Neuza Silva

Neuza Silva

Country	Portugal
Residence	Amadora, Portugal
Born	(1983-05-04) 4 May 1983 Setúbal, Portugal
Height	5 ft 7 in (1.70 m)
Turned pro	1999
Retired	12 September 2010
Plays	Right-handed (one-handed backhand)
Prize money	US$172,509
Singles
Career record	226–145 (61%)
Career titles	0 WTA, 12 ITF
Highest ranking	No. 133 (6 July 2009)
Grand Slam Singles results
Australian Open	Q2 (2009)
French Open	Q2 (2009)
Wimbledon	1R (2009)
US Open	Q3 (2008)
Doubles
Career record	145–85 (63%)
Career titles	0 WTA, 18 ITF
Highest ranking	No. 185 (6 July 2008)
Last updated on: 12 September 2010.

Neuza Silva (born 4 May 1983) is a retired Portuguese professional tennis player. Her career high WTA singles ranking was 133, which she reached on 6 July 2009; her career high doubles ranking is 185, set at 6 July 2008. Silva regularly competed for the Portugal Fed Cup team, and had a total win–loss record of 16–6.

Career

Silva debuted in the ITF Circuit in Vila do Conde with a first round loss. Her first high level match came in 2002 at the Estoril Open, followed soon by her first presence in the Fed Cup. Both matches resulted in defeat.

Her greatest moment came at home at the 2004 Estoril Open when she defeated Julia Schruff, the previous year finalist, 3–6, 7–6(5), 7–6(8), to become the first Portuguese female player to win a singles match at the tournament. She would then lose to fourth seed Denisa Chládková 6–2, 6–1.

The year 2009 proved to be a breakthrough year for Silva. In February, she entered her first Tour event outside of Portugal in Pattaya and reached the second round, defeating Jessica Moore 6–2, 6–1 before losing to home player and sixth seed Tamarine Tanasugarn 6–3, 6–2.

In May, at Estoril, she played first seed Iveta Benešová in the first round, losing 6–4, 5–7, 6–4. In doubles, with Alexandra Dulgheru, she reached the quarterfinals.

On 18 June 2009, Silva qualified for her first Grand Slam tournament at Wimbledon, where she lost to second seed Serena Williams on 22 June 2009, 6–1, 7–5 in the first round.

Her next WTA Tour event was the Tashkent Open in September, where she lost in the first round 6–4, 3–6, 6–4 to eight seed Galina Voskoboeva.

2010 was an injured filled year for Silva, who missed most of the season. Her last match came in June during the 2010 Wimbledon Championships qualifying tournament where she lost in the first round against Michaëlla Krajicek 6–1, 6–3. Citing constant pain in both of her knees, Silva retired on 12 September 2010.

Singles performance timeline

• Fed Cup matches are included in the statistics. Walkovers are neither official wins nor official losses.

Fed Cup

Silva played for the Portugal Fed Cup team from 2002 to 2009. Her singles record is 9–6 and her doubles record is 9–3 (18–9 overall).

Participations (27)

Singles (15)

Edition	Round	Date	Against	Surface	Opponent	W–L	Result
2002 Fed Cup Europe/Africa Group I	RR	24 April 2002	Bulgaria	Clay	Desislava Topalova	Lose	6–7(4–7), 1–6
2005 Fed Cup Europe/Africa Group III	RR	26 April 2005	Moldova	Clay	Ina Sireteanu	Win	6–1, 6–1
	GIII Play-offs	28 April 2005	Bosnia and Herzegovina	Clay	Selma Babic	Win	6–3, 6–0
2007 Fed Cup Europe/Africa Group II	RR	17–19 April 2007	Bosnia and Herzegovina	Hard	Dijana Stojic	Win	6–3, 6–3
			Georgia		Oksana Kalashnikova	Win	7–5, 6–4
			Norway		Karoline Steiro	Win	6–2, 6–1
	GII Play-offs	20 April 2007	Greece	Hard	Asimina Kaplani	Win	6–2, 6–1
2008 Fed Cup Europe/Africa Group I	RR	30 January–3 February 2008	Bulgaria	Carpet	Tsvetana Pironkova	Lose	1–6, 0–6
			Netherlands		Arantxa Rus	Lose	5–7, 4–6
2009 Fed Cup Europe/Africa Group II	RR	22–24 April 2009	Morocco	Hard	Nadia Lalami	Win	6–1, 6–0
			Latvia		Irina Kuzmina	Win	6–2, 6–1
	GII Play-offs	25 April 2009	South Africa	Hard	Lizaan du Plessis	Win	6–2, 6–3
2010 Fed Cup Europe/Africa Group I	RR	4–5 February 2010	Cratia	Hard	Ajla Tomljanović	Lose	6–7(6–8), 4–6
			Switzerland		Amra Sadikovic	Lose	4–6, 1–6
	GI Play-offs	6 February 2010	Bulgaria	Hard	Dia Evtimova	Lose	1–6, 1–6

Doubles (12)

Edition	Round	Date	Partnering	Against	Surface	Opponents	W–L	Result
2002 Fed Cup Europe/Africa Group I	RR	26 April 2002	Angela Cardoso	Georgia	Clay	Margalita Chakhnashvili Salome Devidze	Lose	4–6, 3–6
2003 Fed Cup Europe/Africa Group II	RR	29 April–1 May 2003	Ana Catarina Nogueira	Norway	Clay	Karoline Borgersen Ina Sartz	Win	6–0, 6–2
			Frederica Piedade	Turkey		Pemra Özgen İpek Şenoğlu	Win	6–3, 2–6, 6–2
2005 Fed Cup Europe/Africa Group III	RR	29 April 2005	Ana Catarina Nogueira	Kenya	Clay	Caroline Oduor Tamara Orwa	Win	6–0, 6–0
	GIII Play-offs	30 April 2005	Ana Catarina Nogueira	Bosnia and Herzegovina	Clay	Selma Babic Sanja Racic	Win	6–1, 6–3
2006 Fed Cup Europe/Africa Group II	RR	26–28 April 2006	Ana Catarina Nogueira	Poland	Clay	Klaudia Jans Alicja Rosolska	Lose	2–6, 2–6
			Ana Catarina Nogueira	Latvia		Anastasija Sevastova Alise Vaidere	Win	6–3, 4–6, 6–2
			Ana Catarina Nogueira	Greece		Anna Gerasimou Anna Koumantou	Win	6–2, 3–6, 6–4
2009 Fed Cup Europe/Africa Group II	RR	22–24 April 2009	Frederica Piedade	Morocco	Hard	Fatima El Allami Nadia Lalami	Win	6–0, 6–1
			Frederica Piedade	Latvia		Līga Dekmeijere Anastasija Sevastova	Lose	1–6, 1–6
2010 Fed Cup Europe/Africa Group I	RR	4–5 February 2010	Michelle Larcher de Brito	Croatia	Hard	Jelena Kostanić Tošić Silvia Njirić	Win	7–5, 6–4
			Maria João Koehler	Romania		Irina-Camelia Begu Ioana Raluca Olaru	Win	7–5, 7–5

ITF titles (30)

Singles (12)

No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Opponent in the final	Score
1.	13 June 2004	Alcobaça	Hard	Lucía Jiménez	7–5, 5–7, 6–1
2.	24 October 2004	Évora	Hard	Laura Zelder	6–2, 2–6, RET
3.	26 June 2006	Alcobaça	Hard	Xinyun Han	6–3, 2–6, 7–5
4.	27 August 2006	Vlaardingen	Clay	Pauline Wong	6–1, 6–2
5.	17 September 2006	Lleida	Clay	Paula Fondevila Castro	5–7, 6–2, 7–6(7–2)
6.	25 February 2007	Portimão	Hard	Irena Pavlovic	7–6(7–2), 6–4
7.	2 June 2007	Braga	Clay	Stéphanie Vongsouthi	6–1, 6–4
8.	30 July 2007	La Coruña	Hard	Marina Erakovic	0–6, 7–5, 6–3
9.	27 January 2008	Kaarst	Carpet	Renee Reinhard	6–3, 6–1
10.	13 July 2008	Felixstowe	Grass	Sarah Borwell	6–3, 6–2
11.	3 August 2008	Vigo	Hard	Silvia Soler Espinosa	6–3, 6–1
12.	12 July 2009	La Coruña	Hard	Vesna Manasieva	6–3, 6–1

Doubles (18)

No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Partner	Opponent in the final	Score
1.	23 June 2002	Montemor-o-Novo	Hard	Carlota Santos	Alberta Brianti & Frederica Piedade	6–4, 6–2
2.	5 August 2002	Pontevedra	Hard	Frederica Piedade	Alberta Brianti & İpek Şenoğlu	6–2, 4–6, 6–2
3.	29 September 2002	Lleida	Clay	Frederica Piedade	Caroline Ann Basu & Aliénor Tricerri	6–7(5–7), 6–2, 6–4
4.	25 May 2003	Almeria	Hard	İpek Şenoğlu	Romy Farah & Astrid Waernes	7–5, 5–7, 6–3
5.	3 August 2003	Pontevedra	Hard	Gabriela Velasco Andreu	Veronika Litvinskaya & Elena Poliakova	6–0, 6–1
6.	16 May 2004	Monzón	Hard	Larissa Carvalho	Joana Cortez & Marina Tavares	6–2, 6–4
7.	29 August 2005	Amarante	Hard	Joana Cortez	Flavia Mignola & Gabriela Velasco Andreu	6–2, 6–3
8.	11 October 2005	Bolton	Hard	Daniela Kix	Veronika Chvojková & Claire Peterzan	6–0, 6–2
9.	11 October 2006	Mallorca	Clay	Nuria Sanchez Garcia	Anja Prislan & Laura Siegemund	6–3, 6–1
10.	30 January 2007	Hull	Hard	Claire de Gubernatis	Danielle Brown & Elizabeth Thomas	6–7(2–7), 7–5, 6–4
11.	25 February 2007	Portimão	Hard	Nicole Thijssen	Jessica Lehnhoff & Robin Stephenson	6–4, 6–2
12.	26 March 2007	Athens	Hard	Nicole Thijssen	Anna Koumantou & Pemra Özgen	6–2, 6–4
13.	26 May 2007	Fuerteventura	Carpet	Nicole Thijssen	Mariana Duque Marino & Roxane Vaisemberg	6–1, 6–2
14.	9 July 2007	Mont-de-Marsan	Clay	Nina Bratchikova	Joana Cortez & Teliana Pereira	6–3, 7–6(7–3)
15.	10 August 2007	Coimbra	Hard	Kira Nagy	Magdalena Kiszczyńska & Yanina Wickmayer	6–3, 3–6, 7–5
16.	5 July 2008	Mont-de-Marsan	Clay	İpek Şenoğlu	Melanie Klaffner & Frederica Piedade	6–4, 6–2
17.	27 July 2008	La Coruña	Hard	Nicole Thijssen	Karen Emilia Castiblanco Duarte & Paula Zabala	6–2, 6–2
18.	3 August 2008	Vigo	Hard	Nicole Thijssen	Nina Bratchikova & Frederica Piedade	6–2, 6–4

See also

• Luso Ténis Profile (in Portuguese)

External links

• Neuza Silva at the Women's Tennis Association
• Neuza Silva at the Fed Cup
• Neuza Silva at the International Tennis Federation