Pauline Parmentier

Pauline Parmentier (born 31 January 1986) is a French former tennis player.

In 2000, Parmentier played only one tournament on the ITF Women's Circuit; she lost her main-draw opening match in both the singles and doubles events of a $10k tournament held in November in the French commune of Villenave-d'Ornon.

She did not have any year-end WTA singles or doubles ranking for 2000, 2001 and 2002.

In 2001, she played just three ITF tournaments (in Villenave-d'Ornon, Le Havre and Deauville – all held in November, $10k each) and only took part in their singles events; she was eliminated in the qualifying rounds of all of them.

She did not play a single ITF event in 2002.

Parmentier played 13 tournaments in the 2003 ITF Women's Circuit, appearing in their singles or doubles events or both.

In May 2004, she made her WTA Tour singles debut at the Internationaux de Strasbourg, losing in the second qualifying round to Henrieta Nagyová.

At her Grand Slam debut at the 2004 French Open (she received wildcards for both events), she lost in the second singles qualifying round to Roberta Vinci and in the first round of the women's doubles.

It was in 2005 at the French Open that Parmentier appeared in the singles main draw of a WTA tournament for the first time in her career; she entered as a wildcard and lost in the first round to Iveta Benešová.

At the US Open, she won three qualifying matches to reach the main draw, where she lost to No. 2 seed Lindsay Davenport in the second round.

Parmentier again qualified for the main draw of the US Open where she defeated Tatjana Malek in the first round and fell to Martina Hingis in the second.

She broke into the top 100 (at world No. 87) of the rankings for the first time in her career on 10 September 2007 (her singles ranking was No. 106 on 27 August, at the start of the 2007 US Open).

Parmentier won her first career WTA singles title at the Tashkent Open as an unseeded player in October 2007; she did not drop a set during the tournament, defeating the three top seeds Dominika Cibulková (first round), Olga Govortsova (semifinals) and Victoria Azarenka (final)] en route to winning the title.

She also won three ITF singles titles in 2007.

Her career-high WTA singles ranking is world No. 40, which she attained on 21 July 2008.

She competed in the singles and women's doubles events at the 2008 Summer Olympics, and had been playing for France in the Fed Cup since 2010, with a win–loss record of 7–14.

On 18 February 2008, two days after losing in the semifinals of the Tier-III Cachantún Cup in Viña del Mar to top seed Flavia Pennetta, Parmentier made her debut in the top 50 of the singles rankings; she rose from world No. 53 at the start of the 2008 Cachantún Cup to No. 47.

She won the title at Bad Gastein in July – it was her second career WTA (and first Tier III) singles title.

Seeded No. 4, she defeated top seed Ágnes Szávay in the semifinals before defeating qualifier Lucie Hradecká in the final.

Parmentier was nominated to play at the Summer Olympics after Mary Pierce and Amélie Mauresmo withdrew.

She lost her singles first-round match to the No. 16 seed Dominika Cibulková and her doubles first-round match (she was paired with Tatiana Golovin) to the Indian pair of Sania Mirza and Sunitha Rao by walkover.

Parmentier made her Fed Cup debut at the World Group quarterfinal tie against the team of the United States in February 2010.

She lost her first match against Melanie Oudin but won her second against Christina McHale by the same scoreline.

France lost the tie 1–4.

Parmentier qualified for the singles main draw of the Miami Open by defeating American teenager Lauren Davis and Tamarine Tanasugarn in the qualifying rounds; in the main draw, she beat Sybille Bammer before losing to No. 25 seed Ana Ivanovic in the second round.

In late May, the unseeded Parmentier upset the top seed Sabine Lisicki (who was then ranked world No. 12 in the singles ranking) in the first round of the Internationaux de Strasbourg.

She then defeated Stéphanie Foretz in the second round and Alexandra Panova in the quarterfinals to reach her first WTA singles semifinal since winning the title in Bad Gastein; she lost her semifinal to her compatriot and unseeded wildcard Alizé Cornet in three sets.

At the US Open, as an unseeded player, Parmentier defeated No. 25 seed Yanina Wickmayer in the second round before losing to No. 5 seed Petra Kvitová in the third; it was the first time that she had advanced to the third round of the main draw in a Grand Slam tournament.

On 30 April 2012, she peaked at world No. 89 on the WTA doubles rankings.

She won four singles titles on the WTA Tour, as well as ten singles and three doubles titles on the ITF Women's Circuit.

In 2013, Parmentier won only one match (Auckland, held in the first week of January) and exited the first round nine times in ten WTA singles main-draw events, including the Australian Open, French Open and Wimbledon.

She missed several events in April and May because of a right shoulder injury.

In the second half of the year, she played the singles events of eleven tournaments (ten of those on ITF level), including the US Open qualifying event.

In the first week of January, the unseeded Parmentier lost in the semifinals of the $25k tournament in Hong Kong to Elizaveta Kulichkova in three sets after having defeated top seed Magda Linette in the first round and eighth-seeded Mayo Hibi in the quarterfinals.

At the French Open, Parmentier achieved her career-best singles showing in a Grand Slam tournament.

She had received a main-draw wildcard and was ranked world No. 145 in the WTA rankings coming into that tournament.

Parmentier retired following the 2020 French Open.

Parmentier was born in the northern French town of Cucq.

Parmentier's parents are named Dominique and Jean-Philippe and she has two older brothers named Olivier and Julien.

Pauline began playing tennis at age six and trained for five years at the Mouratoglou Tennis Academy.