# Jessika Ponchet

Jessika Ponchet (born 26 September 1996) is a French professional tennis player. She has career-high WTA rankings of world No. 104 in singles, achieved on 9 September 2024, and No. 101 in doubles, reached on 28 November 2022.

## Career

Ponchet did not play any ITF Junior Circuit tournaments, plunging straight into the ITF Women's Circuit at the age of 14.

### 2011–2013

Ponchet played the singles events of four tournaments and the doubles event of one tournament on the 2011 ITF Circuit, starting with a $100k tournament held in early July in the French city of Biarritz. She played a total of 11 and 18 ITF tournaments in 2012 and 2013, respectively.

### 2014–2016

Ponchet played a total of 17 tournaments on the ITF Circuit in 2014. She suffered a major setback when torn knee ligaments forced her to miss tournaments in the first eight months of 2015. She played the singles events of seven tournaments and one doubles event on the 2015 ITF Circuit.
In 2016, Ponchet played a total of 22 tournaments on the ITF Circuit in the 2016 season.

### 2017: WTA 125 debut

She made her major debut in the French Open qualifying, after having been handed a wildcard; however, after defeating Dalma Gálfi (the 2015 ITF World Champion in the girls' combined category), she lost to fourth seed, Richèl Hogenkamp, in the second round.
Ponchet made her WTA 125 debut at the Open de Limoges, entering only its singles event. She received a wildcard for the main draw, where she defeated her compatriot, Chloé Paquet, in the first round and lost to the No. 7 seed, Kaia Kanepi, in the second.
Ponchet finished 2017 with a final win–loss record of 42–24 for singles matches.

### 2018–2019: Grand Slam debut

She made her Grand Slam singles main draw debut at the Australian Open, after receiving a wildcard, but she lost in the first round to third seed Garbiñe Muguruza. Prior to the Australian Open, Ponchet had in her entire career played in the singles main-draw event of just one tournament that was at a higher level than the ITF Women's Circuit (the 2017 Open de Limoges) and had never even faced a player ranked in the top 100 of the WTA singles rankings.
Ponchet made her French Open debut, after receiving a wildcard for the singles main draw, where she lost in the first round to the unseeded Lucie Šafářová, in straight sets.
At the 2019 Australian Open, Ponchet reached the singles main draw where she lost in the first round to 19th-seeded Caroline Garcia, after winning all her three qualifying matches without dropping a set.
On 9 April 2019, in her first-round match at the $25k tournament in Sunderland, Ponchet was leading Tara Moore 6–0, 5–0 and had a match point to achieve a double bagel, but Moore staged a comeback to win 0–6, 7–6, 6–3.

### 2023: Grand Slam debut, first WTA 125 doubles title

Ponchet received wildcards for the French Open for the singles main draw, and in doubles partnering Elixane Lechemia. She entered the Guangzhou Open main draw as a lucky loser but lost to qualifier Moyuka Uchijima.
Partnering Maia Lumsden, Ponchet won her first WTA 125 doubles title at the Open de Rouen, defeating top seeds Anna Bondár and Kimberley Zimmermann in straight sets in the final.

### 2024: US Open third round

Ponchet qualified for the Rosmalen Open but lost to Aleksandra Krunić in the first round. Ranked No. 143, Ponchet made her singles main draw debut at the US Open after winning all three of her qualifying matches in straight sets. In the main draw, she defeated Zheng Saisai in the first round to win her first Grand Slam match. and reached a Grand Slam tournament third round for the first time after receiving a walkover in the second round when fourth seed Elena Rybakina withdrew because of injury. As a result, she moved close to 40 positions up in the WTA rankings to a new career-high at No. 104 on 9 September 2024. She lost to Caroline Wozniacki in straight sets.
After entering the singles main draw of the Japan Women's Open as a lucky loser, she failed to convert a match point in the third set in her first round loss to eighth seed Elisabetta Cocciaretto. In the first round of the Hong Kong Open, the unseeded Ponchet posted her second career Top 50 win by defeating fourth seed Wang Xinyu to reach the second round,where she lost to wildcard entrant Sofia Kenin.

## Performance timelines

Key :
| W | F | SF | QF | #R | RR | Q# | P# | DNQ | A | Z# | PO | G | S | B | NMS | NTI | P | NH |

### Singles

Current through the 2024 US Open.
| Tournament | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | SR | W–L |
| Grand Slam tournaments |||||||||||
| Australian Open | A | 1R | 1R | Q1 | A | Q1 | Q2 | Q2 | 0 / 2 | 0–2 |
| French Open | Q2 | 1R | 1R | Q1 | A | Q2 | 1R | 1R | 0 / 4 | 0–4 |
| Wimbledon | A | A | Q2 | NH | Q1 | Q3 | Q1 | Q1 | 0 / 0 | 0–0 |
| US Open | A | Q1 | Q1 | A | Q1 | Q1 | Q1 | 3R | 0 / 1 | 2–1 |
| Win–loss | 0–0 | 0–2 | 0–2 | 0–0 | 0–0 | 0–0 | 0–1 | 2–2 | 0 / 7 | 2–7 |
| Career statistics |||||||||||
| Tournaments | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | Career total: 7 | Career total: 7 |
| Overall win-loss | 0–0 | 0–2 | 0–2 | 0–0 | 0–0 | 0–1 | 0–1 | 2–2 | 0 / 7 | 2–7 |

## WTA Challenger finals
### Doubles: 4 (1 title, 3 runner-ups)

| Result | W–L | Date | Tournament | Surface | Partner | Opponents | Score |
| Loss | 0–1 | Feb 2020 | Newport Beach Challenger, United States | Hard | Marie Benoît | Hayley Carter Luisa Stefani | 1–6, 3–6 |
| Loss | 0–2 | Dec 2021 | Open de Limoges, France | Hard (i) | Estelle Cascino | Monica Niculescu Vera Zvonareva | 4–6, 4–6 |
| Loss | 0–3 | May 2022 | Open de Saint-Malo, France | Clay | Estelle Cascino | Eri Hozumi Makoto Ninomiya | 6–7$^{(1–7)}$, 1–6 |
| Win | 1–3 | Oct 2023 | Open de Rouen, France | Hard (i) | Maia Lumsden | Anna Bondár Kimberley Zimmermann | 6–3, 7–6$^{(7–4)}$ |

## ITF Circuit finals
### Singles: 19 (10 titles, 9 runner–ups)

* Legend
* W100 tournaments (0–2)
* W80 tournaments (1–0)
* W60/75 tournaments (1–1)
* W40 tournaments (1–0)
* W25 tournaments (4–3)
* W10 tournaments (3–3)
* Finals by surface
* Hard (7–7)
* Clay (3–1)
* Grass (0-1)
| Result | W–L | Date | Tournament | Tier | Surface | Opponent | Score |
| Loss | 0–1 | Oct 2015 | ITF Port El Kantaoui, Tunisia | W10 | Hard | Valeriya Strakhova | 2–6, 3–6 |
| Loss | 0–2 | May 2016 | ITF Monzón, Spain | W10 | Hard | Marie Bouzková | 4–6, 4–6 |
| Win | 1–2 | Jul 2016 | ITF Getxo, Spain | W10 | Clay | Ioana Loredana Roșca | 4–6, 6–2, 6–1 |
| Win | 2–2 | Jul 2016 | ITF El Espinar, Spain | W10 | Hard | Rocío de la Torre Sánchez | 6–4, 6–2 |
| Loss | 2–3 | Nov 2016 | ITF Vinaròs, Spain | W10 | Clay | Andrea Gamiz | 6–1, 1–6, 4–6 |
| Win | 3–3 | Nov 2016 | ITF Benicarló, Spain | W10 | Clay | Amanda Carreras | 6–0, 7–6$^{(6)}$ |
| Win | 4–3 | Jul 2018 | ITF Figueira da Foz, Portugal | W25 | Hard | Eva Guerrero Álvarez | 7–6$^{(4)}$, 6–2 |
| Win | 5–3 | Feb 2019 | GB Pro-Series Glasgow, UK | W25 | Hard (i) | Mariam Bolkvadze | 6–3, 6–1 |
| Loss | 5–4 | Mar 2020 | ITF Mâcon, France | W25 | Hard (i) | Océane Dodin | 6–3, 1–6, 3–6 |
| Loss | 5–5 | Jun 2021 | ITF Figueira da Foz, Portugal | W25 | Hard | Tessah Andrianjafitrimo | 7–6$^{(3)}$, 1–6, 0–6 |
| Win | 6–5 | Sep 2021 | ITF Leiria, Portugal | W25 | Hard | Anastasia Kulikova | 7–6$^{(3)}$, 6–0 |
| Loss | 6–6 | Jul 2022 | ITF Palma del Río, Spain | W25+H | Hard | Marina Bassols Ribera | 7–5, 4–6, 3–6 |
| Win | 7–6 | Jul 2022 | Open Araba en Femenino, Spain | W60 | Hard | Jenny Dürst | 6–4, 7–5 |
| Win | 8–6 | Sep 2022 | ITF Saint-Palais-sur-Mer, France | W25 | Clay | Séléna Janicijevic | 6–1, 6–4 |
| Win | 9–6 | Feb 2023 | ITF Mâcon, France | W40 | Hard (i) | Yanina Wickmayer | 6–3, 2–6, 6–4 |
| Loss | 9–7 | Jul 2023 | Open Araba en Femenino, Spain | W100 | Hard | Daria Snigur | 6–3, 4–6, 1–6 |
| Win | 10–7 | Oct 2023 | Internationaux de Poitiers, France | W80 | Hard (i) | Anna-Lena Friedsam | 3–6, 6–3, 7–6$^{(2)}$ |
| Loss | 10–8 | Jan 2024 | Open Andrézieux-Bouthéon, France | W75 | Hard (i) | Lily Miyazaki | 6–3, 4–6, 1–6 |
| Loss | 10–9 | Jun 2024 | Ilkley Trophy, United Kingdom | 100,000 | Grass | Rebecca Marino | 6–4, 1–6, 4–6 |

### Doubles: 24 (14 titles, 10 runner–ups)

* Legend
* W100 tournaments (1–1)
* W80 tournaments (1–1)
* W60/75 tournaments (7–2)
* W25 tournaments (2–3)
* W10/15 tournaments (3–3)
* Finals by surface
* Hard (10–7)
* Clay (4–2)
* Carpet (0–1)
| Result | W–L | Date | Tournament | Tier | Surface | Partner | Opponents | Score |
| Win | 1–0 | Mar 2014 | ITF Gonesse, France | W10 | Clay (i) | Karolína Stuchlá | Carolin Daniels Lena-Marie Hofmann | 6–7$^{(4)}$, 6–3, [10–3] |
| Win | 2–0 | Jun 2016 | ITF Madrid, Spain | W10 | Clay | Marina Shamayko | Ainhoa Atucha Gómez María José Luque Moreno | 6–2, 6–3 |
| Loss | 2–1 | Jul 2016 | ITF Getxo, Spain | W10 | Clay | Carla Lucero | Oleksandra Korashvili Ioana Loredana Roșca | 0–6, 3–6 |
| Loss | 2–2 | Jul 2016 | ITF El Espinar, Spain | W10 | Hard | Ioana Loredana Roșca | Charlotte Roemer Sarah-Rebecca Sekulic | 2–6, 6–7$^{(4)}$ |
| Win | 3–2 | Dec 2016 | ITF Castellón de la Plana, Spain | W10 | Clay | Laura Pigossi | Arabela Fernández Rabener Isabelle Wallace | 6–1, 6–3 |
| Loss | 3–3 | Apr 2017 | ITF Hammamet, Tunisia | W15 | Clay | Manon Arcangioli | Gabriela Cé Andrea Gamiz | 1–6, 2–6 |
| Loss | 3–4 | Apr 2018 | ITF Óbidos, Portugal | W25 | Carpet | Ganna Poznikhirenko | Sarah Beth Grey Olivia Nicholls | 2–6, 1–6 |
| Loss | 3–5 | Jul 2018 | ITF Figueira da Foz, Portugal | W25 | Hard | Sviatlana Pirazhenka | Yvonne Cavallé Reimers Andrea Gamiz | 2–6, 5–7 |
| Win | 4–5 | May 2019 | ITF Les Franqueses del Vallès, Spain | W60 | Hard | Eden Silva | Jodie Burrage Olivia Nicholls | 6–3, 6–4 |
| Win | 5–5 | Aug 2019 | Lexington Challenger, United States | W60 | Hard | Robin Anderson | Ann Li Jamie Loeb | 7–6$^{(4)}$, 6–7$^{(5)}$, [10–7] |
| Win | 6–5 | Sep 2019 | Caldas da Rainha Open, Portugal | W60 | Hard | Isabella Shinikova | Anna Danilina Vivian Heisen | 6–1, 6–3 |
| Win | 7–5 | Nov 2019 | Toronto Challenger, Canada | W60 | Hard (i) | Robin Anderson | Mélodie Collard Leylah Fernandez | 7–6$^{(7)}$, 6–2 |
| Win | 8–5 | Oct 2020 | ITF Cherbourg-en-Cotentin, France | W25 | Hard (i) | Robin Anderson | Harriet Dart Sarah Beth Grey | 4–6, 6–4, [10–8] |
| Win | 9–5 | May 2021 | Open Saint-Gaudens, France | W60 | Clay | Estelle Cascino | Eden Silva Kimberley Zimmermann | 0–6, 7–5, [10–7] |
| Win | 10–5 | Nov 2021 | Open Nantes, France | W60 | Hard (i) | Samantha Murray Sharan | Alicia Barnett Olivia Nicholls | 6–4, 6–2 |
| Win | 11–5 | Jan 2022 | Open Andrézieux-Bouthéon, France | W60 | Hard (i) | Estelle Cascino | Alicia Barnett Olivia Nicholls | 6–4, 6–1 |
| Loss | 11–6 | Apr 2022 | ITF Calvi, France | W25+H | Hard | Estelle Cascino | Sofya Lansere Valeriya Strakhova | 4–6, 6–7$^{(5)}$ |
| Win | 12–6 | Apr 2022 | ITF Monastir, Tunisia | W25 | Hard | Estelle Cascino | Polina Kudermetova Sofya Lansere | 6–0, 4–6, [10–7] |
| Loss | 12–7 | Oct 2022 | Internationaux de Poitiers, France | W80 | Hard (i) | Renata Voráčová | Miriam Kolodziejová Markéta Vondroušová | 4–6, 3–6 |
| Loss | 12–8 | Nov 2022 | GB Pro-Series Shrewsbury, UK | W100 | Hard (i) | Renata Voráčová | Miriam Kolodziejová Markéta Vondroušová | 6–7$^{(4)}$, 2–6 |
| Win | 13–8 | Sep 2023 | ITF Tokyo Open, Japan | W100 | Hard | Bibiane Schoofs | Alicia Barnett Olivia Nicholls | 4–6, 6–1, [10–7] |
| Win | 14–8 | Oct 2023 | Internationaux de Poitiers, France | W80 | Hard (i) | Bibiane Schoofs | Ekaterina Maklakova Elena Pridankina | 7–5, 6–4 |
| Loss | 14–9 | Mar 2024 | Open de Seine-et-Marne, France | W75 | Hard (i) | Maia Lumsden | Estelle Cascino Alex Eala | 5–7, 6–7$^{(4)}$ |
| Loss | 14–10 | Mar 2025 | ITF Trnava, Slovakia | W75 | Hard (i) | Magali Kempen | Isabelle Haverlag Elena Pridankina | 2–6, 3–6 |