Alice Pirsu Explained

Alice Pirsu
Birth Date:16 May 1979
Birth Place:Bucharest, Romania
Careerprizemoney:$26,301
Singlesrecord:78–70
Singlestitles:1 ITF
Highestsinglesranking:No. 200 (20 July 1998)
Doublesrecord:47–46
Doublestitles:1 ITF
Highestdoublesranking:No. 223 (20 July 1998)
Team:yes
Fedcupresult:4–6

Alice Pirsu (born 16 May 1979) is a former professional tennis player from Romania.

Biography

Born in Bucharest, Pirsu competed on the professional tour in the 1990s. As a junior, she had a top ranking of 24 and reached the second round at Wimbledon.[1]

Beginning on the ITF Circuit in 1994, she won her biggest title at Athens in 1997, defeating Evgenia Kulikovskaya in the final of a $25k tournament.[2] She played five singles and five doubles rubbers for Romania's Fed Cup team across 1997 and 1998, in a total of seven ties. In 1998, her final year on tour, she reached her best singles ranking of 200 in the world.

Pirsu left the professional tennis circuit to attend the University of Pennsylvania. While studying for her economics degree she was a co-captain of the university's tennis team, the Penn Quakers, earning the Ivy League Player of the Year award in both 2002 and 2003. She made the final eight of the 2003 NCAA Division I Women's Tennis Championships, becoming the first Quakers player to have done so.[3]

She is now based in New York and runs an interior design company in Pelham.[4]

ITF finals

Singles (1–3)

Legend
$25,000 tournaments
$10,000 tournaments
OutcomeNo.DateTournamentSurfaceOpponentScore
Winner1.31 August 1997ITF Athens, GreeceClay Evgenia Kulikovskaya4–6, 7–5, 6–3
Runner-up2.7 September 1997ITF Cluj, RomaniaClay Desislava Topalova3–6, 7–5, 3–6
Runner-up3.12 October 1997ITF Thessaloniki, GreeceHard Antoaneta Pandjerova2–6, 2–6
Runner-up4.20 September 1998ITF Constanta, RomaniaClay Anna Zaporozhanova6–7, 1–6

Doubles (1–6)

OutcomeNo.DateTournamentSurfacePartnerOpponentsScore
Runner-up1.7 August 1995ITF İstanbul, TurkeyHard Raluca Sandu Gülberk Gültekin
Selin Nassi Tekikbas
2–6, 2–6
Winner2.24 June 1996ITF Maribor, SloveniaClay Kira Nagy
Andrea Noszály
6–4, 7–5
Runner-up3.18 August 1996ITF İstanbul, TurkeyHard Khoo Chin-bee İpek Şenoğlu
Desislava Topalova
1–6, 4–6
Runner-up4.28 July 1997ITF Horb, GermanyClay Magda Mihalache Julia Abe
Renee Reid
3–6, 3–6
Runner-up5.1 September 1997ITF Cluj-Napoca, RomaniaClay Magda Mihalache Olga Vymetálková
Blanka Kumbárová
6–7(3), 6–4, 4–6
Runner-up6.6 April 1998ITF Athens, GreeceClay Andreea Ehritt-Vanc Alice Canepa
Tatiana Garbin
7–5, 2–6, 4–6
Runner-up7.ITF Constanța, RomaniaHard 3–6, 6–7(5)

Notes and References

  1. News: Wimbledon Results . Cumberland Times News . 24 . 5 July 1995.
  2. Web site: $25,000 Athens II . International Tennis Federation.
  3. News: Burrick . David . Alice Pirsu advances to Quarterfinals . The Daily Pennsylvanian . 22 May 2003 . en-us.
  4. News: Children’s books inspire Christmas tree display . The Riverdale Press . 24 December 2014 . en.