Jocelyn Rae Explained

Jocelyn Rae
Country:
Scotland
Residence:Arnold, England
Birth Date:1991 2, df=yes
Birth Place:Nottingham, England
Height:6feet
Turnedpro:2009
Retired:December 2017
Plays:Right (two-handed backhand)
Careerprizemoney:$213,702
Singlestitles:1 ITF
Highestsinglesranking:No. 450 (12 July 2010)
Wimbledonresult:Q1 (2010)
Doublestitles:23 ITF
Highestdoublesranking:No. 67 (22 February 2016)
Australianopendoublesresult:3R (2016)
Frenchopendoublesresult:2R (2016)
Wimbledondoublesresult:2R (2009, 2010, 2015, 2017)
Usopendoublesresult:1R (2015)
Wimbledonmixedresult:QF (2017)
Medaltemplates-Expand:yes

Jocelyn Rae (born 20 February 1991) is a British former tennis player.

Rae has a career-high doubles ranking of 67 by the Women's Tennis Association (WTA), achieved on 22 February 2016. In her career, she won one singles title and 23 doubles titles on the ITF Women's Circuit.

Together with Colin Fleming, she won the gold medal in the mixed doubles at the 2010 Commonwealth Games in Delhi for Scotland (qualifying through her Stirlingshire-born father).[1] She was coached by former professional tennis player and fellow Scot, Karen Paterson.[2] She is openly lesbian.[3]

Career

Junior (2006–2009)

Rae played her first match on the ITF Junior Circuit in April 2006 and continued to compete as a junior until July 2009. During this time, her greatest successes came in doubles although she did win one title at the 2006 Egypt International Championships. She also reached one semifinal and three quarterfinals in singles. In doubles, Rae won three titles (two with Hannah James and one with Amanda Elliott) as well as reaching one more final and three semifinals, one of which was in the 2008 Wimbledon girls' doubles, partnering Jade Curtis. They lost, 6–4, 3–6, 4–6, to Polona Hercog and Jessica Moore, the sixth seeded team who went on to win the title. Rae ended her junior career with win–loss records of 21–18 in singles and 26–14 in doubles. Her career-high combined junior ranking was world No. 167, which she achieved on 23 April 2007.[4]

2014–2017

In February 2014, Rae received her first call up to the British Fed Cup Team, following Laura Robson's withdrawal due to injury.

In July, Rae reached her first WTA Tour doubles final at the Swedish Open, partnering Anna Smith.

In April 2015, Rae won a $50k tournament in Croissy-Beaubourg, France, partnering Anna Smith. In June 2015, she lost the WTA doubles final of the Nottingham Open.

Jocelyn Rae announced her retirement from professional tour in December 2017.[5]

WTA Tour finals

Doubles: 4 (4 runner-ups)

Winner — Legend
Grand Slam tournaments
Tier I / Premier M & Premier 5
Tier II / Premier
Tier III, IV & V / International (0–4)
Finals by surface
Hard (0–1)
Grass (0–2)
Clay (0–1)
Carpet (0–0)
Resultwidth=25No.DateTournamentSurfacePartnerOpponentsScore
Loss1.Jul 2014Båstad Open, SwedenClay Anna Smith Andreja Klepač
María Teresa Torró Flor
1–6, 1–6
Loss2.Jun 2015Nottingham Open, UKGrass Anna Smith Raquel Kops-Jones
Abigail Spears
6–3, 3–6, [9–11]
Loss3.Sep 2016Japan Women's OpenHard Anna Smith Shuko Aoyama
Makoto Ninomiya
3–6, 3–6
Loss4.Jun 2017Nottingham Open, UKGrass Laura Robson Monique Adamczak
Storm Sanders
4–6, 6–4, [4–10]

ITF finals

Singles (1–1)

OutcomeNo.DateTournamentSurfaceOpponentScore
Loss1.31 August 2009Cumberland, United KingdomHard Jade Windley1–6, 1–6
Win1.12 October 2009Mytilini, GreeceHard Jade Windley6–2, 6–1

Doubles (23–7)

Legend
$100,000 tournaments
$75,000 tournaments
$50,000 tournaments
$25,000 tournaments
$15,000 tournaments
$10,000 tournaments
Finals by surface
Hard (19–4)
Clay (1–2)
Grass (3–1)
OutcomeNo.DateTournamentSurfacePartnerOpponentsScore
Win1.15 September 2008Kawana Waters, AustraliaHard Emelyn Starr Alexis Prousis
Robin Stephenson
6–4, 4–6, [10–4]
Win2.6 July 2009Felixstowe, United KingdomGrass Jade Windley Dalila Jakupović
Sarah-Rebecca Sekulic
6–1, 6–0
Win3.13 July 2009Frinton, United KingdomGrass Jade Windley Anna Fitzpatrick
Emelyn Starr
6–3, 7–5
Win4.4 September 2009Cumberland, United KingdomHard Jade Windley Lucia Kovarčíková
Monika Tumova
6–4, 6–0
Loss1.12 October 2009Mytilini, GreeceHard Jade Windley Olga Brózda
Justyna Jegiołka
4–6, 4–6
Loss2.30 November 2009Bendigo International, AustraliaHard Emelyn Starr Irena Pavlovic
Arina Rodionova
3–6, 6–7(3)
Win5.9 May 2010Edinburgh, United KingdomClay Amanda Elliott Tímea Babos
Tara Moore
7–6(5), 6–4
Loss3.17 July 2010Woking, United KingdomHard Emelyn Starr Tímea Babos
Emma Laine
2–6, 2–6
Win6.31 July 2010Chiswick, United KingdomHard Emelyn Starr Anna Fitzpatrick
Jade Windley
6–1, 6–4
Win7.13 November 2010Loughborough, UKHard (i) Jade Windley Jana Orlova
Petra Krejsová
6–3, 5–7, [10–4]
Win8.9 November 2013Loughborough, UKHard (i) Francesca Palmigiano
Camilla Rosatello
6–0, 4–6, [10–3]
Win9.15 November 2013Manchester, UKHard (i) Anna Smith Eva Wacanno
Julia Wachaczyk
6–1, 6–4
Loss4.7 December 2013Pune, IndiaHard Anna Smith Nicha Lertpitaksinchai
Peangtarn Plipuech
5–7, 5–7
Win10.13 December 2013Navi Mumbai, IndiaHard Anna Smith Oksana Kalashnikova
Diāna Marcinkēviča
6–4, 7–6(5)
Win11.18 January 2014GB Pro-Series Glasgow, UKHard (i) Anna Smith Martina Borecká
Tereza Malíková
4–6, 6–2, [10–4]
Win12.25 January 2014Sunderland, UKHard (i) Anna Smith Ágnes Bukta
Viktoriya Tomova
6–1, 6–1
Win13.23 February 2014Nottingham, UKHard (i) Anna Smith Naomi Broady
Renata Voráčová
7–6(6), 6–4
Loss5.28 February 2014Beinasco, ItalyClay (i) Anna Smith Nicole Clerico
Giulia Gatto-Monticone
1–6, 7–5, [11–13]
Win14.31 March 2014 Edgbaston, UKHard (i) Anna Smith Magda Linette
Amra Sadiković
3–6, 7–5, [10–4]
Win15.2 June 2014Nottingham Trophy, UKGrass Anna Smith Sharon Fichman
Maria Sanchez
7–6(5), 4–6, [10–5]
Win16.26 July 2014Lexington Challenger,
United States
Hard Anna Smith Shuko Aoyama
Keri Wong
6–4, 6–4
Win17.1 February 2015Sunderland, UKHard (i) Anna Smith Justyna Jegiołka
Cornelia Lister
6–3, 6–1
Win18.4 April 2015Croissy-Beaubourg, FranceHard (i) Anna Smith Julie Coin
Mathilde Johansson
7–6(5), 7–6(2)
Loss6.10 May 2015Open de Cagnes-sur-Mer, FranceClay Anna Smith Johanna Konta
Laura Thorpe
6–1, 4–6, [5–10]
Loss7.4 June 2015Eastbourne Trophy, UKGrass Anna Smith Shelby Rogers
CoCo Vandeweghe
5–7, 6–7(1)
Win19.2 April 2016ITF Croissy-Beaubourg, FranceHard (i) Anna Smith Lenka Kunčíková
Karolína Stuchlá
6–4, 6–1
Win20.3 September 2016Guiyang, ChinaHard (i) Anna Smith Wei Zhanlan
Zhao Qianqian
6–4, 3–6, [10–5]
Win21.11 November 2016Bratislava, SlovakiaHard (i) Anna Smith Quirine Lemoine
Eva Wacanno
6–3, 6–2
Win22.4 February 2017GB Pro-Series Glasgow, UKHard (i) Anna Smith Laura Ioana Andrei
Petra Krejsová
6–3, 6–2
Win23.19 August 2017Vancouver Open, CanadaHard Jessica Moore Desirae Krawczyk
Giuliana Olmos
6–1, 7–5

Fed Cup participation

Doubles (10–3)

EditionRoundDateLocationAgainstSurfacePartnerOpponentsW/LScore
bgcolor=lightblue rowspan=22011 Fed CupEurope/Africa Group I2 February 2011 Eilat, Israel SwitzerlandHard Heather Watson Timea Bacsinszky
Amra Sadiković
W6–4, 6–3
4 February 2011 Denmark Heather Watson Mai Grage
Caroline Wozniacki
W5–7, 7–5, 7–5
bgcolor=lightblue rowspan=22014 Fed CupEurope/Africa Zone Group I5 February 2014Budapest, Hungary LatviaHard (i) Heather Watson Diāna Marcinkēviča
Jeļena Ostapenko
L6–1, 5–7, 6–7(5–7)
7 February 2014 Romania Heather Watson Irina-Camelia Begu
Monica Niculescu
L0–6, 2–6
bgcolor=lightblue rowspan=32015 Fed CupEurope/Africa Zone Group I4 February 2015Budapest, Hungary LiechtensteinHard (i) Anna Smith Kathinka von Deichmann
Stephanie Vogt
W6–1, 6–2
5 February 2015 Turkey Anna Smith Başak Eraydın
Pemra Özgen
W6–2, 6–1
6 February 2015 Ukraine Anna Smith Kateryna Kozlova
Olga Savchuk
W6–2, 6–1
bgcolor=lightblue rowspan=22016 Fed CupEurope/Africa Zone Group I4 February 2016Eilat, Israel South AfricaHard Anna Smith Madrie Le Roux
Michelle Sammons
W6–3, 6–2
5 February 2016 Georgia Anna Smith Oksana Kalashnikova
Sofia Shapatava
L2–6, 4–6
bgcolor=lightblue rowspan=42017 Fed CupEurope/Africa Zone Group I8 February 2017Tallinn, Estonia PortugalHard (i) Laura Robson Michelle Larcher de Brito
Inês Murta
W6–2, 6–3
9 February 2017 Latvia Laura Robson Diāna Marcinkēviča
Daniela Vismane
W6–0,
6–7(2–7),
6–2
10 February 2017 Turkey Laura Robson Ayla Aksu
Pemra Özgen
W6–2, 6–2
World Group II Play-offs23 April 2017Constanța, Romania RomaniaClay Laura Robson Simona Halep
Monica Niculescu
W6–3, 1–6, [10–8]

External links

Notes and References

  1. https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/amp/tennis/42681521 Jocelyn Rae: Golden girl content to end tennis playing career on a high
  2. Web site: Jos Rae Blog – Fed Cup . lta.org.uk . 28 January 2011 . dead . https://archive.today/20120804132321/http://www.lta.org.uk/Articles/Fed-Cup-2009/2011/Jos-Rae-blog---Fed-Cup/ . 4 August 2012 . dmy-all .
  3. News: Briggs. Simon. 2017-12-16. Joss Rae: 'Billie Jean King made being an openly gay tennis player much easier'. The Telegraph. 2020-10-15. 0307-1235.
  4. Web site: Jocelyn Rae. www.itftennis.com. International Tennis Federation.
  5. Web site: Jocelyn Rae: British Fed Cup player retires, aged 26. BBC Sport. 15 December 2017.