Arantxa Sánchez Vicario
Arantxa Sánchez Vicario (born the December 18th 1971 with Barcelona) is a Spanish player of Tennis , Professionnel of 1985 with 2002 and the number one world one with the classification WTA in 1995. During its career, it gained four tournaments of the Grand Slam into simple and six others in double.
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Its career
Arantxa Sánchez Vicario discovers tennis at the four years age, when it follows her two older brothers (Emilio and Javier) to the drive and slap of the balls on a wall with its first racket.
In 1989, it created the surprise by beating the German Steffi Graf, then uncontested with classification WTA and archi-favorite queen, at the time of the finale of Roland-Garros: with seventeen years and half, it becomes the youngest champion of the test.
Fine tactician and equipped with a leg movement out-par, it quickly forges a reputation of beating on the circuit, by her firm will to turn over all the attacks and her refusal to concede the least point with the adversary. Thus it is a time called the “bumblebee of Barcelona” .
It respectively carries out its most profitable season in 1994, when it takes down its second Roland-Garros and the US Open, vis-a-vis Mary Pierce and Steffi Graf, like six other tests. February 6th 1995, for the benefit of these results of exception, it becomes during twelve weeks number one world into simple then, the following week, number one in double: it is thus the first player since Martina Navrátilová in 1987 simultaneously to occupy the top of the hierarchy in the two disciplines.
Its fourth and the Major last, it tears off it in 1998, on the Parisian beaten ground, by dominating Monica Seles in fine .
In addition to six titles into double ladies and four in mixed double, Arantxa Sánchez was also finalist at least twice in each of the four liftings of the Grand Slam into simple.
In 1991, Arantxa Sánchez helped its country to gain the first Fed Cup of its history, beating the the United States finally. It was member of the victorious Spanish teams in 1993, 1994, 1995 and 1998.
It is finally particularly illustrated with the Olympic Games, by taking down two money medals and two bronze medals.
Eternal dauphine of Monica Seles and especially of Steffi Graf, it less did not gain of them some twenty-nine titles into simple and sixty-nine in double, which does of it one of the players most rewarded since the beginning of the Années 1970.
She married in 2002 with the sports correspondent Joan Vehils, which she divorces ten months later. Following this separation, she announces her sporting retirement; she will rejouera, in double exclusively, 2004 - 2005.
In 2005, Tennis Magazine placed it at the 27e place in its classification of the " 40 Larger Tennis players of the Open era ".
It is member of the International Tennis Hall off Famed since 2007.
Prize list Arantxa Sánchez Vicario
Large Slam
Cut of the Federation
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