Tamarine Tanasugarn

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**Tamarine Tanasugarn**

Country	Thailand
Residence	Bangkok, Thailand
Date of birth	May 24, 1977
Place of birth	Los Angeles, California, USA
Height	5' 5 (1.65 m)
Weight	139 lbs (63 kg)
Turned Pro	1994
Plays	Right-handed (two-handed backhand)
Career Prize Money	$2,057,469
Singles
Career record:	1 WTA, 10 ITF
Career titles:	383-294
Highest ranking:	No. 19 (May 13, 2002)
Grand Slam results
Australian Open	4r (1998)
French Open	3r (2002)
Wimbledon	4r (1998-2002, 2004)
U.S. Open	4r (2003)
Doubles
Career record:	171-165
Career titles:	5 WTA, 3 ITF
Highest ranking:	No. 15 (September 13, 2004)
Infobox last updated on: January 15, 2007.

Tanasugarn on the right in this photo, with her doubles partner Su-Wei Hsieh

Tamarine Tanasugarn (แทมมารีน ธนสุกาญจน) (born May 24, 1977, Los Angeles, California, USA) is a professional female tennis player from Thailand.

Her highest WTA Ranking has been World No. 19, a ranking she achieved on May 13, 2002. She was briefly a doubles partner with Maria Sharapova, with whom she won two titles in 2003.

1 WTA Tour titles (6)
2 External links

[edit] WTA Tour titles (6)

[edit] Singles (1)

Legend
Grand Slam (0)
WTA Championships (0)
Tier I Event (0)
WTA Tour (1)

No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Opponent in the final	Score
1.	9 February 2003	Hyderabad, India	Hard	Iroda Tulyaganova	6-4, 6-4

[edit] Singles finalist (6)

1996: Pattaya City (lost to Ruxandra Dragomir)
2000: Birmingham (lost to Lisa Raymond)
2001: Tokyo [Japan Open] (lost to Monica Seles)
2002: Canberra (lost to Anna Smashnova)
2002: Doha (lost to Monica Seles)
2006: Bangkok (lost to Vania King)

[edit] Doubles (5)

1998: Auckland (w/Miyagi)
2000: Shanghai (w/Osterloh)
2001: Bali (w/Dominikovic)
2003: Tokyo [Japan Open] (w/Sharapova)
2003: Luxembourg (w/Sharapova)

[edit] External links

WTA Tour profile for Tamarine Tanasugarn

Women's Tennis Association \| Top ten Asian female tennis players as of April 02, 2007
1. Na Li (China) (18) • 2. Ai Sugiyama (Japan) (26) • 3. Shuai Peng (China) (37) • 4. Jie Zheng (China) (41) • 5. Sania Mirza (India) (46) • 6. Akiko Morigami (Japan) (55) • 7. Aiko Nakamura (Japan) (63) • 8. Tamarine Tanasugarn (Thailand) (68) • 9. Varvara Lepchenko (Uzbekistan) (89)• 9. Yung-Jan Chan (Chienese Taipei) (93)
Possible inclusions: Maria Sharapova (Russia) (2) (born in Asian part of bicontinental Russia) • Shahar Pe'er (Israel) (16) (Israel is considered part of Europe by the ITF) • Elena Likhovtseva (Russia) (50) (born in Kazakhstan, represents bicontinental Russia)