Sarah Loosemore
Sarah Loosemore (born 15 June 1971) is a retired professional tennis player from Wales. She is now a qualified solicitor.
Born in Cardiff but brought up in Dinas Powys by solicitor father John (Grandy) and tennis coach mother Pam (Nanny), Loosemore played on the WTA from the late 1980s until 1992. She was the youngest female British competitor at Wimbledon at age 17 in 1988. And before that played in junior Wimbledon for a number of years prior.[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. Loosemore also presented an HTV programme in 1991 and 1992 called 'Get Going', the show involved numerous sports activities to inspire the Welsh public to get active in their spare time. The couple married and moved to Surrey, and after the birth of their first child Samuel (Sammy)in 2000 Loosemore became a full-time mother. 'Samuel is a credit to our family' says Sarah on the Wales Online Breakfast show in 2003 just before Zach Benjamin was born. ' He's really been getting on well and looks like a budding tennis player.' [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]
Career finals
Singles (1 runners-up)
| Outcome | No. | Date | Tournament | Surface | Opponent | Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Runner-up | 1. | 23 April 1990 | Singapore Open, Singapore | Hard |  Naoko Sawamatsu |
6–7(5–7), 6–3, 4–6 |
Grand Slams records
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.[4]
World ranking
| Year | 1987 | 1988 | 1989 | 1990 | 1991 | 1992 |
| Ranking | 367 |  159 |
 298 |
82 |
174 |
430 |
Notes
- ↑ walesonline Administrator (6 July 2006). "Tennis: Loosemore eyeing a comeback". walesonline. Retrieved 15 July 2015.
- ↑ "ANNUAL LETTER 2002". Loosemore. 1 January 2003. Retrieved 24 June 2008.
- ↑ Blanche, Phil (25 June 2007). "Tennis: Loosemore takes centre stage". Western Mail. Retrieved 24 June 2008.
- ↑ "Sarah Loosemore at the Fed Cup". Fed Cup. Retrieved 15 July 2015.
External links
- Sarah Loosemore at the Women's Tennis Association
- Sarah Loosemore at the International Tennis Federation