Paola Suarez
Paola Suarez 
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| Paola Suárez 2003 | |||||||||||||
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 Argentina
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| Birthday: | June 23, 1976 | ||||||||||||
| Size: | 170 cm | ||||||||||||
| 1st professional season: | 1994 | ||||||||||||
| Resignation: | 1) 2007 2) 2012 |
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| Playing hand: | Right, two-handed backhand | ||||||||||||
| Prize money: | $ 5,217,775 | ||||||||||||
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| Career record: | 371: 239 | ||||||||||||
| Career title: | 4 WTA , 12 ITF | ||||||||||||
| Highest ranking: | 9 (June 7, 2004) | ||||||||||||
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| Career record: | 513: 192 | ||||||||||||
| Career title: | 44 WTA, 7 ITF | ||||||||||||
| Highest ranking: | 1 (September 9, 2002) | ||||||||||||
| Weeks as No. 1: | 87 | ||||||||||||
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| Sources: official player profiles at the ATP / WTA and ITF (see web links ) | |||||||||||||
Paola Suárez (born June 23, 1976 in Pergamino ) is a former Argentine tennis player .
Career
In her career, Suárez won four individual titles on the WTA Tour ; she won in 1998 and 2001 in Bogotá , 2003 in Vienna and 2004 in Canberra . In doubles, she had 44 titles, eight of them in Grand Slam tournaments. Only at Wimbledon was she denied a Grand Slam title.
From 1991 Suárez played on the professional tour. She worked her way up the ranking and reached the top 100 in 1996. In 2000 she was number 37. She had her most successful time in singles in 2003/2004, when she was able to stay in the top 20. She reached her highest position with 9th place in June 2004 after her best result in a Grand Slam tournament; at the French Open she only had to admit defeat in the semifinals (0: 6, 5: 7 against Jelena Dementjewa ). She also reached a quarter-finals three times: in Paris in 2002, in New York in 2003 and in Wimbledon in 2004 .
After disappointing results (first round defeat at Roland Garros in 2005) and injuries, Suárez fell back to position 238. After her early retirement from the French Open, she played a game on the tour for the first time in Auckland in January 2006 . However, she failed in the first round, the following tournaments were similarly modest (many first-round defeats), so that she slipped in the world rankings to 500th place.
Her greatest success in 2006 was the move into the quarter-finals of 's-Hertogenbosch , where she defeated the top 20 player Marija Kirilenko . She did quite well during the American hard court season. In San Diego she reached the round of 16 with victories over Dinara Safina and Kateryna Bondarenko and was only defeated by the top ten player Patty Schnyder with 3: 6, 6: 3, 1: 6. In Los Angeles , she was eliminated in round two. Most recently she found herself at position 180 in the world rankings.
Suárez was far more successful in doubles. Of her 44 career titles, she won eight at the Grand Slam tournaments: in Roland Garros (2001, 2002, 2004, 2005), at the US Open (2002, 2003, 2004) and the Australian Open (2004), all at the Page of her long-time partner Virginia Ruano Pascual . In 2002, Suárez was briefly number 1 in the double ranking. Together with Ruano Pascual, she formed the fifth best double pair in the women's competition in 2006.
Suarez ended her career on September 1, 2007 after she lost in the US Open mixed with her doubles partner Kevin Ullyett against Liezel Huber and Jamie Murray 5-7 and 4-6.
In 2012 she returned to the tour again to compete in the doubles competition at the Olympic Games in London with her compatriot Gisela Dulko . There, however, the two were eliminated in round one. Her last match on the women's tour was Suárez's August 2012 WTA tournament in Cincinnati .
Tournament victories
singles
| No. | date | competition | category | Topping | Final opponent | Result |
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| 1. | February 22, 1998 |
 Bogotá
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WTA Tier IV | sand |
 Sonya Jeyaseelan
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6: 3, 6: 4 |
| 2. | February 25, 2001 |
Bogotá
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WTA Tier III | sand |
 Rita Kuti Kis
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6: 2, 6: 4 |
| 3. | June 14, 2003 |
 Vienna
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WTA Tier III | sand |
 Karolina Šprem
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7: 6 0 , 2: 6, 6: 4 |
| 4th | January 17, 2004 |
 Canberra
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WTA Tier V | Hard court |
 Silvia Farina Elia
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3: 6, 6: 4, 7: 6 5 |
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Web links
- WTA profile of Paola Suárez (English)
- ITF profile Paola Suarez (English)
- Fed Cup statistics Paola Suarez (English)
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Suarez, Paola |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | argentinian tennis player |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 23, 1976 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Pergamino , Argentina |