Lupita Novelo

Lupita Novelo
Full name	Guadelupe Novelo Osuna
Country (sports)	Mexico
Born	5 May 1967 (age 56)
Prize money	$72,441
Singles
Career record	77–56
Highest ranking	No. 250 (16 November 1992)
Doubles
Career record	77–56
Highest ranking	No. 92 (11 October 1993)
Grand Slam doubles results
Australian Open	1R (1992, 1993)
French Open	2R (1991)
Wimbledon	3R (1992)
US Open	2R (1993)

Guadelupe "Lupita" Novelo Osuna (born 5 May 1967) is a former professional tennis player from Mexico.

Biography[edit]

Novelo comes from Ensenada in the Mexican state of Baja California, one of six children of Don Antonio and Ana María.^[1]

Moving to the United States, she attended the University of Southern California (USC) for four years on a scholarship, then in the early 1990s competed on the WTA Tour as well as in representative matches for Mexico.^[2]

She won three gold medals at the 1990 Central American and Caribbean Games and in the same year debuted for the Mexico Fed Cup team. Over three years she featured in a total of 14 Fed Cup ties. At the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona she made it into the singles draw as a lucky loser, replacing Helen Kelesi who had become ill.^[3] She lost in the first round to number one seed Steffi Graf.^[4]

On the professional tour she was most successful in doubles, with a top ranking of 92 in the world. As a doubles player she featured in the main draw of all grand slam tournaments, with her best performance coming at the 1992 Wimbledon Championships, where she and Kristine Radford made the round of 16. She reached a career best singles ranking of 250 and had a win over Chanda Rubin at the 1992 European Open.^[5]

Following a period of time coaching in the United States, Novelo returned to her hometown of Ensenada, where she runs the family business, a hotel called Las Rosas Hotel & Spa.^[1]

ITF finals[edit]

$25,000 tournaments
$10,000 tournaments

Doubles (8–6)[edit]

Outcome	No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Partner	Opponents	Score
Winner	1.	16 October 1989	Kuroshio, Japan	Hard	Lynn Nabors	Ayako Hirose Miki Mizokuchi	7–6⁽⁵⁾, 6–4
Runner-up	1.	30 October 1989	Saga, Japan	Grass	Lynn Nabors	Ei Iida Naoko Sato	6–7⁽³⁾, 6–4, 3–6
Runner-up	2.	6 November 1989	Matsuyama, Japan	Hard	Lynn Nabors	Kim Il-soon Lee Jeong-myung	1–6, 4–6
Winner	2.	21 May 1990	Aguascalientes, Mexico	Hard	Jean Lozano	Suzanne Italiano Belkis Rodríguez	6–1, 6–1
Winner	3.	3 June 1990	San Luis Potosí, Mexico	Hard	Jean Lozano	Lucila Becerra Themis Zambrzycki	6–3, 4–6, 6–1
Runner-up	3.	2 July 1990	Mobile, United States	Hard	Jean Lozano	Kim Il-soon Lee Jeong-myung	1–6, 0–6
Runner-up	4.	9 July 1990	Fayetteville, United States	Hard	Jean Lozano	Kim Il-soon Lee Jeong-myung	6–4, 6–7⁽³⁾, 3–6
Runner-up	5.	17 February 1991	Mildura, Australia	Grass	Betsy Somerville	Kristine Kunce Clare Thompson	6–7, 2–6
Winner	4.	25 February 1991	Canberra, Australia	Grass	Betsy Somerville	Tracey Rodgers Alison Scott	7–5, 3–6, 6–4
Winner	5.	4 March 1991	Broadmeadows, Australia	Grass	Betsy Somerville	Kristine Kunce Clare Thompson	6–2, 7–5
Winner	6.	21 October 1991	Ōita, Japan	Hard	Kristine Kunce	Maria Ekstrand Sabine Lohmann	6–1, 7–5
Winner	7.	30 September 1991	Saga, Japan	Grass	Kristine Kunce	Tang Min Li Fang	5–7, 6–2, 7–5
Winner	8.	4 November 1991	Chiba, Japan	Hard	Kristine Kunce	Ayako Hirose Yone Kamio	6–4, 5–7, 6–4
Runner-up	6.	24 November 1991	Nuriootpa, Australia	Hard	Terri O'Reilly	Jo-Anne Faull Rennae Stubbs	4–6, 5–7