María Fernanda Landa (born 29 July 1975) is a former professional
tennis player
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 cove ...
from Argentina.
Biography
Landa competed on the
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.
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from 1995 and made all of her main-draw appearances in the doubles format, in which she reached 108 in the world. As a singles player she won six
ITF titles, with a best ranking of 183.
She qualified for the main draw of the women's doubles at the
1996 US Open with
Marlene Weingärtner
Marlene Weingärtner (born 30 January 1980) is a retired tennis player from Germany. She is a former top 40 player in both singles and doubles.
The most remarkable moment of her career was her first-round match at the 2003 Australian Open when ...
and with the same partner was runner-up at the
1999 WTA Madrid Open.
At the
1999 Wimbledon Championships
The 1999 Wimbledon Championships was a tennis tournament played on grass courts at the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club in Wimbledon, London in the United Kingdom. It was the 113th edition of the Wimbledon Championships and were held fro ...
, Landa and Weingärtner received direct entry and were beaten in the first round by eventual champions
Lindsay Davenport
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and
Corina Morariu
Corina Maria Morariu (born January 26, 1978) is an American former professional tennis player.
Morariu (pronounced: mo-RA-R'ju) was born in Detroit, Michigan and is of Romanian descent. She turned professional in 1994. Mainly known as a doubles ...
. She also competed in the mixed-doubles draw at Wimbledon that year with
Diego del Río
Diego del Río (born 4 September 1972) is a former professional tennis player from Argentina.
Career
del Rio was a doubles specialist and appeared in the main draw of seven Grand Slam tournaments. He only once progressed past the first round, w ...
.
She now runs a tennis school in
Tigre, Buenos Aires
Tigre (, ''Tiger'') is a city in the Buenos Aires Province, Argentina, situated in the north of Greater Buenos Aires, north of Buenos Aires city. Tigre lies on the Paraná Delta and is a tourist and weekend destination, reachable by bus and ...
.
WTA career finals
Doubles: 1 (1 title)
ITF Circuit finals
Singles: 15 (6–9)
Doubles: 27 (14–13)
References
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1975 births
Living people
Argentine female tennis players
20th-century Argentine women