Laura Granville Biography

Laura Granville (born May 12, 1981 in Chicago, Illinois) is a former American professional tennis player. During the two years she spent at Stanford University, she set the record for most consecutive singles victories with 58 and finished with an overall record of 93-3. Granville won the NCAA singles championship as well as the ITA Player of the Year in both 2000 and 2001. In 2001 Stanford won the women's tennis national team championship, and Granville was also a doubles finalist. She retired in 2010 after seven full years on the WTA Tour and returned to Stanford where she completed her studies and graduated in 2012. She was inducted into the Stanford University Athletics Hall of Fame in 2014. Laura Granville is now in her third season as the head coach of the Princeton University women's tennis team. In 2014 the Princeton Women's Tennis program won the Ivy League title and defeated Arizona State 4-3 to win its first ever NCAA tournament match.

Career highlights

1996- Won the Illinois girl's high school tennis state singles championships as a sophomore at The Latin School of Chicago.

1998- Claimed the United States Tennis Association national girls' 18 singles and earned a wildcard into the US Open main draw, losing in the second round (defeating World No. 96 Paola Surez en route.)

1999- Repeated as the United States Tennis Association national girls' 18 singles and earned a wildcard into the US Open main draw.

2000- Won the National Collegiate Athletics Association (NCAA) women's tennis singles championships as a freshman at Stanford University.

2001- Won her second consecutive NCAA women's tennis singles championships as a sophomore at Stanford University. Turned professional after her sophomore year and reached three ITF circuit semifinals.

2002- Won two ITF tournaments, was the runner-up in two ITF tournaments, reached her first-ever WTA tour quarterfinals in New Haven, Connecticut, U.S. and Luxembourg (beating Arantxa Snchez Vicario in the first round), won three singles matches at Wimbledon (including a defeat of Mary Pierce), reached the third round at the tournament in Montreal, and made her Top 100 and Top 50 debuts.

2007- Defeated former World No. 1 Martina Hingis in the third round at Wimbledon to match her career best showing there. Defeated 2013 Wimbledon Champion Marion Bartoli indoors at Memphis.

2008- Won the Midland, Michigan, U.S. ITF tournament.

WTA career finals

Singles: 1 (0-1)

Winner "? Legend
Grand Slam tournaments (0-0)
Olympic Games (0-0)
WTA Tour Championships (0-0)
Tier I / Premier Mandatory & Premier 5 (0-0)
Tier II / Premier (0-0)
Tier III, IV & V / International (0-1)

Outcome	No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Opponent in the final	Score in the final
Runner-up	1.	15 August 2004	Vancouver	Hard	Nicole Vaidiov	6-2, 4-6, 2-6

Doubles: 5 (2-3)

Winner "? Legend
Grand Slam tournaments (0-0)
Olympic Games (0-0)
WTA Tour Championships (0-0)
Tier I / Premier Mandatory & Premier 5 (0-0)
Tier II / Premier (0-0)
Tier III, IV & V / International (2-3)

Outcome	No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Partner	Opponents in the final	Score in the final
Runner-up	1.	19-May-2003	Strasbourg	Clay	Jelena Kostani? Toi?	Sonya Jeyaseelan Maja Matevi?	4-6, 4-6
Runner-up	2.	19 February 2005	Memphis	Hard	Abigail Spears	Yuka Yoshida Miho Saeki	3-6, 4-6
Winner	1.	24 July 2005	Cincinnati	Hard	Abigail Spears	Kv?ta Peschke Mara Emilia Salerni	3-6, 6-2, 6-4
Winner	2.	5 November 2006	Quebec City	Carpet (i)	Carly Gullickson	Jill Craybas Alina Jidkova	6-3, 6-4
Runner-up	3.	4 January 2010	Auckland	Hard	Natalie Grandin	Cara Black Liezel Huber	6-7(4-7), 2-6