Myrtille Georges (; born 21 December 1990) is a French former tennis player.
She has career-high
WTA rankings of 168 in singles (achieved on 18 July 2016) and world No. 287 in doubles (21 August 2017). She won nine singles and six doubles titles on the
ITF Women's World Tennis Tour.
Career
Georges made her debut on the
ITF Women's Circuit in November 2006 at a $10k event in Le Havre; she only played in the singles draw and was eliminated in the second round of qualifying. Her next stop was in November 2007 at a $50k tournament in Deauville, France (it was the only tournament that she played in 2007); she only played the singles event and was eliminated in the qualifying first round.
In 2008, she played the singles events of five tournaments (all of them in France and four of them in the last four months of the year) on the
ITF Circuit.
From 2009 onwards, Georges started to play more regularly; she played in the singles events of 23 tournaments on the
2009 ITF Circuit.
She made her
WTA Tour doubles debut at the
2010 Internationaux de Strasbourg
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after receiving a main-draw wildcard; she and her partner
Émilie Bacquet
Émilie Bacquet (; born 20 April 1984)
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lost in the first round to the top-seeded pair of
Chuang Chia-jung
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In her career, she won 22 doubles titles on the WTA Tour and three doubles titles on tournaments of the WTA Challenger Tour, as well as ten singles titles and ...
and
Lucie Hradecká
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, 1–6, 3–6.
Georges made her WTA Tour singles debut at the
2011 Open GdF Suez
The 2011 Open GDF Suez was a women's professional tennis tournament played on indoor hard courts. It was the 19th edition of the Open GDF Suez (formerly known as the ''Open Gaz de France'') and was a Premier tournament on the 2011 WTA Tour. It t ...
also thanks to a wildcard; she lost in the first round of qualifying to
Maria-Elena Camerin, 3–6, 3–6.
Making her Grand Slam singles main-draw debut at the
2016 French Open
The 2016 French Open was a tennis tournament played on outdoor clay courts. It was the 120th edition of the French Open and the second Grand Slam event of the year. It took place at the Stade Roland Garros from 22 May to 5 June and consisted of ...
after obtaining a wildcard, she was eliminated in the first or second singles qualifying rounds of the French Open for four consecutive years, from 2012 (the year of her Grand Slam singles debut) to 2015. In the first round of the 2016 French Open, she defeated world No. 67,
Christina McHale, 6–7, 6–0, 6–3, to register her first career-win over a player ranked in the top 100 of the
WTA singles rankings, before losing in the second round to the No. 4 seed
Garbiñe Muguruza
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, 2–6, 0–6 in 53 minutes.
She announced her retirement from professional tennis in September 2020.
Grand Slam performance timeline
Singles
ITF Circuit finals
Singles: 23 (9 titles, 14 runner–ups)
Doubles: 8 (6 titles, 2 runner–ups)
References
External links
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1990 births
Living people
French female tennis players
Sportspeople from Manche