María José Martínez Sánchez

María José Martínez Sánchez
Martínez Sánchez at the 2010 US Open
Nation:	Spain
Birthday:	August 12, 1982
Size:	176 cm
Weight:	68 kg
1st professional season:	1996
Resignation:	22nd December 2019
Playing hand:	Left, two-handed backhand
Trainer:	Alejo Mancisidor
Prize money:	$ 4,409,022
singles
Career record:	361: 246
Career title:	5 WTA , 12 ITF
Highest ranking:	19 (May 10, 2010)
Grand Slam record
Double
Career record:	491: 259
Career title:	21 WTA, 23 ITF
Highest ranking:	4 (July 5, 2010)
Grand Slam record
Mixed
Grand Slam record
Sources: official player profiles at the ATP / WTA and ITF (see web links )

María José Martínez Sánchez (born August 12, 1982 in Yecla ) is a former Spanish tennis player .

Career

Martínez Sánchez started playing tennis at the age of six. She has been a professional since 1996 and has been on the WTA Tour since 1998 . According to the ITF, she prefers hard courts, although she has won her first nine doubles and four singles titles in clay court tournaments.

In 2008 Martínez Sánchez competed for the Spanish team at the Olympic Games in Beijing .

In her first attempt to reach the main draw in a Grand Slam tournament , she failed in the second qualifying round of the 2000 US Open . In the individual, she has won five WTA tournaments so far, including the 2010 clay court classic in Rome, her most important title so far.

In 2012 she also took part in the London Olympics for Spain.

In doubles, she was already in fourth place in the WTA world rankings (July 5, 2010). She has already won 17 WTA titles, eleven of them alongside her compatriot Nuria Llagostera Vives . From June 2013 she took a longer break on the women's tour. Since March 2015, it has almost only taken part in double competitions.

The doubles specialist competed in the German tennis Bundesliga for the TC Blau-Weiss Bocholt until 2012 .

On December 22, 2019, she announced the end of her career on Instagram.

Personal

María José Martínez Sánchez is the only daughter of Ricardo and Fini; she has two younger brothers, Ricardo and Alejandro.

Tournament victories

singles

No.	date	competition	category	Topping	Final opponent	Result
1.	February 22, 2009	Bogotá	WTA International	sand	Gisela Dulko	6: 3, 6: 2
2.	July 11, 2009	Båstad	WTA International	sand	Caroline Wozniacki	7: 5, 6: 4
3.	May 8, 2010	Rome	WTA Premier 5	sand	Jelena Janković	7: 6 5 , 7: 5
4th	July 17, 2011	Bad Gastein	WTA International	sand	Patricia Mayr-Achleitner	6-0, 7-5
5.	September 25, 2011	Seoul	WTA International	Hard court	Galina Voskoboyeva	7: 6 0 , 7: 6 2

Double

No.	date	competition	category	Topping	Partner	Final opponents	Result
1.	March 4, 2001	Acapulco	WTA Tier III	sand	Anabel Medina Garrigues	Virginia Ruano Pascual Paola Suarez	6: 4, 6: 7 5 , 7: 5
2.	April 8, 2001	postage	WTA Tier IV	sand	Anabel Medina Garrigues	Alexandra Fusai Rita Grande	6: 1, 6: 7 5 , 7: 5
3.	May 6, 2001	Bol	WTA Tier III	sand	Anabel Medina Garrigues	Nadja Petrowa Tina Pisnik	7: 5, 6: 4
4th	August 5, 2001	Basel	WTA Tier IV	sand	Anabel Medina Garrigues	Joannette Kruger Marta Marrero	7: 6 5 , 6: 2
5.	March 1, 2008	Acapulco	WTA Tier III	sand	Nuria Llagostera Vives	Iveta Benešová Petra Cetkovská	6: 2, 6: 4
6th	February 21, 2009	Bogotá	WTA International	sand	Nuria Llagostera Vives	Gisela Dulko Flavia Pennetta	7: 5, 3: 6, [10: 7]
7th	February 28, 2009	Acapulco	WTA International	sand	Nuria Llagostera Vives	Lourdes Domínguez Lino Arantxa Parra Santonja	6: 4, 6: 2
8th.	April 19, 2009	Barcelona	WTA International	sand	Nuria Llagostera Vives	Sorana Cîrstea Andreja Klepač	3: 6, 6: 2, [10: 8]
9.	July 13, 2009	Palermo	WTA International	sand	Nuria Llagostera Vives	Marija Korytzewa Darja Kustawa	6: 1, 6: 2
10.	August 23, 2009	Toronto	WTA Premier 5	Hard court	Nuria Llagostera Vives	Samantha Stosur Rennae Stubbs	2: 6, 7: 5, [11: 9]
11.	August 29, 2009	New Haven	WTA Premier	Hard court	Nuria Llagostera Vives	Iveta Benešová Lucie Hradecká	6: 2, 7: 5
12.	November 1, 2009	Doha	WTA Tour Championships	Hard court	Nuria Llagostera Vives	Cara Black Liezel Huber	7: 6 0 , 5: 7, [10: 7]
13.	February 21, 2010	Dubai	WTA Premier 5	Hard court	Nuria Llagostera Vives	Květa Peschke Katarina Srebotnik	7: 6 5 , 6: 4
14th	February 20, 2011	Dubai	WTA Premier 5	Hard court	Liezel Huber	Květa Peschke Katarina Srebotnik	7: 6 5 , 6: 3
15th	July 9, 2011	Båstad	WTA International	sand	Lourdes Domínguez Lino	Nuria Llagostera Vives Arantxa Parra Santonja	6: 3, 6: 3
16.	June 23, 2012	Eastbourne	WTA Premier	race	Nuria Llagostera Vives	Liezel Huber Lisa Raymond	6: 4, task
17th	19th June 2016	Santa Ponça	WTA International	race	Gabriela Dabrowski	Anna-Lena Friedsam Laura Siegemund	6: 4, 6: 2
18th	23 September 2017	Tokyo	WTA Premier	Hard court	Andreja Klepač	Darja Gavrilowa Darja Kassatkina	6: 3, 6: 2
19th	June 24, 2018	Mallorca	WTA International	race	Andreja Klepač	Lucie Šafářová Barbora Štefková	6: 1, 3: 6, [10: 3]
20th	3rd May 2019	Rabat	WTA International	sand	Sara Sorribes Tormo	Georgina García Pérez Oksana Kalashnikova	7: 5, 6: 1
21st	23 August 2019	new York	WTA International	Hard court	Darija Jurak	Margarita Gasparjan Monica Niculescu	7: 5, 2: 6, [10: 7]

Web links

Commons : María José Martínez Sánchez  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• WTA profile of María José Martínez Sánchez (English)
• ITF profile María José Martínez Sánchez (English)
• Fed Cup stats by María José Martínez Sánchez (English)
• María José Martínez Sánchez in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Martínez Sánchez calls time on storied career. In: wtatennis.com. January 15, 2020, accessed on March 11, 2020 .