Sarah Loosemore
Sarah Loosemore (born 15 June 1971) is a Welsh retired professional tennis player. She is now a qualified solicitor.
Born in Cardiff but brought up in Dinas Powys by solicitor father John and tennis coach mother Pamela, Loosemore played on the WTA from the late 1980s until 1992. The youngest ever female British competitor at Wimbledon, she was aged 17 in 1988.[1] In 1990, she played the 3rd round the International Australia (beaten by Helena Suková), her best performance in a Grand Slam event.
After tennis, Loosemore studied at the University of Oxford for a psychology degree. There she met Chad Lion-Cachet, a Dutch-national former Oxford University rugby union captain and a South African under 21 international. The couple married and moved to Surrey, and after the birth of their first child Samuel in 2001 Loosemore became a full-time mother.[2] The couple now have three children, the youngest of whom was born in 2006, and live in Oxford, while Loosemore still plays amateur tennis for South Wales.[3]
Contents
Playing records
Finals
| Date[4] | Tournament name and location | Cat. | ($) | Surf. | Winner | Score | |
| 1 | 23 April 1990 | DHL Singapore Open, Singapore | Tier IV | 150,000 | Dur (ext.) |  Japan Naoko Sawamatsu |
7–6 (7–5), 3–6, 6–4 |
Grand Slams
Singles
| Year | Australia Open | Roland-Garros | Wimbledon | US Open | ||||
| WTA 1988 | 1st round (1/64) |  Netherlands Hellas Ter Riet |
– | 2nd round (1/32) | USA Terry Phelps | – | ||
| WTA 1989 | 2nd round (1/32) | USA Pam Shriver | – | – | – | |||
| WTA 1990 | 3rd round (1/16) |  Czechoslovakia Helena Suková |
1st round (1/64) | USA J. Santrock | 2nd round (1/32) |  South Africa Elna Reinach |
– | |
| WTA 1991 | 1st round (1/64) |  Germany Barbara Rittner |
1st round (1/64) | Germany C. Kohde-Kilsch |
1st round (1/64) | Czechoslovakia A. Strnadová |
– | |
| 1992 | – | – | 1st round (1/64) |  France A. Dechaume |
– | |||
Final opponent on the right, l'ultime adversaire
Doubles
| Year | Australia Open | Roland-Garros | Wimbledon | US Open | ||||
| 1990 | – | – | 1st round (1/32) United Kingdom Anne Simpkin |
West Germany C. Porwik West Germany W. Probst |
– | |||
| 1991 | 1st round (1/32) USA Andrea Leand |
 Australia L. Stacey Australia Jane Taylor |
– | 1st round (1/32) United Kingdom A. Grunfeld |
United Kingdom B. Griffiths United Kingdom Jane Wood |
– | ||
Sous le résultat, la partenaire; à droite, l'ultime équipe adverse
Fed Cup
She appeared in the Fed Cup in 1990, playing three singles matches and winning two.[5]
World ranking
| Year | 1987 | 1988 | 1989 | 1990 | 1991 | 1992 |
| Ranking | 367 |  159 |
 298 |
82 |
174 |
430 |
Notes
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External links
- Sarah Loosemore at the Women's Tennis Association
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