Pauline Parmentier is a French former tennis player.
31 Facts About Pauline Parmentier
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Pauline Parmentier won four singles titles on the WTA Tour, as well as ten singles and three doubles titles on the ITF Women's Circuit.
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Pauline Parmentier competed in the singles and women's doubles events at the 2008 Summer Olympics, and had been playing for France in the Fed Cup since 2010.
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Pauline Parmentier's parents are named Dominique and Jean-Philippe and she has two older brothers named Olivier and Julien.
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Pauline Parmentier began playing tennis at age six and trained for five years at the Mouratoglou Tennis Academy.
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In 2000, Pauline Parmentier played only one tournament on the ITF Women's Circuit; she lost her main-draw opening match in both the singles and doubles events of a $10k tournament held in November in the French commune of Villenave-d'Ornon.
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Pauline Parmentier did not play a single ITF event in 2002.
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Pauline Parmentier did not have any year-end WTA singles or doubles ranking for 2000,2001 and 2002.
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Pauline Parmentier played 13 tournaments in the 2003 ITF Women's Circuit, appearing in their singles or doubles events or both.
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Pauline Parmentier broke into the top 100 of the rankings for the first time in her career on 10 September 2007.
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On 18 February 2008, two days after losing in the semifinals of the Tier-III Cachantun Cup in Vina del Mar to top seed Flavia Pennetta, Pauline Parmentier made her debut in the top 50 of the singles rankings; she rose from world No 53 at the start of the 2008 Cachantun Cup to No 47.
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Pauline Parmentier was nominated to play at the Summer Olympics after Mary Pierce and Amelie Mauresmo withdrew.
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Pauline Parmentier lost her singles first-round match to the No 16 seed Dominika Cibulkova and her doubles first-round match to the Indian pair of Sania Mirza and Sunitha Rao by walkover.
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Pauline Parmentier made her Fed Cup debut at the World Group quarterfinal tie against the team of the United States in February 2010.
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Pauline Parmentier lost her first match against Melanie Oudin but won her second against Christina McHale by the same scoreline.
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Pauline Parmentier then defeated Stephanie Foretz in the second round and Alexandra Panova in the quarterfinals to reach her first WTA singles semifinal since winning the title in Bad Gastein; she lost her semifinal to her compatriot and unseeded wildcard Alize Cornet in three sets.
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In 2013, Pauline Parmentier won only one match and exited the first round nine times in ten WTA singles main-draw events, including the Australian Open, French Open and Wimbledon.
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At the French Open, Pauline Parmentier achieved her career-best singles showing in a Grand Slam tournament.
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Pauline Parmentier had received a main-draw wildcard and was ranked world No 145 in the WTA rankings coming into that tournament.
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Pauline Parmentier was the No 88 in the singles rankings coming into the French Open, defeating No 31 seed Monica Niculescu in the first round and Irina Falconi in the second before losing to No 8 seed, Timea Bacsinszky, in the third.
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Three weeks after her Fed Cup defeat, the unseeded Pauline Parmentier lost in the quarterfinals of the WTA Tour tournament in Acapulco to top seed Mirjana Lucic-Baroni.
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Pauline Parmentier lost in the third round of the Miami Open to world No 11, Johanna Konta, after causing an upset by beating No 24 seed Timea Babos in the second round.
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Pauline Parmentier ended her run of four consecutive singles main-draw first-round defeats at the French Open when she defeated Irina Khromacheva, before losing to Carina Witthoft in the second round.
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Pauline Parmentier then defeated the No 7 seed, Irina-Camelia Begu, in the semifinals to reach her first WTA Tour singles final since winning the 2008 Gastein Ladies title.
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Pauline Parmentier lost in the first and second round in her next two tournaments, in Cagnes-sur-Mer and Strasbourg, respectively.
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Pauline Parmentier entered the main draw of the French Open as a wildcard, and defeated Chloe Paquet and Alize Cornet in the first and second rounds, respectively, both in three sets.
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Pauline Parmentier lost to second seeded Caroline Wozniacki in the third round.
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Pauline Parmentier lost her opening matches in her next two tournaments to Taylor Townsend and Zheng Saisai, respectively.
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Pauline Parmentier entered the Bucharest Open as the No 7 seed and defeated Alexandra Dulgheru in three sets.
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Pauline Parmentier entered the main draw of the New Haven tournament as a lucky loser, losing in the first round to Anett Kontaveit.
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Pauline Parmentier lost her opening matches in her next two tournaments to Madison Keys and Dayana Yastremska, respectively.