Sarah Pitkowski-Malcor

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Sarah Pitkowski-Malcor (born on November 13, 1975 in Seclin, just south of Lille) is a former professional female tennis player from France. She was ranked World No. 29 at November 1, 1999.

Pitkowski played right-handed, had a height of 1.59m and weighed about 49 kg in 2000. She turned professional in 1993. She retired from the WTA Tour tennis circuit in 2001. Her highest WTA Tour singles and doubles ranking was 29 (Nov 1, 1999) and 101 (Aug 5, 1996) respectively. She had career official prize money earnings of US$823,787. Her final career singles win-loss record was @278-198 and her final career doubles win-loss record was @52-101 (@includes main draw and qualifying matches in all WTA Tour//ITF Tour tournaments, Federation/Fed Cup and Olympic Games).

Pitkowski won her only career WTA Tour singles final in Budapest in the spring of 1999, where she beat Cristina Torrens-Valero of Spain in the final. She was also the singles runner-up at the WTA Tour tournament in Antwerp in the same year, where she lost to Justine Henin of Belgium. She has won a total of 10 singles titles on the minor International Tennis Federation (ITF) Women's Circuit. She has never advanced beyond the third round of any Grand Slam event in singles competition. She represented France in the first round of the Fed Cup in 1998 as a rookie; she saved the defending champions from losing to Belgium by defeating Sabine Appelmans 4–6, 6–4, 6–1.

Pitkowski married a French professional tennis player, Olivier Malcor, on July 7, 2001. The couple have a son.

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[edit] WTA Tour singles finals (1–1 record)

1999: W – Budapest(Hungary); RU - Antwerp(Belgium)

[edit] WTA(WITA) Tour doubles finals

Nil, but she was a WTA Tour doubles semi-finalist on 6 occasions: 1995(1), 1996(1), 1997(1), 1998(1), 1999(2)

[edit] ITF Women's (formerly Futures) Circuit singles titles(10)

Swindon(England) '92, Madeira(Portugal) '92; Caserta(Italy) '93; Madrid(Spain) '94, Moulins(France) '94; Koksijde(Belgium) '95, Cergy-Pontoise(France) '95, Reims(France) '97, Cergy-Pontoise(France) '98, Bronx(New York) ‘98

[edit] Grand Slam records

Grand Slam singles record(excluding qualifying matches): A - 2-7; F - 4-8; W - 5-6; US - 5-6; overall - 16-27

[edit] Federation/Fed Cup and Olympic Games

Federation Cup record[singles(doubles)]: 1998 - 1-1; overall singles and doubles record: 1-1; overall singles record: 1–1 ; overall doubles record: 0–0

Olympic Games: did not participate

[edit] Career summary

  • Year singles ranking win-lose Prize money in US$ A F W US SF QF
  • 1991 885 0-0/0 - - - - - 0 0
  • 1992 215 0-0/0 (16,000) - Q1 - - 0 0
  • 1993 151 1-3/25 c.25,000(>50) - 1 - Q1 0 0
  • 1994 111 2-5/29 c.28,000 - - - Q2 0 0
  • 1995 107 7-12/37 c.77,000(>50) 2 2 1 1 0 1
  • 1996 87 12-12/50 e.77,364(>50) 1 3 - 2 0 2
  • 1997 56 14-17/45 e.99,696(>50) 1 2 2 2 1 2
  • 1998 36 21-21/50 e.138,686(55) 1 1 1 3 2 4
  • 1999 32 29-22/57 e.181,453(50) 1 1 3 2 2 2
  • 2000 65 19-18/51 c.132,000(>50) 1 1 3 1 2 4
  • 2001 161 5-13/28 c.65,000(>100) 2 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: 110-123; overall winning percentage: 47%
  • 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 - 7
  • overall no. of QF defeats - 15

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