Kirrily Sharpe
Kirrily Sharpe is a former professional tennis player from Australia.Biography
Sharpe, a left-handed player from Sydney, trained with the Australian Institute of Sport in Canberra. She was a member of the Australian team which won the 1988 World Youth Cup, now known as the Junior Fed Cup.
While still only 17 she competed in the main draw of the 1990 French Open as a qualifier and scored an upset win over 14th seed Raffaella Reggi, en route to the third round. She also competed in junior grand slam events that year and made three finals. At the 1990 Wimbledon Championships she was runner-up to Andrea Strnadová in the girls' singles and was also a losing finalist in the girls' doubles, partnering Nicole Pratt. She won the girls' doubles title at the 1990 US Open with Kristin Godridge. The same pair won a WTA doubles title at the 1990 Open Clarins in Paris.
A knee injury suffered early in 1991 kept her out for the most of the year and required a reconstruction.
Sharpe made the third round of the 1992 Australian Open as a wildcard, with wins over Silke Meier and Anna Földényi.
In her only singles main draw appearance at Wimbledon in 1993 she had a first round match up with world number one Steffi Graf, who beat the Australian 6–0, 6–0, losing only 18 points in the process.
She retired from professional tennis after the 1996 season.Doubles (1-0)
