Ana Catarina Nogueira (born 20 September 1978) is a Portuguese professional padel player and former international
tennis
Tennis is a racket sport that is played either individually against a single opponent ( singles) or between two teams of two players each ( doubles). Each player uses a tennis racket that is strung with cord to strike a hollow rubber ball ...
player.
Biography
Born in
Porto
Porto or Oporto () is the second-largest city in Portugal, the capital of the Porto District, and one of the Iberian Peninsula's major urban areas. Porto city proper, which is the entire municipality of Porto, is small compared to its metropol ...
, Nogueira holds the
Portugal Fed Cup record for most ties played and is the most successful doubles player in the team's history. She featured in 36 ties between 1997 and 2008, winning 22 matches, 16 of which came in doubles.
Nogueira won three ITF singles titles and had a best ranking of 383 in the world. Most of her
WTA Tour
The WTA Tour is a worldwide top-tier tennis tour for women organized by the Women's Tennis Association. The second-tier tour is the WTA 125K series, and third-tier is the ITF Women's Circuit. The men's equivalent is the ATP Tour.
WTA Tour tourna ...
main-draw appearances came in her home country's events, including the
Estoril Open where she played in the singles main draw as a wild card on four occasions.
She now competes on the World
Padel
Padel ( es, Pádel) is a racket sport typically played in doubles on an enclosed court slightly smaller than a doubles tennis court. Scoring is the same as normal tennis, and the balls used are similar but with a little less pressure. The main ...
Tour and in 2018 became the first Portuguese player to win a tournament.
ITF finals
Singles (3–3)
Doubles (3–3)
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1978 births
Living people
Portuguese female tennis players
Female tennis players playing padel
Sportspeople from Porto
21st-century Portuguese women