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Tzipora "Tzipi" Obziler (; born 19 April 1973) is an Israeli former professional
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player. She reached her career-high singles world ranking of No. 75 in on 8 July 2007, and career-high doubles ranking of No. 149 on 10 April 2000.


Early and personal life

She was born in
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, Israel, and is Jewish. Obziler speaks Hebrew and English. After graduating from high school, she served two years in the
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(IDF; the Israeli Army). Obziler attended classes at
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in
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. She and her girlfriend Hadas have a daughter together. Obziler took a break from professional tennis when the baby was born, and came back to play in 2008.


Tennis career

She won 14 singles and 14 doubles titles on the
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. Despite her late run, she played her best tennis over the last few years and qualified for several Grand Slam events. She started playing tennis at age 10, with friends. In 1997, she won ITF tournaments in singles in Jaffa and Antalya. In 1998, she repeated in Jaffa. In 1999, she won in Guimaraes and Azemeis (both Portugal), and two tournaments in Istanbul, Turkey. In 2000, she won tournaments in Ashkelon and Beersheba in Israel. In 2002, she won in Mumbai, India, and Nonthaburi, Thailand. In November, she defeated world No. 62, Emmanuelle Gagliardi of Switzerland, in France. In 2003 in India, she had an upset win over world No. 36,
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of Russia, in straight sets. In 2004, she played world No. 1,
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, in the US Open, winning a set but losing in the second round. In 2005, she won both the singles and doubles (with
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) titles in Raanana, Israel. She also upset world No. 47,
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of France, in the Australian Open in two sets. In 2006, she managed to get further than round two of a
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event in her first events of the year at Auckland and at Guangzhou in late September. At the Auckland Open, she reached the quarterfinals with two good wins over Jamea Jackson and the fifth-seeded world No. 27,
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of Slovenia, before falling to
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. In
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, she reached semifinals of the tournament, along the way defeating world No. 51,
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of Russia, and world No. 20,
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of China, before falling to the fourth-seeded
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in three sets. Other than that, she qualified for the
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and various WTA Tour events, she won an ITF title in Washington, D.C., and finally an ITF doubles title in Antalya-Manavgat partnering
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. In 2007, she beat 56th-ranked
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of Japan in the round of 16 of the Pattaya City tournament in Thailand. She also made it to the semifinals in Bangalore and Patras. In August at the US Open, she lost in the first round to world No. 86,
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of Denmark. On 30 September 2007, she reached her first final on the WTA Tour, in which she lost to
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at the Guangzhou International Women's Open. She represented Israel at the 2008 Summer Olympics in
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, in both singles and (with
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) doubles. On 13 August 2009, Obziler convened a press conference to announce her retirement from professional tennis.


Federation Cup

Obziler was 48–30 in Federation Cup matches for the Israel Fed Cup team between 1994 and 2007, including wins in 12 of her most recent 13 matches. Obziler was part of Israel's Federation Cup team that won 10 ties in a row to reach the competition's quarterfinals in 2008 – Israel's greatest Federation Cup achievement in history. Obziler is second ever in the amount of ties played, at 61. She shares the record with compatriot
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.


WTA career finals


Singles: 1 (runner-up)


ITF Circuit finals


Singles (14–11)


Doubles (14–13)


See also

* List of select Jewish tennis players


References


External links

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