Carmen Perea Alcalá (born 3 May 1952) is a former professional
tennis
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player from Spain.
Biography
Perea was born in
Melilla
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, an autonomous Spanish city on the African continent. She later moved to Málaga, and at tage 18, settled in Barcelona.
From 1973 to 1983, she appeared in 29
Federation Cup ties for Spain, winning 19 matches overall.
One of her singles wins over was West German
Sylvia Hanika
Sylvia Hanika (born 30 November 1959) is a former professional tennis player from Germany. She is remembered for finishing as the runner-up at the French Open in 1981 and for winning the Year End Championships in 1982. She was ranked as high as ...
in 1980. During this period, she was the top female player in Spain, and she won nine Spanish Tennis Championships in a run that included 10 successive finals. She featured regularly in the main draw of the
French Open
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and played doubles at
Wimbledon
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and the
US Open.
Since retiring from professional tennis, she has worked as a tennis coach and tournament director. She was the coach of
Patricia Medrado in the 1980s and more recently coached
Nuria Llagostera.
See also
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List of Spain Fed Cup team representatives
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1952 births
Living people
Spanish female tennis players
Spanish tennis coaches
Sportspeople from Melilla
Sportspeople from Málaga
Tennis players from Andalusia
20th-century Spanish sportswomen
21st-century Spanish women