Emily Webley-Smith
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| Country (sports) |
 United Kingdom
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| Residence | Bristol, England |
| Born |
14 July 1984 Bristol, England |
| Height | 1.68 m (5 ft 6 in) |
| Plays | Right-handed (two-handed backhand) |
| Prize money | US$288,861 |
| Singles | |
| Career record | 329–369 |
| Career titles | 0 WTA, 4 ITF |
| Highest ranking | No. 240 (7 November 2011) |
| Current ranking | No. 670 (27 February 2017) |
| Grand Slam Singles results | |
| Wimbledon | 2R (2004) |
| Doubles | |
| Career record | 266–254 |
| Career titles | 0 WTA, 17 ITF |
| Highest ranking | No. 113 (2 November 2015) |
| Current ranking | No. 211 (27 February 2017) |
| Grand Slam Doubles results | |
| Wimbledon | 1R (2004, 2005, 2007, 2015) |
| Last updated on: 19 September 2016. | |
Emily Webley-Smith (born 14 July 1984) is a British professional tennis player.
Webley-Smith has a career high WTA singles ranking of 240, achieved on 7 November 2011. She also has a career high WTA doubles ranking of 113 achieved on 2 November 2015. Webley-Smith has won 4 ITF singles titles and 17 ITF doubles titles. She has also reached the second round of her home Grand Slam, Wimbledon, on one occasion in 2004.
Webley-Smith was born in 1984 in Thornbury, Avon, which is now in South Gloucestershire. Her mother, Jane, is a PE teacher and her father, Mike, an amateur footballer and cricketer. She also has a sister named Hannah. Her first introduction to tennis was playing swingball in her garden and in the cricket grounds where her father was the club captain. She is coached by Jeremy Bates.
Problems with Webley-Smith's right ankle began in 2002 when she broke it whilst on court competing in the qualifying tournament for the $25,000 ITF event in Cardiff and underwent surgery to repair both the bone and the damaged caused to the ligaments. She was unable to compete on the tour for six months.
In November 2003 she needed a second operation on her ankle to remove cartilage which had come loose; an operation which was successful and enabled Emily to play injury-free tennis for almost two years.
However she had to take yet more time out later in 2005 when she began experiencing sharp pains in the same ankle while warming up for an ITF tournament in Puebla, Mexico. She had treatment on the ankle again and returned, with limited success, to competitive tennis in Spring 2006 before having surgery for a third time to remove fluid from her ankle.
She began recovering well before septicaemia left her unable to walk for five weeks. Webley-Smith said of the time, "My ankle was the size of a football. I remember the doctor trying to take my sock off and I was screaming. I was taking what they call an 'elephant dose' of antibiotics and the strongest painkillers they could give me". She returned full-time to the circuit in August 2006.
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