Jessika Ponchet (born 26 September 1996) is a French professional tennis player. She has career-high WTA rankings of 152 in singles (attained on 25 July 2022), and 124 in doubles (achieved on 11 July 2022).

Jessika Ponchet

Ponchet at the 2022 French Open
Country (sports)	France
Residence	Angresse, France
Born	(1996-09-26) 26 September 1996 (age 26) Bayonne, France
Turned pro	2011
Plays	Right-handed (one-handed backhand)
Prize money	US$662,419
Singles
Career record	259–182 (58.7%)
Career titles	8 ITF
Highest ranking	No. 152 (25 July 2022)
Current ranking	No. 168 (19 September 2022)
Grand Slam singles results
Australian Open	1R (2018, 2019)
French Open	1R (2018, 2019)
Wimbledon	Q3 (2022)
US Open	Q1 (2018, 2019, 2021, 2022)
Doubles
Career record	120–101 (54.3%)
Career titles	12 ITF
Highest ranking	No. 113 (12 September 2022)
Current ranking	No. 115 (19 September 2022)
Grand Slam doubles results
French Open	1R (2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022)
Last updated on: 25 September 2022.

Career

Ponchet did not play any ITF Junior Circuit tournaments, plunging straight into the ITF Women's Circuit at the age of 14.[1]

2011–2013

Ponchet played the singles events of four tournaments and the doubles event of one tournament on the 2011 ITF Circuit, starting with a $100k tournament held in early July in the French city of Biarritz. She played a total of 11 and 18 ITF tournaments in 2012 and 2013, respectively.[2]

2014–2015

Ponchet played a total of 17 ITF tournaments in 2014. She suffered a major setback when torn knee ligaments forced her to miss tournaments in the first eight months of 2015. She played the singles events of seven tournaments and the doubles event of one tournament on the 2015 ITF Circuit.[1][2]

2016

Ponchet played a total of 22 ITF tournaments in the 2016 season.[2]

2017

She made her Grand Slam singles debut at the French Open after receiving a qualifying wildcard; however, after defeating Dalma Gálfi (the 2015 ITF World Champion in the girls' combined category), she lost to the No. 4 seed Richèl Hogenkamp in the second round.[2][3]

Ponchet made her WTA 125 tournaments debut at the Open de Limoges, entering only its singles event. She received a wildcard for the main draw, where she defeated her compatriot Chloé Paquet in the first round and lost to the No. 7 seed Kaia Kanepi in the second.[2][3]

Ponchet finished 2017 with a final win–loss record of 42–24 for singles matches.[1]

2018

She made her Grand Slam and WTA Tour singles main-draw debut at the Australian Open after receiving a wildcard for the main draw,[4] where she lost in the first round to the No. 3 seed Garbiñe Muguruza. Prior to the Australian Open, Ponchet had in her entire career played in the singles main-draw event of just one tournament that was at a higher level than the ITF Women's Circuit (the 2017 Open de Limoges) and had never even faced a player ranked in the top 100 of WTA singles rankings.[5]

Ponchet made French Open debut after receiving a wildcard for the singles main draw, where she lost in the first round to the unseeded Lucie Šafářová, in straight sets.

2019

At the Australian Open, Ponchet reached the singles main draw where she lost in the first round to 19th-seeded Caroline Garcia, after winning all her three qualifying matches without dropping a set.

On 9 April, in her first-round match of the $25k tournament in Sunderland, Ponchet was leading Tara Moore 6–0, 5–0 and had a match point to achieve a double bagel, but Moore staged a comeback to win 0–6, 7–6, 6–3.[6]

Performance timelines

Singles

Current after the 2022 Tallinn.

Doubles

This section needs expansion. You can help by adding to it. (August 2022)

WTA 125 tournament finals

Doubles: 3 (3 runner-ups)

Result	W–L	Date	Tournament	Surface	Partner	Opponents	Score
Loss	0–1	Feb 2020	Newport Beach Challenger, United States	Hard	Marie Benoît	Hayley Carter Luisa Stefani	1–6, 3–6
Loss	0–2	Dec 2021	Open de Limoges, France	Hard (i)	Estelle Cascino	Monica Niculescu Vera Zvonareva	4–6, 4–6
Loss	0–3	May 2022	Open de Saint-Malo, France	Clay	Estelle Cascino	Eri Hozumi Makoto Ninomiya	6–7(1–7), 1–6

ITF Circuit finals

Singles: 13 (7 titles, 6 runner–ups)

Result	W–L	Date	Tournament	Tier	Surface	Opponent	Score
Loss	0–1	Oct 2015	ITF Port El Kantaoui, Tunisia	10,000	Hard	Valeriya Strakhova	2–6, 3–6
Loss	0–2	May 2016	Torneo Conchita Martínez, Spain	10,000	Hard	Marie Bouzková	4–6, 4–6
Win	1–2	Jul 2016	ITF Getxo, Spain	10,000	Clay	Ioana Loredana Roșca	4–6, 6–2, 6–1
Win	2–2	Jul 2016	ITF El Espinar, Spain	10,000	Hard	Rocío de la Torre Sánchez	6–4, 6–2
Loss	2–3	Nov 2016	ITF Vinaròs, Spain	10,000	Clay	Andrea Gamiz	6–1, 1–6, 4–6
Win	3–3	Nov 2016	ITF Benicarló, Spain	10,000	Clay	Amanda Carreras	6–0, 7–6(6)
Win	4–3	Jul 2018	ITF Figueira da Foz, Portugal	25,000	Hard	Eva Guerrero Álvarez	7–6(4), 6–2
Win	5–3	Feb 2019	GB Pro-Series Glasgow, UK	25,000	Hard (i)	Mariam Bolkvadze	6–3, 6–1
Loss	5–4	Mar 2020	ITF Mâcon, France	25,000	Hard (i)	Océane Dodin	6–3, 1–6, 3–6
Loss	5–5	Jun 2021	ITF Figueira da Foz, Portugal	25,000	Hard	Tessah Andrianjafitrimo	7–6(3), 1–6, 0–6
Win	6–5	Sep 2021	ITF Leiria, Portugal	25,000	Hard	Anastasia Kulikova	7–6(3), 6–0
Loss	6–6	Jul 2022	ITF Palma del Río, Spain	25,000+H	Hard	Marina Bassols Ribera	7–5, 4–6, 3–6
Win	7–6	Jul 2022	ITF Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain	60,000	Hard	Jenny Dürst	6–4, 7–5

Doubles: 20 (12 titles, 8 runner–ups)

Result	W–L	Date	Tournament	Tier	Surface	Partner	Opponents	Score
Win	1–0	Mar 2014	ITF Gonesse, France	10,000	Clay (i)	Karolína Stuchlá	Carolin Daniels Lena-Marie Hofmann	6–7(4), 6–3, [10–3]
Win	2–0	Jun 2016	ITF Madrid, Spain	10,000	Clay	Marina Shamayko	Ainhoa Atucha Gómez María José Luque Moreno	6–2, 6–3
Loss	2–1	Jul 2016	ITF Getxo, Spain	10,000	Clay	Carla Lucero	Oleksandra Korashvili Ioana Loredana Roșca	0–6, 3–6
Loss	2–2	Jul 2016	ITF El Espinar, Spain	10,000	Hard	Ioana Loredana Roșca	Charlotte Roemer Sarah-Rebecca Sekulic	2–6, 6–7(4)
Win	3–2	Dec 2016	ITF Castellón de la Plana, Spain	10,000	Clay	Laura Pigossi	Arabela Fernández Rabener Isabelle Wallace	6–1, 6–3
Loss	3–3	Apr 2017	ITF Hammamet, Tunisia	15,000	Clay	Manon Arcangioli	Gabriela Cé Andrea Gamiz	1–6, 2–6
Loss	3–4	Apr 2018	ITF Óbidos, Portugal	25,000	Carpet	Ganna Poznikhirenko	Sarah Beth Grey Olivia Nicholls	2–6, 1–6
Loss	3–5	Jul 2018	ITF Figueira da Foz, Portugal	25,000	Hard	Sviatlana Pirazhenka	Yvonne Cavallé Reimers Andrea Gamiz	2–6, 5–7
Win	4–5	May 2019	ITF Les Franqueses del Vallès, Spain	60,000	Hard	Eden Silva	Jodie Burrage Olivia Nicholls	6–3, 6–4
Win	5–5	Aug 2019	Lexington Challenger, United States	60,000	Hard	Robin Anderson	Ann Li Jamie Loeb	7–6(4), 6–7(5), [10–7]
Win	6–5	Sep 2019	ITF Caldas da Rainha, Portugal	60,000	Hard	Isabella Shinikova	Anna Danilina Vivian Heisen	6–1, 6–3
Win	7–5	Nov 2019	Toronto Challenger, Canada	60,000	Hard (i)	Robin Anderson	Mélodie Collard Leylah Annie Fernandez	7–6(7), 6–2
Win	8–5	Oct 2020	ITF Cherbourg-en-Cotentin, France	25,000	Hard (i)	Robin Anderson	Harriet Dart Sarah Beth Grey	4–6, 6–4, [10–8]
Win	9–5	May 2021	Open Saint-Gaudens, France	60,000	Clay	Estelle Cascino	Eden Silva Kimberley Zimmermann	0–6, 7–5, [10–7]
Win	10–5	Nov 2021	Open Nantes, France	60,000	Hard (i)	Samantha Murray	Alicia Barnett Olivia Nicholls	6–4, 6–2
Win	11–5	Jan 2022	Open Andrézieux-Bouthéon, France	60,000	Hard (i)	Estelle Cascino	Alicia Barnett Olivia Nicholls	6–4, 6–1
Loss	11–6	Apr 2022	ITF Calvi, France	25,000+H	Hard	Estelle Cascino	Sofya Lansere Valeriya Strakhova	4–6, 6–7(5)
Win	12–6	Apr 2022	ITF Monastir, Tunisia	25,000	Hard	Estelle Cascino	Polina Kudermetova Sofya Lansere	6–0, 4–6, [10–7]
Loss	12–7	Oct 2022	ITF Poitiers, France	80,000	Hard (i)	Renata Voráčová	Miriam Kolodziejová Markéta Vondroušová	4–6, 3–6
Loss	12–8	Nov 2022	ITF Shrewsbury, United Kingdom	100,000	Hard (i)	Renata Voráčová	Miriam Kolodziejová Markéta Vondroušová	6–7(4–7), 2–6

Notes

References

External links

• Jessika Ponchet at the Women's Tennis Association
• Jessika Ponchet at the International Tennis Federation

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