Patricia Hy-Boulais (born 22 August 1965) is a former

tennis player Tennis is a racket sport that is played either individually against a single opponent (singles) or between two teams of two players each (doubles). Each player uses a tennis racket that is strung with cord to strike a hollow rubber ball cove ...

. She turned professional on 12 October 1986. Early in her career she represented

Hong Kong Hong Kong ( (US) or (UK); , ), officially the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China (abbr. Hong Kong SAR or HKSAR), is a city and special administrative region of China on the eastern Pearl River Delta i ...

(since the beginning until the end of the 1987 season). She became a citizen of Canada in 1991. However, she represented Canada since the beginning of the 1988 season. Her best performance at a Grand Slam came when she got to the quarter finals of the 1992 US Open, defeating Eva Švíglerová,

Judith Wiesner Judith Wiesner (née Pölzl; born 2 March 1966) is a former professional tennis player from Austria. During her career, she won five top-level singles titles and three tour doubles titles. Her career high rankings were world No. 12 in singles (i ...

Jennifer Capriati Jennifer Maria Capriati (born March 29, 1976) is an American former world No. 1 tennis player. A member of the International Tennis Hall of Fame, she won three singles Grand Slam titles and was the gold medalist at the 1992 Summer Olympics ...

and Helena Suková before losing to eventual champion

Monica Seles Monica Seles (; hu, Széles Mónika, ; sr, Моника Селеш, Monika Seleš; born December 2, 1973) is a retired professional tennis player who represented Yugoslavia and the United States. A former world No. 1, she won nine Grand Sla ...

. After Hy-Boulais did it in 1992, Canada did not have another woman to survive into the second week at the French Open until

Aleksandra Wozniak Aleksandra Wozniak ( pl, Woźniak; born September 7, 1987) is a Canadian former tennis player. She turned professional in November 2005, and achieved a career-best ranking of No. 21 in June 2009, making her the fifth highest-ranked Canadian singl ...

did it in 2009. Hy-Boulais represented her new country at the

1996 Summer Olympics The 1996 Summer Olympics (officially the Games of the XXVI Olympiad, also known as Atlanta 1996 and commonly referred to as the Centennial Olympic Games) were an international multi-sport event held from July 19 to August 4, 1996, in Atlanta, ...

Atlanta, Georgia Atlanta ( ) is the capital and most populous city of the U.S. state of Georgia. It is the seat of Fulton County, the most populous county in Georgia, but its territory falls in both Fulton and DeKalb counties. With a population of 498,7 ...

, where she was eliminated in the second round by the number one seed

. Hy-Boulais reached her highest ranking in the

WTA Tour The WTA Tour is a worldwide top-tier tennis tour for women organized by the Women's Tennis Association. The second-tier tour is the WTA 125K series, and third-tier is the ITF Women's Circuit. The men's equivalent is the ATP Tour. WTA Tour tou ...

on 8 March 1993, when she became the number 28 of the world. Hy-Boulais's daughter Isabelle is a top Canadian tennis prospect.

Personal life

Patricia Hy-Boulais had an athletic family. Her father was a tennis player for

Cambodia Cambodia (; also Kampuchea ; km, កម្ពុជា, UNGEGN: ), officially the Kingdom of Cambodia, is a country located in the southern portion of the Indochinese Peninsula in Southeast Asia, spanning an area of , bordered by Thailan ...

and served as the team captain. He also has competed in the Davis Cup for Cambodia. Her mother was a national badminton champion for

WTA finals

Singles (1 title, 1 runner-up)

Doubles (1 title, 2 runner-ups)

ITF Finals

Singles (4-2)

Doubles (5-1)

References

External links

* * * *
New article about her induction into Canada's tennis Hall of Fame
{{DEFAULTSORT:Hy-Boulais, Patricia 1965 births Living people Canadian female tennis players Grand Slam (tennis) champions in girls' doubles Hong Kong emigrants to Canada Hong Kong female tennis players Naturalized citizens of Canada Olympic tennis players of Canada Olympic tennis players of Hong Kong Sportspeople from Phnom Penh Tennis players from Toronto Tennis players at the 1984 Summer Olympics Tennis players at the 1992 Summer Olympics Tennis players at the 1996 Summer Olympics Wimbledon junior champions