Michelle Gerards
Country (sports) | ![]() |
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Born | Heerlen, Netherlands | 8 July 1984
Plays | Right-handed (two-handed backhand) |
Prize money | $86,524 |
Singles | |
Career record | 238–129 |
Career titles | 11 ITF |
Highest ranking | No. 207 (4 July 2005) |
Doubles | |
Career record | 78–53 |
Career titles | 9 ITF |
Highest ranking | No. 219 (22 August 2005) |
Team competitions | |
Fed Cup | 3–1 |
Michelle Gerards (born 8 July 1984) is a former professional tennis player from the Netherlands.
Biography
[edit]A right-handed player from Limburg, Gerards was the Dutch under-18 champion at the age of 13 and was a junior quarterfinalist at the 1999 French Open.[1]
Most of her professional career was spent on the ITF Women's Circuit, reaching a best ranking in singles of 207 in the world. She made WTA Tour main-draw appearances at the 1999 Sanex Trophy in Knokke-Heist and 2000 Belgian Open, both times as a wildcard.
Gerards featured in four Fed Cup ties for the Netherlands. In 2005, she played two doubles matches, partnering Dutch veteran Brenda Schultz-McCarthy, winning both, over Poland and Luxembourg. When she returned to the Fed Cup team in 2009, it was as a singles player and she won one match, over Claudine Schaul of Luxembourg.[2]
ITF Circuit finals
[edit]$25,000 tournaments |
$10,000 tournaments |
Singles: 21 (11 titles, 10 runner-ups)
[edit]Outcome | No. | Date | Tournament | Surface | Opponent | Score |
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Runner-up | 1. | 18 August 2002 | ITF Koksijde, Belgium | Clay | ![]() |
4–6, 6–7(3–7) |
Runner-up | 2. | 1 September 2002 | ITF Bielefeld, Germany | Clay | ![]() |
4–6, 7–5, 4–6 |
Winner | 1. | 6 October 2002 | ITF Ciampino, Italy | Clay | ![]() |
6–0, 6–4 |
Winner | 2. | 29 June 2003 | ITF Alkmaar, Netherlands | Clay | ![]() |
6–4, 6–4 |
Runner-up | 3. | 5 September 2004 | ITF Mestre, Italy | Clay | ![]() |
1–6, 0–6 |
Runner-up | 4. | 27 September 2004 | ITF Porto, Portugal | Clay | ![]() |
6–3, 5–7, 3–6 |
Winner | 3. | 19 November 2006 | ITF Mallorca, Spain | Clay | ![]() |
6–1, 6–3 |
Winner | 4. | 8 January 2007 | ITF Algiers, Algeria | Clay | ![]() |
7–6(7–4), 6–1 |
Winner | 5. | 19 January 2007 | ITF Algiers, Algeria | Clay | ![]() |
5–7, 6–0, 6–3 |
Runner-up | 5. | 18 February 2007 | ITF Mallorca, Spain | Clay | ![]() |
1–6, 6–1, 4–6 |
Runner-up | 6. | 20 March 2007 | ITF Cairo, Egypt | Clay | ![]() |
2–6, 2–6 |
Winner | 6. | 23 April 2007 | ITF Naples, Italy | Clay | ![]() |
6–2, 6–1 |
Winner | 7. | 12 April 2008 | ITF Antalya, Turkey | Clay | ![]() |
7–5, 4–6, 6–4 |
Winner | 8. | 19 April 2008 | ITF Antalya, Turkey | Clay | ![]() |
6–2, 2–6, 7–6(7–3) |
Runner-up | 7. | 9 May 2008 | ITF Antalya, Turkey | Clay | ![]() |
2–6, 2–6 |
Runner-up | 8. | 15 June 2008 | ITF Lenzerheide, Switzerland | Clay | ![]() |
3–6, 1–6 |
Runner-up | 9. | 20 July 2008 | ITF Darmstadt, Germany | Clay | ![]() |
0–6, 0–6 |
Winner | 9. | 18 October 2008 | ITF Sevilla, Spain | Clay | ![]() |
6–3, 6–2 |
Winner | 10. | 9 November 2008 | ITF Mallorca, Spain | Clay | ![]() |
7–6(7–3), 6–4 |
Winner | 11. | 20 June 2009 | ITF Lenzerheide, Switzerland | Clay | ![]() |
6–2, 7–5 |
Runner-up | 10. | 26 July 2009 | ITF Horb, Germany | Clay | ![]() |
4–6, 4–6 |
Doubles: 18 (9 titles, 9 runner-ups)
[edit]Outcome | No. | Date | Tournament | Surface | Partner | Opponents | Score |
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Runner-up | 1. | 1 November 1999 | ITF Jaffa, Israel | Hard | ![]() |
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4–6, 6–1, 4–6 |
Winner | 1. | 24 August 2003 | ITF Enschede, Netherlands | Clay | ![]() |
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6–3, 7–6(7–5) |
Runner-up | 2. | 29 March 2004 | ITF Napoli, Italy | Clay | ![]() |
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1–6, 0–6 |
Runner-up | 3. | 11 April 2004 | ITF Torre del Greco, Italy | Clay | ![]() |
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3–6, 0–6 |
Winner | 2. | 24 January 2005 | ITF Belfort, France | Hard (i) | ![]() |
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6–1, 4–2 ret. |
Winner | 3. | 14 February 2005 | ITF Bromma, Sweden | Hard (i) | ![]() |
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w/o |
Winner | 4. | 8 January 2007 | ITF Algiers, Algeria | Clay | ![]() |
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1–6, 6–3, 6–2 |
Runner-up | 4. | 17 March 2007 | ITF Cairo, Egypt | Clay | ![]() |
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7–6(7–3), 4–6, 3–6 |
Runner-up | 5. | 11 August 2007 | ITF Gdynia, Poland | Clay | ![]() |
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1–6, 5–7 |
Runner-up | 6. | 12 April 2008 | ITF Antalya, Turkey | Clay | ![]() |
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2–6, 2–6 |
Winner | 5. | 19 April 2008 | ITF Antalya, Turkey | Clay | ![]() |
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6–3, 6–4 |
Winner | 6. | 14 June 2008 | ITF Lenzerheide, Switzerland | Clay | ![]() |
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6–0, 6–3 |
Runner-up | 7. | 20 July 2008 | ITF Darmstadt, Germany | Clay | ![]() |
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3–6, 4–6 |
Runner-up | 8. | 5 October 2008 | ITF Porto, Portugal | Clay | ![]() |
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3–6, 6–4, [6–10] |
Winner | 7. | 17 October 2008 | ITF Sevilla, Spain | Clay | ![]() |
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6–2, 6–3 |
Runner-up | 9. | 8 November 2008 | ITF Mallorca, Spain | Clay | ![]() |
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2–6, 4–6 |
Winner | 8. | 19 June 2009 | ITF Lenzerheide, Switzerland | Clay | ![]() |
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6–3, 6–3 |
Winner | 9. | 26 July 2009 | ITF Horb, Germany | Clay | ![]() |
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7–6(8–6), 6–1 |
References
[edit]- ^ "'Ik wil niet nog een jaar rondhobbelen'". De Volkskrant (in Dutch). 3 August 2001. Retrieved 19 August 2018.
- ^ "FLT-Damen unter Druck". Tageblatt (in German). 5 February 2009. Retrieved 19 August 2018.