Ansley Cargill (born January 5, 1982) is a former professional tennis player from the United States.
Cargill won four singles titles and four doubles titles on tournaments of the
ITF Circuit. She reached a career-high singles
ranking
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of No. 90 in May 2003.
In 2006, she won the $50k ITF Hammond, defeating top seed
Tatiana Poutchek
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of Belarus, 6–1, 6–3 in the quarterfinals
and No. 4 seed
Tatiana Perebiynis
Tatiana Yurevna Perebiynis ( ua, Тетяна Юріївна Перебийніс; born 15 December 1982) is a former professional tennis player from Ukraine.
She reached the Wimbledon junior girls' singles final in 2000, and won the Wimble ...
of Ukraine, 6–4, 6–4 in the final.
That year, she also won the $25k tournament in
Vancouver
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where she was defending champion.
On the
WTA Tour
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, she reached one singles quarterfinal at
Sarasota, FL in 2003. She defeated world No. 13,
Patty Schnyder
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of Switzerland, in the first round, and world No. 31,
Tamarine Tanasugarn
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of Thailand, in the second round before losing to world No. 22,
Nathalie Dechy
Nathalie Dechy (born 21 February 1979) is a former professional tennis player from France.
Dechy is a three-time doubles Grand Slam champion, winning the 2006 US Open women's doubles title with Vera Zvonareva, the 2007 French Open mixed doubl ...
of France.
She also reached one WTA Tour doubles final at Tokyo, the
Japan Open in 2003, with
Ashley Harkleroad
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Career
Raised in Chickamauga, Georgia (near Chattanooga, Tennessee), Harkleroad turned p ...
of the United States, they lost to
Maria Sharapova
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and
Tamarine Tanasugarn
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.
Cargill played nine
Grand Slam
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main-draw events and reached the second round of the
2003 Australian Open
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Thomas Johansson could not defend ...
, defeating
Anabel Medina Garrigues
Ana Isabel Medina Garrigues (, ; born 31 July 1982) is a Spanish tennis coach and former professional player.
As a player she reached a career-high ranking of world No. 16 in 2020, and won 11 singles and 28 doubles titles, including the 2008 ...
before losing to
Venus Williams
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.
Following her graduation from
Duke University, Cargill worked for two years in Equity Sales at the Atlanta office of financial brokerage firm
Morgan Stanley
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. Since then, she works as financial analyst for the
Boca Raton based management consultancy firm East Management Services.
Cargill's LinkedIn profile
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WTA career finals
Doubles: 1 (1 runner-up)
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References
Living people
1982 births
American female tennis players
Duke Blue Devils women's tennis players
Tennis players from Atlanta
Tennis players at the 2003 Pan American Games
Pan American Games bronze medalists for the United States
Pan American Games medalists in tennis
The Westminster Schools alumni
Medalists at the 2003 Pan American Games
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