Inés Gorrochategui (born 13 June 1973) is a former professional female tennis player from Argentina. She reached her career-high singles ranking world No. 19 on October 17, 1994. Her best performance at a Grand Slam championship came when she got to the quarterfinals of the

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, defeating

Michelle Jaggard-Lai Michelle Jaggard-Lai (born 6 May 1969) is a retired tennis player from Australia. She turned professional in 1984. In her career, Jaggard-Lai won three doubles titles on the WTA Tour. She also reached the quarterfinals of the 1992 Australian Op ...

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and

Iva Majoli Iva Majoli-Marić (born 12 August 1977) is a former professional tennis player from Croatia who played for both Yugoslavia and Croatia. She upset Martina Hingis to win the women's singles title at the French Open in 1997. Majoli also won seven o ...

before losing to

Steffi Graf Stefanie Maria Graf ( , ; born 14 June 1969) is a German former professional tennis player. Widely regarded as one of the greatest tennis players of all time, she was ranked world No. 1 for a record 377 weeks and won 22 major singles titles, ...

. Inés Gorrochategui represented her country regularly in the Fed Cup from 1990 to 1999, reaching the semi-finals in 1993 with Labat and Tarabini.

Titles

Doubles (7)

*1991: São Paulo (with

Mercedes Paz Mercedes María Paz (; born 27 June 1966) is a former professional tennis player from Argentina. She won three singles titles on the WTA Tour and reached a career-high ranking of world No. 28 in April 1991. Her best Grand Slam result was the fou ...

) *1992: Taranto (with

Amanda Coetzer Amanda Coetzer (born 22 October 1971, in Hoopstad) is a South African former professional tennis player. Coetzer finished in the WTA rankings top 20 for ten consecutive seasons (1992–2001), peaking at world No. 3. She reached three Grand Slam ...

) *1993: Prague (with

Patricia Tarabini Patricia Tarabini (born 6 August 1968) is a former tennis player from Argentina. She represented her country and won the bronze medal at the 2004 Athens Olympic games, with Paola Suárez, where they lost 7–9 in the third set to eventual gold ...

) *1993: Budapest (with

Caroline Vis Caroline Vis (born 4 March 1970 in Vlaardingen) is a retired professional tennis player from the Netherlands. Vis turned pro in 1989. A doubles specialist, Vis won nine titles during her career on the WTA Tour. She reached the mixed doubles f ...

) *1995: Amelia Island (with Amanda Coetzer) *1995: Berlin (with Amanda Coetzer) *1997: Warsaw (with

Ruxandra Dragomir Ruxandra Dragomir Ilie (born 24 October 1972) is a retired tennis player from Romania. She won four singles and five doubles titles on the WTA Tour during her career. The right-hander reached her highest individual WTA ranking on 25 August 1997 ...

)

Runner-ups

Singles (3)

*1991: Paris Clarins Open (lost to

Conchita Martínez "Conchita" Martínez Bernat (born 16 April 1972) is a Spanish former professional tennis player. She was the first Spaniard to win the women's singles title at The Championships, Wimbledon, Wimbledon, doing so in 1994 Wimbledon Championships � ...

) *1994: Auckland (lost to

Ginger Helgeson-Nielsen Ginger Helgeson (born September 14, 1968) is a former American professional tennis player, who is considered to be perhaps the greatest player ever to come out of Minnesota. She reached her highest singles ranking on January 2, 1995, when she bec ...

) *1999: Warsaw (lost to

Cristina Torrens Valero Cristina Torrens Valero (born 12 September 1974) is a former professional female tennis player from Spain. She won two singles and two doubles WTA titles. Cristina reached her career-high singles ranking world No. 27 on 4 March 2002. In 199 ...

)

ITF finals

Singles: 8 (7–1)

Doubles: 8 (7–1)

References

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* * * 1973 births Argentine female tennis players Argentine people of Basque descent French Open junior champions Hopman Cup competitors Living people Sportspeople from Córdoba, Argentina Grand Slam (tennis) champions in girls' doubles {{Argentina-tennis-bio-stub