Anabel Medina Garrigues

Anabel Medina Garrigues
Anabel Medina Garrigues 2014 in Madrid
Nation:	Spain
Birthday:	July 31, 1982
Size:	169 cm
1st professional season:	1998
Resignation:	2018
Playing hand:	Right, two-handed backhand
Prize money:	$ 5,956,607
singles
Career record:	478: 351
Career title:	11 WTA , 6 ITF
Highest ranking:	16 (May 4, 2009)
Grand Slam record
Double
Career record:	447: 295
Career title:	28 WTA, 3 ITF
Highest ranking:	3 (November 10, 2008)
Current placement:	277
Grand Slam record
Mixed
Grand Slam record
Olympic games
Sources: official player profiles at the ATP / WTA and ITF (see web links )

Ana Isabel "Anabel" Medina Garrigues (born July 31, 1982 in Valencia ) is a former Spanish tennis player . From 2018 she will be the captain of the Spanish Fed Cup team .

Career

Anabel Medina Garrigues, who started playing tennis with her family at the age of seven, prefers hard courts for her game.

Medina Garrigues won 28 doubles titles in her career. She secured five of her eleven individual successes in Palermo and three in Strasbourg. She reached her highest position in the WTA world rankings with rank 16 in May 2009. She achieved her best results in Grand Slam tournaments when she reached the round of 16 at the Australian Open in 2002 and 2009 and at the French Open in 2007 .

In November 2008, Medina Garrigues was number 3 in the double world rankings. She celebrated her greatest successes alongside Virginia Ruano Pascual , with whom she won the French Open title in 2008 and 2009, respectively . In 2008 she won the silver medal at their side at the Olympic Games in Beijing . At the US Open she reached the semi-finals in doubles again in 2012, which she lost with her partner Hsieh Su-wei against Lucie Hradecká and Andrea Hlaváčková 6: 7, ² and 4: 6.

In 2013 she won the Hopman Cup for Spain together with Fernando Verdasco . In the final they defeated Serbia 2-1.

From 2003 Medina Garrigues also played for the Spanish Fed Cup team ; their record shows 18 wins and 16 defeats.

Since May 2017, Medina Garrigues was the coach of Jeļena Ostapenko , who surprisingly won the individual title of the French Open just a few weeks later .

After the US Open 2018 , she ended her career.

Tournament victories

singles

No.	date	competition	category	Topping	Final opponent	Result
1.	July 15, 2001	Palermo	WTA Tier V	sand	Cristina Torrens Valero	6: 4, 6: 4
2.	July 25, 2004	Palermo	WTA Tier V	sand	Flavia Pennetta	6: 4, 6: 4
3.	May 21, 2005	Strasbourg	WTA Tier III	sand	Marta Domachowska	6: 4, 6: 3
4th	July 24, 2005	Palermo	WTA Tier IV	sand	Klára Koukalová	6: 4, 6: 0
5.	January 13, 2006	Canberra	WTA Tier IV	Hard court	Cho Yoon-jeong	6: 4, 0: 6, 6: 4
6th	July 23, 2006	Palermo	WTA Tier IV	sand	Tathiana Garbin	6: 4, 6: 4
7th	May 26, 2007	Strasbourg	WTA Tier III	sand	Amélie Mauresmo	6: 4, 4: 6, 6: 4
8th.	May 24, 2008	Strasbourg	WTA Tier III	sand	Katarina Srebotnik	4: 6, 7: 6 4 , 6: 0
9.	May 2, 2009	Fez	WTA International	sand	Ekaterina Makarova	6-0, 6-1
10.	April 30, 2011	Oeiras	WTA International	sand	Kristina Barrois	6: 1, 6: 2
11.	July 17, 2011	Palermo	WTA International	sand	Polona Hercog	6: 3, 6: 2

Double

No.	date	competition	category	Topping	Partner	Final opponents	Result
1.	March 4, 2001	Acapulco	WTA Tier III	sand	María José Martínez	Virginia Ruano Pascual Paola Suarez	6: 4, 6: 7 5 , 7: 5
2.	April 8, 2001	postage	WTA Tier IV	sand	María José Martínez	Alexandra Fusai Rita Grande	6: 1, 6: 7 5 , 7: 5
3.	May 6, 2001	Bol	WTA Tier III	sand	María José Martínez	Nadja Petrowa Tina Pisnik	7: 5, 6: 4
4th	August 5, 2001	Basel	WTA Tier IV	sand	María José Martínez	Joannette Kruger Marta Marrero	7: 6 5 , 6: 2
5.	July 25, 2004	Palermo	WTA Tier V	sand	Arantxa Sánchez	Ľubomíra Kurhajcová Henrieta Nagyová	6: 3, 7: 6 4
6th	June 18, 2005	's-Hertogenbosch	WTA Tier III	race	Dinara Safina	Iveta Benešová Nuria Llagostera Vives	6: 4, 2: 6, 7: 6 11
7th	September 25, 2005	Portorož	WTA Tier IV	Hard court	Roberta Vinci	Jelena Kostanic Katarina Srebotnik	6: 4, 5: 7, 6: 2
8th.	August 4, 2007	Stockholm	WTA Tier IV	Hard court	Virginia Ruano Pascual	Chan Chin-wei Tetjana Luschanska	6: 1, 5: 7, [10: 6]
9.	January 11, 2008	Hobart	WTA Tier IV	Hard court	Virginia Ruano Pascual	Eleni Daniilidou Jasmin Wöhr	6: 2, 6: 4
10.	June 6, 2008	French Open	Grand Slam	sand	Virginia Ruano Pascual	Casey Dellacqua Francesca Schiavone	2: 6, 7: 5, 6: 4
11.	July 27, 2008	Portorož	WTA Tier IV	Hard court	Virginia Ruano Pascual	Vera Dushevina Ekaterina Makarova	6: 4, 6: 1
12.	September 28, 2008	Beijing	WTA Tier II	Hard court	Caroline Wozniacki	Han Xinyun Xu Yifan	6: 1, 6: 3
13.	June 5, 2009	French Open	Grand Slam	sand	Virginia Ruano Pascual	Viktoria Azaranka Elena Veznina	6: 1, 6: 1
14th	May 1, 2010	Fez	WTA International	sand	Iveta Benešová	Lucie Hradecká Renata Voráčová	6: 3, 6: 1
15th	May 9, 2010	Oeiras	WTA International	sand	Sorana Cîrstea	Vitalia Dyachenko Aurélie Védy	6: 1, 7: 5
16.	July 25, 2010	Bad Gastein	WTA International	sand	Lucie Hradecká	Timea Bacsinszky Tathiana Garbin	6: 7 2 , 6: 1, [10: 5]
17th	February 19, 2011	Bogotá	WTA International	sand	Edina Gallovits-Hall	Sharon Fichman Laura Pous Tió	2: 6, 7: 6 6 , [11: 9]
18th	July 10, 2011	Budapest	WTA International	sand	Alicja Rosolska	Natalie Grandin Vladimíra Uhlířová	6: 2, 6: 2
19th	March 2, 2013	Florianópolis	WTA International	Hard court	Jaroslawa Schwedowa	Anne Keothavong Valeria Sawinych	6-0, 6-4
20th	June 21th 2013	's-Hertogenbosch	WTA International	race	Irina-Camelia Begu	Dominika Cibulková Arantxa Parra Santonja	4: 6, 7: 6 3 , [11: 9]
21st	July 21, 2013	Båstad	WTA International	sand	Klára Zakopalová	Alexandra Dulgheru Flavia Pennetta	6: 1, 6: 4
22nd	February 24, 2014	Florianópolis	WTA International	Hard court	Jaroslawa Schwedowa	Francesca Schiavone Silvia Soler Espinosa	7: 6 1 , 2: 6, [10: 3]
23.	April 6, 2014	Charleston	WTA Premier	sand	Jaroslawa Schwedowa	Chan Hao-ching Chan Yung-jan	7: 6 4 , 6: 2
24.	February 15, 2015	Antwerp	WTA Premier	Hard court (hall)	Arantxa Parra Santonja	To-Sophie Mestach Alison Van Uytvanck	6: 4, 3: 6, [10: 5]
25th	May 23, 2015	Nuremberg	WTA International	sand	Chan Hao-ching	Lara Arruabarrena Vecino Ioana Raluca Olaru	6: 4, 7: 6 5
26th	February 27, 2016	Acapulco	WTA International	Hard court	Arantxa Parra Santonja	Kiki Bertens Johanna Larsson	6-0, 6-4
27.	March 6, 2016	Monterrey	WTA International	Hard court	Arantxa Parra Santonja	Petra Martić Maria Sanchez	4: 6, 7: 5, [10: 7]
28.	May 21, 2016	Strasbourg	WTA International	sand	Arantxa Parra Santonja	María Irigoyen Liang Chen	6: 2, 6: 0

Team competitions

date	competition	category	Topping	partner	Final opponent	Result
5th January 2013	Hopman Cup	ITF	Hard court	Fernando Verdasco	Ana Ivanović Novak Đoković	2: 1

Performing in Grand Slam tournaments

singles

competition	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008	2009	2010	2011	2012	2013	2014	Career
Australian Open	2	AF	1	3	1	1	1	2	AF	1	1	3	1	1	AF
French Open	1	-	-	2	3	3	AF	3	2	2	2	3	1	-	AF
Wimbledon	1	-	-	1	1	3	1	3	3	1	1	2	1	-	3
US Open	1	-	-	2	3	1	3	2	2	1	3	1	1	-	3

Double

competition	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008	2009	2010	2011	2012	2013	2014	2015	2016	2018	Career
Australian Open	-	2	1	1	VF	1	2	HF	AF	1	2	1	1	2	2	AF	-	HF
French Open	1	-	-	1	2	HF	AF	S.	S.	HF	AF	AF	1	1	AF	1	2	S.
Wimbledon	1	-	-	1	AF	VF	1	AF	HF	1	2	1	1	AF	AF	AF	-	HF
US Open	1	-	-	2	1	-	AF	HF	AF	2	AF	HF	AF	2	2	-	1	HF

Web links

Commons : Anabel Medina Garrigues  - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files

• WTA profile of Anabel Medina Garrigues (English)
• ITF profile Anabel Medina Garrigues (English)
• Fed Cup stats by Anabel Medina Garrigues (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ MEDINA GARRIGUES NAMED SPAIN'S FED CUP CAPTAIN. In: fedcup.com. October 9, 2017, accessed October 13, 2017 . 
2. ↑ Medina Garrigues to retire at the US Open. In: wtatennis.com. July 27, 2018, accessed July 28, 2018 (28).