Sarah Errani: one of the leaders of Italian tennis

Young Italian tennis player Sarah Errani is one of the leaders of Italian women's tennis. Bright, beautiful athlete pleases with her successes in singles and doubles, struggles for titles on the ground courts and is the owner of a career Grand Slam.

Sarah Errani - a girl from Bologna

Little Sarah was born in 1987 in Bologna. Her mother, a pharmacist, and a father engaged in business, mainly vegetables, had nothing to do with tennis. They gave children in sports for the general development of the organism, hardly assuming that Sarah will achieve such dizzying successes. Her older brother, David Errani, is a professional football player.

Sara started to play tennis in 5 years, later she moved from Italy to Spain, to the famous tennis academy in Valencia, where Anna Kournikova, Marat Safin, David Ferero and other legendary tennis players once worked.

Sarah has repeatedly admitted to journalists that she feels absolutely happy. This radiant girl knows how to enjoy everything she does. She is a big fan of football, she likes to drive the ball in her spare time. Like most tennis players, she is fluent in English. Sarah Errani, whose photo often flickers on the pages of the Italian press, is the favorite of the public.

Carier start

In the WTA, she made her debut at age 16, receiving a special invitation and reaching the second round at the tournament in Palermo in 2003. Before that, she managed to achieve 32nd position in the junior ranking, reach the quarter-finals of the Australian Open among juniors, to win the first titles. She proved to be a strong and stubborn opponent, but after losing to Palermo, it took her a little more time to loudly declare herself.

In 2005, Sarah Errani became the winner of the first professional tournament, playing with different girls in a pair, won three more titles. For the first time in her career she managed to enter the Top 400 of the best tennis players in the world. The following year, she strengthened her achievements, having achieved the opportunity to participate in the main grid of the tournament series WTA. At another tournament of the same series, she was able to reach the quarterfinals, which was a brilliant result for the young athlete. She firmly entrenched in the Top-200 in both singles and doubles.

Since 2007, Sarah Errani begins to concentrate on playing on the ground courts. This leads to success - the rating starts to grow, and in a year the athlete refuses to participate in the games of the lower ITF series, and by the end of the same year she has already become the 42nd racket of the world.

In 2009, she reached the finals several times, but she was always inferior to more experienced athletes. At the same time, Errani was carried away by doubles, in 2011 she even managed to reach the quarter-finals of the American Open.

Achievements in singles

The most successful career in the Italian tennis player was 2012, when she became the winner of a number of major tournaments of the WTA series and finally entered the elite of world tennis.

She won titles in Acapulco (which she would later call her favorite tournament), in Palermo, Budapest and Barcelona. In addition, already at the first Grand Slam tournament, the Australian Open, she was able to reach the quarterfinals. Finally, she managed to win in the matches with the representatives of the Top-10, before it in the most stubborn struggle was always inferior to her eminent rivals. According to the results of the year Errani Sarah, whose tennis throughout the season was magnificent, made her first career in the final WTA championship, in which the best sportswomen take part in the year. But even there Sarah was able to prove herself.

The following year, she managed to repeat the success in Acapulco, but in general, her career was declining. In the Grand Slam tournaments, Sarah managed to go no farther than the second round, and she did not bring the big victories and eminent defeated rivals the last seasons.

Loud victories in the competition of pairs

Sarah Errani is considered to be one of the brightest players in the doubles in the WTA series. Most of her victories she won in a pair with the Italian tennis player Roberta Vinci, as well as with other compatriots, including the famous tennis player Flavia Pennet.

Two times in a row in a pair with Roberta, Sarah was the best tennis player for the year in the doubles. The main victories they have achieved on the ground courts, and until now this tandem is almost unbeatable on the ground. Together, they won all four Grand Slam tournaments in different years.

Rating

The highest tennis ranking of Errani Sarah in singles earned in 2012, then she became the sixth. Throughout 2013, she stayed in the Top 10 of the best tennis players in the world, finishing the year at 7 positions.

But in the doubles, Sarah managed to reach the top twice - she finished in 2013 and 2014 in the first place, confirming her title as one of the strongest girls in the world.