Georgina García Pérez

Georgina García Pérez
Georgina García Pérez the Bucharest Open in 2018
Full name Georgina García Pérez
Country (sports)  Spain
Residence Barcelona, Spain
Born (1992-05-13) 13 May 1992
Barcelona, Spain
Height 1.87 m (6 ft 2 in)
Prize money $301,590
Singles
Career record 210–151
Career titles 0 WTA, 10 ITF
Highest ranking No. 128 (1 October 2018)
Current ranking No. 128 (1 October 2018)
Grand Slam Singles results
French Open 2R (2018)
Wimbledon Q1 (2017)
US Open Q3 (2018)
Doubles
Career record 121–87
Career titles 1 WTA, 12 ITF
Highest ranking No. 90 (20 August 2018)
Current ranking No. 90 (25 August 2018)
Grand Slam Doubles results
Wimbledon 2R (2018)
Team competitions
Fed Cup 1–1
Last updated on: 1 October 2018.

Georgina García Pérez (Spanish pronunciation: [ɟʝoɾˈʝina ɣaɾˈθi.a ˈpeɾeθ];[lower-alpha 1][1] born 13 May 1992 in Barcelona) is a Spanish tennis player.

She has won 1 doubles title, in 2 finals played, on the WTA Tour, and 10 singles and 12 doubles titles on the ITF tour. On 1 October 2018, she reached her best singles ranking of world number 128. On 20 August 2018, she peaked at world number 90 in the doubles rankings.

She hit the fastest serve on record at 220 km/h (136.7 mph) at the 2018 Hungarian Ladies Open in Budapest.

She represented Spain for the first time in the Fed Cup in 2018, where she has a 1-1 record, both played in doubles.

Professional career

2014 - 2016

After three years without stepping on a tennis court for personal reasons, Georgina returns to the circuit with renewed enthusiasm.

Only a few months after her re-debut, she achieved her first professional titles. During 2015, she achieved 2 ITF titles of $10,000, in Monzón and in Portugal.

Georgina García, adds another 3 ITF individual titles, plus 4 more titles in the doubles circuit, which leads her to debut in the WTA tour at the 2016 Copa Colsanitas, partnering Laura Pous Tió in doubles,[2] but lost her first round match against Nicole Melichar and Rebecca Peterson.[2]

2017

In 2017 he has premiered in Grand Slam disputing the qualification draw of Wimbledon, falling in 3 sets against the American Sachia Vickery. A wrist injury has prevented her from being active during the summer of 2017. At the end of 2017, Georgina returns to the courts with the intention of adding the points needed to play the preview of the Australian Open and she is only 1 week away. to be able to enter when winning the Pune tournament.

2018

In 2018 Georgina starts the season in the $60,000 ITF tournament of Adrezieux, in France, where she won the most important title of her career, defeating in the final the former top100, the Dutch, Arantxa Rus by a score of 6 -2 6-0. The week after that title, Georgina was summoned by the new captain Anabel Medina, for the first time in her career, to play a tie of the Tennis Federation Cup. It would be against Italy on February 10 and 11, where she played the doubles match, winning the Italian pair with María José Martínez.

After overcoming the previous phase in the WTA in Budapest, going up two matches against Naomi Broady and the vetaranissimo ex top 10 Patty Schnider, Georgina has played her first final table of a WTA level tournament where she has fallen in 2 sets (2-6 yrs. 4-6) against the Serbian Aleksandra Krunic. It should also be noted that in the 2nd match of qualifying, Georgina took 220 km / h, which is the fastest service in the history of women's tennis and has yet to be verified by the WTA. In the same tournament, in the modality of doubles, Georgina manages to conquer her first WTA title with her partner, the local tennis player, Fanny Stollár. They won in a tough game, with a comeback included, in the supertiebreak at number 1 of the draw, the pair formed by the Swedish Johanna Larsson and the Belgian Kirsten Flipkens. In May, a couple of months after her first WTA title in doubles, she returns to play another final with the same couple, the Hungarian Fanny Stollár falling in the final of the Rabat tournament against the Russian Anna Blinkova and the Romanian, specialist of doubles, Raluca Olaru.

After the good start of the season, Georgina receives a Wild Card (WC) to play for the first time in the main draw of the Mutua Madrid Open. She disputed her first-round match against Croatian player Donna Vekic with which she finally lost 6-2 6-4.

In June, she managed to overcome the previous phase of 2018 French Open and achieved her first victory in a Grand Slam after defeating the Slovenian Dalila Jakupović. This victory led him to contest the second round against the favorite number 2 and winner this year of the Australian Open, the Danish Caroline Wozniacki.

In July, Georgina could not play the singles preview at Wimbledon for very few, but she did it in the doubles along with her Hungarian partner Fanny Stollár. With it they achieve the first victory in a final table of doubles of a tournament of Great Slam defeating the Luxembourger Mandy Minella and the Latvian Anastasija Sevastova. They would lose in the second round before which in the end they would be the finalists of Wimbledon, the American Nicole Melichar and the Czech Kveta Peschke.

In August, he makes his first appearance at the US Open. Access to the qualifying stage by reaching the 3rd and final round where she could not overcome the Czech Marie Bouzkova.

WTA career finals

Doubles: 2 (1 title, 1 runner-up)

Winner – Legend
Grand Slam tournaments (0–0)
WTA Tour Championships (0–0)
Premier Mandatory & Premier 5 (0–0)
Premier (0–0)
International (1–1)
Titles by Surface
Hard (1–0)
Grass (0–0)
Clay (0–1)
Carpet (0–0)
Result W–L Date Tournament Tier Surface Partner Opponents Score
Win 1–0 Feb 2018 Hungarian Ladies Open, Hungary International Hard (i) Hungary Fanny Stollár Belgium Kirsten Flipkens
Sweden Johanna Larsson
4–6, 6–4, [10–3]
Loss 1–1 May 2018 Morocco Open, Morocco International Clay Hungary Fanny Stollár Russia Anna Blinkova
Romania Raluca Olaru
4–6, 4–6

ITF finals (22–16)

Singles (10–6)

Legend
$100,000 tournaments
$75,000 tournaments
$50,000 tournaments
$25,000 tournaments
$15,000 tournaments
$10,000 tournaments
Finals by surface
Hard (5–2)
Clay (5–2)
Grass (0–0)
Carpet (0–1)
Result No. Date Category Tournament Surface Opponent Score
Runner-up 1. 11 May 2009 $10,000 Fuerteventura, Spain Carpet Germany Lena-Marie Hofmann 5–7, 4–6
Runner-up 2. 23 June 2014 $10,000 Melilla, Spain Hard Spain Lucía Cervera Vázquez 6–4, 6–7(5–7), 6–7(14–16)
Runner-up 3. 13 April 2015 $10,000 Ponta Delgada, Portugal Hard France Julie Coin 0–6, 1–6
Winner 1. 20 April 2015 $10,000 Ponta Delgada, Portugal Hard Netherlands Kelly Versteeg 6–2, 6–1
Winner 2. 11 May 2015 $10,000 Monzón, Spain Hard Spain Cristina Sánchez Quintanar 6–4, 6–2
Runner-up 4. 31 August 2015 $15,000 Barcelona, Spain Clay France Myrtille Georges 3–6, 6–7(3–7)
Winner 3. 22 August 2016 $25,000 Bükfürdő, Hungary Clay Czech Republic Gabriela Pantůčková 6–3, 6–0
Winner 4. 31 October 2016 $10,000 Casablanca, Morocco Clay Oman Fatma Al-Nabhani 6–4, 3–6, 6–2
Winner 5. 14 November 2016 $10,000 Rabat, Morocco Clay Oman Fatma Al-Nabhani 6–3, 2–6, 6–1
Winner 6. 12 February 2017 $15,000 Hammamet, Tunisia Clay Switzerland Jil Teichmann 7–5, 6–2
Runner-up 5. 23 April 2017 $25,000 Pula, Italy Clay Russia Valentyna Ivakhnenko 5–7, 3–6
Runner-up 6. 6 May 2017 $25,000 Lleida, Spain Clay Spain Olga Sáez Larra 4–6, 6–7(6–8)
Winner 7. 12 May 2017 $25,000 Monzón, Spain Hard Czech Republic Marie Bouzková 6–1, 6–3
Winner 8. 21 May 2017 $25,000 La Bisbal d'Empordà, Spain Clay Spain Estrella Cabeza Candela 6–2, 0–6, 6–4
Winner 9. 15 December 2017 $25,000 Pune, India Hard United Kingdom Katy Dunne 6–4, 7–5
Winner 10. 28 January 2018 $60,000 Andrézieux-Bouthéon, France Hard (i) Netherlands Arantxa Rus 6–2, 6–0

Doubles (12–10)

Legend
$100,000 tournaments
$75,000 tournaments
$50,000 tournaments
$25,000 tournaments
$15,000 tournaments
$10,000 tournaments
Finals by surface
Hard (4–4)
Clay (8–5)
Grass (0–0)
Carpet (0–1)
Result No. Date Category Tournament Surface Partner Opponents Score
Runner-up 1. 11 May 2009 $10,000 Fuerteventura, Spain Carpet Belgium Majoly De Wilde United Kingdom Danielle Brown
United Kingdom Elizabeth Thomas
4–6, 4–6
Runner-up 2. 12 July 2010 $10,000 Cáceres, Spain Hard Germany Kim Grajdek Australia Jade Hopper
France Victoria Larrière
5–7, 4–6
Runner-up 3. 5 September 2011 $10,000 Madrid, Spain Hard Spain Rocío de la Torre Sánchez United Kingdom Anna Fitzpatrick
United Kingdom Jade Windley
6–1, 0–6, [8–10]
Runner-up 4. 19 September 2011 $10,000 Madrid, Spain Hard Spain Rocío de la Torre Sánchez Italy Evelyn Mayr
Italy Julia Mayr
1–6, 4–6
Winner 1. 26 September 2011 $25,000 Madrid, Spain Clay Spain Rocío de la Torre Sánchez Netherlands Kiki Bertens
Belgium Elyne Boeykens
5–7, 6–4, [10–8]
Winner 2. 10 November 2014 $10,000 Casablanca, Morocco Clay Spain Olga Parres Azcoitia Croatia Tea Faber
Croatia Silvia Njirić
6–2, 6–4
Winner 3. 17 November 2014 $10,000 Casablanca, Morocco Clay Spain Olga Parres Azcoitia United Kingdom Manisha Foster
Switzerland Lisa Sabino
1–6, 7–6(7–2), [10–7]
Runner-up 5. 20 April 2015 $10,000 Ponta Delgada, Portugal Hard Spain Olga Parres Azcoitia Portugal Maria Palhoto
Ecuador Charlotte Römer
5–7, 6–3, [0–10]
Winner 4. 11 May 2015 $10,000 Monzón, Spain Hard Spain Olga Parres Azcoitia Turkey Başak Eraydın
United Kingdom Francesca Stephenson
6–4, 6–2
Runner-up 6. 29 February 2016 $10,000 Tarragona, Spain Clay Spain Olga Sáez Larra Romania Irina Maria Bara
Ukraine Alyona Sotnikova
5–7, 6–3, [8–10]
Runner-up 7. 21 March 2016 $10,000 Le Havre, France Clay (i) Latvia Diāna Marcinkēviča United States Bernarda Pera
United States Sabrina Santamaria
2–6, 2–6
Winner 5. 4 July 2016 $100,000 Budapest, Hungary Clay Bosnia and Herzegovina Ema Burgić Bucko Czech Republic Lenka Kunčíková
Czech Republic Karolína Stuchlá
6–4, 2–6, [12–10]
Runner-up 8. 1 August 2016 $25,000 Plzeň, Czech Republic Clay Bosnia and Herzegovina Ema Burgić Bucko Poland Katarzyna Kawa
Sweden Cornelia Lister
1–6, 6–7(6–8)
Winner 6. 22 August 2016 $25,000 Bükfürdő, Hungary Clay Hungary Fanny Stollár Hungary Dalma Gálfi
Hungary Réka Luca Jani
6–3, 7–6(7–4)
Winner 7. 29 August 2016 $25,000 Barcelona, Spain Clay Venezuela Andrea Gámiz Italy Alice Matteucci
Switzerland Jil Teichmann
6–2, 7–5
Winner 8. 26 September 2016 $25,000 Clermont-Ferrand, France Hard (i) Spain Olga Sáez Larra France Manon Arcangioli
Croatia Silvia Njirić
6–2, 3–6, [10–2]
Runner-up 9. 31 October 2016 $10,000 Casablanca, Morocco Clay Bulgaria Julia Stamatova Romania Daiana Negreanu
Romania Oana Georgeta Simion
5–7, 7–5, [12–10]
Winner 9. 15 April 2017 $25,000 Pula, Italy Clay United States Bernarda Pera Italy Cristiana Ferrando
Italy Camilla Rosatello
6–4, 6–3
Winner 10. 6 May 2017 $25,000 Lleida, Spain Clay Venezuela Andrea Gámiz Belarus Vera Lapko
Bulgaria Aleksandrina Naydenova
6–1, 4–6, [10–8]
Winner 11. 12 May 2017 $25,000 Monzón, Spain Hard Venezuela Andrea Gámiz Georgia (country) Sofia Shapatava
Ukraine Valeriya Strakhova
6–3, 6–4
Runner-up 10. 26 November 2017 $25,000 Valencia, Spain Clay Venezuela Andrea Gámiz Spain Cristina Bucșa
Russia Yana Sizikova
6–7(1–7), 6–7(5–7)
Winner 12. 24 December 2017 $25,000 Navi Mumbai, India Hard Latvia Diāna Marcinkēviča India Pranjala Yadlapalli
Slovenia Tamara Zidanšek
6–0, 6–1

Grand Slam performance timeline

Singles

Tournament20172018SRW–LWin%
Grand Slam tournaments
Australian Open A A 0 / 0 0–0   
French Open A 2R 0 / 1 1–1 50%
Wimbledon Q1 A 0 / 0 0–0   
US Open A Q3 0 / 0 0–0   
Win–Loss 0–0 1–1 0 / 1 1–1 50%
Career statistics
Tournaments played 0 7 7
Titles 0 0 0
Finals 0 0 0
Hard Win–Loss 0–0 1–3 0 / 3 1–3 25%
Clay Win–Loss 0–0 1–4 0 / 4 1–4 20%
Grass Win–Loss 0–0 0–0 0 / 0 0–0   
Carpet Win–Loss 0–0 0–0 0 / 0 0–0   
Overall Win–Loss 0–0 2–7 0 / 7 2–7 22%
Win %    22% 22%
Year-end ranking 244 $306,381

Doubles

Tournament20172018W–L
Australian Open A A 0–0
French Open A A 0–0
Wimbledon A 2R 1–1
US Open A 0–0
Win–Loss 0–0 1–1 1–1

Notes

  1. In isolation, García is pronounced [ɡaɾˈθi.a].

References

  1. https://as.com/tenis/2018/01/31/mas_tenis/1517403432_008019.html#
  2. 1 2 "Claro Open Colsanitas" (PDF). Women's Tennis Association. Archived from the original (PDF) on 11 April 2016. Retrieved 12 April 2016.
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