Bárbara Castro
Country (sports) | File:Flag of Chile.svg Chile |
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Born | 8 September 1975 |
Prize money | $16,854 |
Singles | |
Career titles | 0 |
Highest ranking | No. 340 (15 July 1996) |
Doubles | |
Career titles | 3 ITF |
Highest ranking | No. 217 (20 May 1996) |
Team competitions | |
Fed Cup | 28–27 |
Bárbara Castro (born 8 September 1975) is a Chilean former professional tennis player.
Biography
Castro trained at the Santa Rosa de Las Condes in Santiago and was later based in Spain during her career. From 1992 to 2000, Castro featured in a total of 36 Fed Cup ties for Chile. Her doubles partnership with Paula Cabezas resulted in 15 wins, which is a national record. She has a younger sister, Valentina, who also represented Chile in Fed Cup tennis.[1] Castro partnered with Paula Cabezas in the women's doubles event at the 1996 Atlanta Olympics, where they lost their first round match to Hungary's Virág Csurgó and Andrea Temesvári in three sets. With the same partner, Castro won a silver medal for Chile at the 1999 Pan American Games in Winnipeg.[2]
ITF finals
Singles (0–1)
Outcome | No. | Date | Tournament | Surface | Opponent | Score |
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Runner-up | 1. | 4 May 1995 | ITF Nitra, Slovakia | Clay | Switzerland Patty Schnyder | 6–1, 2–6, 3–6 |
Doubles (3–8)
Outcome | No. | Date | Tournament | Surface | Partner | Opponents | Score |
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Runner-up | 1. | 2 May 1993 | ITF Santiago, Chile | Clay | Chile María-Alejandra Quezada | Argentina Maria Inés Araiz Argentina Pamela Zingman |
1–6, 4–6 |
Runner-up | 2. | 13 September 1993 | ITF Bogotá, Colombia | Clay | Paraguay Magalí Benítez | Greece Christina Zachariadou Ecuador María Dolores Campana |
3–6, 2–6 |
Runner-up | 3. | 11 October 1993 | ITF Santiago, Chile | Clay | Ecuador María Dolores Campana | Argentina Paola Suárez Argentina Pamela Zingman |
1–6, 6–3, 0–6 |
Runner-up | 4. | 10 October 1994 | ITF Santiago, Chile | Clay | Chile María-Alejandra Quezada | Argentina Mariana Eberle Argentina María Fernanda Landa |
3–6, 6–4, 5–7 |
Runner-up | 5. | 31 October 1994 | ITF Freeport, Bahamas | Clay | Chile María-Alejandra Quezada | United States Ingrid Kurta Netherlands Martine Vosseberg |
6–4, 4–6, 6–7(2) |
Runner-up | 6. | 7 November 1994 | ITF Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic |
Clay | Chile María-Alejandra Quezada | Dominican Republic Joelle Schad Spain Noelia Serra |
1–5 ret. |
Winner | 1. | 20 November 1994 | ITF San Salvador, El Salvador | Hard | Puerto Rico Emilie Viqueira | United States Kellie Dorman-Tyrone Republic of Ireland Philippa Palmer |
6–2, 6–2 |
Winner | 2. | 25 September 1995 | ITF Guayaquil, Ecuador | Clay | Chile María-Alejandra Quezada | Argentina Mariana Díaz Oliva Brazil Eugenia Maia |
7–6(5), 6–1 |
Runner-up | 7. | 8 October 1995 | ITF Lima, Peru | Hard | Chile María-Alejandra Quezada | Sweden Maria-Farnes Capistrano Finland Linda Jansson |
2–6, 6–2, 3–6 |
Runner-up | 8. | 30 October 1995 | ITF Santiago, Chile | Clay | Chile María-Alejandra Quezada | Brazil Miriam D'Agostini Brazil Katalin Marosi |
0–6, 3–6 |
Winner | 3. | 6 May 1996 | ITF Amazonas, Brazil | Hard | Chile Paula Cabezas | Argentina Sandra De Amelio Argentina Paula Racedo |
6–1, 6–3 |
References
- ↑ "Tenis: Bárbara Castro campeona en el Stade Francais". El Mercurio (in Spanish). 28 May 2000.
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: CS1 maint: unrecognized language (link) - ↑ "Duplas recém-formadas dão dois ouros ao Brasil no tênis". Folha de S.Paulo (in Portuguese). 6 August 1999.
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- 1975 births
- Living people
- Chilean female tennis players
- Olympic tennis players for Chile
- Tennis players at the 1996 Summer Olympics
- Tennis players at the 1999 Pan American Games
- Pan American Games silver medalists for Chile
- Pan American Games medalists in tennis
- South American Games medalists in tennis
- South American Games gold medalists for Chile
- South American Games bronze medalists for Chile
- Competitors at the 1994 South American Games
- Competitors at the 1998 South American Games
- Medalists at the 1999 Pan American Games
- 20th-century Chilean women
- Place of birth missing (living people)