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Medal record
Competitor for Spain
Woman's Tennis

Ana Isabel "Anabel" Medina Garrigues
Country	Spain
Residence	Valencia, Spain
Date of birth	31 July 1982 (age 27)
Place of birth	Valencia, Spain
Height	1.69 m (5 ft 61⁄2 in)
Weight	59 kg (130 lb; 9.3 st)
Turned pro	January 1998
Retired	Active
Plays	Right; Two-handed backhand
Career prize money	$3,346,570
Singles
Career record	370–237
Career titles	9 WTA (6 ITF)
Highest ranking	No. 16 (4 May 2009)
Current ranking	No. 28 (2 November 2009)
Grand Slam results
Australian Open	4R (2002, 2009)
French Open	4R (2007)
Wimbledon	3R (2006, 2008, 2009)
US Open	3R (2005, 2007)
Doubles
Career record	245–156
Career titles	13 WTA (3 ITF)
Highest ranking	No. 3 (10 November 2008)
Grand Slam Doubles results
Australian Open	SF (2008)
French Open	W (2008, 2009)
Wimbledon	SF (2009)
US Open	3R (2007)
	Last updated on: 28 September 2009.

This is a Spanish name; the first family name is Medina and the second is Garrigues.

Ana Isabel Medina Garrigues (born 31 July 1982 in Torrent, Valencia), better known as Anabel Medina, is a Spanish female tennis player. She reached a career high WTA Tour ranking of No. 16 on 4 May, 2009, and has won nine singles titles and 12 doubles titles, including the 2008 French Open and 2009 French Open with Virginia Ruano Pascual. Like many of her Spanish compatriots, she is a very crafty clay court specialist who grinds to win most of her rallies. However, unlike most of her fellow Spaniards, she prefers to play on hard courts. Currently she is the highest ranked female from her country. Sitting at Number 25 in the WTA Rankings as of October 29, 2009.

[edit] Career

She won the WTA tournament in Strasbourg, France, beating Katarina Srebotnik in the final in May 2008, thus defending the title she won the previous year against Amélie Mauresmo. Her other singles titles came in Palermo in 2006, 2005, 2004 and 2001; Canberra in 2006; Strasbourg in 2005 and Fès in 2009.

[edit] WTA Tour and ITF circuit titles

[edit] Singles wins (15)

Legend (Singles)
Grand Slam (0)
Tour Championships (0)
Tier I Event (0)
Tier II Event (0)
Tier III Event (4)
Tier IV-V Event (5)
ITF Circuit (6)
WTA International tournaments (0)

No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Opponent in final	Score in final
1.	4 April 1999	Pontevedra, Spain	Hard	Ángeles Montolio	6–1, 6–2
2.	10 September 2000	Denain, France	Clay	María José Martínez Sánchez	2–6, 7–5, 6–0
3.	15 July 2001	Palermo, Italy	Clay	Cristina Torrens Valero	6–4, 6–4
4.	7 October 2001	Girona, Spain	Clay	Angelika Roesch	6–4, 6–4
5.	29 June 2003	Perigueux, France	Clay	Celine Beigbeder	6–1, 6–2
6.	14 September 2003	Denain, France	Clay	Gala León García	6–4, 6–0
7.	13 June 2004	Marseille, France	Clay	Ľubomíra Kurhajcová	5–7, 6–3, 6–3
8.	25 July 2004	Palermo, Italy	Clay	Flavia Pennetta	6–4, 6–4
9.	21 May 2005	Strasbourg, France	Clay	Marta Domachowska	6–4, 6–3
10.	24 July 2005	Palermo, Italy	Clay	Klara Koukalová	6–4, 6–0
11.	13 January 2006	Canberra, Australia	Hard	Yoon Jeong Cho	6–4, 0–6, 6–4
12.	23 July 2006	Palermo, Italy	Clay	Tathiana Garbin	6–4, 6–4
13.	26 May 2007	Strasbourg, France	Clay	Amélie Mauresmo	6–4, 4–6, 6–4
14.	24 May 2008	Strasbourg, France	Clay	Katarina Srebotnik	4-6, 7-6(4), 6-0
15.	2 May 2009	Fes, Morocco	Clay	Ekaterina Makarova	6-0, 6-1

[edit] Singles runner-ups (6)

13 January 2002: Hobart (lost to Martina Suchá 7–6(7), 6–1)
23 February 2003: Bogotá (lost to Fabiola Zuluaga 6–3, 6–2)
1 October 2006: Guangzhou (lost to Anna Chakvetadze 6–1, 6–4)
4 May 2008: Fes (lost to Gisela Dulko 7–6(2), 7–6(5)
27 July 2008: Portorož (lost to Sara Errani 6–3, 6–3)
27 September 2009: Seoul (lost to Kimiko Date Krumm 6-3, 6-3)

[edit] Doubles wins (16)

Legend (Doubles)
Grand Slam (2)
Tour Championships (0)
Tier I Event (0)
Tier II Event (1)
Tier III Event (2)
Tier IV Event (8)
ITF Circuit (3)

No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Partner	Opponents in final	Score in final
1.	Jul. 11, 1999	Vigo, Spain	Clay	Lourdes Domínguez Lino	Patricia Aznar Ana Salas	7–5, 6–1
2.	Aug. 29, 1999	Bucharest, Romania	Clay	Lourdes Domínguez Lino	Nadejda Ostrovskaya Zuzana Valekova	7–5, 6–2
3.	Mar. 4, 2001	Acapulco, Mexico	Clay	María J. M. Sánchez	Virginia Ruano Pascual Paola Suárez	6–4, 6–7(5), 7–5
4.	Apr. 8, 2001	Porto, Portugal	Clay	María J. M. Sánchez	Alexandra Fusai Rita Grande	6–1, 6–7(5), 7–5
5.	6 May 2001	Bol, Croatia	Clay	María J. M. Sánchez	Nadia Petrova Tina Pisnik	7–5 6–4
6.	Aug. 5, 2001	Basel, Switzerland	Clay	María J. M. Sánchez	Joanette Kruger Marta Marrero	7–6(5), 6–2
7.	Jun. 29, 2003	Perigueux, France	Clay	María J. M. Sánchez	Lana Popadic Natacha Randriantefy	6–0, 6–3
8.	Jul. 25, 2004	Palermo, Italy	Clay	Arantxa Sánchez Vicario	Ľubomíra Kurhajcová Henrieta Nagyová	6–3 7–6
9.	Jun. 18, 2005	's-Hertogenbosch, Netherlands	Grass	Dinara Safina	Iveta Benešová Nuria Llagostera Vives	6–4, 2–6, 7–6(11)
10.	Sep. 25, 2005	Portorož, Slovenia	Hard	Roberta Vinci	Jelena Kostanić Katarina Srebotnik	6–4, 5–7, 6–2
11.	Jul. 30, 2007	Stockholm, Sweden	Hard	Virginia Ruano Pascual	Chin-Wei Chan Tetiana Luzhanska	6–1, 5–7, 10–6
12.	Jan. 11, 2008	Hobart, Australia	Hard	Virginia Ruano Pascual	Eleni Daniilidou Jasmin Woehr	6–2, 6–4
13.	Jun. 6, 2008	French Open	Clay	Virginia Ruano Pascual	Casey Dellacqua Francesca Schiavone	2–6, 7–5, 6–4
14.	Jul. 27, 2008	Portorož, Slovenia	Hard	Virginia Ruano Pascual	Vera Dushevina Ekaterina Makarova	6–4, 6–1
15.	Sep. 28, 2008	Beijing, China	Hard	Caroline Wozniacki	Han Xinyun Xu Yi-Fan	6–1, 6–3
16.	Jun. 5, 2009	French Open	Clay	Virginia Ruano Pascual	Victoria Azarenka Elena Vesnina	6–1, 6–1

[edit] Singles performance timeline

Tournament	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008	2009	Career SR	Career Win-Loss
Australian Open	2R	4R	1R	3R	1R	1R	1R	2R	4R	0 / 9	10–9
French Open	1R	-	-	2R	3R	3R	4R	3R	2R	0 / 7	11–7
Wimbledon	1R	-	-	1R	1R	3R	1R	3R	3R	0 / 6	4–6
U.S. Open	1R	-	-	2R	3R	1R	3R	2R	2R	0 / 7	7–7
Grand Slam Win-Loss	1-4	3-1	0-1	4-4	4-4	4-4	5-4	6-4	7-4	N/A	34-30

[edit] Doubles performance timeline

Tournament	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008	2009	Career SR	Career Win-Loss
Australian Open	-	2R	1R	1R	QF	1R	3R	SF	3R	0 / 8	12–7
French Open	1R	-	-	1R	2R	SF	QF	W	W	2 / 7	20–5
Wimbledon	1R	-	-	1R	3R	QF	3R	3R	SF	0 / 7	12–7
U.S. Open	1R	-	-	2R	1R	-	3R	SF		0 / 5	7–5
Grand Slam Win-Loss	0-3	1-0	0-1	1-4	6-4	7-3	8-4	16-3	8-1	N/A	47-23