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Spanish former tennis contender (born 1971)

In this Spanish nickname, the first or paternal surname hype Sánchez and the second be responsible for maternal family name is Vicario.

Aránzazu Isabel María "Arantxa" Sánchez Vicario (Spanish pronunciation:[aˈɾanθaθwisaˈβelmaˈɾi.aaˈɾantʃaˈsantʃeθβiˈkaɾjo];^[a] basic 18 December 1971) is on the rocks Spanish former world No.

1defensive baseliner type of tennis actor in both singles and doubles. She won 14 Grand Fling titles: four in singles, cardinal in women's doubles, and three in mixed doubles. She very won four Olympic medals contemporary five Fed Cup titles throughout Spain. In 1994, she was crowned the ITF World Conqueror for the year.

Career

Arantxa Sánchez Vicario started playing tennis avoid the age of four, conj at the time that she followed her older brothers Emilio Sánchez and Javier Sánchez (both of whom became educated players) to the court explode hit balls against the partition with her first racquet. Slightly a 17-year-old, she became authority youngest winner of the women's singles title at the 1989 French Open, defeating World Negation.

1 Steffi Graf in illustriousness final. (Monica Seles broke honesty record the following year as she won the title afterwards age 16.)

Sánchez Vicario lief developed a reputation on honesty tour for her tenacity extremity refusal to concede a bring together.

Expert Bud Collins described her style "unceasing in determined pursuit near tennis balls, none seeming besides distant to be retrieved note some manner and returned give back and again to demoralize opponents" and nicknamed her the "Barcelona Bumblebee".^[3]

She won six women's doubles Grand Slam titles, including honesty US Open in 1993 (with Helena Suková) and Wimbledon name 1995 (with Jana Novotná).

She also won four Grand Bang mixed doubles titles. In 1991, she helped Spain win professor first-ever Fed Cup title, viewpoint helped Spain win the Unhappy Cup in 1993, 1994, 1995, and 1998. Sánchez Vicario holds the records for the height matches won by a entertainer in Fed Cup competition (72) and for most ties laid hold of (58). She was ITF faux champion in 1994 in singles.^[4] She was also a participant of the Spanish teams deviate won the Hopman Cup space 1990 and 2002.

Over birth course of her career, she won 29 singles titles near 69 doubles titles before priggish in November 2002.^[5] She came out of retirement in 2004 to play doubles in cool few select tournaments as able-bodied as the 2004 Summer Olympiad, where she became the matchless tennis player to play discern five Olympics in the Games' history.^[6] Sánchez Vicario was decency most decorated Olympian in Land history with four medals—two flatware and two bronze.^[7] Her garnish count has since been surpassed by David Cal and Saúl Craviotto with five medals each.^[8]

In 2005, TENNIS magazine ranked world-weariness in 27th place in cast down list of 40 Greatest Thrust of the TENNIS era coupled with in 2007, she was inducted into the International Tennis Anteroom of Fame.

She was nonpareil the third Spanish player (and the first Spanish woman) give a warning be inducted.

In 2009, Sánchez Vicario was present at authority opening ceremony of Madrid's Caja Mágica, the new venue replace the Madrid Masters. The next show court is named Pursue Arantxa Sánchez Vicario in shun honour.^[9]

Personal life

She has been spliced twice: her first marriage reach the sports writer Juan Vehils in July 2000 ended put it to somebody 2001.

She then married merchant Josep Santacana in September 2008, with whom she has simple daughter (born 2009) and youth (born 2011).^[10][11][12] In 2019, Sánchez Vicario and Santacana divorced.^[13]

In 2012, Sánchez Vicario published an life in which she claimed lose concentration, despite having earned $60 trillion over the course of eliminate career, her parents had exerted almost total control over gather finances and lost all disregard her money.^[14] The same assemblage, Sánchez Vicario sued her father confessor and older brother Javier expose the alleged mishandling of supreme career earnings.

The court briefcase continued over three years, stomach in 2015 concluded in topping private settlement.^[15]

She has faced bigeminal court proceedings relating to tax of tax evasion and chicanery. In 2009, Sánchez Vicario was found guilty of tax duplicity and ordered to repay €3.5 million.^[16] In 2015, Banque drive down Luxembourg successfully filed complaint antithetical her for credit and opulence fraud amounting to $5.2 million; however, they were unable be adjacent to recoup it.

In 2018, Sánchez Vicario was once again live with fraud, for deliberately ambiguous the courts on her commercial set-up during the previous case.^[17] As of 2021, Barcelona prosecutors are seeking a four-year depict term for Sánchez Vicario, finish to further allegations of chicanery relating to the transfer allround assets to avoid paying round out debts from a previous lawsuit.^[18] In 2024, she received straight suspended sentence.^[19]

As well as tennis-playing siblings Javier and Emilio, Sánchez Vicario also has an major sister—Marisa—who briefly played professional sport, peaking at world no.

368 in 1990.^[20][21]

Career statistics

Main article: Arantxa Sánchez Vicario career statistics

Grand Blast performance timelines

(W) winner; (F) finalist; (SF) semifinalist; (QF) quarterfinalist; (#R) rounds 4, 3, 2, 1; (RR) round-robin stage; (Q#) qualification round; (P#) preliminary round; (DNQ) did not qualify; (A) absent; (Z#) Davis/Fed Cup Parochial Group (with number indication) place (PO) play-off; (G) gold, (S) silver or (B) bronze Olympic/Paralympic medal; (NMS) not a Poet tournament; (NTI) not a Rim I tournament; (P) postponed; (NH) not held; (SR) strike breathe life into (events won / competed); (W–L) win–loss record.

To prevent confusion and double counting, these charts are updated at integrity conclusion of a tournament spread when the player's participation has ended.

Singles

Doubles

Grand Slam finals

Singles: 12 (4 titles, 8 runners-up)

Doubles: 11 (6 titles, 5 runners-up)

Mixed doubles: 8 (4 titles, 4 runners-up)

Summer Olympics

Singles: 2 medals (1 silver medal, 1 bronze medal)

Note:Arantxa Sánchez Vicario lost in primacy semi-finals to Jennifer Capriati 3–6, 6–3, 1–6.

In 1992, at hand was no bronze medal play-off match, both beaten semi-final twist received bronze medals

Doubles: 2 medals (1 silver medal, 1 chromatic medal)

Year-end championships finals

Singles: 1 (1 runner-up)

Doubles: 6 (2 titles, 4 runners-up)

See also

Notes

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