnes Szavay.^[4]^[5] She was also given a wildcard into the 2009 US Open,^[6] where she lost in the first round 4–6, 4–6 to Anabel Medina Garrigues.^[7]

She said: “I grew up with a lot of pressure and not a lot of passion for the sport.” Her parents were strict about her diet and other aspects of her life; it was only after she broke all contact with them (she says: “it wasn’t a healthy situation”), at age 17, that she tasted her first French fry.^[8]

In 2007 and 2010, she won the Ojai Tennis Tournament in women's singles.^[9] She also won the 2010 $10k Porto, 2011 $10k Gosier and $25k La Coruna, 2015 $10k Victoria, and 2018 $15k Victoria and $60k Ashland singles titles.^[1]

She has also won the 2010 Landisville (w/A. Mueller) and the 2018 Victoria (w/B. Boren) doubles titles.^[1]

ITF Circuit finals

Legend
$60,000 tournaments
$25,000 tournaments
$10/15,000 tournaments

Singles: 9 (6 titles, 3 runner-ups)

Result	W–L	Date	Tournament	Tier	Surface	Opponent	Score
Loss	0–1	Jul 2010	ITF Gausdal, Norway	10,000	Hard	Victoria Larrière	3–6, 4–6
Win	1–1	Oct 2010	ITF Porto, Portugal	10,000	Clay	Karolina Nowak	7–5, 6–1
Win	2–1	Jan 2011	ITF Gosier, France	10,000	Hard (i)	Sachia Vickery	6–3, 2–6, 6–2
Win	3–1	Jul 2011	ITF La Coruña, Spain	25,000	Clay	Alexandra Panova	6–3, 6–4
Loss	3–2	Jan 2012	Clay Court Championships, U.S.	25,000	Hard	Grace Min	6–2, 2–6, 4–6
Loss	3–3	Jan 2012	ITF Plantation, United States	25,000	Clay	Lauren Davis	4–6, 1–6
Win	4–3	Jun 2015	ITF Victoria, Canada	10,000	Hard (i)	Naomi Totka	3–6, 6–2, 7–6⁽³⁾
Win	5–3	Jun 2018	ITF Victoria, Canada	10,000	Hard (i)	Maegan Manasse	3–6, 6–2, 6–3
Win	6–3	Jul 2018	Ashland Tennis Classic, U.S.	60,000	Hard	Maegan Manasse	4–6, 6–1, 6–0

Doubles: 4 (2 titles, 2 runner-ups)

Result	W–L	Date	Tournament	Tier	Surface	Partner	Opponents	Score
Win	1–0	23 May 2010	ITF Landisville, United States	10,000	Hard	Alexandra Mueller	Dianne Hollands Tiffany Welford	4–6, 7–5, [10–2]
Loss	1–1	2 October 2010	ITF Porto, Portugal	10,000	Clay	Alexandra Riley	Ulrikke Eikeri Lena-Marie Hofmann	7–6⁽⁴⁾, 6–7⁽⁵⁾, [5–10]
Win	2–1	24 June 2018	ITF Victoria, Canada	15,000	Hard (i)	Brynn Boren	Safiya Carrington Alana Smith	6–1, 6–2
Loss	2–2	23 June 2019	ITF Denver, United States	25,000	Hard	Brynn Boren	Vladica Babić Hayley Carter	2–6, 3–6