Rita Grande

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Rita Grande Tennis player
Rita Grande
Nation: ItalyItaly Italy
Birthday: March 23, 1975
Size: 177 cm
Playing hand: Right
Prize money: $ 1,858,558
singles
Career record: 336: 332
Career title: 3 WTA , 1 ITF
Highest ranking: 24 (November 5, 2001)
Grand Slam record
Grand Slam title: 00000  0
Australian Open AF (2001, 2002)
French Open AF (2001)
Wimbledon AF (2004)
US Open AF (1996)
Double
Career record: 198: 239
Career title: 5 WTA, 3 ITF
Highest ranking: 26 (May 28, 2001)
Grand Slam record
Grand Slam title: 00000  0
Australian Open VF (2001)
French Open VF (1999, 2002)
Wimbledon AF (1997, 1998)
US Open AF (1996, 2004)
Mixed
Grand Slam record
Grand Slam title: 00000  0
Australian Open HF (2004)
French Open -
Wimbledon -
US Open -
Sources: official player profiles at the ATP / WTA and ITF (see web links )

Rita Grande (born March 23, 1975 in Naples ) is a former Italian tennis player .

Career

Rita Grande started playing tennis at the age of nine and was cared for by her brother Vincenzo.

In her career she won a total of three singles and five doubles titles on the WTA Tour , as well as one tournament victory in singles and three successes in doubles at ITF level.

For the Italian Fed Cup team , she played 19 games between 1994 and 2003; their record shows five wins in eight defeats in singles and one victory and five defeats in doubles.

1996 Grande participated in the Olympics in part in Atlanta. In 2004 she was in the semi-finals of the mixed competition at the Australian Open .

She played her last match on the professional tour in August 2005 at the hard court tournament in New Haven , where she failed in qualifying against Květa Peschke .

Tournament victories

singles

No. date competition category Topping Final opponent Result
1. January 13, 2001 AustraliaAustralia Hobart WTA Tier V Hard court United StatesUnited States Jennifer Hopkins 0: 6, 6: 3, 6: 3
2. October 21, 2001 SlovakiaSlovakia Bratislava WTA Tier V Hard court (hall) SlovakiaSlovakia Martina Suchá 6: 1, 6: 1
3. April 6, 2003 MoroccoMorocco Casablanca WTA Tier V sand ItalyItaly Antonella Serra Zanetti 6: 2, 4.6, 6: 1

Double

No. date competition category Topping Partner Final opponents Result
1. June 19, 1999 NetherlandsNetherlands 's-Hertogenbosch WTA Tier III race ItalyItaly Silvia Farina ZimbabweZimbabwe Cara Black Kristie Boogert
NetherlandsNetherlands  		7: 5, 7: 6
2. January 15, 2000 AustraliaAustralia Hobart WTA Tier IVb Hard court FranceFrance Emilie Loit BelgiumBelgium Kim Clijsters Alicia Molik
AustraliaAustralia  		6: 2, 2: 6, 6: 3
3. July 16, 2000 ItalyItaly Palermo WTA Tier IVb sand ItalyItaly Silvia Farina RomaniaRomania Ruxandra Dragomir Virginia Ruano Pascual
SpainSpain  		6: 4, 0: 6, 7: 6
4th January 6, 2001 New ZealandNew Zealand Auckland WTA Tier V Hard court FranceFrance Alexandra Fusai SwitzerlandSwitzerland Emmanuelle Gagliardi Barbara Schett
AustriaAustria  		7: 6 4 , 6: 3
5. January 12, 2002 AustraliaAustralia Hobart WTA Tier V Hard court ItalyItaly Tathiana Garbin AustraliaAustralia Catherine Barclay Christina Wheeler
AustraliaAustralia  		6: 2, 7: 6 3

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personal data
SURNAME Grande, Rita
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian tennis player
DATE OF BIRTH March 23, 1975
PLACE OF BIRTH Naples , Italy