Carla Suárez Navarro

Carla Suárez Navarro

Carla in action at the 2015 Mutua Madrid Open
Country (sports)	Spain
Residence	Barcelona
Born	(1988-09-03) September 3, 1988 Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain
Height	1.62 m (5 ft 4 in)
Turned pro	2003
Plays	Right-handed (one-handed backhand)
Prize money	$ 6,599,503
Singles
Career record	404–255 (61.31%)
Career titles	1 WTA, 6 ITF
Highest ranking	No. 8 (18 May 2015)
Current ranking	No. 8 (8 February 2016)
Grand Slam Singles results
Australian Open	QF (2009, 2016)
French Open	QF (2008, 2014)
Wimbledon	4R (2013)
US Open	QF (2013)
Doubles
Career record	123–115
Career titles	3 WTA, 4 ITF
Highest ranking	No. 11 (27 April 2015)
Current ranking	No. 16 (8 February 2016)
Grand Slam Doubles results
Australian Open	QF (2013)
French Open	SF (2014)
Wimbledon	3R (2013, 2014)
US Open	3R (2014)
Other doubles tournaments
Tour Finals	F (2015)
Last updated on: 8 February 2016.

Carla Suárez Navarro (born September 3, 1988 in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria) is a Spanish tennis player. She began playing for Spain in the 2008 Fed Cup. On April 18, 2015, she reached her career high ranking at World No. 8.

Suárez Navarro first came to prominence by reaching the quarter-finals of the 2008 French Open as a qualifier, in what was her first appearance in the main draw of a Grand Slam tournament and only her third appearance in the main draw of a WTA Tour tournament. She also reached the quarter-finals of the 2009 Australian Open, defeating Venus Williams en route, the 2013 US Open, where she lost to eventual champion Serena Williams, the 2014 French Open, where she lost in three sets to Eugenie Bouchard and the quarter-finals of the 2016 Australian Open, where she lost to Agnieszka Radwańska.

Career

2008–2009

Suárez playing at the 2008 Wimbledon Championships

At the French Open, Suárez Navarro reached the quarter-finals of her first Grand Slam main draw tournament. After she won three qualifying matches, she defeated former World No. 1 Amélie Mauresmo of France in the second round 6–3, 6–4, Australian Casey Dellacqua in the third round, and 26th-seeded Italian Flavia Pennetta in the fourth round 6–3, 6–2. Suárez Navarro then lost to third-seeded Jelena Janković in the quarterfinals 6–3, 6–2. At Wimbledon, Suárez Navarro lost to second-seeded Janković in the second round 6–1, 6–3.

Suárez Navarro reached the second Grand Slam quarterfinal of her career at the 2009 Australian Open before being defeated by Elena Dementieva 6–2, 6–2. She upset Venus Williams in the second round 2–6, 6–3, 7–5. This was her first win over a top 10 player.

In March, Suárez Navarro reached her first final on the WTA Tour at the Andalucia Tennis Experience, a clay court event in Marbella, Spain. She lost to Jelena Janković in the final 6–3, 3–6, 6–3.

At Roland Garros seeded 22, she defeated Edina Gallovits 6–1, 6–4 and Lucie Hradecká 6–2, 6–4, before losing to Victoria Azarenka in the third round 7–5, 5–7, 2–6.

At Wimbledon, Suárez Navarro defeated #25 Kaia Kanepi in the first round and Ekaterina Makarova in the second round. She faced defending champion Venus Williams for the first time since the 2009 Australian Open but was unable to repeat the upset win, losing 0–6, 4–6.

2010

Suárez Navarro had a good start to 2010, making the second round of the 2010 ASB Classic in Auckland before losing to top seed Flavia Pennetta in straight sets. She then made the quarter-final of the 2010 Moorilla Hobart International before losing to No.2 seed Shahar Pe'er 6–4, 6–7, 5–7.

At the 2010 Australian Open, Suárez Navarro made it to the third round before losing to top seed, the defending (and eventual) champion Serena Williams, 0–6, 3–6.

She was upset in the first round of the 2010 Copa BBVA-Colsanitas by World No.198 Kristina Antoniychuk 1–6, 4–6, then made it to the semi-finals of the 2010 Abierto Mexicano Telcel in Acapulco before losing to Polona Hercog 3–6, 5–7.

Unseeded at the 2010 BNP Paribas Open at Indian Wells, California, Suárez Navarro reached the fourth round, losing to Alisa Kleybanova 6–2, 6–7, 4–6. Along the way, she gained one of the biggest wins of her career by defeating World No.3 and top seed Svetlana Kuznetsova 6–4, 4–6, 6–1 in the second round.

She reached the final of the Andalucia Tennis Experience in Marbella for the second year in a row, losing to Flavia Pennetta 2–6, 6–4, 3–6.

Suarez Navarro suffered an ankle injury at the tournament in Fes, Morocco. She returned to play in the 2010 French Open, losing her first-round match to Olga Govortsova 6–7, 1–6, she remained sidelined until the 2010 US Open.

2011

Carla began the season at the 2011 ASB Classic in Auckland. As the ninth seed, she was upset in round two by Heather Watson. She also lost early in Hobart to Alberta Brianti.

Going into the Australian Open, she defeated American Christina McHale by 4–6, 6–3, 6–4; but lost to eventual titlist Kim Clijsters of Belgium in the following round. Next she represented Spain at the Fed Cup against Estonia in Tallinn, where she had a 1–1 record; getting past Anett Kontaveit but falling to Kaia Kanepi.

Then, Suárez followed an early loss in Paris with a semifinal and a quarterfinal, in Bogotá and Acapulco, respectively. An elbow injury caused her to stop playing for two and a half months and withdraw from Roland Garros.

She returned to the competition at the 2011 Open GDF Suez de Marseille, where she beat Sun Shengnan and Aleksandra Wozniak to make the quarterfinals, but was beaten by homecrowd favourite Pauline Parmentier.

She failed to qualify for Wimbledon, losing to Ekaterina Ivanova in round two.

In early September, Suárez reached round four of the US Open for the first time, defeating Mathilde Johansson, Simona Halep and compatriot Silvia Soler Espinosa. However, her run was ended by Andrea Petkovic.

2012

Carla Suárez Navarro was impressive in the 2012 French Open, reaching the third round. In the first round, Suarez Navarro comfortably beat Tamarine Tanasugarn, 6–0, 6–2. In the second round she faced Sesil Karatantcheva of Kazakhstan, and beat her 4–6, 6–4, 6–1. In the third round she lost to Yaroslava Shvedova, also from Kazakhstan, 6–4, 7–5, who had just returned from an injury.

At Wimbledon 2012 Carla Suárez Navarro only made it to the first round, but it was against fifth seed Samantha Stosur of Australia. She was well beaten losing 6–1, 6–3.

At Italiacom Open, she reached the quarterfinals, losing to Laura Robson 4–6 6–2 3–6.^[1]

In the London 2012 Olympics, she beat Samantha Stosur in a thrilling first round match, 3–6, 7–5, 10–8,^[2] avenging her first round defeat to the Australian at Wimbledon the previous month.

2015: Top 10 WTA Ranking

At the 2015 Australian Open she lost in the first round to Carina Witthöft in straight sets. At the 2015 BNP Paribas Open she reached the Quarter Finals before losing to Simona Halep in three sets. Her good form on the American Hardcourts continued with a run to her first Premier Mandatory final at the 2015 Miami Open. She defeated Agnieszka Radwańska, Venus Williams and Andrea Petkovic before losing, 2-6, 0-6, in the final to Serena Williams. Despite this defeat she entered the top ten of the world rankings for the first time in her career. Another good run at the 2015 Mutua Madrid Open resulted in a quarter final defeat to Williams, again in straight sets. In Rome at the 2015 Internazionali BNL d'Italia she reached her first final at Premier 5 level. She recorded three victories over top ten at the same event for the first time with victories over Eugenie Bouchard, Petra Kvitová and Simona Halep before losing to Maria Sharapova in three sets

At the 2015 French Open she was seeded eighth. She lost to Jelena Ostapenko in the first round of Wimbledon that year, and her results for the rest of the year were undistinguished apart from reaching the quarterfinals in Moscow in October and a crushing 6-0 6-0 victory over an injured Andrea Petkovic at Zhuhai in November. Carla ended the year ranked 13th.

2016

Carla made a good start to the year. She made the semifinals at Brisbane, losing to Angelique Kerber, and the quarterfinals of the Australian Open, losing to Agnieszka Radwańska. As a result she moved back up to her highest ranking so far, 8th, on February 1.

Playing style

Suárez Navarro uses a single-handed backhand, unlike most female players of her era.^[3] She has said in interviews that her favorite shot is her cross-court backhand and that her favorite surfaces are clay and hard. Frew McMillan has said, "There's something of Justine Henin about her game. She has a great variety of shots."^[4]

Apparel and equipment

Suárez Navarro wears Lotto clothing and uses Wilson racquets.

Significant finals

Year-End Championships finals

Doubles: 1 (1 runner-up)

Outcome	Year	Tournament	Surface	Partner	Opponents	Score
Runner-up	2015	Singapore	Hard (i)	Garbiñe Muguruza	Martina Hingis Sania Mirza	0–6, 3–6

WTA Premier Mandatory & Premier 5 finals

Singles: 2 (2 runners-up)

Outcome	Year	Championship	Surface	Opponent	Score
Runner-up	2015	Miami Open	Hard	Serena Williams	2–6, 0–6
Runner-up	2015	Italian Open	Clay	Maria Sharapova	6–4, 5–7, 1–6

Doubles: 3 (3 runners-up)

Outcome	Year	Championship	Surface	Partner	Opponents	Score
Runner-up	2014	Madrid Open	Clay	Garbiñe Muguruza	Sara Errani Roberta Vinci	4–6, 3–6
Runner-up	2015	Dubai Tennis Championships	Hard	Garbiñe Muguruza	Tímea Babos Kristina Mladenovic	3–6, 2–6
Runner-up	2015	Madrid Open	Clay	Garbiñe Muguruza	Casey Dellacqua Yaroslava Shvedova	3–6, 7–6(7–4), [5–10]

WTA career finals

Singles: 9 (1 title, 8 runners-up)

Outcome	No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Opponent	Score
Runner-up	1.	April 12, 2009	Andalucia Tennis Experience, Marbella, Spain	Clay	Jelena Janković	3–6, 6–3, 3–6
Runner-up	2.	April 11, 2010	Andalucia Tennis Experience, Marbella, Spain (2)	Clay	Flavia Pennetta	2–6, 6–4, 3–6
Runner-up	3.	May 5, 2012	Estoril Open, Estoril, Portugal	Clay	Kaia Kanepi	6–3, 6–7(6–8),4–6
Runner-up	4.	March 2, 2013	Abierto Mexicano Telcel, Acapulco, Mexico	Clay	Sara Errani	0–6, 4–6
Runner-up	5.	May 4, 2013	Portugal Open, Oeiras, Portugal	Clay	Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova	5–7, 2–6
Winner	1.	May 3, 2014	Portugal Open, Oeiras, Portugal	Clay	Svetlana Kuznetsova	6–4, 3–6, 6–4
Runner-up	6.	February 15, 2015	Diamond Games, Antwerp, Belgium	Hard	Andrea Petkovic	walkover
Runner-up	7.	April 4, 2015	Miami Open, Miami, United States	Hard	Serena Williams	2–6, 0–6
Runner-up	8.	May 17, 2015	Internazionali BNL d'Italia, Rome, Italy	Clay	Maria Sharapova	6–4, 5–7, 1–6

Doubles: 8 (3 title, 5 runners-up)

Outcome	No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Partner	Opponent	Score
Runner-up	1.	10 May 2014	Mutua Madrid Open, Madrid, Spain	Clay	Garbiñe Muguruza	Sara Errani Roberta Vinci	4–6, 3–6
Winner	1.	3 August 2014	Bank of the West Classic, Stanford, United States	Hard	Garbiñe Muguruza	Paula Kania Kateřina Siniaková	6–2, 4–6, [10–5]
Runner-up	2.	20 September 2014	Toray Pan Pacific Open, Tokyo, Japan	Hard	Garbiñe Muguruza	Cara Black Sania Mirza	2–6, 5–7
Runner-up	3.	21 February 2015	Dubai Tennis Championships, Dubai, UAE	Hard	Garbiñe Muguruza	Tímea Babos Kristina Mladenovic	3–6, 2–6
Runner-up	4.	9 May 2015	Mutua Madrid Open, Madrid, Spain	Clay	Garbiñe Muguruza	Casey Dellacqua Yaroslava Shvedova	3–6, 7–6(7–4), [5–10]
Winner	2.	21 June 2015	Aegon Classic, Birmingham, Great Britain	Grass	Garbiñe Muguruza	Andrea Hlaváčková Lucie Hradecká	6-4, 6-4
Winner	3.	26 September 2015	Toray Pan Pacific Open, Tokyo, Japan	Hard	Garbiñe Muguruza	Yung-jan Chan Hao-Ching Chan	7–5, 6–1
Runner-up	5.	1 November 2015	WTA Finals, Singapore, Singapore	Hard	Garbiñe Muguruza	Martina Hingis Sania Mirza	0–6, 3–6

Singles performance timeline

Key

Won tournament; reached the Finals; Semifinals; Quarterfinals; Rounds 4, 3, 2, 1; competed at a Round Robin stage; reached a Qualification Round; absent from tournament event; played in a Davis Cup or Fed Cup Zonal Group (with its number indication) or Play-off; won a Bronze, Silver (F or S) or Gold medal at the Olympics; a downgraded Masters Series/1000 tournament (Not a Masters Series); or a tournament that was Not Held in a given year.

To avoid confusion and double counting, these charts are updated either at the conclusion of a tournament, or when the player's participation in the tournament has ended.

Tournament	2007	2008	2009	2010	2011	2012	2013	2014	2015	2016	W–L
Grand Slam Tournaments
Australian Open	A	Q2	QF	3R	2R	2R	3R	3R	1R	QF	16–8
French Open	A	QF	3R	1R	A	3R	4R	QF	3R		17–7
Wimbledon	A	2R	3R	A	Q2	1R	4R	2R	1R		7–6
US Open	Q2	1R	2R	1R	4R	2R	QF	3R	1R		11–8
Win–Loss	0–0	5–3	9–4	2–3	4–2	4–4	12–4	9–4	2–4	4-1	51–29
Olympic Games
Summer Olympics	NH	1R	Not Held			2R	Not Held				1–2
WTA Premier Mandatory Tournaments
Indian Wells	A	A	2R	4R	A	2R	3R	3R	QF		9–6
Miami	A	A	3R	2R	A	1R	3R	4R	F		10–6
Madrid	Not Held		1R	A	A	2R	2R	3R	QF		7–5
Beijing	Tier II		1R	Q2	2R	QF	3R	3R	3R		6–4
Win–Loss	0–0	0–0	1–4	4–2	1–1	4–4	5–4	7–4	11–3		33–22
WTA Premier 5 Tournaments
Dubai	Tier II		A	A	A	Not Premier 5			QF		2–1
Doha	Tier II	A	Not Held		NP5	1R	1R	A	NP5		0–2
Rome	A	A	2R	A	A	Q1	QF	QF	F		12–4
Canada	A	A	1R	A	A	2R	3R	QF	1R		6–4
Cincinnati	Tier III		1R	A	Q1	1R	1R	3R	1R		2–4
Tokyo	A	A	1R	A	A	1R	1R	NP5			0–3
Wuhan	Not Held							2R	3R		1–1
Win–Loss	0–0	0–0	1–4	0–0	0–0	1–4	5–5	9–4	7–2		23–19
Career Statistics	2007	2008	2009	2010	2011	2012	2013	2014	2015	2016	No.
Titles	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0		1
Finals Reached	0	0	1	1	0	1	2	1	3		9
Year-End Ranking	169	50	34	57	56	34	17	18	13

Grand Slam Doubles performance timeline

Wins over Top 10's per season

#	Player	Rank	Event	Surface	Round	Score
2009
1.	Venus Williams	No. 6	Australian Open, Melbourne, Australia	Hard	2nd Round	2–6, 6–3, 7–5
2010
2.	Svetlana Kuznetsova	No. 3	Indian Wells, United States	Hard	2nd Round	6–4, 4–6, 6–1
2012
3.	Samantha Stosur	No. 5	Olympics, London, United Kingdom	Grass	1st Round	3–6, 7–5, 10–8
4.	Petra Kvitová	No. 5	Beijing, China	Hard	2nd Round	6–3, 6–2
2013
5.	Sara Errani	No. 7	Australian Open, Melbourne, Australia	Hard	1st Round	6–4, 6–4
6.	Caroline Wozniacki	No. 10	Stuttgart, Germany	Clay (i)	1st Round	7–6(8–6), 6–1
7.	Samantha Stosur	No. 9	Madrid, Spain	Clay	1st Round	7–6(9–7), 6–2
8.	Angelique Kerber	No. 10	US Open, New York City, United States	Hard	4th Round	4–6, 6–3, 7–6(7–3)
2014
9.	Petra Kvitová	No. 6	Dubai, United Arab Emirates	Hard	2nd Round	1–6, 6–4, 7–6(7–4)
10.	Angelique Kerber	No. 7	Stuttgart, Germany	Clay (i)	2nd Round	7–5, 6–4
11.	Maria Sharapova	No. 6	Rogers Cup, Canada	Hard	3rd Round	6–2, 4–6, 6–2
2015
12.	Ekaterina Makarova	No. 10	Sydney, Australia	Hard	2nd Round	4–6, 6–4, 6–1
13.	Petra Kvitová	No. 3	Dubai, United Arab Emirates	Hard	3rd Round	6–3, 4–6, 6–3
14.	Petra Kvitová	No. 4	Doha, Qatar	Hard	3rd Round	3–6, 6–0, 6–3
15.	Agnieszka Radwańska	No. 8	Miami, United States	Hard	4th Round	5–7, 6–0, 6–4
16.	Andrea Petkovic	No. 10	Miami, United States	Hard	Semifinals	6–3, 6–3
17.	Ana Ivanovic	No. 7	Madrid, Spain	Clay	3rd Round	7–5, 1–6, 6–4
18.	Eugenie Bouchard	No. 6	Rome, Italy	Clay	3rd Round	6–7(2–7), 7–5, 7–6(9–7)
19.	Petra Kvitová	No. 4	Rome, Italy	Clay	Quarterfinals	6–3, 6–2
20.	Simona Halep	No. 2	Rome, Italy	Clay	Semifinals	2–6, 6–3, 7–5

Head-to-head vs. top 10 ranked players

Players who have been ranked World No. 1 are in boldface.

References

External links

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Women's Tennis Association: Top Spanish female singles tennis players as of 18 January 2016 1. Garbiñe Muguruza (3 ) 2. Carla Suárez Navarro (11 ) 3. Lara Arruabarrena (86 ) 4. Lourdes Domínguez Lino (100 ) 5. María Teresa Torró Flor (125 ) 6. Sílvia Soler Espinosa (151 ) 7. Sara Sorribes Tormo (179 ) 8. Laura Pous Tió (181 ) 9. Paula Badosa Gibert (228 ) 10. Georgina García Pérez (302 )