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Arantxa Sánchez Vicario is a Spanish tennis player who achieved significant success in professional tennis. She matters because she was one of the prominent tennis competitors from Spain during her playing career.
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- María
- Gender
- female
- Citizenship
- Spain
- Place of birth
- Barcelona
- Sibling
- Emilio Sánchez
- Languages spoken
- Spanish
- Religion
- Catholicism
- Participant in
- tennis at the 1996 Summer Olympics – women's doubles
- Sport
- tennis
- Country for sport
- Spain
- Mass
- 56
- Image
- Arantxa Sánchez Vicario 2016.jpg
- Height
- 169
- Residence
- Andorra
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- Commons category
- Arantxa Sánchez Vicario
- handedness
- right-handedness
- date of birth
- 1971-12-18
- singles record
- 759–295
- doubles record
- 676–224
- birth name
- Aránzazu Isabel María Sánchez Vicario
- prize money
- 16942639
- ranking
- 1
- end of work period
- 2002-00-00
- start of work period
- 1985-00-00
- maintained by WikiProject
- WikiProject Tennis
- name in native language
- Arantxa Sánchez Vicario
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Encyclopedic overview
Aránzazu Isabel María "Arantxa" Sánchez Vicario ( Spanish pronunciation: [aˈɾanθaθw isaˈβel maˈɾi.a aˈɾantʃa ˈsantʃeθ βiˈkaɾjo]; born 18 December 1971) is a Spanish former professional tennis player. She was ranked as the world No. 1 in women's singles by the Women's Tennis Association (WTA) for 12 weeks, as well as the world No. 1 in women's doubles for 111 weeks. A defensive baseliner, Sánchez Vicario won 29 WTA Tour-level singles titles and 69 doubles titles, including 14 major titles: four in singles, six in women's doubles, and four in mixed doubles. She also won four Olympic medals and five Fed Cup titles representing Spain. In 1994, Sánchez Vicario was crowned the ITF World Champion of the year.
Career
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