Nuria Párrizas Díaz (born 15 July 1991) is a
Spanish
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professional
tennis
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player. She has been
ranked
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as high as world No. 45 in singles by the
Women's Tennis Association
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(WTA), which she first achieved in March 2022, and 320 in doubles, attained in September 2022.
Career
Early years
Párrizas Díaz started playing tennis when she was six years old. Until the age of 14, she trained in her hometown. At that age, the Andalusian Tennis Federation awarded her a scholarship to train at their facilities in
Seville
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and compete throughout Spain in the children's and cadet tournaments.
2007–2016: Professional debut, injury and hiatus
At the age of 16, she began to play in the Futures tournaments, both nationally and internationally. Párrizas Díaz then relocated to live and train in Barcelona, at the Hispano Francés Academy.
However, due to a lack of professional support, she decided to return to
Granada
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where she continued training and attending ITF tournaments, until she was 22 years old when she went to train in Italy. A major shoulder injury caused her career to come to a halt when she was among the top 300 in the
WTA rankings.
At 24 years old, the doctors suggested to Párrizas Díaz to retire from tennis. However, she managed to recover, and despite not having sponsors, she looked for a way to compete professionally.
2017–2019: Return to tour, two ITF Circuit titles
After her return in 2017, she won about a dozen ITF tournaments and also played in club leagues in Spain (Stadium Casablanca), Italy (Rocco Polimeni) and Germany (Esslingen).
In 2019, Párrizas Díaz decided to go back to training in Valencia to boost her career. She had a good year, already settled in $25k tournaments and above of the
ITF Women's Circuit
The ITF Women's World Tennis Tour, previously known as the ITF Women's Circuit, is a series of professional tennis tournaments run by the International Tennis Federation for female professional tennis players.
History
It serves as a developmenta ...
, where she managed to add two titles of that level (the first of this level) and get very close to the top 200.
2020–2021: WTA, top 100 and major debuts
In January 2020, Párrizas Díaz participated in her first Grand Slam event after years of battle when she played in the qualifying competition for the
Australian Open
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.
In April 2021, Párrizas Díaz qualified for the
Copa Colsanitas
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tournament, with two solid wins. This would be her first main-draw appearance at the WTA-level.
In July, she won her biggest title to date at the
WTA 125
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Sometimes called the WTA Challenger tour (analogous to the men's ATP Challenger Series), Swedish Open
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on outdoor clay courts in July.
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The women's event (sponsored by ...
in Bastad, defeating
Olga Govortsova
Olga Alekseyevna Govortsova ( (Volha Alyakseyeuna Havartsova); ; born 23 August 1988) is a Belarusian professional tennis player. On 23 June 2008, she achieved a career-high singles ranking of world No. 35. On 29 August 2011, she peaked at No. 2 ...
in the final. As a result, she reached a new career-high of No. 108.
In August, she won her biggest
ITF title at the $100k
Tennis Challenge in Landisville, Pennsylvania. As a result, she entered the top 100 at world No. 96, on 16 August 2021.
She qualified for a
Grand Slam tournament main draw at the
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for the first time in her career.
Finally in September, Párrizas Díaz won her second WTA 125 title at the
Columbus Challenger
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The United States of America (USA ...
, the inaugural women's version of the event. She defeated
Wang Xinyu
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in the final, achieving a new career-high ranking of No. 73. She lost to Wang in the doubles final.
2022–2025: Two Australian Open third rounds, top 50 debut
Párrizas Díaz reached the third round of a Grand Slam championship for the first time in her career at the
2022 Australian Open
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, where she lost to 21st seed
Jessica Pegula
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. As a result, she made her top-50 debut on 7 February 2022.
She reached the third round of a major for the second time in her career at the
2023 Australian Open
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defeating 14th seed
Beatriz Haddad Maia
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and
Anastasia Potapova
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, before going out against
Donna Vekić
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.
Párrizas Díaz was runner-up at the
2024 Zavarovalnica Sava Ljubljana, losing to
Jil Teichmann
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Teichmann has won two titles in singles ...
in the final.
She won her fourth WTA 125 title at the
2025 Valencia Open, defeating
Louisa Chirico
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Chirico has won seven singles titles ...
in the final.
Performance timeline
''Only main-draw results in WTA Tour, Grand Slam tournaments, Fed Cup/Billie Jean King Cup and Olympic Games are included in win–loss records.''
Singles
''Current through the
2024 Wimbledon Championships
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WTA Challenger finals
Singles: 5 (4 titles, 1 runner-up)
Doubles: 1 (runner-up)
ITF Circuit finals
Singles: 40 (24 titles, 16 runner–ups)
Doubles: 9 (3 titles, 6 runner–ups)
Notes
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1991 births
Living people
Spanish female tennis players
Sportspeople from Granada
Tennis players from Andalusia
21st-century Spanish sportswomen