Arantxa Parra Santonja

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Arantxa Parra Santonja Tennis player
Arantxa Parra Santonja
Parra Santonja 2014 at the Madrid Open
Nation: SpainSpain Spain
Birthday: November 9, 1982
Size: 176 cm
Weight: 61 kg
1st professional season: 2000
Resignation: 2019
Playing hand: Right, two-handed backhand
Trainer: Alejo Mancisidor
Prize money: $ 2,315,104
singles
Career record: 386: 332
Career title: 0 WTA , 11 ITF
Highest ranking: 46 (July 12, 2010)
Grand Slam record
Double
Career record: 343: 306
Career title: 11 WTA, 9 ITF
Highest ranking: 22 (April 2, 2012)
Grand Slam record
Mixed
Grand Slam record
Sources: official player profiles at the ATP / WTA and ITF (see web links )

Arantxa Parra Santonja (born November 9, 1982 in Valencia ) is a former Spanish tennis player .

Career

Parra Santonja started playing tennis at the age of ten. In 2000 she turned professional, in 2001 she celebrated her first title win.

She achieved her greatest successes on the WTA Tour in doubles. She won eleven double titles, four with Anabel Medina Garrigues and three each alongside Lourdes Domínguez Lino and Nuria Llagostera Vives . There are also eleven single and nine double titles at ITF tournaments. Her best performance in a Grand Slam tournament in singles was reaching the third round of Roland Garros in 2004. In doubles, she was in the quarterfinals of Wimbledon in 2011; In 2012 in Paris and 2013 in Melbourne, she reached the round of 16.

On April 2, 2012 Parra Santonja was listed in doubles in 22nd place in the WTA world rankings - her record. In 2010 she was among the 50 best for a short time; In 2011 it fell out of the top 100 again, after which it slipped further. After her failure in qualifying at the lawn tournament in Nottingham in June 2015, she no longer competed on the women's tour in the singles. From 2005 she played four games for the Spanish Fed Cup team , all of which she won. In 2019 she ended her career due to an injury.

Tournament victories

Double

No. date competition category Topping Partner Final opponents Result
1 March 4, 2007 MexicoMexico Acapulco WTA Tier III sand SpainSpain Lourdes Domínguez Lino FranceFrance Émilie Loit Nicole Pratt
AustraliaAustralia 
6: 3, 6: 3
2 June 17, 2007 SpainSpain Barcelona WTA Tier IV sand SpainSpain Nuria Llagostera Vives SpainSpain Lourdes Dominguez Lino Flavia Pennetta
ItalyItaly 
7: 6 3 , 2: 6, [12:10]
3 June 15, 2008 SpainSpain Barcelona WTA Tier IV sand SpainSpain Lourdes Dominguez Lino SpainSpain Nuria Llagostera Vives María José Martínez Sánchez
SpainSpain 
4: 6, 7: 5, [10: 4]
4th April 10, 2011 SpainSpain Marbella WTA International sand SpainSpain Nuria Llagostera Vives ItalyItaly Sara Errani Roberta Vinci
ItalyItaly 
3: 6, 6: 4, [10: 5]
5 January 6, 2012 AustraliaAustralia Brisbane WTA Premier Hard court SpainSpain Nuria Llagostera Vives United StatesUnited States Raquel Kops-Jones Abigail Spears
United StatesUnited States 
7: 6 2 , 7: 6 2
6th March 2, 2013 MexicoMexico Acapulco WTA International sand SpainSpain Lourdes Domínguez Lino ColombiaColombia Catalina Castaño Mariana Duque Mariño
ColombiaColombia 
6: 4, 7: 6 1
7th 20th June 2014 NetherlandsNetherlands 's-Hertogenbosch WTA International race New ZealandNew Zealand Marina Eraković NetherlandsNetherlands Michaëlla Krajicek Kristina Mladenovic
FranceFrance 
0: 6, 7: 6 4 , [10: 8]
8th February 15, 2015 BelgiumBelgium Antwerp WTA Premier Hard court (hall) SpainSpain Anabel Medina Garrigues BelgiumBelgium To-Sophie Mestach Alison Van Uytvanck
BelgiumBelgium 
6: 4, 3: 6, [10: 5]
9 February 27, 2016 MexicoMexico Acapulco WTA International Hard court SpainSpain Anabel Medina Garrigues NetherlandsNetherlands Kiki Bertens Johanna Larsson
SwedenSweden 
6-0, 6-4
10 March 6, 2016 MexicoMexico Monterrey WTA International Hard court SpainSpain Anabel Medina Garrigues CroatiaCroatia Petra Martić Maria Sanchez
United StatesUnited States 
4: 6, 7: 5, [10: 7]
11 May 21, 2016 FranceFrance Strasbourg WTA International sand SpainSpain Anabel Medina Garrigues ArgentinaArgentina María Irigoyen Liang Chen
China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China 
6: 2, 6: 0

Performing in Grand Slam tournaments

singles

competition 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 Balance sheet Career
Australian Open - 1 1 2 - - - 1 1 1: 5 2
French Open - 3 2 1 - - - 2 1 4: 5 3
Wimbledon 2 2 1 - - - 2 2 1 4: 6 2
US Open 2 2 1 - - - - 1 - 2: 4 2

Double

competition 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 Balance sheet Career
Australian Open - 1 - - 1 2 1 1 2 AF 2 1 AF - 2 1 8:12 AF
French Open 1 2 - 2 1 2 1 2 AF 2 VF 1 1 1 2 11:14 VF
Wimbledon 1 1 - 2 1 1 1 VF 1 1 1 AF AF 2 2 10:14 VF
US Open 1 - - 1 1 1 1 2 - 1 2 2 2 2 - 5:11 2

Web links

Commons : Arantxa Parra Santonja  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. Julia Boserup, Arantxa Parra Santonja retire from tennis. In: wtatennis.com. May 7, 2019, accessed June 29, 2019 .