Tara Moore

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Tara Moore
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Country (sports)Flag of the United Kingdom.svg  United Kingdom
Residence Doncaster, England
Born (1992-08-06) 6 August 1992 (age 32)
British Hong Kong
Height1.63 m (5 ft 4 in)
Turned pro2010
PlaysRight-handed (two-handed backhand)
CoachJessica Stencel
Prize moneyUS$ 598,859
Singles
Career record374–315
Career titles9 ITF
Highest rankingNo. 145 (8 May 2017)
Grand Slam singles results
Australian Open Q1 (2014, 2017)
French Open Q1 (2013)
Wimbledon 2R (2016)
US Open Q2 (2016)
Doubles
Career record264–219
Career titles17 ITF
Highest rankingNo. 77 (11 July 2022)
Current rankingNo. 606 (15 July 2024)
Grand Slam doubles results
French Open 2R (2022)
Wimbledon 1R (2012, 2013, 2014, 2016, 2021, 2024)
US Open 2R (2024)
Grand Slam mixed doubles results
Wimbledon 3R (2021)
Team competitions
Fed Cup Europe/Africa Zone Group I – Play-offs (2014)
Record 1–1
Last updated on: 16 July 2024.

Tara Shanice Moore (born 6 August 1992) is a Hong Kong-born British tennis player. She achieved career-high rankings by the WTA of 145 in singles and No. 77 in doubles. In her career, she won nine singles titles and 17 doubles titles on the ITF Circuit.

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As a junior, she was coached by the American tennis coach, Nick Bollettieri. In September 2006, he referred to Moore as one of the best young players in his school, the Bollettieri Tennis Academy, along with Michelle Larcher de Brito. [1] Her coach was Charles Homewood. Her favourite surface is stated as being grass although most of her titles to date have come on hardcourt. [2]

Career

2006–2007

Moore's first professional tennis match came in August 2006 at the $10k tournament in Guayaquil, Ecuador. She won two matches to qualify before losing in the first round of the tournament. Moore then moved on to qualify and reach the quarterfinals in only the second ITF tournament of her career in Caracas, Venezuela, another $10k event. [3]

In 2007, Moore reached the quarterfinals of another $10k event in Irapuato before losing to Ana Clara Duarte of Brazil, in straight sets. In July, she entered her first $25k tournament in Felixstowe, England, where she lost in the qualifying stages. Her next two tournaments were both $10k events in England (Ilkley and Wrexham) and she managed to reach the quarterfinal stages of both of these. She ended the year with three consecutive first-round losses at $25k events. Her year-end ranking for 2007 was world No. 823. [3]

2008

April and May resulted in three failures to qualify for ITF tournaments, two of which were $25k events, the other a $50k event. She became a quarterfinalist yet again in her next tournament, the $10k in Izmir, Turkey. She then began a successful grass-court season with a wildcard into the qualifying tournament of Wimbledon where she lost in the first round in a valiant three-set battle against former top-40 player Olga Puchkova of Russia. She followed this up immediately with her first ever semifinal in the $25k tournament held in Felixstowe and continued the momentum in the following tournament ($10k Frinton) where she won, beating fellow teenager Mona Barthel of Germany in the final.

Her next noteworthy result of 2008 came on the ITF Circuit in early November at the $10k event in Sunderland, England. She won through two tough three-set matches in the first and second rounds before winning her quarterfinal match in two sets and coming up against Laura Robson, in one of two all-British semifinals. She lost in straight sets to Robson (who was the eventual champion). Immediately after this was the $10k tournament in Jersey. In the second round of this tournament, she played a rematch of her second-round match in the previous tournament in Sunderland. She beat Tetyana Arefyeva in three sets for the second time in two weeks to reach the quarterfinal stage where she was beaten by Katarzyna Piter. She ended season with a singles ranking of world No. 712. [3]

2009

Moore struggled throughout the year and did not go beyond the quarterfinals in any of the events she competed in. She enjoyed a straight-sets win over former top-20 player Eleni Daniilidou as she qualified for the $50 event in Nottingham. She also competed at the ITF junior events at Roehampton and Wimbledon but lost early in both events as she was drawn against junior world No. 3, Tímea Babos. Post Wimbledon, Moore's best result was qualifying for a $75k event in Shrewsbury before losing to Angelique Kerber. Moore was also asked to leave the Lawn Tennis Association (LTA) National Tennis Centre (NTC) as a result of her perceived lack of professionalism and poor attitude. She would end the year in India before heading back to Hong Kong.

2010

New season started very much as 2009 ended for Moore with early losses in her first handful of events. She was training and working out of Hong Kong, following her expulsion from the LTA although in March, Moore began working with British tennis coach John Morris who was also the coach of Tímea Babos, ranked a lowly 790 on the WTA rankings, Moore moved back to Britain to train at Gosling Tennis Academy under the watchful eye of John Morris. Her results started to pick up in spring time of 2010 as she reached the final of a $10k event in Edinburgh, losing to stable mate Tímea Babos, following this up with her first career top-100 win at the $50k event in Nottingham, beating Chang Kai-chen in three tough sets. During the grass-court season, Moore represented Great Britain in the Maureen Connolly trophy, a sign that the LTA were beginning to see the improvements in Moore both on and off court. This was quickly followed by a wildcard into the ITF junior event at Roehampton where Moore beat world junior No. 1, Daria Gavrilova, 6–0, 6–1, before beating the 2010 Australian Open junior champion, Karolína Plíšková, 6–3, 6–1. But Moore found Karolina's twin sister Kristýna Plíšková too hot to handle as Plíšková achieved a rare double of winning both titles at Roehampton and Wimbledon. On to Wimbledon, Moore had some impressive wins and reached her first Grand Slam quarterfinal where she played fellow Brit Laura Robson and despite controlling much of the match, Moore lost in two sets although she put herself firmly on the tennis map during the grass-court season and credited John Morris for much of the improvements. Post Wimbledon, Moore won her second career title at a $10k event in Chiswick, as well as her first ITF doubles title, alongside Francesca Stephenson, at a $25k in Wrexham, beating Sania Mirza and Emma Laine in the final. She also made the singles quarterfinals in the latter event, with wins over Emilia Baños Gregorians and Manisha Foster. Moore would go on to reach several quarter- and semifinals before ending the year at the $75k event in Dubai. She achieved several career-high rankings through the year and ended 2010 ranked 370. Moore also became a professional in August 2010 when she signed professional terms with London-based management company Global Tennis Connections (GTC), she also signed a long term deal with Adidas International on the back of her upsurge in form and ranking.

2011–2013

Moore was runner-up in the $10k tournament in Sunderland, and won the $10k in Loughborough where she also won the doubles, partnering fellow Brit Francesca Stephenson. She also reached doubles finals in $10k tournaments in Istanbul, partnering Lisa Whybourn, and in Bath, partnering Emma Laine. She ended 2011 with a singles ranking of No. 332.

Moore won no titles in the 2012 season but finished runner-up in singles in the $50k tournament in Kazan, Russia, and in doubles, partnering fellow Brit player Lucy Brown in a $10k event in Antalya, Turkey. However, she improved her ranking throughout the year, and achieved No. 249 in singles.

She started 2013 winning the $10k singles titles in Glasgow and Preston, and following that with the $25k title in Surprise, Arizona. In partnership with compatriot Melanie South, also winning the doubles titles in Glasgow and in the $25k event in Rancho Mirage, California, and ended runner-up in Preston and in Phuket, Thailand.

Moore debuted in top 200 of the singles rankings on 22 April, and made the cut for the Roland Garros qualifying tournament, her first major outside of Wimbledon, where she has played qualifiers courtesy of wildcards. There she lost to seventh seed Sesil Karatancheva, in the first round of qualifying.

On grass in the UK, Moore was awarded a wildcard into the $75k Nottingham Trophy. She reached the second round, beating 143-ranked Slovenian Tadeja Majerič before falling to 110-ranked Hungarian, Melinda Czink. She then received a wildcard into the WTA Tour Birmingham Classic at Edgbaston where she narrowly lost to 12th seeded Kristina Mladenovic in the first round. This followed with a wildcard into Wimbledon in June, where she faced 46-ranked Estonian, Kaia Kanepi, in the first round. Kanepi went on to win in a close three-setter. [4]

Back on the ITF Circuit, Moore reached the finals of both the singles and the doubles tournament of the $25k Woking [5] event on outdoor hardcourt. She lost the singles final to Pemra Özgen in three sets, having held matchpoints. However, she and her Russian partner, Marta Sirotkina, won the doubles, beating Mari Tanaka and Kanae Hisami in the final.

However, in December the LTA cut her funding, citing a lack of results. [6]

2014–2015

In 2014, Moore made her debut for the British Fed Cup team in the ninth/tenth placed playoff against Austria, and won her first singles rubber.

She impressively saw off Tamira Paszek, a former top-30 player. She also played in Wimbledon as a wildcard but lost in the first round to former Wimbledon finalist Vera Zvonareva in a match that spanned two days. Moore failed to build on her Wimbledon performance on her return to ITF Circuit play, as she won just three singles matches in the rest of the year. She saw her ranking slip outside the top 250 in the world as a consequence.

Her poor form continued in 2015. Playing solely at ITF level, Moore's best result was reaching the semifinals of a $10k tournament in Antalya and a $15k event in Loughborough. This was the first year since 2009 that she had failed to make a singles tournament final. She had more success in doubles, reaching three finals and winning the event Antalya in partnership with Cornelia Lister. [7]

2016–2019: First WTA Tour doubles final

Moore's 2016 campaign got off to a bright start, as she won her first tournament of the year, a $10k event in Antalya, [8] beating Anne Schaefer in the final. Following this, Moore and semi-regular doubles partner Conny Perrin played the WTA Tour event in Rio de Janeiro. This was her first WTA event in over two years. Entering would prove a wise choice as Moore and Perrin reached their first ever WTA Tour final, [9] after a run that included a quarterfinal victory over second seeds Marina Erakovic and Sílvia Soler Espinosa. They were beaten by fourth seeds, Verónica Cepede Royg and María Irigoyen, in the title match.

In April 2019, at a ITF World Tour event in Sunderland against Jessika Ponchet, Moore was trailing 0–6, 0–5 and facing match point, but made a comeback to win 0–6, 7–6, 6–3. [10]

2024: Return to tennis

Moore returned to competitive tennis for the first time after her suspension was lifted when she teamed up with Annali Olivelle to win an ITF World Tour first-round match against Melania Delai and Francesca Pace in Sardinia on 30 April 2024. [11]

Partnering with Sarah Beth Grey, she reached her first final since her comeback at the grass-court Surbiton Trophy on 7 June but lost out 6–1, 6–1 to Emina Bektas and Aleksandra Krunic. [12]

Doping suspension and reinstatement

In June 2022, Moore was suspended for doping violations. Ranked a career high in doubles at the time, she has since fallen completely out of both singles and doubles rankings after being banned from tournaments through at least 2023. [13] [14] On 23 December 2023, an independent tribunal panel ruled that the source of the performance enhancing drugs found in her test samples was contaminated meat eaten in South America. [15]

Personal life

Tara was previously married to fellow professional tennis player Emina Bektas. She was previously in a long-term relationship with her former doubles partner, Conny Perrin. [16]

WTA career finals

Doubles: 2 (2 runner-ups)

Legend
Grand Slam
WTA 1000
WTA 500
International / WTA 250 (0–2)
Finals by surface
Hard (0–0)
Clay (0–2)
Grass (0–0)
Carpet (0–0)
ResultW–LDateTournamentTierSurfacePartnerOpponentsScore
Loss0–1 Feb 2016 Rio Open, BrazilInternationalClay Flag of Switzerland (Pantone).svg Conny Perrin Flag of Paraguay.svg Verónica Cepede Royg
Flag of Argentina.svg María Irigoyen
1–6, 6–7(1–7)
Loss0–2 Apr 2022 Copa Colsanitas, ColombiaWTA 250Clay Flag of the United States.svg Emina Bektas Flag of Australia (converted).svg Astra Sharma
Flag of Indonesia.svg Aldila Sutjiadi
6–4, 4–6, [9–11]

ITF Circuit finals

Singles: 17 (9 titles, 8 runner–ups)

Legend
$50,000 tournaments
$25,000 tournaments
$10/15,000 tournaments
Finals by surface
Hard (7–6)
Clay (1–1)
Grass (1–1)
ResultW–L   Date   TournamentTierSurfaceOpponentScore
Win1–0July 2008ITF Frinton, United Kingdom10,000Grass Flag of Germany.svg Mona Barthel 7–5, 6–1
Loss1–1May 2010ITF Edinburgh, UK10,000Clay Flag of Hungary.svg Tímea Babos 2–6, 2–6
Win2–1Aug 2010ITF Chiswick, UK10,000Hard Flag of Ireland.svg Amy Bowtell 6–3, 6–4
Loss2–2Nov 2011ITF Sunderland, UK10,000Hard (i) Flag of Belgium (civil).svg Alison Van Uytvanck 4–6, 1–6
Win3–2Nov 2011 GB Pro-Series Loughborough, UK10,000Hard (i) Flag of France.svg Myrtille Georges 7–6(5), 5–7, 6–4
Loss3–3 Aug 2012 Tatarstan Open, Russia50,000Hard Flag of Ukraine.svg Kateryna Kozlova 3–6, 3–6
Win4–3Jan 2013 GB Pro-Series Glasgow, UK10,000Hard (i) Flag of France.svg Myrtille Georges6–4, 6–1
Win5–3Jan 2013ITF Preston, UK10,000Hard (i) Flag of Ireland.svg Amy Bowtell7–6(2), 6–1
Win6–3Feb 2013ITF Surprise, United States25,000Hard Flag of the United States.svg Louisa Chirico 6–3, 6–1
Loss6–4Aug 2013ITF Woking, UK25,000Hard Flag of Turkey.svg Pemra Özgen 6–3, 5–7, 6–7(8)
Win7–4Jan 2014GB Pro-Series Glasgow, UK (2)10,000Hard Flag of France.svg Myrtille Georges6–3, 6–1
Win8–4Jan 2016ITF Antalya, Turkey10,000Clay Flag of Germany.svg Anne Schäfer 2–6, 7–5, 6–0
Loss8–5 Jun 2016 Eastbourne Trophy, UK50,000Grass Flag of the United States.svg Alison Riske 6–4, 6–7(5), 3–6
Loss8–6Aug 2016ITF Fort Worth, United States25,000Hard Flag of the United States.svg Caitlin Whoriskey 0–6, 4–6
Loss8–7Jan 2017ITF Hong Kong25,000Hard Flag of Chinese Taipei for Olympic games.svg Lee Ya-hsuan 6–2, 6–7(4), 3–6
Win9–7Apr 2018ITF Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt15,000Hard Flag of Greece.svg Eleni Kordolaimi 6–0, 6–1
Loss9–8Apr 2018ITF Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt15,000Hard Flag of Bulgaria.svg Julia Terziyska 2–6, 6–4, 4–6

Doubles: 42 (17 titles, 25 runner-ups)

Legend
$80,000 tournaments
$50/60,000 tournaments
$25,000 tournaments
$10/15,000 tournaments
Finals by surface
Hard (15–18)
Clay (2–4)
Grass (0–2)
Carpet (0–1)
ResultW–LDateTournamentTierSurfacePartnerOpponentsScore
Loss0–1Nov 2008ITF Sunderland, UK10,000Hard (i) Flag of the United Kingdom.svg Katharina Brown Flag of the Netherlands.svg Daniëlle Harmsen
Flag of the Netherlands.svg Kim Kilsdonk
7–6(4), 4–6, [4–10]
Loss0–2Nov 2008ITF Jersey, UK10,000Hard (i) Flag of the United Kingdom.svg Elizabeth Thomas Flag of the Netherlands.svg Daniëlle Harmsen
Flag of the Netherlands.svg Kim Kilsdonk
6–7(4), 4–6
Loss0–3May 2010ITF Edinburgh, UK10,000Clay Flag of Hungary.svg Tímea Babos Flag of the United Kingdom.svg Amanda Elliott
Flag of the United Kingdom.svg Jocelyn Rae
6–7(5), 4–6
Win1–3Jul 2010ITF Wrexham, UK25,000Hard Flag of the United Kingdom.svg Francesca Stephenson Flag of Finland.svg Emma Laine
Flag of India.svg Sania Mirza
2–6, 6–3, [13–11]
Loss1–4Nov 2010ITF Sunderland, UK10,000Hard (i) Flag of the United Kingdom.svg Francesca Stephenson Flag of the United Kingdom.svg Amanda Elliott
Flag of the United Kingdom.svg Anna Fitzpatrick
2–6, 3–6
Loss1–5Mar 2011 GB Pro-Series Bath, UK10,000Hard (i) Flag of Finland.svg Emma Laine Flag of Italy.svg Giulia Gatto-Monticone
Flag of Italy.svg Anastasia Grymalska
4–6, 6–2, [6–10]
Loss1–6Aug 2011ITF İstanbul, Turkey10,000Hard (i) Flag of the United Kingdom.svg Lisa Whybourn Flag of Germany.svg Christina Shakovets
Flag of India.svg Ashvarya Shrivastava
6–3, 6–1
Win2–6Nov 2011 GB Pro-Series Loughborough, UK10,000Hard (i) Flag of the United Kingdom.svg Francesca Stephenson Flag of Denmark.svg Malou Ejdesgaard
Flag of the United Kingdom.svg Amanda Elliott
3–6, 6–2, [10–3]
Loss2–7Apr 2012ITF Antalya, Turkey10,000Hard Flag of the United Kingdom.svg Lucy Brown Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg Lu Jiajing
Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg Lu Jiaxiang
1–6, 0–6
Win3–7Jan 2013 GB Pro-Series Glasgow, UK10,000Hard (i) Flag of the United Kingdom.svg Melanie South Flag of the United Kingdom.svg Anna Smith
Flag of the United Kingdom.svg Francesca Stephenson
7–6(5), 6–3
Loss3–8Jan 2013ITF Preston, UK10,000Hard (i) Flag of the United Kingdom.svg Melanie South Flag of the United Kingdom.svg Samantha Murray
Flag of the United Kingdom.svg Jade Windley
3–6, 6–3, [5–10]
Win4–8Feb 2013ITF Rancho Mirage,
United States
25,000Hard (i) Flag of the United Kingdom.svg Melanie South Flag of the United States.svg Jan Abaza
Flag of the United States.svg Louisa Chirico
4–6, 6–2, [12–10]
Loss4–9Apr 2013ITF Phuket, Thailand25,000Hard (i) Flag of the United Kingdom.svg Melanie South Flag of Thailand.svg Nicha Lertpitaksinchai
Flag of Thailand.svg Peangtarn Plipuech
6–3, 5–7, [11–9]
Win5–9Jul 2013ITF Woking, UK25,000Hard Flag of Russia.svg Marta Sirotkina Flag of Japan.svg Kanae Hisami
Flag of Japan.svg Mari Tanaka
4–6, 6–1, [10–7]
Win6–9Mar 2014ITF Preston, UK25,000Hard Flag of Russia.svg Marta Sirotkina Flag of Switzerland (Pantone).svg Timea Bacsinszky
Flag of Germany.svg Kristina Barrois
3–6, 6–1, [13–11]
Loss6–10Feb 2015GB Pro-Series Glasgow, UK25,000Hard (i) Flag of Switzerland (Pantone).svg Conny Perrin Flag of Italy.svg Corinna Dentoni
Flag of Italy.svg Claudia Giovine
6–0, 1–6, [7–10]
Win7–10Mar 2015ITF Antalya, Turkey10,000Clay Flag of Sweden.svg Cornelia Lister Flag of Germany.svg Kim Grajdek
Flag of Australia (converted).svg Alexandra Nancarrow
7–6(0), 7–5
Loss7–11 Jun 2015 Surbiton Trophy, UK50,000Grass Flag of the United Kingdom.svg Nicola Slater Flag of Ukraine.svg Lyudmyla Kichenok
Flag of Switzerland (Pantone).svg Xenia Knoll
6–7(6), 3–6
Loss7–12Jul 2015ITF Rome, Italy25,000Clay Flag of Switzerland (Pantone).svg Conny Perrin Flag of Italy.svg Claudia Giovine
Flag of Greece.svg Despina Papamichail
4–6, 6–7(2)
Loss7–13Feb 2016ITF São Paulo, Brazil25,000Clay Flag of Switzerland (Pantone).svg Conny Perrin Flag of Argentina.svg Catalina Pella
Flag of Chile.svg Daniela Seguel
3–6, 1–6
Loss7–14Feb 2017 AK Ladies Open, Germany25,000Carpet (i) Flag of Switzerland (Pantone).svg Conny Perrin Flag of Romania.svg Alexandra Cadanțu
Flag of Sweden.svg Cornelia Lister
2–6, 6–3, [9–11]
Loss7–15Mar 2017ITF Pula, Italy25,000Clay Flag of Switzerland (Pantone).svg Conny Perrin Flag of Russia.svg Olesya Pervushina
Flag of Ukraine.svg Dayana Yastremska
4–6, 4–6
Win8–15 Sep 2017 ITF Albuquerque,
United States
80,000Hard Flag of Switzerland (Pantone).svg Conny Perrin Flag of Switzerland (Pantone).svg Viktorija Golubic
Flag of Switzerland (Pantone).svg Amra Sadiković
6–3, 6–3
Loss8–16Oct 2017ITF Florence, United States25,000Hard Flag of Switzerland (Pantone).svg Amra Sadikovic Flag of the United States.svg Maria Sanchez
Flag of the United States.svg Taylor Townsend
1–6, 2–6
Loss8–17Feb 2018GB Pro-Series Loughborough, UK25,000Hard (i) Flag of Switzerland (Pantone).svg Conny Perrin Flag of the Netherlands.svg Michaëlla Krajicek
Flag of the Netherlands.svg Bibiane Schoofs
7–6(5), 1–6, [6–10]
Win9–17Mar 2018ITF São Paulo, Brazil25,000Clay Flag of Switzerland (Pantone).svg Conny Perrin Flag of Chinese Taipei for Olympic games.svg Hsu Chieh-yu
Flag of Mexico.svg Marcela Zacarías
6–4, 3–6, [13–11]
Win10–17Apr 2018ITF Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt15,000Hard Flag of Greece.svg Eleni Kordolaimi Flag of India.svg Rutuja Bhosale
Flag of India.svg Kanika Vaidya
6–4, 6–1
Loss10–18 May 2018 Fukuoka International, Japan60,000Carpet Flag of Switzerland (Pantone).svg Amra Sadikovic Flag of the United Kingdom.svg Naomi Broady
Flag of the United States.svg Asia Muhammad
2–6, 0–6
Loss10–19Oct 2018ITF Florence, United States25,000Hard Flag of Switzerland (Pantone).svg Conny Perrin Flag of Kazakhstan.svg Anna Danilina
Flag of Norway.svg Ulrikke Eikeri
7–6(9), 2–6, [8–10]
Win11–19 Oct 2018 Challenger de Saguenay, Canada60,000Hard (i) Flag of Switzerland (Pantone).svg Conny Perrin Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg Sharon Fichman
Flag of the United States.svg Maria Sanchez
6–0, 5–7, [10–7]
Loss11–20Mar 2019ITF Nishitama, Japan25,000Hard Flag of the United States.svg Emina Bektas Flag of Japan.svg Haruna Arakawa
Flag of Japan.svg Minori Yonehara
4–6, 3–6
Loss11–21Mar 2019 Kōfu International Open, Japan25,000Hard Flag of the United States.svg Emina Bektas Flag of Chinese Taipei for Olympic games.svg Chang Kai-chen
Flag of Chinese Taipei for Olympic games.svg Hsu Ching-wen
1–6, 3–6
Loss11–22Apr 2019ITF Sunderland, UK25,000Hard (i) Flag of the United States.svg Emina Bektas Flag of Poland.svg Maja Chwalińska
Flag of Norway.svg Ulrikke Eikeri
4–6, 6–3, [9–11]
Win12–22Sep 2019ITF Redding, United States25,000Hard Flag of the United States.svg Emina Bektas Flag of the United States.svg Catherine Harrison
Flag of New Zealand.svg Paige Hourigan
6–3, 6–1
Win13–22Oct 2019ITF Florence, United States25,000Hard Flag of the United States.svg Emina Bektas Flag of Australia (converted).svg Olivia Tjandramulia
Flag of Mexico.svg Marcela Zacarias
7-5, 6–4
Win14–22 Jan 2021 Georgia's Rome Open,
United States
60,000Hard Flag of the United States.svg Emina Bektas Flag of Belarus.svg Olga Govortsova
Flag of Serbia.svg Jovana Jović
5–7, 6–2, [10–8]
Win15–22Feb 2021ITF Orlando, United States25,000Hard Flag of the United States.svg Emina Bektas Flag of Switzerland (Pantone).svg Conny Perrin
Flag of Colombia.svg Camila Osorio
7–5, 2–6, [10–5]
Loss15–23Mar 2021ITF Newport Beach,
United States
25,000Hard Flag of the United States.svg Emina Bektas Flag of the United States.svg Vania King
Flag of the United States.svg Maegan Manasse
4–6, 2–6
Win16–23Apr 2021 Dubai Challenge, UAE25,000Hard Flag of the United States.svg Emina Bektas Flag of Turkey.svg Berfu Cengiz
Flag of Turkey.svg İpek Öz
7–5, 4–6, [10–7]
Loss16–24 Oct 2021 Las Vegas Open,
United States
60,000Hard Flag of the United States.svg Emina Bektas Flag of the United States.svg Quinn Gleason
Flag of Slovakia.svg Tereza Mihalíková
6–7(5), 5–7
Win17–24 Jan 2022 Traralgon International, Australia60,000Hard Flag of the United States.svg Emina Bektas Flag of the United States.svg Catherine Harrison
Flag of Indonesia.svg Aldila Sutjiadi
0–6, 7–6(1), [10-8]
Loss17–25 Feb 2022 Georgia's Rome Open,
United States
60,000Hard (i) Flag of the United States.svg Emina Bektas Flag of the United States.svg Sophie Chang
Flag of the United States.svg Angela Kulikov
3–6, 7–6(2), [7–10]

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<span class="mw-page-title-main">Georgie Gent</span> English tennis player (born 1988)

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<span class="mw-page-title-main">Emily Webley-Smith</span> British professional tennis player

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<span class="mw-page-title-main">Misaki Doi</span> Japanese tennis player (born 1991)

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<span class="mw-page-title-main">Çağla Büyükakçay</span> Turkish tennis player

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<span class="mw-page-title-main">Anna Kalinskaya</span> Russian tennis player (born 1998)

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<span class="mw-page-title-main">Elena-Gabriela Ruse</span> Romanian tennis player

Elena-Gabriela Ruse is a Romanian professional tennis player. She has career-high WTA rankings of 51 in singles and 32 in doubles. She won her maiden WTA Tour singles title at the 2021 Hamburg European Open. She has also won six singles and eleven doubles titles on the ITF Circuit.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Maia Lumsden</span> British tennis player

Maia Lumsden is a British professional tennis player. She has a career-high WTA doubles ranking of world No. 57 achieved on 1 July 2024. Lumsden has won one doubles title on the WTA Challenger Tour as well as three titles in singles and eleven in doubles on the ITF Circuit.

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