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Jocelyn Rae
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Rae at the 2016 French Open
Country (sports)  United Kingdom
Scotland Scotland
Residence Arnold, England
Born (1991-02-20) 20 February 1991 (age 33)
Nottingham, England
Height 6 ft 2 in (1.88 m)
Turned pro 2009
Retired 2017
Plays Right (two-handed backhand)
Prize money $213,702
Singles
Career record 70–53 (56.91%)
Career titles 1 ITF
Highest ranking No. 450 (12 July 2010)
Grand Slam singles results
Wimbledon Q1 (2010)
Doubles
Career record 165–112 (59.57%)
Career titles 23 ITF
Highest ranking No. 67 (22 February 2016)
Grand Slam doubles results
Australian Open 3R (2016)
French Open 2R (2016)
Wimbledon 2R (2009, 2010, 2015, 2017)
US Open 1R (2015)
Grand Slam mixed doubles results
Wimbledon QF (2017)
Medal record
Representing  Scotland
Commonwealth Games
Gold 2010 Delhi Mixed doubles

Jocelyn Rae (born 20 February 1991) is a British former tennis player.

Rae has a career-high doubles ranking of 67 by the Women's Tennis Association (WTA), achieved on 22 February 2016. In her career, she won one singles title and 23 doubles titles on the ITF Women's Circuit.

Together with Colin Fleming, she won the gold medal in the mixed doubles at the 2010 Commonwealth Games in Delhi for Scotland (qualifying through her Stirlingshire-born father). She was coached by former professional tennis player and fellow Scot, Karen Paterson. She is openly lesbian.

Career

Junior (2006–2009)

Rae played her first match on the ITF Junior Circuit in April 2006 and continued to compete as a junior until July 2009. During this time, her greatest successes came in doubles although she did win one title at the 2006 Egypt International Championships. She also reached one semifinal and three quarterfinals in singles. In doubles, Rae won three titles (two with Hannah James and one with Amanda Elliott) as well as reaching one more final and three semifinals, one of which was in the 2008 Wimbledon girls' doubles, partnering Jade Curtis. They lost, 6–4, 3–6, 4–6, to Polona Hercog and Jessica Moore, the sixth seeded team who went on to win the title. Rae ended her junior career with win–loss records of 21–18 in singles and 26–14 in doubles. Her career-high combined junior ranking was world No. 167, which she achieved on 23 April 2007.

2014–2017

In February 2014, Rae received her first call up to the British Fed Cup Team, following Laura Robson's withdrawal due to injury.

In July, Rae reached her first WTA Tour doubles final at the Swedish Open, partnering Anna Smith.

In April 2015, Rae won a $50k tournament in Croissy-Beaubourg, France, partnering Anna Smith. In June 2015, she lost the WTA doubles final of the Nottingham Open.

Jocelyn Rae announced her retirement from professional tour in December 2017.

WTA Tour finals

Doubles: 4 (4 runner-ups)

Winner — Legend
Grand Slam tournaments
Tier I / Premier M & Premier 5
Tier II / Premier
Tier III, IV & V / International (0–4)
Finals by surface
Hard (0–1)
Grass (0–2)
Clay (0–1)
Carpet (0–0)
Result No. Date Tournament Surface Partner Opponents Score
Loss 1. Jul 2014 Båstad Open, Sweden Clay United Kingdom Anna Smith Slovenia Andreja Klepač
Spain María Teresa Torró Flor
1–6, 1–6
Loss 2. Jun 2015 Nottingham Open, UK Grass United Kingdom Anna Smith United States Raquel Kops-Jones
United States Abigail Spears
6–3, 3–6, [9–11]
Loss 3. Sep 2016 Japan Women's Open Hard United Kingdom Anna Smith Japan Shuko Aoyama
Japan Makoto Ninomiya
3–6, 3–6
Loss 4. Jun 2017 Nottingham Open, UK Grass United Kingdom Laura Robson Australia Monique Adamczak
Australia Storm Sanders
4–6, 6–4, [4–10]

ITF finals

Singles (1–1)

Legend
$10,000 tournaments
Finals by surface
Hard (1–1)
Outcome No. Date Tournament Surface Opponent Score
Loss 1. 31 August 2009 Cumberland, United Kingdom Hard United Kingdom Jade Windley 1–6, 1–6
Win 1. 12 October 2009 Mytilini, Greece Hard United Kingdom Jade Windley 6–2, 6–1

Doubles (23–7)

Legend
$100,000 tournaments
$75,000 tournaments
$50,000 tournaments
$25,000 tournaments
$15,000 tournaments
$10,000 tournaments
Finals by surface
Hard (19–4)
Clay (1–2)
Grass (3–1)
Outcome No. Date Tournament Surface Partner Opponents Score
Win 1. 15 September 2008 Kawana Waters, Australia Hard Australia Emelyn Starr United States Alexis Prousis
United States Robin Stephenson
6–4, 4–6, [10–4]
Win 2. 6 July 2009 Felixstowe, UK Grass United Kingdom Jade Windley Slovenia Dalila Jakupović
Germany Sarah-Rebecca Sekulic
6–1, 6–0
Win 3. 13 July 2009 Frinton, United Kingdom Grass United Kingdom Jade Windley United Kingdom Anna Fitzpatrick
Australia Emelyn Starr
6–3, 7–5
Win 4. 4 September 2009 Cumberland, UK Hard United Kingdom Jade Windley Switzerland Lucia Kovarčíková
Czech Republic Monika Tumova
6–4, 6–0
Loss 1. 12 October 2009 Mytilini, Greece Hard United Kingdom Jade Windley Poland Olga Brózda
Poland Justyna Jegiołka
4–6, 4–6
Loss 2. 30 November 2009 Bendigo International, Australia Hard Australia Emelyn Starr France Irena Pavlovic
Russia Arina Rodionova
3–6, 6–7(3)
Win 5. 9 May 2010 Edinburgh, UK Clay United Kingdom Amanda Elliott Hungary Tímea Babos
United Kingdom Tara Moore
7–6(5), 6–4
Loss 3. 17 July 2010 Woking, UK Hard Australia Emelyn Starr Hungary Tímea Babos
Finland Emma Laine
2–6, 2–6
Win 6. 31 July 2010 Chiswick, UK Hard Australia Emelyn Starr United Kingdom Anna Fitzpatrick
United Kingdom Jade Windley
6–1, 6–4
Win 7. 13 November 2010 GB Pro-Series Loughborough, UK Hard (i) United Kingdom Jade Windley Czech Republic Jana Orlova
Czech Republic Petra Krejsová
6–3, 5–7, [10–4]
Win 8. 9 November 2013 Loughborough, UK Hard (i) United Kingdom Anna Smith Italy Francesca Palmigiano
Italy Camilla Rosatello
6–0, 4–6, [10–3]
Win 9. 15 November 2013 Manchester, UK Hard (i) United Kingdom Anna Smith Netherlands Eva Wacanno
Germany Julia Wachaczyk
6–1, 6–4
Loss 4. 7 December 2013 Pune, India Hard United Kingdom Anna Smith Thailand Nicha Lertpitaksinchai
Thailand Peangtarn Plipuech
5–7, 5–7
Win 10. 13 December 2013 Navi Mumbai, India Hard United Kingdom Anna Smith Georgia (country) Oksana Kalashnikova
Latvia Diāna Marcinkēviča
6–4, 7–6(5)
Win 11. 18 January 2014 GB Pro-Series Glasgow, UK Hard (i) United Kingdom Anna Smith Czech Republic Martina Borecká
Czech Republic Tereza Malíková
4–6, 6–2, [10–4]
Win 12. 25 January 2014 Sunderland, UK Hard (i) United Kingdom Anna Smith Hungary Ágnes Bukta
Bulgaria Viktoriya Tomova
6–1, 6–1
Win 13. 23 February 2014 Nottingham, UK Hard (i) United Kingdom Anna Smith United Kingdom Naomi Broady
Czech Republic Renata Voráčová
7–6(6), 6–4
Loss 5. 28 February 2014 Beinasco, Italy Clay (i) United Kingdom Anna Smith Italy Nicole Clerico
Italy Giulia Gatto-Monticone
1–6, 7–5, [11–13]
Win 14. 31 March 2014 Edgbaston, UK Hard (i) United Kingdom Anna Smith Poland Magda Linette
Switzerland Amra Sadiković
3–6, 7–5, [10–4]
Win 15. 2 June 2014 Nottingham Trophy, UK Grass United Kingdom Anna Smith Canada Sharon Fichman
United States Maria Sanchez
7–6(5), 4–6, [10–5]
Win 16. 26 July 2014 Lexington Challenger,
United States
Hard United Kingdom Anna Smith Japan Shuko Aoyama
United States Keri Wong
6–4, 6–4
Win 17. 1 February 2015 Sunderland, UK Hard (i) United Kingdom Anna Smith Poland Justyna Jegiołka
Sweden Cornelia Lister
6–3, 6–1
Win 18. 4 April 2015 Croissy-Beaubourg, France Hard (i) United Kingdom Anna Smith France Julie Coin
France Mathilde Johansson
7–6(5), 7–6(2)
Loss 6. 10 May 2015 Open de Cagnes-sur-Mer, France Clay United Kingdom Anna Smith United Kingdom Johanna Konta
France Laura Thorpe
6–1, 4–6, [5–10]
Loss 7. 4 June 2015 Eastbourne Trophy, UK Grass United Kingdom Anna Smith United States Shelby Rogers
United States CoCo Vandeweghe
5–7, 6–7(1)
Win 19. 2 April 2016 ITF Croissy-Beaubourg, France Hard (i) United Kingdom Anna Smith Czech Republic Lenka Kunčíková
Czech Republic Karolína Stuchlá
6–4, 6–1
Win 20. 3 September 2016 Guiyang, China Hard (i) United Kingdom Anna Smith China Wei Zhanlan
China Zhao Qianqian
6–4, 3–6, [10–5]
Win 21. 11 November 2016 Bratislava, Slovakia Hard (i) United Kingdom Anna Smith Netherlands Quirine Lemoine
Netherlands Eva Wacanno
6–3, 6–2
Win 22. 4 February 2017 GB Pro-Series Glasgow, UK Hard (i) United Kingdom Anna Smith Romania Laura Ioana Andrei
Czech Republic Petra Krejsová
6–3, 6–2
Win 23. 19 August 2017 Vancouver Open, Canada Hard Australia Jessica Moore United States Desirae Krawczyk
Mexico Giuliana Olmos
6–1, 7–5

Fed Cup participation

Doubles (10–3)

Edition Round Date Location Against Surface Partner Opponents W/L Score
2011 Fed Cup Europe/Africa Group I 2 February 2011 Eilat, Israel Switzerland Switzerland Hard United Kingdom Heather Watson Switzerland Timea Bacsinszky
SwitzerlandAmra Sadiković
W 6–4, 6–3
4 February 2011 Denmark Denmark United Kingdom Heather Watson Denmark Mai Grage
Denmark Caroline Wozniacki
W 5–7, 7–5, 7–5
2014 Fed Cup Europe/Africa Zone Group I 5 February 2014 Budapest, Hungary Latvia Latvia Hard (i) United Kingdom Heather Watson Latvia Diāna Marcinkēviča
Latvia Jeļena Ostapenko
L 6–1, 5–7, 6–7(5–7)
7 February 2014 Romania Romania United Kingdom Heather Watson Romania Irina-Camelia Begu
Romania Monica Niculescu
L 0–6, 2–6
2015 Fed Cup Europe/Africa Zone Group I 4 February 2015 Budapest, Hungary Liechtenstein Liechtenstein Hard (i) United Kingdom Anna Smith Liechtenstein Kathinka von Deichmann
Liechtenstein Stephanie Vogt
W 6–1, 6–2
5 February 2015 Turkey Turkey United Kingdom Anna Smith Turkey Başak Eraydın
Turkey Pemra Özgen
W 6–2, 6–1
6 February 2015 Ukraine Ukraine United Kingdom Anna Smith Ukraine Kateryna Kozlova
Ukraine Olga Savchuk
W 6–2, 6–1
2016 Fed Cup Europe/Africa Zone Group I 4 February 2016 Eilat, Israel South Africa South Africa Hard United Kingdom Anna Smith South Africa Madrie Le Roux
South Africa Michelle Sammons
W 6–3, 6–2
5 February 2016 Georgia (country) Georgia United Kingdom Anna Smith Georgia (country) Oksana Kalashnikova
Georgia (country) Sofia Shapatava
L 2–6, 4–6
2017 Fed Cup Europe/Africa Zone Group I 8 February 2017 Tallinn, Estonia Portugal Portugal Hard (i) United Kingdom Laura Robson Portugal Michelle Larcher de Brito
Portugal Inês Murta
W 6–2, 6–3
9 February 2017 Latvia Latvia United Kingdom Laura Robson Latvia Diāna Marcinkēviča
Latvia Daniela Vismane
W 6–0,
6–7(2–7),
6–2
10 February 2017 Turkey Turkey United Kingdom Laura Robson Turkey Ayla Aksu
Turkey Pemra Özgen
W 6–2, 6–2
World Group II Play-offs 23 April 2017 Constanța, Romania Romania Romania Clay United Kingdom Laura Robson Romania Simona Halep
Romania Monica Niculescu
W 6–3, 1–6, [10–8]

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