Isabelle Demongeot

Isabelle Demongeot

Country	France
Born	(1966-09-18) 18 September 1966 Gassin, France
Height	1.69 m (5 ft 7 in)
Turned pro	1983
Retired	1996
Plays	Right-handed
Prize money	$804,884
Singles
Career record	249–221
Career titles	1 WTA, 4 ITF
Highest ranking	No. 35 (23 May 1988)
Grand Slam Singles results
Australian Open	3R (1990, 1993)
French Open	3R (1988)
Wimbledon	3R (1985, 1987)
US Open	3R (1987, 1994)
Doubles
Career record	251–187
Career titles	9 WTA, 4 ITF
Highest ranking	No. 20 (8 May 1989)
Grand Slam Doubles results
Australian Open	3R (1990, 1992)
French Open	QF (1987, 1992)
Wimbledon	3R (1985, 1988, 1992, 1995)
US Open	3R (1989, 1992)
Last updated on: 29 November 2012.

Isabelle Demongeot (born 18 September 1966) is a former professional tennis player from France, who turned professional on 1 May 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.^[1] She retired from the WTA Tour circuit in 1996.

WTA Tour Finals

Singles 1 (1–0)

Outcome	No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Opponent in the final	Score in the final
Winner	1.	22 July 1991	Westchester	Hard	Lori McNeil	6–4, 6–4

Doubles 13 (9–4)

Outcome	No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Partner	Opponents in the final	Score in the final
Winner	1.	28 September 1987	Paris	Clay	Nathalie Tauziat	Sandra Cecchini Sabrina Goleš	1–6, 6–3, 6–3
Winner	2.	9 May 1988	Berlin	Clay	Nathalie Tauziat	Claudia Kohde-Kilsch Helena Suková	6–2, 4–6, 6–4
Runner-up	1.	11 July 1988	Nice	Clay	Nathalie Tauziat	Catherine Suire Catherine Tanvier	6–4, 4–6, 6–2
Winner	3.	17 October 1988	Zürich	Carpet (i)	Nathalie Tauziat	Claudia Kohde-Kilsch Helena Suková	6–3, 6–3
Runner-up	2.	24 October 1988	Brighton	Carpet (i)	Nathalie Tauziat	Lori McNeil Betsy Nagelsen	7–6(7–5), 2–6, 7–6(7–4)
Winner	4.	1 May 1989	Hamburg	Clay	Nathalie Tauziat	Jana Novotná Helena Suková	walkover
Winner	5.	5 August 1991	Albuquerque	Hard	Katrina Adams	Lise Gregory Peanut Louie Harper	6–7(2–7), 6–4, 6–3
Runner-up	3.	23 September 1991	St. Petersburg	Carpet (i)	Jo Durie	Elena Brioukhovets Natalia Medvedeva	7–5, 6–3
Winner	6.	30 September 1991	Leipzig	Carpet (i)	Manon Bollegraf	Jill Hetherington Kathy Rinaldi-Stunkel	6–4, 6–3
Winner	7.	13 April 1992	Pattaya	Hard	Natalia Medvedeva	Pascale Paradis Sandrine Testud	6–1, 6–1
Winner	8.	20 April 1992	Kuala Lumpur	Hard	Natalia Medvedeva	Rika Hiraki Petra Langrová	2–6, 6–4, 6–1
Winner	9.	1 February 1993	Auckland	Hard	Elna Reinach	Jill Hetherington Kathy Rinaldi	6–2, 6–4
Runner-up	4.	25 April 1994	Taranto	Clay	Sandra Cecchini	Irina Spîrlea Noëlle van Lottum	6–3, 2–6, 6–1

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

References

External links

• Isabelle Demongeot at the Women's Tennis Association