Bárbara Gatica (born 16 August 1996) is a Chilean
tennis player.
She has career-high
WTA rankings of 201 in singles, achieved on 18 July 2022, and 158 in doubles, reached the same week. To date, Gatica has won two singles titles and 18 doubles titles on the
ITF Women's Circuit.
Playing for
Chile in
Fed Cup competition, Gatica has a win–loss record of 17–12 (doubles: 13–4).
In June 2022, Gatica was provisionally suspended from competing, after testing positive for
boldenone
Boldenone (developmental code name RU-18761), is a naturally occurring anabolic–androgenic steroid (AAS) and the 1(2)-dehydrogenated analogue of testosterone. Boldenone itself has never been marketed; as a pharmaceutical drug, it is used as ...
in April of that year.
In December, Gatica was fined $5,000 and banned from professional tennis for three years after she admitted to being paid to deliberately lose a match in 2016.
ITF Circuit finals
Singles: 10 (2 titles, 8 runner–ups)
Doubles: 38 (18 titles, 20 runner–ups)
References
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1996 births
Living people
Chilean female tennis players
Doping cases in tennis
Match fixing in tennis
Match fixers
Tennis players from Santiago
21st-century Chilean women
21st-century Chilean people
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