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Flavia Pennetta

Country (sports)	Italy
Residence	Verbier, Switzerland
Height	1.72 m (5 ft 7+1⁄2 in)
Turned pro	2000
Retired	Active
Plays	Right (two-handed backhand)
Prize money	US$2,338,508
Singles
Career record	337–224
Career titles	6 WTA (7 ITF)
Highest ranking	No. 14 (20 October 2008)
Grand Slam singles results
Australian Open	3R (2006)
French Open	4R (2008)
Wimbledon	4R (2005, 2006)
US Open	QF (2008)
Doubles
Career record	183–139
Career titles	3 WTA (9 ITF)
Highest ranking	No. 14 (10 July 2006)
Last updated on: 27 October 2008.

Flavia Pennetta (born 25 February 1982 in Brindisi, Puglia) is an Italian professional tennis player.

She has won six career Women's Tennis Association singles titles, all but one on clay courts, including back-to-back titles in Bogotá and Acapulco in 2005. Her maiden title came in 2004, when she won the title in Sopot, beating Czech Klára Koukalová in the final in three sets. She and her Italian team mates Mara Santangelo, Francesca Schiavone and Roberta Vinci beat the Belgium team 3–2 in the 2006 Fed Cup final. Justine Henin-Hardenne had to retire in the fifth and final match due to an injury in her right knee, which let Italy win their first Fed Cup trophy.

She has had several notable wins in her career, namely beating former world number ones and multiple Grand Slam champions Justine Henin at the Porsche Tennis Grand Prix in 2005, Martina Hingis in Gold Coast at the beginning of the 2006 season, Amélie Mauresmo at the 2008 U.S. Open en-route to her first Grand Slam singles quarterfinal, Venus Williams, who she has a 3–2 winning record against and current World No.1 Jelena Janković at the 2008 Zurich Open.

In doubles, she reached the 2005 U.S. Open final with her partner and friend Elena Dementieva. Pennetta is the former girlfriend of Carlos Moyà, whom she split up with after Wimbledon 2007.

Professional titles (25)

Singles (13)

No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Opponent in Final	Score
1.	28 March 1999	Cagliari, Italy	Clay	Andrea Masaryková	7–5, 7–5
2.	20 June 1999	Grado, Italy	Clay	Martina Suchá	1–6, 6–4, 7–5
3.	3 February 2002	Ortisei, Italy	Carpet	Angelika Bachmann	7–6, 3–6, 6–3
4.	24 March 2002	Roma Lanciani, Italy	Clay	Alexandra Kravets	6–4, 6–0
5.	8 September 2002	Fano, Italy	Clay	Mara Santangelo	3–6, 6–4, 6–0
6.	22 September 2002	Biella, Italy	Clay	Sandra Kleinová	6–3, 6–2
7.	11 July 2004	Cuneo, Italy	Clay	Alice Canepa	6–4, 6–1
8.	14 August 2004	Sopot, Poland	Clay	Klára Koukalová	7–5, 3–6, 6–3
9.	20 February 2005	Bogotá, Colombia	Clay	Lourdes Domínguez Lino	7–6, 6–4
10.	27 February 2005	Acapulco, Mexico	Clay	Ľudmila Cervanová	3–6, 7–5, 6–3
11.	14 October 2007	Bangkok, Thailand	Hard	Chan Yung-jan	6–1, 6–3
12.	17 February 2008	Viña del Mar, Chile	Clay	Klára Zakopalová	6–4, 5–4 ret.
13.	1 March 2008	Acapulco, Mexico	Clay	Alizé Cornet	6–0, 4–6, 6–1

Doubles (12)

No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Partner	Opponent in Final	Score
1.	12 April 1998	Brindisi, Italy	Clay	Roberta Vinci	Alena Paulenková / Gabriela Voleková	6–4, 7–6
2.	10 May 1998	Quartu Sant'Elena, Italy	Grass	Roberta Vinci	Giana Gutierrez / Galina Misiuriova	6–3, 6–0
3.	28 March 1999	Cagliari, Italy	Clay	Roberta Vinci	Dawn Buth / Rebecca Jensen	6–3, 4–6, 6–3
4.	22 August 1999	Alghero, Italy	Carpet	Roberta Vinci	Sabina Da Ponte / Valentina Sassi	6–2, 6–1
5.	24 March 2002	Roma Lanciani, Italy	Clay	Claudia Ivone	Caroline Ann Basu / Margit Rüütel	6–3, 6–4
6.	4 August 2002	Brindisi, Italy	Clay	Andreea Vanc	Ľubomíra Kurhajcová / Lenka Nemeckova	6–3, 6–2
7.	18 August 2002	Bronx, United States	Hard	Maret Ani	Shinobu Asagoe / Nana Miyagi	6–4, 6–1
8.	8 September 2002	Fano, Italy	Clay	Andreea Vanc	Gulnara Fattakhetdinova / Darya Kustava	7–5, 6–3
9.	15 September 2002	Bordeaux, France	Clay	Andreea Vanc	Sarah Stone / Samantha Stosur	6–3, 7–5
10.	14 August 2005	Los Angeles, U.S.	Hard	Elena Dementieva	Angela Haynes / Bethanie Mattek	6–2, 6–4
11.	26 February 2006	Bogotá, Colombia	Clay	Gisela Dulko	Ágnes Szávay / Jasmin Wöhr	7–6, 6–1
12.	19 April 2008	Estoril, Portugal	Clay	Maria Kirilenko	Mervana Jugić-Salkić / Ipek Senoglu	6–4, 6–4

Singles performance timeline

To prevent confusion and double counting, information in this table is updated only once a tournament or the player's participation in the tournament has concluded. This table is current through the 2008 Kremlin Cup in Moscow, which ended on October 12, 2008.

• A = did not participate in the tournament
• LQ = lost in the qualifying tournament.

References

1. Italy wins the Fed Cup for the first time, fedcup.com, September 17

External links

• Flavia Pennetta at the Women's Tennis Association
• {{ITF profile}} template using deprecated numeric ID.
• Flavia Pennetta at the Billie Jean King Cup
• http://www.flavia-pennetta.com
• http://www.flaviapennetta.net
• http://www.dementieva-pennetta.tk

• 1982 births
• Living people
• Italian tennis players
• People from Brindisi (city)
• Tennis players at the 2008 Summer Olympics
• Olympic tennis players of Italy