Mariana Duque Mariño (born August 12, 1989) is a Colombian tennis player, born in Bogotá

Bogotá

Bogotá, Distrito Capital , from 1991 to 2000 called Santa Fé de Bogotá, is the capital, and largest city, of Colombia. It is also designated by the national constitution as the capital of the department of Cundinamarca, even though the city of Bogotá now comprises an independent Capital district...

. Her career high rank is #94, achieved on February 22, 2010.

The right-handed player, coached by Alejandro Pedraza, is highlighted by reaching Roland Garros

French Open (tennis)

The French Open |Roland Garros]]) is a major tennis tournament held over two weeks between late May and early June in Paris, France, at the Stade Roland Garros. It is the premier clay court tennis tournament in the world and the second of the four annual Grand Slam tournaments – the other three are...

 Junior Tournament Final, in her very first appearance in a Grand Slam

Grand Slam (tennis)

The four Major tennis tournaments, also called the Slams, are the most important tennis events of the year in terms of world tour ranking points, tradition, prize-money awarded, strength and size of player field, and public attention. They are the Australian Open, the French Open, Wimbledon, and...

 event. The Colombian defeated 10th-seeded Ksenia Pervak

Ksenia Pervak

Ksenia Yuryevna Pervak is a professional left-handed Russian tennis player. Her highest WTA singles ranking is 37th, which she reached on 19 September 2011...

 in the first round, ousted World No. 1 in Juniors, Russian Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova

Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova

Anastasia Sergeyevna Pavlyuchenkova is a Russian professional tennis player and a multiple junior Grand Slam champion. Her career-high rank of World No. 13 was achieved on 4 July 2011. From July 2007 to September 2009 she was coached at the Mouratoglou Tennis Academy in France...

 in semifinals. Marino lost the final to France's Alizé Cornet

Alizé Cornet

Alizé Cornet is a French professional tennis player and the current French number three . She was born in Nice, Alpes-Maritimes, and has a career-high ranking of No. 11, achieved on 16 February 2009; as of 4 July 2011 she is ranked World No. 69...

 in three sets. She had some setbacks during the tournament, due to losing her tennis rackets at the airport. Without the money to buy any others, she had to play with some rackets someone had lent to her. Despite this, it did not stop her and she still did outstanding, for her first grand slam. Her biggest win so far was beating Anna Chakvetadze

Anna Chakvetadze

Anna Djambulilovna Chakvetadze is a Russian professional tennis player . On September 10, 2007, she reached her career-high professional singles ranking of World No. 5. She has won eight WTA Singles Titles and appeared in the 2007 US Open semifinals. As of July 4, 2011, Chakvetadze is ranked World...

, No. 26 seed at the 2009 French Open, in three sets.

Singles (7)

Legend: Before 2009	Legend: Starting in 2009
Grand Slam (0)
WTA Championships (0)
Tier I (0)	Premier Mandatory (0)
Tier II (0)	Premier 5 (0)
Tier III (0)	Premier (0)
Tier IV & V (0)	International (1)

Information credit of ITF playing activity and event profiles

No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Tier	Opponent in the final	Score
1.	March 2, 2006	Mazatlán Mazatlán Mazatlán is a city in the Mexican state of Sinaloa; the surrounding municipio for which the city serves as the municipal seat is Mazatlán Municipality. It is located at on the Pacific coast, across from the southernmost tip of the Baja California peninsula.Mazatlán is a Nahuatl word meaning...	Hard	ITF	Andrea Remynse	6–2, 6–4
2.	March 9, 2006	Los Mochis Los Mochis Los Mochis is a coastal city in northern Sinaloa, Mexico. It serves as the municipal seat of the municipality of Ahome. As of the 2010 census, the population was 256,613, which was 61 percent of the municipality's population....	Clay	ITF	Agustina Lepore	6–2, 6–1
3.	September 11, 2006	Caracas Caracas Caracas , officially Santiago de León de Caracas, is the capital and largest city of Venezuela; natives or residents are known as Caraquenians in English . It is located in the northern part of the country, following the contours of the narrow Caracas Valley on the Venezuelan coastal mountain range...	Clay	ITF	Florencia Molinero Florencia Molinero Florencia Molinero is a professional Argentine tennis player. Her highest WTA singles ranking is 235, which she reached on June 8, 2009. Her career high in doubles is 179, which she reached on April 26, 2010...	3–4 retired
4.	March 27, 2007	Xalapa Xalapa Xalapa-Enríquez, commonly Xalapa or Jalapa, is the capital city of the Mexican state of Veracruz and the name of the surrounding municipality. In the year 2005 census the city reported a population of 387,879 and the municipality of which it serves as municipal seat reported a population of...	Hard	ITF	Maria-Vanina Garcia-Sokol	6–3, 7–6
5.	September 30, 2007	Puerto Juárez Puerto Juárez Puerto Juárez is a town in Benito Juárez municipality, in the Mexican state of Quintana Rooat .It is in the north-east of the Yucatán Peninsula, on the shore of the Caribbean Sea, 2 km from Cancún. A regular ferry service runs to nearby Cancún and to Isla Mujeres....	Clay	ITF	Soledad Esperón	6–3, 7–5
6.	October 21, 2007	San Luis Potosí San Luis Potosí, San Luis Potosí San Luis Potosí, commonly called SLP or simply San Luis, is the capital of, and most populous city in the Mexican state of the same name. The city lies at an elevation of 1,850 meters...	Hard	ITF	Arantxa Rus Arantxa Rus Arantxa Rus is a Dutch female tennis player. In 2008 she won the Australian Open for juniors, defeating Jessica Moore from Australia. Because of this win she went from 35th to 2nd place on the junior tennis list, but soon she became new junior No.1 player...	3–6, 6–4, 6–3
7.	February 21, 2010	Bogotá, Colombia Colombia Colombia, officially the Republic of Colombia , is a unitary constitutional republic comprising thirty-two departments. The country is located in northwestern South America, bordered to the east by Venezuela and Brazil; to the south by Ecuador and Peru; to the north by the Caribbean Sea; to the...	Clay	International	Angelique Kerber Angelique Kerber Angelique Kerber is a professional German tennis player of Polish descent, who has considered representing Poland. She began playing tennis aged five. Kerber has a career high ranking of World No. 30 achieved on 3 October 2011...	6–4, 6–3

Doubles (3)

Information credit of ITF playing activity and event profiles

No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Tier	Partner	Opponents in the final	Score
1.	May 9, 2006	Los Mochis Los Mochis Los Mochis is a coastal city in northern Sinaloa, Mexico. It serves as the municipal seat of the municipality of Ahome. As of the 2010 census, the population was 256,613, which was 61 percent of the municipality's population....	Clay	ITF	Viky Nunez-Fuentes	Agustina Lepore   María Irigoyen María Irigoyen María Irigoyen is an Argentine tennis player. As of August 1, 2011, she is ranked Argentine No. 3. She has played for Argentina Fed Cup team since 2008.- ITF Circuit singles wins :- ITF Circuit singles runner–ups :...	7–5, 6–3
2.	May 30, 2006	Leon León, Guanajuato The city of León, formally León de los Aldama is the sixth most populous city in Mexico and the first in the state of Guanajuato. It is also the seat of the municipality of León...	Hard	ITF	Viky Nunez-Fuentes	Erika Clarke-Magana   Courtney Nagle Courtney Nagle Courtney Nagle is an American professional tennis player. Her career high doubles ranking is 97, set on April 20, 2009...	7–6, 7–6
3.	August 28, 2006	Bogotá Bogotá Bogotá, Distrito Capital , from 1991 to 2000 called Santa Fé de Bogotá, is the capital, and largest city, of Colombia. It is also designated by the national constitution as the capital of the department of Cundinamarca, even though the city of Bogotá now comprises an independent Capital district...	Clay	ITF	Viky Nunez-Fuentes	Vanesa Furlanetto   María Irigoyen	6–2, 6–4

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