Emiliana Arango (Spanish pronunciation: [emiˈljana aˈɾaŋɡo]; born 28 November 2000) is a Colombian tennis player.[1] She has a career-high singles ranking of world No. 109, achieved on 20 November 2023. She has won three singles titles on the ITF Circuit.[2]

Emiliana Arango
Country (sports) Colombia
ResidenceBradenton, Florida, U.S.
Born (2000-11-28) 28 November 2000 (age 23)
Medellín, Colombia
Height1.72 m (5 ft 8 in)
PlaysRight (two-handed backhand)
Prize money$555,740
Singles
Career record204–152
Career titles3 ITF
Highest rankingNo. 109 (20 November 2023)
Current rankingNo. 183 (4 November 2024)
Grand Slam singles results
Australian OpenQ1 (2024)
French OpenQ2 (2023)
WimbledonQ3 (2023)
US OpenQ2 (2023)
Doubles
Career record23–28
Career titles0
Highest rankingNo. 561 (10 August 2020)
Current rankingNo. 805 (4 November 2024)
Team competitions
BJK Cup11–8
Last updated on: 4 November 2024.

Playing for Colombia Billie Jean King Cup team, Arango has a win–loss record of 11–8.[3]

Junior career

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Grand Slam performance

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Singles

  • Australian Open: –
  • French Open: 2R (2017)
  • Wimbledon: 1R (2016, 2017)
  • US Open: SF (2017)

Doubles

  • Australian Open: –
  • French Open: 2R (2017)
  • Wimbledon: QF (2017)
  • US Open: QF (2017)

On the ITF Junior Circuit, Arango has a career-high ranking of world No. 8, achieved in January 2018. In singles, she reached the semifinals at the 2017 Junior US Open. In doubles, she reached two quarterfinals, both in 2017, at Wimbledon and US Open, respectively. As a junior, she won three singles and three doubles titles.[4]

Professional

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Arango made her WTA Tour singles debut at the 2016 Copa Colsanitas, where she lost in the first round to Irina Falconi, winning only one game.

At the 2018 Copa Colsanitas, she secured her first tour-level win with a three-set victory over fourth seed Verónica Cepede Royg from Paraguay.[5]

2022: Grand Slam debut

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Arango entered a Grand Slam tournament for the first time in the French Open qualifying competition in 2022, and she also competed and lost in qualifying at the Wimbledon Championships.

2023: WTA 125 semifinal, WTA 1000 debut and quarterfinal, top 110

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Arango at the 2023 Wimbledon Championships

Arango reached the semifinals at the 2023 Copa Oster, losing to eventual champion Nadia Podoroska in straight sets. Having received an invitation to the San Luis Open Challenger, she reached the quarterfinals. Arango also received a wildcard for the qualifying competition for the Madrid Open. She qualified for the Catalonia Open, and in the main draw, she lost in the second round to Jil Teichmann.

Arango entered and lost in the qualifying at Roland Garros and in the qualifying at Wimbledon.

At the Guadalajara Open, on her WTA 1000 level debut she defeated, 11th seed Anastasia Potapova for her first WTA 1000 and top 30 win.[6][7] Next, she defeated Sloane Stephens in straight sets in one hour to reach the round of 16 of a WTA 1000 tournament for the first time.[8] She defeated Taylor Townsend to reach the quarterfinals of a WTA Tour event for the first time. She became the first Colombian player to make a WTA 1000 quarterfinal since Fabiola Zuluaga at Berlin 2004.[9] As a result, she moved 60 positions up into the top 120 in the singles rankings on 25 September 2023.

2024

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Ranked No. 121, Arango qualified into the main draw of the Miami Open making her debut at this WTA 1000 tournament and defeated Tatjana Maria in the first round,[10] before losing to 31st seed Leylah Fernandez.[11]

She was runner-up at the WTA 125 Bolivia Open, losing to Anca Todoni in the final.[12]

Performance timelines

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Key
W  F  SF QF #R RR Q# 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.

Only main-draw results in WTA Tour, Grand Slam tournaments, Billie Jean King Cup, United Cup, Hopman Cup and Olympic Games are included in win–loss records.[13]

Singles

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Current through the 2024 Mutua Madrid Open.

Tournament 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024 SR W–L Win %
Grand Slam tournaments
Australian Open A A A A A A A A Q1 0 / 0 0–0  – 
French Open A A A A A A Q1 Q2 Q1 0 / 0 0–0  – 
Wimbledon A A A A NH A Q1 Q3 Q1 0 / 0 0–0  – 
US Open A A A A A A A Q2 Q1 0 / 0 0–0  – 
Win–loss 0–0 0–0 0–0 0–0 0–0 0–0 0–0 0–0 0–0 0 / 0 0–0  – 
National representation
Billie Jean King Cup[a] Z1 A Z1 Z1 Z1[b] A PO 0 / 0 9–6 60%
WTA 1000
Indian Wells Open A A A A NH A A A Q1 0 / 0 0–0  – 
Miami Open A A Q1 A NH A A A 2R 0 / 1 1–1 50%
Madrid Open A A A A NH A A Q2 2R 0 / 1 1–1 50%
Italian Open A A A A A A A A Q1 0 / 0 0–0  – 
Guadalajara Open NH A QF NSH 0 / 1 3–1 75%
Win–loss 0–0 0–0 0–0 0–0 0–0 0–0 0–0 3–1 2-2 0 / 3 5–3 63%
Career statistics
Tournaments 1 1 1 1 0[c] 1 0 4 5 Career total: 14
Titles 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Career total: 0
Finals 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Career total: 0
Overall win–loss 2–2 0–1 3–2 0–4 2–1 0–1 0–0 11–4 3–5 0 / 14 21–20 51%
Year-end ranking 826 494 437 599 493 249 377 112 $413,368

WTA Challenger finals

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Singles: 0 (1 runner-ups)

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Result W–L    Date    Tournament Surface Opponent Score
Loss 0–1 Oct 2024 Bolivia Open, Bolivia Clay   Anca Todoni 6–7(5–7), 0–6

ITF Circuit finals

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Singles: 6 (3 titles, 3 runner–ups)

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Legend
$25,000 tournaments (2–2)
$10/15,000 tournaments (1–1)
Finals by surface
Hard (1–1)
Clay (2–2)
Result W–L Date Tournament Tier Surface Opponent Score
Loss 0–1 Oct 2016 ITF Pereira, Colombia 10,000 Clay   María Herazo González 3–6, 2–6
Win 1–1 Jun 2017 ITF Antalya, Turkey 15,000 Clay   Vlada Ekshibarova 6–2, 6–3
Loss 1–2 Aug 2017 ITF Fort Worth, United States 25,000 Hard   Katerina Stewart 4–6, 1–6
Win 2–2 Sep 2021 Open Medellín, Colombia 25,000 Clay   Laura Pigossi 6–0, 6–0
Win 3–2 Oct 2021 ITF Florence, United States 25,000 Hard   Wang Xiyu 6–3, 0–6, 7–6(0)
Loss 3–3 Mar 2023 ITF Mosquera, Colombia 25,000 Clay   Sinja Kraus 7–6(4), 6–7(6), 3–6

Doubles: 2 (2 runner–ups)

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Legend
$25,000 tournaments (0–2)
Finals by surface
Clay (0–2)
Result W–L Date Tournament Tier Surface Partner Opponents Score
Loss 0–1 Aug 2019 ITF Guayaquil, Ecuador 25,000 Clay   Katerina Stewart   Hsu Chieh-yu
  Marcela Zacarías
4–6, 2–6
Loss 0–2 Oct 2019 ITF Cúcuta, Colombia 25,000 Clay   Victoria Bosio   Carolina Alves
  Renata Zarazúa
1–6, ret.

Head-to-head records

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Record against top 10 players

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Arango's record against players who have been ranked in the top 10. Active players are in boldface.[14]

Player Record Win % Hard Clay Grass Last match
Number 2 ranked players
  Vera Zvonareva 1–0 100% 1–0 Won (6–3, 6–1) at 2023 Catalonia Open
Number 3 ranked players
  Sloane Stephens 1–0 100% 1–0 Won (6–1, 6–2) at 2023 Guadalajara Open
  Maria Sakkari 0–1 0% 0–1 Lost 3-6, 4-6 at 2023 Guadalajara Open
Number 5 ranked players
  Jasmine Paolini 1–0 100% 1–0 Won (7–6(7–0)), 6–1 at 2018 Copa Colsanitas
Number 10 ranked players
  Beatriz Haddad Maia 0–1 0% 0–1 Lost (1-6, 2-6) at 2021 Argentina Open
Total 3–2 60% 1–1
(50%)
2–1
(67%)

( – )
statistics correct as of 11 June 2024.

Notes

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  1. ^ Formerly known as Fed Cup until 2020.
  2. ^ Edition is split into the two years due to COVID-19.
  3. ^ During the season, she did not play in the main-draw of any WTA Tour-level tournaments. However, she played at the Billie Jean King Cup, which is not counted as a played tournament but as matches counted.

References

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  1. ^ "WTA Profile".
  2. ^ "ITF Profile".
  3. ^ "Fed Cup Profile".
  4. ^ "Junior ITF Profile".
  5. ^ "Emiliana Arango ganó su primer partido WTA". El Espectador. 11 April 2018.
  6. ^ "Arango upsets Potapova in Guadalajara opener for first Top 30 win".
  7. ^ "Vickery advances after Collins retires; Bencic withdraws".
  8. ^ "Five things to know about Colombia's Emiliana Arango".
  9. ^ "Five things to know about Colombia's Emiliana Arango".
  10. ^ "Colombian qualifier Arango eases past Maria in Miami; plays Fernandez next". Women's Tennis Association. Retrieved 4 November 2024.
  11. ^ "Fernandez cruises past qualifier Arango to make Miami third round". Women's Tennis Association. Retrieved 4 November 2024.
  12. ^ "Todoni captures second WTA 125 title of season in Santa Cruz". Women's Tennis Association. Retrieved 4 November 2024.
  13. ^ "Emiliana Arango [COL] | French Open". French Open. Retrieved 12 June 2022.
  14. ^ "Head to Head". Wtatennis.com. Retrieved 14 February 2021.
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