File:Suarez_Navarro_WM19_(11)_(48521709586).jpg · Wikimedia Commons · See Wikimedia Commons
Key facts
- Country sports
- Spain
- Residence
- Barcelona
- Born
- ( 1988-09-03 ) 3 September 1988 (age 37) , Las Palmas de Gran Canaria
- Height
- 1.62 m (5 ft 4 in)
- Plays
- Right (one-handed backhand)
- Coach
- Marc Casabo, Oscar Serrano
- Prize money
- US$ 11,920,116
- Career record
- 516–345
- Highest ranking
- No. 6 (29 February 2016)
- Australian open
- QF ( 2009 , 2016 , 2018 )
- French open
- QF ( 2008 , 2014 )
- Wimbledon
- 4R ( 2013 , 2016 , 2019 )
- Us open
- QF ( 2013 , 2018 )
- Olympic games
- 3R ( 2016 )
- Tour finals
- F ( 2015 )
- Fed cup
- 19–12
via Wikipedia infobox
Sports profile
- Sport
- Tennis
- Position
- Tennis Player
- Nationality
- Spain
via TheSportsDB
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Carla
- Family name
- Navarro
- Gender
- female
- Citizenship
- Spain
- Place of birth
- Las Palmas de Gran Canaria
- Occupation
- tennis player
- Languages spoken
- Spanish
- Participant in
- tennis at the 2020 Summer Olympics – women's singles
- Sport
- tennis
- Member of team
- Spain Billie Jean King Cup team
- Country for sport
- Spain
- Mass
- 62
- Image
- Suarez Navarro US16 (16) (29862666085).jpg
- Height
- 162
- Residence
- Barcelona
Show 10 more facts
- handedness
- right-handedness
- date of birth
- 1988-09-03
- singles record
- 516–346
- doubles record
- 138–122
- Commons category
- Carla Suárez Navarro
- ranking
- 104
- prize money
- 11920116
- birth name
- Carla Suárez Navarro
- start of work period
- 2003-00-00
- social media followers
- 95395
Sources (2)
via Wikidata · CC0
~11 min read
Encyclopedic overview
Carla Suárez Navarro ( Spanish pronunciation: [ˈkaɾla ˈswaɾeθ naˈβaro]; born 3 September 1988) is a Spanish former professional tennis player. A former top 10 singles player, she reached a career-high singles ranking of world No. 6 on 29 February 2016, and a best WTA doubles ranking of 11, on 27 April 2015, and won two singles and three doubles titles on the WTA Tour.
She first came to prominence by reaching the quarterfinals of the 2008 French Open as a qualifier, in what was her first appearance in the main draw of a Grand Slam tournament. That year she also began representing Spain in the 2008 Fed Cup. She reached another six Grand Slam quarterfinals in her career. These events were the 2009 Australian Open, where she defeated Venus Williams en route, the 2013 US Open, where she lost to eventual champion Serena Williams, the 2014 French Open, where she lost in three sets to Eugenie Bouchard, the 2016 Australian Open, where she lost to Agnieszka Radwańska, the 2018 Australian Open, where she was defeated by eventual champion Caroline Wozniacki, and the 2018 US Open, where she lost to Madison Keys.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Carla Suárez Navarro” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.