Michelle Sammons
Appearance
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Full name | Michelle Tracy Sammons |
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Country (sports) | ![]() |
Residence | Durban |
Born | Kempton Park | 11 September 1987
Height | 1.73 m (5 ft 8 in) |
Plays | Right-handed (two-handed backhand) |
Prize money | $16,296 |
Singles | |
Career record | 44–48 |
Career titles | 1 ITF |
Highest ranking | No. 666 (23 February 2015) |
Doubles | |
Career record | 58–40 |
Career titles | 6 ITF |
Highest ranking | No. 268 (2 November 2015) |
Team competitions | |
Fed Cup | 1–4 |
Michelle Tracy Sammons (born 11 September 1987) is a South African former professional tennis player.
She has career-high WTA rankings of 666 in singles and 268 in doubles, both achieved in 2015. In her career, Sammons won one singles title and six doubles titles on the ITF Women's Circuit.
Playing for South Africa in Fed Cup, she has a win–loss record of 1–4.
Sammons made her WTA Tour main-draw debut at the 2015 Internationaux de Strasbourg, partnering Carolin Daniels in the doubles competition.
ITF finals
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$100,000 tournaments |
$75,000 tournaments |
$50,000 tournaments |
$25,000 tournaments |
$10,000 tournaments |
Singles (1–0)
[edit]Outcome | No. | Date | Location | Surface | Opponent | Score |
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Winner | 1. | 31 May 2014 | Sun City, South Africa | Hard | ![]() |
2–6, 7–5, 6–4 |
Doubles (6–2)
[edit]Outcome | No. | Date | Location | Surface | Partner | Opponents | Score |
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Winner | 1. | 30 May 2014 | Sun City, South Africa | Hard | ![]() |
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7–5, 6–3 |
Winner | 2. | 13 June 2014 | Sun City, South Africa | Hard | ![]() |
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6–3, 6–3 |
Winner | 3. | 19 July 2014 | Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt | Hard | ![]() |
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7–5, 7–5 |
Winner | 4. | 30 August 2014 | Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt | Hard | ![]() |
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6–2, 6–1 |
Winner | 5. | 6 September 2014 | Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt | Hard | ![]() |
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6–3, 7–5 |
Runner-up | 1. | 13 September 2014 | Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt | Hard | ![]() |
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3–6, 6–0, [6–10] |
Winner | 6 | 14 February 2015 | Port El Kantaoui, Tunisia | Hard | ![]() |
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7–5, 6–3 |
Runner-up | 2. | 19 September 2015 | Redding, United States | Hard | ![]() |
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2–6, 5–7 |
External links
[edit]- Michelle Sammons at the Women's Tennis Association
- Michelle Sammons at the International Tennis Federation
- Michelle Sammons at the Billie Jean King Cup
- Purdue University profile
Categories:
- 1987 births
- Living people
- South African female tennis players
- Tennis players from Durban
- People from Kempton Park, Gauteng
- Purdue Boilermakers women's tennis players
- South African expatriate tennis players in the United States
- White South African people
- Sportspeople from Gauteng
- African tennis biography stubs
- South African sportspeople stubs