Ana Isabel Medina Garrigues (, ; born 31 July 1982) is a Spanish tennis coach and former professional player.
As a player she reached a career-high ranking of world No. 16 in 2020, and won 11 singles and 28 doubles titles, including the
2008
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and
2009 French Open
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with
Virginia Ruano Pascual
Virginia Ruano Pascual (; born 21 September 1973) is a Spanish former professional tennis player. She had moderate success in singles, winning three career Women's Tennis Association (WTA) titles as well as reaching two Grand Slam quarterfinals ...
. Like many of her Spanish compatriots, she was a clay-court specialist who grinds to win most of her rallies. However, unlike most of her fellow Spaniards, she preferred to play on hardcourts.
She won the
WTA tournament in
Strasbourg
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, beating
Katarina Srebotnik
Katarina Srebotnik (born 12 March 1981) is a Slovenian retired professional tennis player. She reached her career-high singles ranking of world No. 20 on 7 August 2006. On 4 July 2011, she reached No. 1 of the WTA doubles rankings, holding this ...
in the final in May 2008, thus defending the title she won the previous year against
Amélie Mauresmo
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. Her other singles titles came at
Palermo
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in 2011, 2006, 2005, 2004 and 2001, at
Canberra
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in 2006, Strasbourg in 2005 and Fès in 2009.
After retirement from singles tennis (she continues playing doubles) at the end of the 2014 season, Medina Garrigues became a professional coach, gaining success while working for
Jeļena Ostapenko
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, who won the 2017 French Open Grand Slam title. In late 2017, she was named captain of
Spain's Fed Cup team. She has also become tournament organizer at Valencia Open.
Career
2008
Together with Virginia Ruano Pascual, she won the
French Open
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and the silver medal at the
Beijing Olympics.
2011
Medina Garrigues began 2011 by losing in the first rounds of
Auckland Open,
Australian Open
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, and
Copa Colsanitas
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and the qualifying draw of the
Sydney International
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. She then reached her first semifinal in nine months in the
Abierto Mexicano Telcel
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with wins over top seed
Julia Görges
Julia Görges (born 2 November 1988) is a German former professional tennis player. A former top-ten singles player, she was ranked as high as No. 9 in the world on 20 August 2018, and was ranked inside the top 15 in doubles, peaking at world No ...
and seventh seed
Carla Suárez Navarro
Carla Suárez Navarro (; born 3 September 1988, in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria) is a Spanish former professional tennis player. A former top 10 singles player, she reached a career-high singles ranking of world No. 6 on 29 February 2016, and a be ...
before losing to
Gisela Dulko
Gisela Dulko (; born 30 January 1985) is a retired Argentine tennis player. Although she enjoyed modest success in singles, reaching a career-high ranking of world No. 26 and winning four WTA titles, her speciality was doubles, where she achiev ...
in straight sets. In the
Indian Wells Open
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she defeated
Tamira Paszek
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Paszek has won three singles titles on the WTA Tour, as well as four singles and four doubles titles on the ITF Women's Circuit. She realized her greatest success so far ...
before losing to
Maria Sharapova
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.
Garrigues then qualified for the
Tournament of Champions and reached the final, but she was defeated by defending champion
Ana Ivanovic
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in two sets.
2012
Medina Garrigues reached the quarterfinals of Sony Swedish Open in Båstad, but lost to
Johanna Larsson
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.
2014
Medina Garrigues started 2014 at the
Australian Open
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. She lost in the first round to lucky loser
Irina Falconi
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Her highest WTA singles ranking is world No. 63, which she reached in May 2016. Her career-high ...
.
At the
PTT Pattaya Open
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The event wa ...
, Medina Garrigues was defeated in the first round by
Alison Riske
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...
without winning a single game.
She announced that the
French Open
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would be her last tournament before retiring from singles tennis, though she would continue to play doubles. Medina Garrigues lost in the second round of
qualifying for the French Open to
Tereza Smitková
Tereza Smitková (born 10 October 1994) is a Czech tennis player.
Smitková has won one singles WTA 125 title as well as eight singles and seven doubles titles on the ITF Circuit. On 6 April 2015, she reached her best singles ranking of world ...
in two sets, ending her singles career.
2018
Medina Garrigues received a wildcard spot (via protected ranking) and entered the doubles competition at the
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, partnering fellow Spaniard
Arantxa Parra Santonja
Arantxa Parra Santonja (; born 9 November 1982) is a Spanish former professional tennis player. She turned pro in 2000 and retired in 2019.
In her career, Parra Santonja won eleven doubles titles on the WTA Tour
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. Then in August, she retired from professional tennis.
Significant finals
Grand Slam tournaments
Doubles: 2 titles
Olympic Games
Doubles: 1 silver medal
Tournament of Champions
Singles: 1 runner-up
Premier Mandatory/Premier 5 tournaments
Doubles: 1 runner-up
WTA career finals
Singles: 18 (11 titles, 7 runner-ups)
Doubles: 45 (28 titles, 17 runner-ups)
ITF finals
Singles: 10 (6–4)
Doubles: 6 (3–3)
Performance timelines
Singles
Doubles
Team events
Hopman Cup (1–1)
Notes
References
External links
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1982 births
Living people
People from Torrent, Valencia
Sportspeople from the Province of Valencia
Tennis players from the Valencian Community
Spanish female tennis players
Olympic tennis players of Spain
Tennis players at the 2004 Summer Olympics
Tennis players at the 2008 Summer Olympics
Tennis players at the 2012 Summer Olympics
Tennis players at the 2016 Summer Olympics
Olympic silver medalists for Spain
Olympic medalists in tennis
Hopman Cup competitors
French Open junior champions
French Open champions
Grand Slam (tennis) champions in women's doubles
Grand Slam (tennis) champions in girls' doubles
Medalists at the 2008 Summer Olympics
Spanish tennis coaches