Anabel Medina Garrigues

Ana Isabel Medina Garrigues (, ; born 31 July 1982) is a Spanish tennis coach and former professional player.

As a player, she reached a career-high ranking of world No. 16 in 2009, and won 11 singles and 28 doubles titles, including the 2008 and 2009 French Open with Virginia Ruano Pascual. Like many of her Spanish compatriots, she was a clay-court specialist who ground out most of her rallies. However, unlike most of her fellow Spaniards, she preferred to play on hard courts. She won the WTA Tour tournament in Strasbourg, beating Katarina Srebotnik in the final in May 2008, thus defending the title she won the previous year against Amélie Mauresmo. Her other singles titles came at Palermo in 2011, 2006, 2005, 2004 and 2001, at Canberra in 2006, Strasbourg in 2005 and Fès in 2009.

After retirement from singles tennis (she continues playing doubles) at the end of the 2014 season, Medina Garrigues became a professional coach, gaining success while working for Jeļena Ostapenko, who won the 2017 French Open Grand Slam title. In late 2017, she was named captain of Spain's Fed Cup team. She has also become a tournament organizer at the Valencia Open.

Career

2008–2009 Together with Virginia Ruano Pascual, she won the French Open and the silver medal at the 2008 Beijing Olympics. They successfully defended their French Open title in 2009.

2011 Medina Garrigues began 2011 by losing in the first rounds of Auckland Open, Australian Open, and Copa Colsanitas and in the qualifying draw of the Sydney International. She then reached her first semifinal in nine months in the Abierto Mexicano with wins over top seed Julia Görges and seventh seed Carla Suárez Navarro before losing to Gisela Dulko in straight sets. At the Indian Wells Open, she defeated Tamira Paszek before losing to Maria Sharapova.

Garrigues then qualified for the Tournament of Champions and reached the final, but she was defeated by defending champion Ana Ivanovic in two sets.

2012 Medina Garrigues reached the quarterfinals of the Swedish Open in Båstad, where she lost to Johanna Larsson.

2014 Medina Garrigues started 2014 at the Australian Open and lost in the first round to lucky loser Irina Falconi.

At the Pattaya Open, Medina Garrigues was defeated in the first round by Alison Riske without winning a single game. She announced that the French Open would be her last tournament, before retiring from singles tennis, though she would continue to play doubles. Medina Garrigues lost in the second round of qualifying there to Tereza Smitková in two sets, ending her singles career.

2018 Medina Garrigues entered the doubles competition at the Madrid Open, partnering fellow Spaniard Arantxa Parra Santonja. Then in August, she retired from the tennis circuit.

Performance timelines

Singles

Doubles

Grand Slam tournaments Doubles: 2 (2 titles)

Other significant finals Olympic Games Doubles: 1 (silver medal) ResultYearTournamentSurfacePartnerOpponentsScoreSilver 2008 Beijing Olympics Hard Virginia Ruano Pascual Serena Williams Venus Williams 2–6, 0–6

WTA Elite Trophy Singles: 1 (runner-up)

Premier Mandatory tournaments Doubles: 1 (runner-up)

WTA Tour finals Singles: 18 (11 titles, 7 runner-ups) LegendWTA Elite Trophy (0–1)Premier (0–0)International (11–6)Finals by surfaceHard (1–5)Clay (10–2)Grass (0–0)

Doubles: 45 (28 titles, 17 runner-ups) LegendGrand Slam tournaments (2–0)WTA Elite Trophy (0–1)Premier M & Premier 5 (0–1)Premier (3–7)WTA International (23–8)Finals by surfaceHard (10–9)Clay (16–7)Grass (2–0)Carpet (0–1)

ITF finals Legend$100,000 tournaments$75,000 tournaments$50,000 tournaments$25,000 tournaments$10,000 tournaments

Singles (6–4)

Doubles (3–3)

Team events Hopman Cup (1–1)