Paulette Moreno Hjorth (born 12 March 1969) is a former professional tennis player from Hong Kong.

Biography

Moreno was a national champion in Hong Kong at the age of 13 in 1982.[1]

She made her debut for the Hong Kong Fed Cup team in 1985 and won a doubles match against West Germany that year. Another of her doubles wins came against Sweden in 1987, when she and Patricia Hy teamed up to claim the deciding rubber 9–7 in the third set. As a junior she was a finalist in the girls' doubles at the 1987 Wimbledon Championships, where she and Korean Kim Il-Soon lost to Natalia Medvedeva and Natasha Zvereva.[2]

From 1987 to 1991 she competed on the WTA Tour. She appeared twice in the main draw at Wimbledon, both times in mixed doubles, partnering Todd Woodbridge in 1987 and Neil Borwick in 1989. In between she also featured at the 1988 Australian Open and made the second round of the singles, with a win over Marianne van der Torre.[3]

She made her final Fed Cup appearance in 1995 and finished with an 18/17 overall record.

Moreno lived for a while in Melbourne after her tennis career but has since moved to Denmark, where her husband is from. In 2017 she began working as a coach at the Lyngby Tennis Club in Copenhagen.[4]

ITF finals

Doubles: 11 (6–5)

Result No. Date Tournament Surface Partner Opponents Score
Win 1. 25 August 1986 Wels, Austria Clay Austria Karin Oberleitner Austria Bettina Diesner
Austria Barbara Paulus 		7–5, 7–6(7–4)
Win 2. 21 September 1987 Llorca, Spain Clay Norway Amy Jönsson Raaholt Sweden Maria Ekstrand
Sweden Monica Lundqvist 		7–6, 6–7, 7–5
Loss 3. 26 October 1987 Cheshire, United Kingdom Carpet Sweden Maria Strandlund Soviet Union Eugenia Maniokova
Soviet Union Natalia Medvedeva 		2–6, 6–7
Win 4. 16 November 1987 Croydon, United Kingdom Carpet Soviet Union Viktoria Milvidskaia Soviet Union Eugenia Maniokova
Soviet Union Natalia Medvedeva 		6–4, 6–1
Loss 5. 24 October 1988 Ibaraki, Japan Hard Japan Maya Kidowaki Japan Kimiko Date
Japan Yuko Hosoki 		4–6, 6–4, 7–9
Win 6. 5 March 1989 Canberra, Australia Hard Japan Shiho Okada Australia Kate McDonald
Australia Rennae Stubbs 		6–4, 6–2
Loss 7. 18 September 1989 Bangkok, Thailand Hard Denmark Karin Ptaszek United Kingdom Valda Lake
New Zealand Claudine Toleafoa 		6–7, 6–1, 5–7
Win 8. 27 November 1989 Melbourne, Australia Hard Australia Danielle Jones United States Allison Cooper
Australia Justine Hodder 		6–2, 6–2
Loss 9. 20 August 1990 Chiang Mai, Thailand Hard Thailand Orawan Thampensri Netherlands Esmir Hoogendoorn
Netherlands Claire Wegink 		3–6, 6–1, 1–6
Win 10. 7 October 1991 Matsuyama, Japan Hard Australia Jenny Byrne Philippines Jennifer Saret
China Yi Jing-Qian 		1–6, 6–4, 6–4
Loss 11. 14 October 1991 Kyoto, Japan Hard United States Diana Gardner China Li Fang
China Tang Min 		4–6, 5–7

References

  1. ^ "Parity by 2019". South China Morning Post. 26 January 2017. Retrieved 6 June 2018.
  2. ^ "Girls' Doubles Finals 1982-2017". The Championships, Wimbledon. Retrieved 6 June 2018.
  3. ^ "Women's Singles First round". The Des Moines Register. 13 January 1988. p. 10. Retrieved 6 June 2018.
  4. ^ "Ny træner i Lyngby Tennis Klub" (in Danish). 5 January 2017. Retrieved 6 June 2018.
Allikas: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paulette_Moreno
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