_(52190176812)_(cropped).jpg) Sara Errani at the 2022 Wimbledon Championships | ||||||||||||
| Country (sports) |  Italy | |||||||||||
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| Residence | Bologna, Italy | |||||||||||
| Born | 29 April 1987 Bologna, Italy | |||||||||||
| Height | 1.64 m (5 ft 5 in) | |||||||||||
| Turned pro | 2002 | |||||||||||
| Plays | Right-handed (two-handed backhand) | |||||||||||
| Coach | Pablo Lozano Beamud (2004–2016, present) | |||||||||||
| Prize money | US $15,040,459 [1] | |||||||||||
| Official website | sara-errani.com | |||||||||||
| Singles | ||||||||||||
| Career record | 682–500 | |||||||||||
| Career titles | 9 | |||||||||||
| Highest ranking | No. 5 (20 May 2013) | |||||||||||
| Current ranking | No. 96 (15 July 2024) | |||||||||||
| Grand Slam singles results | ||||||||||||
| Australian Open | QF (2012) | |||||||||||
| French Open | F (2012) | |||||||||||
| Wimbledon | 3R (2010, 2012) | |||||||||||
| US Open | SF (2012) | |||||||||||
| Other tournaments | ||||||||||||
| Tour Finals | RR (2012, 2013) | |||||||||||
| Olympic Games | 3R (2016) | |||||||||||
| Doubles | ||||||||||||
| Career record | 407–234 | |||||||||||
| Career titles | 31 | |||||||||||
| Highest ranking | No. 1 (10 September 2012) | |||||||||||
| Current ranking | No. 16 (15 July 2024) | |||||||||||
| Grand Slam doubles results | ||||||||||||
| Australian Open | W (2013, 2014) | |||||||||||
| French Open | W (2012) | |||||||||||
| Wimbledon | W (2014) | |||||||||||
| US Open | W (2012) | |||||||||||
| Other doubles tournaments | ||||||||||||
| Tour Finals | SF (2012, 2013) | |||||||||||
| Olympic Games | W (2024) | |||||||||||
| Grand Slam mixed doubles results | ||||||||||||
| Wimbledon | 1R (2024) | |||||||||||
| US Open | W (2024) | |||||||||||
| Other mixed doubles tournaments | ||||||||||||
| Olympic Games | QF (2024) | |||||||||||
| Team competitions | ||||||||||||
| Fed Cup | W (2009, 2010, 2013) Record 21–12 | |||||||||||
Medal record
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| Last updated on: 2 September 2024. | ||||||||||||
Sara Errani (Italian: [ˈsaːra erˈraːni]; born 29 April 1987) is an Italian professional tennis player. She is a former world No. 1 achieved on 10 September 2012 and a Golden Grand Slam winner in doubles. She reached a career-high singles ranking of world No. 5 on 20 May 2013. With nine singles titles and 31 doubles titles (including 6 Grand Slam championships, 6 WTA 1000 and Olympic titles), she is the Italian tennis player with the highest number of career titles.
In doubles, she entered the top 10 on 11 June 2012, remaining there for 94 straight weeks and was the year-end number-one doubles player in both 2013 and 2014, and has held the top ranking for a combined total of 87 weeks.
Errani's breakthrough season occurred in 2012. At the Australian Open, she reached the quarterfinals in singles (the first time she advanced past the third round in a Grand Slam singles draw) and was a finalist in doubles. Known as a clay-court specialist,[2][3] Errani won three titles on clay going into the 2012 French Open, where she reached the finals in both the singles (becoming the second Italian woman to ever reach a Grand Slam singles final, with Francesca Schiavone being the first at the 2010 French Open) and doubles tournaments, winning the doubles title with her partner Roberta Vinci.[4] They also won the doubles titles at the 2012 US Open, and the 2013 and 2014 Australian Open. By winning the 2014 Wimbledon Women's Doubles title, Errani and Vinci became only the fifth pair in tennis history to complete a Career Grand Slam.[5]
Her achievement in reaching the 2012 US Open singles semifinals leaves Wimbledon as the only Grand Slam tournament in which Errani has yet to make the quarterfinals in singles. She also made the semifinals at the 2013 French Open, the quarterfinals at the 2014 French Open, 2014 US Open, and 2015 French Open, and qualified to the WTA Finals twice in 2012 and 2013. In 2017, Errani was banned from playing for ten months due to a failed drug test.[6]
- ^ https://wtafiles.wtatennis.com/pdf/rankings/All_Career_Prize_Money.pdf [bare URL PDF]
- ^ Nguyen, Courtney (7 June 2012). "Sara Errani makes improbable run into French Open final". Sports Illustrated. Retrieved 8 June 2012.
- ^ "Quarterfinal Previews and Picks: Day 10". tennis.com. 4 June 2012. Retrieved 8 June 2012.
- ^ "Sara Errani". BBC Sport. Retrieved 9 June 2012.
- ^ "Errani & Vinci Complete Grand Slam Set". Retrieved 5 July 2014.
- ^ "Italy's Sara Errani suspended for just two months after blaming mum's tortellini for failed drugs test". The Telegraph. 7 August 2017. Retrieved 22 January 2018.