Conchita Martínez

There is another tennis player with a similar name, Conchita Martínez Granados.

Inmaculada Concepción Martínez Bernat

Country	Spain
Residence	Barcelona, Spain and San Diego, United States
Born	16 April 1972 (1972-04-16) (age 39) Monzón, Huesca, Aragón, Spain
Height	1.70 m (5 ft 7 in)
Turned pro	1988
Retired	15 April 2006
Plays	Right-handed
Career prize money	U.S. $11,527,977
Singles
Career record	739–297
Career titles	33
Highest ranking	No. 2 (30 October 1995)
Grand Slam results
Australian Open	F (1998)
French Open	F (2000)
Wimbledon	W (1994)
US Open	SF (1995, 1996)
Doubles
Career record	414–232
Career titles	13
Highest ranking	No. 7 (11 January 1993)
Last updated on: 19 November 2009.

Olympic medal record
Women's Tennis
Silver	1992 Barcelona	Doubles
Silver	2004 Athens	Doubles
Bronze	1996 Atlanta	Doubles

This name uses Spanish naming customs; the first or paternal family name is Martínez and the second or maternal family name is Bernat .

Inmaculada Concepción ("Conchita") Martínez Bernat (born 16 April 1972) is a former professional tennis player from Monzón, Aragón, Spain. She is the only Spanish woman to have won the singles title at Wimbledon, when she beat Martina Navrátilová in the 1994 Women's Singles. She also was the singles runner-up at the 1998 Australian Open and the 2000 French Open. Martinez is currently the tournament director at the Andalucia Tennis Experience.

Playing style

Martínez used extreme topspin on her forehand and slower topspin and slice on her backhand. She was a patient baseliner who won matches by disrupting her opponents' rhythm through changes of spin, pace, depth, height, and angle. She was known for expending "plenty of time and energy securing the ball with which she had just won the previous point so she could serve it again,"^[1] a major irritant to her opponents.

Career

Born in Monzón, Martínez turned professional in 1988. At the age of just 16, she reached the fourth round at the French Open in her third professional tournament. She upset Lori McNeil en route. In 1989, her breakthrough year, Martínez beat Gabriela Sabatini to win the title at Tampa and won two other tournaments. She also reached the quarterfinals of the French Open, losing to Steffi Graf. She finished the year World No. 7. In 1990 and 1991, Martínez won a further six titles and again reached the quarterfinals at the French Open both years (losing to Graf in 1990 and Monica Seles in 1991).

The following year, Martínez was a silver medalist in doubles at the Olympic Games in Barcelona (partnering Arantxa Sánchez Vicario) and the runner-up in women's doubles at the French Open. Once again, she was a quarterfinalist at the French Open, losing a tight match with Sabatini. In 1992 she was runner up in Indian Wells and San Diego. In 1993, Martínez became the first Spanish woman since Lilí de Álvarez in 1928 to reach the semifinals at Wimbledon, where she lost to Graf 7–6, 6–3. Martínez beat Graf for the first & only time in her career, at a tournament in Philadelphia in the final. At the Italian Open, Martínez became the first Spaniard to win the tournament since de Álvarez in 1930. She again reached the quarterfinals at the French Open for the fifth year in a row, losing a 2 hour, 45 minute battle with Anke Huber 6–7, 6–4, 6–4.

Martínez reached the Wimbledon singles final in 1994 already beating Lindsay Davenport in the quarter final and Lori McNeil in the semi final where the third set went to 10–8, where she faced nine-time former Wimbledon champion Martina Navrátilová. Navrátilová's last Wimbledon triumph had come four years earlier, but many observers felt that the 37 year-old Czech-born American was the favourite going into the match given her long track record of success on grass courts, whereas Martínez's most significant tournament victories up to that time had been on slower-playing surfaces, particularly on clay courts. Martínez, however, won the match 6–4, 3–6, 6–3 and became the first Spanish woman ever to win Wimbledon. In 1995, Martínez was a semifinalist at all four Grand Slam tournaments and reached her career-high singles ranking of World No. 2. In the Australian Open she beat Lindsay Davenport in the semi-final before losing to Mary Pierce in the semi-final. At Wimbledon, she beat Sabatini in the quarterfinals before losing to Sánchez Vicario in the semifinals. She also had a new coach that year, Carlos Kimayer.

In 1996, Martínez became the only player to win the Italian Open singles title four consecutive years. She also partnered Sánchez Vicario to claim a women's doubles Olympic bronze medal in Atlanta, Georgia. Two years later, Martínez reached her second career Grand Slam singles final. She beat Lindsay Davenport in the semi-final in the Australian Open in 1998. She was defeated in the final of the Australian Open by Martina Hingis 6–3, 6–3. She also helped Spain win the Fed Cup that year, beating Patty Schnyder of Switzerland 6–3, 2–6, 9–7 in 3 hours, 19 minutes in the final.

In January 2000 in the Australian Open Conchita Martinez beat Elena Likhovsteva in the quarter final after Likhovsteva twice failed to serve for the match to reach the semi-final where she was beaten by Martina Hingis. Martínez reached the final of the French Open in 2000, where she lost to Mary Pierce 6–2, 7–5 after beating Sánchez Vicario in a semifinal. She also won the German Open, beating Hingis in a semifinal and Amanda Coetzer in the final. In 2001, Martínez was a runner-up in the women's doubles at the French Open (partnering Jelena Dokić). Martínez also reached the quarterfinals at Wimbledon for the first time in six years but lost to Justine Henin of Belgium. In 2003 Conchita reached her last grand slam quarter-final in the French Open losing to Kim Clijsters. Also that year she reached the final at Eastbourne losing to Chanda Rubin.

Martínez won her second Olympic silver medal in the women's doubles in 2004 in Athens, Greece (partnering Virginia Ruano Pascual). In 2005, Martínez won her first singles title in five years at Pattaya, Thailand, bringing her career total to 33 top-level singles titles, 9 of which were Tier I events, and 13 doubles titles. On 15 April 2006, aged 33 and after 18 years of playing professionally, she announced her retirement, having won more professional singles tournaments than any other Spanish female tennis player.

In 2008 Conchita expressed her delight on seeing Rafael Nadal win the Men's singles at Wimbledon saying It is a big boost for Spanish grass court tennis again with a Spanish player winning Wimbledon like after her win in Wimbledon in 1994

In 2008, 2009 and 2010 Conchita played at Wimbledon in the Ladies Invitations Doubles. In 2010 her partner in doubles was Nathalie Tauziat.

Major finals

Grand Slam finals

Singles: 3 (1–2)

Outcome	Year	Championship	Surface	Opponent in the final	Score in the final
Winner	1994	Wimbledon	Grass	Martina Navrátilová	6 – 4, 3 – 6, 6 – 3
Runner-up	1998	Australian Open	Hard	Martina Hingis	3 - 6, 3 - 6
Runner-up	2000	French Open	Clay	Mary Pierce	2 - 6, 5 - 7

Doubles: 2 (0–2)

Outcome	Year	Championship	Surface	Partner	Opponent in the final	Score in the final
Runner-up	1992	French Open	Clay	Arantxa Sánchez	Gigi Fernández Natasha Zvereva	3 - 6, 2 - 6
Runner-up	2001	French Open (2)	Clay	Jelena Dokić	Virginia Ruano Paola Suárez	2 - 6, 1 - 6

Titles (46)

Singles (33)

Legend Grand Slam Title (1) WTA Tour Championships (0) Tier I (9) Tier II (7) Tier III (5) Tier IV (8) Tier V (3)

Titles by Surface Hard (12) Clay (19) Grass (1) Carpet (1)

#	Date	Location	Surface	Opponent in Final	Score in Final
1.	8 August 1988	Sofia, Bulgaria	Hard	Barbara Paulus	6–1, 6–2
2.	6 February 1989	Wellington, New Zealand	Hard	Jo-Anne Faull	6–1, 6–2
3.	17 April 1989	Tampa, USA	Clay	Gabriela Sabatini	6–3, 6–2
4.	11 September 1989	Phoenix, USA	Hard	Elise Burgin	3–6, 6–4, 6–2
5.	17 September 1990	Paris, France (Clarins Open)	Clay	Patricia Tarabini	7–5, 6–3
6.	15 October 1990	Phoenix, USA	Hard	Marianne Werdel	7–5, 6–1
7.	5 November 1990	Indianapolis, USA (Jello Classic)	Hard	Leila Meskhi	6–4, 6–2
8.	22 April 1991	Barcelona, Spain	Clay	Manuela Maleeva-Fragniere	6–4, 6–1
9.	15 July 1991	Kitzbühel, Austria	Clay	Judith Wiesner	6–1, 2–6, 6–3
10.	16 September 1991	Paris, France (Clarins Open)	Clay	Inés Gorrochategui	6–0, 6–3
11.	6 July 1992	Kitzbühel, Austria	Clay	Manuela Maleeva-Fragniere	6–0, 3–6, 6–2
12.	4 January 1993	Brisbane, Australia	Hard	Magdalena Maleeva	6–3, 6–4
13.	22 March 1993	Houston, USA	Clay	Sabine Hack	6–3, 6–2
14.	3 May 1993	Rome, Italy	Clay	Gabriela Sabatini	7–5, 6–1
15.	26 July 1993	Stratton Mountain, USA	Hard	Zina Garrison	6–3, 6–2
16.	8 November 1993	Philadelphia, USA	Carpet	Steffi Graf	6–3, 6–3
17.	28 March 1994	Hilton Head Island, USA	Clay	Natasha Zvereva	6–4, 6–0
18.	2 May 1994	Rome, Italy	Clay	Martina Navratilova	7–6, 6–4
19.	20 June 1994	Wimbledon, London	Grass	Martina Navratilova	6–4, 3–6, 6–3
20.	31 July 1994	Stratton Mountain, USA	Hard	Arantxa Sánchez Vicario	4–6, 6–3, 6–4
21.	27 March 1995	Hilton Head Island, USA	Clay	Magdalena Maleeva	6–1, 6–1
22.	3 April 1995	Amelia Island, USA	Clay	Gabriela Sabatini	6–1, 6–4
23.	1 May 1995	Hamburg, Germany	Clay	Martina Hingis	6–1, 6–0
24.	8 May 1995	Rome, Italy	Clay	Arantxa Sánchez Vicario	6–3, 6–1
25.	31 July 1995	San Diego, USA	Hard	Lisa Raymond	6–2, 6–0
26.	7 August 1995	Manhattan Beach, USA	Hard	Chanda Rubin	4–6, 6–1, 6–3
27.	6 May 1996	Rome, Italy	Clay	Martina Hingis	6–2, 6–3
28.	28 October 1996	Moscow, Russia	Hard	Barbara Paulus	6–1, 4–6, 6–4
29.	11 May 1998	Berlin, Germany	Clay	Amélie Mauresmo	6–4, 6–4
30.	13 July 1998	Warsaw, Poland	Clay	Silvia Farina Elia	6–0, 6–3
31.	12 July 1999	Sopot, Poland	Clay	Karina Habšudová	6–1, 6–1
32.	8 May 2000	Berlin, Germany	Clay	Amanda Coetzer	6–0, 6–3
33.	31 January 2005	Pattaya, Thailand	Hard	Anna-Lena Grönefeld	6–3, 3–6, 6–3

Doubles (13)

1988: Sofia (with Barbara Paulus) 1992: Barcelona (with Arantxa Sánchez Vicario) 1993: Brisbane (with Larisa Neiland) 1993: Barcelona (with Arantxa Sánchez Vicario) 1996: San Diego (with Gigi Fernández) 1998: Hilton Head (with Patricia Tarabini) 1999: Amelia Island (with Patricia Tarabini)

1999: Tokyo Princess Cup (with Patricia Tarabini) 2000: Berlin (with Arantxa Sánchez Vicario) 2001: Amelia Island (with Patricia Tarabini) 2004: Dubai (with Janette Husárová) 2005: Charleston (with Virginia Ruano Pascual) 2005: San Diego (with Virginia Ruano Pascual)

Singles runner-ups (22)

Grand slam events in boldface.

1989: Geneva (lost to Manuela Maleeva-Fragniere) 1989: Bayonne (lost to Katerina Maleeva) 1992: Indian Wells (lost to Monica Seles) 1992: Boca Raton (lost to Steffi Graf) 1992: Hilton Head (lost to Gabriela Sabatini) 1992: San Diego (lost to Jennifer Capriati) 1993: Linz (lost to Manuela Maleeva-Fragniere) 1993: Barcelona (lost to Arantxa Sánchez Vicario) 1993: Essen (lost to Natalia Medvedeva) 1995: Delray Beach (lost to Steffi Graf) 1996: Indian Wells (lost to Steffi Graf)

1996: Hamburg (lost to Arantxa Sánchez Vicario) 1997: Rome (lost to Mary Pierce) 1997: Stanford (lost to Martina Hingis) 1998: Australian Open (lost to Martina Hingis) 1998: Amelia Island (lost to Mary Pierce) 2000: Gold Coast (lost to Silvija Talaja) 2000: Amelia Island (lost to Monica Seles) 2000: French Open (lost to Mary Pierce) 2002: Bali (lost to Svetlana Kuznetsova) 2003: Eastbourne (lost to Chanda Rubin) 2004: Charleston (lost to Venus Williams)

Singles performance timeline

Tournament	1988	1989	1990	1991	1992	1993	1994	1995	1996	1997	1998	1999	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	Career SR
Grand Slam Tournaments
Australian Open	A	2R	A	A	4R	4R	QF	SF	QF	4R	F	3R	SF	2R	2R	1R	1R	1R	0 / 15
French Open	4R	QF	QF	QF	QF	QF	SF	SF	SF	4R	4R	QF	F	3R	2R	QF	2R	1R	0 / 18
Wimbledon	A	A	A	A	2R	SF	W	SF	4R	3R	3R	3R	2R	QF	3R	3R	1R	3R	1 / 14
U.S. Open	1R	4R	3R	QF	1R	4R	3R	SF	SF	3R	4R	4R	3R	A	2R	2R	1R	1R	0 / 17
SR	0 / 2	0 / 3	0 / 2	0 / 2	0 / 4	0 / 4	1 / 4	0 / 4	0 / 4	0 / 4	0 / 4	0 / 4	0 / 4	0 / 3	0 / 4	0 / 4	0 / 4	0 / 4	1 / 64
Year-End Championship
Virginia Slims or Chase Championships	A	1R	QF	1R	QF	QF	QF	QF	QF	1R	1R	1R	QF	A	A	A	A	A	0 / 12
WTA Tier I Tournaments
Rome	-	-	QF	SF	A	W	W	W	W	F	3R	3R	A	SF	2R	QF	3R	QF	4 / 14
Berlin	-	-	QF	A	A	SF	A	A	A	3R	W	3R	W	QF	2R	1R	1R	3R	2 / 11
Charleston	-	-	QF	A	F	A	W	W	SF	SF	2R	3R	SF	SF	2R	3R	F	1R	2 / 14
Philadelphia	Not Tier I or Was Not Held					W	1R	QF	Not Tier I or Was Not Held										1 / 3
Boca Raton	-	-	-	2R	F	Not Tier I or Was Not Held													0 / 2
San Diego	Not Tier I or Was Not Held																3R	1R	0 / 2
Tokyo	Not Tier I or Was Not Held					A	A	QF	SF	QF	A	A	A	A	A	A	A	A	0 / 3
Moscow	Not Tier I or Was Not Held									SF	QF	1R	A	A	A	A	A	A	0 / 3
Miami	A	A	SF	A	A	A	A	A	A	A	4R	3R	4R	A	2R	A	A	A	0 / 5
Montreal/Toronto	-	-	A	A	A	A	A	A	A	SF	QF	3R	SF	A	A	A	A	3R	0 / 5
Zurich	Not Tier I or Was Not Held					A	A	A	2R	A	2R	A	A	A	SF	1R	A	1R	0 / 5
Indian Wells	Not Tier I or Was Not Held								F	QF	QF	3R	QF	2R	2R	SF	QF	QF	0 / 10
Chicago	-	-	A	Not Tier I or Was Not Held															0 / 0
Career statistics
Tournaments Won	1	3	3	3	1	5	4	6	2	0	2	1	1	0	0	0	0	1	33
Year End Ranking	40	7	11	9	8	4	3	2	5	12	8	15	5	35	34	18	42	32	N/A

A = did not participate in the tournament.

SR = the ratio of the number of Grand Slam singles tournaments won to the number of those tournaments played.

– = tournament either not held or was not classified as a Tier I event on the Women's Tennis Association tour at the time it was held.

WTA Tour career earnings

Year	Grand Slam singles titles	WTA singles titles	Total singles titles	Earnings ($)	Money list rank
1988–89	0	4	4	231,988	[n/a]
1990	0	3	3	248,184	17
1991	0	3	3	304,790	15
1992	0	1	1	445,768	11
1993	0	5	5	1,208,795	3
1994	1	3	4	1,540,167	2
1995	0	6	6	1,266,558	3
1996	0	2	2	1,111,401	6
1997	0	0	0	528,544	13
1998	0	2	2	903,131	10
1999	0	1	1	486,392	17
2000	0	1	1	1,067,930	6
2001	0	0	0	444,517	25
2002	0	0	0	329,316	37
2003	0	0	0	496,178	20
2004	0	0	0	395,880	31
2005	0	1	1	518,438	24
Career	1	32	33	11,527,977	18

Head-to-head record against other players

Martinez's win-loss record against certain players who have been ranked World No. 10 or higher is as follows:

Players who have been ranked World No. 1 are in boldface.

• Amanda Coetzer 15–3
• Magdalena Maleeva 11–1
• Chanda Rubin 9–3
• Nathalie Tauziat 8–2
• Patty Schnyder 8–3
• Natasha Zvereva 8–4
• Lindsay Davenport 8–9
• Katerina Maleeva 7–1
• Julie Halard-Decugis 7–2
• Zina Garrison 6–1
• Sandrine Testud 6–2
• Karina Habšudová 6–2
• Jelena Dokić 6–5
• Gabriela Sabatini 6–9
• Mary Pierce 6–12
• Ai Sugiyama 5–1
• Anna Kournikova 5–3
• Iva Majoli 5–4
• Martina Navratilova 4–1
• Irina Spîrlea 4–1
• Helena Suková 4–2
• Barbara Schett 4–2
• Brenda Schultz-McCarthy 4–2
• Barbara Paulus 4–2
• Mary Joe Fernandez 4–4
• Manuela Maleeva Fragniere 4–5
• Jennifer Capriati 4–6
• Arantxa Sánchez Vicario 4–14
• Stephanie Rehe 3–0
• Dominique Monami 3–1
• Elena Dementieva 3–2
• Daniela Hantuchová 3–3
• Lori McNeil 3–3
• Martina Hingis 3–11
• Andrea Temesvári 2–0
• Paola Suárez 2–0
• Catarina Lindqvist 2–0
• Francesca Schiavone 2–1
• Nadia Petrova 2–2
• Kimiko Date-Krumm 2–6
• Anke Huber 2–7
• Claudia Kohde-Kilsch 1–0
• Sylvia Hanika 1–0
• Jo Durie 1–0
• Bettina Bunge 1–0
• Kathy Rinaldi-Stunkel 1–0
• Marion Bartoli 1–0
• Dinara Safina 1–2
• Alicia Molik 1–2
• Anastasia Myskina 1–3
• Amélie Mauresmo 1–4
• Jana Novotná 1–4
• Kim Clijsters 1–5
• Steffi Graf 1–13
• Monica Seles 1–20
• Nicole Vaidišová 0–1
• Samantha Stosur 0–1
• Jelena Janković 0–1
• Svetlana Kuznetsova 0–2
• Chris Evert 0–2
• Venus Williams 0–3
• Serena Williams 0–5
• Justine Henin 0–7

See also

• Performance timelines for all female tennis players who reached at least one Grand Slam final

References

1. ^ Strange Habits of Highly Successful Tennis Players

External links

• Conchita Martínez at the Women's Tennis Association
• Conchita Martínez at the Fed Cup

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Name	Martinez, Conchita
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Date of birth	16 April 1972
Place of birth	Monzón, Huesca, Aragón, Spain
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