Paula Cabezas
Full name | Paula Andrea Cabezas |
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Country (sports) | ![]() |
Born | Santiago, Chile | 21 August 1972
Prize money | $67,345 |
Singles | |
Career record | 166–87 |
Career titles | 14 ITF |
Highest ranking | No. 212 (14 April 1997) |
Doubles | |
Career record | 126–61 |
Career titles | 17 ITF |
Highest ranking | No. 178 (8 June 1992) |
Team competitions | |
Fed Cup | 49–21 |
Paula Andrea Cabezas (born 21 August 1972) is a Chilean former professional tennis player.
Biography
[edit]Born in Santiago, Cabezas competed on the professional tour in the 1990s, mostly on the ITF Circuit, winning 14 singles and 17 doubles titles. Her WTA Tour performances include a semifinal appearance in the doubles at São Paulo in 1991, partnering with Andrea Vieira. She qualified for her only singles main draw at the 1995 Puerto Rico Open. She reached a best singles ranking of 212 in the world, attained in 1997.[1]
During her career, she featured in a total of 39 ties for the Chile Fed Cup team. This included a World Group fixture against defending champions Spain in 1994, where she lost a singles match to world No. 2, Arantxa Sánchez Vicario.[2] She won 49 matches overall, 23 of them in doubles, both of which are national records.
Cabezas represented Chile in doubles at the 1996 Atlanta Olympics and was a multiple Pan American Games medalist. She won a bronze medal at the 1991 Pan American Games in Havana and a silver at the 1999 Pan American Games in Winnipeg, both in doubles.
She now lives in Barcelona and competes on the ITF seniors circuit under Spanish nationality.[3][4]
ITF Circuit finals
[edit]$25,000 tournaments |
$10,000 tournaments |
Singles: 19 (14 titles, 5 runner-ups)
[edit]Outcome | No. | Date | Tournament | Surface | Opponent | Score |
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Winner | 1. | 9 September 1991 | ITF Guayaquil, Ecuador | Clay | ![]() |
6–1, 6–7(6), 6–1 |
Winner | 2. | 1 October 1991 | ITF La Paz, Bolivia | Clay | ![]() |
6–2, 6–2 |
Winner | 3. | 7 October 1991 | ITF Santiago, Chile | Clay | ![]() |
7–5, 6–3 |
Winner | 4. | 3 November 1991 | ITF Porto Alegre, Brazil | Clay | ![]() |
6–7(9), 7–5, 6–2 |
Winner | 5. | 6 September 1993 | ITF Caracas, Venezuela | Clay | ![]() |
5–7, 6–2, 6–3 |
Runner-up | 1. | 26 September 1993 | ITF Guayaquil, Ecuador | Clay | ![]() |
5–7, 2–6 |
Winner | 6. | 11 October 1993 | ITF Santiago, Chile | Clay | ![]() |
6–3, 6–4 |
Winner | 7. | 14 March 1994 | ITF Mexico City, Mexico | Clay | ![]() |
6–3, 4–6, 6–2 |
Winner | 8. | 27 March 1994 | ITF Puerto Vallarta, Mexico | Clay | ![]() |
6–2, 6–3 |
Winner | 9. | 15 May 1994 | ITF Acapulco, Mexico | Clay | ![]() |
6–2, 6–2 |
Runner-up | 2. | 6 November 1994 | ITF Freeport, Bahamas | Clay | ![]() |
6–3, 1–6, 5–7 |
Runner-up | 3. | 13 November 1994 | ITF Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic | Clay | ![]() |
3–6, 2–6 |
Winner | 10. | 20 November 1994 | ITF San Salvador, El Salvador | Hard | ![]() |
6–2, 6–2 |
Winner | 11. | 4 June 1995 | ITF Sevilla, Spain | Clay | ![]() |
6–1, 6–3 |
Winner | 12. | 13 October 1996 | ITF Mexico City, Mexico | Hard | ![]() |
2–6, 6–3, 6–2 |
Winner | 13. | 20 October 1996 | ITF Coatzacoalcos, Mexico | Hard | ![]() |
5–7, 7–5, 6–2 |
Runner-up | 4. | 31 August 1997 | ITF Guayaquil, Ecuador | Clay | ![]() |
7–6(0), 5–7, 6–7(4) |
Runner-up | 5. | 12 April 1998 | ITF Viña del Mar, Chile | Clay | ![]() |
2–6, 4–6 |
Winner | 14. | 27 September 1998 | ITF Santiago, Chile | Clay | ![]() |
6–4, 7–5 |
Doubles: 25 (17 titles, 8 runner-ups)
[edit]Outcome | No. | Date | Tournament | Surface | Partner | Opponents | Score |
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Winner | 1. | 14 October 1990 | ITF La Paz, Bolivia | Clay | ![]() |
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6–2, 4–6, 7–5 |
Runner-up | 1. | 22 October 1990 | ITF Santiago, Chile | Clay | ![]() |
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6–3, 1–6, 5–7 |
Winner | 2. | 9 September 1991 | ITF Guayaquil, Ecuador | Clay | ![]() |
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6–1, 7–5 |
Winner | 3. | 16 September 1991 | ITF Bogotá, Colombia | Clay | ![]() |
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6–4, 6–2 |
Runner-up | 2. | 30 September 1991 | ITF La Paz, Bolivia | Clay | ![]() |
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3–6, 5–7 |
Winner | 4. | 13 October 1991 | ITF Santiago, Chile | Clay | ![]() |
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7–5, 2–6, 6–4 |
Winner | 5. | 4 November 1991 | ITF Florianópolis, Brazil | Clay | ![]() |
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3–6, 6–2, 6–2 |
Runner-up | 3. | 11 November 1991 | ITF Rio de Janeiro, Brazil | Clay | ![]() |
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2–6, 3–6 |
Winner | 6. | 18 October 1992 | ITF Santiago, Chile | Clay | ![]() |
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3–6, 6–4, 6–4 |
Winner | 7. | 29 November 1992 | ITF Buenos Aires, Argentina | Clay | ![]() |
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6–2, 6–1 |
Runner-up | 4. | 7 June 1993 | ITF Caserta, Italy | Clay | ![]() |
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6–2, 2–6, 3–6 |
Runner-up | 5. | 20 September 1993 | ITF Guayaquil, Ecuador | Clay | ![]() |
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2–6, 1–6 |
Winner | 8. | 21 March 1994 | ITF Puerto Vallarta, Mexico | Clay | ![]() |
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6–1, 6–2 |
Winner | 9. | 9 May 1994 | ITF Acapulco, Mexico | Clay | ![]() |
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3–6, 6–2, 6–1 |
Winner | 10. | 17 July 1994 | ITF Vigo, Spain | Clay | ![]() |
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6–4, 6–3 |
Winner | 11. | 19 September 1994 | ITF Guayaquil, Ecuador | Clay | ![]() |
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6–4, 6–4 |
Winner | 12. | 6 May 1996 | ITF Amazonas, Brazil | Hard | ![]() |
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6–1, 6–3 |
Runner-up | 6. | 6 October 1996 | ITF Puerto Vallarta, Mexico | Hard | ![]() |
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6–4, 5–7, 3–6 |
Winner | 13. | 31 August 1997 | ITF Guayaquil, Ecuador | Clay | ![]() |
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6–1, 6–4 |
Runner-up | 7. | 6 April 1998 | ITF Viña del Mar, Chile | Clay | ![]() |
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3–6, 4–6 |
Runner-up | 8. | 4 May 1998 | ITF Tampico, Mexico | Hard | ![]() |
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6–7, 5–7 |
Winner | 14. | 11 May 1998 | ITF Poza Rica, Mexico | Hard | ![]() |
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3–6, 6–2, 6–2 |
Winner | 15. | 18 May 1998 | ITF Coatzacoalcos, Mexico | Hard | ![]() |
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6–3, 6–2 |
Winner | 16. | 17 August 1998 | ITF Ibarra, Ecuador | Clay | ![]() |
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6–3, 6–4 |
Winner | 17. | 21 September 1998 | ITF Santiago, Chile | Clay | ![]() |
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6–4, 6–1 |
References
[edit]- ^ Cavalla, Mario (2006). Historia del tenis en Chile, 1882-2006 (in Spanish). Ocho Libros Editores. p. 294. ISBN 9568018263.
- ^ "Tennis: Spain too hot for Chile". The Independent. 20 July 1994. Archived from the original on 2022-05-25.
- ^ Chacoff, Diego Espinoza (23 April 2018). "Daniela Seguel: "A las deportistas mujeres se les destaca más si son bonitas o no que por cómo lo hacen"". Publimetro Chile (in Spanish).
- ^ "ITF Tennis - Seniors - Player Profile - Cabezas, Paula (ESP)". itftennis.com.
External links
[edit]- 1972 births
- Living people
- Chilean female tennis players
- Tennis players from Santiago
- Chilean emigrants to Spain
- Tennis players at the 1996 Summer Olympics
- Olympic tennis players for Chile
- Pan American Games silver medalists for Chile
- Pan American Games bronze medalists for Chile
- Pan American Games medalists in tennis
- Tennis players at the 1991 Pan American Games
- Tennis players at the 1999 Pan American Games
- South American Games medalists in tennis
- South American Games gold medalists for Chile
- South American Games bronze medalists for Chile
- Competitors at the 1990 South American Games
- Competitors at the 1994 South American Games
- Competitors at the 1998 South American Games
- Medalists at the 1999 Pan American Games
- 20th-century Chilean women