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Patricia Maria Țig

Patricia Maria Țig
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Tig at the 2016 US Open
Full name Patricia Maria Țig
Country (sports)  Romania
Born (1994-07-27) 27 July 1994 (age 22)
Caransebeș, Caraș-Severin, Romania
Plays Right-handed (two-handed backhand)
Prize money $ 168,377
Singles
Career record 177–92
Career titles 0 WTA, 12 ITF
Highest ranking No. 99 (23 May 2016)
Current ranking No. 117 (26 September 2016)
Grand Slam Singles results
Australian Open 1R (2017)
French Open Q2 (2015)
Wimbledon 1R (2016)
US Open 1R (2016)
Doubles
Career record 63–61
Career titles 0 WTA, 4 ITF
Highest ranking No. 166 (6 June 2016)
Current ranking No. 172 (11 July 2016)
Last updated on: 4 May 2016.

Patricia Maria Țig (born 27 July 1994) is a Romanian tennis player.

Țig has a career high WTA singles ranking of 99, achieved on May 2016. She also has a career high WTA doubles ranking of 171 achieved on 24 August 2015. Țig has won 12 ITF singles titles and 4 ITF doubles titles.

Țig made her WTA main draw debut at the 2015 BRD Bucharest Open where she received a wildcard into the singles main draw, and she won to Sílvia Soler Espinosa (retired at 6-4,3-1) in the first round, before losing in straight sets (0-6,2-6) to Polona Hercog. In the doubles competition, paired to conational Andreea Mitu, Țig reached her first WTA final, but they lost.

She then did much better in Baku by defeating 6-1,6-3 Oksana Kalashnikova to qualify, then in the main draw, qualifiers Olga Ianchuk (6-4,6-2) and Olga Savchuk (7-5,6-4), and then Donna Vekić (6-3,6-2), and in the semifinals she defeated 6-3,6-2 seed no.1 and World no.42 Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova, thus reaching her first WTA singles final (without losing any set) and entering Top 120 in the WTA rankings. She lost the final in 3 sets to Margarita Gasparyan (3–6, 7–5, 0–6).


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