Sara Errani

At 37 years old, Sara Errani has this physical status:

Sara Errani (Italian pronunciation: [ˈsaːra erˈraːni]; born 29 April 1987) is an Italian professional tennis player. She is a former top five player in singles and former world No. 1 in doubles. With 9 singles titles and 27 doubles titles (including 5 Grand Slam doubles championships and 5 Premier Mandatory/Premier doubles titles), she is the Italian tennis player with the highest number of WTA titles. She entered the Top 10 in doubles on 11 June 2012, remaining there for 94 straight weeks, and she reached her career-high singles ranking of world No. 5 on 20 May 2013. Errani became the world No. 1 in doubles for the first time on 10 September 2012. She was the year-end No. 1 doubles player in both 2013 and 2014, and has held the top ranking for a combined total of 87 weeks.

Errani's breakthrough season occurred in 2012. At the Australian Open, she reached the quarterfinals in singles (the first time she advanced past the third round in a Grand Slam singles draw) and was a finalist in doubles. Known as a clay-court specialist, Errani won three titles on clay going into the 2012 French Open, where she reached the finals in both the singles (becoming only the second Italian woman to ever reach a Grand Slam singles final) and doubles tournaments, winning the doubles title with her partner Roberta Vinci. They also won the doubles titles at the 2012 US Open, and the 2013 and 2014 Australian Open. By winning the 2014 Wimbledon Women's Doubles title, Errani and Vinci became only the fifth pair in tennis history to complete a Career Grand Slam.

Her achievement in reaching the 2012 US Open singles semifinals leaves Wimbledon as the only Grand Slam tournament in which Errani has yet to make the quarterfinals in singles. She also made the semifinals at the 2013 French Open, the quarterfinals at the 2014 French Open, 2014 US Open, and 2015 French Open, and qualified to the WTA Finals twice in 2012 and 2013. In 2017, Errani was banned from playing for 10 months due to a failed drug test.

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Career

Errani was born in Bologna, Emilia-Romagna, Italy, and Giorgio, a fruit and vegetable seller and Fulvia, a pharmacist. Her father took her to the Nick Bollettieri Tennis Academy in Florida at the age of 12. She migrated to Valencia, Spain, to be mentored by Pablo Lozano and David Andres at 16 years old.

Errani participated in her first event at the $10,000 Cagliari festival in her native Italy in 2002, where she lost to Sun Tiantian. She continued to participate in the ITF, where her best showing of the year came in Zaton in semifinal form. She continued to compete mostly on the ITF circuit, where she defeated Lucia Jiminez in Melilla, Spain, 2005.

In the Internazionali Femminil di Palermo, where she defeated Mariya Koryttseva, she was the first WTA title of her career. She won her second title in two weeks over two weeks on July 27, 2008, defeating Anabel Medina Garrigues. She has also competed in six doubles WTA championships.

Errani was runner-up at two WTA tournaments in Palermo and Portoro in 2009, retaining champion in both. Errani was disqualified in the first round of the French Open by defending champion Ana Ivanovic, who lost in the third round three years ago.

Except in 2010, where she lost in the first round of the French Open in 2010, Errani advanced to the third round of every Grand Slam except the French Open.

Errani was a member of the Fed Cup-winning Italian team in 2009 and 2010. She reached the finals of the PTT Pattaya Open in February 2011, where she was defeated by Daniela Hantuchová.

Errani decided to change her racquet from Wilson to Babolat at the start of 2012, opting for a heavier and slightly longer version than the previous one, allowing for more power and greater reach. Wilson had to pay Wilson back her $30,000 endorsement fee. Nonetheless, she and several commentators support the recent racquet as a reason for her improved performance and her promotion to the top ten of the WTA rankings. She won three singles titles in the first five months of 2012, grossing over $1.3 million in prize money. Errani dubbed her latest racquet "Excalibur," after King Arthur's sword.

Errani won her first Grand Slam quarterfinals, defeating Valeria Savinykh, Nadia Petrova, Sorana Cîrstea, and Zheng Jie en route before losing to Petra Kvitová. Her popularity has risen to world No. 1. 33 years old. At the Abierto Montero Open in the United States, she was the second seed and reached the semifinals, losing to eventual champion Tmea Babos, but she rose to third seed in Acapulco, winning her third title in her career. In her last two matches, she defeated fellow Italian Roberta Vinci and second seed Flavia Pennetta.

Errani shot her fourth career title and second of the year last year, defeating second seeded Julia Görges in the quarterfinals and Dominika Cibulková in the finals. Her ranking increased to the world No. 1 afterwards. 28. Errani lost to Petra Kvitová in the Fed Cup semifinals against the Czech Republic but beat Andrea Hlavá, who lost the tie with Italy. Errani won the Budapest Grand Prix on Saturday, tying country woman Roberta Vinci for the most titles won by an Italian female in a year at three.

When she reached the finals of the French Open, her results continued to improve. Ana Ivanovic and Svetlana Kuznetsova also defeated Casey Dellacqua, Melanie Oudin, and former French Open champions Ana Ivanovic and Svetlana Kuznetsova on route. She gained a spot in the semifinals by defeating Angelique Kerber, the German tenth seed, for her first victory over a new top-10 player. Samantha Stosur, the reigning US Open champion and 2010 French Open finalist, defeated her in the semifinals to advance to her first Grand Slam singles final against Maria Sharapova. In the final, Errani was disqualified. Her success in this tournament helped her to win the No. 1 position. The tenth ranked list.

Errani won six doubles titles with Roberta Vinci, including the Madrid Open, Internazionali BNL d'Italia, and the French Open, in addition to her singles titles. The Sony Ericsson Open and the Australian Open finals were also reached by Vinci and she.

Errani lost in the third round to Yaroslava Shvedova, who suffered in the first round and only recently, the Golden Set (i.e.) In a major in the women's tennis open era, the second ever recorded is a set in which every point is won by the same person. Errani won her fourth title of the year in July, the sixth in her career, after losing a set. In the final, she defeated Czech Barbora Záhlavová-Strocová (seeded eighth) and was crowned eighth. Errani also failed in the first round of the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, as well as the first round of the mixed doubles (with Andreas Seppi). However, she and Vinci reached the quarterfinals of the women's doubles.

She was ranked fourth seed at the New Haven Open Tennis Tournament. By defeating fifth seed Marion Bartoli, she advanced to the semifinals. Petra Kvitová defeated her in the semifinals to Petra Kvitová. Errani got off to a rocky start by defeating Garbi Muguruza in three sets at the US Open. Despite this, she easily defeated Vera Dushevina and Olga Puchkova. In those two rounds, she had only lost three games. She defeated sixth seed Angelique Kerber in the fourth round. She defeated her doubles partner Vinci to advance to the semifinals, where she lost in straight sets to eventual champion Serena Williams in the quarterfinals. With this result, she became the first Italian woman to reach the semifinals of two different majors in the Open Era, as well as the first Italian woman to reach the semifinals of two separate majors.

The US Open women's doubles final was won by Errani and Vinci. As a result, she ranked No. 1 in the world of results. On September 10, 2012, the 1st position was taken.

For the first time in her career, she competed in the WTA Tour Championships in singles and double at the end of the year.

Since Svetlana Kuznetsova in 2003, Kim Clijsters in 2004, and the Williams sisters in 2009, she has been the fifth tennis player in the world to qualify either in single or double.

Maria Sharapova was disqualified in straight sets by Maria Sharapova in single, but she defeated Samantha Stosur in the following match, losing in fourth seed Agnieszka Radwa's for the longest best-of-three sets match in WTA Championships history). She had a breakthrough year in 2009 as No. 1 in the United States. The world's best-ranked countries have a 6th position.

Errani was the seventh seed at the Australian Open, where she had qualified to the quarterfinals in 2012. In the first round, she was defeated by Carla Suárez Navarro. Errani, a Vinci twin, won her third Grand Slam title, defeating Australian wildcards Ashleigh Barty and Casey Dellacqua in the final.

She advanced to the finals of the Open GDF Suez in Paris, losing to Mona Barthel. She claimed her third doubles title of the year at the Qatar Ladies Open, defeating Petrova and Srebotnik in the final. She advanced to the semifinals of the Dubai Tennis Championship a week later, defeating Nadia Petrova in three sets. Here, she defeated her doubles partner Roberta Vinci in their second singles final of the year, where she lost in three sets to Petra Kvitová. Errani made her third final appearance of the year (second in a row) against Carla Suárez Navarro at the Abierto Mexicano Telcel. She won the final in two sets, her seventh singles title.

She reached the semifinals of a WTA Premier Mandatory, where she was defeated in straight sets by Serena Williams in straight sets. She reached the semifinals of Internazionali BNL d'Italia, where she was defeated by Victoria Azarenka.

Serena Williams, a fifth seed, competed in the French Open semifinals and lost in the semifinals. With Roberta Vinci, she reached her fifth Grand Slam final, losing to Ekaterina Makarova and Elena Vesnina of Russia in doubles. She reached the finals in Palermo, where she was defeated by Roberta Vinci in the previous month.

For the second time in a row, she qualified for the Tour Championships, both single and double.

On the current model, no one in the world made it before, qualifying for single and double for two years in a row.

Errani competed in the Sydney International in singles and doubles with Roberta Vinci, defeating T.mea Babos and Lucie afová. She and Vinci defended their title at the Australian Open, beating first-time Australian Open finalists Ekaterina Makarova and Elena Vesnina in three sets for their fourth Grand Slam title. Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova defeated her in the finals of the Open GDF Suez in Paris in three sets the following week.

She lost in the third round to Ekaterina Makarova in Miami, and after losing to the Russian in Miami, she fell out of the top ten rankings after 94 weeks in June 2012.

She advanced to the semifinals of the Porsche Grand Prix in Stuttgart, winning the doubles title, partnering with Roberta Vinci, after beating Cara Black and Sania Mirza; the team also won their next doubles tournament was Mutua Madrid Open.

She shocked the world No. 1 in the Internazionali BNL d'Italia. Li Na reached the finals for the first time in her career after losing the previous six meetings and beating a top 3 competitor for the first time in her career; she reached the finals after losing in straight sets for the first time in her career. No. 8 is the world's oldest and former No. 1 at this moment. Jelena Jankovi started 1 Jelena Jankovi and Serena Williams defeated her later.

She appeared in the tenth seed of the French Open, reaching her third straight quarterfinals. She competed with Roberta Vinci in the doubles, defeating Hsieh Su-wei and Peng Shuai in straight sets for the third time in a row.

Errani and Vinci won the tournament for the first time in a career Grand Slam at Wimbledon. Errani and Vinci regained the top spot in women's doubles after relinquished the position to Peng Shuai in February.

Errani made it to the quarterfinals of the US Open for her sixth Grand Slam appearance.

She qualified in double for the third year in a row.

Errani reached the finals and defeated sixth seed Anna Karolna Schmiedlová 7–6–1. This was Errani's first WTA singles title in two years. Errani qualified for the semifinals at the Monterbey Open, beating Lauren Davis, qualifier Tmea Babos, and fifth seed Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova. She was disqualified by fourth seed and eventual champion Timea Bacsinszky 6–0, 7–6 in the semifinals. She ended the doubles collaboration with Roberta Vinci around this time, preferring to devote herself to her singles career.

Errani qualified in the finals and beat Barbora Strcová 6–0, 6–2 to win the biggest singles title of her career.

Errani ended the year ranked 50 after several defeats in early rounds throughout 2016.

Errani had a good start at the Grand Prix SAR La Bellella Meryem in the early part of the year, despite fighting with injuries throughout the early stages of the year.

Sara Errani would be suspended for two months after failing a doping test in February 2017, according to testing positive for the banned drug Letrozole. Errani said she probably ingested letrozole by "accidentally taking Femara" in home-made tortellini when visiting relatives. As a result, she was banned for two months, with the ban coming into effect on October 2nd. All Errani's results from the date of her positive out-of-come test to a negative test on June 7th were annulled, and all ranking points and prize money earned in this period were forfeited. Both Errani and Italian anti-doping firm Nado Italia appealed portions of the suspension to the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS). Nado Italia was looking for a longer suspension period, where Errani attempted to have her results disqualified. The CAS ruled on June 11, 2018 that Errani's suspension period should be extended to ten months and that her disqualification of her results should stand. Errani had already been asked about her relationship with doping doctor Luis Garcia del Moral in 2012, despite this.

Errani was disqualified from the 2020 Australian Open at the first hurdle by Russian Anna Kalinskaya after returning to Grand Slam tennis. She did well in the second round of the French Open in 2020, earning her a spot in the second round. It was reported that after the match, which Errani lost, she yelled insult at opponent Kiki Bertens, who was being forced to leave the court in a wheelchair due to injury.

Errani qualified for and advanced to the third round of the 2021 Australian Open, her best showing in four years as she did not participate in the main draw since 2017 and has not reached the third round since 2015. Venus Williams was unbeaten in the second round, but Hsieh Su-wei came in second place.

Errani reached the semifinals of the 2021 Italian Open (tennis), competing with Irina-Camelia Begu, where they were defeated by Mladenovic/Vondrousova in doubles. This was her first participation in a WTA 1000 in two years and the first semifinal at this tournament in 8 years after winning the title in 2015.

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