Paulette Moreno

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Paulette Moreno
Full namePaulette Moreno Hjorth
Country (sports) Flag of Hong Kong 1959.svg Hong Kong
Born (1969-03-12) 12 March 1969 (age 53)
Prize money$30,719
Singles
Highest rankingNo. 231 (15 February 1988)
Grand Slam singles results
Australian Open 2R (1988)
Wimbledon Q1 (1989)
Doubles
Highest rankingNo. 178 (15 February 1988)
Grand Slam doubles results
Australian Open 2R (1988)
Wimbledon Q2 (1990)
Grand Slam mixed doubles results
Wimbledon 2R (1989)

Paulette Moreno Hjorth (born 12 March 1969) is a former professional tennis player from Hong Kong.

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Biography

Moreno was a national champion in Hong Kong at the age of 13 in 1982. [1]

She made her debut for the Hong Kong Fed Cup team in 1985 and won a doubles match against West Germany that year. Another of her doubles wins came against Sweden in 1987, when she and Patricia Hy teamed up to claim the deciding rubber 9–7 in the third set. As a junior she was a finalist in the girls' doubles at the 1987 Wimbledon Championships, where she and Korean Kim Il-Soon lost to Natalia Medvedeva and Natasha Zvereva. [2]

From 1987 to 1991 she competed on the WTA Tour. She appeared twice in the main draw at Wimbledon, both times in mixed doubles, partnering Todd Woodbridge in 1987 and Neil Borwick in 1989. In between she also featured at the 1988 Australian Open and made the second round of the singles, with a win over Marianne van der Torre. [3]

She made her final Fed Cup appearance in 1995 and finished with an 18/17 overall record.

Moreno lived for a while in Melbourne after her tennis career but has since moved to Denmark, where her husband is from. In 2017 she began working as a coach at the Lyngby Tennis Club in Copenhagen. [4]

ITF finals

Doubles: 11 (6–5)

OutcomeNo.DateTournamentSurfacePartnerOpponentsScore
Winner1.25 August 1986 Wels, AustriaClay Flag of Austria.svg Karin Oberleitner Flag of Austria.svg Bettina Diesner
Flag of Austria.svg Barbara Paulus
7–5, 7–6(7–4)
Winner2.21 September 1987 Llorca, SpainClay Flag of Norway.svg Amy Jönsson Raaholt Flag of Sweden.svg Maria Ekstrand
Flag of Sweden.svg Monica Lundqvist
7–6, 6–7, 7–5
Runner-up3.26 October 1987 Cheshire, United KingdomCarpet Flag of Sweden.svg Maria Strandlund Flag of the Soviet Union.svg Eugenia Maniokova
Flag of the Soviet Union.svg Natalia Medvedeva
2–6, 6–7
Winner4.16 November 1987 Croydon, United KingdomCarpet Flag of the Soviet Union.svg Viktoria Milvidskaia Flag of the Soviet Union.svg Eugenia Maniokova
Flag of the Soviet Union.svg Natalia Medvedeva
6–4, 6–1
Runner-up5.24 October 1988 Ibaraki, JapanHard Flag of Japan.svg Maya Kidowaki Flag of Japan.svg Kimiko Date
Flag of Japan.svg Yuko Hosoki
4–6, 6–4, 7–9
Winner6.5 March 1989 Canberra, AustraliaHard Flag of Japan.svg Shiho Okada Flag of Australia (converted).svg Kate McDonald
Flag of Australia (converted).svg Rennae Stubbs
6–4, 6–2
Runner-up7.18 September 1989 Bangkok, ThailandHard Flag of Denmark.svg Karin Ptaszek Flag of the United Kingdom.svg Valda Lake
Flag of New Zealand.svg Claudine Toleafoa
6–7, 6–1, 5–7
Winner8.27 November 1989 Melbourne, AustraliaHard Flag of Australia (converted).svg Danielle Jones Flag of the United States.svg Allison Cooper
Flag of Australia (converted).svg Justine Hodder
6–2, 6–2
Runner-up9.20 August 1990 Chiang Mai, ThailandHard Flag of Thailand.svg Orawan Thampensri Flag of the Netherlands.svg Esmir Hoogendoorn
Flag of the Netherlands.svg Claire Wegink
3–6, 6–1, 1–6
Winner10.7 October 1991 Matsuyama, JapanHard Flag of Australia (converted).svg Jenny Byrne Flag of the Philippines.svg Jennifer Saret
Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg Yi Jing-Qian
1–6, 6–4, 6–4
Runner-up11.14 October 1991 Kyoto, JapanHard Flag of the United States.svg Diana Gardner Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg Li Fang
Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg Tang Min
4–6, 5–7

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