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Mallory Burdette (born January 28, 1991) is an American former professional
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player.


Personal life

Burdette was born to Alan and Judy Burdette in
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. She has two sisters, Erin and Lindsay, and a brother Andy, who all played tennis at the college-level. She would have been a senior at
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in the fall of 2012, but she gave up her final year of college eligibility to turn professional after her strong run at the 2012 US Open, when she reached the third round, falling to then-world No. 3,
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. She announced her retirement from professional tennis in October 2014, after being inactive for over a year due to a shoulder injury.


Career


2006–2007

Burdette made her debut at the US Open, as a wildcard, 2006 in the women's doubles event. She partnered her sister Lindsay, and they were beaten by
Michaëlla Krajicek Michaëlla Krajicek (; born 9 January 1989) is a Dutch former tennis player. She has won three singles and five doubles titles on the WTA Tour, as well as one WTA 125 tournaments, WTA 125 doubles title, and 14 titles in singles and 24 in double ...
and
Corina Morariu Corina Maria Morariu (born January 26, 1978) is an American former professional tennis player. Morariu (pronounced: mo-RA-R'ju) was born in Detroit, Michigan and is of Romanian descent. She turned professional in 1994. Mainly known as a doubl ...
in two sets. In October, she received a wildcard to play in the qualifying draw of a $25k tournament in
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, however, she lost the match to Bulgarian Svetlana Krivencheva in three tight sets. In November, she competed in the qualifying of the $50k tournament in
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, again as a wildcard, but was beaten by
Tetiana Luzhanska Tetiana Luzhanska (born September 4, 1984) is a former tennis player. Luzhanska has a career-high singles ranking of world No. 131, achieved on 26 September 2011, and a highest WTA doubles ranking of 99, set on 12 February 2007. In her career, ...
. Burdette ended the year, after having competed in three events. She was absent from the tour in 2007.


2008

In July 2008, Mallory entered her first tournament since 2006, an $10k event in
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. For the first time, she not only qualified, but reached round two with a straight-sets win over Anastasia Kharchenko. She also made the quarterfinals in doubles (with sister Lindsay), losing to
Mallory Cecil Mallory Anne Cecil (born July 18, 1990) is a former professional tennis player from the United States. Biography A right-handed player from Spartanburg, South Carolina, Cecil trained at the IMG Academy in Florida, where she was coached by Nick ...
and
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. This was the only tournament on the professional tour Burdette played in 2008.


2009–2010

In her only event of 2009, Burdette got a main draw wildcard at a $25k event in
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. She was beaten in the first round by Soledad Esperón. She made the quarterfinals in doubles (partnering
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) though, falling in a tight match to
Kimberly Couts Kimberly Couts (born May 9, 1989) is an American former professional tennis player. On 20 April 2009, she reached her career-high singles ranking of world No. 259. On 12 July 2010, she achieved her best WTA doubles ranking of 157. Kimberly pl ...
and
Sharon Fichman Sharon Fichman ( ; born December 3, 1990) is a Canadian former tennis player. She achieved career-high WTA rankings of 77 in singles (May 2014) and 21 in doubles (January 2022). In 2005, Fichman won the gold medal in women's singles at the 200 ...
. She did not play in 2010.


2011–2012

Burdette's only tournament of 2011 was the US Open women's doubles, where she received a wildcard together with her partner Hilary Barte. In the first round, they beat compatriots
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and
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in straight sets. – before advancing to the second round, where they lost against
Andreja Klepač Andreja Klepač (born 13 March 1986) is a Slovenian former tennis player. On 14 July 2008, she reached her career-high singles rankings of world No. 99. On 11 April 2022, she peaked at No. 11 in the WTA doubles rankings. She qualified also with ...
from Slovenia and
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from Georgia. Burdette received a wildcard into the main draw of the 2012 Stanford Classic in California. In the first round, she defeated
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in three sets. She lost to
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in round two, after leading in the first set. A week after her second-round defeat in Stanford, on July 16, Burdette headed to compete in her first ITF event, a $10k hardcourt tournament held in
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. She qualified for the main draw following three straight-sets victories. Burdette defeated
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,
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,
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, and Julia Elbaba, and reached her first final on the ITF Circuit. She faced top seed Duan Yingying and won in two sets. Burdette didn't drop a single set throughout the tournament. On top of that, she also managed a runner-up showing of doubles at the same event, partnering compatriot Natalie Pluskota. The following week, Burdette headed to Lexington to compete in the $50k hardcourt event there, on a wildcard. She defeated top seed
Olivia Rogowska Olivia Rogowska (; born 7 June 1991) is an Australian former tennis player. Both of her parents are Polish. The right-hander was born in and lives in Melbourne. Her career-high singles ranking is world No. 102, achieved on 11 August 2014. He ...
and took her winning streak to ten when she defeated Jessica Pegula, in straight sets. However, her unbeaten run was ended in the third round when she was defeated by
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. In the first week of August 2012, Burdette received a wildcard entry in the $100k Vancouver Open. She defeated lucky loser Sherazad Benamar,
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, Olivia Rogowska, and
Chiara Scholl Chiara "Chichi" Scholl (born July 5, 1992) is an American tennis player. Scholl has won 11 singles and 25 doubles titles on the ITF Women's Circuit The ITF Women's World Tennis Tour, previously known as the ITF Women's Circuit, is a series ...
to secure her place in the final. Another straight-sets victory over Jessica Pegula brought Burdette her second ITF title within the space of a month. Similar to her first tournament win in Evansville, she won the title without dropping a set. As a result of the win in Vancouver, Burdette earned a main-draw wildcard for the US Open. In the first round, Burdette defeated Swiss
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, backing it up with another straight-sets win over
Lucie Hradecká Lucie Hradecká (; born 21 May 1985) is a Czech former professional tennis player. A three-time Grand Slam doubles champion and 26-time WTA Tour doubles titlist, she reached her career-high doubles ranking of world No. 4 in October 2012. She w ...
. Burdette's run came to an end in the third round, with a defeat by third-seeded
Maria Sharapova Maria Yuryevna Sharapova (, ; born 19 April 1987) is a Russian former professional tennis player. She was ranked as the world No. 1 in women's singles by the Women's Tennis Association (WTA) for 21 weeks. Sharapova won 36 WTA Tour-level sin ...
.


2013–2014

While she did not play at the
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, she entered the
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for the first time and beat
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in the first round but was eliminated in the second by top-ten player
Agnieszka Radwańska Agnieszka Roma Radwańska (; born 6 March 1989) is a Polish former professional tennis player and current coach. She was ranked world No. 2 in women's singles by the Women's Tennis Association (WTA), in July 2012. Radwańska won 20 WTA Tour sing ...
. She also entered in doubles with
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. The pair lost in the opening round to the eventual champions,
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and
Elena Vesnina Elena Sergeyevna Vesnina (born 1 August 1986) is a Russian former professional tennis player who was List of WTA number 1 ranked doubles tennis players, world No. 1 in doubles. Vesnina is a four-time Grand Slam (tennis), Grand Slam champion, h ...
. Burdette had a nagging shoulder injury which kept her out of play during the 2014 season. She announced an official retirement from the sport in October 2014, citing the aforementioned injury the reason. Her last match on the professional tour was a tight first-round loss to
Marina Erakovic Marina Erakovic ( ; ; born 6 March 1988) is a former tennis player from New Zealand. She achieved career-high rankings of 39 in singles and 25 in doubles, and won a singles title at Memphis in February 2013, and eight doubles titles on the W ...
in
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at the 2013 Challenge Bell, on September 9, 2013.


ITF Circuit finals


Singles (2–0)


Doubles (0–1)


Singles performance timeline


References


External links

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