Eléonora Anne-Sophie Rbis Molinaro Simon (born 4 September 2000) is a Luxembourgish
tennis
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player.
Career
Molinaro started playing tennis aged seven.
Having started the year with a
WTA ranking
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Iga Świątek is the current world No. 1.
Ranking method
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of 822, she reached the final of the first ten tournaments she played in 2018, winning two out of four finals on the
ITF Circuit and four out of six at the junior level.
This resulted in her cracking the top 500 for the first time in March and being seeded sixth in her first appearance in a junior Grand Slam tournament at the
French Open
The French Open (french: Internationaux de France de tennis), also known as Roland-Garros (), is a major tennis tournament held over two weeks at the Stade Roland Garros in Paris, France, beginning in late May each year. The tournament and ven ...
. She reached the quarterfinals before bowing out to eventual champion
Coco Gauff
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.
Since November 2021, she only competed at one ITF event in the singles draw.
Playing for
Luxembourg Fed Cup team
The Luxembourg Billie Jean King Cup team represents Luxembourg in the Billie Jean King Cup tennis competition and are governed by the Fédération Luxembourgeoise de Tennis. They currently compete in the Europe/Africa Zone of Group II.
Histor ...
, she has win–loss records of 15–8 in singles and 4–5 in doubles in
Fed Cup
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competition.
ITF Circuit finals
Singles: 12 (8 titles, 4 runner–ups)
Doubles: 4 (4 runner–ups)
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2000 births
Living people
Luxembourgian female tennis players
Sportspeople from Luxembourg City
Luxembourgian people of Italian descent
Tennis players at the 2018 Summer Youth Olympics