María José Martínez Sánchez

Country	Spain
Residence	Barcelona, Spain
Date of birth	August 12, 1982 (1982-08-12) (age 27)
Place of birth	Yecla, Murcia, Spain
Height	1.76 m (5 ft 9+1⁄2 in)
Weight	68 kg (150 lb; 10.7 st)
Turned pro	1998
Retired	Active
Plays	Left (double-handed backhand)
Career prize money	$1,106,800
Singles
Career record	284-175
Career titles	2 WTA, 12 ITF
Highest ranking	No. 27 (9 November, 2009)
Current ranking	No. 27 (9 November, 2009)
Grand Slam results
Australian Open	3R (2009)
French Open	3R (2009)
Wimbledon	3R (2008)
US Open	3R (2009)
Doubles
Career record	290-123
Career titles	12 WTA, 22 ITF
Highest ranking	No. 5 (2 November, 2009)
Grand Slam Doubles results
Australian Open	QF (2009)
French Open	QF (2008)
Wimbledon	QF (2008, 2009)
US Open	QF (2009)
Major doubles tournaments
WTA Championships	W (2009)
Last updated on: November 2, 2009.

María José Martínez Sánchez (born 12 August, 1982 in Yecla, Murcia, Spain) is a professional tennis player from Spain. In singles, Martínez Sánchez has won two WTA singles titles, at the 2009 Copa Sony Ericsson Colsanitas and the 2009 Swedish Open. She was also a runner-up at the 2008 Barcelona KIA. As a junior she won the 1999 Orange Bowl, a year-ending tennis event for junior players. She reached heer career high ranking in singles of World No. 27 on November 9, 2009.

In doubles, Martínez Sánchez has won twelve WTA doubles titles, including the 2009 WTA Tour Championships with Nuria Llagostera Vives. She has also won four titles with Anabel Medina Garrigues. Martínez Sánchez reached a career high ranking of World No. 5 on November 2, 2009.

[edit] Early career

As a Junior, Martínez Sánchez won the 1999 Orange Bowl, a year-ending tennis event for Juniors. At the 2008 Wimbledon Championships, she advanced to the third round where she lost to eventual champion Venus Williams.

[edit] 2009

Martínez Sánchez started the year playing at the 2009 Australian Open, the first Grand Slam of the year. In the first round, she upset the 32nd seed Tamarine Tanasugarn 7-5, 6-3. She then defeated Akgul Amanmuradova 6-2, 6-4 but lost in the third round to compatriot Carla Suárez Navarro 6-1, 6-4. In doubles, she and Nuria Llagostera Vives were seeded 11th and defeated 6th seeds Yan Zi and Zheng Jie in the thrd round but they lost a tough match in the quarterfinals to Nathalie Dechy and Mara Santangelo 3-6, 7-6(7), 7-6(6).

Maria Jose next played at the 2009 Copa Sony Ericsson Colsanitas where she was seeded 7th. She defeated Anastasiya Yakimova, Arantxa Parra Santonja and Betina Jozami to reach the semi-finals where she won a close match against Patricia Mayr 7-5, 7-5. She captured her first WTA singles titl when she defeated 3rd seed Gisela Dulko 6-3, 6-2 in the final. In doubles, Mártinez Sánchez and Llagostera Vives were the top seeds and thay reached the final where they beat second seeds Gisela Dulko and Flavia Pennetta 7-5, 3-6, 10-7 to win their first doubles title of the year. In Bali Maria recovered from a first set deficit to beat Szavay in 3 sets 4-6 6-4 6-0 in her second group round robin match she beat Stosur in straight sets 7-6(4) 7-5 where Stosur served a 208kmps world record serve. In the semifinal she lost against ballbasher Aravane Rezai 6-2 6-3, being too tired to display her brilliant tennis.

[edit] Career titles

[edit] Singles (2)

No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Opponent in the final	Score
1.	February 22, 2009	Bogotá, Colombia	Clay	Gisela Dulko	6–3, 6–2
2.	July 11, 2009	Bastad, Sweden	Clay	Caroline Wozniacki	7–5, 6–4

[edit] Doubles (12)

No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Partnering	Opponents in the final	Score
1.	4 March 2001	Acapulco, Mexico	Clay	Anabel Medina	Ruano Pascual Paola Suarez	6–4, 6–7(5), 7–5
2.	8 April 2001	Porto Open, Portugal	Clay	Anabel Medina	Alexandra Fusai Rita Grande	6–1, 6–7(5), 7–5
3.	6 May 2001	Bol Ladies Open, Croatia	Clay	Anabel Medina	Nadia Petrova Tina Pisnik	7–5, 6–4
4.	5 August 2001	Basel, Switzerland	Clay	Anabel Medina	Joannette Kruger Marta Marrero	7–6(5), 6–2
5.	1 March 2008	Acapulco, Mexico	Clay	Llagostera Vives	Iveta Benesova Petra Cetkovska	6–2, 6–4
6.	21 February 2009	Bogotá, Colombia	Clay	Llagostera Vives	Gisela Dulko Flavia Pennetta	7–5, 3–6, [10–7]
7.	28 February 2009	Acapulco, Mexico	Clay	Llagostera Vives	Lourdes Dominguez Lino Arantxa Parra Santonja	6–4, 6–2
8.	19 April 2009	Barcelona, Spain	Clay	Llagostera Vives	Sorana Cirstea Andreja Klepac	3–6, 6–2, [10–8]
9.	13 July 2009	Palermo, Italy	Clay	Llagostera Vives	Mariya Koryttseva Darya Kustova	6–1, 6–2
10.	23 August 2009	Toronto, Canada	Hard	Llagostera Vives	Samantha Stosur Rennae Stubbs	2–6, 7–5, [11–9]
11.	29 August 2009	New Haven, USA	Hard	Llagostera Vives	Iveta Benešová Lucie Hradecká	6–2, 7–5
12.	1 November 2009	Doha, Qatar	Hard	Llagostera Vives	Cara Black Liezel Huber	7–6(0), 5–7, [10–7]

[edit] Grand Slam Singles performance timeline

[edit] Grand Slam Doubles performance timeline

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• María Jose Martínez Sánchez profile on the WTA Tour's official website