Silvia La Fratta (born 5 November 1967) is a former professional tennis player from Italy.
Biography
La Fratta, who was right-handed, had a best singles ranking of 114 and was a quarterfinalist at the
1988 Belgian Open.
In doubles, she was ranked as high as 127, with one WTA Tour final appearance at the
1988 Swedish Open, where she and
Linda Ferrando were beaten by
Sandra Cecchini
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Career
Cecchini turned professional in 1984. She won 12 singles and 11 doubles titles on the WTA Tour. She had career wins over Chris Evert, Arantxa ...
and
Mercedes Paz
Mercedes María Paz (; born 27 June 1966) is a former professional tennis player from Argentina. She won three singles titles on the WTA Tour and reached a career-high ranking of world No. 28 in April 1991. Her best Grand Slam result was the fou ...
.
Her most notable achievement on tour was reaching the round of 16 as a qualifier at the
1989 French Open. She had wins over
Gigi Fernández
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Fernández won 17 Grand Slam (tennis)#Tournaments, major doubles titles and two Olympic gold medals representing the United States, and reach ...
,
Elna Reinach
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With Patrick Galbraith, she won the US Open mixed doubles championship in 1994. She played in the 1992 Summer Olympics. Reinach was runner-up at the F ...
and
Andrea Vieira, and then was eliminated by top seed
Steffi Graf
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. This was her first
Grand Slam main-draw appearance. She played in only two more Grand Slam events: the French Open and Wimbledon in 1990.
In the last years, she became a partner in Deloitte Italy with a lot of success and joy. No more tennis rackets, time for Excel sheets.
WTA career finals
Doubles: 1 (runner-up)
ITF finals
Singles: 3 (3 titles)
Doubles: 1 (1 title)
References
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1967 births
Living people
Italian female tennis players
20th-century Italian sportswomen