Julie Pullin was a British female tennis

Tennis

Tennis is a sport usually played between two players or between two teams of two players each . Each player uses a racket that is strung to strike a hollow rubber ball covered with felt over a net into the opponent's court. Tennis is an Olympic sport and is played at all levels of society at all...

 player who turned professional in 1993. She won 8 International Tennis Federation

International Tennis Federation

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 singles titles and 26 ITF doubles titles in her career, many with compatriot Lorna Woodroffe. She is most well known for receiving 9 wildcards over her career for the Ladies' Singles at The Championships, Wimbledon

The Championships, Wimbledon

The Championships, Wimbledon, or simply Wimbledon , is the oldest tennis tournament in the world, considered by many to be the most prestigious. It has been held at the All England Club in Wimbledon, London since 1877. It is one of the four Grand Slam tennis tournaments, the other three Majors...

, but failing to win a match.

She reached her career-high WTA

Women's Tennis Association

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 singles ranking of 125 in April 2000, after she achieved her best performance in a Grand Slam

Grand Slam (tennis)

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, qualifying and reaching the second round of the Australian Open

Australian Open

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 for the first time. Pullin had defeated Slovakian 15th seed Martina Sucha

Martina Suchá

Martina Suchá is a retired female tennis player from Slovakia.With a height of 1.70 m and a weight of 57 kg , she is right-handed, and plays with a two-handed backhand....

 in the first round of qualifying 6-4 7-5, Gloria Pizzichini

Gloria Pizzichini

Gloria Pizzichini is an Italian tennis player. She reached her highest singles ranking, World No. 45, on 18 November 1996, the same year she won her only WTA Tour title. In the 1996 "M" Electronika Cup final, she defeated domestic player Silvija Talaja 6–2, 6–0 to collect the trophy...

 6-4 6-0 in the second round and American Samantha Reeves

Samantha Reeves

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 in the final round 6-2 7-6(9). She defeated another American, Jane Chi 6-1 6-3 in the first round proper, before narrowly losing to Chinese wildcard Jing-Qian Yi 6-3 2-6 9-7. It was the only tournament where Pullin won a main draw Grand Slam match in singles.

She reached the second round of the Wimbledon Ladies' Doubles tournament once in 2000, with Woodroffe, beating Dawn Buth and Julie Thu 6-4 6-1, before losing to the 14th seeded Anke Huber

Anke Huber

Anke Huber is a German retired professional tennis player. She was the runner-up in women's singles at the 1996 Australian Open. Her career-high singles ranking was fourth, also in 1996.-Early life:...

 and Barbara Schett

Barbara Schett

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 in the second round.

She announced her retirement in 2003, after playing her last professional singles match in the first round at Wimbledon, losing 6-1 6-3 to Russian Lina Krasnoroutskaya

Lina Krasnoroutskaya

Lina Vladimirovna Krasnoroutskaya is a former Junior World Number 1 tennis player. In addition to gaining the coveted top spot, Lina won the US Open Junior title...

.

Personal life

Pullin was born in Cuckfield

Cuckfield

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 in Sussex

Sussex

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to her father, Alan Pullin, and her tennis coach mother Andrea. She had two brothers, Roger and Keith, and a sister Vicki. She was coached during her career by Leighton Alfred.