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Ana Isabel "Anabel" Medina Garrigues
Country	Spain
Residence	Valencia, Spain
Date of birth	31 July 1982 (1982-07-31) (age 26)
Place of birth	Valencia, Spain
Height	1.69 m (5 ft 6+1⁄2 in)
Weight	59 kg (130 lb/9.3 st)
Turned pro	January 1998
Retired	Active
Plays	Right; Two-handed backhand
Career prize money	$2,546,989
Singles
Career record:	339–214
Career titles:	8 WTA (6 ITF)
Highest ranking:	No. 22 (20 October 2008)
Grand Slam results
Australian Open	4r (2002)
French Open	4r (2007)
Wimbledon	3r (2006, 2008)
US Open	3r (2005, 2007)
Doubles
Career record:	224–142
Career titles:	12 WTA (3 ITF)
Highest ranking:	No. 3 (10 November 2008)
Grand Slam doubles results
Australian Open	SF (2008
French Open	W (2008)
Wimbledon	QF (2006)
US Open	3r (2007)
Mixed Doubles
Career record:	{{{mixedrecord}}}
Career titles:	{{{mixedtitles}}}
Highest ranking:	{{{highestmixedranking}}}
Infobox last updated on: 27 October 2008.

Medal record
Competitor for  Spain
Woman's Tennis
Silver	2008 Beijing	Doubles

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.22 in October 2008, and has won eight singles titles and 12 doubles titles, including the 2008 French Open with Virginia Ruano Pascual.

[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 and Strasbourg in 2005.

As of October 2008, she is the highest-ranked Spanish women's professional tennis player.

[edit] WTA tour and ITF circuit Titles

[edit] Singles (14)

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

[edit] Singles Finalist (5)

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

[edit] Doubles (15)

No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Partner	Opponents in final	Score in final
1.	Jul. 11, 1999	Vigo	Clay	Lourdes Domínguez Lino	Patricia Aznar Ana Salas	7–5 6–1
2.	Aug. 29, 1999	Bucharest	Clay	Lourdes Domínguez Lino	Nadejda Ostrovskaya Zuzana Valekova	7–5 6–2
3.	Mar. 4, 2001	Acapulco	Clay	María J. M. Sánchez	Virginia Ruano Pascual Paola Suárez	6–4 6–7 7–5
4.	Apr. 8, 2001	Porto	Clay	María J. M. Sánchez	Alexandra Fusai Rita Grande	6–1 6–7 7–5
5.	6 May 2001	Bol	Clay	María J. M. Sánchez	Nadia Petrova Tina Pisnik	7–5 6–4
6.	Aug. 5, 2001	Basel	Clay	María J. M. Sánchez	Joanette Kruger Marta Marrero	7–6 6–2
7.	Jun. 29, 2003	Perigueux	Clay	María J. M. Sánchez	Lana Popadic Natacha Randriantefy	6–0 6–3
8.	Jul. 25, 2004	Palermo	Clay	Arantxa Sánchez Vicario	Ľubomíra Kurhajcová Henrieta Nagyová	6–3 7–6
9.	Jun. 18, 2005	`s-Hertogenbosch	Grass	Dinara Safina	Iveta Benešová Nuria Llagostera Vives	6–4 2–6 7–6
10.	Sep. 25, 2005	Portorož	Hard	Roberta Vinci	Jelena Kostanić Katarina Srebotnik	6–4 5–7 6–2
11.	Jul. 30, 2007	Stockholm	Hard	Virginia Ruano Pascual	Chin-Wei Chan Tetiana Luzhanska	6–1 5–7 10–6
12.	Jan. 11, 2008	Hobart	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	Hard	Virginia Ruano Pascual	Vera Dushevina Ekaterina Makarova	6–4 6–1
15.	Sep. 28, 2008	Beijing	Hard	Caroline Wozniacki	Han Xinyun Xu Yi-Fan	6–1 6–3

[edit] Singles performance timeline

[edit] External links

• Anabel Medina Garrigues profile on the WTA Tour's official website

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