Giulia Casoni
Giulia Casoni (Italian pronunciation: [ˈdʒuːlja kaˈzoːni -ˈsoː-];[1][2] born 19 April 1978 in Ferrara) is a retired Italian tennis player.[3][4]
Country (sports) | Italy |
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Residence | Ferrara, Italy |
Born | Ferrara, Italy | 19 April 1978
Height | 1.69 m (5 ft 6 1⁄2 in) |
Turned pro | 1993 |
Retired | 2006 |
Plays | Right-handed (two-handed backhand) |
Prize money | US$326,936 |
Singles | |
Career record | 269–233 |
Career titles | 0 WTA, 4 ITF |
Highest ranking | 83 (8 January 2001) |
Grand Slam Singles results | |
Australian Open | 1R (2001) |
French Open | 3R (2000) |
Wimbledon | 1R (2000, 2001) |
US Open | 3R (2000) |
Doubles | |
Career record | 225–127 |
Career titles | 3 WTA, 27 ITF |
Highest ranking | 51 (19 February 2001) |
Grand Slam Doubles results | |
Australian Open | 2R (2001) |
French Open | 2R (2000) |
Wimbledon | 1R (2000, 2001) |
US Open | 1R (2000, 2001) |
Last updated on: 28 December 2009. |
As a junior player, she won 1996 French Open in doubles, while her best professional results include singles quarterfinals at Internazionali Femminili di Palermo in 1999 and Tier I Italian Open in 2000, and three WTA Tour doubles titles. A member of Italy Fed Cup team from 2000 to 2001. She has won 3 in doubles WTA titles.
Casoni defeated players such as Dominique Monami, Katarina Srebotnik, Mariya Koryttseva, Francesca Schiavone, Émilie Loit and Nuria Llagostera Vives. She has won 4 singles and 27 in doubles ITF Circuit titles.
Casoni retired from professional tennis in 2006, after struggling with a knee injury.[5]
Career statistics
WTA Tour doubles finals: 4 (3–1)
Winner – Legend (pre/post 2010) |
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Grand Slam tournaments (0–0) |
WTA Tour Championships (0–0) |
Tier I / Premier Mandatory & Premier 5 (0–0) |
Tier II / Premier (0–0) |
Tier III, IV & V / International (0–3) |
Outcome | No. | Date | Tournament | Surface | Partner | Opponents | Result |
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Runner-up | 1. | Jul 1994 | Palermo, Italy | Clay | Alice Canepa | Ruxandra Dragomir Laura Garrone |
1–6, 0–6 |
Winner | 1. | Jul 2000 | Knokke-Heist, Belgium | Clay | Iroda Tulyaganova | Catherine Barclay Eva Dyrberg |
2–6, 6–4, 6–4 |
Winner | 2. | Jan 2001 | Gold Coast, Australia | Hard | Janette Husárová | Katie Schlukebir Meghann Shaughnessy |
7–6(11–9), 7–5 |
Winner | 3. | Jul 2005 | Palermo, Italy | Clay | Mariya Koryttseva | Klaudia Jans Alicja Rosolska |
4–6, 6–3, 7–5 |
Grand Slam girls' doubles finals (1; 1–0)
Outcome | Year | Tournament | Surface | Partner | Opponents | Result |
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Winners | 1996 | French Open | Clay | Alice Canepa | Anna Kournikova Ludmilla Varmuzova |
6–2, 5–7, 7–5 |
ITF Circuit finals
$100,000 tournaments |
$75,000 tournaments |
$50,000 tournaments |
$25,000 tournaments |
$10,000 tournaments |
Singles (4–6)
Outcome | No. | Date | Tournament | Surface | Opponent | Score |
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Runner-up | 1. | 22 August 1994 | Nicolosi, Italy | Hard | Corina Morariu | 5–7, 6–7(5) |
Winner | 2. | 18 June 1995 | Fontanafredda, Italy | Clay | Monica Guglielmi | 7-6, 7-6 |
Winner | 3. | 4 August 1996 | Catania, Italy | Clay | Debby Haak | 4–6, 6–3, 6–4 |
Winner | 4. | 31 March 1997 | Makarska, Croatia | Clay | Anna Földényi | 3–6, 6–2, 6–4 |
Runner-up | 5. | 3 August 1997 | Catania, Italy | Clay | Antonella Serra Zanetti | 7–6(3), 3-6, 3-6 |
Runner-up | 6. | 8 December 1997 | Espinho, Portugal | Clay | Maria Paola Zavagli | 5–7, 6–7(8) |
Runner-up | 7. | 7 February 1998 | Birkenhead, United Kingdom | Hard (i) | Petra Mandula | 0–6, 6–2, 3–6 |
Runner-up | 8. | 13 December 1998 | Mallorca, Spain | Clay | Rosa María Andrés Rodríguez | 7-5, 4-6, 3-6 |
Winner | 9. | 20 June 1999 | İstanbul, Turkey | Hard | Petra Begerow | 7–5, 1–6, 6–4 |
Runner-up | 10. | 19 April 2000 | Cagnes-sur-Mer, France | Hard | Iroda Tulyaganova | 2–6, 3–6 |
Doubles (27–10)
Outcome | No. | Date | Tournament | Surface | Partner | Opponents | Score |
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Winner | 1. | 30 August 1993 | Massa, Italy | Clay | Alice Canepa | Germana Di Natale Giulia Toschi |
7–6, 6–1 |
Runner-up | 2. | 21 August 1994 | Koksijde, Belgium | Clay | Sara Ventura | Francesca Lubiani Maria Paola Zavagli |
6-7, 5-7 |
Winner | 3. | 24 April 1995 | Bari, Italy | Clay | Alice Canepa | Marina Gojković Dragana Zarić |
6–0, 6–0 |
Runner-up | 4. | 12 June 1995 | Massa, Italy | Clay | Alice Canepa | Emmanuelle Gagliardi Marzia Grossi |
6-3, 4-6, 5-7 |
Winner | 5. | 18 March 1996 | Reims, France | Clay | Flora Perfetti | Siobhan Drake-Brockman Catherine Tanvier |
6–3, 4–6, 6–0 |
Winner | 6. | 27 July 1997 | Camaiore, Italy | Clay | Federica Fortuni | Cindy Dock Jenny-Anne Fetch |
6–4, 6–1 |
Winner | 7. | 3 August 1997 | Muri Antichi, Italy | Clay | Federica Fortuni | Natalia Bondarenko Biljana Pawlowa-Dimitrova |
7–6, 6–2 |
Winner | 8. | 10 August 1997 | Catania, Italy | Clay | Sabina Da Ponte | Ding Ding Ni Wei |
6–4, 6–2 |
Winner | 9. | 8 December 1997 | Espinho, Portugal | Clay | Maria Paola Zavagli | Tamara Aranda Julia Carballal |
6–2, 6–4 |
Winner | 10. | 7 February 1998 | Birkenhead, United Kingdom | Hard (i) | Anna Zaporozhanova | Natalia Egorova Olga Ivanova |
6–3, 6–2 |
Runner-up | 11. | 24 August 1998 | Milan, Italy | Grass | Marijana Kovačević | Hiroko Mochizuki Ryoko Takemura |
6–4, 6–7(5), 4–6 |
Runner-up | 12. | 27 September 1998 | Lecce, Italy | Clay | Stefania Chieppa | Katia Altilia Stefanie Haidner |
0–6, 2–6 |
Winner | 13. | 13 December 1998 | Mallorca, Spain | Clay | Katia Altilia | Paula Garcia Kelly Liggan |
6-3, 7-6(4) |
Runner-up | 14. | 7 June 1999 | Galatina, İtaly | Clay | Maria Paola Zavagli | Mariana Díaz Oliva Erica Krauth |
1–6, 3–6 |
Winner | 15. | 20 June 1999 | İstanbul, Turkey | Hard | Kirstin Freye | Andrea Šebová Magdalena Zděnovcová |
6–3, 6–3 |
Winner | 16. | 6 March 2000 | Urtijëi, Italy | Hard (i) | Antonella Serra Zanetti | Angelika Bachmann Eva Dyrberg |
6–3, 4–6, 2–6 |
Winner | 17. | 10 April 2000 | Cagnes-sur-Mer, France | Hard (i) | Angelika Bachmann | Iroda Tulyaganova Anna Zaporozhanova |
7–5, 6–1 |
Runner-up | 18. | 22 October 2000 | Cardiff, United Kingdom | Carpet (i) | Laurence Courtois | Julie Pullin Lorna Woodroffe |
6–0, 1–6, 3–6 |
Winner | 19. | 29 July 2001 | Pamplona, Spain | Hard | Roberta Vinci | Trudi Musgrave Julie Pullin |
7-6, 6-4 |
Winner | 20. | 3 September 2001 | Fano, Italy | Clay | Katalin Marosi | Eva Bes Gisela Riera |
6–3, 6–4 |
Runner-up | 21. | 27 January 2002 | Fullerton, United States | Hard | Amanda Hopmans | Melissa Middleton Brie Rippner |
6–2, 4–6, 5–7 |
Winner | 22. | 3 February 2002 | Rockford, United States | Hard (i) | Amanda Hopmans | Melissa Middleton Brie Rippner |
6–4, ret. |
Runner-up | 23. | 11 February 2003 | Southampton, United Kingdom | Hard (i) | Roberta Vinci | Olga Barabanschikova Nadejda Ostrovskaya |
3–6, 4–6 |
Winner | 24. | 7 September 2003 | Fano, Italy | Clay | Conchita Martínez Granados | Gala León García María Emilia Salerni |
6-3, 6-3 |
Winner | 25. | 5 October 2003 | Caserta, Italy | Clay | Maret Ani | Rosa María Andrés Rodríguez Bahia Mouhtassine |
7–5, 7–5 |
Runner-up | 26. | 23 May 2004 | Caserta, Italy | Clay | Vladimíra Uhlířová | Andreea Ehritt-Vanc Rosa María Andrés Rodríguez |
1-6, 6-4, 4-6 |
Winner | 27. | 31 May 2004 | Galatina, Italy | Clay | Vladimíra Uhlířová | Nadejda Ostrovskaya Kathrin Wörle |
6–4, 6–0 |
Runner-up | 28. | 9 August 2004 | Martina Franca, Italy | Clay | Nina Bratchikova | Aurélie Védy Jasmin Wöhr |
1–6, 6–3, 6–7 |
Winner | 29. | 28 September 2004 | Belgrade, Serbia | Clay | Darija Jurak | Ekaterina Bychkova Nadejda Ostrovskaya |
6–0, 6–2 |
Winner | 30. | 19 December 2004 | Bergamo, Italy | Hard | Francesca Lubiani | Lenka Němečková Julia Schruff |
6-2, 6-3 |
Winner | 31. | 13 February 2005 | Redbridge, United Kingdom | Hard (i) | Francesca Lubiani | Darya Kustova Ekaterina Makarova |
6–4, 6–3 |
Winner | 32. | 7 May 2005 | Catania, Italy | Clay | Alberta Brianti | Giulia Gabba Valentina Sulpizio |
6–3, 6–3 |
Winner | 33. | 28 May 2005 | Campobasso, Italy | Clay | Bahia Mouhtassine | Katarína Kachlíková Lenka Tvarošková |
6–0, 7–5 |
Winner | 34. | 12 June 2005 | Gorizia, Italy | Clay | Valentina Sulpizio | Olena Antypina Nina Bratchikova |
6–2, 6–0 |
Winner | 35. | 14 August 2005 | Rimini, Italy | Clay | Mariya Koryttseva | Darya Kustova Ekaterina Makarova |
6–2, 6–4 |
Winner | 36. | 19 February 2006 | Saguenay, Canada | Hard (i) | Alberta Brianti | Raquel Atawo Aleke Tsoubanos |
6–4, 7–6(4) |
Winner | 37. | 26 February 2006 | Saint-Georges, Canada | Hard (i) | Alberta Brianti | Veronika Chvojková Dominika Cibulková |
6–2, 3–6, 6–1 |
References
- Luciano Canepari. "Giulia". DiPI Online (in Italian). Retrieved 26 October 2018.
- Luciano Canepari. "Casoni". DiPI Online (in Italian). Retrieved 26 October 2018.
- "Fed Cup - Players". Retrieved 7 March 2016.
- "Giulia Casoni". Retrieved 7 March 2016.
- Bonesi, Davide (25 April 2015). "Giulia, una ferrarese sfidò la mitica Williams" [Giulia, a woman from Ferrara who challenged the legendary Williams] (in Italian). La Nuova Ferrara. Retrieved 11 August 2019.
- Sony Ericsson WTA Tour | Players | Info (Biography) | Giulia Casoni
- Giulia Casoni at the International Tennis Federation