Gail Brodsky

Gail Brodsky
Brodsky at the 2011 Open Cagnes-sur-Mer
Native nameГейл Бродскі
Country (sports) United States
ResidenceBrooklyn, New York
Born (1991-06-05) June 5, 1991 (age 33)
Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine
Height1.65 m (5 ft 5 in)
Turned pro2007
PlaysRight (two-handed backhand)
Prize money$179,263
Singles
Career record188–136
Career titles6 ITF
Highest rankingNo. 182 (March 19, 2012)
Grand Slam singles results
French OpenQ1 (2012)
WimbledonQ1 (2012)
US Open1R (2008, 2009)
Doubles
Career record47–73
Career titles2 ITF
Highest rankingNo. 348 (May 2, 2011)
Grand Slam doubles results
US Open1R (2008, 2009)

Gail Brodsky[a] (born June 5, 1991) is an American former professional tennis player. Her career-high WTA singles ranking is 182, reached on March 19, 2012. On May 2, 2011, she peaked at No. 348 in the doubles rankings.[1] On the ITF Circuit, she won six singles titles and two doubles titles.[1] In 2008, she won the USTA Girls’ 18s national title.[2]

Career

Brodsky was born in Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine, to Eduard and Julia, moved to Ocean Parkway across the street from Coney Island Hospital in Brighton Beach, Brooklyn, when she was six, and is Jewish.[3][2][4][1] As a youth, she trained on public courts in Manhattan Beach, Brooklyn.[5] She and her husband and two children live in Kirkland, Washington.[4]

She won the 2008 USTA Girls’ 18s national title, defeating Sloane Stephens, the 2017 US Open champion, and CoCo Vandeweghe, the 2017 US Open semifinalist, at 17 years of age.[2][4] She thus earned a wildcard to the 2008 US Open, where she lost in the first round, 5–7, 3–6, to world No. 14, Agnes Szavay.[4][5] She was also given a wildcard into the 2009 US Open,[6] where she lost in the first round 4–6, 4–6 to Anabel Medina Garrigues.[7]

She said: “I grew up with a lot of pressure and not a lot of passion for the sport.” Her parents were strict about her diet and other aspects of her life; it was only after she broke all contact with them (she says: “it wasn’t a healthy situation”), at age 17, that she tasted her first French fry.[8]

In 2007 and 2010, she won the Ojai Tennis Tournament in women's singles.[9] She also won the 2010 $10k Porto, 2011 $10k Gosier and $25k La Coruna, 2015 $10k Victoria, and 2018 $15k Victoria and $60k Ashland singles titles.[1]

She has also won the 2010 Landisville (w/A. Mueller) and the 2018 Victoria (w/B. Boren) doubles titles.[1]

ITF Circuit finals

Legend
$60,000 tournaments
$25,000 tournaments
$10/15,000 tournaments

Singles: 9 (6 titles, 3 runner-ups)

Result W–L    Date    Tournament Tier Surface Opponent Score
Loss 0–1 Jul 2010 ITF Gausdal, Norway 10,000 Hard France Victoria Larrière 3–6, 4–6
Win 1–1 Oct 2010 ITF Porto, Portugal 10,000 Clay Germany Karolina Nowak 7–5, 6–1
Win 2–1 Jan 2011 ITF Gosier, France 10,000 Hard (i) United States Sachia Vickery 6–3, 2–6, 6–2
Win 3–1 Jul 2011 ITF La Coruña, Spain 25,000 Clay Russia Alexandra Panova 6–3, 6–4
Loss 3–2 Jan 2012 Clay Court Championships, U.S. 25,000 Hard United States Grace Min 6–2, 2–6, 4–6
Loss 3–3 Jan 2012 ITF Plantation, United States 25,000 Clay United States Lauren Davis 4–6, 1–6
Win 4–3 Jun 2015 ITF Victoria, Canada 10,000 Hard (i) Hungary Naomi Totka 3–6, 6–2, 7–6(3)
Win 5–3 Jun 2018 ITF Victoria, Canada 10,000 Hard (i) United States Maegan Manasse 3–6, 6–2, 6–3
Win 6–3 Jul 2018 Ashland Tennis Classic, U.S. 60,000 Hard United States Maegan Manasse 4–6, 6–1, 6–0

Doubles: 4 (2 titles, 2 runner-ups)

Result W–L    Date    Tournament Tier Surface Partner Opponents Score
Win 1–0 23 May 2010 ITF Landisville,
United States 		10,000 Hard United States Alexandra Mueller New Zealand Dianne Hollands
Australia Tiffany Welford 		4–6, 7–5, [10–2]
Loss 1–1 2 October 2010 ITF Porto,
Portugal 		10,000 Clay United States Alexandra Riley Norway Ulrikke Eikeri
Germany Lena-Marie Hofmann 		7–6(4), 6–7(5), [5–10]
Win 2–1 24 June 2018 ITF Victoria,
Canada 		15,000 Hard (i) United States Brynn Boren United States Safiya Carrington
United States Alana Smith 		6–1, 6–2
Loss 2–2 23 June 2019 ITF Denver,
United States 		25,000 Hard United States Brynn Boren Montenegro Vladica Babić
United States Hayley Carter 		2–6, 3–6

See also

Notes

  1. ^ Ukrainian: Гейл Бродскі, romanized: Heil Brodski

References

  1. ^ a b c d e ""Gail BRODSKY"". Archived from the original on November 29, 2021. Retrieved September 3, 2019.
  2. ^ a b c "Former Jewish phenom Brodsky back in the swing of things". The Jerusalem Post. September 3, 2018.
  3. ^ x, csjl.org.
  4. ^ a b c d "Gail Brodsky trying to put herself back on the tennis map". ESPN. August 1, 2018.
  5. ^ a b GRACE, MELISSA (August 26, 2008). "Despite loss, Brooklyn tennis phenom takes heart in U.S. Open debut". nydailynews.com.
  6. ^ "Glatch, King, and McHale receive 2009 US Open Wild Cards - Tennis Industry news". www.tennisindustrymag.com. Retrieved December 8, 2023.
  7. ^ Tennis.com. "The Coney Island Kid". Tennis.com. Retrieved December 8, 2023.
  8. ^ Lewak, Doree (August 22, 2018). "Former tennis phenom launches improbable comeback at US Open". New York Post.
  9. ^ Past Champions jaitourney.org December 2012 Archived March 1, 2021, at the Wayback Machine