- Sara Errani
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Sara Errani Country Italy
Residence Bologna, Italy Born April 29, 1987
Bologna, ItalyHeight 1.64 m (5 ft 5 in) Turned pro 2002 Plays Right-handed (two-handed backhand) Career prize money US$ 1,229,146 Singles Career record 241–182 Career titles 2 WTA, 2 ITF Highest ranking No. 31 (February 23, 2009) Current ranking No. 47 (October 10, 2011) Grand Slam results Australian Open 3R (2009, 2010) French Open 2R (2011) Wimbledon 3R (2010) US Open 3R (2009, 2010) Doubles Career record 126–106 Career titles 8 WTA, 6 ITF Highest ranking No. 31 (January 17, 2011) Current ranking No. 32 (February 7, 2011) Last updated on: February 7, 2011. Sara Errani (born April 29, 1987 in Bologna, Italy), nicknamed "Poco Gigante", is a professional female tennis player from Italy. On February 23, 2009, she reached a new career high of No. 31 on the Tour rankings. She won her 2 WTA titles within two weeks, and also has 2 ITF Titles.
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Career
Early life and Junior career
Errani competed in her first event at the $10,000 Cagliari event in her native country of Italy where she lost to Sun Tiantian 6–1 6–0.
WTA
She is a Professional since 2002. Her first WTA title of her career was in the Internazionali Femminili di Palermo, where she defeated Mariya Koryttseva. On July 27, 2008, she captured her second career title in two weeks defeating Anabel Medina Garrigues 6–3, 6–3. She also won six doubles WTA titles.
In 2009, Errani was the runner-up at two WTA tournaments: in Palermo and Portoroz, as the defending champion in both.
With Italy she won the Fed Cup in 2009 and 2010.
In February 2011 she reached the final of the PTT Pattaya Open where she was defeated by Daniela Hantuchová.
WTA Career Finals
Singles: 5 (2–3)
Legend: Before 2009 Legend: Starting in 2009 Grand Slam tournaments (0/0) Olympic Gold (0/0) WTA Championships (0/0) Tier I (0/0) Premier Mandatory (0/0) Tier II (0/0) Premier 5 (0/0) Tier III (0/0) Premier (0/0) Tier IV (2/0) International (0/3) Titles by Surface Hard (1–2) Grass (0–0) Clay (1–1) Carpet (0–0) Outcome No. Date Tournament Surface Opponent in the final Score in the final Winner 1. July 13, 2008 Palermo, Italy
Clay Mariya Koryttseva
6–2, 6–3 Winner 2. July 27, 2008 Portorož, Slovenia
Hard Anabel Medina Garrigues
6–3, 6–3 Runner-up 1. July 19, 2009 Palermo, Italy
Clay Flavia Pennetta
6–1, 6–2 Runner-up 2. July 26, 2009 Portorož, Slovenia
Hard Dinara Safina
6–7(5), 6–1, 7–5 Runner-up 3. February 13, 2011 Pattaya City, Thailand
Hard Daniela Hantuchová
6–0, 6–2 Doubles: 13 (8–5)
Legend: Before 2009 Legend: Starting in 2009 Grand Slam tournaments (0/0) Olympic Gold (0/0) WTA Championships (0/0) Tier I (0/0) Premier Mandatory (0/0) Tier II (0/0) Premier 5 (0/0) Tier III (0/0) Premier (0/2) Tier IV (1/0) International (7/2) Titles by Surface Hard (2–2) Grass (1–0) Clay (5–2) Carpet (0–0) Outcome No. Date Tournament Surface Partner Opponent in the final Score in the final Winner 1. July 13, 2008 Palermo, Italy
Clay Nuria Llagostera Vives
Alla Kudryavtseva
Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova
2–6, 7–6(1), [10–4] Winner 2. June 19, 2009 's-Hertogenbosch, Netherlands
Grass Flavia Pennetta
Michaëlla Krajicek
Yanina Wickmayer
6–4, 5–7, [13–11] Runner-up 1. 22 February 2010 Acapulco, Mexico
Clay Roberta Vinci
Polona Hercog
Barbora Záhlavová-Strýcová
2–6, 6–1, [10–2] Winner 3. April 11, 2010 Marbella, Spain
Clay Roberta Vinci
Maria Kondratieva
Yaroslava Shvedova
6–4, 6–2 Winner 4. April 17, 2010 Barcelona, Spain
Clay Roberta Vinci
Timea Bacsinszky
Tathiana Garbin
6–1, 3–6, [10–2] Winner 5. July 17, 2010 Palermo, Italy(2)
Clay Alberta Brianti
Jill Craybas
Julia Görges
6–4, 6–1 Runner-up 2. 23 October 2010 Moscow, Russia
Hard (i) María José Martínez Sánchez
Gisela Dulko
Flavia Pennetta
6–3, 2–6, [10–6] Winner 6. January 15, 2011 Hobart, Australia
Hard Roberta Vinci
Kateryna Bondarenko
Līga Dekmeijere
6–3, 7–5 Winner 7. February 13, 2011 Pattaya City, Thailand
Hard Roberta Vinci
Sun Shengnan
Zheng Jie
3–6, 6–3, [10–5] Runner-up 3. April 10, 2011 Marbella, Spain
Clay Roberta Vinci
Nuria Llagostera Vives
Arantxa Parra Santonja
3–6, 6–4, [10–5] Runner-up 4. June 12, 2011 Birmingham, Great Britain
Grass Roberta Vinci
Olga Govortsova
Alla Kudryavtseva
1–6, 6–1, [10–5] Winner 8. July 16, 2011 Palermo, Italy(3)
Clay Roberta Vinci
Andrea Hlaváčková
Klára Zakopalová
7–5, 6–1 Runner-up 5. 27 August 2011 New Haven, United States
Hard Roberta Vinci
Chuang Chia-jung
Olga Govortsova
7–5, 6–2 External links
Women's Tennis Association: Top ten Italian female singles tennis players as of 19 September 2011.
1. Francesca Schiavone (8) · 2. Roberta Vinci (18
) · 3. Flavia Pennetta (23
) · 4. Sara Errani (40
1) · 5. Alberta Brianti (58
)
6. Romina Oprandi (9216) · 7. Camila Giorgi (153
1) · 8. Karin Knapp (159
) · 9. Maria Elena Camerin (163
18) · 10. Anna Floris (176
4)
Categories:- 1987 births
- Living people
- Italian female tennis players
- Olympic tennis players of Italy
- People from Bologna
- Tennis players at the 2008 Summer Olympics
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