Helena Ejeson
{{short description|Swedish tennis player}}
{{Infobox tennis biography
| name = Helena Ejeson
| image =
| full_name = Helena Ejeson-Gould
| country_represented = {{SWE}}
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1981|1|3|df=yes}}
| birth_place = Förlösa, Kalmar, Sweden
| death_date =
| death_place =
| height =
| plays = Right-handed
| careerprizemoney = $18,226
| singlesrecord =
| singlestitles =
| highestsinglesranking = No. 442 (12 August 2002)
| doublesrecord =
| doublestitles = 3 ITF
| highestdoublesranking = No. 198 (21 July 2003)
}}
Helena Ejeson-Gould (born 3 January 1981) is a Swedish former professional tennis player.
Biography
A right-handed player from Kalmar, Ejeson played on the professional tour in the early 2000s and was most prominent in the doubles format, with a best world ranking of 198.
In 2002 she was a doubles quarter-finalist in two WTA Tour tournaments, Finland's Nordic Light Open and the Japan Open, beating Maria Sharapova/Maria Kirilenko in the latter.
Ejeson won three ITF doubles titles during her career, which included a $25,000 event in Nottingham in 2003, partnering Åsa Svensson.{{cite news |title=Doyle and Nugent so close to Nottingham breakthrough |url=https://www.independent.ie/sport/doyle-and-nugent-so-close-to-nottingham-breakthrough-25920839.html |work=Independent |date=5 November 2003}}
Retiring in 2004, she went on to study psychology at Lund University and was married in 2010 to Alastair Gould.{{cite news |title=Spelar du fortfarande tennis? |url=https://www.sydsvenskan.se/2010-12-31/spelar-du-fortfarande-tennis |work=Sydsvenskan |date=31 December 2010 |language=Swedish}}
ITF finals
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| $25,000 tournaments |
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| $10,000 tournaments |
=Doubles: 10 (3–7)=
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| Result
! No. ! Date ! Tournament ! Surface ! Partner ! Opponents ! Score |
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| style="background:#ffa07a;"|Loss | 1. | 29 November 1999 | Mallorca, Spain | Clay | {{flagicon|ESP}} Beatriz Cabrera Rosendo | {{flagicon|CZE}} Gabriela Chmelinová | 0–6, 5–7 |
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| style="background:#ffa07a;"|Loss | 2. | 13 August 2001 | London, Great Britain | Hard | {{flagicon|IRL}} Claire Curran | {{flagicon|CZE}} Eva Erbová | 6–7(4–7), 3–6 |
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| style="background:#ffa07a;"|Loss | 3. | 23 September 2001 | Glasgow, Scotland | Hard | {{flagicon|CZE}} Eva Erbová | {{flagicon|BEL}} Patty Van Acker | 2–6, 2–6 |
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| style="background:#ffa07a;"|Loss | 4. | 17 June 2002 | Velp, Netherlands | Clay | {{flagicon|NED}} Kika Hogendoorn | {{flagicon|AUT}} Sandra Klemenschits | 2–6, 1–6 |
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| style="background:#98fb98;"|Win | 1. | 10 September 2002 | Hiroshima, Japan | Clay | {{flagicon|DEN}} Andrea Munch-Hermansen | {{flagicon|JPN}} Keiko Taguchi | 3–6, 6–3, 6–2 |
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| style="background:#ffa07a;"|Loss | 5. | 30 March 2003 | Rabat, Morocco | Clay | {{flagicon|SWE}} Helena Norfeldt | {{flagicon|RSA}} Chanelle Scheepers | 3–6, 2–6 |
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| style="background:#ffa07a;"|Loss | 6. | 7 July 2003 | Toruń, Poland | Clay | {{flagicon|AUS}} Mireille Dittmann | {{flagicon|CZE}} Zuzana Hejdová | 3–6, 3–6 |
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| style="background:#98fb98;"|Win | 2. | 15 September 2003 | Sunderland, Great Britain | Hard | {{flagicon|IRL}} Claire Curran | {{flagicon|NED}} Kim Kilsdonk | 6–2, 6–1 |
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| style="background:#98fb98;"|Win | 3. | 28 October 2003 | Nottingham, United Kingdom | Hard | {{flagicon|SWE}} Åsa Svensson | {{flagicon|IRL}} Yvonne Doyle | 6–3, 7–6(13-11) |
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| style="background:#ffa07a;"|Loss | 7. | 5 April 2004 | Cairo, Egypt | Clay | {{flagicon|GER}} Annette Kolb | {{flagicon|CZE}} Simona Dobrá | w/o |
References
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