
She faced defending champion Venus Williams for the first time since the 2009 Australian Open but was unable to repeat the upset win, losing 0–6, 4–6. 25 Kaia Kanepi in the first round and Ekaterina Makarova in the second. She lost to Jelena Janković in the final.Īt Roland Garros seeded 22, she defeated Edina Gallovits 6–1, 6–4 and Lucie Hradecká 6–2, 6–4, before losing to Victoria Azarenka in the third round.Īt Wimbledon, Suárez Navarro defeated No. In March, Suárez Navarro reached her first final on the WTA Tour at the Andalucia Tennis Experience, a clay court event in Marbella, Spain. This was her first win over a top-10 player. She upset Venus Williams in the second round 2–6, 6–3, 7–5. Suárez Navarro reached the second Grand Slam quarterfinal of her career at the 2009 Australian Open before being defeated by Elena Dementieva, 6–2, 6–2. At Wimbledon, she lost to second-seeded Janković in the second round, also in straight sets. Suárez Navarro then lost to third-seeded Jelena Janković in the quarterfinals. 1, Amélie Mauresmo, in the second round 6–3, 6–4, Australian Casey Dellacqua in the third round, and 26th-seeded Italian Flavia Pennetta in the fourth round 6–3, 6–2.

After three qualifying matches she defeated former world No. Career 2008–2009 Suárez playing at the 2008 Wimbledon ChampionshipsĪt the French Open, Suárez Navarro reached the quarterfinals of her first Grand Slam main-draw tournament. On June 2, 2023, she gave birth to twin daughters, Ona and Noa. She is in a relationship with Spanish football player Olga García.

She admires Steffi Graf, Lleyton Hewitt, Justine Henin and Michael Jordan. She started playing tennis when she was nine and moved to Barcelona in 2007 in order to train at the Pro-Ab Team Tennis Academy. Suárez Navarro was born in the Canary Islands to handball player José Luís Suárez and former gymnast Lali Navarro. The following year, she was declared cancer-free and returned to the tour. In September 2020, she was diagnosed with Hodgkin Lymphoma just months after announcing her retirement from tennis. These events were the 2009 Australian Open, where she defeated Venus Williams en route, the 2013 US Open, where she lost to eventual champion Serena Williams, the 2014 French Open, where she lost in three sets to Eugenie Bouchard, the 2016 Australian Open, where she lost to Agnieszka Radwańska, the 2018 Australian Open, where she was defeated by eventual champion Caroline Wozniacki, and the 2018 US Open, where she lost to Madison Keys. She reached another six Grand Slam quarterfinals in her career.

That year she also began representing Spain in the 2008 Fed Cup. She first came to prominence by reaching the quarterfinals of the 2008 French Open as a qualifier, in what was her first appearance in the main draw of a Grand Slam tournament. 6 on 29 February 2016, and a best WTA doubles ranking of 11, on 27 April 2015, and won two singles and three doubles titles on the WTA Tour. A former top 10 singles player, she reached a career-high singles ranking of world No.
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Suárez Navarro at the 2019 Wimbledon ChampionshipsĬarla Suárez Navarro ( Spanish pronunciation: born 3 September 1988, in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria) is a Spanish former professional tennis player.
