Gabriella Taylor

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Gabriella Taylor
Country (sports) United Kingdom
ResidenceLondon, England
Born (1998-03-07) 7 March 1998 (age 26)
Southampton, England
PlaysRight-handed (two-handed backhand)
CoachXavier Budo, David Sunyer (2018)[1]
Prize money$213,542
Singles
Career record131–88
Career titles6 ITF
Highest rankingNo. 162 (10 December 2018)[2]
Grand Slam singles results
Australian OpenQ1 (2019)
French OpenQ2 (2018)
Wimbledon1R (2018)
US OpenQ1 (2018)
Doubles
Career record40–32
Career titles3 ITF
Highest rankingNo. 479 (19 March 2018)
Grand Slam doubles results
WimbledonQ1 (2017)

Gabriella Patricia Taylor[3] (born 7 March 1998) is a former British tennis player.

Taylor won six singles and two doubles titles on the ITF Circuit. On 12 December 2018, she reached her best singles ranking of world No. 162. On 19 March 2018, she peaked at No. 479 in the WTA doubles rankings. Taylor retired from tennis in 2020.

Early life[edit]

Taylor was born on 7 March 1998 in Southampton, to a British father from Newcastle and a Bulgarian mother from Plovdiv. She moved to Marbella, Spain at the age of 13 to further her tennis career and to Barcelona at 19. She turned pro at the age of 16.[citation needed]

Career[edit]

Juniors[edit]

At the 2012 'British Junior National Championships' Taylor became Under-14 girls' singles winner beating Katie Swan in the final 7–6(7), 6–3.[4] Later in the year she was runner-up at the world's most prestigious junior tournament Junior Orange Bowl losing to Maia Lumsden 6–3, 7–5,[5] both players having been semifinalists in that year's European equivalent the Petits As. The following year the two players teamed up to become Under-16 British National Junior Champions in the Doubles competition.[6]

Taylor, Katie Swan, Freya Christie and Maia Lumsden were members of the 2014 British team, coached by Judy Murray, that triumphed in the Maureen Connolly Challenge Trophy, an annual Under-18's competition against the USA.[7][8]

2015[edit]

In November Taylor won her first ITF title in South Africa, unseeded she came from a set down to upset top seeded Naomi Totka of Hungary in three sets.[9]

2016 – Wimbledon Juniors 'poisoning' incident and recovery[edit]

In 2016, Taylor achieved her best juniors results in her sole Junior Grand Slam appearance at Wimbledon. She reached the quarterfinals[10] but had to retire in the following match against Kayla Day.[11] Taylor contracted a bacterial infection called leptospirosis, which would keep her from playing tennis for a month. Initially, she was thought to have been poisoned while her bag was left unoccupied, however, medical experts declared this to be highly unlikely.[12][13][14][15][16][17] Police later concluded that there was no evidence of deliberate poisoning.[18]

Taylor recovered sufficiently to reach three consecutive ITF finals at Heraklion, Greece in October and November although failing to win any.

2017[edit]

In May, as the sixth seed, she won her first 25k tournament, beating third seed Danielle Lao in the final in straight sets.[19] Wimbledon granted wild card entries to her[20] in both the singles and the doubles (partnering Freya Christie) qualifying draws, losing both in the first round.[21] In November she began working with coaches Xavier Budo and David Sunyer, which she credits with changing her mindset, leading to her most successful period to date.[22]

2018[edit]

After three ITF title wins in February[23] and March, Taylor broke into the top 200 rankings for the first time.[24] She was subsequently chosen to represent Great Britain in the Fed Cup team alongside Johanna Konta, Heather Watson and Anna Smith for the World Group II play-off tie in Japan,[22] however she did not play in any of the matches.[25]

Taylor made her WTA Tour main-draw debut at the 2018 Nottingham Open. As a wild-card entry, she lost in the first round to the defending champion Donna Vekić, in three sets.[26] In her first appearance in the main draw at Wimbledon, she lost to Eugenie Bouchard in three sets.

2020[edit]

Following struggles with her mental health, Taylor retired from tennis in 2020 to pursue a career in art.[27] Her last professional tournament was an ITF event in Potchefstroom, South Africa, in March 2020, where she lost 6-3, 5-7, 6-7 to Paige Hourigan in the round of 32.

Grand Slam performance[edit]

Key
W  F  SF QF #R RR Q# P# DNQ A Z# PO G S B NMS NTI P NH
(W) winner; (F) finalist; (SF) semifinalist; (QF) quarterfinalist; (#R) rounds 4, 3, 2, 1; (RR) round-robin stage; (Q#) qualification round; (P#) preliminary round; (DNQ) did not qualify; (A) absent; (Z#) Davis/Fed Cup Zonal Group (with number indication) or (PO) play-off; (G) gold, (S) silver or (B) bronze Olympic/Paralympic medal; (NMS) not a Masters tournament; (NTI) not a Tier I tournament; (P) postponed; (NH) not held; (SR) strike rate (events won / competed); (W–L) win–loss record.
To avoid confusion and double counting, these charts are updated at the conclusion of a tournament or when the player's participation has ended.

Only main-draw results in WTA Tour, Grand Slam tournaments, Fed Cup/Billie Jean King Cup and Olympic Games are included in win–loss records.[28]

Singles[edit]

Tournament 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 SR W–L Win %
Australian Open A A A A A Q1 A 0 / 0 0–0  – 
French Open A A A A Q2 A A 0 / 0 0–0  – 
Wimbledon Q2 A Q2 Q1 1R Q2 NH 0 / 1 0–1 0%
US Open A A A A Q1 A A 0 / 0 0–0  – 
Win–loss 0–0 0–0 0–0 0–0 0–1 0–0 0–0 0 / 1 0–1 0%

ITF Circuit finals[edit]

Singles: 12 (6 titles, 6 runner–ups)[edit]

Legend
$100,000 tournaments
$80,000 tournaments
$60,000 tournaments
$25,000 tournaments
$10/15,000 tournaments
Finals by surface
Hard (4–5)
Clay (1–0)
Grass (1–0)
Carpet (0–0)
Result W–L    Date    Tournament Tier Surface Opponent Score
Win 1–0 Nov 2015 ITF Stellenbosch, South Africa 10,000 Clay Hungary Naomi Totka 4–6, 6–2, 6–1
Loss 1–1 Oct 2016 ITF Heraklion, Greece 10,000 Hard Russia Valeria Savinykh 2–6, 1–4 ret.
Loss 1–2 Nov 2016 ITF Heraklion, Greece 10,000 Hard Romania Ioana Pietroiu 3–6, 6–2, 2–6
Loss 1–3 Nov 2016 ITF Heraklion, Greece 10,000 Hard Romania Raluca Șerban 4–6, 5–7
Win 2–3 May 2017 ITF Changwon, South Korea 25,000 Hard United States Danielle Lao 6–2, 6–2
Win 3–3 Dec 2017 ITF Mumbai, India 25,000 Hard Latvia Diāna Marcinkēviča 4–6, 7–6(7), 6–3
Win 4–3 Feb 2018 Launceston International, Australia 25,000 Hard United States Asia Muhammad 6–3, 6–4
Win 5–3 Feb 2018 ITF Perth, Australia 25,000 Hard France Myrtille Georges 6–2, 7–5
Win 6–3 Mar 2018 ITF Mildura, Australia 25,000 Grass France Shérazad Reix 6–0, 6–3
Loss 6–4 Mar 2019 ITF Nishi-Tama, Japan 25,000 Hard Ukraine Daria Lopatetska 6–7(4), 6–2, 3–6
Loss 6–5 Oct 2019 ITF Antalya, Turkey 15,000 Hard Czech Republic Magdalena Pantuckova 3–6, 1–6
Loss 6–6 Oct 2019 ITF Antalya, Turkey 15,000 Hard Russia Daria Kruzhkova 0–6, 0–3 ret.

Doubles: 5 (3 titles, 2 runner–ups)[edit]

Legend
$100,000 tournaments
$80,000 tournaments
$60,000 tournaments
$25,000 tournaments
$10/15,000 tournaments
Finals by surface
Hard (2–0)
Clay (0–1)
Grass (1–0)
Carpet (0–1)
Result W–L    Date    Tournament Tier Surface Partner Opponents Score
Win 1–0 May 2016 ITF Monzón, Spain 10,000 Hard France Alice Bacquié Spain Estrella Cabeza Candela
Spain Cristina Sánchez-Quintanar 		6–1, 6–1
Loss 1–1 Jul 2017 ITF Don Benito, Spain 15,000 Carpet Finland Mia Eklund Italy Maria Masini
Spain Olga Parres Azcoitia 		3–6, 3–6
Win 2–1 Mar 2018 ITF Mildura, Australia 25,000 Grass United Kingdom Katy Dunne Australia Alexandra Bozovic
Australia Olivia Tjandramulia 		5–7, 7–6(4), [10–5]
Loss 2–2 Sep 2019 ITF Marbella, Spain 25,000 Clay Netherlands Arantxa Rus Spain Andrea Lázaro García
Spain Irene Burillo Escorihuela 		7–5, 4–6, [4–10]
Win 3–2 Oct 2019 ITF Antalya, Turkey 15,000 Hard Austria Mira Antonitsch Ukraine Viktoriia Dema
Netherlands Noa Liauw A Fong 		6–4, 6–7(5), [10–3]

References[edit]

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