Paulette Moreno

Paulette Moreno

Full name	Paulette Moreno Hjorth
Country (sports)	Hong Kong
Born	(1969-03-12) 12 March 1969 (age 55)
Prize money	$30,719
Singles
Highest ranking	No. 231 (15 February 1988)
Grand Slam singles results
Australian Open	2R (1988)
Wimbledon	Q1 (1989)
Doubles
Highest ranking	No. 178 (15 February 1988)
Grand Slam doubles results
Australian Open	2R (1988)
Wimbledon	Q2 (1990)
Grand Slam mixed doubles results
Wimbledon	2R (1989)

Paulette Moreno Hjorth (born 12 March 1969) is a former professional tennis player from Hong Kong.

Biography

Moreno was a national champion in Hong Kong at the age of 13 in 1982.^[1]

She made her debut for the Hong Kong Fed Cup team in 1985 and won a doubles match against West Germany that year. Another of her doubles wins came against Sweden in 1987, when she and Patricia Hy teamed up to claim the deciding rubber 9–7 in the third set. As a junior she was a finalist in the girls' doubles at the 1987 Wimbledon Championships, where she and Korean Kim Il-Soon lost to Natalia Medvedeva and Natasha Zvereva.^[2]

From 1987 to 1991 she competed on the WTA Tour. She appeared twice in the main draw at Wimbledon, both times in mixed doubles, partnering Todd Woodbridge in 1987 and Neil Borwick in 1989. In between she also featured at the 1988 Australian Open and made the second round of the singles, with a win over Marianne van der Torre.^[3]

She made her final Fed Cup appearance in 1995 and finished with an 18/17 overall record.

Moreno lived for a while in Melbourne after her tennis career but has since moved to Denmark, where her husband is from. In 2017 she began working as a coach at the Lyngby Tennis Club in Copenhagen.^[4]

ITF finals

Doubles: 11 (6–5)

Result	No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Partner	Opponents	Score
Win	1.	25 August 1986	Wels, Austria	Clay	Karin Oberleitner	Bettina Diesner Barbara Paulus	7–5, 7–6^(7–4)
Win	2.	21 September 1987	Llorca, Spain	Clay	Amy Jönsson Raaholt	Maria Ekstrand Monica Lundqvist	7–6, 6–7, 7–5
Loss	3.	26 October 1987	Cheshire, United Kingdom	Carpet	Maria Strandlund	Eugenia Maniokova Natalia Medvedeva	2–6, 6–7
Win	4.	16 November 1987	Croydon, United Kingdom	Carpet	Viktoria Milvidskaia	Eugenia Maniokova Natalia Medvedeva	6–4, 6–1
Loss	5.	24 October 1988	Ibaraki, Japan	Hard	Maya Kidowaki	Kimiko Date Yuko Hosoki	4–6, 6–4, 7–9
Win	6.	5 March 1989	Canberra, Australia	Hard	Shiho Okada	Kate McDonald Rennae Stubbs	6–4, 6–2
Loss	7.	18 September 1989	Bangkok, Thailand	Hard	Karin Ptaszek	Valda Lake Claudine Toleafoa	6–7, 6–1, 5–7
Win	8.	27 November 1989	Melbourne, Australia	Hard	Danielle Jones	Allison Cooper Justine Hodder	6–2, 6–2
Loss	9.	20 August 1990	Chiang Mai, Thailand	Hard	Orawan Thampensri	Esmir Hoogendoorn Claire Wegink	3–6, 6–1, 1–6
Win	10.	7 October 1991	Matsuyama, Japan	Hard	Jenny Byrne	Jennifer Saret Yi Jing-Qian	1–6, 6–4, 6–4
Loss	11.	14 October 1991	Kyoto, Japan	Hard	Diana Gardner	Li Fang Tang Min	4–6, 5–7

References

1. "Parity by 2019". South China Morning Post. 26 January 2017. Retrieved 6 June 2018.
2. "Girls' Doubles Finals 1982-2017". The Championships, Wimbledon. Retrieved 6 June 2018.
3. "Women's Singles First round". The Des Moines Register. 13 January 1988. p. 10. Retrieved 6 June 2018.
4. "Ny træner i Lyngby Tennis Klub" (in Danish). 5 January 2017. Retrieved 6 June 2018.

External links

• Paulette Moreno at the Women's Tennis Association
• Paulette Moreno at the International Tennis Federation
• Paulette Moreno at the Billie Jean King Cup