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player. She has won 16 singles titles and 28 doubles titles on the ITF Circuit. On 28 May 2018, she reached her best singles ranking of world No. 162, weeks after reaching quarterfinals on the

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, her best result on a WTA tournament yet. Seguel's first-round win over

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was the first professional match won by a Chilean female tennis player since 1980. On 7 July 2014, she peaked at No. 110 in the WTA doubles rankings. Playing for Chile Fed Cup team, Seguel has a win-loss record of 21–18 in

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competitions.

Junior career

In 2006, her debut on the

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came at the age of 13. She played her first tournament at the first Open Junior International Chile, in May. There, she reached the quarterfinals, before losing to Argentinian player Ornella Caron, in straight sets. In 2007, she won her first singles title at the second Junior Open Chile, in October. In 2008, she reached one final, at the Copa Gobierno Bolivariano de Carabobo in Valencia, Venezuela. In 2009, she won the Vina Junior Open, by defeating her compatriot Cecilia Costa Melgar in the final, in straight sets. In 2010, she played her last junior tournament, at the 27th Copa Gerdau in Porto Alegre, Brazil, where she was stopped in the second round by Slovak player

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ITF Circuit

Seguel made her debut at the professional level in 2007, at a $10k tournament in Santiago, Chile. In singles, she lost in the first round to

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. In July 2010, she reached her first ITF singles final in La Paz, Bolivia. She lost the final in straight sets to Colombian player

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. In November 2010, she won her first ITF title at a $10k in Concepción, Chile, alongside compatriot

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. In singles, she won her first title in April 2011, at a $10k event in Córdoba, Argentina. So far, her biggest ITF title in singles came at the Barcelona Women World Winner, in June 2017. Daniela-Seguel Cagnes 2014

Grand Slam performance timeline

Singles

WTA career finals

Doubles: 1 (runner–up)

ITF Circuit finals

Singles: 24 (16 titles, 8 runner–ups)

Doubles: 45 (28 titles, 17 runner–ups)

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