Betina Jozami

Betina Jozami

Country	Argentina
Born	September 8, 1988 (1988-09-08) Paraná
Height	1.78m
Career prize money	$136,127
Singles
Career record	142-96
Career titles	0 WTA, 7 ITF
Highest ranking	No. 132 (9 February 2009)
Grand Slam results
Australian Open	–
French Open	–
Wimbledon	–
US Open	–
Doubles
Career record	134-67
Career titles	0 WTA, 14 ITF
Highest ranking	No. 96 (19 May 2008)
Grand Slam Doubles results
Australian Open	–
French Open	–
Wimbledon	1R (2008)
US Open	–
Last updated on: 23 February 2009.

Medal record
Competitor for Argentina
Women's Tennis
2007 Pan American Games
Gold	2007 Rio de Janeiro	Doubles
Bronze	2007 Rio de Janeiro	Singles

Betina Jozami (born 8 September 1988 in Paraná) is a professional tennis player from Argentina. She has not won a Women's Tennis Association tennis title, but has won five singles titles and eleven doubles titles on the International Tennis Federation (ITF). Born to Beto and Andrea Jozami, the Argentine has two siblings. Jozami won the 2007 Pan American Games doubles gold medal with Jorgelina Cravero, and also earned the bronze medal in singles.

Career

Betina Jozami in Albuquerque in 2008

In 2003, Jozami played her first ITF tennis event in July, where she reached the finals.

In 2004, Jozami reached the finals of two ITF doubles tournaments, reaching the final in the first event of the year before winning a doubles final in Asunción.

In 2006, Jozami won the first ITF doubles tournament that she entered. She won the Monterrey singles and doubles events, along with winning the Jalapa doubles event in Mexico. In addition, she won the Leon, Mexico, singles title with a victory over Agustina Lepore in the final. Then, after losing in the Valencia doubles semifinals, she won four straight doubles titles in Caracas, Tampico, Guadalajara and Ciudad Juárez, winning the singles titles in Tampico, Guadalajara and Ciudad Juárez, and lost her 17-match doubles winning streak in the quarter finals of the San Luis Potosí event. She won the singles title in the finals Tampico singles title along with a 6–3, 6–0 victory over Daniela Múñoz Gallegos, and won the singles title of Ciudad Juárez over Estafania Craciun, the same person she defeated to win the Guadalajara title, 6–1, 0–6, 6–2.

In singles in 2007, Jozami qualified to reach various ITF singles semifinals. Jozami went on to lose a close three-set battle to Alina Jidkova in Wimbledon's qualifying draw, falling 6–3, 6–7 (6), 14-12 in the first round. She lost in the first round of the 2007 U.S. Open qualifying to Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova, 6–2, 6–2.

In doubles, Jozami made the semifinals of the first three ITF tournaments that she played in 2007, reaching two further semifinals in Charlottesville, Virginia, and Indian Harbour Beach, Florida, in the United States before reaching the Palm Beach Gardens, Florida, finals with Estafania Craciun. She won a title in Madrid with compatriot Jorgelina Cravero, and won her second ITF title of the year, again with Cravero, in Washington, D.C. in the United States in August. She reached the finals in San Francisco, California, and in San Luis Potosí in Mexico, before finishing her year with an appearance in a 2007 WTA Tour event. Jozami teamed with Maria Fernanda Alves in the Quebec City doubles event, where they beat top seeds Meilen Tu and Vera Zvonareva in the quarterfinals before falling to Christina Fusano and Raquel Kops-Jones in the semifinals, a good end to Jozami's 2007 tennis season.

Jozami won the Waikoloa Village, Hawaii, doubles title in the United States in 2008, teaming with Maria Fernanda Alves to win the final against Angela Haynes and Mashona Washington.

At the 2008 Copa Colsanitas, she defeated top seed Flavia Pennetta 6–1, 2–6, 6–4, before reaching the quarter finals after a walkover win over Mariya Koryttseva. In the quarter finals, she defeated ninth seed Martina Müller 6–3, 6–1, to set up a semifinal clash with Nuria Llagostera Vives.

WTA and ITF titles

Singles winner (6)

Legend (Doubles)
Tier I (0)
Tier II
Tier III (0)
Tier IV / V (0)
Grand Slam Title (0)
WTA Tour Championship (0)
ITF Circuit (6)

No.	Date	Tournament	Tier	Surface	Opponent in the final	Score
1.	28 May 2006	Monterrey, Mexico	ITF	Hard	Mariana Duque Marino	6–3, 6–3
2.	4 June 2006	Leon, Mexico	ITF	Hard	Agustina Lepore	N/A
3.	17 September 2006	Tampico, Mexico	ITF	Hard	Daniela Múñoz Gallegos	6–3, 6–0
4.	24 September 2006	Guadalajara, Mexico	ITF	Clay	Estefania Craciún	6–3, 6–4
5.	1 October 2006	Ciudad Juárez, Mexico	ITF	Clay	Estefania Craciún	6–1, 0–6, 6–2
6.	6 April 2008	Civitavecchia, Italy	ITF	Clay	Polona Hercog	6-2, 6-2

Singles runner-ups (3)

Legend (Doubles)
Tier I (0)
Tier II
Tier III (0)
Tier IV / V (0)
Grand Slam Title (0)
WTA Tour Championship (0)
ITF Circuit (3)

No.	Date	Tournament	Tier	Surface	Opponent in the final	Score
1.	27 July 2003	Puerto Ordaz, Venezuela	ITF	Hard	Zuzana Cerna	6–0, 6–0
2.	12 September 2004	Santiago, Chile	ITF	Clay	María José Argeri	6–4, 7–5
3.	23 July 2006	Campos do Jordão, Brazil	ITF	Hard	María José Argeri	4–6, 6–2, 6–3

Doubles winner (11)

Legend (Doubles)
Tier I (0)
Tier II
Tier III (0)
Tier IV / V (0)
Grand Slam Title (0)
WTA Tour Championship (0)
ITF Circuit (11)

No.	Date	Tournament	Tier	Surface	Partner	Opponents in the final	Score
1.	5 September 2004	Asunción, Paraguay	ITF	Clay	Veronica Spiegel	Bruna Colosio Ana Lucia Migliarini De Leon	7–5, 6–4
2.	12 February 2006	Mérida, Yucatán, Mexico	ITF	Hard	Agustina Lepore	Erika Clarke Daniela Múñoz Gallegos	6–1, 6–2
3.	28 May 2006	Monterrey, Mexico	ITF	Hard	Agustina Lepore	Valérie Tétreault Lorena Villalobos Cruz	4–6, 6–1, 6–2
4.	11 June 2006	Jalapa, Mexico	Hard	ITF	Daniela Múñoz Gallegos	María Irigoyen Flavia Mingola	7–6 (8), 3–6, 6–1
5.	16 July 2006	Caracas, Venezuela	Hard	ITF	Karina Andrea Koch Benvenuto	María Irigoyen Flavia Mingola	4–6, 6–2, 6–2
6.	17 September 2006	Tampico, Mexico	Hard	ITF	Daniela Múñoz Gallegos	Erika Clarke Courtney Nagle	N / A
7.	24 September 2006	Guadalajara, Mexico	Clay	ITF	Daniela Múñoz Gallegos	Alexandra Dulgheru Valeria Pulido Velasco	7–5, 6–4
8.	1 October 2006	Ciudad Juárez, Mexico	Clay	ITF	Estefania Craciún	Erika Clarke Courtney Nagle	6–1, 6–1
9.	10 June 2007	Madrid, Spain	ITF	Clay	Jorgelina Cravero	Nina Bratchikova Neuza Silva	6–4, 6–4
10.	5 August 2007	Washington, D.C., United States	Hard	ITF	Jorgelina Cravero	Julie Ditty Natalie Grandin	1–6, 6–1, 6–2
11.	27 January 2008	Waikoloa Village, Hawaii, United States	Hard	ITF	Maria Fernanda Alves	Angela Haynes Mashona Washington	7–5, 6–4
12.	5 April 2008	Civitavecchia	Clay	ITF	Jorgelina Cravero	Stefania Chieppa Darya Kustova	4-6, 6-3, 10-6

External links

• Betina Jozami at the Women's Tennis Association
• Betina Jozami at the International Tennis Federation