Myrtille Georges (; born 21 December 1990) is a French former tennis player.
She has career-high WTA rankings of 168 in singles (achieved on 18 July 2016) and 287 in doubles (21 August 2017). She won nine singles titles and six doubles titles on the ITF Women's World Tennis Tour.
Career Georges made her debut on the ITF Women's Circuit in November 2006 at a $10k event in Le Havre; she only played in the singles draw and was eliminated in the second round of qualifying. Her next stop was in November 2007 at a $50k tournament in Deauville, France (it was the only tournament that she played in 2007); she only played the singles event and was eliminated in the qualifying first round.
In 2008, she played the singles events of five tournaments (all of them in France and four of them in the last four months of the year) on the ITF Circuit.
From 2009 onwards, Georges started to play more regularly; she played in the singles events of 23 tournaments on the 2009 ITF Circuit.
She made her WTA Tour doubles debut at the 2010 Internationaux de Strasbourg, after receiving a main-draw wildcard; she and her partner Émilie Bacquet lost in the first round to the top-seeded pair of Chuang Chia-jung and Lucie Hradecká, 1–6, 3–6.
Georges made her WTA Tour singles debut at the 2011 Open GdF Suez also thanks to a wildcard; she lost in the first round of qualifying to Maria-Elena Camerin, 3–6, 3–6.
She made her singles major main-draw debut at the 2016 French Open, after being handed a wildcard. Georges had been eliminated in the first or second singles qualifying rounds of the French Open for four consecutive years, from 2012 (the year of her major singles debut) to 2015. In the first round of the 2016 French Open, she defeated world No. 67, Christina McHale, in three sets to register her first career-win over a player ranked in the top 100 of the WTA singles rankings, before losing in the second round to fourth seed Garbiñe Muguruza, 2–6, 0–6 in 53 minutes.
She announced her retirement from professional tennis in September 2020.
Grand Slam performance timeline
Singles Tournament201220132014201520162017201820192020W–L Australian OpenAAAAA1RQ1Q1A0–1 French OpenQ1Q1Q2Q12R1R1RQ1A1–3 WimbledonAAAAQ1Q3AQ1NH0–0 US OpenAAAAQ3Q1Q1AA0–0Win–loss0–00–00–00–01–10–20–10–00–01–4
ITF Circuit finals Singles: 23 (9 titles, 14 runner-ups) Legend$60,000 tournaments$25,000 tournaments$10/15,000 tournamentsFinals by surfaceHard (5–7)Clay (4–7)
ResultW–LDateTournamentTierSurfaceOpponentScoreLoss 0–1 Aug 2010ITF Bree, Belgium10,000 Clay Valeria Solovieva 7–5, 4–6, 3–6Win 1–1 Sep 2011ITF Apeldoorn, Netherlands10,000 Clay Lesley Kerkhove 7–5, 6–4Loss 1–2 Nov 2011ITF Loughborough, United Kingdom10,000 Hard (i) Tara Moore 6–7(5), 7–5, 4–6Win 2–2 Apr 2012ITF Le Havre, France10,000 Clay (i) Ysaline Bonaventure 5–7, 7–5, 6–0Loss 2–3 Apr 2012ITF San Severo, Italy10,000 Clay Anastasia Grymalska 6–4, 1–6, 1–6Loss 2–4 Aug 2012ITF Rebecq, Belgium25,000 Clay Kirsten Flipkens 2–6, 1–6Loss 2–5 Jan 2013GB Pro-Series Glasgow, UK10,000 Hard (i) Tara Moore 4–6, 1–6Loss 2–6 Aug 2013ITF Braunschweig, Germany15,000 Clay Kristina Barrois 6–4, 2–6, 3–6Loss 2–7 Jan 2014GB Pro-Series Glasgow, UK10,000 Hard (i) Tara Moore 3–6, 1–6Win 3–7 Jan 2015ITF Port El Kantaoui, Tunisia10,000 Hard Estelle Cascino 6–4, 6–2Win 4–7 Mar 2015ITF Port El Kantaoui, Tunisia10,000 Hard Isabella Shinikova 6–4, 6–0Loss 4–8 Aug 2015ITF Koksijde, Belgium25,000 Clay Kiki Bertens 6–3, 2–6, 3–6Win 5–8 Sep 2015ITF Barcelona, Spain15,000 Clay Georgina García Pérez 6–3, 7–6(3)Win 6–8 Feb 2016Open de l'Isère, France25,000 Hard (i) Indy de Vroome 7–6(4), 6–2Win 7–8 May 2017ITF La Marsa, Tunisia25,000 Clay Alexandra Panova 6–1, 6–1Win 8–8 Oct 2017ITF Cherbourg-en-Cotentin, France25,000 Hard (i) Audrey Albié 6–4, 3–6, 7–5Loss 8–9 Oct 2017Open de Touraine, France25,000 Hard (i) Tereza Smitková 3–6, 5–7Loss 8–10 Feb 2018ITF Perth, Australia25,000 Hard Gabriella Taylor 2–6, 5–7Loss 8–11 Apr 2018ITF Pula, Italy25,000 Clay Tamara Zidanšek 1–6, 6–7(4)Loss 8–12 Jun 2018ITF Périgueux, France25,000 Clay Nadia Podoroska 2–6, 0–6Loss 8–13 Oct 2018Open de Touraine, France25,000 Hard (i) Chloé Paquet 6–7(5), 2–6Win 9–13 Mar 2019ITF Mâcon, France25,000 Hard (i) Lesley Kerkhove 6–3, 6–3Loss 9–14 Jul 2019ITF Porto, Portugal25,000 Hard Eva Guerrero Álvarez 4–6, 7–6(4), 3–6
Doubles: 9 (6 titles, 3 runner-ups) ResultNo.DateTournamentSurfacePartnerOpponentsScoreWin 1. ITF Rebecq, Belgium Clay Émilie Bacquet Kika Hogendoorn Elke Lemmens 6–3, 4–6, [11–9]Win 2. ITF Le Havre, France Clay (i) Céline Ghesquière Manon Arcangioli Kinnie Laisné 6–4, 6–2Win 3. Open Porte du Hainaut, France Clay Céline Ghesquière Michaela Hončová Isabella Shinikova 6–4, 6–2Loss 1. ITF Koksijde, Belgium Clay Céline Ghesquière Diana Buzean Daniëlle Harmsen 6–3, 3–6, [5–10]Win 4. ITF Port El Kantaoui, Tunisia Hard Céline Ghesquière Kristýna Hrabalová Vendula Žovincová 6–7(6), 6–2, [10–5]Win 5. Mar2015 ITF Port El Kantaoui, Tunisia Hard Isabella Shinikova Chanel Simmonds Magali Kempen 1–6, 6–4, [10–2]Loss 2. Oct 2019 ITF Cherbourg, France Hard (i) Kimberley Zimmermann Naomi Broady Samantha Murray 3–6, 2–6Win 6. Feb 2020 GB Pro-Series Glasgow, UK Hard (i) Kimberley Zimmermann Lara Salden Clara Tauson 7–6(2), 7–6(5)Loss 3. May 2026 ITF Reichstett, France Clay Evita Ramirez Liv Boulard Milena Ciocan 4–6, 3–6
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