Georgie Stoop

Infobox Tennis biography
playername = Georgie Stoop


country = GBR
residence = Royston, Hertfordshire
datebirth = birth date and age|1988|01|13
placebirth = Cambridge, Cambridgeshire
height = height|m=1.65 [cite web| title = Georgie Stoop| work = Players| publisher = LTA| url = http://www.lta.org.uk/Players/Player-profiles/Women/StoopGeorgie/ | accessdate =2008-10-09 ]
weight =
turnedpro =
plays = right handed, double handed backhand
careerprizemoney = $55,364
singlesrecord = 97-70
singlestitles = 0 (1 ITF)
highestsinglesranking = No. 209 (06 October 2008)
AustralianOpenresult =
FrenchOpenresult =
Wimbledonresult =
USOpenresult =
doublesrecord = 43-48
doublestitles = 0 (2 ITF)
highestdoublesranking = No. 281 (September 29 2008)
updated = 06 October 2008

Georgie Stoop is an English professional tennis player coached by Damien Roberts. She is currently the British number 5 and ranked 209 in the world (as of 06 October 2008), a career high. She has won one ITF singles title and two ITF doubles titles.

Personal Life

Georgie's parents are named Angus and Tessa and she has three siblings: Sam, Olly and Milly. She first began playing tennis at the age of 5 but enjoys all other sports as well particularly hockey. [cite web |url=http://www.itftennis.com/womens/players/player.asp?player=100040765 |title=Biography - STOOP, Georgie (GBR) |publisher=www.itftennis.com] After attending St Faith's School, [cite web | title = St Faith's School | publisher = Eteach | url = http://www.eteach.com/JobSeekers/RecruiterProfile.aspx?EmpNo=20768 | accessdate =2008-10-09 ] she was selected to be educated at the Leys School while being coached by national coaches, [cite web | title = Tennis | publisher = The Leys | url = http://www.theleys.cambs.sch.uk/extracurricular/sport/tennis.html | accessdate =2008-10-09 ] and left school when she was sixteen. [cite web | title = Off court with Georgie Stoop | publisher = SportFocus| date = 2006-08-15 | url = http://www.sportfocus.com/newspub/story.cfm?ID=20048 | accessdate =2008-10-09 ]

Career

2005

Georgie's first professional match win came in May 2005 in the $10,000 ITF tournament where she reached the final before losing to Gaelle Widmer from Switzerland in straight sets, 3-6 2-6. She played seven more ITF tournaments that year but won only two more matches. She finished the year with a ranking of 903.cite web |url=http://www.sonyericssonwtatour.com/2/players/playerprofiles/PlayerActivity.asp |title=Singles Results - Georgie Stoop GBR |publisher=www.sonyericssonwtatour.com]

2006

2006 started slowly for Stoop up until April when she reached the semi-finals of the ITF $10,000 tournament in Bath. She continued playing on the ITF tour, reaching two more quarter-finals, until June when she was awarded a wild card into the tier II International Women's Open qualifying event in Eastbourne, England. She was beaten without winning a single game by Japan's Akiko Morigami who was ranked 69 at the time, 553 places above Georgie. This wild card was followed by another, this time into the qualifying tournament of her home Grand Slam, Wimbledon, where she was beaten by Stephanie Cohen-Aloro, 2-6 2-6. After this her ranking rose steadily as she played out the rest of the year on the ITF tour. She reached one more semi-final and three more finals, losing in two of them but winning the last as a qualifier in the $25,000 event in Nuriootpa, Australia. She ended the 2006 season ranked 412.

2007

In her first tournament of 2007, Georgie reached the quarter-final of the $10,000 ITF event in Stuttgart, Germany. She reached the final of the $25,000 event in La Palma, Spain in April where she lost to Maria-Emilia Salerni, 3-6 3-6. Two more quarter-final appearances in $25,000 events held in Istanbul and Mount Gambier rounded out Stoop's results for 2007. Her year-end ranking for 2007 was 306.

2008

Stoop reached two more ITF quarter-finals in the first half of 2008 before being given a wild card into the tier II International Women's Open in Eastbourne where she came up against top-40 player Kaia Kanepi from Estonia in the first round. She put up a good fight, winning a first set tie break before losing the next two sets, 7-6(6) 1-6 5-7. Her next wild card was into the qualifying tournament of Wimbledon where she also lost in the first round. Her third consecutive wild card was into the tier II Bank of the West Classic qualifying tournament and it proved more fruitful than her previous two. She won two matches in three sets before falling to Michelle Larcher De Brito in the final round of qualifying, 4-6 0-6. After this she reached three more ITF quarterfinals (one of them as a qualifier at the $75,000 event in Albuquerque, New Mexico) and two more ITF finals (in $25,000 Coimbra and $50,000 Troy) where she was beaten by Nicole Thyssen from the Netherlands and Anna Tatishvili from Georgia respectively.

Career Highlights

Titles

ingles

Doubles

Grand Slam Performance Timeline

*"A" stands for any tournament the player did not participate in.
*"LQ" stands for participation in qualifying only.
*The career record is only for the players main draw participation.

References

External Links

* [http://www.sonyericssonwtatour.com/2/players/playerprofiles/Playerbio.asp?PlayerID=311296 WTA Profile]
* [http://www.itftennis.com/womens/players/player.asp?player=100040765 ITF Profile]