Alice Pirsu (born 16 May 1979) is a former professional tennis player from Romania.
Biography
Born in
Bucharest
Bucharest ( , ; ) is the capital and largest city of Romania. The metropolis stands on the River Dâmbovița (river), Dâmbovița in south-eastern Romania. Its population is officially estimated at 1.76 million residents within a greater Buc ...
, 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
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.
Beginning on the
ITF Circuit in 1994, she won her biggest title at Athens in 1997, defeating
Evgenia Kulikovskaya
Evgenia Borisovna Kulikovskaya (Russian: Евгения Борисовна Куликовская; born 21 December 1978) is a former professional tennis player from Russia.
She reached her highest singles ranking of No. 91 in June 2003. She had ...
in the final of a $25k tournament. 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
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. While studying for her economics degree she was a co-captain of the university's tennis team, the
Penn Quakers
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, 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.
She is now based in New York and runs an interior design company in
Pelham.
ITF finals
Singles (1–3)
Doubles (1–6)
References
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1979 births
Living people
Romanian female tennis players
Penn Quakers women's tennis players
Romanian expatriate tennis players in the United States
Tennis players from Bucharest