Anabel Medina Garrigues - Female Spanish Tennis Player

Anabel started playing official matches in 1997, when they played three ITF tournaments, reaching the quarterfinals in one of them. She was only 15 years old, but it was already known in other categories such as Casper (even today we can see a marked C in their rackets).

Anabel Medina Garrigues won surprisingly in Pontevedra without losing a single set, reached semis in Getxo and won the doubles tournament in Vigo in the company of Lourdes Dominguez. In the junior category, she was a finalist from Spain, and the Spanish team won the Copa de la Reina, the European Championship Team and was a finalist in the Continental Cup Connelly. With his team, Spanish, won the Spanish Championship Team.

She was a finalist in Gelos and semifinalist in Marseille and in many tournaments. In the junior competition, reached the semifinals at Roland Garros and won the same title in doubles in the company of Maria Jose Martinez. But above all this, highlights the remarkable success achieved in the Spanish Championship absolute, which beat Angeles Montolio in the final. She made his debut in the WTA circuit, achieved two second rounds, but at the end of the season, an injury makes it impossible to play its highest level.

This year has undoubtedly been the best of his career. In its first full year on the WTA circuit, won in Palermo, reached two semifinals (Antwerp and Madrid) and won four doubles titles (Acapulco, Porto, Bull and Basel), all of them in the company of Maria Jose Martinez.On all these achievements, highlights the Spanish Masters, where Anabel Medina Garrigues defeated Arantxa Sanchez Vicario, Conchita Martinez and Marta Marrero to take up with the title.

In 2002 she was playing the best tennis of his career. Carry a final few quarters and a fourth round in three tournaments disputed, with notable victories over players like Mary Pierce and Nathalie Dechy. In the Austalian Open she was playing a good game against Monica Seles, she must be a little nervous and she lost by. She ruptured the cruciate ligament of her knee which will keep her away from the tracks for a few six months.

Most recently Anabel Medina Garrigues won the WTA tournament in Strasbourg, France, beating Katarina Srebotnik in the final in May 2008, thus keeping a title she won the previous year against Amelie Mauresmo. Her other singles titles came in Palermo in 2006, 2005, 2004 and 2001; Canberra in 2006 and Strasbourg in 2005.

She is currently the highest-ranked Spanish women's professional tennis player.