Conchita Martínez
Conchita Martínez was born in Monzón, Aragon, Spain on April 16th, 1972 and is the Tennis Player. At the age of 52, Conchita Martínez biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, and networth are available.
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Inmaculada Concepción "Conchita" Martínez Bernat (born 16 April 1972) is a former professional tennis player.
She was the first Spanish player to win the women's singles title at Wimbledon, where she beat Martina Navratilova in the 1994 final.
Martínez also was the singles runner-up at the 1998 Australian Open and the 2000 French Open.
She reached a highest world ranking of No. 2 in October 1995 and finished the season in the Top 10 for nine years.
Martínez won 33 singles and 13 doubles titles during her 18-year career, as well as three Olympic medals. A five-time winner of the Fed Cup as a player, Martínez was the Spanish Fed Cup team captain from 2013 to 2017 and the Spanish Davis Cup team captain from 2015 to 2017, leading the Davis Cup team back into the top-tier World Group under her captaincy.
She has also served as a part-time coach to Garbiñe Muguruza, guiding her to the 2017 Wimbledon title, and was the full-time coach to Karolína Plíšková through 2018 and 2019.
She is due to begin coaching Muguruza on a full-time basis in 2020.
Career
Martnez, a native of Monzón, became a manager in 1988. In her third professional tournament at the age of 16, she reached the fourth round at the French Open. Lori McNeil, a ninth seed, was defeated in two sets by Bettina Fulco. Martnez won the championship in Tampa in 1989, her breakthrough year, and she also won two Tier V tournaments (Wellington, Phoenix). She also qualified for the French Open quarterfinals, losing to Steffi Graf. She ranked No. 1 in the year's Top 100, finishing the year as the world No. 1. 7. Martnez won six titles and then advanced to the quarterfinals at the French Open in 1990 and 1991 (losing to Graf in 1990 and Monica Seles in 1991).
Martnez was a silver medalist in doubles at the Olympic Games in Barcelona the year after (partnering Arantxa Sánchez Vicario) and the runner-up in women's doubles at the French Open. Martnez qualified as a quarterfinalist at the French Open for the second time, losing a close match with Sabatini once more. In 1992, she finished runner-up in Indian Wells and San Diego.
Martnez became the first Spanish woman since Lil de lvarez in 1928 to reach the semifinals at Wimbledon, where she lost in two sets to Steffi Graf. At a tournament in Philadelphia in November, Martnez defeated Graf for the first and only time in her career. Martnez won the Italian Open final in straight sets over Sabatini to become the first Spaniard to win the tournament since de lvarez in 1930. For the fifth year in a row, she reached the quarterfinals at the French Open, losing in a two-hour, 45-minute three-set match with Anke Huber.
Martnez reached Wimbledon singles final in 1994, defeating Rene Simpson, Nana Smith, Nathalie Tauziat, Kristine Kunce, and Lindsay Davenport in the quarterfinals and Lori McNeil, where she met nine-time Wimbledon champion Martina Navratilova. Navratilova's last Wimbledon victory came four years ago, but many analysts believed the 37-year-old Czech-born American was the favorite going into the tournament, whereas Martz's most notable tournament victories up to that time had been on slower-playing grounds, particularly on clay courts. Martnez, on the other hand, won the tournament in three sets and became the first Spanish woman to win Wimbledon. Martnez was a semifinalist at all four Grand Slam tournaments in 1995 and climbed to the top singles position in World No. 98. 2. She defeated Lindsay Davenport in the quarterfinals before falling to Mary Pierce in the semifinals. Martnez defeated Sabatini in the quarterfinals before losing to Arantxa Sánchez Vicario in the semifinals at Wimbledon. Carlos Kirmayr, her current coach, was also a new coach this year.
Martnez became the first player to win the Italian Open singles for four years in a row after beating 15-year-old Martina Hingis in the final. In Atlanta, she team Sánchez Vicario to win the women's Olympic bronze medal.
Martnez made her second Grand Slam singles final appearance at the Australian Open in 1998. She defeated Lindsay Davenport in the semifinals before losing in straight sets to Martina Hingis. She beat Amélie Mauresmo to win her first singles title in 18 months at the German Open in May. She also helped Spain win the Fed Cup this year by defeating Patty Schnyder of Switzerland 6–3, 2–7 in 3 hours, 19 minutes in the final.
In January 2000, the Australian Open Martez defeated Elena Likhovtseva in the quarterfinals after Likhovtseva twice failed to register for the match, allowing her to advance to the semifinals, where Martina Hingis defeated her twice. Martnez reached the final of the French Open in 2000, where she lost in two sets to Mary Pierce after beating Sánchez Vicario in the semifinals. She also won the German Open, defeating Hingis in a semifinal and Amanda Coetzer in the final. Martnez finished runner-up in the French Open women's doubles in 2001 (partnering Jelena Dokic). Martnez reached the quarterfinals at Wimbledon for the first time in six years, but then lost to Belgium's Justin Henin. Martnez reached her last grand slam quarter final in the French Open in 2003, losing to Kim Clijsters. She reached the final at Eastbourne that year, losing to Chanda Rubin.
Martnez received her second Olympic silver medal in the women's doubles in Athens, Greece, in 2004 (partnering Virginia Ruano Pascual). Martnez captured her first singles title in five years at Pattaya, Thailand, in 2005. It was her last singles title, raising her total number to 33 top-level singles titles, 9 of which were Tier I events and 13 doubles titles in total, bringing her career total to 33 top-level singles titles, nine of which were Tier I tournaments. Age 33 and after 18 years of playing professionally, she announced her retirement on April 15, 2006, winning more professional singles tournaments than any other Spanish female tennis player.
Martnez competed in the Ladies Invitations Doubles at Wimbledon in 2008, 2009, and 2010. Nathalie Tauziat, her partner in doubles, was in 2010.
As part of the Australian Open 2020, it was announced that she and Goran Ivanievi will be inducted into the Tennis Hall of Fame as Class of 2020.