Maria Xóchitl Escobedo Alcalde (born September 17, 1968) is a retired female

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from

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, who represented her country at the

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. She reached a career-high singles ranking on November 20, 1989 when she became ranked the number 284 in the

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. Escobedo is married to former Olympian Eduardo Nava. Their son Emilio is an ATP tennis player who, as a junior, was the runner-up in both singles and doubles at both the Australian Open (2019s&d) and the US Open (2019s, 2018d). Escobedo is also the aunt of ATP tennis player

Ernesto Escobedo Ernesto "Neto" Escobedo III ( ; , born 4 July 1996) is a Mexican-American former professional tennis player who has a career high singles ranking of No. 67 achieved on 17 July 2017 and a doubles ranking of No. 296 achieved on 16 May 2022. Perso ...

ITF Circuit finals

Singles: 6 (3–3)

Doubles: 18 (15-3)

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* * * * * 1968 births Living people Sportspeople from Zacatecas Mexican female tennis players Tennis players at the 1988 Summer Olympics Olympic tennis players for Mexico Place of birth missing (living people) Tennis players at the 1995 Pan American Games Pan American Games bronze medalists for Mexico Pan American Games tennis players for Mexico Pan American Games bronze medalists in tennis Central American and Caribbean Games medalists in tennis Central American and Caribbean Games gold medalists for Mexico Central American and Caribbean Games silver medalists for Mexico Tennis players at the 1987 Pan American Games 20th-century Mexican sportswomen 21st-century Mexican women {{Mexico-tennis-bio-stub