Alice Pirsu

Alice Pirsu (born 16 May 1979) is a former professional tennis player from Romania.

Alice Pirsu

Country (sports)	Romania
Born	(1979-05-16) 16 May 1979 (age 44) Bucharest, Romania
Prize money	$26,301
Singles
Career record	78–70
Career titles	1 ITF
Highest ranking	No. 200 (20 July 1998)
Doubles
Career record	47–46
Career titles	1 ITF
Highest ranking	No. 223 (20 July 1998)
Team competitions
Fed Cup	4–6

Biography

Born in Bucharest, Pirsu competed on the professional tour in the 1990s. As a junior, she had a top ranking of 24 and reached the second round at Wimbledon.^[1]

Beginning on the ITF Circuit in 1994, she won her biggest title at Athens in 1997, defeating Evgenia Kulikovskaya in the final of a $25k tournament.^[2] She played five singles and five doubles rubbers for Romania's Fed Cup team across 1997 and 1998, in a total of seven ties. In 1998, her final year on tour, she reached her best singles ranking of 200 in the world.

Pirsu left the professional tennis circuit to attend the University of Pennsylvania. While studying for her economics degree she was a co-captain of the university's tennis team, the Penn Quakers, earning the Ivy League Player of the Year award in both 2002 and 2003. She made the final eight of the 2003 NCAA Division I Women's Tennis Championships, becoming the first Quakers player to have done so.^[3]

She is now based in New York and runs an interior design company in Pelham.^[4]

ITF finals

Singles (1–3)

Legend
$25,000 tournaments
$10,000 tournaments

Outcome	No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Opponent	Score
Winner	1.	31 August 1997	ITF Athens, Greece	Clay	Evgenia Kulikovskaya	4–6, 7–5, 6–3
Runner-up	2.	7 September 1997	ITF Cluj, Romania	Clay	Desislava Topalova	3–6, 7–5, 3–6
Runner-up	3.	12 October 1997	ITF Thessaloniki, Greece	Hard	Antoaneta Pandjerova	2–6, 2–6
Runner-up	4.	20 September 1998	ITF Constanta, Romania	Clay	Anna Zaporozhanova	6–7, 1–6

Doubles (1–6)

Outcome	No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Partner	Opponents	Score
Runner-up	1.	7 August 1995	ITF İstanbul, Turkey	Hard	Raluca Sandu	Gülberk Gültekin   Selin Nassi Tekikbas	2–6, 2–6
Winner	2.	24 June 1996	ITF Maribor, Slovenia	Clay	Alida Gallovits	Kira Nagy   Andrea Noszály	6–4, 7–5
Runner-up	3.	18 August 1996	ITF İstanbul, Turkey	Hard	Khoo Chin-bee	İpek Şenoğlu   Desislava Topalova	1–6, 4–6
Runner-up	4.	28 July 1997	ITF Horb, Germany	Clay	Magda Mihalache	Julia Abe   Renee Reid	3–6, 3–6
Runner-up	5.	1 September 1997	ITF Cluj-Napoca, Romania	Clay	Magda Mihalache	Olga Vymetálková   Blanka Kumbárová	6–7^(3), 6–4, 4–6
Runner-up	6.	6 April 1998	ITF Athens, Greece	Clay	Andreea Ehritt-Vanc	Alice Canepa   Tatiana Garbin	7–5, 2–6, 4–6
Runner-up	7.	14 September 1998	ITF Constanța, Romania	Hard	Nino Louarsabishvili	Debby Haak   Jolanda Mens	3–6, 6–7^(5)

References

1. "Wimbledon Results". Cumberland Times News. 5 July 1995. p. 24.
2. "$25,000 Athens II". International Tennis Federation.
3. Burrick, David (22 May 2003). "Alice Pirsu advances to Quarterfinals". The Daily Pennsylvanian.
4. "Children's books inspire Christmas tree display". The Riverdale Press. 24 December 2014.

External links

• Alice Pirsu at the Women's Tennis Association  
• Alice Pirsu at the International Tennis Federation  
• Alice Pirsu at the Billie Jean King Cup