Eléonora Molinaro

Eléonora Molinaro
	Molinaro at the 2018 Summer Youth Olympics
Full name	Eléonora Anne-Sophie Rbis Molinaro Simon
Country (sports)	Luxembourg
Born	4 September 2000; Luxembourg City
Plays	Right-handed (two-handed backhand)
Prize money	$60,750
Singles
Career record	144–69
Career titles	8 ITF
Highest ranking	No. 234 (9 March 2020)
Doubles
Career record	42–43
Highest ranking	No. 473 (3 February 2020)
Team competitions
Fed Cup	25–16
Medal record
Representing Luxembourg
Games of the Small States of Europe

Eléonora Anne-Sophie Rubis Molinaro Simon (born 4 September 2000) is a former Luxembourgish tennis player.

Career

Molinaro started playing tennis aged seven.

Having started the year with a WTA ranking of 822, she reached the final of the first ten tournaments she played in 2018, winning two out of four finals on the ITF Circuit and four out of six at the junior level.^[1] This resulted in her cracking the top 500 for the first time in March and being seeded sixth in her first appearance in a junior Grand Slam tournament at the French Open. She reached the quarterfinals before bowing out to eventual champion Coco Gauff.

Molinaro played at the Tennessee Volunteers between 2020 and 2024 in the NCAA tennis championships.^[2] In September of 2025 Louisiana Tech appointed Molinaro the new assistant coach.^[3]

Playing for Luxembourg Fed Cup team, she has win–loss records of 19–9 in singles and 6–7 in doubles.

ITF Circuit finals

Singles: 12 (8 titles, 4 runner–ups)

Legend
$25,000 tournaments
$15,000 tournaments

Finals by surface
Hard (0–1)
Clay (8–3)

Result	W–L	Date	Tournament	Tier	Surface	Opponent	Score
Win	1–0	Jan 2018	ITF Antalya, Turkey	15,000	Clay	Vlada Koval	6–3, 6–1
Loss	1–1	Feb 2018	Open de l'Isère, France	25,000	Hard (i)	Fiona Ferro	4–6, 7–6⁽⁵⁾, 6–7⁽³⁾
Loss	1–2	Mar 2018	ITF Amiens, France	15,000	Clay (i)	Katarina Zavatska	1–6, 2–6
Win	2–2	Mar 2018	ITF Gonesse, France	15,000	Clay (i)	Marine Partaud	6–2, 6–1
Loss	2–3	Mar 2019	ITF Antalya, Turkey	15,000	Clay	Maryna Chernyshova	4–6, 4–6
Win	3–3	Mar 2019	ITF Gonesse, France	15,000	Clay (i)	Rebeka Masarova	6–2, 2–6, 6–4
Win	4–3	May 2019	ITF Antalya, Turkey	15,000	Clay	Zeynep Sönmez	7–5, 6–4
Win	5–3	May 2019	ITF Antalya, Turkey	15,000	Clay	Inès Ibbou	6–2, 6–4
Win	6–3	Jul 2019	Open Porte du Hainaut, France	25,000	Clay	Katharina Hobgarski	6–4, 1–6, 6–3
Win	7–3	Sep 2019	ITF Brno, Czech Republic	25,000	Clay	Federica Di Sarra	6–4, 6–3
Loss	7–4	Feb 2020	Open de l'Isère, France	25,000	Hard (i)	Clara Burel	7–5, 5–7, 2–6
Win	8–4	Mar 2020	ITF Antalya, Turkey	15,000	Clay	Zeynep Sönmez	6–2, 6–2

Doubles: 5 (4 runner–ups, 1 cancelled)

Legend
$25,000 tournaments
$15,000 tournaments

Finals by surface
Hard (0–1)
Clay (0–3)^[a]

Result	W–L	Date	Tournament	Tier	Surface	Partner	Opponents	Score
Loss	0–1	Jul 2018	ITF Schio, Italy	15,000	Clay	Jessica Crivelletto	Costanza Traversi Aurora Zantedeschi	6–7⁽⁵⁾, 6–7⁽⁴⁾
Loss	0–2	Jan 2019	ITF Stuttgart, Germany	15,000	Hard (i)	Daniela Vismane	Laura Ioana Paar Julia Wachaczyk	5–7, 0–6
Loss	0–3	Mar 2019	ITF Le Havre, France	15,000	Clay (i)	Svenja Ochsner	Tayisiya Morderger Yana Morderger	4–6, 3–6
Loss	0–4	May 2019	ITF Antalya, Turkey	15,000	Clay	Yulia Kulikova	Cemre Anıl Dasha Ivanova	3–6, 5–7
Finalist^[a]	–	Oct 2022	ITF Hilton Head, United States	15,000	Clay	Daria Kuczer	Paris Corley Lexington Reed	canc.