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María Antonia Sánchez Lorenzo (By Bryn Lennon (WTA Profile)) |
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This is the official homepage of former Spanish tennis player María Antonia Sánchez Lorenzo. Here you can find all her results, her biography, sponsors and nice photos! As María stopped playing tennis, the signed photo is not longer available, sorry. But you can download one here!
Thanks to Dieter Nagel for starting this page some years ago and of course thanks to María for giving me the credits and honour to be her webmaster! If you found some photos on this site taken by you, feel free to email me, and I will put your name on the site or remove the photo.
María and Dani got a lovely daughter named Lucia in August 2007! There are problems seeing this website with Internet Explorer 6.0. Please update to IE 7.0 or higher. Thanks! |
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Message from María: Hello everyone! Everything is fine with me, and I enjoy my new life a lot! I don’t know if you already know, but I am going to be a mother in August. It will be a girl and her name will be LUCIA. Dani and I are very happy! Take care, María 23/05/07 |
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María was a professional tennis player since 1992, she got Spanish junior Champion in 1993 and National Champion in 2003. In her professional career she played 591 matches and won 308 of them. The player from Salamanca won the WTA tournament from Knokke-Heist in 1999 and played the finals from Madrid (2003) and Bogota (2004). She also won nine ITF tournaments. María Antonio Sánchez Lorenzo reached her highest single ranking on April 5, 2004, she had position number 33 at that moment. On June 19, 2006 she had her highest double ranking, position number 78. In 2005 she did win her only double tournament, the ITF title from Barcelona. At the Grand Slam tournaments María did win 23 individual matches, reaching the fourth round at the Australian Open in 1999 and the third round at Wimbledon (1999), Roland Garros (1999 and 2003) and the US Open (2003). In double María played eleven matches at the Grand Slam tournaments and did win four of them. María always gave everything for the Spanish tennis, so she was always available for the Spanish Fed Cup Team, in 1995 she played in the semi-final and in the final as Spain did win the Fed Cup. In total she played ten matches at the Fed Cup. In 2006 she ended her career due to injuries. She is now living together in Madrid with Daniel “Dani” Garcia. Garcia is a well know football player and five times Spanish international. In August 2007 María and Dani got parents from a little girl named Lucia! |
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Latest updates:
Photos Knokke 2009 (30/10/09) Kia TV commercial (24/09/08) Photos Berlin 2006 (19/09/08) Photos Knokke 1999 (19/09/08) Photos US Open (19/09/08) Photos2006 (19/09/08) Links (14/09/08) Merchandise (26/04/08) Biography (26/05/07) Season 2006 (07/04/07) Interview (01/03/07) Rankings single (07/01/07) Rankings double (07/01/07) Victories (07/01/07) Results single 2006 (13/12/06) Results double 2006 (10/09/06)
At 16.05 hours on Friday December 8th 2006, María’s professional tennis career is over. It wasn’t the end she deserved. After just one game in her last match against Lourdes Dominguez at the Spanish Masters in Estepona María felt a horrible pain in her right ankle. After an injury stop in which her ankle was taped, she played the match out with tears in her eyes. She couldn’t move very well and needed a painkiller. Within one hour she ended her career with a 2-6 0-6 lost. Fortunately the RFET organised a great ceremony before the Masters final on Sunday.
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©opyright Gerrit Dijkslag |
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Last update 11/11/09 |
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Your webmaster wrote a little article for the Dutch tennis magazine Tennis Today. Although they changed the end a little and made a mistake about Dani (he is not the player from Portugal who played with Ajax), I hope you like it.
Adios María After a tennis career of 15 years the Spanish tennis star María Sánchez Lorenzo puts away her professional rackets for good. The 29 years old player from Salamanca won one WTA title, that was in Knokke-Heist, Belgium in 1999 and in 1995 she was member of the winning Spanish Fed-Cup team. In 2003 she got Spanish Champion and with her club RTC Barcelona 1899 she was three times the best. In the Netherlands, María became known in 2003 as club champion with TC Groenekan. Place 33 was her highest ranking in a career that was troubled by back injuries and skin problems at her hands. Even during her last match, a (foot) injury causes her so much pain, it didn't become the celebration that this sympathetic tennis star deserved. Perhaps she will ever play in a club competition again, but she also has other hobbies (baseball). Her great love is the well know football player Dani. You can follow her on www.vamos-maria.com. |
