Jessika Ponchet

Jessika Ponchet (born 26 September 1996) is a French professional tennis player. She has career-high WTA rankings of world No. 169 in singles (attained on 22 July 2019) and world No. 159 in doubles (attained on 9 March 2020).

Jessika Ponchet

Ponchet at the 2019 French Open
Country (sports)	France
Residence	Angresse, France
Born	26 September 1996 Bayonne, France
Turned pro	2011
Plays	Right-handed (one-handed backhand)
Prize money	US$ 395,163
Singles
Career record	204–142 (59.0%)
Career titles	5 ITF
Highest ranking	No. 169 (22 July 2019)
Current ranking	No. 225 (16 March 2020)
Grand Slam Singles results
Australian Open	1R (2018, 2019)
French Open	1R (2018, 2019)
Wimbledon	Q2 (2019)
US Open	Q1 (2018, 2019)
Doubles
Career record	87–80 (52.1%)
Career titles	7 ITF
Highest ranking	No. 159 (9 March 2020)
Current ranking	No. 160 (16 March 2020)
Grand Slam Doubles results
French Open	1R (2018, 2019, 2020)
Last updated on: 22 June 2020.

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 on 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 tournaments in 2012 and 2013 respectively.[2]

2014–2015

Ponchet played a total of 17 ITF tournaments in 2014. She 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 on the 2015 ITF Women's Circuit.[1][2]

2016

Ponchet played a total of 22 ITF tournaments in 2016.[2]

2017

Ponchet made her Grand Slam and WTA Tour singles debut at the French Open after receiving a singles qualifying wild card; in the 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 in the second round.[2][3]

Ponchet made her WTA 125K series debut at the Open de Limoges, entering only its singles event. She received a wild card for the 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.[1]

2018

Ponchet made her Grand Slam and WTA Tour singles main-draw debut at the Australian Open after receiving a wild card for the main draw,[4] where she lost in the first round to the No. 3 seed Garbiñe Muguruza. Prior to the 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 WTA singles rankings.[5]

Ponchet made French Open singles main-draw debut after receiving a wild card for the main draw, where she lost in the first round to the unseeded Lucie Šafářová in straight sets.

2019

At the Australian Open, Ponchet reached the singles main draw where she lost in the first round to 19th-seeded Caroline Garcia, after winning all her three qualifying matches without dropping a set.

On 9 April, in her first-round match of the $25,000 ITF tournament in Sunderland, Ponchet was leading Tara Moore 6–0, 5–0 and had a match point to achieve a double bagel, but Moore staged a comeback to win 0–6, 7–6, 6–3.[6]

WTA 125K series finals

Doubles: 1 (runner-up)

Result	W–L	Date	Tournament	Surface	Partner	Opponents	Score
Loss	0–1	Feb 2020	WTA Newport Beach, United States	Hard	Marie Benoît	Hayley Carter Luisa Stefani	1–6, 3–6

ITF Circuit finals

Singles: 9 (5 titles, 4 runner–ups)

Legend $100,000 tournaments $80,000 tournaments $60,000 tournaments $25,000 tournaments $15,000 tournaments $10,000 tournaments

Finals by surface Hard (3–3) Clay (2–1) Grass (0–0) Carpet (0–0)

Result	W–L	Date	Tournament	Tier	Surface	Opponent	Score
Loss	0–1	Oct 2015	ITF Port El Kantaoui, Tunisia	10,000	Hard	Valeriya Strakhova	2–6, 3–6
Loss	0–2	May 2016	ITF Monzón, Spain	10,000	Hard	Marie Bouzková	4–6, 4–6
Win	1–2	Jul 2016	ITF Getxo, Spain	10,000	Clay	Ioana Loredana Roșca	4–6, 6–2, 6–1
Win	2–2	Jul 2016	ITF El Espinar, Spain	10,000	Hard	Rocío de la Torre Sánchez	6–4, 6–2
Loss	2–3	Nov 2016	ITF Vinaròs, Spain	10,000	Clay	Andrea Gamiz	6–1, 1–6, 4–6
Win	3–3	Nov 2016	ITF Benicarló, Spain	10,000	Clay	Amanda Carreras	6–0, 7–6^(8–6)
Win	4–3	Jul 2018	ITF Figueira da Foz, Portugal	25,000	Hard	Eva Guerrero Álvarez	7–6^(7–4), 6–2
Win	5–3	Feb 2019	ITF Glasgow, United Kingdom	25,000	Hard (i)	Mariam Bolkvadze	6–3, 6–1
Loss	5–4	Mar 2020	ITF Mâcon, France	25,000	Hard (i)	Océane Dodin	6–3, 1–6, 3–6

Doubles: 13 (8 titles, 5 runner–ups)

Legend $100,000 tournaments $80,000 tournaments $60,000 tournaments $25,000 tournaments $15,000 tournaments $10,000 tournaments

Finals by surface Hard (5–2) Clay (3–2) Grass (0–0) Carpet (0–1)

Result	W–L	Date	Tournament	Tier	Surface	Partner	Opponents	Score
Win	1–0	Mar 2014	ITF Gonesse, France	10,000	Clay (i)	Karolína Stuchlá	Carolin Daniels Lena-Marie Hofmann	6–7^(4–7), 6–3, [10–3]
Win	2–0	Jun 2016	ITF Madrid, Spain	10,000	Clay	Marina Shamayko	Ainhoa Atucha Gómez María José Luque Moreno	6–2, 6–3
Loss	2–1	Jul 2016	ITF Getxo, Spain	10,000	Clay	Carla Lucero	Oleksandra Korashvili Ioana Loredana Roșca	0–6, 3–6
Loss	2–2	Jul 2016	ITF El Espinar, Spain	10,000	Hard	Ioana Loredana Roșca	Charlotte Roemer Sarah-Rebecca Sekulic	2–6, 6–7^(4–7)
Win	3–2	Dec 2016	ITF Castellón de la Plana, Spain	10,000	Clay	Laura Pigossi	Arabela Fernández Rabener Isabelle Wallace	6–1, 6–3
Loss	3–3	Apr 2017	ITF Hammamet, Tunisia	15,000	Clay	Manon Arcangioli	Gabriela Ce Andrea Gamiz	1–6, 2–6
Loss	3–4	Apr 2018	ITF Óbidos, Portugal	25,000	Carpet	Ganna Poznikhirenko	Sarah Beth Grey Olivia Nicholls	2–6, 1–6
Loss	3–5	Jul 2018	ITF Figueira da Foz, Portugal	25,000	Hard	Sviatlana Pirazhenka	Yvonne Cavalle-Reimers Andrea Gamiz	2–6, 5–7
Win	4–5	May 2019	ITF Les Franqueses del Vallès, Spain	60,000	Hard	Eden Silva	Jodie Anna Burrage Olivia Nicholls	6–3, 6–4
Win	5–5	Aug 2019	ITF Lexington, United States	60,000	Hard	Robin Anderson	Ann Li Jamie Loeb	7–6^(7–4), 6–7^(5–7), [10–7]
Win	6–5	Sep 2019	ITF Caldas da Rainha, Portugal	60,000	Hard	Isabella Shinikova	Anna Danilina Vivian Heisen	6–1, 6–3
Win	7–5	Nov 2019	ITF Toronto, Canada	60,000	Hard (i)	Robin Anderson	Mélodie Collard Leylah Annie Fernandez	7–6^(9–7), 6–2
Win	8–5	Oct 2020	ITF Cherbourg-en-Cotentin, France	25,000	Hard (i)	Robin Anderson	Harriet Dart Sarah Beth Grey	4–6, 6–4, [10–8]

Grand Slam singles performance timeline

Key

W

F

SF

QF

#R

RR

Q#

A

P

Z#

PO

G

F-S

SF-B

NMS

NH

(W) Won; (F) finalist; (SF) semifinalist; (QF) quarterfinalist; (#R) rounds 4, 3, 2, 1; (RR) round-robin stage; (Q#) qualification round; (A) absent; (P) postponed; (Z#) Davis/Fed Cup Zonal Group (with number indication) or (PO) play-off; (G) gold, (F-S) silver or (SF-B) bronze Olympic medal; a (NMS) downgraded Masters Series/1000 tournament; (NH) not held. SR=strike rate (events won/competed)

To avoid confusion and double counting, these charts are updated at the conclusion of a tournament or when the player's participation has ended.

Tournament	2017	2018	2019	2020	SR	W–L	Win %
Australian Open	A	1R	1R	Q1	0 / 2	0–2	0%
French Open	Q2	1R	1R	Q1	0 / 2	0–2	0%
Wimbledon	A	A	Q2		0 / 0	0–0	–
US Open	A	Q1	Q1		0 / 0	0–0	–
Win–Loss	0–0	0–2	0–2	0–0	0 / 4	0–4	0%

References

1. "Getting to know you: Introducing Melbourne's Grand Slam debutantes". 14 January 2018.
2. "ITF profile of Jessika Ponchet". ITF.
3. "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.
6. "Tara Moore saves match point at 0–6 0–5 down before beating Jessika Ponchet". 9 April 2019 – via www.bbc.co.uk.

External links

• Jessika Ponchet at the Women's Tennis Association
• Jessika Ponchet at the International Tennis Federation