Flavia Pennetta

Flavia Pennetta
Flavia Pennetta at the 2014 US Open
Nation:	Italy
Birthday:	February 25, 1982
Size:	172 cm
1st professional season:	2000
Resignation:	2015
Playing hand:	Right, two-handed backhand
Prize money:	$ 14,197,886
singles
Career record:	582: 365
Career title:	11 WTA , 7 ITF
Highest ranking:	6 (September 28, 2015)
Grand Slam record
Double
Career record:	393: 243
Career title:	17 WTA, 9 ITF
Highest ranking:	1 (February 28, 2011)
Weeks as No. 1:	18th
Grand Slam record
Mixed
Grand Slam record
Sources: official player profiles at the ATP / WTA and ITF (see web links )

Flavia Pennetta (born February 25, 1982 in Brindisi , Apulia ) is a former Italian tennis player .

Career

Flavia Pennetta, who preferred hard courts for her game, began playing tennis at the age of five.

On August 17th, 2009 she was 10th (individual) as the first Italian woman in the top ten of the WTA world rankings . She reached her highest position with rank 6 on September 28, 2015 after her US Open victory. In 2011 she even became the first Italian number 1 in the tennis world in doubles.

In the doubles competition of the US Open in 2005 she reached the final with Jelena Dementjewa , in which the two Samantha Stosur and Lisa Raymond lost 2: 6, 7: 5 and 3: 6.

In the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing Pennetta went to Italy at the start. In the individual, she was eliminated in the first round against Kaia Kanepi . At the side of Francesca Schiavone , she reached the quarter-finals in doubles, where they lost 1: 6, 6: 3, 5: 7 against sisters Aljona and Kateryna Bondarenko from Ukraine.

In 2010 Pennetta won the WTA tournament in Marbella through her final victory over Carla Suárez . She lost the finals in Auckland and Palermo (both category: international) against Yanina Wickmayer and Kaia Kanepi in two sets. At the hard court tournament in Cincinnati (Premier 5) she was defeated in the semifinals to Kim Clijsters . Also at the tournaments in Paris and San Diego (both category Premier) came the end against Lucie Šafářová and Swetlana Kuznetsova each in the semifinals. At the French Open she was eliminated in the round of 16 against Caroline Wozniacki , in Wimbledon and at the US Open she reached the third round.

The year 2010 was much more successful for her in doubles. At the side of Gisela Dulko , she won seven WTA tournaments: Miami, Stuttgart, Rome, Bastad, Montreal, Moscow and the Masters in Doha.

In 2011 she and Dulko defeated the pairing Asaranka / Kirilenko in the final of the Australian Open with 2: 6, 7: 5 and 6: 1; so she was the first Italian player ever to win a title at this Grand Slam tournament . In Roland Garros, Pennetta / Dulko failed because of the later finalists Sania Mirza and Jelena Wesnina . At Wimbledon, Pennetta lost to Marion Bartoli in three sets in the third round . In Båstad , Sweden , she reached the quarter-finals ( seeded as number 2). At the tournament in Beijing she moved into the quarterfinals with victories over Peng Shuai , Daniela Hantuchová and Dominika Cibulková and also defeated the world number one Wozniacki in the tie-break of the third set. In the semifinals she then lost to Agnieszka Radwańska 2: 6, 4: 6.

In the 2012 season she remained without a title win. She had an operation and fell out of the top 100 due to the tournament break.

In 2013, it slowly increased again over the course of the season. The surprising entry into the semifinals of the US Open , in which she lost in two sets to Asaranka, was her greatest success in singles up to then. In doubles, she managed to win another tournament after a long time, with Kristina Mladenovic she won the WTA tournament in Osaka .

The Fed Cup won Pennetta with the Italian team in 2006, 2009, 2010 and 2013. In their quarter-final match against France in 2009 they however caused a scandal when they insulted the chair umpire during the second set and it even the middle finger pointing . She was given a warning and fined $ 2,000. Her defeated opponent Amélie Mauresmo described this as insufficient and demanded the cancellation of the match. Pennetta won in three sets, Mauresmo had missed her only match point with a double fault.

In 2014 Pennetta reached the quarter-finals in the singles for the first time at the Australian Open , in which she was defeated by the eventual tournament winner Li Na in two sets . The 32-year-old achieved one of her greatest successes in singles when she won the title in Indian Wells . There she defeated Li Na (semifinals) and Agnieszka Radwańska (final) in two sets and thus secured her tenth individual title on the WTA Tour . At the US Open she was also in the quarter-finals, where she had no chance against the eventual winner Serena Williams. Her entry into the finals in women's doubles with her new partner Martina Hingis was also remarkable. At the Premier 5 tournament in Wuhan they then won their first joint title and a few weeks later the tournament in Moscow . Nevertheless, they could not qualify for the WTA Championships. Instead, Pennetta received an invitation to the Tournament of Champions in Sofia, for which she had not qualified athletically. She even reached the final there, which she lost in three sets against Andrea Petković .

In March 2015, the prize money she won exceeded the $ 10 million mark. In September she won the US Open in an all-Italian final against Roberta Vinci . Immediately after winning her only single Grand Slam title, she declared her career over at the end of the season. On October 29, she played her last match on the tour at the WTA Championships in Singapore against Marija Sharapova , which she lost 5: 7 and 1: 6.

Tournament victories

singles

No.	date	competition	category	Topping	Final opponent	Result
1.	August 14, 2004	Sopot	WTA Tier III	sand	Klára Koukalová	7: 5, 3: 6, 6: 3
2.	February 20, 2005	Bogotá	WTA Tier III	sand	Lourdes Domínguez Lino	7: 6 4 , 6: 4
3.	February 27, 2005	Acapulco	WTA Tier III	sand	Ľudmila Cervanová	3: 6, 7: 5, 6: 3
4th	August 14, 2007	Bangkok	WTA Tier III	Hard court	Chan Yung-jan	6: 1, 6: 3
5.	February 17, 2008	Viña del Mar	WTA Tier III	sand	Klára Zakopalová	6: 4, 5: 4 problem
6th	March 1, 2008	Acapulco	WTA Tier III	sand	Alizé Cornet	6: 0, 4: 6, 6: 1
7th	July 19, 2009	Palermo	WTA International	sand	Sara Errani	6: 1, 6: 2
8th.	August 9, 2009	los Angeles	WTA Premier	Hard court	Samantha Stosur	6: 4, 6: 3
9.	April 11, 2010	Marbella	WTA International	sand	Carla Suarez Navarro	6: 2, 4: 6, 6: 3
10.	March 16, 2014	Indian Wells	WTA Premier Mandatory	Hard court	Agnieszka Radwańska	6: 2, 6: 1
11.	September 12, 2015	US Open	Grand Slam	Hard court	Roberta Vinci	7: 6 4 , 6: 2

Double

No.	date	competition	category	Topping	Partner	Final opponents	Result
1.	August 14, 2005	los Angeles	WTA Tier II	Hard court	Jelena Dementjewa	Angela Haynes Bethanie Mattek	6: 2, 6: 4
2.	February 26, 2006	Bogotá	WTA Tier III	sand	Gisela Dulko	Ágnes Szávay Jasmin Wöhr	7: 6 1 , 6: 1
3.	April 19, 2008	Oeiras	WTA Tier IV	sand	Maria Kirilenko	Mervana Jugić-Salkić İpek Şenoğlu	6: 4, 6: 4
4th	January 16, 2009	Hobart	WTA International	Hard court	Gisela Dulko	Aljona Bondarenko Kateryna Bondarenko	6: 2, 7: 6 4
5.	June 9, 2009	's-Hertogenbosch	WTA International	race	Sara Errani	Michaëlla Krajicek Yanina Wickmayer	6: 4, 5: 7, [13:11]
6th	July 11, 2009	Båstad	WTA International	sand	Gisela Dulko	Nuria Llagostera Vives María José Martínez Sánchez	6: 2, 0: 6, [10: 5]
7th	April 4, 2010	Miami	WTA Premier Mandatory	Hard court	Gisela Dulko	Nadja Petrowa Samantha Stosur	6: 3, 4: 6, [10: 7]
8th.	May 2, 2010	Stuttgart	WTA Premier	Sand (hall)	Gisela Dulko	Květa Peschke Katarina Srebotnik	3: 6, 7: 6 3 , [10: 5]
9.	May 8, 2010	Rome	WTA Premier 5	sand	Gisela Dulko	Nuria Llagostera Vives María José Martínez Sánchez	6: 4, 6: 2
10.	July 10, 2010	Båstad	WTA International	sand	Gisela Dulko	Renata Voráčová Barbora Záhlavová-Strýcová	6: 4, 6: 2
11.	August 22, 2010	Montreal	WTA Premier 5	Hard court	Gisela Dulko	Květa Peschke Katarina Srebotnik	7: 5, 3: 6, [12:10]
12.	October 24, 2010	Moscow	WTA Premier	Hard court (hall)	Gisela Dulko	Sara Errani María José Martínez Sánchez	6: 3, 2: 6, [10: 6]
13.	October 31, 2010	Doha	WTA Tour Championships	Hard court	Gisela Dulko	Květa Peschke Katarina Srebotnik	7: 5, 6: 4
14th	January 28, 2011	Melbourne	Grand Slam	Hard court	Gisela Dulko	Viktoria Azaranka Maria Kirilenko	2: 6, 7: 5, 6: 1
15th	October 13, 2013	Osaka	WTA International	Hard court	Kristina Mladenovic	Samantha Stosur Zhang Shuai	6: 4, 6: 3
16.	September 27, 2014	Wuhan	WTA Premier 5	Hard court	Martina Hingis	Cara Black Caroline Garcia	6: 4, 5: 7, [12:10]
17th	October 18, 2014	Moscow	WTA Premier	Hard court (hall)	Martina Hingis	Caroline Garcia Arantxa Parra Santonja	6: 3, 7: 5

Career statistics and tournament record

singles

competition	1997	1998	1999	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008	2009	2010	2011	2012	2013	2014	2015	total
Australian Open	-	-	-	-	-	-	1	1	1	3	1	2	3	2	AF	1	-	VF	1	0
French Open	-	-	-	-	-	-	3	1	3	3	1	AF	1	AF	1	3	1	2	AF	0
Wimbledon	-	-	-	-	-	-	2	1	AF	AF	1	2	3	3	3	1	AF	2	1	0
US Open	-	-	-	-	-	-	1	1	1	-	2	VF	VF	3	VF	-	HF	VF	S.	1
Tour Championships	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	RR	0
Doha	na or a. K.											-	na or a. K.			2	-	1	a. K.	0
Dubai	na or a. K.												-	AF	HF	na or a. K.			VF	0
Indian Wells	-	-	-	-	-	-	2	2	2	3	2	3	AF	3	3	3	1	S.	VF	1
Miami	-	-	-	-	-	-	3	-	3	-	1	3	3	2	2	3	2	3	AF	0
Charleston	not carried out				-	-	-	-	-	-	1	-	other category							0
Rome	-	-	-	-	-	-	2	AF	2	VF	1	2	AF	2	1	VF	1	AF	1	0
Madrid	na or a. K.												1	2	1	-	1	1	1	0
Berlin	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	2	1	1	-	na or a. K.							0
San Diego	na or a. K.							-	2	AF	-	na or a. K.								0
Cincinnati	na or a. K.												HF	VF	2	-	1	AF	2	0
Montreal / Toronto	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	VF	2	2	2	2	AF	2	2	2	1	2	0
Tokyo	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	AF	1	AF	1	-	2	a. K.		0
Wuhan	not carried out																	1	-	0
Zurich	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	AF	VF	-	-	not carried out								0
Beijing	na or a. K.												AF	1	HF	-	1	2	AF	0
Moscow	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	AF	-	-	VF	other category							0
Olympic games	not carried out			-	not carried out			-	not carried out			1	not carried out			AF	not carried out			0
Fed Cup	-	-	-	-	-	-	VF	-	PO	S.	F.	PO	S.	S.	HF	-	-	-	PO	3
Tournament participation	4th	8th	12	18th	18th	23	26th	27	24	18th	28	26th	25th	24	22nd	14th	21st	20th	20th	378
Finals reached	0	0	3	0	0	5	0	4th	2	3	2	4th	3	3	0	2	0	2	1	34
Title won	0	0	2	0	0	4th	0	2	2	0	1	2	2	1	0	0	0	1	1	18th
Hard court wins / defeats	0-0	0-0	0-0	2: 2	5: 9	5: 6	18:13	10:13	14:14	10: 8	15:12	29:17	32:13	30:14	25:14	8: 7	9:10	27:14	22:13	261: 179
Sand victories / defeats	2: 3	7: 7	17: 8	11:15	9: 9	33:10	8:10	27:10	20: 6	19: 9	17:12	20: 5	21: 9	19: 6	5: 5	10: 4	11: 9	4: 4	6: 4	266: 145
Turf wins / defeats	0: 1	2: 1	0-0	1: 1	0-0	6: 3	1: 2	2: 3	3: 1	3: 2	2: 2	1: 2	4: 2	2: 2	3: 2	3: 3	2: 2	2: 2	0: 2	37:33
Carpet victories / defeats	0-0	0-0	8: 2	1: 1	0-0	5-0	0: 1	0-0	2: 2	0: 1	2: 1	0-0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0-0	18: 8
Overall wins / losses	2: 4	9: 8	25:10	15:19	14:18	49:19	27:26	39:26	39:23	32:20	36:27	50:24	57:24	51:22	33:21	21:14	22:21	33:20	28:19	582: 365
World ranking points	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	N / A
Year-end position	895	659	251	297	289	95	69	38	23	28	40	13	12	24	20th	45	31	13	8th	N / A

Explanation of symbols: S = tournament victory; F, HF, VF, AF = entry into the final / semi-finals / quarter-finals / round of 16; 1, 2, 3 = elimination in the 1st / 2nd / 3rd main round; RR = Round Robin (group stage); na = not carried out; a. K. = other category; PO (playoff) = promotion and relegation round in the Fed Cup; K1, K2, K3 = participation in continental groups I, II, III in the Fed Cup.

Note : These statistics take into account all results individually, as stated on the WTA page. Only WTA tournaments of the category Tier I (until 2008) and the WTA tournaments of the categories Premier Mandatory and Premier 5 (since 2009) are shown.

Performing in Grand Slam tournaments in doubles

competition	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008	2009	2010	2011	2012	2013	2014	2015	Career
Australian Open	1	1	2	AF	AF	VF	AF	VF	S.	AF	-	2	AF	S.
French Open	1	-	2	2	1	2	AF	VF	VF	AF	2	AF	VF	VF
Wimbledon	1	2	1	AF	2	2	1	HF	1	HF	2	AF	VF	HF
US Open	1	AF	F.	-	2	1	1	VF	AF	-	AF	F.	HF	F.
WTA Tour Championships	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	S.	HF	-	-	-	-	S.

Personal

She has been married to Fabio Fognini since June 11, 2016 . On May 19, 2017, the two parents of a son named Federico.

Awards

• Italy's sportswoman and world sportswoman of the year ( La Gazzetta dello Sport ): 2015

Web links

Commons : Flavia Pennetta  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• WTA profile Flavia Pennetta (English)
• ITF profile Flavia Pennetta (English)
• Fed Cup stats by Flavia Pennetta (English)
• Flavia Pennetta in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• Flavia Pennetta website (English, Italian)

Individual evidence

1. ^ First Italian in the top 10 - Pennetta writes Italian tennis history
2. ↑ "Pennetta could trip over her middle finger"
3. ↑ 1st Grand Slam title at 33 - Flavia Pennetta wins Italian final and resigns , tennisnet.com from September 13, 2015, accessed on September 13, 2015
4. ↑ Flavia Pennetta announces goodbye to tennis after the greatest triumph , tennisnet.com from September 13, 2015, accessed on September 13, 2015
5. ↑ “Ciao Bella!” - Maria Sharapova sends Flavia Pennetta into tennis retirement. October 29, 2015. Retrieved October 29, 2015 . 
6. ↑ Flavia and Fabio - dream wedding in Italy! In: tennisnet.com. June 13, 2016, accessed June 13, 2016 . 
7. ↑ Björn Walter: Baby happiness with Flavia and Fabio. In: spox.com. May 19, 2017. Retrieved May 19, 2017 .