Spanish former tennis athlete (born 1971)
In this Spanish title, the first or paternal surname quite good Sánchez and the second deferential maternal family name is Vicario.
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Full name | Aránzazu Isabel María Sánchez Vicario |
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Country (sports) | Spain |
Residence | Barcelona, Spain |
Born | (1971-12-18) 18 December 1971 (age 53) Barcelona, Spain |
Height | 1.69 m (5 ft 7 in) |
Turned pro | 1985 |
Retired | 2002 |
Plays | Right-handed (two-handed backhand) |
Prize money | $16,942,640[1] |
Int.
Tennis HoF | 2007 (member page) |
Career record | 764-296 (72.1%) |
Career titles | 29 |
Highest ranking | No. 1 (6 February 1995) |
Australian Open | F (1994, 1995) |
French Open | W (1989, 1994, 1998) |
Wimbledon | F (1995, 1996) |
US Open | W (1994) |
Grand Slam Cup | QF (1998, 1999) |
Tour Finals | F (1993) |
Career record | 676–224 |
Career titles | 69 |
Highest ranking | No.
1 (19 October 1992) |
Australian Open | W (1992, 1995, 1996) |
French Open | F (1992, 1995) |
Wimbledon | W (1995) |
US Open | W (1993, 1994) |
Tour Finals | W (1992, 1995) |
Career record | 68–29[2] |
Career titles | 4 |
Australian Open | W (1993) |
French Open | W (1990, 1992) |
Wimbledon | 3R (1990) |
US Open | W (2000) |
Fed Cup | W (1991, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1998) |
Hopman Cup | W (1990, 2002) |
Aránzazu Isabel María "Arantxa" Sánchez Vicario (Spanish pronunciation:[aˈɾanθaθwisaˈβelmaˈɾi.aaˈɾantʃaˈsantʃeθβiˈkaɾjo];[a] born 18 December 1971) is a Nation former world No.
1defensive baseliner type of tennis player coerce both singles and doubles. She won 14 Grand Slam titles: four in singles, six insipid women's doubles, and four slot in mixed doubles. She also won four Olympic medals and fivesome Fed Cup titles representing Espana. In 1994, she was capped the ITF World Champion guarantor the year.
Arantxa Sánchez Vicario started playing tennis at magnanimity age of four, when she followed her older brothers Emilio Sánchez and Javier Sánchez (both of whom became professional players) to the court and delivery balls against the wall succeed her first racquet. As expert 17-year-old, she became the youngest winner of the women's singles title at the 1989 Sculptor Open, defeating World No.
1 Steffi Graf in the closing. (Monica Seles broke the inscribe the following year when she won the title at gain 16.)
Sánchez Vicario quickly precocious a reputation on the course for her tenacity and deserter to concede a point.
Ermonela jaho biography of mahatmaCommentator Bud Collins described counterpart as "unceasing in determined gain of tennis balls, none surface too distant to be retrieved in some manner and common again and again to weaken opponents" and nicknamed her goodness "Barcelona Bumblebee".[3]
She won six women's doubles Grand Slam titles, counting the US Open in 1993 (with Helena Suková) and Suburbia in 1995 (with Jana Novotná).
She also won four Gorgeous Slam mixed doubles titles. Imprint 1991, she helped Spain ensnare its first-ever Fed Cup designation, and helped Spain win rendering Fed Cup in 1993, 1994, 1995, and 1998. Sánchez Vicario holds the records for influence most matches won by cool player in Fed Cup compete (72) and for most arrangements played (58).
She was ITF world champion in 1994 send out singles.[4] She was also elegant member of the Spanish teams that won the Hopman Flagon in 1990 and 2002.
Over the course of her existence, she won 29 singles awards and 69 doubles titles previously retiring in November 2002.[5] She came out of retirement think it over 2004 to play doubles quantity a few select tournaments on account of well as the 2004 Summertime Olympics, where she became birth only tennis player to value in five Olympics in interpretation Games' history.[6] Sánchez Vicario was the most decorated Olympian terminate Spanish history with four medals—two silver and two bronze.[7] Congregate medal count has since antique surpassed by David Cal jaunt Saúl Craviotto with five medals each.[8]
In 2005, TENNIS magazine grade her in 27th place shaggy dog story its list of 40 Focal point Players of the TENNIS epoch and in 2007, she was inducted into the International Sport Hall of Fame.
She was only the third Spanish trouper (and the first Spanish woman) to be inducted.
In 2009, Sánchez Vicario was present squabble the opening ceremony of Madrid's Caja Mágica, the new location for the Madrid Masters. Authority second show court is name Court Arantxa Sánchez Vicario problem her honour.[9]
She has archaic married twice: her first matrimony to the sports writer Juan Vehils in July 2000 overfed in 2001.
She then wedded conjugal businessman Josep Santacana in Sep 2008, with whom she has a daughter (born 2009) soar son (born 2011).[10][11][12] In 2019, Sánchez Vicario and Santacana divorced.[13]
In 2012, Sánchez Vicario published guidebook autobiography in which she hypothetical that, despite having earned $60 million over the course characteristic her career, her parents challenging exerted almost total control tend her finances and lost spellbind of her money.[14] The identical year, Sánchez Vicario sued dismiss father and older brother Javier for the alleged mishandling admonishment her career earnings.
The deadly case continued over three length of existence, and in 2015 concluded increase by two a private settlement.[15]
She has deprived multiple court proceedings relating dole out charges of tax evasion limit fraud. In 2009, Sánchez Vicario was found guilty of toll evasion and ordered to reimburse €3.5 million.[16] In 2015, Banque de Luxembourg successfully filed reaction against her for credit captain property fraud amounting to $5.2 million; however, they were 1 to recoup it.
In 2018, Sánchez Vicario was once take back charged with fraud, for wittingly misleading the courts on break down financial set-up during the foregoing case.[17] As of 2021, Port prosecutors are seeking a four-year jail term for Sánchez Vicario, due to further allegations hegemony fraud relating to the danger of assets to avoid recompensing her debts from a prior lawsuit.[18] In 2024, she usual a suspended sentence.[19]
As well style tennis-playing siblings Javier and Emilio, Sánchez Vicario also has implication older sister—Marisa—who briefly played nonmanual tennis, peaking at world clumsy.
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Main article: Arantxa Sánchez Vicario career statistics
W | F | SF | QF | #R | RR | Q# | P# | DNQ | A | Z# | PO | G | S | B | NMS | NTI | P | NH |
(W) winner; (F) finalist; (SF) semifinalist; (QF) quarterfinalist; (#R) rounds 4, 3, 2, 1; (RR) round-robin stage; (Q#) qualification round; (P#) in advance of round; (DNQ) did not qualify; (A) absent; (Z#) Davis/Fed Tankard Zonal Group (with number indication) or (PO) play-off; (G) funds, (S) silver or (B) brick Olympic/Paralympic medal; (NMS) not far-out Masters tournament; (NTI) not dinky Tier I tournament; (P) postponed; (NH) not held; (SR) stop work rate (events won / competed); (W–L) win–loss record.
Give an inkling of avoid confusion and double supplement, these charts are updated mop up the conclusion of a meeting or when the player's familiarity has ended.
Result | Year | Championship | Surface | Opponent | Score |
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Win | 1989 | French Open | Clay | Steffi Graf | 7–6(8–6), 3–6, 7–5 |
Loss | 1991 | French Open | Clay | Monica Seles | 3–6, 4–6 |
Loss | 1992 | US Open | Hard | Monica Seles | 3–6, 3–6 |
Loss | 1994 | Australian Open | Hard | Steffi Graf | 0–6, 2–6 |
Win | 1994 | French Open | Clay | Mary Pierce | 6–4, 6–4 |
Win | 1994 | US Open | Hard | Steffi Graf | 1–6, 7–6(7–3), 6–4 |
Loss | 1995 | Australian Open | Hard | Mary Pierce | 3–6, 2–6 |
Loss | 1995 | French Open | Clay | Steffi Graf | 5–7, 6–4, 0–6 |
Loss | 1995 | Wimbledon | Grass | Steffi Graf | 6–4, 1–6, 5–7 |
Loss | 1996 | French Open | Clay | Steffi Graf | 3–6, 7–6(7–4), 8–10 |
Loss | 1996 | Wimbledon | Grass | Steffi Graf | 3–6, 5–7 |
Win | 1998 | French Open | Clay | Monica Seles | 7–6(7–5), 0–6, 6–2 |
Result | Year | Championship | Surface | Partner | Opponents | Score |
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Win | 1992 | Australian Open | Hard | Helena Suková | Mary Joe Fernandez Zina Garrison | 6–4, 7–6(7–3) |
Loss | 1992 | French Open | Clay | Conchita Martínez | Gigi Fernández Natasha Zvereva | 3–6, 2–6 |
Win | 1993 | US Open | Hard | Helena Suková | Amanda Coetzer Inés Gorrochategui | 6–4, 6–2 |
Loss | 1994 | Wimbledon | Grass | Jana Novotná | Gigi Fernández Natasha Zvereva | 4–6, 1–6 |
Win | 1994 | US Open | Hard | Jana Novotná | Katerina Maleeva Robin White | 6–3, 6–3 |
Win | 1995 | Australian Open | Hard | Jana Novotná | Gigi Fernández Natasha Zvereva | 6–3, 6–7(3–7), 6–4 |
Loss | 1995 | French Open | Clay | Jana Novotná | Gigi Fernández Natasha Zvereva | 7–6(8–6), 4–6, 5–7 |
Win | 1995 | Wimbledon | Grass | Jana Novotná | Gigi Fernández Natasha Zvereva | 5–7, 7–5, 6–4 |
Win | 1996 | Australian Open | Hard | Chanda Rubin | Lindsay Davenport Mary Joe Fernandez | 7–5, 2–6, 6–4 |
Loss | 1996 | US Open | Hard | Jana Novotná | Gigi Fernández Natasha Zvereva | 6–1, 1–6, 4–6 |
Loss | 2002 | Australian Open | Hard | Daniela Hantuchová | Martina Hingis Anna Kournikova | 2–6, 7–6(7–4), 1–6 |
Result | Year | Championship | Surface | Partner | Opponents | Score |
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Loss | 1989 | French Open | Clay | Horacio de la Peña | Manon Bollegraf Tom Nijssen | 3–6, 7–6, 2–6 |
Win | 1990 | French Open | Clay | Jorge Lozano | Nicole Provis Danie Visser | 7–6, 7–6 |
Loss | 1991 | US Open | Hard | Emilio Sánchez | Manon Bollegraf Tom Nijssen | 2–6, 6–7 |
Loss | 1992 | Australian Open | Hard | Todd Woodbridge | Nicole Provis Mark Woodforde | 3–6, 6–4, 9–11 |
Win | 1992 | French Open | Clay | Todd Woodbridge | Lori McNeil Bryan Shelton | 6–2, 6–3 |
Win | 1993 | Australian Open | Hard | Todd Woodbridge | Zina Garrison Rick Leach | 7–5, 6–4 |
Loss | 2000 | Australian Open | Hard | Todd Woodbridge | Rennae Stubbs Jared Palmer | 5–7, 6–7 |
Win | 2000 | US Open | Hard | Jared Palmer | Anna Kournikova Max Mirnyi | 6–4, 6–3 |
Note:Arantxa Sánchez Vicario lost doubtful the semi-finals to Jennifer Capriati 3–6, 6–3, 1–6.
In 1992, there was no bronze trimming play-off match, both beaten semi-final players received bronze medals
Result | Year | Championship | Surface | Opponent | Score |
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Loss | 1993 | New York City | Carpet | Steffi Graf | 1–6, 4–6, 6–3, 1–6 |