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Teliana Pereira

Brazilian tennis player (born 1988) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Teliana Pereira
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Teliana Santos Pereira (born 20 July 1988) is a Brazilian former professional tennis player.

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On 19 April 2015, she became the first Brazilian in 27 years to win a title on the WTA Tour, beating Yaroslava Shvedova in Bogotá 7–6, 6–1. She achieved a singles ranking of world No. 48 in August 2015, after having won her second career title at Florianópolis by defeating German Annika Beck, in three sets.

On 19 October 2015, she reached her best singles ranking of world No. 43. Pereira won 22 singles and ten doubles titles on the ITF Women's Circuit.

Playing for Brazil Fed Cup team, she has a win–loss record of 26–11.

She is the sister of the Brazilian tennis player José Pereira.

She is currently married to the former Brazilian professional soccer player and club world champion Paulo André, with whom she has a son named Matteo. [1]

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Early and personal life

Teliana Pereira was born on 20 July 1988 in Águas Belas, and was coached by her brother, Renato. Pereira's parents are Jose, who worked at a sugar cane plantation, and Maria; she has three brothers and three sisters. At a very young age, her father moved to Curitiba, where he had two brothers, and once he got a job at a tennis academy, he arranged for the rest of the family to follow him. Everyone got work at the academy as well, with Teliana being a ball girl. Given the academy owner, Frenchman Didier Rayon, brought the Pereira children to the court whenever a student did not show up, Pereira started playing at age 8, and said that she already had grown an interest watching Renato play. One year later, she entered a tournament and won, making Rayon decide to become her coach.[2] Pereira's favorite tournament is the French Open. Her childhood tennis idol was Gustavo Kuerten. Her favourite surface is clay.

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Career

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In February 2013, Pereira reached the semifinals of Copa Colsanitas as a qualifier, which boosted her singles ranking to 116.[3]

In February 2014, she reached the semifinals of the Rio Open.[4]

In April 2015, Pereira reached the final of Copa Colsanitas where she won her first career title beating fifth seed Yaroslava Shvedova, in straight sets, to become the first Brazilian woman to win a WTA Tour singles title since 1988, and jumping 130 places up the WTA rankings to No. 81.

In July 2015, she won her second WTA Tour title at the Brasil Tennis Cup in Florianópolis. With the result, Pereira entered the top 50 for the first time. She was just the second Brazilian in the Open era to win a tour title in Brazil – Niege Dias achieved the feat once, doing it over in Guarujá in 1987.[5]

Pereira performed very poorly throughout 2016 and finally dropped out of top 200 by the end of the season.

In September 2020, Pereira announced her retirement at the age of 32, declaring she had lost interest in training and travels, while expressing satisfaction with how her career went, with two WTA Tour titles and "always surpassing my expectations".[6] Since then she has commented tennis on ESPN Brazil and ran an academy on Campo Largo, Paraná.[7][8]

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Grand Slam performance timelines

Key
W  F  SF QF #R RRQ# P# DNQ A Z# PO G S B NMS NTI P NH
(W) winner; (F) finalist; (SF) semifinalist; (QF) quarterfinalist; (#R) rounds 4, 3, 2, 1; (RR) round-robin stage; (Q#) qualification round; (P#) preliminary round; (DNQ) did not qualify; (A) absent; (Z#) Davis/Fed Cup Zonal Group (with number indication) or (PO) play-off; (G) gold, (S) silver or (B) bronze Olympic/Paralympic medal; (NMS) not a Masters tournament; (NTI) not a Tier I tournament; (P) postponed; (NH) not held; (SR) strike rate (events won / competed); (W–L) win–loss record.
To avoid confusion and double counting, these charts are updated at the conclusion of a tournament or when the player's participation has ended.

Singles

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WTA Tour finals

Singles: 2 (2 titles)

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WTA Challenger finals

Doubles: 1 (runner-up)

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ITF Circuit finals

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Singles: 31 (22 titles, 9 runner–ups)

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Doubles: 22 (10 titles, 12 runner–ups)

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Record against players who were ranked top 10

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Ranked top 10 at some point in their career (but not necessarily when they faced Pereira)

Player Record Win% Hard Clay Grass Last match
Number 1 ranked players
Serbia Ana Ivanovic 0–1 0% 0–1 0–0 0–0 Lost (3–6, 0–6) at 2016 Miami
United States Serena Williams 0–1 0% 0–0 0–1 0–0 Lost (2–6, 1–6) at 2016 Roland Garros
Czech Republic Karolína Plíšková 0–2 0% 0–0 0–1 0–1 Lost (5–7, 7–6(7–5), 3–6) at 2014 Eastbourne
Romania Simona Halep 0–1 0% 0–0 0–0 0–1 Lost (2–6, 2–6) at 2014 Wimbledon
Number 4 ranked players
Italy Francesca Schiavone 1–0 100% 0–0 1–0 0–0 Won (6–1, 6–4) at 2015 Bogotá
Switzerland Belinda Bencic 1–0 100% 0–0 1–0 0–0 Won (6–3, 6–4) at 2014 Fed Cup
Number 5 ranked players
Canada Eugenie Bouchard 0–1 0% 0–1 0–0 0–0 Lost (6–4, 3–6, 2–6) at 2013 Australian Open
Slovakia Daniela Hantuchová 0–1 0% 0–0 0–1 0–0 Lost (2–6, 3–6) at 2014 Charleston
Italy Sara Errani 0–1 0% 0–0 0–1 0–0 Lost (3–6, 3–6) at 2015 Rio Open
Number 6 ranked players
Italy Flavia Pennetta 0–1 0% 0–1 0–0 0–0 Lost (6–3, 0–6, 4–6) at 2015 Beijing
Spain Carla Suárez Navarro 1–2 33% 1–2 0–1 0–0 Lost (0–6, 0–6) at 2016 US Open
Number 8 ranked players
Russia Ekaterina Makarova 0–2 0% 0–1 0–1 0–0 Lost (3–6, 3–6) at 2015 US Open
Number 9 ranked players
Germany Andrea Petkovic 0–1 0% 0–1 0–0 0–0 Lost (1–6, 2–6) at 2016 Brisbane
Switzerland Timea Bacsinszky 2–2 50% 0–0 2–2 0–0 Lost (3–6, 3–6) at 2014 Fed Cup
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