Alice Pirsu
Country (sports) | ![]() |
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Born | Bucharest, Romania | 16 May 1979
Prize money | $26,301 |
Singles | |
Career record | 78–70 |
Career titles | 1 ITF |
Highest ranking | No. 200 (20 July 1998) |
Doubles | |
Career record | 47–46 |
Career titles | 1 ITF |
Highest ranking | No. 223 (20 July 1998) |
Team competitions | |
Fed Cup | 4–6 |
Alice Pirsu (born 16 May 1979) is a former professional tennis player from Romania.
Biography
[edit]Born in Bucharest, Pirsu competed on the professional tour in the 1990s. As a junior, she had a top ranking of 24 and reached the second round at Wimbledon.[1]
Beginning on the ITF Circuit in 1994, she won her biggest title at Athens in 1997, defeating Evgenia Kulikovskaya in the final of a $25k tournament.[2] She played five singles and five doubles rubbers for Romania's Fed Cup team across 1997 and 1998, in a total of seven ties. In 1998, her final year on tour, she reached her best singles ranking of 200 in the world.
Pirsu left the professional tennis circuit to attend the University of Pennsylvania. While studying for her economics degree she was a co-captain of the university's tennis team, the Penn Quakers, earning the Ivy League Player of the Year award in both 2002 and 2003. She made the final eight of the 2003 NCAA Division I Women's Tennis Championships, becoming the first Quakers player to have done so.[3]
She is now based in New York and runs an interior design company in Pelham.[4]
ITF finals
[edit]Singles (1–3)
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$25,000 tournaments |
$10,000 tournaments |
Outcome | No. | Date | Tournament | Surface | Opponent | Score |
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Winner | 1. | 31 August 1997 | ITF Athens, Greece | Clay | ![]() |
4–6, 7–5, 6–3 |
Runner-up | 2. | 7 September 1997 | ITF Cluj, Romania | Clay | ![]() |
3–6, 7–5, 3–6 |
Runner-up | 3. | 12 October 1997 | ITF Thessaloniki, Greece | Hard | ![]() |
2–6, 2–6 |
Runner-up | 4. | 20 September 1998 | ITF Constanta, Romania | Clay | ![]() |
6–7, 1–6 |
Doubles (1–6)
[edit]Outcome | No. | Date | Tournament | Surface | Partner | Opponents | Score |
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Runner-up | 1. | 7 August 1995 | ITF İstanbul, Turkey | Hard | ![]() |
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2–6, 2–6 |
Winner | 2. | 24 June 1996 | ITF Maribor, Slovenia | Clay | ![]() |
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6–4, 7–5 |
Runner-up | 3. | 18 August 1996 | ITF İstanbul, Turkey | Hard | ![]() |
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1–6, 4–6 |
Runner-up | 4. | 28 July 1997 | ITF Horb, Germany | Clay | ![]() |
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3–6, 3–6 |
Runner-up | 5. | 1 September 1997 | ITF Cluj-Napoca, Romania | Clay | ![]() |
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6–7(3), 6–4, 4–6 |
Runner-up | 6. | 6 April 1998 | ITF Athens, Greece | Clay | ![]() |
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7–5, 2–6, 4–6 |
Runner-up | 7. | 14 September 1998 | ITF Constanța, Romania | Hard | ![]() |
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3–6, 6–7(5) |
References
[edit]- ^ "Wimbledon Results". Cumberland Times News. 5 July 1995. p. 24.
- ^ "$25,000 Athens II". International Tennis Federation.
- ^ Burrick, David (22 May 2003). "Alice Pirsu advances to Quarterfinals". The Daily Pennsylvanian.
- ^ "Children's books inspire Christmas tree display". The Riverdale Press. 24 December 2014.
External links
[edit]- Alice Pirsu at the Women's Tennis Association
- Alice Pirsu at the International Tennis Federation
- Alice Pirsu at the Billie Jean King Cup (archived)