Jessika Ponchet

Jessika Ponchet
Country (sports)  France
Residence Angresse, France
Born (1996-09-26) 26 September 1996
Bayonne, France
Turned pro 2011
Plays Right-handed (one-handed backhand)
Prize money $182,720
Singles
Career record 154-104
Career titles 0 WTA Tour, 4 ITF Women's Circuit
Highest ranking No. 211 (6 August 2018)
Current ranking No. 228 (8 October 2018)
Grand Slam Singles results
Australian Open 1R (2018)
French Open 1R (2018)
US Open Q1 (2018)
Doubles
Career record 62-65
Career titles 0 WTA Tour, 3 ITF Women's Circuit
Highest ranking No. 277 (1 October 2018)
Current ranking No. 277 (8 October 2018)
Grand Slam Doubles results
French Open 1R (2018)
Last updated on: 10 October 2018.

Jessika Ponchet (born 26 September 1996) is a French professional tennis player. Ponchet has a career high WTA singles ranking of world no. 211 (attained on 6 August 2018) and a career high WTA doubles ranking of world no. 277 (attained on 1 October 2018).

Career

Ponchet did not play any ITF junior tournaments, plunging straight into the ITF Women's Circuit at the age of 14.[1]

2011-2013

Ponchet played the singles events of four tournaments and the doubles event of one tournament in the 2011 ITF Women's Circuit, starting with a $100,000 tournament held in early July in the French city of Biarritz. She played a total of eleven and eighteen ITF Women's Circuit tournaments in 2012 and 2013 respectively.[2]

2014-2015

Ponchet played a total of seventeen ITF Women's Circuit tournaments in 2014. Ponchet suffered a major setback when torn knee ligaments forced her to miss tournaments in the first eight months of 2015. She played the singles events of seven tournaments and the doubles event of one tournament in the 2015 ITF Women's Circuit.[1][2]

2016

Ponchet played a total of twenty-two ITF Women's Circuit tournaments in 2016.[2]

2017

Ponchet made her Grand Slam and WTA Tour singles debut at the 2017 French Open after receiving a singles qualifying wild card; in the singles qualifying event, she defeated Dalma Gálfi (the 2015 ITF World Champion in the girls' combined category) in the first round before losing to the no. 4 seed Richèl Hogenkamp 5-7, 2-6 in the second round.[2][3]

Ponchet made her WTA 125K Series debut at the 2017 Open de Limoges after receiving a wild card for the singles main draw, where she defeated her compatriot Chloé Paquet in the first round and lost to the no. 7 seed Kaia Kanepi in the second round.[2][3]

Ponchet finished 2017 with a final win-loss record of 42-24 for singles matches played in the WTA Tour, WTA 125K Series and ITF Women's Circuit.[1]

2018

Ponchet made her Grand Slam and WTA Tour singles main draw debut at the 2018 Australian Open after receiving a wildcard for the singles main draw,[4]where she lost in the first round to the number 3 seed Garbiñe Muguruza 4-6, 3-6. Prior to the 2018 Australian Open, Ponchet had in her entire career played in the singles main draw event of just one tournament that was at a higher level than the ITF Women's Circuit (the 2017 Open de Limoges) and had never even faced a player ranked in the top 100 of the WTA singles rankings.[5]

ITF Women's Circuit finals

Singles (4– )




References

  1. 1 2 3 "Getting to know you: Introducing Melbourne's Grand Slam debutantes". 14 January 2018.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 "ITF profile of Jessika Ponchet". ITF.
  3. 1 2 "Jessika Ponchet WTA website". WTA Tour official website.
  4. ↑ "Open d'Australie : Des wild cards pour Corentin Moutet et Jessika Ponchet". Eurosport. 8 December 2017.
  5. ↑ "Muguruza made to work by Ponchet for Melbourne win". WTA Tour official website. 16 January 2018.
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