Lucie Ahl (born 23 July 1974) is a tennis coach and a former professional tennis player. She was briefly the British No.1, holding the position for 9 non-consecutive weeks between 30 July 2001 and 5 May 2002. She reached her highest singles ranking of world No.161 on 1 April 2002.

In her career, Ahl won a total of 15 titles on the ITF Women's Circuit and also participated on the WTA Tour. She had career wins over ITF & WTA Tour players Sandra Cacic and Rene Simpson.

Her best Grand Slam performance came at the 2000 Wimbledon Championships, where she defeated Austrian Barbara Schwartz in round one to capture the first and only win of her career in Grand Slam competition. Ahl also represented Great Britain at the Fed Cup on one occasion, winning all three of her rubbers and thus remaining undefeated in Fed Cup action. Brother Daniel was ranked number 1 on the ITF world over 35 ratings in 2007

ITF circuit finals

Singles (9–7) Finals by category$100,000 tournaments (0/0)$75,000 tournaments (0/0)$50,000 tournaments (0/0)$25,000 tournaments (5/1)$10,000 tournaments (4/6) Finals by surface Hard (3/0) Clay (0/2) Grass (3/3) Carpet (3/0) ResultDateCategoryTournamentSurfaceOpponentScoreWinITF $10,000Frinton, United KingdomGrass Julie Pullin6–1, 3–6, 6–1LossITF $10,000Nottingham, Great BritainCarpet Anne-Gaëlle Sidot4–6, 2–6Loss 6 February 1995ITF $10,000 Sheffield, United Kingdom Hard Olga Ivanova 3–6, 4–6WinITF $10,000Southsea, United KingdomGrass Cindy Watson6–3, 6–3WinITF $10,000Telford, United KingdomHard (i) Julie Pullin6–3, 6–7, 6–3LossITF $10,000Warrnambool, AustraliaGrass Shirli-Ann Siddall3–6, 3–6LossITF $10,000Hatfield, Great BritainClay Shirli-Ann Siddall2–6, 0–6LossITF $10,000Bournemouth, Great BritainClay Joanne Ward6–7, 4–6LossITF $10,000Felixstowe, Great BritainGrass Mareze Joubert5–7, 3–6WinITF $10,000Frinton, Great BritainGrass Lisa McSheaW/OWinITF $25,000Dublin, IrelandCarpet Petra Mandula7–6, 6–3WinITF $25,000Cagnes-sur-Mer, FranceHard Virginie Razzano4–6, 7–5, 6–2WinITF $25,000Dublin, IrelandCarpet Julia Lutrova6–1, 6–3WinITF $25,000Dublin, IrelandCarpet Mareze Joubert6–2, 6–4WinITF $25,000Welwyn, Great BritainHard Antonella Serra Zanetti4–2, 4–2, 4–1LossITF $25,000Felixstowe, Great BritainGrass Roberta Vinci5–7, 5–7

Doubles (6–9) Finals by category$100,000 tournaments (0/0)$75,000 tournaments (0/0)$50,000 tournaments (0/0)$25,000 tournaments (1/2)$10,000 tournaments (5/7) Finals by surface Hard (2/1) Clay (3/4) Grass (1/4) Carpet (0/0) ResultDateCategoryTournamentSurfacePartneringOpponentScoreWinITF $10,000Dublin, IrelandHard (i) Julie Salmon Gina Niland Siobhán Nicholson7–5, 7–5LossITF $10,000Ilkley, United KingdomClay Joanne Ward Jasmine Choudhury Louise Latimer6–1, 2–6, 2–6WinITF $10,000Sheffield, United KingdomHard (i) Joanne Ward Julie Pullin Lorna Woodroffe7–6, 6–3LossITF $10,000Lee-on-Solent, United KingdomClay Joanne Ward Shirli-Ann Siddall Amanda Wainwright5–7, 1–6LossITF $10,000Felixstowe, United KingdomClay Shirli-Ann Siddall Surina de Beer Katia Roubanova2–6, 4–6WinITF $10,000Frinton, United KingdomGrass Shirli-Ann Siddall Amy Jensen Anita Kurimay6–1, 6–4LossITF $10,000Ilkley, United KingdomGrass Shirli-Ann Siddall Surina de Beer Katia Roubanova1–6, 7–6, 3–6WinITF $10,000Southsea, United KingdomGrass Shirli-Ann Siddall Louise Latimer Lorna Woodroffe6–2, 7–6LossITF $10,000Hatfield, United KingdomClay Jessica Steck Shirli-Ann Siddall Joanne Ward6–3, 4–6, 5–7WinITF $10,000Nottingham, United KingdomHard Joanne Ward Karen Cross Lizzie Jelfs6–2, 7–6LossITF $10,000Felixstowe, United KingdomGrass Amanda Wainwright Lisa McShea Trudi Musgrave4–6, 6–7LossITF $10,000Frinton, United KingdomGrass Amanda Wainwright Lizzie Jelfs Mareze Joubert2–6, 5–7LossITF $25,000Felixstowe, United KingdomGrass Natalia Egorova Trudi Musgrave Lorna Woodroffe4–6, 6–3, 4–6LossITF $25,000Nottingham, United KingdomHard Selima Sfar Kim Grant Lilia Osterloh1–6, 2–6WinITF $25,000Biarritz, FranceClay Selima Sfar Yuliya Beygelzimer Anna Zaporozhanova6–1, 6–1

Performance timelines

Singles Tournament 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 Career win–lossAustralian OpenAAAAAAAQ1Q1Q3Q10–0French OpenAAAAAAAQ1Q1Q1Q10–0WimbledonQ2Q1Q1Q11RQ11R2R1R1R1R1–6US OpenAAAAQ1Q1Q1Q1Q1Q2Q10–0Year-end ranking405373349331179225168185200203258N/A

Doubles Tournament 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 Career win–lossAustralian OpenAAAAAA0–0French OpenAAAAAA0–0Wimbledon1RAA1R1R1R0–4US OpenAAAAAA0–0Year-end ranking372303407350471360N/A

Mixed doubles Tournament 2002 2003 Career win–lossAustralian OpenAA0–0French OpenAA0–0Wimbledon1R1R0–2US OpenAA0–0

Fed Cup Europe/Africa Group II Date Venue Surface Round Opponents Final match score Match Opponent Rubber score 9–13 April 2002 Pretoria Hard RR 3–0 Singles Rosanne Dimech 6–1, 6–2 (W) 3–0 Doubles (with Rachel Viollet) Aksdal/Sartz 6–0, 6–0 (W) PO(Promotion) 2–0 Singles Edita Liachovičiūtė 6–3, 6–1 (W)

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