Anabel Medina Garrigues

Anabel Medina

Medina Garrigues at the 2015 French Open
Full name	Ana Isabel "Anabel" Medina Garrigues
Country (sports)	Spain
Residence	Valencia, Spain
Born	31 July 1982 Valencia, Spain
Height	1.69 m (5 ft 6 ^1⁄2 in)
Turned pro	January 1998
Retired	Active
Plays	Right-handed (two-handed backhand)
Prize money	$ 5,889,758
Singles
Career record	478–351
Career titles	11 WTA, 6 ITF
Highest ranking	No. 16 (4 May 2009)
Grand Slam Singles results
Australian Open	4R (2002, 2009)
French Open	4R (2007)
Wimbledon	3R (2006, 2008, 2009)
US Open	3R (2005, 2007, 2011)
Doubles
Career record	423–278
Career titles	28 WTA, 3 ITF
Highest ranking	No. 3 (10 November 2008)
Current ranking	No. 26 (8 February 2016)
Grand Slam Doubles results
Australian Open	SF (2008)
French Open	W (2008, 2009)
Wimbledon	SF (2009)
US Open	SF (2008, 2012)
Olympic Games	Silver medal (2008)
Grand Slam Mixed Doubles results
Australian Open	SF (2009)
French Open	2R (2011)
Wimbledon	SF (2015)
US Open	SF (2013)
Team competitions
Fed Cup	18–16
Last updated on: 8 February 2016.

Ana Isabel "Anabel" Medina Garrigues (Spanish: [anaˈβel meˈðina ɣaˈriɣes], Valencian: [anaˈβɛɫ meˈðina ɣaˈriɣes]; born 31 July 1982) is a Spanish female tennis player. She reached a career high WTA Tour ranking of No. 16 on 4 May 2009, and has won 11 singles titles and 28 doubles titles, including the 2008 French Open and 2009 French Open with Virginia Ruano Pascual. Like many of her Spanish compatriots, she is a clay court specialist who grinds to win most of her rallies. However, unlike most of her fellow Spaniards, she prefers to play on hard courts. She won the WTA tournament in Strasbourg, France, beating Katarina Srebotnik in the final in May 2008, thus defending the title she won the previous year against Amélie Mauresmo. Her other singles titles came in Palermo in 2006, 2005, 2004 and 2001; Canberra in 2006; Strasbourg in 2005 and Fès in 2009.

Career

2008

Together with Virginia Ruano Pascual, she wins the French Open and the silver medal at the Summer Olympics.

2011

Anabel began 2011 by losing in the first rounds of 2011 ASB Classic, 2011 Australian Open, and 2011 Copa Sony Ericsson Colsanitas and the qualifying draw of 2011 Medibank International Sydney. She then reached her first semifinal in 9 months in the 2011 Abierto Mexicano Telcel with wins over 1st seed Julia Görges and 7th seed Carla Suárez Navarro before losing to Gisela Dulko in straight sets. In the 2011 BNP Paribas Open she defeated Tamira Paszek before losing to Maria Sharapova.

Garrigues then qualified for the 2011 Commonwealth Bank Tournament of Champions and reached the final, but she was defeated by defending champion Ana Ivanovic in two sets.

2012

Anabel reached the quarterfinal of Sony Swedish Open, Båstad, but lost to Johanna Larsson.^[1]

2014

At PTT Pattaya Open, Anabel lost in the first round to Alison Riske without winning a single game. She announced that the 2014 French Open would be her last tournament before retiring from singles tennis, though she would continue to play doubles. Anabel lost in the second in the second round of qualifying to Tereza Smitková in two sets, ending her singles career.

Significant finals

Grand Slam finals

Doubles: 2 (2 titles)

Outcome	Date	Championship	Surface	Partner	Opponents	Score
Winner	2008	French Open (1)	Clay	Virginia Ruano Pascual	Casey Dellacqua Francesca Schiavone	2–6, 7–5, 6–4
Winner	2009	French Open (2)	Clay	Virginia Ruano Pascual	Victoria Azarenka Elena Vesnina	6–1, 6–1

Olympic Games finals

Doubles: 1 (1 silver medal)

Outcome	Year	Championship	Surface	Partner	Opponents	Score
Silver	2008	Beijing	Hard	Virginia Ruano Pascual	Serena Williams Venus Williams	2–6, 0–6

Tournament of Champions finals

Singles: 1 (1 runner-up)

Outcome	Year	Championship	Surface	Opponent	Score
Runner-up	2011	Bali	Hard	Ana Ivanovic	3–6, 0–6

WTA Elite Trophy

Doubles: 1 (1 runner-up)

Outcome	Year	Tournament	Surface	Partner	Opponents	Score
Runner-up	2015	Zhuhai	Hard (i)	Arantxa Parra Santonja	Liang Chen Wang Yafan	4–6, 3–6

Premier Mandatory/Premier 5 finals

Doubles: 1 (1 runner-up)

Outcome	Year	Tournament	Surface	Partner	Opponents	Score
Runner-up	2005	Rome	Clay	Maria Kirilenko	Cara Black Liezel Huber	0–6, 6–4, 1–6

WTA career finals

Singles: 18 (11 titles, 7 runners-up)

Winner – Legend (pre/post 2010) Grand Slam tournaments (0–0) WTA Tour Championships (0–0) Tournament of Champions (0–1) Tier I / Premier Mandatory & Premier 5 (0–0) Tier II / Premier (0–0) Tier III, IV & V / International (11–6)

Titles by Surface Hard (1–5) Grass (0–0) Clay (10–2) Carpet (0–0)

Outcome	No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Opponent	Score
Winner	1.	15 July 2001	Internazionali Femminili di Palermo, Palermo, Italy	Clay	Cristina Torrens Valero	6–4, 6–4
Runner-up	1.	13 January 2002	Moorilla Hobart International, Hobart, Australia	Hard	Martina Suchá	6–7^(7–9), 1–6
Runner-up	2.	23 February 2003	Copa Colsanitas, Bogotá, Colombia	Clay	Fabiola Zuluaga	3–6, 2–6
Winner	2.	25 July 2004	Internazionali Femminili di Palermo, Palermo, Italy (2)	Clay	Flavia Pennetta	6–4, 6–4
Winner	3.	21 May 2005	Internationaux de Strasbourg, Strasbourg, France	Clay	Marta Domachowska	6–4, 6–3
Winner	4.	24 July 2005	Internazionali Femminili di Palermo, Palermo, Italy (3)	Clay	Klára Koukalová	6–4, 6–0
Winner	5.	13 January 2006	Richard Luton Properties Canberra International, Canberra, Australia	Hard	Yoon Jeong Cho	6–4, 0–6, 6–4
Winner	6.	23 July 2006	Internazionali Femminili di Palermo, Palermo, Italy (4)	Clay	Tathiana Garbin	6–4, 6–4
Runner-up	3.	1 October 2006	Guangzhou International Women's Open, Guangzhou, China	Hard	Anna Chakvetadze	1–6, 4–6
Winner	7.	26 May 2007	Internationaux de Strasbourg, Strasbourg, France (2)	Clay	Amélie Mauresmo	6–4, 4–6, 6–4
Runner-up	4.	4 May 2008	Grand Prix SAR La Princesse Lalla Meryem, Fès, Morocco	Clay	Gisela Dulko	6–7^(2–7), 6–7^(5–7)
Winner	8.	24 May 2008	Internationaux de Strasbourg, Strasbourg, France (3)	Clay	Katarina Srebotnik	4–6, 7–6^(7–4), 6–0
Runner-up	5.	27 July 2008	Banka Koper Slovenia Open, Portorož, Slovenia	Hard	Sara Errani	3–6, 3–6
Winner	9.	2 May 2009	Grand Prix SAR La Princesse Lalla Meryem, Fès, Morocco	Clay	Ekaterina Makarova	6–0, 6–1
Runner-up	6.	27 September 2009	Hansol Korea Open, Seoul, South Korea	Hard	Kimiko Date-Krumm	3–6, 3–6
Winner	10.	30 April 2011	Estoril Open, Estoril, Portugal	Clay	Kristina Barrois	6–1, 6–2
Winner	11.	17 July 2011	Internazionali Femminili di Palermo, Palermo, Italy (5)	Clay	Polona Hercog	6–3, 6–2
Runner-up	7.	5 November 2011	Commonwealth Bank Tournament of Champions, Bali, Indonesia	Hard (i)	Ana Ivanovic	3–6, 0–6

Doubles: 46 (28 titles, 18 runners-up)

Winner – Legend (pre/post 2010) Grand Slam tournaments (2–0) Olympic Games (0–1) WTA Tour Championships (0–0) WTA Elite Trophy (0–1) Tier I / Premier Mandatory & Premier 5 (0–1) Tier II / Premier (3–7) Tier III, IV & V / International (23–8)

Titles by Surface Hard (10–10) Grass (2–0) Clay (16–7) Carpet (0–1)

Outcome	No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Partner	Opponent	Score
Winner	1.	4 March 2001	Abierto Mexicano TELCEL, Acapulco, Mexico	Clay	María José Martínez Sánchez	Virginia Ruano Pascual Paola Suárez	6–4, 6–7^(5–7), 7–5
Winner	2.	8 April 2001	Porto Open, Porto, Portugal	Clay	María José Martínez Sánchez	Alexandra Fusai Rita Grande	6–1, 6–7^(5–7), 7–5
Winner	3.	6 May 2001	Croatian Bol Ladies Open, Bol, Croatia	Clay	María José Martínez Sánchez	Nadia Petrova Tina Pisnik	7–5 6–4
Runner-up	1.	15 July 2001	Internazionali Femminili di Palermo, Palermo, Italy	Clay	María José Martínez Sánchez	Tathiana Garbin Janette Husárová	6–4, 2–6, 4–6
Winner	4.	5 August 2001	Swiss Indoors, Basel, Switzerland	Clay	María José Martínez Sánchez	Joannette Kruger Marta Marrero	7–6^(7–5), 6–2
Runner-up	2.	23 February 2004	Copa Colsanitas, Bogotá, Colombia	Clay	Arantxa Parra Santonja	Jasmin Wöhr Barbara Schwartz	1–6, 3–6
Winner	5.	25 July 2004	Internazionali Femminili di Palermo, Palermo, Italy	Clay	Arantxa Sánchez Vicario	Ľubomíra Kurhajcová Henrieta Nagyová	6–3 7–6
Runner-up	3.	10 January 2005	Moorilla Hobart International, Hobart, Australia	Hard	Dinara Safina	Yan Zi Zheng Jie	4–6, 5–7
Runner-up	4.	7 February 2005	Open Gaz de France, Paris, France	Carpet	Dinara Safina	Iveta Benešová Květa Peschke	2–6, 6–2, 2–6
Runner-up	5.	14 February 2005	Proximus Diamond Games, Antwerp, Belgium	Hard	Dinara Safina	Cara Black Els Callens	6–3, 4–6, 4–6
Runner-up	6.	9 May 2005	Telecom Italia Masters, Rome, Italy	Hard	Maria Kirilenko	Cara Black Liezel Huber	0–6, 6–4, 1–6
Winner	6.	18 June 2005	Ordina Open, 's-Hertogenbosch, Netherlands	Grass	Dinara Safina	Iveta Benešová Nuria Llagostera Vives	6–4, 2–6, 7–6^(13–11)
Winner	7.	25 September 2005	Banka Koper Slovenia Open, Portorož, Slovenia	Hard	Roberta Vinci	Jelena Kostanić Katarina Srebotnik	6–4, 5–7, 6–2
Runner-up	7.	7 May 2006	J&S Cup, Warsaw, Poland	Clay	Katarina Srebotnik	Elena Likhovtseva Anastasia Myskina	3–6, 4–6
Runner-up	8.	13 January 2007	Moorilla Hobart International, Hobart, Australia	Hard	Virginia Ruano Pascual	Elena Likhovtseva Elena Vesnina	4–6, 5–7
Runner-up	9.	9 April 2007	Bausch & Lomb Championships, Amelia Island, United States	Clay	Virginia Ruano Pascual	Mara Santangelo Katarina Srebotnik	3–6, 6–7^(4-7)
Winner	8.	30 July 2007	Nordea Nordic Light Open, Stockholm, Sweden	Hard	Virginia Ruano Pascual	Chin-Wei Chan Tetiana Luzhanska	6–1, 5–7, 10–6
Winner	9.	11 January 2008	Moorilla Hobart International, Hobart, Australia	Hard	Virginia Ruano Pascual	Eleni Daniilidou Jasmin Wöhr	6–2, 6–4
Winner	10.	6 June 2008	French Open, Paris, France	Clay	Virginia Ruano Pascual	Casey Dellacqua Francesca Schiavone	2–6, 7–5, 6–4
Runner-up	10.	18 June 2008	Ordina Open, 's-Hertogenbosch, Netherlands	Clay	Virginia Ruano Pascual	Chan Yung-Jan Chuang Chia-Jung	5–7, 2–6
Winner	11.	27 July 2008	Banka Koper Slovenia Open, Portorož, Slovenia	Hard	Virginia Ruano Pascual	Vera Dushevina Ekaterina Makarova	6–4, 6–1
Runner-up	11.	17 August 2008	Summer Olympic Games, Beijing, China	Hard	Virginia Ruano Pascual	Serena Williams Venus Williams	2–6, 0–6
Winner	12.	28 September 2008	China Open, Beijing, China	Hard	Caroline Wozniacki	Han Xinyun Xu Yi-Fan	6–1, 6–3
Runner-up	12.	6 April 2009	Andalucia Tennis Experience, Marbella, Spain	Clay	Virginia Ruano Pascual	Klaudia Jans Alicja Rosolska	3–6, 3–6
Winner	13.	5 June 2009	French Open, Paris, France	Clay	Virginia Ruano Pascual	Victoria Azarenka Elena Vesnina	6–1, 6–1
Winner	14.	1 May 2010	Grand Prix SAR La Princesse Lalla Meryem, Fes, Morocco	Clay	Iveta Benešová	Lucie Hradecká Renata Voráčová	6–3, 6–1
Winner	15.	8 May 2010	Estoril Open, Estoril, Portugal	Clay	Sorana Cîrstea	Vitalia Diatchenko Aurélie Védy	6–1, 7–5
Runner-up	13.	11 July 2010	GDF Suez Grand Prix, Budapest, Hungary	Clay	Sorana Cîrstea	Timea Bacsinszky Tathiana Garbin	3–6, 3–6
Winner	16.	25 July 2010	Gastein Ladies, Bad Gastein, Austria	Clay	Lucie Hradecká	Timea Bacsinszky Tathiana Garbin	6–7^(2–7), 6–1, [10–5]
Winner	17.	19 February 2011	Copa Colsanitas, Bogotá, Colombia	Clay	Edina Gallovits-Hall	Sharon Fichman Laura Pous Tió	2–6, 7–6^(8–6), [11–9]
Winner	18.	10 July 2011	Budapest Grand Prix, Budapest, Hungary	Clay	Alicja Rosolska	Natalie Grandin Vladimíra Uhlířová	6–2, 6–2
Runner-up	14.	8 April 2012	Family Circle Cup, Charleston, United States	Hard	Yaroslava Shvedova	Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova Lucie Šafářová	7–5, 4–6, [6–10]
Winner	19.	1 March 2013	Brasil Tennis Cup, Florianópolis, Brasil	Hard	Yaroslava Shvedova	Anne Keothavong Valeria Savinykh	6–0, 6–4
Winner	20.	21 June 2013	Topshelf Open, 's-Hertogenbosch, Netherlands	Grass	Irina-Camelia Begu	Dominika Cibulková Arantxa Parra Santonja	4–6, 7–6^(7–3), [11–9]
Winner	21.	21 July 2013	Swedish Open, Båstad, Sweden	Clay	Klára Zakopalová	Alexandra Dulgheru Flavia Pennetta	6–1, 6–4
Runner-up	15.	24 August 2013	New Haven Open at Yale, New Haven, United States	Hard	Katarina Srebotnik	Sania Mirza Zheng Jie	3-6, 4-6
Winner	22.	28 February 2014	Brasil Tennis Cup, Florianópolis, Brazil	Hard	Yaroslava Shvedova	Francesca Schiavone Silvia Soler Espinosa	7–6^(7–1), 2–6, [10–3]
Winner	23.	6 April 2014	Family Circle Cup, Charleston, United States	Clay (green)	Yaroslava Shvedova	Chan Hao-ching Chan Yung-jan	7–6^(7–4), 6–2
Winner	24.	15 February 2015	Diamond Games, Antwerp, Belgium	Hard (i)	Arantxa Parra Santonja	An-Sophie Mestach Alison Van Uytvanck	6–4, 3–6, [10–5]
Winner	25.	23 May 2015	Nürnberger Versicherungscup, Nürnberg, Germany	Clay	Chan Hao-ching	Lara Arruabarrena Raluca Olaru	6–4, 7–6^(7–5)
Runner-up	16.	9 August 2015	Bank of the West Classic, Stanford, United States	Hard	Arantxa Parra Santonja	Xu Yifan Zheng Saisai	1–6, 3–6
Runner-up	17.	25 October 2015	BGL Luxembourg Open, Luxembourg City, Luxembourg	Hard (i)	Arantxa Parra Santonja	Mona Barthel Laura Siegemund	2–6, 6–7^(2–7)
Runner-up	18.	2 November 2015	WTA Elite Trophy, Zhuhai, China	Hard (i)	Arantxa Parra Santonja	Liang Chen Wang Yafan	4–6, 3–6
Winner	26.	27 February 2016	Mexican Open, Acapulco, Mexico	Hard	Arantxa Parra Santonja	Kiki Bertens Johanna Larsson	6–0, 6–4
Winner	27.	06 March 2016	Monterrey Open, Monterrey, Mexico	Hard	Arantxa Parra Santonja	Petra Martić Maria Sanchez	4–6, 7–5, [10–7]
Winner	28.	21 May 2016	Internationaux de Strasbourg, Strasbourg, France	Clay	Arantxa Parra Santonja	María Irigoyen Liang Chen	6–2, 6–0

Singles performance timeline

Tournament	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008	2009	2010	2011	2012	2013	2014	W–L
Australian Open	2R	4R	1R	3R	1R	1R	1R	2R	4R	1R	1R	3R	1R	1R	12–14
French Open	1R	A	A	2R	3R	3R	4R	3R	2R	2R	2R	3R	1R	A	15–11
Wimbledon	1R	A	A	1R	1R	3R	1R	3R	3R	1R	1R	2R	1R	A	7–11
US Open	1R	A	A	2R	3R	1R	3R	2R	2R	1R	3R	1R	1R	A	9-10
Win–Loss	1–4	3–1	0–1	4–4	4–4	4–4	5–4	6–4	7–4	1–4	3–4	5–4	0–4	0–1	43–46
Olympic Games
Summer Olympics	Not Held			1R	Not Held			1R	Not Held			1R	NH		0–3
Year-End Championship
WTA Tour Championships	Absent														0–0
Tournament of Champions	Not Held								RR	A	F	A	A	A	2–3
WTA Premier Mandatory Tournaments
Indian Wells	A			2R	3R	2R	1R	4R	1R	2R	2R	3R	3R	A	11–10
Miami	A			2R	2R	2R	2R	2R	4R	2R	4R	2R	1R	A	12–10
Madrid	Not Held								1R	3R	1R	3R	QF	1R	7–6
Beijing	Not Held				Not Tier 1				2R	1R	1R	1R	A	A	1–3
WTA Premier 5 Tournaments
Dubai	Not Held				Not Tier 1				3R	2R	A	No Premier 5			3–2
Rome	A		1R	A	2R	3R	QF	2R	1R	A	3R	3R	1R	A	11–9
Cincinnati	Not Held					Not Tier 1			A	1R	1R	2R	A	A	1–3
Montreal / Toronto	A				2R	2R	1R	A	1R	1R	2R	A	A	A	3–6
Tokyo	A								1R	1R	A	1R	A	A	0–3
Career Statistics
Overall Win–Loss	28–24	11–6	39–22	37–27	30–25	37–25	28–25	45–27	33–28	22–26	35–18	23–26	19–26	3–9	477–351
Year End Ranking	66	116	71	39	34	27	35	22	28	73	27	50	100

Team events

Mixed: 2 (1–1)

Outcome	No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Partner	Opponents	Score
Runner-up	1.	9 January 2007	Hopman Cup, Perth, Australia	Hard	Tommy Robredo	Nadia Petrova Dmitry Tursunov	0–2
Winner	1.	5 January 2013	Hopman Cup, Perth, Australia	Hard	Fernando Verdasco	Ana Ivanovic Novak Djokovic	2–1

Doubles performance timeline

Tournament	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008	2009	2010	2011	2012	2013	2014	2015	SR	W–L
Australian Open	A	A	2R	1R	1R	QF	1R	3R	SF	3R	1R	2R	1R	1R	2R	2R	0 / 14	16–13
French Open	A	1R	A	A	1R	2R	SF	QF	W	W	SF	3R	3R	1R	1R	3R	2 / 13	30–11
Wimbledon	A	1R	A	A	1R	3R	QF	3R	3R	SF	1R	2R	1R	1R	3R	3R	0 / 13	18–13
US Open	A	1R	A	A	2R	1R	A	3R	SF	3R	2R	3R	SF	3R	2R		0 / 11	19–11
Win–Loss	0–0	0–3	1–0	0–1	1–4	6–4	7–3	9–4	16–3	14–3	5–4	6–4	6–4	2–4	4–4	5–3	2 / 51	82–48
Olympic Games
Summer Olympics	A	Not Held			1R	Not Held			S	Not Held			1R	Not Held			0 / 3	4–3
Year-End Championship
Tour Championships	A	A	A	A	A	A	A	A	SF	A	A	A	A	A	A		0 / 1	0–1
WTA Premier Mandatory Tournaments
Indian Wells	A	A	A	A	A	2R	SF	QF	1R	1R	1R	1R	1R	QF	2R	1R	0 / 11	8–11
Miami	A	A	A	A	A	2R	QF	1R	1R	QF	A	SF	QF	2R	QF	1R	0 / 10	13–10
Madrid	Not Held									2R	2R	2R	2R	1R	SF	1R	0 / 7	5–7
Beijing	Tier IV			Tier II						2R	1R	QF	2R	2R	1R		0 / 6	5–6
WTA Premier 5 Tournaments
Dubai	NH	Tier II								SF	2R	A	No Premier 5			A	0 / 2	2–2
Doha	NH	Tier III			Tier II				1R	Not Held		NP5	QF	1R	A	NP5	0 / 3	0–3
Rome	A	A	A	1R	A	F	SF	1R	QF	A	A	QF	2R	1R	SF	1R	0 / 10	14–10
Montreal / Toronto	A	A	A	A	A	QF	A	1R	A	2R	SF	1R	A	A	1R		0 / 6	5–6
Cincinnati	Not Held				Tier III					A	2R	1R	1R	1R	QF		0 / 5	3–5
Tokyo	A	A	A	A	A	A	A	A	A	QF	1R	A	QF	A	A		0 / 3	2–3

References

1. "Hercog Digs Deep To Make Bastad SFs". Retrieved 2012-07-22.

External links

• Anabel Medina Garrigues at the Women's Tennis Association
• Anabel Medina Garrigues at the International Tennis Federation
• Anabel Medina Garrigues at the Fed Cup