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]

WTA career finals

Singles: 3 (3 titles, 0 runners-up)

Winner – Legend
Grand Slam tournaments (0–0)
WTA Tour Championships (0–0)
Tier I / Premier Mandatory & Premier 5 (0–0)
Tier II / Premier (0–0)
Tier III, IV & V / International (3–0)

Outcome	No.	Date	Championship	Surface	Opponent	Score
Winner	1.	April 11, 2004	Casablanca, Morocco	Clay	Ľudmila Cervanová	6–2, 6–2
Winner	2.	April 18, 2004	Estoril, Portugal	Clay	Iveta Benešová	7–5, 7–6
Winner	3.	March 3, 2007	Acapulco, Mexico	Clay	Flavia Pennetta	7–6, 6–4

Doubles: 26 (16 titles, 10 runners-up)

Winner – Legend
Grand Slam tournaments (0–0)
WTA Tour Championships (0–0)
Tier I / Premier Mandatory & Premier 5 (0–0)
Tier II / Premier (4–5)
Tier III, IV & V / International (12–5)

Outcome	No.	Date	Championship	Surface	Partner	Opponent	Score
Runner-up	1.	16 January 1999	Hobart, Australia	Hard	Alexia Dechaume-Balleret	Mariaan de Swardt Elena Tatarkova	1–6, 2–6
Winner	1.	November 21, 1999	Pattaya City, Thailand	Hard	Åsa Carlsson	Evgenia Koulikovskaya Patricia Wartusch	6–1, 6–4
Winner	2.	January 16, 2000	Hobart, Australia	Hard	Rita Grande	Kim Clijsters Alicia Molik	6–2, 2–6, 6–3
Runner–up	2.	7 February 2000	Paris, France	Carpet (i)	Åsa Carlsson	Julie Halard-Decugis Sandrine Testud	6-3 3-6 4-6
Winner	3.	February 18, 2001	Nice, France	Carpet (I)	Anne-Gaëlle Sidot	Kimberly Po Nathalie Tauziat	1–6, 6–2, 6–0
Winner	4.	April 21, 2002	Budapest, Hungary	Clay	Catherine Barclay	Elena Bovina Zsófia Gubacsi	4–6, 6–3, 6–3
Runner-up	3.	14 September 2002	Bahia, Brazil	Hard	Rossana de los Ríos	Virginia Ruano Pascual Paola Suárez	4–6, 1–6
Runner-up	4.	December 30, 2002	Gold Coast, Australia	Hard	Nathalie Dechy	Svetlana Kuznetsova Martina Navratilova	4–6, 4–6
Winner	5.	January 12, 2003	Canberra, Australia	Hard	Tathiana Garbin	Dája Bedáňová Dinara Safina	6–3, 3–6, 6–4
Runner-up	5.	February 16, 2003	Antwerp, Belgium	Carpet	Nathalie Dechy	Kim Clijsters Ai Sugiyama	2–6, 0–6
Winner	6.	March 2, 2003	Acapulco, Mexico	Clay	Åsa Svensson	Petra Mandula Patricia Wartusch	6–3, 6–1
Runner-up	6.	September 14, 2003	Bali, Indonesia	Hard	Nicole Pratt	Angelique Widjaja María Vento-Kabchi	5–7, 2–6
Winner	7.	September 21, 2003	Shanghai, China	Hard	Nicole Pratt	Ai Sugiyama Tamarine Tanasugarn	6–3, 6–3
Winner	8.	April 11, 2004	Casablanca, Morocco	Clay	Marion Bartoli	Els Callens Katarina Srebotnik	6–4, 6–2
Winner	9.	May 8, 2005	Rabat, Morocco	Clay	Barbora Strýcová	Lourdes Domínguez Lino Nuria Llagostera Vives	3–6, 7–6^(8–6), 7–5
Winner	10.	May 15, 2005	Prague, Czech Republic	Clay	Nicole Pratt	Jelena Kostanić Barbora Strýcová	6–7^(6–8), 6–4, 6–4
Winner	11.	August 14, 2005	Stockholm, Sweden	Hard	Katarina Srebotnik	Eva Birnerová Mara Santangelo	6–4, 6–3
Winner	12.	August 31, 2005	Budapest, Hungary	Clay	Katarina Srebotnik	Lourdes Domínguez Lino Marta Marrero	6–1, 3–6, 6–2
Winner	13.	October 9, 2005	Tashkent, Uzbekistan	Hard	Maria Elena Camerin	Anastasia Rodionova Galina Voskoboeva	6–3, 6–0
Winner	14.	October 30, 2005	Hasselt, Belgium	Hard (i)	Katarina Srebotnik	Michaëlla Krajicek Ágnes Szávay	6–3, 6–4
Runner-up	7.	January 02, 2006	ASB Classic, Auckland, New Zealand	Hard	Barbora Strýcová	Elena Likhovtseva Vera Zvonareva	3–6, 4–6
Winner	15.	January 13, 2006	Hobart, Australia	Hard	Nicole Pratt	Jill Craybas Jelena Kostanić	6–2, 6–1
Winner	16.	February 12, 2006	Paris, France	Carpet (i)	Květa Peschke	Cara Black Rennae Stubbs	7–6^(7–5), 6–4
Runner-up	8.	March 05, 2006	Acapulco, Mexico	Clay	Shinobu Asagoe	Anna-Lena Grönefeld Meghann Shaughnessy	1–6, 3–6
Runner-up	9.	September 18, 2006	Portorož, Slovenia	Hard	Eva Birnerová	Lucie Hradecká Renata Voráčová	w/o
Runner-up	10.	March 03 2007	Acapulco, Mexico	Clay	Nicole Pratt	Arantxa Parra Santonja Lourdes Domínguez Lino	3–6, 3–6

ITF Finals

Singles Finals (7–5)

$100,000 tournaments

$75,000 tournaments

$50,000 tournaments

$25,000 tournaments

$10,000 tournaments

Outcome	No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Opponent	Score
Runner-up	1.	26 November 1995	Le Havre, France	Clay (i)	Selima Sfar	6–0, 3–6, 4–6
Runner-up	2.	7 October 1996	Saint-Raphaël, France	Hard (i)	Susi Fortun Lohrmann	7–5, 2–6, 0–6
Winner	1.	February 2, 1997	Dinan, France	Clay (i)	Emmanuelle Curutchet	6–2, 7–6
Winner	2.	May 11, 1997	Gelos, France	Clay	Karolina Jagieniak	6–4, 6–2
Winner	3.	February 1, 1998	Dinan, France	Clay (i)	Élodie Le Bescond	6–1, 6–1
Winner	4.	September 17, 2000	Bordeaux, France	Clay	Lubomira Bacheva	7–5, 6–2
Runner-up	3.	October 14, 2001	Poitiers, France	Clay	Petra Mandula	5–7, 6–2, 1–6
Winner	5.	April 14, 2002	Dinan, France	Clay (i)	Zuzana Ondrášková	6–2, 7–5
Winner	6.	May 5, 2002	Cagnes-sur-Mer, France	Clay	Alena Vašková	7–5, 3–6, 6–4
Runner-up	4.	June 16, 2002	Marseille, France	Clay	Conchita Martínez Granados	2–6, 6–3, 5–7
Runner-up	5.	September 19, 2004	Bordeaux, France	Clay	Virginie Razzano	7–5, 6–2
Winner	7.	October 16, 2005	Joué-lès-Tours, France	Hard (i)	Jelena Kostanić	6–2, 6–1

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