Career titles 0 WTA, 3 ITF Weight 60 kg Turned pro 1995 Name Vanessa Menga Career end 2005 | Prize money $139,973 Retired 2003 Career record 185 - 186 Height 1.71 m | |
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Plays Right-handed (two-handed backhand) Residence Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil Similar People Ashley Harkleroad, Joana Cortez, Mariana Costa, Gisele Miro, Hortencia Marcari | ||
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Vanessa Menga (born October 10, 1976) is a former professional tennis player from Brazil.
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Born in São Paulo, she started playing tennis at the age of 4, when she went to an academy along with her father. At the age of 14, Menga went to train tennis in Barcelona, where she won her first doubles championship.
She's the only Brazilian female tennis player to play in two Summer Olympic Games, Atlanta 1996 (doubles with Miriam D’Agostini, falling in Round 1), and Sydney 2000 (with Joana Cortez, falling in Round 2). Menga was also in two Pan American Games, Mar Del Plata 1995 and Winnipeg 1999, where she won the doubles Gold medal with Joana Cortez.
In 2001, Menga posed for Playboy Brazil. In 2003, she retired from tennis after a motorcycle accident which left her for eight months without playing. Menga now has an institute in São Paulo where she teaches tennis to over 200 children, and participates in other charity projects.