Chloé Paquet (French pronunciation:[klɔepakɛ]; born 1 July 1994) is a French professional tennis player. She has achieved career-high WTA rankings of No. 96 in singles on 5 August 2024, and 247 in doubles on 12 June 2017.
Career
2010–2013: Early career
Paquet made her debut on the ITF Women's Circuit in March 2010 at the $10k tournament held in Gonesse, France; she only played the tournament's singles event, losing in the second qualifying round. She played five tournaments on the 2010 ITF Women's Circuit.[1]
Her Grand Slam singles debut in qualifying came at the 2015 French Open, after receiving a singles qualifying wildcard; in the qualifying event, she defeated fellow French player Lou Brouleau in the first round, before losing to Paula Kania in the second.[1]
2016: WTA Tour singles debut
Paquet participated in another Grand Slam qualifying competition, after receiving again a wildcard at the 2016 French Open. She made her WTA Tour singles main-draw debut at the 2016 Copa Colsanitas, after winning two qualifying matches; she lost in the first round of the main draw to Anne Schäfer.[2]
2017: Grand Slam debut at the French Open and first win
At the Mexican Open, Paquet played just her second career WTA Tour singles main-draw match; after winning two qualifying matches, but she lost in the first round of the main draw to No. 7 seed Lesia Tsurenko.[2]
Paquet made her Grand Slam singles main-draw debut at the French Open after receiving a singles main-draw wildcard. Coming into that tournament ranked only 260th in the world in the WTA singles rankings, she upset 44th-ranked Kristýna Plíšková in the first round before losing to No. 28 seed, Caroline Garcia, in the second. Paquet's win over Plíšková was the first WTA Tour singles main-draw win of her career.[1][3]
At the Australian Open, Paquet qualified for the first time in her career for a Grand Slam championship.
She received her fifth consecutive wildcard for a direct main-draw entry into the French Open. At the same major, in doubles, she reached the third round as a wildcard pair, partnering compatriot Clara Burel.
She reached a new career-high singles ranking of world No. 122, on 8 November 2021.
In July, Paquet reached her first WTA Tour semifinal in five years and second of her career at the 2024 Iași Open. As a result, she entered the top 100 for the first time at age 30, on 29 July 2024.[7][8] She lost her semifinal match to fifth seed Elina Avanesyan.[9]
Performance timelines
Key
W
F
SF
QF
#R
RR
Q#
P#
DNQ
A
Z#
PO
G
S
B
NMS
NTI
P
NH
(W) winner; (F) finalist; (SF) semifinalist; (QF) quarterfinalist; (#R) rounds 4, 3, 2, 1; (RR) round-robin stage; (Q#) qualification round; (P#) preliminary round; (DNQ) did not qualify; (A) absent; (Z#) Davis/Fed Cup Zonal Group (with number indication) or (PO) play-off; (G) gold, (S) silver or (B) bronze Olympic/Paralympic medal; (NMS) not a Masters tournament; (NTI) not a Tier I tournament; (P) postponed; (NH) not held; (SR) strike rate (events won / competed); (W–L) win–loss record.
To avoid confusion and double counting, these charts are updated at the conclusion of a tournament or when the player's participation has ended.
Only main-draw results in WTA Tour, Grand Slam tournaments, Fed Cup/Billie Jean King Cup and Olympic Games are included in win–loss records.[10]
^The first Premier 5 event of the year has switched back and forth between the Dubai Tennis Championships and the Qatar Ladies Open since 2009. Dubai was classified as a Premier 5 event from 2009 to 2011 before being succeeded by Doha for the 2012–2014 period. In 2015, Dubai regained its Premier 5 status while Doha was demoted to Premier status. The Premier 5 tournaments were reclassified as WTA 1000 tournaments in 2021.
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