Daniela Seguel

Daniela Valeska Seguel Carvajal (born 15 November 1992) is an inactive Chilean tennis player. She has won 16 singles titles and 28 doubles titles on the ITF Women's Circuit. On 28 May 2018, she reached her career-high singles ranking of world No. 162, weeks after reaching quarterfinals on the Copa Colsanitas, her best result on a WTA Tour tournament yet. Seguel's first-round win over Nicole Gibbs was the first professional match won by a Chilean female tennis player since 1980. On 7 July 2014, she peaked at No. 110 in the WTA doubles rankings.

Playing for Chile, Seguel has an overall win-loss record of 30–22 in Billie Jean King Cup (as of August 2024).

Career overview Juniors In 2006, her debut on the ITF Junior Circuit came at the age of 13. She played her first tournament at the first Open Junior International Chile, in May, and reached the quarterfinals, before losing to Argentinian player Ornella Caron, in straight sets. In 2007, she won her first singles title at the second Junior Open Chile, in October.

In 2008, she reached one final, at the Copa Gobierno Bolivariano de Carabobo in Valencia, Venezuela. In 2009, she won the Vina Junior Open, by defeating her compatriot Cecilia Costa Melgar in the final, in straight sets.

In 2010, she played her last junior tournament, at the 27th Copa Gerdau in Porto Alegre, Brazil where she was stopped in the second round by Slovak player Jana Čepelová.

Professional

Seguel made her debut at the professional level in 2007, at a 10k tournament in Santiago, Chile. In singles, she lost in the first round to Vivian Segnini.

In July 2010, she reached her first ITF singles final in La Paz, Bolivia. She lost the final in straight sets to Colombian player Karen Castiblanco and in November she won her first ITF title at a 10k event in Concepción, Chile, alongside compatriot Fernanda Brito. In singles, she won her first title in April 2011, at a 10k event in Córdoba, Argentina.

Her biggest ITF title in singles came at the 60k Barcelona Women World Winner, in June 2017.

In January 2024, she made her debut at the 2024 United Cup in mixed doubles partnering Tomas Barrios Vera where they stunned Greek top 10 duo Maria Sakkari and Stefanos Tsitsipas.

Grand Slam performance timeline

Singles

WTA Tour finals Doubles: 1 (runner–up) Legend WTA 500 WTA 250Finals by surfaceHard (0–0)Clay (0–1) ResultW–LDateTournamentTierSurfacePartnerOpponentsScoreLoss 0–1 Internationaux de Strasbourg, France International Clay Tatiana Búa Ashleigh Barty Casey Dellacqua 6–4, 5–7, [4–10]

WTA 125 finals Doubles: 1 (runner-up) ResultW–LDateTournamentSurfacePartnerOpponentsScoreLoss 0–1 Copa Santiago, Chile Clay Lucciana Pérez Alarcón Julia Lohoff Conny Perrin 6–7(4–7), 2–6

ITF Circuit finals Singles: 24 (16 titles, 8 runner-ups) LegendW60 tournaments (1–0)W25 tournaments (5–4)W10 tournaments (10–4)Finals by surfaceHard (2–0)Clay (14–8)

Doubles: 47 (28 titles, 19 runner-ups) Legend$100,000 tournaments (0–1)$60,000 tournaments (2–2)$25,000 tournaments (12–6)$10/15,000 tournaments (14–10)Finals by surfaceHard (2–1)Clay (26–18)