Sarah Pitkowski-Malcor (born 13 November 1975) is a former professional tennis player from France. Her career-high singles ranking is world No. 29, which she achieved on 1 November 1999.
Pitkowski won her only career
WTA Tour
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singles final in
Budapest
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in the spring of 1999, where she beat
Cristina Torrens Valero
Cristina Torrens Valero (born 12 September 1974) is a former professional female tennis player from Spain. She won two singles and two doubles WTA titles. Cristina reached her career-high singles ranking world No. 27 on 4 March 2002.
In 199 ...
in the final. She was also the runner-up at the WTA tournament in
Antwerp in the same year, where she lost to
Justine Henin
Justine Henin (; born 1 June 1982) is a Belgian former professional tennis player. She spent a total of 117 weeks as the world No. 1 and was the year-end No. 1 in 2003, 2006 and 2007. Henin, coming from a country with limited success in tenn ...
. She has won a total of ten singles titles on the
ITF Women's Circuit
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History
It serves as a developmenta ...
but never advanced beyond the third round of any
Grand Slam
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event in singles competition. She represented
France
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in the first round of the
Fed Cup
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in 1998 as a rookie, and saved the defending champions from losing to Belgium by defeating
Sabine Appelmans
Sabine Appelmans (born 22 April 1972) is a former professional tennis player from Belgium. She was Belgium's Fed Cup captain from 2007 until 2011.
Career
Appelmans started playing at the neighbour's court at the age of seven. Her first traine ...
4–6, 6–4, 6–1.
Pitkowski married the French professional tennis player
Olivier Malcor
Olivier Malcor (born 28 January 1975) is a former professional tennis player from France.
Biography
Born in Falaise, Malcor was a right-handed player who turned professional in 1994. He had a career best ranking of 161 and competed in the qualify ...
, who has served as a coach for
Nicolas Mahut
Nicolas Pierre Armand Mahut (; born 21 January 1982) is a French professional tennis player who is a former world No. 1 in doubles.
He is a five-time Grand Slam champion in doubles, having completed the career Grand Slam with victories at th ...
, on 7 July 2001. The couple have a son.
WTA career finals
Singles: 2 (1 title, 1 runner-up)
Grand Slam singles performance timeline
ITF Circuit finals
Singles: 14 (10–4)
Doubles: 2 (1–1)
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1975 births
Living people
People from Seclin
French people of Polish descent
French female tennis players
Sportspeople from Nord (French department)