Sarah Beth Grey (born 10 August 1995; formerly known as Sarah Beth Askew) is a British
tennis player.
Grey has a career-high
WTA singles ranking of 277, achieved August 2022. She also has a career-high WTA doubles ranking of 143, achieved on 21 October 2019. In her career, Grey has won one singles title and 16 doubles titles on the
ITF Circuit.
She made her
WTA Tour main-draw debut at the
2019 Dubai Tennis Championships
The 2019 Dubai Tennis Championships (also known as the Dubai Duty Free Tennis Championships for sponsorship reasons) was an ATP Tour 500 event on the 2019 ATP Tour and a WTA Premier 5 event on the 2019 WTA Tour. Both events were held at the Aviati ...
, after receiving a wildcard into the doubles event, partnering
Eden Silva
Eden Giselle Silva (born 14 March 1996) is a British tennis player and model of Russian and Sri Lankan descent.
She has career-high WTA rankings of 300 in singles, achieved on 30 January 2023, and 126 in doubles, reached on 3 February 2020.
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.
Personal
Grey was born in
Liverpool and grew up in one of its suburbs,
West Derby.
She lives in
Wendover and trains at Halton Tennis Centre in
Buckinghamshire
Buckinghamshire (), abbreviated Bucks, is a ceremonial county in South East England that borders Greater London to the south-east, Berkshire to the south, Oxfordshire to the west, Northamptonshire to the north, Bedfordshire to the north-ea ...
. She has three older sisters, a younger brother, and two younger half-brothers.
In February 2022, Grey successfully underwent
cardiac ablation
Catheter ablation is a procedure used to remove or terminate a faulty electrical pathway from sections of the heart of those who are prone to developing cardiac arrhythmias such as atrial fibrillation, atrial flutter and Wolff-Parkinson-White syn ...
surgery to correct a potentially dangerous abnormal heart rhythm.
Playing style
Grey plays left-handed with a two-handed backhand. Although standing at only 5ft 6, she describes her serve as her favourite shot and she enjoys playing on
grass courts
A grass court is one of the four different types of tennis court on which the sport of tennis, originally known as "lawn tennis", is played. Grass courts are made of grasses in different compositions depending on the tournament.
Although grass c ...
.
Career statistics
Grand Slam performance timelines
Singles
Doubles
ITF finals
Singles: 1 (title)
Doubles: 34 (16 titles, 18 runner–ups)
Notes
References
External links
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1995 births
Living people
British female tennis players
Sportspeople from Liverpool
Tennis people from Merseyside
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