Paula Cabezas

Paula Andrea Cabezas (born 21 August 1972) is a Chilean former professional tennis player.

Paula Cabezas

Full name	Paula Andrea Cabezas
Country (sports)	Chile
Born	(1972-08-21) 21 August 1972 Santiago, Chile
Prize money	$67,345
Singles
Career titles	0 WTA / 14 ITF
Highest ranking	No. 212 (14 April 1997)
Doubles
Career record	0 WTA / 17 ITF
Highest ranking	No. 178 (8 June 1992)

Biography

Born in Santiago, Cabezas competed on the professional tour in the 1990s, mostly on the ITF circuit, winning 14 singles titles and 17 doubles titles. Her WTA Tour performances include a semi-final appearance in the doubles at São Paulo in 1991, partnering Andrea Vieira. She qualified for her only singles main draw at the 1995 Puerto Rico Open. She reached a best singles ranking of 212 in the world, attained in 1997.[1]

During her career she featured in a total of 39 ties for the Chile Fed Cup team. This included a World Group fixture against defending champions Spain in 1994, where she lost a singles match to world number two Arantxa Sánchez Vicario.[2] She won 49 matches overall, 23 of them in doubles, both of which are national records.

Cabezas represented Chile in doubles at the 1996 Atlanta Olympics and was a multiple Pan American Games medalist. She won a bronze medal at the 1991 Pan American Games in Havana and a silver at the 1999 Pan American Games in Winnipeg, both in doubles.

She now lives in Barcelona and competes on the ITF seniors circuit under Spanish nationality.[3][4]

ITF finals

$25,000 tournaments

$10,000 tournaments

Singles (14–5)

Outcome	No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Opponent	Score
Winner	1.	9 September 1991	Guayaquil, Ecuador	Clay	María Luciana Reynares	6–1, 6–7^(6), 6–1
Winner	2.	1 October 1991	La Paz, Bolivia	Clay	Lorena Rodríguez di Laura	6–2, 6–2
Winner	3.	7 October 1991	Santiago, Chile	Clay	María Luciana Reynares	7–5, 6–3
Winner	4.	3 November 1991	Porto Alegre, Brazil	Clay	Sumara Passos	6–7^(9), 7–5, 6–2
Winner	5.	6 September 1993	Caracas, Venezuela	Clay	Magalí Benítez	5–7, 6–2, 6–3
Runner-up	1.	26 September 1993	Guayaquil, Ecuador	Clay	Sumara Passos	5–7, 2–6
Winner	6.	11 October 1993	Santiago, Chile	Clay	Cintia Tortorella	6–3, 6–4
Winner	7.	14 March 1994	Mexico City, Mexico	Clay	Tomoe Hotta	6–3, 4–6, 6–2
Winner	8.	27 March 1994	Puerto Vallarta, Mexico	Clay	Renata Kolbovic	6–2, 6–3
Winner	9.	15 May 1994	Acapulco, Mexico	Clay	Lindsay Lee-Waters	6–2, 6–2
Runner-up	2.	6 November 1994	Freeport, Bahamas	Clay	Ingrid Kurta	6–3, 1–6, 5–7
Runner-up	3.	13 November 1994	Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic	Clay	Joelle Schad	3–6, 2–6
Winner	10.	20 November 1994	San Salvador, El Salvador	Hard	Kristine Kurth	6–2, 6–2
Winner	11.	4 June 1995	Sevilla, Spain	Clay	Marta Cano	6–1, 6–3
Winner	12.	13 October 1996	Mexico City, Mexico	Hard	Renata Kolbovic	2–6, 6–3, 6–2
Winner	13.	20 October 1996	Coatzacoalcos, Mexico	Hard	Karin Palme	5–7, 7–5, 6–2
Runner-up	4.	31 August 1997	Guayaquil, Ecuador	Clay	Miriam D'Agostini	7–6^(0), 5–7, 6–7^(4)
Runner-up	5.	12 April 1998	Viña del Mar, Chile	Clay	Celeste Contín	2–6, 4–6
Winner	14.	27 September 1998	Santiago, Chile	Clay	Mariana Lopez Palacios	6–4, 7–5

Doubles (17–8)

Outcome	No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Partner	Opponents	Score
Winner	1.	14 October 1990	La Paz, Bolivia	Clay	Sandra Ugarriza	Paula Boccia Inés Gorrochategui	6–2, 4–6, 7–5
Runner-up	1.	22 October 1990	Santiago, Chile	Clay	Sandra Ugarriza	Inés Gorrochategui Patricia Miller	6–3, 1–6, 5–7
Winner	2.	9 September 1991	Guayaquil, Ecuador	Clay	Nuria Niemes	Macarena Miranda María Dolores Campana	6–1, 7–5
Winner	3.	16 September 1991	Bogotá, Colombia	Clay	Macarena Miranda	Carla Rodriguez Lorena Rodríguez di Laura	6–4, 6–2
Runner-up	2.	30 September 1991	La Paz, Bolivia	Clay	Janaina Mercadante	Rossana de los Ríos Larissa Schaerer	3–6, 5–7
Winner	4.	13 October 1991	Santiago, Chile	Clay	Paulina Sepúlveda	Helena Kappler Eleonora Vegliante	7–5, 2–6, 6–4
Winner	5.	4 November 1991	Florianópolis, Brazil	Clay	Macarena Miranda	Rita Pichardo Belkis Rodríguez	3–6, 6–2, 6–2
Runner-up	3.	11 November 1991	Rio de Janeiro, Brazil	Clay	Macarena Miranda	Rita Pichardo Belkis Rodríguez	2–6, 3–6
Winner	6.	18 October 1992	Santiago, Chile	Clay	Nuria Niemes	Maria-Farnes Capistrano Ninfa Marra	3–6, 6–4, 6–4
Winner	7.	29 November 1992	Buenos Aires, Argentina	Clay	Paulina Sepúlveda	Mariana Randrup Gretel Gonzalez-Glanzmann	6–2, 6–1
Runner-up	4.	7 June 1993	Caserta, Italy	Clay	Adriana Serra Zanetti	Karin Lušnic Maja Murić	6–2, 2–6, 3–6
Runner-up	5.	20 September 1993	Guayaquil, Ecuador	Clay	Nuria Niemes	Veronica Stele Cintia Tortorella	2–6, 1–6
Winner	8.	21 March 1994	Puerto Vallarta, Mexico	Clay	María Dolores Campana	Shizuka Tokiwa Kiyoko Yazawa	6–1, 6–2
Winner	9.	9 May 1994	Acapulco, Mexico	Clay	Emilie Viqueira	Kim Grant Ditta Huber	3–6, 6–2, 6–1
Winner	10.	17 July 1994	Vigo, Spain	Clay	Emilie Viqueira	Jitka Dubcová Sylvia Plischke	6–4, 6–3
Winner	11.	19 September 1994	Guayaquil, Ecuador	Clay	Emilie Viqueira	Vanessa Menga Luciana Tella	6–4, 6–4
Winner	12.	6 May 1996	Amazonas, Brazil	Hard	Bárbara Castro	Sandra De Amelio Paula Racedo	6–1, 6–3
Runner-up	6.	6 October 1996	Puerto Vallarta, Mexico	Hard	Veronica Stele	María Fernanda Landa Marlene Weingärtner	6–4, 5–7, 3–6
Winner	13.	31 August 1997	Guayaquil, Ecuador	Clay	Miriam D'Agostini	Mariana Lopez Palacios Romina Ottoboni	6–1, 6–4
Runner-up	7.	6 April 1998	Viña del Mar, Chile	Clay	Celeste Contín	Melisa Arévalo Daniela Muscolino	3–6, 4–6
Runner-up	8.	4 May 1998	Tampico, Mexico	Hard	Vanessa Menga	Adria Engel Alina Jidkova	6–7, 5–7
Winner	14.	11 May 1998	Poza Rica, Mexico	Hard	Vanessa Menga	Adria Engel Alina Jidkova	3–6, 6–2, 6–2
Winner	15.	18 May 1998	Coatzacoalcos, Mexico	Hard	Vanessa Menga	Adria Engel Alina Jidkova	6–3, 6–2
Winner	16.	17 August 1998	Ibarra, Ecuador	Clay	Joanne Moore	Elena Juricich María Eugenia Rojas	6–3, 6–4
Winner	17.	21 September 1998	Santiago, Chile	Clay	Aliénor Tricerri	Mariana Lopez Palacios María-Alejandra Quezada	6–4, 6–1

References

1. Cavalla, Mario (2006). Historia del tenis en Chile, 1882-2006 (in Spanish). Ocho Libros Editores. p. 294. ISBN 9568018263.
2. "Tennis: Spain too hot for Chile". The Independent. 20 July 1994.
3. Chacoff, Diego Espinoza (23 April 2018). "Daniela Seguel: "A las deportistas mujeres se les destaca más si son bonitas o no que por cómo lo hacen"". Publimetro Chile (in Spanish).
4. "ITF Tennis - Seniors - Player Profile - Cabezas, Paula (ESP)". itftennis.com.

External links

• Paula Cabezas at the Women's Tennis Association
• Paula Cabezas at the International Tennis Federation
• Paula Cabezas at the Fed Cup