Émilie Loit

Émilie Loit

Country (sports)	France
Residence	Boulogne-Billancourt, France
Born	9 June 1979 Cherbourg, France
Height	1.67 m (5 ft 6 in)
Turned pro	1994
Retired	2009
Plays	Left-handed (two-handed backhand)
Prize money	US$ 2,086,943
Singles
Career record	371–295
Career titles	3 (7 in ITF)
Highest ranking	No. 27 (19 April 2004)
Grand Slam Singles results
Australian Open	4R (1999)
French Open	3R (2000, 2002, 2005, 2008)
Wimbledon	3R (2003)
US Open	3R (2003)
Doubles
Career record	265–175
Career titles	16 (5 in ITF)
Highest ranking	No. 15 (10 November 2003)
Grand Slam Doubles results
Australian Open	3R (2003, 2006)
French Open	QF (2003, 2005)
Wimbledon	QF (2004)
US Open	QF (1998)

Émilie Loit (born 9 June 1979) is a retired French professional female tennis player. She was born in Cherbourg, France.

She rose to fame when she played against American superstar Serena Williams before losing 6–3, 6–7, 5–7 in a tough first round 2003 Australian Open match.

In her career Loit has won three career singles titles: 2004 Estoril, Casablanca and 2007 Acapulco (all on clay) and sixteen doubles titles. However, she had been a shame when she lost to Anastasia Myskina and Vera Zvonareva in penultimate deciding doubles match at Fed Cup 2004 with Marion Bartoli; as a result France could not defend their championships & their team leader Guy Forget had to resign; also she was not chosen by the new leader Georges Goven to play in next year (2005) of this tournament; but she came back to the team in 2006.^[1]

Emilie's highest WTA Ranking was No. 27 in singles and No. 15 in doubles.

On 24 May 2009, right after losing her 2009 French Open first round match to Switzerland's Timea Bacsinszky, she announced that she would be retiring from tennis after the end of the tournament.^[2]

She is a member of the "generation 1979" alongside Amélie Mauresmo, Nathalie Dechy, Anne-Gaëlle Sidot and Séverine Brémond Beltrame.

In the summer of 2011, she gave birth to a son, Mathias.^[3]

Career titles

Singles (10)

Doubles

Grand Slam (0)

WTA Championships (0)

Tier I (0)

Tier II (0)

Tier III (1)

Tier IV (2)

ITF Titles (7)

No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Opponent in the final	Score
1.	February 2, 1997	Dinan	Clay (i)	Emmanuelle Curutchet	6–2, 7–6
2.	May 11, 1997	Gelos	Clay	Karolina Jagieniak	6–4, 6–2
3.	February 1, 1998	Dinan	Clay (i)	Elodie Le Bescond	6–1, 6–1
4.	September 17, 2000	Bordeaux	Clay	Lubomira Bacheva	7–5, 6–2
5.	April 14, 2002	Dinan	Clay (I)	Zuzana Ondrášková	6–2, 7–5
6.	May 5, 2002	Cagnes-sur-Mer	Clay	Alena Vašková	7–5, 3–6, 6–4
7.	April 11, 2004	Casablanca	Clay	Ľudmila Cervanová	6–2, 6–2
8.	April 18, 2004	Estoril	Clay	Iveta Benešová	7–5, 7–6
9.	October 16, 2005	Joué-lès-Tours	Hard (i)	Jelena Kostanić	6–2, 6–1
10.	March 3, 2007	Acapulco	Clay	Flavia Pennetta	7–6, 6–4

Doubles

Doubles

Grand Slam (0)

WTA Championships (0)

Tier I (0)

Tier II (3)

Tier III (2)

Tier IV (11)

No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Partner	Opponent in the final	Score
1.	November 21, 1999	Pattaya City	Hard	Åsa Carlsson	Evgenia Koulikovskaya Patricia Wartusch	6–1, 6–4
2.	January 16, 2000	Hobart	Hard	Rita Grande	Kim Clijsters Alicia Molik	6–2, 2–6, 6–3
3.	February 18, 2001	Nice	Carpet (I)	Anne-Gaëlle Sidot	Kimberly Po Nathalie Tauziat	1–6, 6–2, 6–0
4.	April 21, 2002	Budapest	Clay	Catherine Barclay	Elena Bovina Zsófia Gubacsi	4–6, 6–3, 6–3
5.	January 12, 2003	Canberra	Hard	Tathiana Garbin	Dája Bedáňová Dinara Safina	6–3, 3–6, 6–4
6.	March 2, 2003	Acapulco	Clay	Åsa Svensson	Petra Mandula Patricia Wartusch	6–3, 6–1
7.	September 21, 2003	Shanghai	Hard	Nicole Pratt	Ai Sugiyama Tamarine Tanasugarn	6–3, 6–3
8.	April 11, 2004	Casablanca	Clay	Marion Bartoli	Els Callens Katarina Srebotnik	6–4, 6–2
9.	May 8, 2005	Rabat	Clay	Barbora Strýcová	Lourdes Domínguez Lino Nuria Llagostera Vives	3–6, 7–6^(8–6), 7–5
10.	May 15, 2005	Prague	Clay	Nicole Pratt	Jelena Kostanić Barbora Strýcová	6–7^(6–8), 6–4, 6–4
11.	August 14, 2005	Stockholm	Hard	Katarina Srebotnik	Eva Birnerová Mara Santangelo	6–4, 6–3
12.	August 31, 2005	Budapest	Clay	Katarina Srebotnik	Lourdes Domínguez Lino Marta Marrero	6–1, 3–6, 6–2
13.	October 9, 2005	Tashkent	Hard	Maria Elena Camerin	Anastasia Rodionova Galina Voskoboeva	6–3, 6–0
14.	October 30, 2005	Hasselt	Hard (i)	Katarina Srebotnik	Michaëlla Krajicek Ágnes Szávay	6–3, 6–4
15.	January 13, 2006	Hobart	Hard	Nicole Pratt	Jill Craybas Jelena Kostanić	6–2, 6–1
16.	February 12, 2006	Paris	Carpet (i)	Květa Peschke	Cara Black Rennae Stubbs	7–6^(7–5), 6–4

References

1. 网球网 - 丢了冠军 福尔热想要放弃 (Simplified Chinese only)
2. "Roland-Garros: Émilie Loit prend sa retraite" (French), Reuters, May 24, 2009.
3. Tennis Magazine (France) September 2011 issue

External links

• Émilie Loit at the Women's Tennis Association
• Émilie Loit at the International Tennis Federation
• Émilie Loit at the Fed Cup