Mary Pierce

Mary Pierce
Mary Pierce
Country  France
Residence Sarasota, Florida, U.S.
Born 15 January 1975 (1975-01-15) (age 36)
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Height 1.78 m (5 ft 10 in)
Turned pro March 1989
Retired Active
Plays Right-handed (two-handed backhand)
Career prize money US$9,793,119
Singles
Career record 511237
Career titles 18 WTA, 2 ITF
Highest ranking No. 3 (30 January 1995)
Grand Slam results
Australian Open W (1995)
French Open W (2000)
Wimbledon QF (1996, 2005)
US Open F (2005)
Doubles
Career record 197116
Career titles 10 WTA, 4 ITF
Highest ranking No. 3 (10 July 2000)
Grand Slam Doubles results
Australian Open F (2000)
French Open W (2000)
Wimbledon 3R (2002, 2004)
US Open SF (1999)
Mixed Doubles
Career titles 1
Grand Slam Mixed Doubles results
Australian Open 1R (1993)
French Open QF (1990, 1992)
Wimbledon W (2005)
US Open SF (1995)
Last updated on: 15 January 2007.

Mary Pierce (born 15 January 1975, in Montreal, Canada) is a French-American tennis professional playing on the Women's Tennis Association (WTA) tour. She is a citizen of France, Canada, and the United States but plays for France in team competitions and the Olympics.

Pierce has won four Grand Slam titles, two in singles and two in doubles. She has reached six Grand Slam singles finals, most recently at the US Open and French Open in 2005. Her Grand Slam singles titles came at the 1995 Australian Open and the 2000 French Open. She won the 2005 Wimbledon mixed doubles championship and has reached three Grand Slam doubles finals. She has won 18 WTA singles titles and 10 WTA doubles titles, including five Tier I singles events. She also has twice reached the final of the season-ending WTA Tour Championships, most recently in 2005.

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Personal

Pierce was born in Montreal to Yannick and Jim Pierce. Yannick is French and Jim is American, qualifying Mary for citizenship in all three countries. She was raised in the United States. She has represented France in international tennis competitions many times. She speaks English and French fluently. Mary was previously engaged to baseball player Roberto Alomar and then later to Air France pilot David Emmanuel Ades, but broke off both engagements.

Early career

Pierce was introduced to tennis at the age of 10 by her father Jim Pierce. Just two years later, she won the U.S. national 12-and-under junior title. In 1989, she became the youngest American player to make her debut on the professional tour, aged 14 years and 2 months. (This record was broken the following year by Jennifer Capriati.) She quickly gained a reputation for being one of the all-time hardest hitters on the women's circuit. Her dad was her coach for many years.

19942003

In July 1993, Pierce successfully filed for a restraining order against her father, who was known to be verbally abusive to his daughter and her opponents. Following this split from her father, Pierce was coached by Nick Bollettieri, whose tennis academy she had briefly attended as a teenager in 1988. Her brother David was also Pierce's regular coach until 2006.

Pierce reached her first Grand Slam singles final at the 1994 French Open. She conceded just 10 games during her route to the final, which included a 62, 62 defeat of World No. 1 Steffi Graf in the semifinals. In the final, however, Pierce lost to Arantxa Sánchez Vicario in straight sets 6-4, 6-4.[1]

The following year, Pierce won her first Grand Slam title by defeating Sánchez-Vicario 6-3, 6-2 in the final of the 1995 Australian Open and lost just 30 games in the whole tournament. She reached her career-high singles ranking of World No. 3 that year. Pierce also won the Japan Open, defeating Sánchez Vicario in the final.

Pierce suffered a series of setbacks in 1996, including her split with Nick Bollettieri after failing to defend her title at the Australian Open. Aside from a runner-up finish at the Bausch & Lomb Championships in Amelia Island, Florida and a semifinal finish in Hamburg, the highlight of the year for Pierce was her first appearance in the Wimbledon quarterfinals.

Pierce was back in the Australian Open singles final in 1997, where she lost to Martina Hingis in straight sets. She also lost in that year's Chase Championships final to Jana Novotná. Pierce was a member of the French team that won the 1997 Fed Cup, and her only title that season was the Italian Open, defeating Conchita Martínez in the final. Pierce won the Comeback Player of the Year award for ending the year at World No. 7 after starting at World No. 21.

Pierce won four titles in 1998: the Open Gaz de France in Paris, the Bausch & Lomb Championships, the Kremlin Cup in Moscow, and the Fortis Championships Luxembourg. In addition, she was the runner-up at the Acura Classic in San Diego.

Pierce won her second Grand Slam singles title and her first Grand Slam doubles title at the 2000 French Open. In the singles final, she defeated Martínez to become the first French woman to claim the title since Françoise Durr in 1967. And she partnered with Hingis to win the women's doubles crown. (The pair also were the runners-up at the Australian Open earlier that year.)

Pierce helped France win the Fed Cup for a second time in 2003.

20042005

After a few quiet years on the tour, Pierce won her first title since the 2000 French Open at the Ordina Open on grass, in 's-Hertogenbosch, the Netherlands in 2004. At the Olympics in Athens, Pierce defeated sixth-seeded Venus Williams in the third round 64, 64 before losing to top-seeded and eventual Gold-medallist Justine Henin of Belgium in the quarterfinals by the same score. At the US Open later in the year, Pierce defeated the new Wimbledon champion Maria Sharapova.

Pierce then made it back into the top ranks of the women's game in 2005. At the French Open, she reached the singles final for the third time, where she lost to Henin in straight sets in a crushing 61 61 defeat. She then reached the quarterfinals of Wimbledon for the first time since 1996. Pierce faced Venus Williams in that quarterfinal and lost the match after a second set tiebreak consisting of 22 points. Pierce also won the mixed doubles title at Wimbledon, partnering Mahesh Bhupathi. In August, Pierce won her first singles title of the year at the Acura Classic in San Diego, defeating Ai Sugiyama in the final.

Pierce then reached the final of the 2005 US Open. In the fourth round, she defeated Henin for the first time in her career 63, 64. In the quarterfinals, Pierce defeated third seeded Amélie Mauresmo 64, 61 to reach her first US Open semifinal. After the victory, Pierce remarked, "I'm 30 and I have been on the tour for 17 years and there are still firsts for me. That's pretty amazing." She reached the final by defeating Elena Dementieva 36, 62, 62 in the semifinals, taking a medical time-out after the first set. This caused controversy, many believing that this disrupted Dementieva's rhythm and concentration. In the final, she lost to Kim Clijsters in straight sets. After the US Open, Pierce won her second title of the year at the Kremlin Cup in Moscow. In her quarterfinal match against Russian Elena Likhovtseva, Pierce came back from 06 in the third set tiebreak (6 match points down) and won 8 consecutive points to reach the semifinals. The final score of the match was 75, 46, 76(6).

The win in Moscow secured her spot at the year-ending Sony Ericsson Championships in Los Angeles where the top eight singles players in the world competed for the winner's prize of one million dollars. In round-robin play with her assigned group of four players, she won all three matches: against Clijsters in three sets; Mauresmo in three sets; and Dementieva in straight sets. In the semifinals, Pierce beat top-ranked Lindsay Davenport 76(5), 76(6); however, Pierce lost the final to Mauresmo in just over three hours.

Pierce's year-end ranking was World No. 5 compared to her year-beginning ranking of World No. 29. This matched her career-best performances of 1994, 1995, and 1999, and she was less than 200 points behind Sharapova for World No. 4 and less than 300 points behind Mauresmo for World No. 3. Pierce's return to form in 2005 was one of the most surprising tennis stories of the year. Her successful performance in 2005 also encouraged the former World No. 1 player, Martina Hingis, to return to the game.

2006

Pierce trained hard in the off-season in a bid to win major titles in 2006. Her first tournament of the year was the Australian Open. She defeated Nicole Pratt of Australia 61, 61 in the first round before losing to Iveta Benešová of the Czech Republic in the second round 63, 75. The loss denied her a third-round match with Martina Hingis. Pierce reached the final of her next tournament, the Gaz de France in Paris, where she lost to compatriot Amélie Mauresmo in straight sets. Pierce did not play again until August because of foot and groin injuries, withdrawing from the French Open and Wimbledon.

After spending six months away from the tour, Pierce began her comeback at the Acura Classic in San Diego, where she was the 2005 champion. She lost in the quarterfinals to Maria Sharapova 62, 63. In just her second tournament in over six months, Pierce played at the US Open. Pierce lost to Na Li, the 24th seed from China, in the third round 46, 60, 60. Pierce then lost in the first round of the next three tournaments she played. She was defeated at the Fortis Championships Luxembourg by Alona Bondarenko 63, 63, who went on to win the title. Jelena Janković defeated Pierce in Stuttgart 76(7), 63. And Katarina Srebotnik defeated Pierce at the Zurich Open 63, 75.

Knee injury

At the Generali Ladies Linz tournament in October 2006, Pierce defeated Ai Sugiyama in the first round and was leading Vera Zvonareva 64, 65 in the second round when Pierce ruptured the anterior cruciate ligament in her left knee. She had held three match points before the injury.

Pierce underwent a successful operation in December 2006 and missed all of 2007. She expected to return to the tour in 2008. At the end of 2008, she was still sidelined with no projected return date. However, she stated that she was still not ready to retire.[2]

Pierce made an appearance at the 2007 French Open as an avenue at Roland Garros was named in her honorAllée Mary Pierce. She also helped with the social side to the French Open, taking part in the post-match ceremony after the women's final.

Pierce was named as a member of the French Olympic team for the 2008 Beijing Olympics. On 21 July 2008, however, Pierce withdrew from the Olympics because of injury.[3]

Major finals

Grand Slam finals

Singles: 6 finals (2 titles, 4 runner-ups)

Outcome Year Championship Surface Opponent in final Score in final
Runner-up 1994 French Open Clay Spain Arantxa Sánchez Vicario 64, 64
Winner 1995 Australian Open Hard Spain Arantxa Sánchez Vicario 63, 62
Runner-up 1997 Australian Open Hard Switzerland Martina Hingis 62, 62
Winner 2000 French Open Clay Spain Conchita Martínez 62, 75
Runner-up 2005 French Open (2) Clay Belgium Justine Henin-Hardenne 61, 61
Runner-up 2005 US Open Hard Belgium Kim Clijsters 63, 61

Women's Doubles: 2 finals (1 title, 1 runner-up)

Outcome Year Championship Surface Partner Opponents in final Score in final
Runner-up 2000 Australian Open Hard Switzerland Martina Hingis United States Lisa Raymond
Australia Rennae Stubbs
64, 57, 64
Winner 2000 French Open Clay Switzerland Martina Hingis Spain Virginia Ruano Pascual
Argentina Paola Suárez
62, 64

Mixed Doubles: 1 final (1 title, 0 runner-ups)

Outcome Year Championship Surface Partner Opponents in final Score in final
Winner 2005 Wimbledon Grass India Mahesh Bhupathi Ukraine Tatiana Perebiynis
Australia Paul Hanley
64, 62

Year-End Championships finals

Singles: 2 finals (0 titles, 2 runner-ups)

Outcome Year Location Surface Opponent in final Score in final
Runner-up 1997 New York City Carpet (I) Czech Republic Jana Novotná 76(4), 62, 63
Runner-up 2005 Los Angeles Hard (I) France Amélie Mauresmo 57, 76(3), 64

WTA Tour finals (57)

Singles (18-23)

Legend
Grand Slams (2-4)
WTA Tour Championships (0-2)
Tier I (5-4)
Tier II (5-11)
Tier III (2-1)
Tier IV (3-1)
Tier V (1-0)
Titles by Surface
Hard (5-7)
Clay (6-9)
Grass (1-0)
Carpet (6-7)
Outcome No. Date Location Surface Opponent in Final Score in Final
Winner 1. 14 July 1991 Palermo, Italy Clay Italy Sandra Cecchini 60, 63
Winner 2. 23 February 1992 Cesena, Italy Carpet (I) France Catherine Tanvier 61, 61
Winner 3. 12 July 1992 Palermo, Italy Clay Netherlands Brenda Schultz 61, 67(3), 61
Winner 4. 1 November 1992 San Juan, Puerto Rico Hard United States Gigi Fernández 61, 75
Runner-up 1. 11 July 1993 Palermo, Italy Clay Czech Republic Radka Bobková 63, 62
Winner 5. 17 October 1993 Filderstadt, Germany Hard (I) Belarus Natasha Zvereva 63, 63
Runner-up 2. 27 March 1994 Houston, USA Clay Germany Sabine Hack 75, 64
Runner-up 3. 5 June 1994 French Open, Paris Clay Spain Arantxa Sánchez Vicario 64, 64
Runner-up 4. 2 October 1994 Leipzig, Germany Carpet (I) Czech Republic Jana Novotná 75, 61
Runner-up 5. 16 October 1994 Filderstadt, Germany Hard (I) Germany Anke Huber 64, 62
Runner-up 6. 13 November 1994 Philadelphia, USA Carpet (I) Germany Anke Huber 60, 67(4), 75
Winner 6. 28 January 1995 Australian Open, Melbourne Hard Spain Arantxa Sánchez Vicario 63, 62
Runner-up 7. 19 February 1995 Paris, France (Paris Open) Carpet (I) Germany Steffi Graf 62, 62
Winner 7. 24 September 1995 Tokyo, Japan (Nichirei Int'l) Hard Spain Arantxa Sánchez Vicario 63, 63
Runner-up 8. 8 October 1995 Zurich, Switzerland Carpet (I) Croatia Iva Majoli 64, 64
Runner-up 9. 14 April 1996 Amelia Island, USA Clay Romania Irina Spîrlea 67(7), 64, 63
Runner-up 10. 25 January 1997 Australian Open, Melbourne Hard Switzerland Martina Hingis 62, 62
Runner-up 11. 13 April 1997 Amelia Island, USA Clay United States Lindsay Davenport 62, 63
Winner 8. 11 May 1997 Rome, Italy Clay Spain Conchita Martínez 64, 60
Runner-up 12. 18 May 1997 Berlin, Germany Clay United States Mary Joe Fernandez 64, 62
Runner-up 13. 23 November 1997 Chase Championships, New York City Carpet (I) Czech Republic Jana Novotná 76(4), 62, 63
Winner 9. 15 February 1998 Paris, France (Paris Open) Carpet (I) Belgium Dominique Van Roost 63, 75
Winner 10. 12 April 1998 Amelia Island, USA Clay Spain Conchita Martínez 67(8), 60, 62
Runner-up 14. 9 August 1998 San Diego, USA Hard United States Lindsay Davenport 63, 61
Winner 11. 25 October 1998 Moscow, Russia Carpet (I) United States Monica Seles 76(2), 63
Winner 12. 31 October 1998 Luxembourg City, Luxembourg Carpet (I) Italy Silvia Farina 60, 20 ret.
Runner-up 15. 9 January 1999 Gold Coast, Australia Hard Switzerland Patty Schnyder 46, 76(5), 62
Runner-up 16. 2 May 1999 Hamburg, Germany Clay United States Venus Williams 60, 63
Runner-up 17. 9 May 1999 Rome, Italy Clay United States Venus Williams 64, 62
Runner-up 18. 10 October 1999 Filderstadt, Germany Hard (I) Switzerland Martina Hingis 64, 61
Winner 13. 31 October 1999 Linz, Austria Carpet (I) France Sandrine Testud 76(2), 61
Winner 14. 23 April 2000 Hilton Head Island, USA Clay Spain Arantxa Sánchez Vicario 61, 60
Winner 15. 10 June 2000 French Open, Paris Clay Spain Conchita Martínez 62, 75
Runner-up 19. 15 February 2004 Paris, France (Gaz de France) Carpet (I) Belgium Kim Clijsters 62, 61
Winner 16. 19 June 2004 's-Hertogenbosch, Netherlands Grass Czech Republic Klára Koukalová 76(6), 62
Runner-up 20. 4 June 2005 French Open, Paris Clay Belgium Justine Henin-Hardenne 61, 61
Winner 17. 7 August 2005 San Diego, USA Hard Japan Ai Sugiyama 60, 63
Runner-up 21. 10 September 2005 US Open, New York City Hard Belgium Kim Clijsters 63, 61
Winner 18. 16 October 2005 Moscow, Russia Carpet (I) Italy Francesca Schiavone 64, 63
Runner-up 22. 13 November 2005 Sony Ericsson Championships, Los Angeles Hard (I) France Amélie Mauresmo 57, 76(3), 64
Runner-up 23. 12 February 2006 Paris, France (Gaz de France) Carpet (I) France Amélie Mauresmo 61, 76(2)

Doubles (10)

Legend
Grand Slams (1)
WTA Tour Championships (0)
Tier I (3)
Tier II (5)
Tier III (0)
Tier IV (1)
Tier V (0)
No. Date Location Partner Opponents in Final Score in Final
1. 14 July 1991 Palermo, Italy Czech Republic Petra Langrová Italy Laura Garrone
Argentina Mercedes Paz
63, 67(5), 63
2. 22 September 1996 Tokyo, Japan (Nichirei Int'l) South Africa Amanda Coetzer South Korea Sung-Hee Park
Chinese Taipei Shi-Ting Wang
61, 76(5)
3. 4 May 1997 Hamburg, Germany Germany Anke Huber Romania Ruxandra Dragomir
Croatia Iva Majoli
26, 76(1), 62
4. 12 April 1998 Amelia Island, USA United States Sandra Cacic Austria Barbara Schett
Switzerland Patty Schnyder
76(5), 46, 76(5)
5. 25 October 1998 Moscow, Russia Belarus Natasha Zvereva United States Lisa Raymond
Australia Rennae Stubbs
63, 64
6. 22 August 1999 Toronto, Canada Czech Republic Jana Novotná Latvia Larisa Neiland
Spain Arantxa Sánchez Vicario
63, 26, 63
7. 7 November 1999 Leipzig, Germany Latvia Larisa Neiland Russia Elena Likhovtseva
Japan Ai Sugiyama
64, 63
8. 6 February 2000 Tokyo, Japan (Pan Pacific Open) Switzerland Martina Hingis France Alexandra Fusai
France Nathalie Tauziat
64, 61
9. 11 June 2000 French Open, Paris Switzerland Martina Hingis Spain Virginia Ruano Pascual
Argentina Paola Suárez
62, 64
10. 10 August 2003 Los Angeles, USA Australia Rennae Stubbs Russia Elena Bovina
Belgium Els Callens
63, 63
Legend
Grand Slams (1)
WTA Tour Championships (0)
Tier I (0)
Tier II (3)
Tier III (1)
Tier IV (0
Tier V (1)
No. Date Location Partner Opponents in Final Score in Final
1. 2 December 1990 São Paulo, Brazil United States Luanne Spadea Argentina Bettina Fulco
Czechoslovakia Eva Švíglerová
75, 64
2. 15 November 1992 Philadelphia, USA Spain Conchita Martínez United States Gigi Fernández
Belarus Natasha Zvereva
61, 63
3. 20 February 1994 Paris, France (Paris Open) Hungary Andrea Temesvári Belgium Sabine Appelmans
Belgium Laurence Courtois
64, 64
4. 15 January 2000 Sydney, Australia Switzerland Martina Hingis France Julie Halard-Decugis
Japan Ai Sugiyama
60, 63
5. 28 January 2000 Australian Open, Melbourne Switzerland Martina Hingis United States Lisa Raymond
Australia Rennae Stubbs
64, 57, 64
6. 21 June 2003 's-Hertogenbosch, Netherlands Russia Nadia Petrova Russia Elena Dementieva
Russia Lina Krasnoroutskaya
26, 63, 64

Major tournament singles performance timeline

Key
W  F  SF QF #R RR Q# A P Z# PO SF-B F NMS

Won tournament, or reached Final, Semifinal, Quarterfinal, Round 4, 3, 2, 1, played in Round Robin or lost in Qualification Round 3, Round 2, Round 1, Absent from a tournament or Participated in a team event, played in a Davis Cup Zonal Group (with its number indication) or Play-Off, won a bronze or silver match at the Olympics. The last is for a Masters Series/1000 tournament that was relegated (Not a Masters Series).

Tournament 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 Career SR
Australian Open A A A QF 4R W 2R F QF QF 4R 3R 1R 2R A 1R 2R 1 / 13
French Open 2R 3R 4R 4R F 4R 3R 4R 2R 2R W A QF 1R 3R F A 1 / 15
Wimbledon A A A A A 2R QF 4R 1R 4R 2R A 3R 4R 1R QF A 0 / 10
US Open A 3R 4R 4R QF 3R A 4R 4R QF 4R A 1R 4R 4R F 3R 0 / 14
Grand Slam SR 0 / 1 0 / 2 0 / 2 0 / 3 0 / 3 1 / 4 0 / 3 0 / 4 0 / 4 0 / 4 1 / 4 0 / 1 0 / 4 0 / 4 0 / 3 0 / 4 0 / 2 2 / 52
WTA Tour Championships A A A SF SF 4R A F QF QF A A A A A F A 0 / 7
Year End Ranking 107 26 13 12 5 5 20 7 7 5 7 130 52 33 29 5 79 N/A
  • A = did not participate in the tournament
  • SR = the ratio of the number of tournaments won to the number of those tournaments played

WTA Tour career earnings

Year Majors WTA wins Total wins Earnings ($) Money list rank
1991 0 1 1 94,582 53
1992 0 3 3 183,436 26
1993 0 1 1 347,360 19
1994 0 0 0 768,614 8
1995 1 1 2 698,838 7
1996 0 0 0 195,570 34
1997 0 1 1 881,639 7
1998 0 4 4 703,692 11
1999 0 1 1 996,442 6
2000 1 1 2 1,208,018 4
2001 0 0 0 No information
2002 0 0 0 185,095 59
2003 0 0 0 308,146 37
2004 0 1 1 344,481 35
2005 0 2 2 2,525,403 4
2006 0 0 0 163,228 89
Career 2 16 18 9,793,119 22

Record against other top players

As of November 11, 2010 Pierce's win-loss record against certain players who have been ranked World No. 10 or higher is as follows:[4] Players who have been ranked World No. 1 are in boldface.

References

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