Émilie Loit

Émilie Loit (French pronunciation: ​[emili lwa]; born 9 June 1979) is a retired tennis player from France.

Émilie Loit

Country (sports)	France
Residence	Boulogne-Billancourt
Born	(1979-06-09) 9 June 1979 Cherbourg
Height	1.67 m (5 ft 6 in)
Turned pro	1994
Retired	2009
Plays	Left-handed (two-handed backhand)
Prize money	$2,086,943
Singles
Career record	371–295
Career titles	3 WTA, 7 ITF
Highest ranking	No. 27 (19 April 2004)
Grand Slam Singles results
Australian Open	4R (1999)
French Open	3R (2000, 2002, 2005, 2008)
Wimbledon	3R (2003)
US Open	3R (2003)
Doubles
Career record	265–175
Career titles	16 WTA, 5 ITF
Highest ranking	No. 15 (10 November 2003)
Grand Slam Doubles results
Australian Open	3R (2003, 2006)
French Open	QF (2003, 2005)
Wimbledon	QF (2004)
US Open	QF (1998)
Team competitions
Fed Cup	W (2003)

Besides her three career singles titles, all on clay, included Estoril and Casablanca both in 2004, and Acapulco in 2007, she won 16 doubles titles on the WTA Tour. Her highest rankings were No. 27 in singles and No. 15 in doubles.

On 24 May 2009, right after losing her first-round match at the French Open, she announced her retiring from professional tennis by the end of the tournament.[1]

In summer 2011, she gave birth to a son, Mathias.[2]

WTA career finals

Singles: 3 (3 titles)

Winner – Legend
Grand Slam tournaments (0–0)
Tier I (0–0)
Tier II (0–0)
Tier III, IV & V (3–0)

Outcome	No.	Date	Championship	Surface	Opponent	Score
Winner	1.	11 April 2004	Casablanca, Morocco	Clay	Ľudmila Cervanová	6–2, 6–2
Winner	2.	18 April 2004	Estoril, Portugal	Clay	Iveta Benešová	7–5, 7–6
Winner	3.	3 March 2007	Acapulco, Mexico	Clay	Flavia Pennetta	7–6, 6–4

Doubles: 26 (16 titles, 10 runner-ups)

Winner – Legend
Grand Slam tournaments (0–0)
Tier I (0–0)
Tier II (4–5)
Tier III, IV & V (12–5)

Outcome	No.	Date	Championship	Surface	Partner	Opponent	Score
Runner-up	1.	16 January 1999	Hobart, Australia	Hard	Alexia Dechaume-Balleret	Mariaan de Swardt Elena Tatarkova	1–6, 2–6
Winner	1.	21 November 1999	Pattaya City, Thailand	Hard	Åsa Carlsson	Evgenia Koulikovskaya Patricia Wartusch	6–1, 6–4
Winner	2.	16 January 2000	Hobart, Australia	Hard	Rita Grande	Kim Clijsters Alicia Molik	6–2, 2–6, 6–3
Runner-up	2.	7 February 2000	Paris, France	Carpet (i)	Åsa Carlsson	Julie Halard-Decugis Sandrine Testud	6–3, 3–6, 4–6
Winner	3.	18 February 2001	Nice, France	Carpet (I)	Anne-Gaëlle Sidot	Kimberly Po Nathalie Tauziat	1–6, 6–2, 6–0
Winner	4.	21 April 2002	Budapest, Hungary	Clay	Catherine Barclay	Elena Bovina Zsófia Gubacsi	4–6, 6–3, 6–3
Runner-up	3.	14 September 2002	Bahia, Brazil	Hard	Rossana de los Ríos	Virginia Ruano Pascual Paola Suárez	4–6, 1–6
Runner-up	4.	30 December 2002	Gold Coast, Australia	Hard	Nathalie Dechy	Svetlana Kuznetsova Martina Navratilova	4–6, 4–6
Winner	5.	12 January 2003	Canberra, Australia	Hard	Tathiana Garbin	Dája Bedáňová Dinara Safina	6–3, 3–6, 6–4
Runner-up	5.	16 February 2003	Antwerp, Belgium	Carpet (i)	Nathalie Dechy	Kim Clijsters Ai Sugiyama	2–6, 0–6
Winner	6.	2 March 2003	Acapulco, Mexico	Clay	Åsa Svensson	Petra Mandula Patricia Wartusch	6–3, 6–1
Runner-up	6.	14 September 2003	Bali, Indonesia	Hard	Nicole Pratt	Angelique Widjaja María Vento-Kabchi	5–7, 2–6
Winner	7.	21 September 2003	Shanghai, China	Hard	Nicole Pratt	Ai Sugiyama Tamarine Tanasugarn	6–3, 6–3
Winner	8.	11 April 2004	Casablanca, Morocco	Clay	Marion Bartoli	Els Callens Katarina Srebotnik	6–4, 6–2
Winner	9.	8 May 2005	Rabat, Morocco	Clay	Barbora Strýcová	Lourdes Domínguez Lino Nuria Llagostera Vives	3–6, 7–6^(8–6), 7–5
Winner	10.	15 May 2005	Prague, Czech Republic	Clay	Nicole Pratt	Jelena Kostanić Barbora Strýcová	6–7^(6–8), 6–4, 6–4
Winner	11.	14 August 2005	Stockholm, Sweden	Hard	Katarina Srebotnik	Eva Birnerová Mara Santangelo	6–4, 6–3
Winner	12.	31 August 2005	Budapest, Hungary	Clay	Katarina Srebotnik	Lourdes Domínguez Lino Marta Marrero	6–1, 3–6, 6–2
Winner	13.	9 October 2005	Tashkent, Uzbekistan	Hard	Maria Elena Camerin	Anastasia Rodionova Galina Voskoboeva	6–3, 6–0
Winner	14.	30 October 2005	Hasselt, Belgium	Hard (i)	Katarina Srebotnik	Michaëlla Krajicek Ágnes Szávay	6–3, 6–4
Runner-up	7.	2 January 2006	Auckland, New Zealand	Hard	Barbora Strýcová	Elena Likhovtseva Vera Zvonareva	3–6, 4–6
Winner	15.	13 January 2006	Hobart, Australia	Hard	Nicole Pratt	Jill Craybas Jelena Kostanić	6–2, 6–1
Winner	16.	12 February 2006	Paris, France	Carpet (i)	Květa Peschke	Cara Black Rennae Stubbs	7–6^(7–5), 6–4
Runner-up	8.	5 March 2006	Acapulco, Mexico	Clay	Shinobu Asagoe	Anna-Lena Grönefeld Meghann Shaughnessy	1–6, 3–6
Runner-up	9.	18 September 2006	Portorož, Slovenia	Hard	Eva Birnerová	Lucie Hradecká Renata Voráčová	w/o
Runner-up	10.	3 March 2007	Acapulco, Mexico	Clay	Nicole Pratt	Arantxa Parra Santonja Lourdes Domínguez Lino	3–6, 3–6

ITF finals

$100,000 tournaments

$75,000 tournaments

$50,000 tournaments

$25,000 tournaments

$10,000 tournaments

Singles (7–5)

Outcome	No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Opponent	Score
Runner-up	1.	26 November 1995	Le Havre, France	Clay (i)	Selima Sfar	6–0, 3–6, 4–6
Runner-up	2.	7 October 1996	Saint-Raphaël, France	Hard (i)	Susi Lohrmann	7–5, 2–6, 0–6
Winner	1.	2 February 1997	Dinan, France	Clay (i)	Emmanuelle Curutchet	6–2, 7–6
Winner	2.	11 May 1997	Gelos, France	Clay	Karolina Jagieniak	6–4, 6–2
Winner	3.	1 February 1998	Dinan, France	Clay (i)	Élodie Le Bescond	6–1, 6–1
Winner	4.	17 September 2000	Bordeaux, France	Clay	Lubomira Bacheva	7–5, 6–2
Runner-up	3.	14 October 2001	Poitiers, France	Clay	Petra Mandula	5–7, 6–2, 1–6
Winner	5.	14 April 2002	Dinan, France	Clay (i)	Zuzana Ondrášková	6–2, 7–5
Winner	6.	5 May 2002	Cagnes-sur-Mer, France	Clay	Alena Vašková	7–5, 3–6, 6–4
Runner-up	4.	16 June 2002	Marseille, France	Clay	Conchita Martínez Granados	2–6, 6–3, 5–7
Runner-up	5.	19 September 2004	Bordeaux, France	Clay	Virginie Razzano	7–5, 6–2
Winner	7.	16 October 2005	Joué-lès-Tours, France	Hard (i)	Jelena Kostanić	6–2, 6–1

Doubles (5-6)

Outcome	No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Partner	Opponents	Score
Runner-up	1.	2 February 1997	Dinan, France	Hard	Laëtitia Sanchez	Sophie Georges Cécile de Winne	5–7, 2–6
Winner	1.	12 April 1998	Estoril, Portugal	Clay	Caroline Dhenin	Radka Bobková Caroline Schneider	6–2, 6–3
Runner-up	2.	18 October 1998	Southampton, England	Carpet (i)	Amélie Cocheteux	Els Callens Laurence Courtois	2–6, 2–6
Runner-up	3.	25 October 1998	Joué-lès-Tours, France	Hard (i)	Amélie Cocheteux	Lenka Cenková Eva Martincová	6–3, 4–6, 5–7
Runner-up	4.	6 December 1998	Cergy-Pontoise, France	Hard (i)	Caroline Dhenin	Kristie Boogert Anne-Gaëlle Sidot	5–7, 2–6
Winner	2.	19 September 1999	Bordeaux, France	Clay	Åsa Carlsson	Lubomira Bacheva Cristina Torrens Valero	6–2, 7–6^(7–1)
Winner	3.	11 October 1999	Bordeaux, France	Hard (i)	Åsa Carlsson	Alexandra Fusai Rita Grande	6–2, 7–6^(7–5)
Runner-up	5.	20 August 2000	Bronx, United States	Hard	Alexandra Fusai	Surina De Beer Nana Miyagi	7–5, 4–6, 4–6
Winner	4.	9 September 2001	Denain, France	Clay	Irina Selyutina	Debby Haak Jolanda Mens	6–1, 6–3
Winner	5.	14 April 2002	Dinan, France	Clay (i)	Caroline Dhenin	Yuliya Beygelzimer Patty Van Acker	6–3, 6–1
Runner-up	6.	3 November 2002	Poitiers, France	Hard (i)	Caroline Dhenin	Lubomira Bacheva Evgenia Kulikovskaya	w/o

References

1. "Roland-Garros: Émilie Loit prend sa retraite" (in French), Reuters, May 24, 2009.
2. Tennis Magazine (France), September 2011 issue

External links

• Émilie Loit at the Women's Tennis Association
• Émilie Loit at the International Tennis Federation
• Émilie Loit at the Fed Cup