Sara Errani: one of the leaders of Italian tennis

2024 Author: Henry Conors | [email protected]. Last modified: 2024-02-12 02:46

Young Italian tennis player Sara Errani is one of the leaders in Italian women's tennis. The 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 mother, a pharmacist, and her father, who was in business, mostly selling vegetables, had nothing to do with tennis. They gave children to sports for the general development of the body, hardly suggesting that Sarah would achieve such dizzying successes. Her older brother, Davide Errani, is a professional soccer player.

Sara started playing tennis at the age of 5, later she moved from Italy to Spain, to the famous tennis academy in Valencia, where Anna Kournikova, Marat Safin, David Ferrero and other legendary tennis players used to play.

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 football fanIn his spare time he likes to kick the ball. Like most tennis players, she is fluent in English. Sara Errani, often featured in the Italian press, is a crowd favorite.

Career start

She made her WTA debut at the age of 16, having received a special invitation and reached the second round at the tournament in Palermo in 2003. Prior to that, she managed to reach the 32nd position in the junior rankings, reach the quarterfinals of the Australian Open among juniors, and win her first titles. She has proven herself to be a strong and stubborn opponent, but after losing in Palermo, it took her a little more time to make a big statement about herself.

In 2005, Sara Errani became the winner of the first professional tournament, playing with different girls in a pair, 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. The following year, she reinforced her achievements by earning the opportunity to compete in the main draw of the WTA Series tournament. At another tournament in the same series, she was able to reach the quarterfinals, which was a brilliant result for a young athlete. She has firmly established herself in the Top 200 in both singles and doubles.

Since 2007, Sarah Errani has been focusing on playing 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 at the end of the same year she became the 42nd racket of the world.

In 2009, she somewhatonce reached the finals, but invariably lost to more experienced athletes. At the same time, Errani became interested in doubles, in 2011 she even managed to reach the quarterfinals of the American Open.

Singles Achievements

The most successful year in the career of the Italian tennis player was 2012, when she became the winner of a number of major tournaments in the WTA series 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, the Australian Open, she was able to reach the quarterfinals. Finally, she managed to win the matches with the representatives of the Top 10, before she was invariably inferior to her eminent rivals in the most stubborn struggle. According to the results of the year, Errani Sara, whose tennis throughout the season was excellent, for the first time in her career made it 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 her success in Acapulco, but in general her career was in decline. At the Grand Slam tournaments, Sarah managed to go no further than the second round, and the last seasons did not bring her high-profile victories and eminent defeated rivals.

Strong wins in couples contest

Sara Errani is considered one of the brightest doubles participants in the WTA series tournaments. She won most of her victories in tandem withItalian tennis player Roberta Vinci, as well as with other compatriots, including Flavia Penneta, famous in the tennis world.

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 so far this tandem is considered almost invincible on clay. Together they won all 4 Grand Slam tournaments in different years.

Rating

Errani Sarah's highest tennis rating in singles was earned in 2012, when she became the sixth. Throughout 2013, she stayed in the top 10 best tennis players in the world, finishing the year in 7th position.

But in doubles, Sarah managed to reach the top twice - she finished 2013 and 2014 in first place, confirming her title of one of the strongest guys in the world.