Sara Errani

Sara Errani

Country	Italy
Residence	Bologna, Italy
Born	April 29, 1987 (1987-04-29) Bologna, Italy
Height	1.64 m (5 ft 5 in)
Weight	60 kg (130 lb)
Turned pro	2002
Plays	Right-handed (two-handed backhand)
Career prize money	$1,677,354
Singles
Career record	272–209
Career titles	2 WTA, 2 ITF
Highest ranking	No. 31 (February 23, 2009)
Current ranking	No. 34 (January 30, 2012)
Grand Slam results
Australian Open	QF (2012)
French Open	2R (2011)
Wimbledon	3R (2010)
US Open	3R (2009, 2010)
Doubles
Career record	157–125
Career titles	9 WTA, 6 ITF
Highest ranking	No. 31 (January 17, 2011)
Current ranking	No. 32 (February 7, 2011)
Last updated on: February 7, 2011.

Sara Errani (born April 29, 1987 in Bologna, Italy), nicknamed "Poco Gigante", is a professional female tennis player from Italy. On February 23, 2009, she reached a new career-high of no. 31 on the Tour rankings. She won her two WTA titles within two weeks, and also has two ITF Titles.

Career

Early life and Junior career

Errani competed in her first event at the $10,000 Cagliari event in her native country of Italy where she lost to Sun Tiantian 6–1, 6–0.

Fukushima Daiichi scandal

The Italian player has been criticized recently (February 2012) after admitting a public cover-up. Back in September 2011 she refused to attend the Toray Pan Pacific Open in Tokyo, adducing "personal reasons", but then, on the 24th of January, she admitted in an interview with thewest.com.au that she did it because she feared the radiation danger (clearly not present at all in Tokyo). To this date she hasn't apologized yet to the Japanese government nor fans for lying to them.

WTA

She has been a professional since 2002. Her first WTA title of her career was in the Internazionali Femminili di Palermo, where she defeated Mariya Koryttseva. On July 27, 2008, she captured her second career title in two weeks defeating Anabel Medina Garrigues, 6–3, 6–3. She has also won six doubles WTA titles.

In 2009, Errani was the runner-up at two WTA tournaments: in Palermo and Portoroz, as the defending champion in both.

With Italy, she won the Fed Cup in 2009 and 2010.

In February 2011, she reached the final of the PTT Pattaya Open, where she was defeated by Daniela Hantuchová.

Errani reached the quarterfinals of the 2012 Australian Open where she lost to second seed Petra Kvitova. She also did well in doubles, reaching the final with partner, close friend, and fellow Italian Roberta Vinci.

Major finals

Grand Slam Finals

Doubles: 1 (0–1)

Outcome	Year	Championship	Surface	Partner	Opponents in the final	Score in the final
Runner-up	2012	Australian Open	Hard	Roberta Vinci	Svetlana Kuznetsova Vera Zvonareva	7–5, 4–6, 3–6

WTA Career Finals

Singles: 5 (2–3)

Legend Grand Slam tournaments (0–0) Olympic Gold (0–0) WTA Championships (0–0) Premier Mandatory (0–0) Premier 5 (0–0) Premier (0–0) International (2–3)

Titles by Surface Hard (1–2) Grass (0–0) Clay (1–1) Carpet (0–0)

Outcome	No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Opponent in the final	Score in the final
Winner	1.	July 13, 2008	Palermo, Italy	Clay	Mariya Koryttseva	6–2, 6–3
Winner	2.	July 27, 2008	Portorož, Slovenia	Hard	Anabel Medina Garrigues	6–3, 6–3
Runner-up	3.	July 19, 2009	Palermo, Italy	Clay	Flavia Pennetta	1–6, 2–6
Runner-up	4.	July 26, 2009	Portorož, Slovenia	Hard	Dinara Safina	7–6(7–5), 1–6, 5–7
Runner-up	5.	February 13, 2011	Pattaya City, Thailand	Hard	Daniela Hantuchová	0–6, 2–6

Doubles: 15 (9–6)

Legend Grand Slam tournaments (0–1) Olympic Gold (0–0) WTA Championships (0–0) Premier Mandatory (0–0) Premier 5 (0–0) Premier (0–2) International (9–3)

Titles by Surface Hard (3–3) Grass (1–1) Clay (5–2) Carpet (0–0)

Outcome	No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Partner	Opponent in the final	Score in the final
Winner	1.	July 13, 2008	Palermo, Italy	Clay	Nuria Llagostera Vives	Alla Kudryavtseva Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova	2–6, 7–6(7–1), [10–4]
Winner	2.	June 19, 2009	's-Hertogenbosch, Netherlands	Grass	Flavia Pennetta	Michaëlla Krajicek Yanina Wickmayer	6–4, 5–7, [13–11]
Runner-up	3.	22 February 2010	Acapulco, Mexico	Clay	Roberta Vinci	Polona Hercog Barbora Záhlavová-Strýcová	6–2, 1–6, [2–10]
Winner	4.	April 11, 2010	Marbella, Spain	Clay	Roberta Vinci	Maria Kondratieva Yaroslava Shvedova	6–4, 6–2
Winner	5.	April 17, 2010	Barcelona, Spain	Clay	Roberta Vinci	Timea Bacsinszky Tathiana Garbin	6–1, 3–6, [10–2]
Winner	6.	July 17, 2010	Palermo, Italy(2)	Clay	Alberta Brianti	Jill Craybas Julia Görges	6–4, 6–1
Runner-up	7.	23 October 2010	Moscow, Russia	Hard (i)	María José Martínez Sánchez	Gisela Dulko Flavia Pennetta	3–6, 6–2, [6–10]
Winner	8.	January 15, 2011	Hobart, Australia	Hard	Roberta Vinci	Kateryna Bondarenko Līga Dekmeijere	6–3, 7–5
Winner	9.	February 13, 2011	Pattaya City, Thailand	Hard	Roberta Vinci	Sun Shengnan Zheng Jie	3–6, 6–3, [10–5]
Runner-up	10.	April 10, 2011	Marbella, Spain	Clay	Roberta Vinci	Nuria Llagostera Vives Arantxa Parra Santonja	6–3, 4–6, [5–10]
Runner-up	11.	June 12, 2011	Birmingham, Great Britain	Grass	Roberta Vinci	Olga Govortsova Alla Kudryavtseva	6–1, 1–6, [5–10]
Winner	12.	July 16, 2011	Palermo, Italy(3)	Clay	Roberta Vinci	Andrea Hlaváčková Klára Zakopalová	7–5, 6–1
Runner-up	13.	27 August 2011	New Haven, United States	Hard	Roberta Vinci	Chuang Chia-jung Olga Govortsova	5–7, 2–6
Runner-up	14.	27 January 2012	Melbourne, Australia	Hard	Roberta Vinci	Svetlana Kuznetsova Vera Zvonareva	7–5, 4–6, 3–6
Winner	15.	26 February 2012	Monterrey, Mexico	Hard	Roberta Vinci	Kimiko Date-Krumm Zhang Shuai	6–2, 7–6(8–6)

External links

• Sara Errani at the Women's Tennis Association
• Sara Errani at the International Tennis Federation