Myrtille Georges Explained

Myrtille Georges
Residence:Osny, France
Birth Date:1990 12, df=yes
Birth Place:Granville, France
Height:1.74 m
Retired:2020
Plays:Right-handed (two-handed backhand)
Careerprizemoney:US$ 516,845
Singlestitles:9 ITF
Highestsinglesranking:No. 168 (18 July 2016)
Australianopenresult:1R (2017)
Frenchopenresult:2R (2016)
Wimbledonresult:Q3 (2017)
Usopenresult:Q3 (2016)
Doublestitles:6 ITF
Highestdoublesranking:No. 287 (21 August 2017)
Frenchopendoublesresult:2R (2017)
Frenchopenmixedresult:1R (2017)

Myrtille Georges (in French pronounced as /miʁtij ʒɔʁʒ/; born 21 December 1990) is a French former tennis player.

She has career-high WTA rankings of 168 in singles (achieved on 18 July 2016) and world No. 287 in doubles (21 August 2017). She won nine singles and six doubles titles on the ITF Women's World Tennis Tour.

Career

Georges made her debut on the ITF Women's Circuit in November 2006 at a $10k event in Le Havre; she only played in the singles draw and was eliminated in the second round of qualifying. Her next stop was in November 2007 at a $50k tournament in Deauville, France (it was the only tournament that she played in 2007); she only played the singles event and was eliminated in the qualifying first round.

In 2008, she played the singles events of five tournaments (all of them in France and four of them in the last four months of the year) on the ITF Circuit.[1]

From 2009 onwards, Georges started to play more regularly; she played in the singles events of 23 tournaments on the 2009 ITF Circuit.

She made her WTA Tour doubles debut at the 2010 Internationaux de Strasbourg after receiving a main-draw wildcard; she and her partner Émilie Bacquet lost in the first round to the top-seeded pair of Chuang Chia-jung and Lucie Hradecká, 1–6, 3–6.

Georges made her WTA Tour singles debut at the 2011 Open GdF Suez also thanks to a wildcard; she lost in the first round of qualifying to Maria-Elena Camerin, 3–6, 3–6.

Making her Grand Slam singles main-draw debut at the 2016 French Open after obtaining a wildcard, she was eliminated in the first or second singles qualifying rounds of the French Open for four consecutive years, from 2012 (the year of her Grand Slam singles debut) to 2015. In the first round of the 2016 French Open, she defeated world No. 67, Christina McHale, 6–7, 6–0, 6–3, to register her first career-win over a player ranked in the top 100 of the WTA singles rankings, before losing in the second round to the No. 4 seed Garbiñe Muguruza, 2–6, 0–6 in 53 minutes.[2] [3]

She announced her retirement from professional tennis in September 2020.[4]

Grand Slam performance timeline

Singles

Tournament201220132014201520162017201820192020W–L
Australian OpenAAAAA1RQ1Q1A0–1
French OpenQ1Q1Q2Q12R1R1RQ1A1–3
WimbledonAAAAQ1Q3AQ1NH0–0
US OpenAAAAQ3Q1Q1AA0–0
Win–loss0–00–00–00–01–10–20–10–00–01–4

ITF Circuit finals

Singles: 23 (9 titles, 14 runner–ups)

Legend
$60,000 tournaments
$25,000 tournaments
$10/15,000 tournaments
Finals by surface
Hard (5–7)
Clay (4–7)
ResultW–LDateTournamentTierSurfaceOpponentScore
Loss0–1Aug 2010ITF Bree, Belgium10,000Clay Valeria Solovieva7–5, 4–6, 3–6
Win1–1Sep 2011ITF Apeldoorn, Netherlands10,000Clay Lesley Kerkhove7–5, 6–4
Loss1–2Nov 2011ITF Loughborough, United Kingdom10,000Hard (i) Tara Moore6–7(5), 7–5, 4–6
Win2–2Apr 2012ITF Le Havre, France10,000Clay (i) Ysaline Bonaventure5–7, 7–5, 6–0
Loss2–3Apr 2012ITF San Severo, Italy10,000Clay Anastasia Grymalska6–4, 1–6, 1–6
Loss2–4Aug 2012ITF Rebecq, Belgium25,000Clay Kirsten Flipkens2–6, 1–6
Loss2–5Jan 2013GB Pro-Series Glasgow, UK10,000Hard (i) Tara Moore4–6, 1–6
Loss2–6Aug 2013ITF Braunschweig, Germany15,000Clay Kristina Barrois6–4, 2–6, 3–6
Loss2–7Jan 2014GB Pro-Series Glasgow, UK10,000Hard (i) Tara Moore3–6, 1–6
Win3–7Jan 2015ITF Port El Kantaoui, Tunisia10,000Hard Estelle Cascino6–4, 6–2
Win4–7Mar 2015ITF Port El Kantaoui, Tunisia10,000Hard Isabella Shinikova6–4, 6–0
Loss4–8Aug 2015ITF Koksijde, Belgium25,000Clay Kiki Bertens6–3, 2–6, 3–6
Win5–8Sep 2015ITF Barcelona, Spain15,000Clay Georgina García Pérez6–3, 7–6(3)
Win6–8Feb 2016Open de l'Isère, France25,000Hard (i) Indy de Vroome7–6(4), 6–2
Win7–8May 2017ITF La Marsa, Tunisia25,000Clay Alexandra Panova6–1, 6–1
Win8–8Oct 2017ITF Cherbourg-en-Cotentin, France25,000Hard (i) Audrey Albié6–4, 3–6, 7–5
Loss8–9Oct 2017Open de Touraine, France25,000Hard (i) Tereza Smitková3–6, 5–7
Loss8–10Feb 2018ITF Perth, Australia25,000Hard Gabriella Taylor2–6, 5–7
Loss8–11Apr 2018ITF Pula, Italy25,000Clay Tamara Zidanšek1–6, 6–7(4)
Loss8–12Jun 2018ITF Périgueux, France25,000Clay Nadia Podoroska2–6, 0–6
Loss8–13Oct 2018Open de Touraine, France25,000Hard (i) Chloé Paquet6–7(5), 2–6
Win9–13Mar 2019ITF Mâcon, France25,000Hard (i) Lesley Kerkhove6–3, 6–3
Loss9–14Jul 2019ITF Porto, Portugal25,000Hard Eva Guerrero Álvarez4–6, 7–6(4), 3–6

Doubles: 8 (6 titles, 2 runner–ups)

ResultNo.DateTournamentSurfacePartnerOpponentsScore
Win1.ITF Rebecq, BelgiumClay Émilie Bacquet Kika Hogendoorn
Elke Lemmens
6–3, 4–6, [11–9]
Win2.ITF Le Havre, FranceClay (i) Céline Ghesquière Manon Arcangioli
Kinnie Laisné
6–4, 6–2
Win3.ITF Denain, FranceClay Céline Ghesquière Michaela Hončová
Isabella Shinikova
6–4, 6–2
Loss1.ITF Koksijde, BelgiumClay Céline Ghesquière Diana Buzean
Daniëlle Harmsen
6–3, 3–6, [5–10]
Win4.ITF Port El Kantaoui, TunisiaHard Céline Ghesquière Kristýna Hrabalová
Vendula Žovincová
6–7(6), 6–2, [10–5]
Win5.14 March 2015ITF Port El Kantaoui, TunisiaHard Isabella Shinikova Chanel Simmonds
Magali Kempen
1–6, 6–4, [10–2]
Loss2.12 October 2019ITF Cherbourg, FranceHard (i) Kimberley Zimmermann Naomi Broady
Samantha Murray
3–6, 2–6
Win6.23 February 2020GB Pro-Series Glasgow, UKHard (i) Kimberley Zimmermann Lara Salden
Clara Tauson
7–6(2), 7–6(5)

Notes and References

  1. Web site: ITF profile of Myrtille Georges. ITF.
  2. Web site: Muguruza flashes past wildcard Georges. French Open official website. 25 May 2016.
  3. Web site: Portrait de Myrtille Georges. Les Reporters Incrédules. 20 November 2017.
  4. Web site: Portrait de Myrtille Georges se-retire-de-la-scene-internationale. Ouest-France. 10 November 2020.