Bárbara Castro

Bárbara Castro
Country (sports) Chile
Born (1975-09-08) 8 September 1975 (age 48)
Prize money$16,854
Singles
Career titles0
Highest rankingNo. 340 (15 July 1996)
Doubles
Career titles3 ITF
Highest rankingNo. 217 (20 May 1996)
Team competitions
Fed Cup28–27 (50.9%)

Bárbara Castro (born 8 September 1975) is a Chilean former professional tennis player.

Biography[edit]

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[edit]

Singles (0–1)[edit]

Outcome No. Date Tournament Surface Opponent Score
Runner-up 1. 4 May 1995 ITF Nitra, Slovakia Clay Switzerland Patty Schnyder 6–1, 2–6, 3–6

Doubles (3–8)[edit]

Outcome No. Date Tournament Surface Partner Opponents Score
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[edit]

  1. ^ "Tenis: Bárbara Castro campeona en el Stade Francais". El Mercurio (in Spanish). 28 May 2000.
  2. ^ "Duplas recém-formadas dão dois ouros ao Brasil no tênis". Folha de S.Paulo (in Portuguese). 6 August 1999.

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