Patricia Maria Țig

Patricia Maria Țig
Patricia Maria Țig 2019 at Wimbledon
Nation:	Romania
Birthday:	27th July 1994 (age 26)
Size:	180 cm
Playing hand:	Right, two-handed backhand
Trainer:	Răzvan Sabau
Prize money:	$ 724,765
singles
Career record:	271: 159
Career title:	0 WTA , 1 WTA Challenger , 14 ITF
Highest ranking:	80 (March 2, 2020)
Current placement:	85
Grand Slam record
Double
Career record:	73:75
Career title:	0 WTA, 4 ITF
Highest ranking:	155 (November 14, 2016)
Current placement:	1434
Last update of the infobox: March 16, 2020
Sources: official player profiles at the ATP / WTA and ITF (see web links )

Patricia Maria Țig (born July 27, 1994 in Caransebeş ) is a Romanian tennis player .

Career

The daughter of volleyball player and coach Ioan Marius Țig began playing tennis at the age of eight and prefers the hard court for her game. She mainly competes on the ITF Women's World Tennis Tour , on which she has so far won 14 tournaments in singles and four in doubles. Țig lives in Galați . She is trained by the former Romanian tennis player Răzvan Sabău , with whom she has a daughter, Sofia.

In 2009 she played her first ITF tournament in Romania, in 2012 she won her first two professional titles in her home country. At the tournament in Bucharest , Țig made her debut on the WTA Tour in 2014 after receiving a wildcard from the organizers for qualification; there she could only win one game against Indy de Vroome . Back on the ITF tour, she won her first title in a $ 25,000 tournament in Merida late that year . In 2015 she started for the first time in the qualification decisions at all four Grand Slam tournaments, winning one match each at the French Open and in New York . Again with a wild card, but this time equipped for the main draw, she won her first WTA match in Bucharest in 2015, benefiting from the task of Sílvia Soler Espinosas . Afterwards, Țig celebrated her greatest success up until then at the Baku Cup 2015 , surprisingly from qualifying to the final, defeating top seed Anastassja Pavlyuchenkova in two sets in the semifinals. In the final, she lost to Margarita Gasparjan in three sets with 3: 6, 7: 5 and 0: 6.

After she caused a sensation at the Premier Mandatory tournament in Madrid the following year when she surprisingly reached the quarter-finals from qualifying, Țig made it into the top 100 of the tennis world rankings for the first time . On her way to the round of the last eight, she beat Sloane Stephens and Madison Keys , two players from the top 30 in the world. At her premiere in the main draw of a Grand Slam tournament at Wimbledon , she lost to Sara Errani . Then she made it into a semi-final on the WTA Tour for the second time in Seoul and made it into the final at the big ITF tournament in Shenzhen , where she lost to Peng Shuai in three sets.

In 2017 Țig had another good result in Miami when she reached the third round as a qualifier and defeated a top 20 player for the first time with Kristina Mladenovic . Plagued by worsening health problems, she only got three more victories in the further course of the season. After an injury-related first round task at the WTA tournament in Guangzhou , she had to end the season early. In 2018, Țig took a break due to persistent complaints and the birth of her daughter Sofia in November.

The following year she returned to the ITF tour, where she won two tournaments after initial problems in a total of nine starts in Cancun. She started with a protected ranking at Wimbledon , but lost there against Paula Badosa Gibert at the beginning of the qualification . But right after her comeback on the WTA Tour at the BRD Bucharest Open 2019 , she reached her first WTA final in front of a home audience, having entered the tournament with a wildcard for qualification. On the way to the final, she eliminated the top seed Anastasija Sevastova in the second round ; there she had no chance against Jelena Rybakina . Two weeks later she celebrated her biggest title to date at the first edition of the WTA Challenger in Karlsruhe after winning the final in three sets over Alison Van Uytvanck .

Țig, who continues to struggle with back problems, returned to the top 100 in the world rankings in early 2020. After reaching the semi-finals in Hua Hin , she achieved her best world ranking position to date with 80th place.

Tournament victories

singles

No.	date	competition	category	Topping	Final opponent	Result
1.	July 1, 2012	Balș	ITF $ 10,000	sand	Alexandra Damashin	6: 4, 7: 5
2.	July 15, 2012	Iași	ITF $ 10,000	sand	Raluca Elena Plato	6: 2, 3: 6, 6: 4
3.	3rd November 2013	Antalya	ITF $ 10,000	sand	Raluca Elena Plato	6: 2, 4: 2 problem
4th	November 10, 2013	Antalya	ITF $ 10,000	sand	Martina Kubiciková	6: 7 5 , 6: 2, 6: 2
5.	December 22, 2013	Antalya	ITF $ 10,000	sand	Conny Perrin	6: 2, 7: 5
6th	February 9, 2014	Antalya	ITF $ 10,000	sand	Alyona Sotnikova	5: 7, 6: 1, 6: 3
7th	February 16, 2014	Antalya	ITF $ 10,000	sand	Sopia Kwazabaia	6: 3, 6: 2
8th.	May 25, 2014	Bol	ITF $ 10,000	sand	Tena Lukas	6: 2, 7: 5
9.	June 1, 2014	Sibiu	ITF $ 10,000	sand	Nicoleta-Cătălina Dascălu	6: 2, 6: 4
10.	20th July 2014	Galați	ITF $ 10,000	sand	Irina Maria Bara	7: 6 3 , 3: 6, 6: 2
11.	September 7, 2014	Galați	ITF $ 10,000	sand	Elisaveta Janchuk	6: 3, 6: 3
12.	December 7, 2014	Merida	ITF $ 25,000 + H	Hard court	Beatriz Haddad Maia	3: 6, 6: 3, 6: 1
13.	June 9, 2019	Cancun	ITF $ 15,000	Hard court	Fernanda Contreras Gomez	6-0, 6-0
14th	June 16, 2019	Cancun	ITF $ 15,000	Hard court	Melany Solange Kryvoj	6: 2, 4: 6, 6: 3
15th	4th August 2019	Karlsruhe	WTA Challenger	sand	Alison Van Uytvanck	3: 6, 6: 1, 6: 2

Double

No.	date	competition	category	Topping	Partner	Final opponents	Result
1.	July 14, 2012	Iași	ITF $ 10,000	sand	Alexandra Damashin	Martina Kubiciková Tereza Máliková	6: 3, 3: 6, [11: 9]
2.	May 10, 2014	Bol	ITF $ 10,000	sand	Pernilla Mendesová	Irina Maria Bara Raluca Elena Plato	without a fight
3.	20th June 2014	Galați	ITF $ 10,000	sand	Camelia Elena Hristea	Maryna Kolb Nadiya Kolb	6: 3, 6: 1
4th	October 25, 2014	Ciudad Victoria	ITF $ 25,000	Hard court	Maria Fernanda Alves	Carolina Betancourt Lenka Wienerová	6: 1, 6: 2

Web links

Commons : Patricia Maria Țig  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• WTA profile of Patricia Maria Țig (English)
• ITF profile of Patricia Maria Țig (English)
• ITF junior profile Patricia Maria Tig (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ TENIS / Gălățeanca Patricia Țig a CÂȘTIGAT al doilea turneu ITF la rând , accessed on February 12, 2017 (Romanian)
2. ↑ A triumphant return for Patricia Tig in Bucharest , accessed on July 22, 2019 (English)
3. ↑ WTA Scouting Report: Patricia Maria Tig returns to Romanian tennis ranks. In: wtatennis.com. December 27, 2019, accessed July 8, 2020 .