Julie Pullin (born 5 November 1975), now Julie Hobbs, is a retired British tennis player who turned professional in 1993. She won eight singles titles and 25 doubles titles on the ITF circuit, many with compatriot Lorna Woodroffe.
She reached her career-high WTA singles ranking of 125 in April 2000, after she achieved her best performance in a Grand Slam championship, qualifying and reaching the second round of the Australian Open for the first time. Pullin had defeated Slovak 15th seed Martina Suchá in the first round of qualifying 6âÂÂ4, 7âÂÂ5, Gloria Pizzichini 6âÂÂ4, 6âÂÂ0 in the second and American Samantha Reeves in the final round 6âÂÂ2, 7âÂÂ6. She defeated another American, Jane Chi, 6âÂÂ1, 6âÂÂ3 in the first round proper, before narrowly losing to Chinese wild card Yi Jing-Qian, 3âÂÂ6, 6âÂÂ2, 7âÂÂ9. 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 Scott 6âÂÂ4, 6âÂÂ1, before losing to the 14th seeded Anke Huber and Barbara Schett in the second round.
Julie Pullin announced her retirement in 2003, after playing her last professional singles match in the first round at Wimbledon, losing 1âÂÂ6, 3âÂÂ6 to Lina Krasnoroutskaya.
Pullin was born in Cuckfield in Sussex to her father Alan and her tennis coach mother Andrea. She has two brothers, Roger and Keith, and a sister, Vicki. She was coached during her career by Leighton Alfred.
Her married name is now Hobbs, and under that name she is now the head coach at the Pavilion and Avenue Tennis Club in Hove.