Sarah Borwell
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| Full name | Sarah Leah Borwell |
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| Country (sports) |
 Great Britain England
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| Residence | Middlesbrough, England |
| Born |
20 August 1979 Middlesbrough, England |
| Turned pro | 2002 |
| Retired | 1 October 2013 |
| Plays | Right-handed (two-handed backhand) |
| Prize money | $262,551 |
| Singles | |
| Career record | 159–157 |
| Career titles | 0 WTA, 3 ITF |
| Highest ranking | 199 (10 July 2006) |
| Grand Slam Singles results | |
| French Open | Q1 (2007) |
| Wimbledon | 2R (2006) |
| US Open | Q1 (2006) |
| Doubles | |
| Career record | 128–166 |
| Career titles | 0 WTA, 8 ITF |
| Highest ranking | 65 (9 August 2010) |
| Grand Slam Doubles results | |
| Australian Open | 2R (2010) |
| French Open | 1R (2009, 2010) |
| Wimbledon | 1R (2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011) |
| US Open | 1R (2009) |
| Last updated on: 5 July 2014. | |
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| Tennis | ||
| Representing England
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| Commonwealth Games | ||
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2010 Delhi | Mixed Doubles |
Sarah Leah Borwell (born 20 August 1979) is an English former professional tennis player who enjoyed her greatest successes in doubles. She was the British number 1 in doubles. Her career high doubles ranking is 65, set on 9 August 2010 and her career high singles ranking is 199, which she reached on 10 July 2006.
Borwell was born in Middlesbrough. She attended Nunthorpe School, where Jonathan Woodgate and Liam Plunkett were fellow students, she even shared a class and school football team with Woodgate who is a year her junior at The Avenue Primary school, where dual year classes were present. She was a regular player for the Schools boys football team, more than holding her own and deserving her place in the team. and Prior Pursglove College in Guisborough. She won a tennis scholarship to the University of Houston, where she was ranked as high as #8 in the NCAA and completed a business degree.
Her father is a scout at Aston Villa F.C., and her mother coaches Mini Tennis and is a supervisor for school sports.
Borwell made her tennis debut in August 2002 at the ITF tournament held in Bath, England where she suffered a first round defeat. She played four more tournaments that year and reached the quarter-finals of two of them (both on clay). The season ended with Borwell ranked world no. 744.
She began 2003 with another quarter-final loss in January and two months later made her first appearance in an ITF tournament final, losing in straight sets to Australian Lisa McShea, 6–1 6–4. She notched up one more semi-final loss and another quarter-final loss in ITF events before making her debut on the WTA tour at the tier III DFS Classic held in Birmingham. She experienced a defeat in the first round of qualifying at the hands of a young future world number 1, Maria Sharapova. Borwell was then granted a wild card into the qualifying event of her home Grand Slam, Wimbledon, where she was defeated in straight sets by Argentine Gisela Dulko in the first round. She spent the rest of the year on the ITF circuit, reaching two more semi-finals (one as a qualifier). She finished 2003 ranked 349.
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