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

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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)

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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 {{Chile-tennis-bio-stub