Full name Paula Ormaechea Name Paula Ormaechea Turned pro 2007 Career record 200–135 Weight 57 kg | Prize money $705,312 Height 1.70 m Country (sports) Argentina Role Tennis player Win date May 26, 2014 | |
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Residence Buenos Aires, Argentina Born 28 September 1992 (age 31)
Sunchales, Argentina ( 1992-09-28 ) Plays Right-handed (two-handed backhand) Similar People Maria Sharapova, Romina Oprandi, Maria Teresa Torro Flor, Monica Niculescu, Casey Dellacqua Profiles | ||
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Paula Ormaechea (born 28 September 1992) is an Argentine tennis player. She has won nine singles and five doubles ITF titles in her career, and, on 21 October 2013, reached a singles ranking high of world number 59. Ormaechea has a 12–12 record for the Argentina Fed Cup team.
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- Personal life
- Junior career
- Fed Cup
- 2011
- 2012
- References
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Personal life
Paula Ormaechea was born on 28 September 1992 in Sunchales, Santa Fe to Mirna and Marcelo Ormaechea. She also has two sisters, Valentina and Sofía. Juan Pablo Guzmán, former ATP tennis player, serves as her coach. Ormaechea cites Roger Federer, Serena and Venus Williams as her role models, and also admires Andre Agassi and Pete Sampras. A fan of football, she supports Boca Juniors.
Junior career
Ormaechea entered professional junior tournaments in 2006 Ana Bogdan in the final of Banana Bowl, 6–2, 6–4, previously defeating Kristina Mladenovic 6–4, 6–2 in the semifinals. Ormaechea won her next title at Uruguay Bowl in March 2009. She also played at 2009 French Open and 2009 US Open, but fell to, respectively, Bianca Botto and Richèl Hogenkamp in the first round. Also winning four doubles events, her last junior doubles title came at Canadian Open Junior Championship in September 2009.
Fed Cup
Ormaechea made her debut for Argentina Fed Cup team on 26 April 2009 in the 2009 World Group Playoff against Ukraine. She partnered María Irigoyen, losing to Mariya Koryttseva and Olga Savchuk 6–2, 6–0. Ormaechea made her singles debut in 2010 World Group II rubber against Estonia. She lost her first match to World No. 61 Kaia Kanepi 6–1, 7–5, and the second one to Maret Ani 6–2, 6–3. Ormaechea also played in the rubber against Canada, and lost both of her singles matches — against Aleksandra Wozniak 6–4, 6–2, and Valérie Tétreault 7–6, 1–6, 1–6.
2011
Ormaechea's first tournament was an ITF event in Colombia, where she lost to Alexandra Cadanțu 6–4 6–0 in the first round of qualifying. After this, she played the Copa Colsanitas, but again lost during qualifications, this time in the second round. Despite her bad run, Paula rebounded and won an ITF tournament in Santiago, Chile one month later. She then played four ITF events during May, reaching the final of one, but losing to top seed Lucie Hradecká 4–6 6–3 6–2.
Paula then played in the qualifications for the Brussels Ladies Open, her first premium tournament. She got to the final round of qualifying after defeating Catalina Castaño and Andrea Hlaváčková, but was then swept aside by doubles specialist Abigail Spears 6–1 6–1.
Following this loss, she headed to Rome to play a 25K tournament, but lost in the second round to Sofia Shapatava 2–6 7–6 (5) 6–4. Then, following another loss in the Quarterfinals of an ITF event in Poland and an early elimination in the qualifications at the Budapest Grand Prix, Paula's form improved when she qualified for the Gastein Ladies in Kitzbühel, Austria. She then lost in the first round of the main draw to María José Martínez Sánchez in straight sets.
Paula then took a break from the WTA Tour, playing eight ITF tournaments from August to October, winning two of them.
2012
Ormaechea began her 2012 season at the Apia International Sydney, losing to Vania King in straight sets in the second round of qualifying. Following this loss, she headed to Melbourne for the Australian Open. In the first round of qualifications, she had a decisive victory 6–1 6–4 over seventh qualifying seed Coco Vandeweghe, backed up by another win over Su-Wei Hsieh. In the final round of qualifying, she crushed Austrian Yvonne Meusburger 6–1 6–3 to gain entry into her first Grand Slam main draw.
In the first round of the main draw, she overcame Romanian Simona Halep in three sets. In the second round, however, she was sent crashing out by eighth seed Agnieszka Radwańska in straight sets. Due to her strong beginning of the new season, her ranking peaked at over one hundred and forty for the first time.
Ormaechea's next tournament was the Copa Colsanitas in Bogotá, Colombia. She defeated Teliana Pereira and Corinna Dentoni to qualify. She reached the quarterfinals of the tournament, posting wins over Jelena Dokić and Petra Rampre, before being knocked out by eventual champion Lara Arruabarrena-Vecino.
Ormaechea then played two premium events at the BNP Paribas Open and the Sony Ericsson Open, losing in the second and first qualifying rounds, respectively. Despite these early losses, her recent success gave her a career high ranking of one hundred and eleventh.
She then headed to Charleston, South Carolina for the Family Circle Cup. She had to qualify, and she did so by defeating Emily J. Harman and Shelby Rogers. In the main draw, she posted a win over fifteenth seed Chanelle Scheepers in the first round, before being swept aside by Kazakh Galina Voskoboeva in the second round. She then played at the Fed Cup in World Group II Play Offs against China, winning both her singles matches and helping Argentina win by a score of 4–1.
At the French Open, she was handed a tough draw to face American and seven-time grand slam champion Venus Williams in the first round. After playing an outstanding first set to win 6–4, Williams then upped her level and Paula eventually lost 4–6, 6–1, 6–3.