Paulette Moreno

Paulette Moreno Hjorth (born 12 March 1969) is a former professional tennis player from Hong Kong.

Biography Moreno was a national champion in Hong Kong at the age of 13 in 1982.

She made her debut for the Hong Kong Fed Cup team in 1985 and won a doubles match against West Germany that year. Another of her doubles wins came against Sweden in 1987, when she and Patricia Hy teamed up to claim the deciding rubber 9–7 in the third set. As a junior she was a finalist in the girls' doubles at the 1987 Wimbledon Championships, where she and Korean Kim Il-Soon lost to Natalia Medvedeva and Natasha Zvereva.

From 1987 to 1991 she competed on the WTA Tour. She appeared twice in the main draw at Wimbledon, both times in mixed doubles, partnering Todd Woodbridge in 1987 and Neil Borwick in 1989. In between she also featured at the 1988 Australian Open and made the second round of the singles, with a win over Marianne van der Torre.

She made her final Fed Cup appearance in 1995 and finished with an 18/17 overall record.

Moreno lived for a while in Melbourne after her tennis career but has since moved to Denmark, where her husband is from. In 2017 she began working as a coach at the Lyngby Tennis Club in Copenhagen.

ITF finals

Doubles: 11 (6–5) ResultNo.DateTournamentSurfacePartnerOpponentsScoreWin 1. 25 August 1986 Wels, Austria Clay Karin Oberleitner Bettina Diesner Barbara Paulus 7–5, 7–6(7–4)Win 2. 21 September 1987 Llorca, Spain Clay Amy Jönsson Raaholt Maria Ekstrand Monica Lundqvist 7–6, 6–7, 7–5Loss 3. 26 October 1987 Cheshire, United Kingdom Carpet Maria Strandlund Eugenia Maniokova Natalia Medvedeva 2–6, 6–7Win 4. 16 November 1987 Croydon, United Kingdom Carpet Viktoria Milvidskaia Eugenia Maniokova Natalia Medvedeva 6–4, 6–1Loss 5. 24 October 1988 Ibaraki, Japan Hard Maya Kidowaki Kimiko Date Yuko Hosoki 4–6, 6–4, 7–9Win 6. 5 March 1989 Canberra, Australia Hard Shiho Okada Kate McDonald Rennae Stubbs 6–4, 6–2Loss 7. Bangkok, Thailand Hard Karin Ptaszek Valda Lake Claudine Toleafoa 6–7, 6–1, 5–7Win 8. 27 November 1989 Melbourne, Australia Hard Danielle Jones Allison Cooper Justine Hodder 6–2, 6–2Loss 9. Chiang Mai, Thailand Hard Orawan Thampensri Esmir Hoogendoorn Claire Wegink 3–6, 6–1, 1–6Win 10. 7 October 1991 Matsuyama, Japan Hard Jenny Byrne Jennifer Saret Yi Jing-Qian 1–6, 6–4, 6–4Loss 11. Kyoto, Japan Hard Diana Gardner Li Fang Tang Min 4–6, 5–7