Isabelle Demongeot

Isabelle Demongeot (born September 18, 1966 in Gassin, France) is a former professional tennis player from France, who turned professional on May 1, 1983. She lived in Saint-Tropez in the French Riviera in the early stages of her career and later settled down further south in Gassin.

Demongeot won her only WTA Tour singles title in Purchase in New York state in 1991. She achieved her best Grand Slam singles performance by reaching the fourth round of Wimbledon in 1986. She won a total of nine WTA Tour doubles titles. Her best Grand Slam doubles performance was reaching the French Open quarter-finals with Nathalie Tauziat of France in 1987 and 1992. She also represented her country from 1985 to 1993 in the Federation/Fed Cup and in the 1988 and 1992 Olympic Games. She retired from the WTA Tour circuit in 1996.

*Height: 1.70m (1996)
*Weight: 61kg (1996)
*Right-handed
*Highest WTA Tour singles ranking: 35
*Highest WTA Tour doubles ranking: 20
*Career prize money: $806,319
*@Overall singles record: @249-221
*@overall doubles record: @251-188(@includes main draw and qualifying matches in all WTA Tour//ITF Tour tournaments, Federation/Fed Cup and Olympic Games

WTA Tour Championships

1988: Doubles - 1st rd defeat, with Nathalie Tauziat

WTA Tour singles finals

1991: W - Purchase (New York)

WTA Tour doubles finals WTA(WITA) Tour doubles finals (9–4 record) and Grand Slam quarter finals and beyond

1987: W - Paris Open(France) with Nathalie Tauziat(Fra); Fr Open QF with Tauziat; 1988: W - West Berlin (West Germany), Zürich(Switzerland) with Tauziat; RU - Nice(France), Brighton(England) with Tauziat; 1989: W - Hamburg (West Germany) with Tauziat; 1991: W - Albuquerque (New Mexico) with Katrina Adams(US), Leipzig(Germany) with Manon Bollegraf(Hol); RU - Saint Petersburg (Soviet Union) with Jo Durie(GB); 1992: W - Pattaya(Thailand), Kuala Lumpur(Malaysia) with Natalia Medvedeva(Ukr); Fr Open QF with Tauziat; 1993: W - Auckland (New Zealand) with Elna Reinach(SA); 1994: RU - Taranto(Italy) with Sandra Cecchini(Ita)

WTA Tour doubles semi-finalist on 10 occasions, excluding Grand Slams

1998(1), 1999(4), 2000(2), 2001(3)

ITF Women's (formerly Futures) Circuit singles titles(7)

Casablanca(Morocco) '94, Nottingham(England) '94, Flensburg(Germany) '95, Cardiff(Wales) '96, Cergy-Pontoise(France) '96, Würzsburg(Germany) '96, Southampton(England) '98

=Grand Slam records=

Grand Slam singles record (excluding qualifying matches): A - 4-4; F - 5-13; W - 10-11; US - 5-9; overall - 24-37

Grand Slam women's doubles record (QF or better): F - QF ('87, '92)

Federation/Fed Cup and Olympic Games

Federation Cup record [singles(doubles)] : 1985 – 1–1(1–2); 1986 - 1–0(1–0); 1987 - 1–1(1–1); 1989 - 0-1; 1990 - (2–1); 1992 - (2–1); 1993 - (2–0)overall singles and doubles record:12-8; overall singles record: 3-3;overall doubles record: 9–5

Olympic Games: Seoul 1988 (singles 1st rd; doubles QF with Nathalie Tauziat); Barcelona 1992(doubles QF with Nathalie Tauziat); overall singles record: 0-1; overall doubles record: 3–2

Career summary

*Year singles ranking win-lose Prize money in US$ A F W US SF QF

*1983 245 0-0/0 c.2,000 - - - - 0 0
*1984 165 1-1/50 c.6,000 - 2 - - 0 0
*1985 135 3-7/30 c.17,000 - 1 3 1 0 0
*1986 64 11-15/42 c.25,000 X 1 4 1 0 2
*1987 54 17-20/46 e.59,---(43) - 2 3 3 0 2
*1988 44 19-18/51 c.91,000 - 3 1 1 2 0
*1989 46 18-15/55 c.70,400 - 2 2 1 0 2
*1990 77 14-17/45 c.57,000 3 1 1 2 0 2
*1991 61 13-14/48 e.94,359(54) - 1 1 Q2 0 2
*1992 138 7-17/29 c.97,000(>50) 1 1 2 1 0 0
*1993 145 5-11/31 e.77,546(95) 3 1 1 Q3 0 0
*1994 152 3-9/25 c.54,000(>50) - 1 1 3 0 0
*1995 124 5-9/36 c.60,000(>50) - 1 2 1 0 0
*1996 232 1-3/25 c.31,000(>50) 1 1 Q1 - 0 0

Notes:WTA singles ranking was as of end of the WTA Tour season
*"win-lose" record includes only WTA Tour singles matches and excludes qualifying matches, Federation Cup, Olympic Games tournaments before 2004 and other team competition matches. The singles match winning percentage is indicated after the slash
*overall "win-lose" record: 117-156; overall winning percentage: 43%
*A: Australian Open, F: French Open, W: Wimbledon, US: US Open - indicate the Grand Slam singles performance for each year; '-' means did not play, 'X' event not held in that year, Q1/Q2/Q3 means lost in the 1st/2nd/3rd qualifying round
*"SF" and "QF" mean the number semi-final and quarter-final defeats respectively for each year and involve only WTA Tour non-Grand Slam events (excludes ITF Tour, Satellite events, Grand Slam tournaments and Olympic Games tournaments before 2004)
*overall no. of SF defeats - 2
*overall no. of QF defeats - 10

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