Romina Oprandi
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Romina Sarina Oprandi is an Italian female professional tennis player. She turned professional in 2005 and has been ranked as high as 46 in the world (September 25, 2006).

Tennis career

She first came to prominence in the top tier of women's tennis when she reached the quarter-finals of a WTA Tier I event in Rome as a qualifier, barely missing out on a place in the semi-finals with a loss to Svetlana Kuznetsova 4–6 7–5 6–7. She then subsequently made appearances at the 2006 Wimbledon and the US Open, losing in the first round of each to difficult opponents in Fransesca Schiavone and Svetlana Kuznetsova once again. Straight after the end of her US Open campaign, Romina would go on to win yet another ITF singles title at Denain, which would be her best result for the rest of the 2006 season, struggling with injury problems and losing matches early on in tournaments.

The beginning of 2007 saw Oprandi lose in the first round of the Tier IV event at Auckland to a lower-ranked player in Laura Granville 3–6 4–6. However, she would then go on to another Tier IV event, this time in Hobart, and win a convincing match against a former top 20 player in Elena Likhovtseva before losing to rising Indian star Sania Mirza in the second round. Her Australian Open hopes quickly came to a close after a tough first-round draw, pitting her against the sixteenth seed from Israel, Shahar Pe'er. She would lose this match 1–6 3–6.

She then went on to play in a Tier IV event in Pattaya City, Thailand, where she reached the round of 16 where she lost to fourth-seeded Chinese player Peng Shuai
Peng Shuai
Peng Shuai is a Chinese professional female tennis player. She won a gold medal at the 2010 Asian Games, defeating Akgul Amanmuradova in the final...

 in three sets. Romina then played in the Tier II event in Doha where she lost to Indian Sania Mirza
Sania Mirza
Sania Mirza is a professional Indian tennis player. She began her tennis career in 2003 and is well known for her powerful forehand ground strokes. She is the first ever Indian to break into the top 30 WTA rankings...

 in the first round, 6–4 3–6. She then played in the Tier I events in Indian Wells and Miami respectively, where she reached the second round in Indian Wells before losing to second seeded Russian Svetlana Kuznetsova
Svetlana Kuznetsova
Svetlana Aleksandrovna Kuznetsova ; born June 27, 1985) is a Russian professional tennis player and as of October 10, 2011 ranked No. 21 in the WTA singles and No. 90 in the doubles ranking. Kuznetsova has appeared in four singles Grand Slam finals, winning two, and has also appeared in six doubles...

 and lost in the first round of Miami to American Meilen Tu
Meilen Tu
Meilen Tu is a former American professional female tennis player...

.

At the start of the clay season she played in the Tier II event in Amelia Island where she beat Belarussian Victoria Azarenka
Victoria Azarenka
Victoria Azarenka is a Belarusian professional tennis player. Her career high and current ranking is world no. 3, which she first achieved on 12 September 2011. She became the highest-ranked Belarusian player ever, surpassing Natasha Zvereva by two spots....

 in the first round before losing to twelfth-seeded Australian Samantha Stosur
Samantha Stosur
Samantha "Sam" Jane Stosur is an Australian professional tennis player. She won the 2011 US Open singles title and was a finalist at the 2010 French Open. Stosur is ranked World No. 6 and her career high in singles is World No. 4, achieved on 21 February 2011. She is a former world No...

 in the second round 6–7(6) 2–6. She then lost in the first round of Charleston to Greek Eleni Daniilidou
Eleni Daniilidou
Eleni Daniilidou is a Greek tennis player born in Chania, on the island of Crete.As of 2011, she has won five WTA singles titles and three doubles titles. In 2003, she reached the Australian Open mixed doubles final. Her highest singles ranking has been 14th...

 in three sets then was forced to retire in a match against Italian Karin Knapp
Karin Knapp
Karin Knapp is an Italian female tennis player. She was ranked World No. 35 on 25 February 2008.-Career:...

 in a tier III event in Budapest, Hungary in the first round whilst playing in the third set. As a wildcard in the Tier I clay event in Rome, she lost to lucky loser Yuliana Fedak
Yuliana Fedak
Yuliana Leonidivna Fedak is a female tennis player from Ukraine.On September 18, 2006, Fedak reached her highest singles ranking, World No. 63.-WTA Tour Titles :-Performance timeline:-External links:...

 in three sets in the first round. Oprandi then played in the tier III event in Istanbul, Turkey where she defeated Ukrainian Kateryna Bondarenko
Kateryna Bondarenko
Kateryna Volodymyrivna Bondarenko is a professional female tennis player from Ukraine and a doubles champion at Australian Open 2008.The younger sister of professional tennis players Valeria and Alona Bondarenko, she was born in Kryvyi Rih, Ukraine, then part of the Soviet Union. She was...

 in the first round before losing to the seventh-seeded Polish player Agnieszka Radwańska
Agnieszka Radwanska
Agnieszka Radwańska is a WTA Tour Polish tennis player.Her career high singles ranking is World No. 8, which she achieved on 22 February 2010. As of 24 October 2011, she is ranked World No. 8. In 2007, Radwańska became the first Polish player in history to claim a WTA Tour singles title when she...

 in straight sets, 1–6 0–6.

At the second grand slam of the year at Roland Garros, she once again lost to Meilen Tu in the first round in straight sets. She then played at a tier IV event in Barcelona where she was forced to retire against the top seed, Italian Francesca Schiavone, in the first round after losing the first set 2–6. Romina then did not play for the rest of the 2007 season and the first half of the 2008 season due to a right forearm injury.

Oprandi returned to tennis in August 2008 at an ITF event in Monteroni D'Arabia, Italy, where, as a wildcard, she lost to qualifier Katalin Marosi
Katalin Marosi
Katalin Marosi is a professional tennis player from Hungary. Marosi has won 16 ITF Circuit Singles titles and 27 doubles titles...

 of Hungary in three sets. She then played in another ITF event in Versmold, Germany, where she qualified for the main draw, defeating Serbian lucky loser Zorica Petrov in straight sets in the first round before losing to top-seeded Indonesian Romana Tedjakusuma in a tight match in the round of 16, 6–7(1) 5–7.

Romina then went on to play another ITF tournament in Germany, in Wahlstedt. She went on to win the title after defeating all her opponents in relatively simple straight set matches, including a 6–3 6–0 win against fellow Italian Giulia Gatto Monticone in the final. She then played in an ITF event in the Netherlands where she qualified for the main draw but lost in the first round against sixth-seeded Dutch player Chayenne Ewijk in straight sets.

Oprandi reached the final in her next tournament in Mestre, Italy in September. She had notable straight set wins over Maria Elena Camerin
Maria Elena Camerin
Maria Elena Camerin is a professional female tennis player from Italy.On 11 October 2004, Camerin reached her career-high singles ranking: World No...

 in the first round and Lucie Hradecká
Lucie Hradecká
Lucie Hradecká is a professional tennis player from the Czech Republic. In her career, Hradecká has won ten WTA doubles titles. This total includes the 2011 French Open, in which she won her first Grand Slam title.-Career:...

 in the quarter-finals before being forced to retire in the final against Russian Ekaterina Ivanova
Ekaterina Ivanova (tennis)
Ekaterina Ivanova is a professional Russian tennis player.Ivanova's highest WTA singles ranking is No. 142, which she reached on June 8, 2009. Her career high in doubles was at No. 145 set at May 21, 2007...

 whilst trailing 3–6 0–3. Oprandi then reached the semi-finals of another event in Italy, in Lecce, where she gave a walkover to second-seeded Mervana Jugić-Salkić
Mervana Jugic-Salkic
Mervana Jugić-Salkić is a Bosnian tennis player. She turned professional in 1999, and reached her highest singles ranking on 21 June 2004, when she was ranked Word No. 99. On 10 July 2006, Jugić-Salkić reached No. 59 in doubles, after winning ASB Classic in 2004 with Jelena Kostanić and...

 missing out on an opportunity to reach her second straight final. In her next event, an ITF tournament in Ortisei, Italy, she reached the quarter-finals with notable straight-sets wins over top-seeded Gisela Dulko
Gisela Dulko
Gisela Dulko is an Argentine female tennis player, who will, as of 4 July 2011, be ranked World No. 51 in singles and No. 4 in doubles. Although she enjoyed a modest success in singles, reaching No. 26 on November 21, 2005, and winning four WTA Tour titles, her speciality has been doubles, where...

 of Argentina and Czech qualifier Andrea Hlaváčková
Andrea Hlavácková
Andrea Hlaváčková is a professional tennis player from the Czech Republic. Her highest singles ranking is World No.87, which she reached on 31 January 2011, and her highest doubles ranking is World No.17, reached on 15 August 2011...

 before losing to Italian wildcard Mara Santangelo
Mara Santangelo
Mara Santangelo is a former professional female tennis player from Italy. She retired from the sport on 28 January 2011.-Tennis career:...

, who was also making her return from injury.

In her last two events of 2008, she reached the second round of an ITF event in Ismaning, Germany before losing to Ukrainian Oxana Lyubtsova
Oxana Lyubtsova
Oksana Lyubtsova is a tennis player from Ukraine who has won four ITF Singles Titles and three ITF Doubles Titles. Lyubtsova played in her first WTA Tour event when she qualified to play in the 2009 Open GDF Suez. She lost in the first round to the 4th seeded Polish teenager Agnieszka Radwańska...

 in straight sets. She then lost in the first round of another ITF event in San Diego, California, in straight sets.

Oprandi's first event of 2009 was an ITF event in Belfort, France, where she qualified for the main draw and reached the quarter-finals, where she lost to second-seeded Russian Vesna Manasieva
Vesna Manasieva
Vesna Ratkovna Dolonts is a Russian professional tennis player, born to a Serbian father and Russian mother.-ITF Tournament career:Dolonts began competing on the ITF women's circuit in September 2005, soon after her sixteenth birthday, and had risen to World No...

 in straight sets, 2–6 6–7(6). She then played in her first WTA tour event in over 18 months in Bogotá, Colombia where she narrowly lost to fifth-seeded Czech Klára Zakopalová in the first round, 6–3 6–7(7) 6–7(5). Teaming up with Colombian Catalina Castaño
Catalina Castaño
Catalina Castaño Alvarez is a professional female Colombian tennis player. On July 10, 2006, Catalina reached her career-high singles ranking: World No. 35. Since November 2006, she is the highest ranked South American female tennis player...

, she reached the quarter-finals of the doubles tournament in Bogotá, losing to the second-seeded team of Gisela Dulko and Italian Flavia Pennetta
Flavia Pennetta
Flavia Pennetta is an Italian professional tennis player. She became Italy's first top 10 female singles player on 17 August 2009 and also the first ever Italian Tennis player to be ranked No.1 in Doubles on 28 February 2011. As of 10 October 2011, Pennetta is ranked World No. 18 in singles and...

. She then went back on to the ITF circuit in Germany where she first reached the second round in Biberach, losing to Belgian Kirsten Flipkens
Kirsten Flipkens
Kirsten Flipkens is a professional female Belgian tennis player since 2003. Her career high rank for singles is No. 59 . She won 10 ITF Singles titles, and 1 ITF Doubles title....

 but reached the final in Buchen before losing to German Korina Perkovic in straight sets, 3–6 6–7(0). She did, however, win the doubles title at Buchen as one half of the top-seeded team at the event, partnering Sandra Martinović. They won all three of their doubles matches in match tie-break situations.

In her career she has won 13 ITF singles titles and 7 ITF doubles titles and is yet to win a WTA title of any kind.

ITF Circuit (21)

Singles (14)
No. Date Tournament Surface Opponent in final Score in final
1. March 28, 2004 Elda
Elda
Elda is a city located in the province of Alicante, Spain. , it has a total population of 55,618 inhabitants, ranking as the 7th most populous city in the province. Elda joins together with the town of Petrer to form a conurbation with over 85,000 inhabitants...

, Spain
Clay   Nuria Roig 6–2, 6–3
2. February 20, 2005 Mallorca
Mallorca
Majorca or Mallorca is an island located in the Mediterranean Sea, one of the Balearic Islands.The capital of the island, Palma, is also the capital of the autonomous community of the Balearic Islands. The Cabrera Archipelago is administratively grouped with Majorca...

, Spain
Clay   Anna Floris
Anna Floris
Anna Floris , is an professional tennis player from Italy. Her highest WTA singles ranking is 129, which she reached on August 16, 2010...

6–3, 6–0
3. March 13, 2005 Las Palmas, Spain Clay   Tina Schiechtl
Tina Schiechtl
Tina Schiechtl is a professional Austrian tennis player. On September 25, 2006, she reached her highest WTA singles ranking of 230.-External links:...

6–3, 6–2
4. March 27, 2005 Parioli, Rome, Italy Clay   Ana Jovanović
Ana Jovanovic
Ana Jovanović is a Serbian professional tennis player. She is coached by Nikola Pilić.- Tennis career :...

6–4, 7–6(4)
5. April 3, 2005 Tiro A Volo, Rome, Italy Clay   Magda Mihalache
Magda Mihalache
Magda Mihalache is a professional Romanian tennis player and former member of the Romania Fed Cup team. On May 9, 2005, she reached her highest WTA singles ranking of 176 whilst her best doubles ranking was 120 on November 1, 1999. She is coached by Dietmar Rau.-External links:...

6–4, 6–4
6. May 15, 2005 Casale
Casale
Casale, Italian from the late Latin casalis for an isolated house, or group of houses, in the countryside, may refer to:-People:*Gerald Casale musician*Giovanni Casale , an Italian judoka*Giuseppe Casale Italian bishop...

, Italy
Clay   Sandra Záhlavová
Sandra Záhlavová
Sandra Záhlavová is a Czech tennis player. On 21 June 2010, she achieved her career-high WTA Event singles ranking of No. 78. On June 12, 2006, she claimed her highest Doubles rank of No. 165...

6–2, 6–0
7. November 13, 2005 Mexico City
Mexico City
Mexico City is the Federal District , capital of Mexico and seat of the federal powers of the Mexican Union. It is a federal entity within Mexico which is not part of any one of the 31 Mexican states but belongs to the federation as a whole...

, Mexico
Clay   Kira Nagy
Kira Nagy
Kira Nagy is a former professional tennis player from Hungary. Nagy won 18 ITF Circuits Singles titles and 10 doubles titles....

6–3, 6–0
8. November 27, 2005 Puebla
Puebla
Puebla officially Estado Libre y Soberano de Puebla is one of the 31 states which, with the Federal District, comprise the 32 Federal Entities of Mexico. It is divided in 217 municipalities and its capital city is Puebla....

, Mexico
Hard   Jenifer Widjaja 6–1, 6–1
9. April 9, 2006 Putignano
Putignano
Putignano is a town and comune in the province of Bari, Puglia, Italy.-Economy:In the past the economy of the city was principally based on agriculture, but soon the population converted the rural village into an industrial center...

, Italy
Hard   Alberta Brianti
Alberta Brianti
Alberta Brianti is a professional female tennis player from Italy.On June 13, 2011, Brianti achieved her career-high singles ranking of 55...

6–1, 1–6, 6–4
10. April 30, 2006 Torrent
Torrent, Valencia
Torrent is a city located within the metropolitan area of the city of Valencia, Spain. It is the largest municipality of the Horta Sud comarca, with 79,843 inhabitants . It is situated some 7 km from Valencia city proper, to which it is connected via the...

, Spain
Clay   Ekaterina Makarova
Ekaterina Makarova
Ekaterina Valeryevna Makarova is a professional Russian tennis player. She achieved her career high ranking of number 29 on June 6, 2011.-Career:...

6–1, 6–3
11. May 7, 2006 Manavgat, Antalya, Turkey Clay   Petra Cetkovská
Petra Cetkovská
Petra Cetkovská is a professional female tennis player from the Czech Republic and is of ethnic Macedonian origin. She reached her career high singles ranking No.30 on 24 October 2011.-Career:...

6–3, 7–5
12. September 10, 2006 Denain
Denain
It is the largest of 39 communes which comprise the association of communes of Porte du Hainaut, with a total population of 147,989, as of 1999. Denain had a population of 20,360, on a land area of 11.52 km² .-References:* -External links:...

, France
Clay   Stéphanie Foretz
Stéphanie Foretz
Stéphanie Foretz Gacon is a professional female tennis player from France...

6–3, 4–6, 6–3
13. August 24, 2008 Wahlstedt
Wahlstedt
Wahlstedt is a town in the district of Segeberg in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.-Geography:The town lies about 50 km north of Hamburg, 40 km south of Kiel and 30 km west of Lübeck...

, Germany
Clay   Giulia Gatto Monticone 6–3, 6–0
14. May 15, 2010 Caserta
Caserta
Caserta is the capital of the province of Caserta in the Campania region of Italy. It is an important agricultural, commercial and industrial comune and city. Caserta is located on the edge of the Campanian plain at the foot of the Campanian Subapennine mountain range...

, Italy
Clay   Sloane Stephens
Sloane Stephens
-Personal life:Stephens was born in Fort Lauderdale, Florida to Sybil Smith and John Stephens, a professional American football player...

6–3, 6–3

Doubles (7)
No. Date Tournament Surface Partner Opponent in final Score in final
1. February 13, 2005 Mallorca
Mallorca
Majorca or Mallorca is an island located in the Mediterranean Sea, one of the Balearic Islands.The capital of the island, Palma, is also the capital of the autonomous community of the Balearic Islands. The Cabrera Archipelago is administratively grouped with Majorca...

, Spain
Clay   Adriana Gonzalez Penas   Olga Brózda
Olga Brózda
Olga Brózda is a WTA Tour Polish tennis player.As a professional, her highest career singles ranking is World No. 281, achieved on 7 April 2007, in doubles 192. She reached 10 ITF Circuit finals in singles, which 5 of them she won. In doubles she has reached 42 ITF finals, of which she has won 26...


  Tina Schiechtl
Tina Schiechtl
Tina Schiechtl is a professional Austrian tennis player. On September 25, 2006, she reached her highest WTA singles ranking of 230.-External links:...

6–3, 7–5
2. March 13, 2005 Las Palmas, Spain Clay   Vanessa Wellauer   Irina Kotkina
  Charlene Vanneste
7–5, 6–2
3. April 3, 2005 Tiro A Volo, Rome, Italy Clay   Adriana Gonzalez Penas   Gréta Arn
Gréta Arn
Gréta Arn is a professional tennis player from Hungary, and the current Hungarian No. 1. Arn turned professional in 1997....


  Janette Bejlkova
6–3, 6–3
4. April 23, 2006 Bari
Bari
Bari is the capital city of the province of Bari and of the Apulia region, on the Adriatic Sea, in Italy. It is the second most important economic centre of mainland Southern Italy after Naples, and is well known as a port and university city, as well as the city of Saint Nicholas...

, Italy
Clay   Caroline Schneider   Stefanie Haidner
Stefanie Haidner
Stefanie Haidner is an Austrian professional tennis player. Her career high WTA singles ranking is 232, which she reached on February 23, 2004...


  Darija Jurak
Darija Jurak
Darija Jurak is a Croatian professional tennis player. Her career high WTA doubles ranking is 74, set on July 5, 2010...

7–5, 6–2
5. May 7, 2006 Manavgat, Antalya, Turkey Clay   Tzipora Obziler
Tzipora Obziler
Tzipora Obziler is a former professional right-handed tennis player.She reached her career-high singles world ranking of #75 in on July 8, 2007, and doubles ranking of #149 on April 10, 2000....

  Matea Mezak
Matea Mezak
Matea Mezak is a Croatian professional tennis player. She has been on the ITF circuit since 2004, with six doubles titles and five singles wins....


  İpek Şenoğlu
Ipek Senoglu
İpek Şenoğlu , nicknamed İpeko, is a Turkish tennis player. Şenoğlu first made history in June 2004 when she was accepted into the women's doubles qualifying for Wimbledon. Though İpek did not advance into the main draw of Wimbledon, she became the first Turk ever to play in a qualifying tournament...

4–6, 6–4, 6–0
6. September 10, 2006 Denain
Denain
It is the largest of 39 communes which comprise the association of communes of Porte du Hainaut, with a total population of 147,989, as of 1999. Denain had a population of 20,360, on a land area of 11.52 km² .-References:* -External links:...

, France
Clay   Jasmin Wöhr
Jasmin Wöhr
Jasmin Wöhr is a German professional tennis player. She turned professional in 1999.Wöhr was part of the Germany Fed Cup team in 2006. In the same year, she played solely in doubles competition, but has since returned to singles as well...

  Klaudia Jans
Klaudia Jans
Klaudia Jans-Ignacik is a professional tennis player from Poland. While Jans hasn't won a WTA title, she has won one ITF singles title, eleven ITF doubles titles and one WTA doubles title....


  Alicja Rosolska
Alicja Rosolska
Alicja Rosolska is a Polish professional tennis player. Rosolska made her bow as a professional at the 2002 J&S Cup.She is primarily a doubles player, partnering countrywoman Klaudia Jans. She and Jans have reached five finals on the WTA...

4–6, 6–2, 6–4
7. March 8, 2009 Buchen
Buchen
Buchen is a town in Germany Neckar-Odenwald district, in Baden-Württemberg, Germany. It is situated in the Odenwald low mountain range, 23 km northeast of Mosbach.-Geography:...

, Germany
Carpet   Sandra Martinović
Sandra Martinovic
Sandra Martinovic is a professional tennis player. Her best WTA ranking was 187 on July 28, 2008 and her best double ranking 199 on April 28, 2008...

  Kateryna Avdiyenko
  Anastasia Poltoratskaya
Anastasia Poltoratskaya
Anastasia Viktorevna Poltoratskaya is a Russian tennis player. Currently ranked World No. 525 in singles and No...

5–7, 7–5, 10–8

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