Saana Saarteinen (born 11 February 1993) is a Finnish

tennis 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 ...

and

padel Padel ( es, Pádel) is a racket sport typically played in doubles on an enclosed court slightly smaller than a doubles tennis court. Scoring is the same as normal tennis, and the balls used are similar but with a little less pressure. The main ...

player.

Career

Saarteinen was born in

Tampere Tampere ( , , ; sv, Tammerfors, ) is a city in the Pirkanmaa region, located in the western part of Finland. Tampere is the most populous inland city in the Nordic countries. It has a population of 244,029; the urban area has a population o ...

. On 11 October 2010, she reached her best singles ranking of world number 1083. On 18 July 2011, she peaked at world number 929 in the doubles rankings. Saarteinen has a 0–1 record for

Finland Finland ( fi, Suomi ; sv, Finland ), officially the Republic of Finland (; ), is a Nordic country in Northern Europe. It shares land borders with Sweden to the northwest, Norway to the north, and Russia to the east, with the Gulf of B ...

Fed Cup The Billie Jean King Cup (or the BJK Cup) is the premier international team competition in women's tennis, launched as the Federation Cup in 1963 to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the International Tennis Federation (ITF). The name was cha ...

competition. Saana Saarteinen's great-grandfather was the Finnish track and field athlete

Eino Seppälä Eino Seppälä (11 November 1896 – 4 April 1968) was a Finnish track and field athlete. He was born in Virolahti Virolahti (; sv, Vederlax) is the southeasternmost municipality of Finland on the border of Russia. It is located in the Kyme ...

Fed Cup participation

Doubles

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* * * 1993 births Living people Sportspeople from Tampere Finnish female tennis players University of Tulsa alumni Tulsa Golden Hurricane women's tennis players Finnish expatriate tennis players in the United States 21st-century Finnish women 21st-century Finnish people European Games competitors for Finland Padel players at the 2023 European Games Female tennis players playing padel {{Finland-tennis-bio-stub