Harriet Dart


Harriet Dart is a British tennis player.
She has a career-high singles ranking of world No. 121, achieved in January 2019. She also has a career-high doubles ranking of No. 92, achieved in April 2019. In addition, she reached the semi-finals of the mixed doubles with Jay Clarke at Wimbledon.
Dart has won four singles and 14 doubles titles on the ITF Women's Circuit. She made her WTA Tour debut at the 2015 Aegon International.
Dart attended The Royal School, Hampstead. Her mother is a teacher and her father is a surveyor.
Harriet is a massive fan of Arsenal FC and attends matches whenever she can.

Professional career

2018

Dart started the year playing at ITF events where she lost to Freya Christie, Laura Pigossi, Nastja Kolar, Conny Perrin before she reached the final of an ITF event in Germany and beat Karolina Muchova to win her first 2018 title. She then reached another final in Japan but lost to Veronika Kudermetova. In Eastbourne, she won against Kristýna Plíšková before losing to then top 10 Anastasija Sevastova. In Wimbledon, she lost her first match against former world No. 1, Karolina Plíšková, although taking a set off Plíšková and forcing a tiebreak in the first set. At an ITF event in Norway, she won another title; Paula Badosa retired in the final.

2019

At the Australian Open, she lost to Maria Sharapova in the first round without winning a single game. On 30 March, Dart and her doubles partner Lesley Kerkhove won the final of the Open de Seine-et-Marne against Sarah Beth Grey and Eden Silva. At the Wimbledon Championships, Dart beat both Christina McHale and Beatriz Haddad Maia, progressing to the third round where she lost to Ashleigh Barty only winning two games. In August, Dart qualified for the US Open for the first time in her career; she lost in the first round to Ana Bogdan, 3–6, 1–6.

ITF Circuit finals

Singles: 10 (4 titles, 6 runner–ups)

ResultW–LDateTournamentTierSurfaceOpponentScore
Loss0–1Nov 2012ITF Edgbaston, England10,000Hard Renata Voráčová4–6, 2–6
Loss0–2Aug 2014ITF Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt10,000Hard Valeriya Strakhova3–6, 3–6
Win1–2Oct 2014ITF Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt10,000Hard Nuria Parrizas Diaz6–2, 6–1
Win2–2Dec 2014ITF Djibouti City, Djibouti10,000Hard Naomi Totka6–3, 6–2
Loss2–3Mar 2015ITF Jiangmen, China10,000Hard Liu Chang3–6, 0–6
Loss2–4May 2016ITF Goyang, South Korea25,000Hard Han Na-lae3–6, 2–6
Win3–4Feb 2018ITF Altenkirchen, Germany25,000Carpet Karolína Muchová7–6, 6–2
Loss3–5Mar 2018ITF Yokohama, Japan25,000Hard Veronika Kudermetova2–6, 4–6
Win4–5Oct 2018ITF Oslo, Norway25,000Hard Paula Badosa6–2, 1–0 ret.
Loss4–6Apr 2019ITF Sunderland, England25,000Hard Laura-Ioana Paar5–7, 6–4, 2–6

Doubles: 25 (14 titles, 11 runner–ups)

ResultW–LDateTournamentTierSurfacePartnerOpponentsScore
Win1–0Dec 2013ITF Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt10,000Hard Katy Dunne Csilla Borsányi
Aminat Kushkhova
0–6, 6–4,
Loss1–1Dec 2013ITF Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt10,000Hard Katy Dunne Kim Hae-sung
Kim Ju-eun
6–7, 4–6
Win2–1Apr 2014ITF Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt10,000Hard Katy Dunne Yuka Mori
Eden Silva
6–4, 6–4
Loss2–2Aug 2014ITF Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt10,000Hard Claudia Williams Vojislava Lukić
Haine Ogata
4–6, 2–6
Win3–2Aug 2014ITF Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt10,000Hard Anna Morgina Abbie Myers
Georgiana Ruhrig
6–2, 6–1
Loss3–3Sep 2014ITF Antalya, Turkey10,000Hard Jessica Simpson Wang Yan
You Xiaodi
1–6, 6–3,
Win4–3Oct 2014ITF Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt10,000Hard Melis Sezer Ioana Ducu
Eden Silva
7–5, 6–1
Loss4–4Oct 2014ITF Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt10,000Hard Eden Silva Sharrmadaa Baluu
Wang Xiyao
5–7, 6–2,
Loss4–5Nov 2014ITF Sousse, Tunisia10,000Hard Francesca Stephenson Natela Dzalamidze
Oleksandra Korashvili
3–6, 1–6
Win5–5May 2015ITF Balikpapan, Indonesia25,000Hard Prarthana Thombare Nicha Lertpitaksinchai
Nudnida Luangnam
6–4, 4–6,
Win6–5Aug 2015ITF Chiswick, England10,000Hard Katy Dunne Emily Arbuthnott
Freya Christie
6–2, 6–2
Loss6–6Aug 2015ITF Woking, England25,000Hard Katy Dunne Claudia Giovine
Despina Papamichail
2–6, 1–6
Loss6–7Sep 2015ITF Pétange, Luxembourg15,000Hard Manon Arcangioli Michaela Boev
Hristina Dishkova
2–6, 3–6
Loss6–8Feb 2016ITF Sunderland, England10,000Hard Manon Arcangioli Emily Arbuthnott
Emilie Francati
3–6, 6–4,
Loss6–9Feb 2016ITF Wirral, England10,000Hard Veronica M. Corning Sarah Beth Askew
Olivia Nicholls
2–6, 6–1,
Win7–9Apr 2016ITF Antalya, Turkey10,000Hard Viktoriya Tomova Ani Amiraghyan
Daiana Negreanu
w/o
Win8–9Apr 2016ITF Antalya, Turkey10,000Hard Emily Arbuthnott Anastasia Gasanova
Ana Shanidze
6–1, 6—0
Win9–9May 2016ITF Goyang, South Korea25,000Hard Freya Christie Anastasia Gasanova
Maddison Inglis
6–3, 6–2
Loss9–10Sep 2017ITF Redding, United States25,000Hard Maria Sanchez Daneika Borthwick
Ana Veselinović
3–6, 4–6
Loss9–11Sep 2017ITF Stillwater, United States25,000Hard An-Sophie Mestach Jovana Jakšić
Caitlin Whoriskey
6–4, 4–6,
Win10–11Nov 2017ITF Shrewsbury, England25,000Hard Freya Christie Maia Lumsden
Katie Swan
3–6, 6–4,
Win11–11Apr 2018ITF Istanbul, Turkey60,000Hard Ayla Aksu Anastasia Potapova
Olga Doroshina
6–4, 7–6
Win12–11May 2018ITF Lu'an, China60,000Hard Ankita Raina Liu Fangzhou
Xun Fangying
6–3, 6–3
Win13–11Oct 2018ITF Oslo, Norway25,000Hard Cornelia Lister Laura-Ioana Andrei
Hélène Scholsen
7–6, 7–5
Win14–11Mar 2019ITF Croissy-Beaubourg, France60,000Hard Lesley Kerkhove Sarah Beth Grey
Eden Silva
6–3, 6–2

Fed Cup participation

Doubles