![]() Teliana Pereira at the 2016 Wimbledon qualifying | |||||||||||||||
Full name | Teliana Santos Pereira | ||||||||||||||
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Country (sports) | ![]() | ||||||||||||||
Residence | Curitiba, Brazil | ||||||||||||||
Born | Águas Belas, Brazil | 20 July 1988||||||||||||||
Height | 1.68 m (5 ft 6 in) | ||||||||||||||
Retired | 2020 | ||||||||||||||
Plays | Right (two-handed backhand) | ||||||||||||||
Prize money | $1,068,880 | ||||||||||||||
Singles | |||||||||||||||
Career record | 419–249 | ||||||||||||||
Career titles | 2 | ||||||||||||||
Highest ranking | No. 43 (19 October 2015) | ||||||||||||||
Grand Slam singles results | |||||||||||||||
Australian Open | 1R (2014, 2016) | ||||||||||||||
French Open | 2R (2014, 2015, 2016) | ||||||||||||||
Wimbledon | 1R (2014, 2015, 2016) | ||||||||||||||
US Open | 1R (2014, 2015, 2016) | ||||||||||||||
Other tournaments | |||||||||||||||
Olympic Games | 1R (2016) | ||||||||||||||
Doubles | |||||||||||||||
Career record | 122–85 | ||||||||||||||
Career titles | 0 WTA, 10 ITF | ||||||||||||||
Highest ranking | No. 117 (16 September 2013) | ||||||||||||||
Grand Slam doubles results | |||||||||||||||
Australian Open | 1R (2014, 2016) | ||||||||||||||
Wimbledon | Q2 (2013) | ||||||||||||||
US Open | 1R (2015) | ||||||||||||||
Other doubles tournaments | |||||||||||||||
Olympic Games | 1R (2016) | ||||||||||||||
Team competitions | |||||||||||||||
Fed Cup | 26–11 | ||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Teliana Santos Pereira (born 20 July 1988) is a Brazilian former professional tennis player.
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.
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.[1] Pereira's favorite tournament is the French Open. Her childhood tennis idol was Gustavo Kuerten. Her favourite surface is clay.
Career
In February 2013, Pereira reached the semifinals of Copa Colsanitas as a qualifier, which boosted her singles ranking to 116.[2]
In February 2014, she reached the semifinals of the Rio Open.[3]
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.[4]
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".[5] Since then she has commented tennis on ESPN Brazil and ran an academy on Campo Largo, Paraná.[6][7]
Grand Slam performance timelines
W | F | SF | QF | #R | RR | Q# | P# | DNQ | A | Z# | PO | G | S | B | NMS | NTI | P | NH |
Singles
Tournament | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | W–L |
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Australian Open | A | A | A | A | A | Q1 | 1R | Q2 | 1R | Q2 | A | A | 0–2 |
French Open | A | A | A | A | A | Q3 | 2R | 2R | 2R | A | A | A | 3–3 |
Wimbledon | Q1 | A | A | A | Q1 | Q2 | 1R | 1R | 1R | A | A | A | 0–3 |
US Open | A | A | A | A | Q1 | Q1 | 1R | 1R | 1R | A | A | A | 0–3 |
Win–loss | 0–0 | 0–0 | 0–0 | 0–0 | 0–0 | 0–0 | 1–4 | 1–3 | 1–4 | 0–0 | 0–0 | 0–0 | 3–11 |
WTA Tour finals
Singles: 2 (2 titles)
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Result | W–L | Date | Tournament | Tier | Surface | Opponent | Score |
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Win | 1–0 | Apr 2015 | Copa Colsanitas, Colombia | International | Clay | ![]() |
7–6(7–2), 6–1 |
Win | 2–0 | Aug 2015 | Brasil Tennis Cup, Brazil | International | Clay | ![]() |
6–4, 4–6, 6–1 |
WTA Challenger finals
Doubles: 1 (runner-up)
Result | W–L | Date | Tournament | Surface | Partner | Opponents | Score |
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Loss | 0–1 | Feb 2013 | Copa Bionaire, Colombia | Clay | ![]() |
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6–3, 1–6, [5–10] |
ITF Circuit finals
Legend |
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$100,000 tournaments |
$50,000 tournaments |
$25,000 tournaments |
$10,000 tournaments |
Singles: 31 (22 titles, 9 runner–ups)
Result | W–L | Date | Tournament | Tier | Surface | Opponent | Score |
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Win | 1–0 | Oct 2006 | ITF Tucumán, Argentina | 10,000 | Clay | ![]() |
6–2, 6–1 |
Loss | 1–1 | Oct 2006 | ITF Córdoba, Argentina | 10,000 | Clay | ![]() |
6–1, 1–6, 5–7 |
Win | 2–1 | Oct 2006 | ITF Santiago, Chile | 10,000 | Clay | ![]() |
4–6, 6–2, 6–3 |
Win | 3–1 | Nov 2006 | ITF Itajaí, Brazil | 10,000 | Clay | ![]() |
4–6, 6–1, 6–1 |
Loss | 3–2 | Nov 2006 | ITF Córdoba, Argentina | 10,000 | Clay | ![]() |
1–6, 7–6(7–4), 0–6 |
Win | 4–2 | Mar 2007 | ITF Athens, Greece | 10,000 | Clay | ![]() |
6–2, 6–1 |
Win | 5–2 | Mar 2007 | ITF Amiens, France | 10,000 | Clay (i) | ![]() |
7–5, 3–6, 6–1 |
Win | 6–2 | Mar 2007 | ITF Foggia, Italy | 10,000 | Clay | ![]() |
6–4, 6–3 |
Loss | 6–3 | May 2007 | ITF Vienna, Austria | 10,000 | Clay | ![]() |
1–6, 6–1, 2–6 |
Win | 7–3 | Aug 2007 | ITF Campos do Jordão, Brazil | 25,000 | Hard | ![]() |
6–4, 6–2 |
Win | 8–3 | Aug 2007 | ITF Bogotá, Colombia | 25,000 | Clay | ![]() |
7–6(7–2), 6–2 |
Win | 9–3 | Dec 2008 | ITF Buenos Aires, Argentina | 10,000 | Clay | ![]() |
6–2, 6–1 |
Win | 10–3 | Oct 2010 | ITF Arujá, Brazil | 10,000 | Clay | ![]() |
4–6, 6–4, 6–1 |
Win | 11–3 | Oct 2010 | ITF Londrina, Brazil | 10,000 | Clay | ![]() |
6–4, 6–0 |
Win | 12–3 | Mar 2011 | ITF Metepec, Mexico | 10,000 | Hard | ![]() |
6–4, 6–4 |
Win | 13–3 | Jul 2011 | ITF Denain, France | 25,000 | Clay | ![]() |
6–4, 6–3 |
Loss | 13–4 | Apr 2012 | ITF Caracas, Venezuela | 25,000 | Hard | ![]() |
1–6, 1–6 |
Win | 14–4 | May 2012 | ITF Rosario, Argentina | 25,000 | Clay | ![]() |
7–5, 7–6(7–5) |
Loss | 14–5 | Jun 2012 | ITF Maribor, Slovenia | 25,000 | Clay | ![]() |
6–2, 6–7(1–7), 2–6 |
Loss | 14–6 | Sep 2012 | ITF Mont-de-Marsan, France | 25,000 | Clay | ![]() |
2–6, 6–3, 2–6 |
Win | 15–6 | Oct 2012 | ITF Seville, Spain | 25,000 | Clay | ![]() |
4–6, 7–6(7–3), 7–6(7–5) |
Win | 16–6 | Nov 2012 | ITF Buenos Aires, Argentina | 25,000 | Clay | ![]() |
6–1, 6–2 |
Win | 17–6 | Jun 2013 | ITF Périgueux, France | 25,000 | Clay | ![]() |
6–1, 6–4 |
Win | 18–6 | Jul 2013 | ITF Denain, France | 25,000 | Clay | ![]() |
6–4, 7–5 |
Win | 19–6 | Sep 2013 | ITF Mont-de-Marsan, France | 25,000 | Clay | ![]() |
6–1, 6–4 |
Win | 20–6 | Sep 2013 | Open de Saint-Malo, France | 25,000 | Clay | ![]() |
6–2, 6–1 |
Win | 21–6 | Sep 2013 | ITF Seville, Spain | 25,000 | Clay | ![]() |
7–6(7–5), 6–3 |
Loss | 21–7 | Jul 2014 | Open de Biarritz, France | 100,000 | Clay | ![]() |
2–6, 4–6 |
Loss | 21–8 | Sep 2014 | ITF Alphen aan den Rijn, Netherlands |
25,000 | Clay | ![]() |
3–6, ret. |
Win | 22–8 | Apr 2015 | Open Medellín, Colombia | 50,000 | Clay | ![]() |
7–6(8–6), 6–1 |
Loss | 22–9 | Oct 2019 | ITF Pula, Italy | 25,000 | Clay | ![]() |
4–6, 3–6 |
Doubles: 22 (10 titles, 12 runner–ups)
Result | W–L | Date | Tournament | Tier | Surface | Partnering | Opponents | Score |
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Win | 1–0 | Nov 2006 | ITF Itajaí, Brazil | 10,000 | Clay | ![]() |
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6–3, 6–3 |
Win | 2–0 | Nov 2006 | ITF Córdoba, Argentina | 10,000 | Clay | ![]() |
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7–5, 6–4 |
Win | 3–0 | Mar 2007 | ITF Amiens, France | 10,000 | Clay (i) | ![]() |
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6–1, 6–0 |
Win | 4–0 | May 2007 | ITF Vienna, Austria | 10,000 | Clay | ![]() |
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7–6(7–1), 6–3 |
Loss | 4–1 | Jul 2007 | ITF Mont-de-Marsan, France | 25,000 | Clay | ![]() |
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3–6, 6–7(3–7) |
Loss | 4–2 | Aug 2007 | ITF Bogotá, Colombia | 25,000 | Clay | ![]() |
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7–5, 4–6, 4–6 |
Loss | 4–3 | Sep 2007 | ITF Sofia, Bulgaria | 25,000 | Clay | ![]() |
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4–6, 7–6(7–2), [4–10] |
Loss | 4–4 | Nov 2007 | ITF Jounieh Open, Lebanon | 25,000 | Clay | ![]() |
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3–6, 1–6 |
Win | 5–4 | Nov 2007 | ITF Sintra, Portugal | 25,000 | Clay (i) | ![]() |
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6–4, 6–2 |
Win | 6–4 | Nov 2008 | ITF Buenos Aires, Argentina | 10,000 | Clay | ![]() |
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6–3, 6–2 |
Loss | 6–5 | Mar 2011 | ITF Poza Rica, Mexico | 10,000 | Hard | ![]() |
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2–6, 4–6 |
Win | 7–5 | Jul 2011 | ITF Denain, France | 25,000 | Clay | ![]() |
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6–1, 6–1 |
Win | 8–5 | Jul 2011 | ITF Campos do Jordão, Brazil | 25,000 | Hard | ![]() |
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3–6, 7–6(7–5), [11–9] |
Loss | 8–6 | Dec 2011 | ITF Buenos Aires, Argentina | 25,000 | Clay | ![]() |
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1–6, 3–6 |
Win | 9–6 | Apr 2012 | ITF Pomezia, Italy | 10,000 | Clay | ![]() |
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7–6(7–3), 6–2 |
Win | 10–6 | May 2012 | ITF Rosario, Argentina | 25,000 | Clay | ![]() |
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6–2, 7–5 |
Loss | 10–7 | Jun 2012 | ITF Zlín, Czech Republic | 25,000 | Clay | ![]() |
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6–4, 1–6, [8–10] |
Loss | 10–8 | Sep 2012 | ITF Mont-de-Marsan, France | 25,000 | Clay | ![]() |
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4–6, 1–6 |
Loss | 10–9 | Sep 2012 | Open de Saint-Malo, France | 25,000 | Clay | ![]() |
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4–6, 6–7(6–8) |
Loss | 10–10 | Oct 2012 | ITF Seville, Spain | 25,000 | Clay | ![]() |
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7–5, 4–6, [6–10] |
Loss | 10–11 | May 2013 | Open de Cagnes-sur-Mer, France | 100,000 | Clay | ![]() |
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6–4, 5–7, [8–10] |
Loss | 10–12 | Jul 2014 | Open de Biarritz, France | 100,000 | Clay | ![]() |
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2–6, 2–6 |
Record against players who were ranked top 10
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 | |||||||
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0–1 | 0% | 0–1 | 0–0 | 0–0 | Lost (3–6, 0–6) at 2016 Miami | |
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0–1 | 0% | 0–0 | 0–1 | 0–0 | Lost (2–6, 1–6) at 2016 Roland Garros | |
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0–2 | 0% | 0–0 | 0–1 | 0–1 | Lost (5–7, 7–6(7–5), 3–6) at 2014 Eastbourne | |
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0–1 | 0% | 0–0 | 0–0 | 0–1 | Lost (2–6, 2–6) at 2014 Wimbledon | |
Number 4 ranked players | |||||||
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1–0 | 100% | 0–0 | 1–0 | 0–0 | Won (6–1, 6–4) at 2015 Bogotá | |
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1–0 | 100% | 0–0 | 1–0 | 0–0 | Won (6–3, 6–4) at 2014 Fed Cup | |
Number 5 ranked players | |||||||
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0–1 | 0% | 0–1 | 0–0 | 0–0 | Lost (6–4, 3–6, 2–6) at 2013 Australian Open | |
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0–1 | 0% | 0–0 | 0–1 | 0–0 | Lost (2–6, 3–6) at 2014 Charleston | |
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0–1 | 0% | 0–0 | 0–1 | 0–0 | Lost (3–6, 3–6) at 2015 Rio Open | |
Number 6 ranked players | |||||||
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0–1 | 0% | 0–1 | 0–0 | 0–0 | Lost (6–3, 0–6, 4–6) at 2015 Beijing | |
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1–2 | 33% | 1–2 | 0–1 | 0–0 | Lost (0–6, 0–6) at 2016 US Open | |
Number 8 ranked players | |||||||
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0–2 | 0% | 0–1 | 0–1 | 0–0 | Lost (3–6, 3–6) at 2015 US Open | |
Number 9 ranked players | |||||||
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0–1 | 0% | 0–1 | 0–0 | 0–0 | Lost (1–6, 2–6) at 2016 Brisbane | |
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2–2 | 50% | 0–0 | 2–2 | 0–0 | Lost (3–6, 3–6) at 2014 Fed Cup |
References
- ^ A única chance de vencer
- ^ "Teliana lose in the semifinals and quits best country's campaign in 24 years". Globoesporte (in Portuguese). 21 February 2013. Retrieved 6 March 2014.
- ^ "Semifinalist, Teliana demands of herself for higher intensity". TenisBrasil (in Portuguese). 23 February 2014. Retrieved 6 March 2014.
- ^ Pereira Makes History At Home In Brazil
- ^ Aos 32 anos de idade, Teliana Pereira anuncia sua aposentadoria do tênis
- ^ Teliana renova com ESPN e faz parte de super transmissão do US Open[permanent dead link]
- ^ Clubes e Academias do Paraná: Academia Pereira Tennis