Tathiana Garbin

Tathiana Garbin (Italian pronunciation: [taˈtjaːna ɡarˈbin];[2][3] born 30 June 1977) is an Italian retired tennis player. She is probably best known for her surprise defeat of the defending champion and the reigning world No. 1 Justine Henin, in the second round of the 2004 French Open.[4] The winner of one singles and eleven doubles WTA Tour titles,[5] she reached her highest singles ranking world No. 22 on 21 May 2007, and her highest doubles ranking No. 25 on 27 August 2001.[5] Other high–ranked players she defeated include Jelena Dokić, Chanda Rubin, Flavia Pennetta, Agnieszka Radwańska, Nadia Petrova, Marion Bartoli, and Samantha Stosur.[4]

Tathiana Garbin

Country (sports)	Italy
Residence	Bologna[1]
Born	(1977-06-30) 30 June 1977 Mestre
Height	1.72 m (5 ft 8 in)
Turned pro	1996
Retired	2011
Plays	Right-handed (one handed-backhand)
Prize money	$2,661,973
Singles
Career record	427–335
Career titles	1 WTA, 10 ITF
Highest ranking	No. 22 (21 May 2007)
Grand Slam Singles results
Australian Open	3R (2007, 2010)
French Open	4R (2007)
Wimbledon	2R (2006, 2007, 2009)
US Open	3R (2000, 2008)
Doubles
Career record	282–239
Career titles	11 WTA, 11 ITF
Highest ranking	No. 25 (27 August 2001)
Grand Slam Doubles results
Australian Open	3R (2000)
French Open	3R (2002, 2003)
Wimbledon	QF (2009)
US Open	3R (2000, 2004, 2007, 2010)
Medal record Representing  Italy Mediterranean Games 1997 Bari Singles 1997 Bari Doubles

WTA career finals

Singles 5 (1–4)

Legend
Grand Slam tournaments (0/0)
Tier I (0/0)
Tier II (0/0)
Tier III (0/1)
Tier IV & V (1/3)

Outcome	No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Opponent	Score
Runner-up	1.	13 February 2000	Copa Colsanitas, Bogotá	Clay	Patricia Wartusch	6–4, 1–6, 4–6
Winner	1.	23 April 2000	Budapest Grand Prix	Clay	Kristie Boogert	6–2, 7–6^(7–4)
Runner-up	2.	17 July 2005	Internazionali di Modena	Clay	Anna Smashnova	6–6 ret.
Runner-up	3.	23 July 2006	Internazionali Femminili di Palermo	Clay	Anabel Medina Garrigues	4–6, 4–6
Runner-up	4.	25 February 2007	Copa Colsanitas, Bogotá	Clay	Roberta Vinci	7–6^(7–5), 4–6, 3–0 ret.

Doubles: 18 (11–7)

Legend: Before 2009	Legend: Starting in 2009
Grand Slam tournaments (0/0)
Tier I (0/2)	Premier Mandatory (0/0)
Tier II (0/1)	Premier 5 (0/0)
Tier III (2/0)	Premier (0/1)
Tier IV & V (3/2)	International (6/1)

Outcome	No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Partner	Opponents	Score
Winner	1.	14 May 2000	J&S Cup, Warsaw	Clay	Janette Husárová	Iroda Tulyaganova Anna Zaporozhanova	6–3, 6–1
Winner	2.	25 February 2001	Copa Colsanitas, Bogotá	Clay	Janette Husárová	Laura Montalvo Paola Suárez	6–4, 2–6, 6–4
Winner	3.	22 April 2001	Budapest Grand Prix	Clay	Janette Husárová	Zsófia Gubacsi Dragana Zarić	6–1, 6–3
Winner	4.	15 July 2001	Internazionali Femminili di Palermo	Clay	Janette Husárová	Anabel Medina Garrigues María José Martínez Sánchez	4–6, 6–2, 6–4
Winner	5.	12 January 2002	Moorilla Hobart International	Hard	Rita Grande	Catherine Barclay Christina Wheeler	6–2, 7–6^(7–3)
Winner	6.	5 May 2002	Croatian Bol Ladies Open	Clay	Angelique Widjaja	Elena Bovina Henrieta Nagyová	7–5, 3–6, 6–4
Runner-up	1.	14 July 2002	French Community Championships, Brussels	Clay	Arantxa Sánchez Vicario	Barbara Schwartz Jasmin Wöhr	2–6, 6–0, 4–6
Runner-up	2.	24 August 2002	Pilot Pen Tennis, New Haven	Hard	Janette Husárová	Daniela Hantuchová Arantxa Sánchez Vicario	3–6, 6–1, 5–7
Winner	7.	11 January 2003	Canberra Women's Classic	Hard	Émilie Loit	Dája Bedáňová Dinara Safina	6–3, 3–6, 6–4
Winner	8.	16 January 2005	Canberra Women's Classic	Hard	Tina Križan	Gabriela Navrátilová Michaela Paštiková	7–5, 1–6, 6–4
Runner-up	3.	13 May 2007	Qatar Telecom German Open, Berlin	Clay	Roberta Vinci	Lisa Raymond Samantha Stosur	3–6, 4–6
Runner-up	4.	20 May 2007	Internazionali BNL d'Italia, Rome	Clay	Roberta Vinci	Nathalie Dechy Mara Santangelo	4–6, 1–6
Runner-up	5.	15 January 2010	Medibank International Sydney	Hard	Nadia Petrova	Cara Black Liezel Huber	1–6, 6–3, [3–10]
Runner-up	6.	17 April 2010	Barcelona Ladies Open	Clay	Timea Bacsinszky	Sara Errani Roberta Vinci	1–6, 6–3, [2–10]
Winner	9.	11 July 2010	Budapest Grand Prix	Clay	Timea Bacsinszky	Sorana Cîrstea Anabel Medina Garrigues	6–3, 6–3
Winner	10.	18 July 2010	ECM Prague Open	Clay	Timea Bacsinszky	Monica Niculescu Ágnes Szávay	7–5, 7–6^(7–4)
Runner-up	7.	25 July 2010	Gastein Ladies, Bad Gastein	Clay	Timea Bacsinszky	Lucie Hradecká Anabel Medina Garrigues	7–6^(7–2), 1–6, [5–10]
Winner	11.	24 October 2010	BGL Luxembourg Open, Luxembourg City	Hard (i)	Timea Bacsinszky	Iveta Benešová Barbora Záhlavová-Strýcová	6–4, 6–4

ITF Finals

Singles (10–7)

$100,000 tournaments

$75,000 tournaments

$50,000 tournaments

$25,000 tournaments

$10,000 tournaments

Outcome	No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Opponent	Score
Winner	1.	11 August 1996	Catania, Italy	Clay	Sabina Da Ponte	6-3, 4-6, 7-5
Winner	2.	12 May 1997	Novi Sad, Serbia	Clay	Dragana Zarić	6–4, 6–1
Winner	3.	5 December 1998	New Delhi, India	Hard	Amanda Hopmans	6–3, 6–2
Winner	4.	11 July 1999	Civitanova, Italy	Clay	Mariana Díaz Oliva	6–4, 4–6, 6–1
Winner	5.	13 December 1999	Manila, Philippines	Hard	Wynne Prakusya	6–7, 6–0, 6–2
Runner-up	6.	13 December 1999	New Delhi, India	Hard	Katalin Marosi	2–6, 1–1 ret.
Runner-up	7.	9 April 2000	Dubai, United Arap Emirates	Hard	Adriana Gerši	4-6, 3-6
Winner	8.	29 April 2001	Caserta, Italy	Clay	María José Martínez Sánchez	3-6, 7-6, 6-2
Winner	9.	10 August 2003	Cuneo, Italy	Clay	Lubomira Bacheva	6–3, 6–1
Runner-up	10.	5 June 2005	Prostejov, Czech Republic	Clay	Lucie Šafářová	4-6, 6-3, 3-6
Runner-up	11.	23 April 2006	Bari, Italy	Clay	Alizé Cornet	2–6, 6–3, 2–6
Runner-up	12.	19 June 2006	Zagreb, Croatia	Clay	Kira Nagy	6–7, 6–3, 6–7
Runner-up	13.	1 October 2006	Biella, Italy	Clay	Stéphanie Foretz	5-7, 1-3 ret.
Winner	14.	19 June 2006	Zagreb, Croatia	Clay	Ekaterina Lopes	6-3, 7-5
Winner	15.	8 June 2008	Rome, Italy	Clay	Yvonne Meusburger	6-4, 4-6, 7-6
Winner	16.	6 July 2008	Cuneo, Italy	Clay	Sorana Cîrstea	6–3, 6–1
Runner-up	17.	20 September 2009	Sofia, Bulgaria	Clay	Alexandra Dulgheru	7–6^(4), 5–7, 1–6

Doubles (11–6)

Outcome	No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Partner	Opponents	Score
Winner	1.	5 August 1996	Catania, Italy	Clay	Francesca Guardigli	Debby Haak Franke Joosten	6–2, 7–5
Runner-up	2.	13 January 1997	Pontevedra, Spain	Hard (i)	Sara Ventura	Alicia Ortuño Sofia Prazeres	6-4, 1-6, 4-6
Winner	3.	12 May 1997	Novi Sad, Serbia and Montenegro	Clay	Francesca Guardigli	Teodora Nedeva Dragana Zarić	6–4, 6–4
Runner-up	4.	26 May 1997	Salzburg, Austria	Clay (i)	Laura Dell'Angelo	Caroline Schneider Patricia Wartusch	6–1, 3–6, 3–6
Runner-up	5.	26 January 1998	Dinan, France	Clay (i)	Oana Elena Golimbioschi	Camille Pin Aurélie Védy	w/o
Winner	6.	6 April 1998	Athens, Greece	Clay	Alice Canepa	Alice Pirsu Andreea Ehritt-Vanc	5-7, 6-2, 6-4
Winner	7.	5 July 1998	Orbetello, Italy	Clay	Alice Canepa	Melissa Mazzotta Fabiola Zuluaga	6–2, 6–3
Runner-up	8.	19 September 1999	Reggio Calabria, Italy	Clay	Alice Canepa	Debby Haak Andrea van den Hurk	1–6, 1–6
Winner	9.	11 October 1999	Rhodes, Greece	Clay	Amanda Hopmans	Lenka Cenková Alicia Ortuño	4–6, 6–0, 7–6^(3)
Runner-up	10.	13 December 1998	New Delhi, India	Hard	Nirupama Sanjeev	Rika Hiraki Lorna Woodroffe	2–5 ret.
Winner	11.	3 April 2000	Dubai, United Arab Emirates	Hard	Katalin Marosi	Angelika Bachmann Tina Križan	7–6^(5), 6–3
Winner	12.	12 June 2009	Marseille, France	Clay	María Emilia Salerni	Elena Bovina Timea Bacsinszky	6–7^(4), 6–3, [10–7]
Winner	13.	18 September 2009	Sofia, Bulgaria	Clay	Timea Bacsinszky	Petra Martić Polona Hercog	6–2, 7–6^(4)
Winner	14.	27 September 2009	Saint-Malo, France	Clay	Timea Bacsinszky	Andreja Klepač Aurélie Védy	6–3, ret.
Runner-up	15.	4 October 2009	Athens, Greece	Hard	Timea Bacsinszky	Eleni Daniilidou Jasmin Wöhr	2–6, 7–5, [4–10]
Winner	16.	31 October 2009	Ortisei, Italy	Carpet (i)	Timea Bacsinszky	Galina Voskoboeva Barbora Strýcová	6–2, 6–2
Winner	17	17 October 2010	Torhout, Belgium	Hard	Timea Bacsinszky	Michaëlla Krajicek Yanina Wickmayer	6–4, 6–2

Grand Slam performance timelines

Singles

Tournament	1998	1999	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008	2009	2010	2011	W-L
Australian Open	LQ	1R	1R	1R	2R	2R	1R	2R	1R	3R	2R	2R	3R	1R	9–13
French Open	LQ	A	3R	2R	2R	2R	3R	2R	3R	4R	1R	3R	2R	A	16–11
Wimbledon	LQ	LQ	1R	1R	1R	1R	1R	1R	2R	2R	1R	2R	1R	A	3–11
US Open	LQ	LQ	3R	A	1R	2R	2R	1R	2R	1R	3R	2R	1R	A	8–10

Doubles

Tournament	1998	1999	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008	2009	2010	2011	W-L
Australian Open	A	1R	3R	2R	2R	2R	1R	2R	2R	2R	2R	1R	2R	2R	11–13
French Open	A	A	1R	1R	3R	3R	2R	2R	1R	1R	1R	1R	1R	A	6–11
Wimbledon	1R	A	1R	3R	1R	2R	2R	1R	3R	1R	1R	QF	2R	A	10–12
US Open	A	A	3R	A	1R	1R	3R	2R	1R	3R	2R	1R	3R	A	10–10

References

1. Sony Ericsson WTA Tour | Players | Info | Tathiana Garbin
2. DMTCsrl1 (20 February 2010). "Mara Santangelo intervista Tatiana Garbin". YouTube (in Italian). Retrieved 26 October 2018.
3. Luciano Canepari. "Garbin". DiPI Online (in Italian). Retrieved 26 October 2018.
4. Sony Ericsson WTA Tour | Players | Activity | Tathiana Garbin
5. Sony Ericsson WTA Tour | Players | Stats | Tathiana Garbin

External links

• Tathiana Garbin at the Women's Tennis Association
• Tathiana Garbin at the International Tennis Federation
• Tathiana Garbin: the only website