Sara Errani - famous tennis player who was born in Bologna (Italy) 26 years ago. As of today, she is in the female doubles the first racket of the world. As for the singles rating, in this aspect, this Italian tennis player takes the seventh position.
Sara Errani has been playing tennis since the age of five, with the help of her father. Ten years ago, she began and gradually began to win victories over more eminent athletes. In 2006 she became a member of the WTA main draw. Over the next six years, Sarah Errani moved up the rankings, defeating her rivals.
In 2012, this Italian tennis player confidently won 20 victories and took 4 titles in singles competitions. In the same year at the tournament Grand Slam she defeated several rivals who are among the top ten. In doubles competitions Sara Errani performed with the same success as in singles. As for the Olympics, she failed to achieve such successes there - the maximum achievement in the doubles tournament is reaching the Wimbledon quarterfinals.
This year, Sarah Errani played stable enough for the first six months to be a candidate for Final tournament... Much worse was the case with the Grand Slam tournament, where this Italian tennis player managed to win only one game. The Winter Premier Series tournaments allowed her to take part in the final two times.
Young Italian tennis player Sara Errani is one of the leaders of the Italian. Bright, beautiful athlete pleases with her success in singles and doubles, fights for titles on clay courts and is the owner of a career Grand Slam.
Sara Errani - a girl from Bologna
Little Sarah was born in 1987 in Bologna. Her mom, a pharmacist, and her father, who was in business, mainly selling vegetables, had nothing to do with tennis. They gave children to sports for the general development of the body, hardly assuming that Sarah would achieve such dizzying successes. Her older brother, Davide Errani, is a professional footballer.
Sarah began playing tennis at the age of 5, later she moved from Italy to Spain, to the famous tennis academy in Valencia, where Marat Safin, David Ferrero and other legendary tennis players once trained.
Sarah has repeatedly admitted to reporters that she feels absolutely happy. This radiant girl knows how to enjoy everything she does. She is a big fan of football. free time loves to kick the ball. Like most tennis players, she is fluent in English language... Sara Errani, whose photos are often flashed in the pages of the Italian press, is a favorite of the public.
Carier start
She made her WTA debut at the age of 16, receiving a special invitation and reaching the second round at the 2003 tournament in Palermo. Before that, she managed to achieve the 32nd position in the junior ranking, reach the quarterfinals of the Australian Open among juniors, and win the first titles. She has established herself well as a strong and stubborn opponent, but after losing in Palermo, it took her a little more time to loudly declare herself.
In 2005, Sara Errani became the winner of the first professional tournament, playing with different girls in pairs, and won three more titles. For the first time in her career, she managed to enter the Top 400 of the best tennis players in the world. V next year she solidified her accomplishments by securing the opportunity to compete in the main draw of the WTA Series. At another tournament of the same series, she was able to reach the quarterfinals, which was a brilliant result for the young athlete. She firmly established herself in the Top 200 in both singles and doubles.
Since 2007, Sarah Errani begins to concentrate on playing on clay courts. This leads to success - the rating begins to grow, and a year later the athlete refuses to participate in the games of the lower ITF series, and by the end of the same year she became the 42nd racket in the world.
In 2009, she reached the finals several times, but invariably yielded to more experienced athletes. At the same time, Errani was carried away by doubles, in 2011 she even managed to reach the quarterfinals of the American Open.
Singles Achievements
The most successful in the career of the Italian tennis player was 2012, when she became the winner of a number of major tournaments series WTA and finally entered the elite of world tennis.
She won titles in Acapulco (which she would later call her favorite tournament), Palermo, Budapest and Barcelona. In addition, already at the first Grand Slam tournament, Open Championship Australia, she was able to reach the quarterfinals. Finally, she managed to win the matches with the representatives of the Top 10, before, in the most stubborn struggle, she was invariably inferior to her eminent rivals. According to the results of the year, Errani Sarah, whose tennis was excellent throughout the season, for the first time in her career made her way to the final WTA championship, in which the best athletes take part at the end of the year. But even there Sarah was able to prove herself.
The following year, she managed to repeat the success in Acapulco, but in general, there was a decline in her career. On Sarah, it was possible to go no further than the second round, but loud victories and eminent defeated rivals recent seasons they didn’t bring it to her.
Loud victories in a pair competition
Sarah Errani is considered one of the brightest participants in the doubles category in the WTA series tournaments. She won most of her victories together with the Italian tennis player Roberta Vinci, as well as with other compatriots, including the famous in the tennis world Flavia Penneta.
Twice in a row, paired with Roberta Sarah became the best tennis player at the end of the year in doubles. They achieved the main victories on clay courts, and until now this tandem is considered almost invincible on clay. Together they won all 4 Grand Slam tournaments in different years.
Rating
But in the doubles, Sarah managed to reach the top twice - she finished 2013 and 2014 in first place, confirming her title as one of the strongest female partners in the world.
A series of doping scandals continues - after Maria Sharapova, another titled tennis player named Sarah Errani. The Lausanne court extended her suspension from two to ten months.
Tournament category " WTA Challenger»In Bol (Croatia) on June 7 was held without the participation of the Italian Sarah Errani convicted of doping. One of the strongest tennis players in the world was announced in the competition program, and withdrew from them a few days before the meeting of the International Arbitration court in Lausanne.
It is noteworthy that earlier the athlete spoke about the doping scandal with Maria Sharapova. At one time, she was her rival in the final competition of Roland Garros. Errani was against any concessions to the punished Russian woman, saying that it was unfair to help Sharapova after what she did. But then she herself got into a similar situation.
In February in a doping test Sarah Errani discovered letrozole ... This prohibited substance is included in the drug "Femara", which the athlete's mother has been using for a long time after the operation. On this, the line of defense of the athlete in court was built. Allegedly, the pill accidentally fell on the kitchen table where the food was being prepared and Errani took the drug by mistake.
The court sided with the athlete and disqualified her for only two months. But the Italian National Anti-Doping Agency intervened, considering the punishment too lenient. An appeal was filed. As a result, in June, the athlete's disqualification was extended to 10 months, which the athlete herself was extremely unhappy with. She considers the proceedings conducted by the court shameful, and the court's decision disgusting. Sarah stated that she never used drugs because she loves tennis.
Take part in the competition again Sara Errani will be able in February 2019. Now the athlete is facing difficult times. The sports tribunal believed her, but it is also important that those who go to court with her, and even more so the fans, believe.
The Italian took the racket in her hands at the age of 5 in her native Bologna. In Spanish Valencia, she graduated from a special tennis academy. At one time, this educational institution gave a start in big sport Anna Kournikova, Marat Safin, David Ferrero and other famous tennis players. Today Sara Errani – recognized leader italian women's tennis, the first racket in the world. She won five doubles Grand Slam tournaments, 36 WTA tournaments, is a three-time Fed Cup winner with the Italian national team.