Ana Isabel Medina Garrigues (born July 31, 1982 in Torrent, Valencia), better known as Anabel Medina, is a Spanish female tennis player. She reached a career high WTA Tour ranking of 23 in August 2006, and has won 8 singles titles and 12 doubles titles, including the 2008 French Open with Virginia Ruano Pascual.
Most recently she won the WTA tournament in Strasbourg, France, beating Katarina Srebotnik in the final in May 2008, thus keeping a title she won the previous year against Amélie Mauresmo. Her other singles titles came in Palermo in 2006, 2005, 2004 and 2001; Canberra in 2006 and Strasbourg in 2005.
She is currently the highest-ranked Spanish women's professional tennis player.
WTA tour and ITF circuit Titles
Singles (14)
| Legend (Singles) |
| Grand Slam (0) |
| Tour Championships (0) |
| Tier I Event (0) |
| Tier II Event (0) |
| Tier III Event (3) |
| Tier IV-V Event (5) |
| ITF Circuit (6) |
| No.
| Date
| Tournament
| Surface
| Opponent in the final
| Score |
| 1.
| April 4, 1999
| Pontevedra
| Hard
| Ángeles Montolio
| 6–1 6–2 |
| 2.
| September 10, 2000
| Denain
| Clay
| María José Martínez Sánchez
| 2–6 7–5 6–0 |
| 3.
| July 15, 2001
| Palermo
| Clay
| Cristina Torrens Valero
| 6–4 6–4 |
| 4.
| October 7, 2001
| Girona
| Clay
| Angelika Roesch
| 6–4 6–4 |
| 5.
| June 29, 2003
| Perigueux
| Clay
| Celine Beigbeder
| 6–1 6–2 |
| 6.
| September 14, 2003
| Denain
| Clay
| Gala León García
| 6–4 6–0 |
| 7.
| June 13, 2004
| Marseille
| Clay
| Lubomira Kurhajcova
| 5–7 6–3 6–3 |
| 8.
| July 25, 2004
| Palermo
| Clay
| Flavia Pennetta
| 6–4 6–4 |
| 9.
| May 21, 2005
| Strasbourg
| Clay
| Marta Domachowska
| 6–4 6–3 |
| 10.
| July 24, 2005
| Palermo
| Clay
| Klara Koukalova
| 6–4 6–0 |
| 11.
| January 13, 2006
| Canberra
| Hard
| Yoon Jeong Cho
| 6–4 0–6 6–4 |
| 12.
| July 23, 2006
| Palermo
| Clay
| Tathiana Garbin
| 6–4 6–4 |
| 13.
| May 26, 2007
| Strasbourg
| Clay
| Amélie Mauresmo
| 6–4 4–6 6–4 |
| 14.
| May 24, 2008
| Strasbourg
| Clay
| Katarina Srebotnik
| 4-6 7-6(4) 6-0 |
Singles Finalist (5)
Doubles (15)
| Legend (Doubles) |
| Grand Slam (1) |
| Tour Championships (0) |
| Tier I Event (0) |
| Tier II Event (1) |
| Tier III Event (2) |
| Tier IV Event (8) |
| ITF Circuit (3) |
| No.
| Date
| Tournament
| Surface
| Partner
| Finalists
| Score |
| 1.
| Jul. 11, 1999
| Vigo
| Clay
| Lourdes Dominguez Lino
| Patricia Aznar
Ana Salas
| 7–5 6–1 |
| 2.
| Aug. 29, 1999
| Bucharest
| Clay
| Lourdes Dominguez Lino
| Nadejda Ostrovskaya
Zuzana Valekova
| 7–5 6–2 |
| 3.
| Mar. 4, 2001
| Acapulco
| Clay
| Maria J.M. Sanchez
| Virginia Ruano Pascual
Paola Suarez
| 6–4 6–7 7–5 |
| 4.
| Apr. 8, 2001
| Porto
| Clay
| Maria J.M. Sanchez
| Alexandra Fusai
Rita Grande
| 6–1 6–7 7–5 |
| 5.
| May 6, 2001
| Bol
| Clay
| Maria J.M. Sanchez
| Nadia Petrova
Tina Pisnik
| 7–5 6–4 |
| 6.
| Aug. 5, 2001
| Basel
| Clay
| Maria J.M. Sanchez
| Joanette Kruger
Marta Marrero
| 7–6 6–2 |
| 7.
| Jun. 29, 2003
| Perigueux
| Clay
| Maria J.M. Sanchez
| Lana Popadic
Natacha Randriantefy
| 6–0 6–3 |
| 8.
| Jul. 25, 2004
| Palermo
| Clay
| Arantxa Sanchez-Vicario
| Lubomira Kurhajcova
Henrieta Nagyova
| 6–3 7–6 |
| 9.
| Jun. 18, 2005
| `s-Hertogenbosch
| Grass
| Dinara Safina
| Iveta Benesova
Nuria Llagostera Vives
| 6–4 2–6 7–6 |
| 10.
| Sep. 25, 2005
| Portoroz
| Hard
| Roberta Vinci
| Jelena Kostanic
Katarina Srebotnik
| 6–4 5–7 6–2 |
| 11.
| Jul. 30, 2007
| Stockholm
| Hard
| Virginia Ruano Pascual
| Chin-Wei Chan
Tetiana Luzhanska
| 6–1 5–7 10–6 |
| 12.
| Jan. 11, 2008
| Hobart
| Hard
| Virginia Ruano Pascual
| Eleni Daniilidou
Jasmin Woehr
| 6–2 6–4 |
| 13.
| Jun. 6, 2008
| French Open
| Clay
| Virginia Ruano Pascual
| Casey Dellacqua
Francesca Schiavone
| 2–6 7–5 6–4 |
| 14.
| Jul. 27, 2008
| Portorož
| Hard
| Virginia Ruano Pascual
| Vera Dushevina
Ekaterina Makarova
| 6–4 6–1 |
| 15.
| Sep. 28, 2008
| Beijing
| Hard
| Caroline Wozniacki
| Han Xinyun
Xu Yi-Fan
| 6–1 6–3 |
Singles performance timeline
| Tournament
| 2001
| 2002
| 2003
| 2004
| 2005
| 2006
| 2007
| 2008
| Career SR
| Career Win-Loss |
| Australian Open
| 2R
| 4R
| 1R
| 3R
| 1R
| 1R
| 1R
| 2R
| 0 / 8
| 7–8
|
| French Open
| 1R
| A
| A
| 2R
| 3R
| 3R
| 4R
| 3R
| 0 / 6
| 10–6
|
| Wimbledon
| 1R
| A
| A
| 1R
| 1R
| 3R
| 1R
| 3R
| 0 / 6
| 4–6
|
| U.S. Open
| 1R
| A
| A
| 2R
| 3R
| 1R
| 3R
| 2R
| 0 / 6
| 6–6
|
| Grand Slam Win-Loss
| 1-4
| 3-1
| 0-1
| 4-4
| 4-4
| 4-4
| 5-4
| 6-4
| N/A
| 27-26
|
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