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Sara Sorribes Tormo
1996Oct, 8

Sara Sorribes Tormo

Sara Sorribes Tormo, Spanish tennis player
Sara Sorribes Tormo (Spanish pronunciation: [ˈsaɾa soˈriβes ˈtoɾmo]; born 8 October 1996) is a Spanish professional tennis player. Sorribes Tormo has won one singles title and two doubles titles on the WTA Tour, as well as one doubles title on the WTA Challenger Tour. On the ITF Circuit, she has won ten singles and five doubles titles. She won her maiden WTA title at the 2021 Abierto Zapopan in Guadalajara. She achieved her career-high singles ranking of world No. 34 on 18 October 2021 and peaked at No. 40 in the WTA doubles rankings on 3 February 2020. On the Challenger Tour, she has been runner-up at the Bol Open, and champion at the Open de Limoges in doubles.

Sorribes Tormo made her WTA Tour main-draw debut at the 2015 Rio Open, after making it through the qualifying rounds. Her first appearance at a Grand Slam tournament came at 2015 French Open, but she failed to qualify for the main draw, while her Grand Slam main-draw debut happened at the 2016 French Open, when she passed qualification.

Her most significant results in 2017 was reaching the semifinals of the WTA events at the 2017 Copa Colsanitas in Bogotá, Colombia in April and at the 2017 Ladies Championship Gstaad, Switzerland in July.

Her first Grand-Slam win came at the 2018 Wimbledon Championships, where she defeated Kaia Kanepi in the first round.

Sara had a career-high junior ranking of No. 33, and won three singles and three doubles titles on the ITF Junior Circuit. She was also runner-up at 2013 US Open in doubles, where together with Belinda Bencic, they lost to the Czech duo Barbora Krejčíková & Kateřina Siniaková. In 2014, she won the European Junior Championships, defeating her countrymate Paula Badosa in the final.

Until 2017, Sara used to play at ITF tournaments. During 2017, she entered the top 100 for the first time, and became more constant on the WTA Tour.

Playing for Spain Fed Cup team, she made her debut in the 2015 Fed Cup World Group II Play-offs, and has a win–loss record of 6–4.


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