Camille Pin (Pronounced CAM-ee Pan) is best known for her tantalizing first round defeat to Maria Sharapova at the 2007 Australian Open, a match in which Camille revealed her fitness and mental fortitude when she fought back from a 0-5 third set deficit before ultimately losing 7-9 to the then #1 player. Since that exciting match, I have closely followed the now 27-year-old Frenchwoman. Camille's roadrunner foot speed and slow spins and angles have troubled several more top players - including Dinara Safina, Venus Williams and Shahar Peer - but she has yet to pull of a major upset (Camille did hold match points in a third set tiebreaker against Safina in 2008).
Her style has the ability to produce an upset, and it seems that she always is able to put herself in a potentially winning position, but eagerly watching Camille's results have produced a slew of devastatingly close losses. I sincerely want Camille to succeed more for her incredible kindness, genuine sweetness, and respectable poise than for any other reason. At this week's Slovenian Open, Camille won her first round match against Vitalia Diatchenko when her opponent retired. Here's hoping she can make a deep run there.
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