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Mary Pierce is a French former professional tennis player, born on 15 January 1975 in Montreal, Canada, to a French mother and an American father, and raised in the United States before representing France. She was ranked world number three in both singles and doubles by the WTA and won 18 singles titles on the WTA Tour, including two majors, the 1995 Australian Open and the 2000 French Open, as well as five Tier I events. She was a finalist at four more singles majors and twice at the Tour Finals. In doubles she won ten WTA titles, among them the 2000 French Open with Martina Hingis and the 2005 Wimbledon mixed doubles with Mahesh Bhupathi. She is the most recent Frenchwoman to win the French Open singles title and was inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame in 2019.

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Birth Year
1975 1
Gender
Female 1
Medals or Titles Band
2-4 1
Titles
18 1
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is a French former professional tennis player
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    Mary Caroline Pierce (born 15 January 1975)
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    She was ranked world No. 3 in singles and in doubles
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    including two majors at the 1995 Australian Open and the 2000 French Open
  • Lead, titles
    Pierce won 18 singles titles on the WTA Tour
  • Lead, nationality
    is a French former professional tennis player
  • Competed In: French Open, French Open
    Pierce won 18 singles titles on the WTA Tour, including two majors at the 1995 Australian Open and the 2000 French Open, and five Tier I singles events.
  • Competed In: Wimbledon, Wimbledon
    the highlight of the year for Pierce was her first appearance in the Wimbledon quarterfinals
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