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Patricia Maria ?ig

?ig at the 2019 Wimbledon qualifying tournament
Country (sports)	Romania
Born	(1994-07-27) 27 July 1994 (age 26) Caransebe?, Cara?-Severin, Romania
Height	1.80 m (5 ft 11 in)
Turned pro	2009
Plays	Right-handed (two-handed backhand)
Prize money	US$1,017,783
Singles
Career record	271-159 (63.0%)
Career titles	1
Highest ranking	No. 56 (26 October 2020)
Current ranking	No. 56 (26 October 2020)
Grand Slam Singles results
Australian Open	1R (2017)
French Open	3R (2020)
Wimbledon	1R (2016)
US Open	2R (2020)
Doubles
Career record	73-75 (49.3%)
Career titles	0
Highest ranking
Current ranking	No. 312 (26 October 2020)
Grand Slam Doubles results
French Open	3R (2020)
Last updated on: 14 September 2020.

Patricia Maria ?ig (born 27 July 1994) is a professional tennis player^[1] from Romania.

?ig has a career-high WTA singles ranking of No. 56, achieved on 26 October 2020.^[2] Her best doubles ranking of world No. 155 she achieved on 14 November 2016.^[3] ?ig has won one WTA singles title, one WTA 125K series singles title as well as 14 singles and four doubles titles on the ITF Women's Circuit.^[4] She is coached by R?zvan Sab?u.

Career overview

2015: First WTA finals (doubles and singles)

?ig made her WTA Tour debut at the Bucharest Open where she received a wild card into the singles main draw, and she won to Sílvia Soler Espinosa (retired at 6-4, 3-1) in the first round, before losing 0-6, 2-6 to Polona Hercog. In the doubles competition, paired to conational Andreea Mitu, ?ig reached her first WTA final, but they lost.^[5]

She then did much better in Baku by defeating Oksana Kalashnikova 6-1, 6-3 to qualify, then in the main draw, qualifiers Olga Ianchuk (6-4, 6-2) and Olga Savchuk (7-5, 6-4), and then Donna Veki? (6-3, 6-2), and in the semifinals she defeated top seed and world No. 42 Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova, 6-3, 6-2, thus reaching her first WTA singles final (without losing one set) and entering top 120 in the WTA rankings. She lost the final in three sets to Margarita Gasparyan.

2018: Inactivity status

After a period of struggling with her performances in the second half of 2017 season, she decided to focus on her health, citing back pain as the main source of discomfort. Her last played tournament was the (Guangzhou Open) in September 2017. ?ig became an inactive player on 24 September 2018, after not playing for 52 consecutive weeks.^[6][7]

2019: Back active on the ITF Circuit, return to WTA competition

?ig returned to action in April 2019, after healing her injuries and giving birth to daughter Sofia in November 2018.^[8] She played a series of nine $15K tournaments over ten weeks in Cancun, Mexico. She retired or gave her opponent a walkover in three of the first four, as the inactivity led to injuries - including a recurrence of the knee issue. By the fifth tournament, she made the final. She did the same in the seventh, and won the last two.

The Romanian would have preferred to start at the $25K level. But the new ITF pro circuit rules instituted for 2019 made it impossible for her to gain entry with no ranking. She earned no ranking points for those results. "So we went there for nothing. I got, like, 30 points (actually, 37), which means I'm going to be around 500 (in the WTA rankings). So that doesn't get me anywhere," she said in an interview.^[8] ?ig will find them reinstated in August as the ITF partly rolls back the new circuit rules.^[9] She could gain as many as 25 more spots in the rankings when that occurs.

?ig returned to the WTA Tour at the 2019 Bucharest Open as a wild card into qualifying. She won her three rounds of qualifying to make it to the main draw where she defeated Anna Bondár in the first round to advance to the last 16. In the second round, she defeated the top seed and defending champion Anastasija Sevastova, 6-2, 7-5. She went on to defeat Kristýna Plí?ková and Laura Siegemund. In the final, she lost to Elena Rybakina. This was the second singles final in her career. She returned to rankings on July 22, at No. 264.^[8]

At the Baltic Open, where she used her protected ranking, she defeated Ankita Raina and Anhelina Kalinina, before losing to Anastasia Potapova.

?ig won the Karlsruhe Open, a tournament of the WTA 125K series, defeating Alison Van Uytvanck and advancing back in the top 150, to No. 148.

2020: Reentry into top 100, first WTA title

After reaching semifinals at the 2020 Thailand Open, where she lost to Magda Linette, ?ig reentered top 100, reaching No. 84.

In September, ?ig won her first WTA title at 2020 ?stanbul Cup.^[10]

Performance timelines

Only main-draw results in WTA Tour, Grand Slam tournaments, Fed Cup and Olympic Games are included in win-loss records.

Singles

Current after the 2020 season.

Notes

• • 2020 Wimbledon Championships was cancelled due to coronavirus pandemic.
• * 2020 Summer Olympics are postponed to 2021.
• * 2020 Indian Wells Open, Miami Open, Madrid Open, Italian Open and Canadian Open are postponed due to coronavirus pandemic.
• Tig was absent through all the 2018 season.
• Source^[11]

WTA career finals

Singles: 3 (1 title, 2 runner-ups)

Result	W-L	Date	Tournament	Tier	Surface	Opponent	Score
Loss	0-1	Aug 2015	Baku Cup, Azerbaijan	International	Hard	Margarita Gasparyan	3-6, 7-5, 0-6
Loss	0-2	Jul 2019	Bucharest Open, Romania	International	Clay	Elena Rybakina	2-6, 0-6
Win	1-2	Sep 2020	?stanbul Cup, Turkey	International	Clay	Eugenie Bouchard	2-6, 6-1, 7-6(7-4)

Doubles: 2 (2 runner-ups)

Result	W-L	Date	Tournament	Tier	Surface	Partner	Opponents	Score
Loss	0-1	Jul 2015	Bucharest Open, Romania	International	Clay	Andreea Mitu	Oksana Kalashnikova Demi Schuurs	2-6, 2-6
Loss	0-2	Oct 2016	Luxembourg Open, Luxembourg	International	Hard (i)	Monica Niculescu	Kiki Bertens Johanna Larsson	6-4, 5-7, [9-11]

WTA 125K series finals

Singles: 1 (1 title)

Result	W-L	Date	Tournament	Surface	Opponent	Score
Win	1-0	Aug 2019	Karlsruhe Open, Germany	Clay	Alison Van Uytvanck	3-6, 6-1, 6-2

ITF Circuit finals

Singles: 23 (14 titles, 9 runner-ups)

Result	W-L	Date	Tournament	Tier	Surface	Opponent	Score
Loss	0-1	Dec 2011	ITF Antalya, Turkey	10,000	Clay	Viktoriya Kutuzova	6-3, 1-6, 1-6
Win	1-1	Jul 2012	ITF Bal?, Romania	10,000	Clay	Alexandra Damaschin	6-4, 7-5
Win	2-1	Jul 2012	ITF Ia?i, Romania	10,000	Clay	Raluca Elena Platon	6-2, 3-6, 6-4
Loss	2-2	Sep 2012	ITF Mamaia, Romania	25,000	Clay	Sharon Fichman	3-6, 7-6(7-5), 3-6
Win	3-2	Nov 2013	ITF Antalya, Turkey	10,000	Clay	Raluca Elena Platon	6-2, 4-2 ret.
Win	4-2	Nov 2013	ITF Antalya, Turkey	10,000	Clay	Martina Kubiciková	6-7(5-7), 6-2, 6-2
Win	5-2	Dec 2013	ITF Antalya, Turkey	10,000	Clay	Conny Perrin	6-2, 7-5
Win	6-2	Feb 2014	ITF Antalya, Turkey	10,000	Clay	Alyona Sotnikova	5-7, 6-1, 6-3
Win	7-2	Feb 2014	ITF Antalya, Turkey	10,000	Clay	Sofia Kvatsabaia	6-3, 6-2
Win	8-2	May 2014	ITF Bol, Croatia	10,000	Clay	Tena Lukas	6-2, 7-5
Win	9-2	Jun 2014	ITF Sibiu, Romania	10,000	Clay	Nicoleta Dasc?lu	6-2, 6-4
Win	10-2	Jul 2014	ITF Gala?i, Romania	10,000	Clay	Irina Bara	7-6(7-3), 3-6, 6-2
Win	11-2	Sep 2014	ITF Gala?i, Romania	10,000	Clay	Elizaveta Ianchuk	6-3, 6-3
Win	12-2	Dec 2014	ITF Mérida, Mexico	25,000	Hard	Beatriz Haddad Maia	3-6, 6-3, 6-1
Loss	12-3	Feb 2015	St. Petersburg Trophy, Russia	50,000	Hard (i)	Je?ena Ostapenko	6-3, 5-7, 2-6
Loss	12-4	Nov 2016	Shenzhen Longhua Open, China	100,000	Hard	Peng Shuai	6-3, 5-7, 4-6
Loss	12-5	May 2019	ITF Cancún, Mexico	15,000	Hard	Marcela Zacarias	3-6, 3-6
Loss	12-6	Jun 2019	ITF Cancún, Mexico	15,000	Hard	Thaisa Grana Pedretti	4-6, 4-6
Win	13-6	Jun 2019	ITF Cancún, Mexico	15,000	Hard	Fernanda Contreras	6-0, 6-0
Win	14-6	Jun 2019	ITF Cancún, Mexico	15,000	Hard	Melany Krywoj	6-2, 4-6, 6-3
Loss	14-7	Oct 2019	ITF Seville, Spain	25,000	Clay	Arantxa Rus	4-6, 4-6
Walkover	14-8	Jan 2020	Canberra International, Australia[a]	25,000	Hard	Magdalena Fr?ch	w/o
Loss	14-9	Feb 2020	ITF Nonthaburi, Thailand	25,000	Hard	Irina Fetec?u	3-6, 0-0 ret.

Notes

• ^a Tournament was moved from Canberra to Bendigo due to the smoke affecting Canberra from the 2019-20 Australian bushfire season.

Doubles: 12 (4 titles, 8 runner-ups)

Result	W-L	Date	Tournament	Tier	Surface	Partner	Opponents	Score
Loss	0-1	Jan 2012	ITF Antalya, Turkey	10,000	Clay	Patricia Chirea	Anastasia Frolova Eugeniya Pashkova	4-6, 6-7(2-7)
Loss	0-2	Jun 2012	ITF Arad, Romania	10,000	Clay	Alexandra Damaschin	Viktora Malova Lina Gjorcheska	w/o
Win	1-2	Jul 2012	ITF Ia?i, Romania	10,000	Clay	Alexandra Damaschin	Martina Kubicikova Tereza Malikova	6-3, 3-6, [11-9]
Loss	1-3	Feb 2013	ITF Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt	10,000	Hard	Elena-Teodora Cadar	Alice Savoretti Despina Papamichail	3-6, 4-6
Loss	1-4	Aug 2013	ITF Bucharest, Romania	10,000	Clay	Raluca Elena Platon	Ioana Loredana Ro?ca Irina Bara	4-6, 4-6
Loss	1-5	Dec 2013	ITF Antalya, Turkey	10,000	Clay	Gabriela Talab?	Irina Bara Conny Perrin	3-6, 1-6
Loss	1-6	Feb 2014	ITF Antalya, Turkey	10,000	Hard	Gabriela Talab?	Li Yihong Zhu Lin	2-6, ret.
Win	2-6	May 2014	ITF Bol, Croatia	10,000	Clay	Pernilla Mendesova	Raluca Elena Platon Irina Bara	w/o
Win	3-6	Jun 2014	ITF Gala?i, Romania	10,000	Clay	Camelia Hristea	Maryna Kolb Nadiya Kolb	6-3, 6-1
Loss	3-7	Aug 2014	ITF Mamaia, Romania	25,000	Clay	Georgia Cr?ciun	Irina Bara Andreea Mitu	4-6, 1-6
Win	4-7	Oct 2014	ITF Ciudad Victoria, Mexico	25,000	Hard	Maria Fernanda Alves	Carolina Betancourt Lenka Wienerová	6-1, 6-2
Loss	4-8	Nov 2014	Asunción Open, Paraguay	50,000	Clay	Anastasia Pivovarova	Guadalupe Pérez Rojas Sofía Luini	3-6, 3-6

References

External links

• Patricia Maria ?ig at the Women's Tennis Association
• Patricia Maria ?ig at the International Tennis Federation