Sarah Stone (tennis)

Sarah Jane Stone (born 23 March 1982) is a former professional tennis player from Australia.

Sarah Stone

Full name	Sarah Jane Stone
Country (sports)	Australia
Born	(1982-03-23) 23 March 1982 (age 40) Melbourne, Australia
Height	181 cm (5 ft 11 in)
Plays	Right Handed
Prize money	$27,772
Singles
Highest ranking	No. 600 (24 February 2003)
Doubles
Career titles	0 WTA / 11 ITF
Highest ranking	No. 131 (14 July 2003)
Grand Slam doubles results
Australian Open	1R (2003)
Wimbledon	1R (2003)

Biography

A doubles specialist from Melbourne, Stone competed on the professional tour in the early 2000s before her career was cut short due to a right foot and back injury.

Stone won 11 ITF doubles titles during her career, eight of which came in the 2002 season. Stone excelled as a doubles player on the ITF junior world tour where she reached the number 8 ranking in the world.

Her best result on the WTA Tour was a quarter-final appearance partnering Samantha Stosur at the 2002 Tasmanian International.^[1]

In 2003 she featured in the main draw of the women's doubles at both the Australian Open and Wimbledon. She played in the Australian Open as a wildcard pairing with Samantha Stosur, then at Wimbledon, she and Nicole Sewell played as successful qualifiers after defeating Dinara Safina and Maria Elena Camarin.^[2]

Between 2006-2008 Stone worked with WTA tour players Anastasia Rodionova, Romina Oprandi, Vasilisa Bardina and Christina Wheeler.

Now based in the United States, she currently coaches American player Alexa Glatch and Serbian world number 39 Aleksandra Krunic. Stone began working with Krunic's team at Indian Wells in 2018. Under Stone's coaching tutelage Krunic won her first WTA tour title at 'S Hertogenbosch defeating Coco Vandeweghe and Kirsten Flipkens along the way.^[3] As a result, Krunic reached a career-high ranking of 39 on the WTA tour.^[4][5]

She was previously the coach of her former doubles partner Samantha Stosur for three years during which time Stosur reached the world number one doubles ranking and won three Grand Slam doubles titles.

In 2015 Stone founded ^[6] the Women's Tennis Coaching Association (WTCA) she currently serves as the CEO of the 501 (C3) organization. Stone is the chairperson of the women's tennis coaching board of the Professional Tennis Registry.

She is currently a WTA Gold level coach and is a coaching consultant to the SBW Tennis academy in Brentwood Los Angeles.

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ITF Circuit finals

Doubles: 21 (11-10)

$100,000 tournaments

$75,000 tournaments

$50,000 tournaments

$25,000 tournaments

$10,000 tournaments

Outcome	No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Partner	Opponents	Score
Winner	1.	19 March 2001	Wodonga, Australia	Grass	Kristen van Elden	Beti Sekulovski   Nicole Sewell	3–6, 7–6^(4), 6–4
Winner	2.	16 July 2001	Frinton, Great Britain	Grass	Beti Sekulovski	Yvonne Doyle   Karen Nugent	7–6^(5), 6–4
Runner-up	3.	16 September 2001	Ibaraki, Japan	Hard	Beti Sekulovski	Samantha Stosur   Melissa Dowse	4–6, 7–5, 2–6
Runner-up	4.	23 September 2001	Osaka, Japan	Hard	Beti Sekulovski	Samantha Stosur   Melissa Dowse	7–5, 3–6, 3–6
Runner-up	5.	3 February 2002	Wellington,New Zealand	Hard	Nicole Kriz	Chan Chin-wei   Chuang Chia-jung	6–4 6–7^(3) 2–6
Winner	6.	25 February 2002	Bendigo, Australia	Hard	Samantha Stosur	Trudi Musgrave   Cindy Watson	6–4, 6–3
Winner	7.	4 March 2002	Warrnambool, Australia	Grass	Samantha Stosur	Amanda Augustus   Claire Curran	6–0, 4–6, 6–3
Winner	8.	11 March 2002	Benalla, Australia	Grass	Nicole Kriz	Casey Dellacqua   Svenja Weidemann	7–5, 6–1
Winner	9.	23 March 2002	Bendigo, Australia	Grass	Nicole Kriz	Rochelle Rosenfield   Madita Suer	3–6, 7–5, 6–3
Winner	10.	10 June 2002	Raalte, Netherlands	Clay	Jolanda Mens	Darya Ivanova   Tiffany Welford	4–6, 6–3, 6–0
Runner-up	11.	24 June 2002	Alkmaar, Netherlands	Clay	Jolanda Mens	Kim Kilsdonk   Nicole Melch	6–7^(2), 2–6
Runner-up	12.	8 July 2002	Felixstowe, United Kingdom	Grass	Christina Horiatopoulos	Amanda Augustus   Nicole Sewell	6–7^(5), 4–6
Runner-up	13.	29 July 2002	Saint-Gaudens, France	Clay	Samantha Stosur	Ľudmila Cervanová   Stanislava Hrozenská	6–7^(5), 4–6
Winner	14.	5 August 2002	Bath, Great Britain	Hard	Samantha Stosur	Asimina Kaplani   Maria Pavlidou	6–4, 6–1
Winner	15.	12 August 2002	London, Great Britain	Hard	Elsa O'Riain	Michelle Summerside   Anna White	6–4, 6–2
Runner-up	16.	9 September 2002	Bordeaux, France	Clay	Samantha Stosur	Flavia Pennetta   Andreea Ehritt-Vanc	3–6, 5–7
Runner-up	17.	17 September 2002	Glasgow, Scotland	Hard	Samantha Stosur	Yvonne Doyle   Elsa O'Riain	2–6, 4–6
Runner-up	18.	14 October 2002	Mackay, Australia	Hard	Samantha Stosur	Natalie Grandin   Nicole Sewell	3–6, 6–1, 4–6
Runner-up	19.	21 October 2002	Rockhampton, Australia	Hard	Samantha Stosur	Evie Dominikovic   Bryanne Stewart	5–7, 6–4, 5–7
Winner	20.	28 October 2002	Dalby, Australia	Hard	Samantha Stosur	Evie Dominikovic   Bryanne Stewart	6–3, 6–3
Winner	21.	7 April 2003	Coatzacoalcos, Mexico	Hard	Erica Krauth	Helen Crook   Christina Zachariadou	6–4, 4–6, 6–4

References

1. "Tennis - Thursday's results". ESPN. 10 January 2002. Retrieved 13 June 2018.
2. "Q&A with WTA Pro Tennis Coach Sarah Stone". mattspoint.com/. Retrieved 13 June 2018.
3. "Women's Tennis Association - Official Website".
4. "Aleksandra Krunic won her first title but how did we get there?". 21 June 2018.
5. "Sarah Stone - Female Coaching Network". femalecoachingnetwork.com. Retrieved 13 June 2018.
6. "Why aren't there more female coaches on tour? Coaches and players weigh in".
7. "About WTCA".
8. "Q&A with WTA Pro Tennis Coach Sarah Stone".

External links

• Sarah Stone at the Women's Tennis Association  
• Sarah Stone at the International Tennis Federation