Paola Suárez
Paola Suárez ( born June 23, 1976 in Pergamino ) is an Argentine tennis player.
Career
In her career Suárez won four singles titles on the WTA Tour; she won in 1998 and 2001 in Bogotá, 2003 in Vienna and 2004 in Canberra. In doubles, she brought it to 44 WTA titles, eight at Grand Slam tournaments. Only in her Wimbledon was denied a Grand Slam title.
As of 1991, Suárez played on the tour, worked steadily in the rankings to the top and reached 1996, the top 100 in the following years she could continue to improve and in 2000 she was number 37 your most successful period in the individual they had in the years 2003/2004, as she was able to keep in the top 20. Your highest position it reached Rank 9 in June 2004 for their best result at a Grand Slam tournament. At the French Open she defeated Elena Dementieva in the semifinals only with 0:6 and 5:7. Three times she also reached a quarter final in Paris in 2002, 2003 in New York and Wimbledon in 2004.
After disappointing results ( first round defeat at Roland Garros 2005) and injuries Suárez dropped back to position 238. After her early exit in Paris she denied in January 2006 in Auckland for the first time a play on the tour. However, they failed in the first round, the following tournaments were similar modest ( Erstrundenniederlagen many ), so they slipped in the rankings to No. 500.
Her biggest success in 2006 was the quarter-finals of 's- Hertogenbosch where she defeated the top 20 player Maria Kirilenko. During the American hard court season, she struck up quite well. In San Diego, they came up with victories over Dinara Safina and Kateryna Bondarenko to the knockout stages and only subject of the top ten player Patty Schnyder 3:6, 6:3, 1:6. In Los Angeles, she only reached round two. Most recently, she found herself at position 180 in the world rankings again.
Suárez was far more successful in doubles. She won 44 WTA titles, including at the Grand Slam tournaments at Roland Garros (2001, 2002, 2004, 2005), at the U.S. Open (2002, 2003, 2004) and the Australian Open (2004 ), all at the side of her long -time partner Virginia Ruano Pascual. 2002 Suárez was briefly the number one ranking in doubles. With Ruano Pascual together they formed in 2006, the fifth-best doubles pairing of the ladies.
Suárez ended her career on 1 September 2007, after losing in the mixed of the U.S. Open with her doubles partner Liezel Huber and Kevin Ullyett against Jamie Murray 5:7 and 4:6.
In 2012 she returned once on the tour with the aim to compete at the Olympic Games in London on the side of her compatriot Gisela Dulko in the doubles. There, the two separated, however, from existing in the first round. Your last match played Suárez in August 2012 at the WTA tournament in Cincinnati.