María Antonia Sánchez Lorenzo (born 7 November 1977) is a retired tennis player from Spain.
Her highest
WTA ranking
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Iga Świątek is the current world No. 1.
Ranking method
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has been world No. 33, a position she achieved in April 2004.
She played two-handed on both sides, and her favourite surface was the
hardcourt
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, unusual for a Spanish tennis player.
At the
2005 French Open
The 2005 French Open was the 109th edition of the tournament.
On the men's side, Rafael Nadal, seeded fourth at his first French Open, was a strong favorite to win the singles title after winning the Monte Carlo and Rome Masters. Guillermo Coria ...
, Lorenzo defeated reigning champion
Anastasia Myskina
Anastasia Andreyevna Myskina ( rus, Анастасия Андреевна Мыскина ; born 8 July 1981) is a Russian former professional tennis player. Myskina won the 2004 French Open singles title, becoming the first Russian woman to wi ...
in three sets in the first round, which became the first time the reigning champ of the French Open lost in the first round.
WTA career finals
Singles: 3 (1 title, 2 runner-ups)
Doubles: 3 (3 runner-ups)
Performance timeline
ITF Circuit finals
Singles: 12 (9–3)
Doubles: 3 (1–2)
Top 10 wins
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1977 births
Living people
Spanish female tennis players
Sportspeople from Salamanca
20th-century Spanish women