Paula Ormaechea (; born 28 September 1992) is an Argentine

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player based in

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. She has won 16 singles and nine doubles titles on the ITF Circuit. On 21 October 2013, she reached a career-high singles ranking of world No. 59.Paula Ormaechea
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Ormaechea has a 21–13 win–loss record, playing for Argentina Fed Cup team. She plays in the Italian Tennis Serie A1 (major circuit) in the Tennis Club Rungg of

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Personal life

Paula Ormaechea was born 1992 to Mirna and Marcelo Ormaechea.Paola Ormaechea
at the

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She has two sisters, Valentina and Sofía. Juan Pablo Guzmán, former ATP tennis player, serves as her coach. Ormaechea cites

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, Serena and

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as her role models,''El Tenis Que No Vemos''
Conociendo a… Paula Ormaechea
(3 August 2009) and also admires

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and

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Career review

Junior career

Ormaechea entered professional junior tournaments in 2006. She defeated Kristina Mladenovic in the semifinals of the Banana Bowl, but lost to Ana Bogdan in the finals 6–2 6–4. Ormaechea won her next title at Uruguay Bowl in March 2009. She also played at the 2009 French Open and US Open, but fell to

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in the first round, respectively. She also won four doubles events, her last junior doubles title came at Canadian Open championship in September 2009.

Fed Cup

Ormaechea made her debut for Argentina Fed Cup team on 26 April 2009 in the 2009 World Group Playoff against

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. She partnered

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, losing to Mariya Koryttseva and

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in straight sets.

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World Group Playoff: Ukraine defeated Argentina 5–0 in Argentina
/ref> Ormaechea made her singles debut in 2010 World Group II rubber against

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Ani & Kanepi lead Estonian debut
(4 February 2010) She lost her first match to world No. 61,

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Estonia in driving seat
(6 February 2010) and the second one to Maret Ani.

Estonia seals Playoff spot
(7 February 2010) Ormaechea also played in the rubber against

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, and lost both of her singles matches — against

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and

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br>World Group II Playoffs: Canada vs. Argentina 5–0
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2011

Her first tournament was an ITF event in Colombia, where she lost to

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4–6, 0–6 in the first round of qualifying. After this, she played the Copa Colsanitas, but again lost in qualifying, this time in the second round. Despite her bad run, Paula rebounded and won an ITF tournament in Santiago, Chile one month later. She then played four ITF events during May, reaching the final of one, but losing to top seed

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6–4, 3–6, 2–6. Paula then played the qualifying for the Brussels Open, her first Premier tournament. She got to the final round of qualifying after defeating

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and

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, but was then swept aside by doubles specialist Abigail Spears, 6–1, 6–1. Following this loss, she headed to Rome to play a $25k tournament, but lost in the second round to Sofia Shapatava. Then, following another loss in the quarterfinals of an ITF event in Poland and an early elimination in the qualifying at the

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, Paula's form improved when she qualified for the

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in Kitzbühel, Austria. She there lost in the first round of the main draw to María José Martínez Sánchez, in straight sets. Paula then took a break from the

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, playing eight ITF tournaments from August to October, winning two of them.

2012

Ormaechea began new season at the Sydney International where she lost in the second round of qualifying to 13th seed

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. Following this loss, she headed to Melbourne for the

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where she qualified for her first Grand Slam main draw beating seventh seed CoCo Vandeweghe,

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, and 19th seed Yvonne Meusburger. In the first round of the main draw, she overcame Simona Halep in three sets. In the second round, however, she was sent crashing out by eighth seed Agnieszka Radwańska, in straight sets. Due to her strong beginning of the new season, her ranking peaked at over No. 140 for the first time.

Performance timelines

Singles

Doubles

WTA career finals

Singles: 1 (runner-up)

ITF Circuit finals

Singles: 32 (16 titles, 16 runner–ups)

Doubles: 24 (9 titles, 15 runner–ups)

National representation

Fed Cup/Billie Jean King Cup performances

Singles (12–10)

Doubles (0–2)

Notes

References

External links

* * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Ormaechea, Paula 1992 births Living people People from Castellanos Department Tennis players from Buenos Aires Argentine female tennis players Argentine people of Basque descent Tennis players at the 2015 Pan American Games Pan American Games bronze medalists for Argentina Pan American Games medalists in tennis Competitors at the 2010 South American Games South American Games medalists in tennis South American Games bronze medalists for Argentina Medalists at the 2015 Pan American Games