Vanessa Menga

Vanessa Menga

Country	Brazil
Residence	São Paulo, Brazil
Born	10 October 1976 (1976-10-10) São Paulo, Brazil
Height	1.71 m (5 ft 7 in)
Weight	60 kilograms (130 lb)
Turned pro	1995
Retired	2003
Plays	Right-handed (two-handed backhand)
Career prize money	$139,973
Singles
Career record	185 - 186
Career titles	0 WTA, 3 ITF
Highest ranking	163 (February 22, 1999)
Doubles
Career record	267 - 148
Career titles	0 WTA, 33 ITF
Highest ranking	93 (June 7, 1999)
Grand Slam Doubles results
French Open	R3 (1999)
Wimbledon	R1 (1999)
US Open	R1 (1999)
Grand Slam Mixed Doubles results
Wimbledon	R2 (1999)
Last updated on: 17 January 2011.

Medal record
Women's Tennis
Competitor for Brazil
Pan American Games
Gold	1999 Winnipeg	Women's Doubles

Vanessa Menga (born October 10, 1976) is a former professional tennis player from Brazil.

Born in São Paulo, she started playing tennis at the age of 4, when she went to an academy along with her father. At the age of 14, Menga went to train tennis in Barcelona, where she won her first doubles championship.

She's the only Brazilian female tennis player to play in two Summer Olympic Games, Atlanta 1996 (doubles with Miriam D’Agostini, falling in Round 1), and Sydney 2000 (with Joana Cortez, falling in Round 2). Menga was also in two Pan American Games, Mar Del Plata 1995 and Winnipeg 1999, where she won the doubles Gold medal with Joana Cortez.

In 2001, Menga posed for Playboy Brazil. In 2003, she retired from tennis after a motorcycle accident which left her for eight months without playing. Menga now has an institute in São Paulo where she teaches tennis to over 200 children, and participates in other charity projects.

References

• Globoesporte (Portuguese)

External links

• Official Website
• Vanessa Menga at the Women's Tennis Association
• Vanessa Menga at the International Tennis Federation