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Nicole Pratt

Nicole Pratt
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Country (sports)  Australia
Residence Orlando, USA
Born (1973-03-05) 5 March 1973 (age 43)
Mackay, Australia
Height 1.63 m (5 ft 4 in)
Turned pro 1989
Retired 2008
Plays Right-handed (one-handed backhand)
Prize money $2,404,645
Singles
Career record 456–441
Career titles 1 WTA, 5 ITF
Highest ranking No. 35 (17 June 2002)
Grand Slam Singles results
Australian Open 4R (2003)
French Open 2R (1998, 2001, 2002, 2004, 2007)
Wimbledon 3R (2006)
US Open 3R (2003)
Doubles
Career record 350–348
Career titles 9 WTA, 9 ITF
Highest ranking No. 18 (17 September 2001)
Grand Slam Doubles results
Australian Open QF (2000, 2001, 2005)
French Open QF (2005)
Wimbledon 2R (1990, 2004, 2005, 2007)
US Open SF (2002)

Nicole Pratt (born 5 March 1973) is a retired professional female tennis player from Australia.

Pratt was born in Mackay, Queensland. She is the middle sibling of five children of cane farmers and was taught to play by her father, George, who was a top junior player. She attended school in Calen and received a tennis scholarship to the Australian Institute of Sport in Canberra. She turned professional at 18.

She became Australia's No. 1 ranked female player in January 2001. She won her first WTA Title at the Hyderabad Open and reached the third round of the Australian Open in 2004.

In August 2006, at age 33, Pratt reached her first ever Tier I quarterfinal at Toronto. Soon after this she rose back up into the top 100. During 2007 she was drafted by the Boston Lobsters of the WTT pro league.

At the 2008 Australian Open, after losing her first match to Nadia Petrova, a tearful Pratt announced her retirement from professional tennis. She coached Australian female player, Casey Dellacqua. After the 2009 Australian Open, Nicole Pratt and Casey Dellacqua decided to go different ways.


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