Lara Arruabarrena

Lara Arruabarrena Vecino (; born 20 March 1992) is a former professional tennis player from Spain. On 3 July 2017, she reached a career-high WTA singles ranking of 52, and her best doubles ranking is world No. 28, achieved on 22 February 2016.

Over her career, she won two singles and eight doubles titles on the WTA Tour. Arruabarrena retired from professional tour in August 2022.

Personal life and background Arruabarrena is coached by Andoni Vivanco. Her father, Juan, is a lithographer, and her mother, Blanca, is a nurse. She also has one younger sister. Arruabarrena started playing tennis at age eight when she took lessons with a friend for fun. She stated that her favourite surface is clay. When she was 15, she moved to Barcelona to train with Spanish Federation. Her tennis idol growing up was Justine Henin.

Career Arruabarrena made her debut appearance on the ITF Circuit at Les Francqueses del Valles, France, where she lost in first round against her compatriot Lucia Cervera-Vazquez, in straight-sets.

In July 2008, she won her first ITF title on a $10k event in Oviedo. In the final, she defeated Hermon Brhane, in straight sets.

Arruabarrena made her WTA Tour main-draw debut as a qualifier at the 2011 Andalucia Tennis Experience, defeating Monica Niculescu and Sandra Záhlavová, before losing to second seed Svetlana Kuznetsova.

She won her first WTA Tour title at the 2012 Copa Colsanitas in Bogotá, beating Alexandra Panova in the final.

Arruabarrena claimed her second career trophy at the 2016 Korea Open, overcoming Monica Niculescu in the final in three sets.

She reached the final of the 2017 Copa Colsanitas, losing to wildcard entrant Francesca Schiavone. Arruabarrena was also runner-up at the 2018 Copa Colsanitas, losing in the final to Anna Karolína Schmiedlová.

Having not played since 2022 Australian Open, she announced her retirement from tennis in August that year. ''

Singles

Doubles

WTA Tour finals Singles: 4 (2 titles, 2 runner-ups) LegendWTA 500WTA 250 (2–2)Finals by surfaceHard (1–0)Clay (1–2)

Doubles: 14 (8 titles, 6 runner-ups) LegendWTA 500WTA 250 (8–6)Finals by surfaceHard (4–3)Clay (4–3)

WTA 125 finals Singles: 1 (title)

Doubles: 1 (title) ResultW–LDateTournamentSurfacePartnerOpponentsScoreWin 1–0 Karlsruhe Open, Germany Clay Renata Voráčová Han Xinyun Yuan Yue 6–7(2–7), 6–4, [10–4]

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

Singles: 14 (12 titles, 2 runner-ups)

Doubles: 15 (9 titles, 6 runner-ups)

Junior Grand Slam tournament finals Doubles: 1 (runner-up)

Wins over top 10 players