Renata Zarazúa Explained

Renata Zarazúa Ruckstuhl (pronounced as /es-419/; born 30 September 1997) is a Mexican tennis player. She reached a best singles ranking of world No. 95 on 17 June 2024, and she peaked at No. 135 in the doubles rankings on 8 October 2018.She has won one singles and one doubles titles on the WTA Challenger Tour.On the ITF Circuit, she has won four titles in singles and seventeen in doubles. On the WTA Tour, her biggest result to date was reaching the semifinals of the 2020 Mexican Open. In 2020, she qualified for the main draw of the French Open, her major debut. She was the first Mexican female tennis player to compete in the main draw of a Grand Slam championship since 2000.^[1]

Playing for Mexico, Zarazúa has a win–loss record of 15–12 in BJK Cup competition (as of August 2024).

Early life and background

Zarazúa was born on 30 September 1997 to Jose Luis and Alejandra in Mexico City. She also has an older brother named Patricio, who is a former college tennis player for Palm Beach Atlantic University. Her great-uncle Vicente Zarazúa, a Mexican pro tennis player, participated in 16 Davis Cup ties for Mexico and claimed gold medals in exhibition doubles at the 1968 Olympic Games in Mexico City.^{[2] [3]} During an interview at the 2020 French Open, Zarazúa stated that Simona Halep is the player she admires the most.^[4]

Career

2016-2019: Tour debut

Zarazúa made her WTA Tour singles debut at the 2016 Brasil Cup, after she reached the main draw through qualifying.

In February 2018 at the Mexican Open, she defeated Kristýna Plíšková to reach the round of 16.

2020: WTA Tour semifinal, major debut

In late February 2020, Zarazúa received a wildcard to play again at the Mexican Open in Acapulco, where she reached her first WTA Tour singles semifinal. In the first round, she upset top-seeded Sloane Stephens. She became the first Mexican woman to play a tour semifinal since 1993.^[5]

In September 2020, she qualified for the main draw of the French Open, her first appearance at a Grand Slam tournament. Zarazúa was the first Mexican woman in a main draw of a major in 20 years.^[6] She lost in the second round to third seed Elina Svitolina.

2021-2024: Olympics, Wimbledon and US Open debuts, WTA 125 title, top 100

In 2021, she qualified for the Olympic Games in singles and in doubles, partnering Giuliana Olmos both making their Olympics debut.

She won her first WTA 125 title at the 2023 Montevideo Open defeating the top seed, Diane Parry, in the final.^[7]

She reached the top 100 on 8 January 2024, and became the second Mexican player after Angelica Gavaldon in 1996, to reach the milestone.^{[8] [9]} The following week, she qualified for the 2024 Australian Open making her debut, becoming just the second Mexican woman to reach the Australian Open main draw in the Open Era, and first since two-time quarterfinalist Angelica Gavaldon's final appearance in 2000.^[10]

She qualified for the 2024 Italian Open defeating sixth qualifying seed Viktoriya Tomova and making her debut at a clay WTA 1000 tournament.

At Wimbledon, she went out in the final qualifying round but made the main draw for the first time in her career at this Major as a lucky loser, losing to Emma Raducanu in straight sets on her debut.^[11]

She also made her debut at the 2024 US Open as a direct entry benefitting from the withdrawal of Sorana Cîrstea.^[12]

Performance timelines

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

Singles

Current through the 2024 Copa Colsanitas.

Tournament	2016	2017	2018	2019	2020	2021	2022	2023	2024			Win %
Grand Slam tournaments
Australian Open	A	A	A	A	A	Q2	A	A	1R	0 / 1	0–1
French Open	A	A	Q1	A	2R	Q1	Q1	A	1R	0 / 2	1–2
Wimbledon	A	A	Q1	A	style=color:#767676	NH	Q1	A	A	1R	0 / 1	0–1
US Open	A	A	Q1	A	A	Q1	Q1	A		0 / 0	0–0
Win–loss	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	1–1	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–3	0 / 4	1–4
WTA 1000
	A	A	A	A	A	A	A		A	0 / 0	0–0
Indian Wells Open	A	A	A	A	NH	A	Q1		Q1	0 / 0	0–0
Miami Open	A	A	A	A	NH	2R	Q1		Q1	0 / 1	1–1
Madrid Open	A	A	A	A	NH	A	A		Q2	0 / 0	0–0
Italian Open	A	A	A	A	A	A	A		1R	0 / 1	0–1
Canadian Open	A	A	A	A	NH	A	A			0 / 0	0–0
Cincinnati Open	A	A	A	A	A	A	A			0 / 0	0–0
Guadalajara Open	NH						Q2	bgcolor= afeeee	1R	NTI	0 / 1	0–1
Wuhan Open	A	A	A	A	NH					0 / 0	0–0
China Open	A	A	A	A	NH					0 / 0	0–0
Career statistics
Tournaments	1	2	3	3	2	6	3	1	4	Career total: 25
Overall win–loss	0–1	0–2	2–3	1–3	4–2	2–6	0–3	0–1	1–4	0 / 25	10–25
Win %										Career total:
Year-end ranking	291	248	258	280	142	127	350	165		$446,017

WTA Challenger finals

Singles: 2 (1 title, 1 runner-up)

Result	W–L	Date	Tournament	Surface	Opponent	Score
Loss	0–1		bgcolor=silver	Concord Open, United States	Hard	Magdalena Fręch	3–6, 6–7(4–7)
Win	1–1		bgcolor=silver	Montevideo Open, Uruguay	Clay	Diane Parry	7–5, 3–6, 6–4

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

Result	W–L	Date	Tournament	Surface	Partner	Opponents	Score
style=background:#98fb98;	Win	1–0		style=background:silver	Puerto Vallarta Open, Mexico	Hard	Iryna Shymanovich	Angelica Moratelli Camilla Rosatello	6–2, 7–6(7–1)
Loss	1–1	Jun 2024	style=background:silver	Bari Open, Italy	Clay	Angelica Moratelli	Irina Khromacheva Anna Danilina	1–6, 3–6
Loss	1–2	Jun 2024	style=background:silver	Internacional de Valencia, Spain	Clay	Angelica Moratelli	Katarzyna Piter Fanny Stollár	1–6, 6–4, [8–10]

ITF Circuit finals

Singles: 14 (4 titles, 10 runner–ups)

Legend $100,000 tournaments (0–1) $60,000 tournaments (1–2) $25,000 tournaments (1–5) $10,000 tournaments (2–2)

Finals by surface Hard (2–5) Clay (2–5)

Result	W–L	Date	Tournament	Tier	Surface	Opponent	Score
Loss	0–1	Oct 2013	ITF Quintana Roo, Mexico	10,000	Hard	Denise Muresan	4–6, 1–6
Loss	0–2	Oct 2013	ITF Quintana Roo, Mexico	10,000	Hard	Ashley Weinhold	3–6, 6–4, 5–7
Win	1–2	Apr 2016	ITF León, Mexico	10,000	Hard	Ana Sofía Sánchez	2–6, 6–3, 6–2
Win	2–2	May 2016	Solgironès Open, Spain	10,000	Clay	Irene Burillo Escorihuela	6–7(3), 6–1, 6–4
Loss	2–3	Jul 2017	ITF Getxo, Spain	25,000	Clay	Mihaela Buzărnescu	2–6, 2–6
Loss	2–4	Jul 2017	ITF Torino, Italy	25,000	Clay	Deborah Chiesa	3–6, 6–2, 5–7
Loss	2–5	Oct 2017	ITF Pula, Italy	25,000	Clay	Polona Hercog	4–6, 1–6
Loss	2–6	Sep 2020	ITF Prague, Czech Republic	W25	Clay	Jana Čepelová	4–6, 6–7(4)
Loss	2–7	Jan 2023	ITF Malibu, United States	W25	Hard	Jamie Loeb	4–6, 1–6
Win	3–7	Jan 2023	ITF Boca Raton, US	W25	Clay	Lulu Sun	6–2, 7–5
Loss	3–8	May 2023	Pelham Pro Classic, US	W60	Clay	Veronika Miroshnichenko	6–7(5), 2–6
Win	4–8	Aug 2023	Lexington Challenger, US	W60	Hard	Caroline Dolehide	1–6, 7–6(4), 7–5
Loss	4–9	Sep 2023	ITF Templeton Pro, US	W60	Hard	Taylor Townsend	3–6, 1–6
Loss	4–10	Aug 2024	Cary Tennis Classic, US	W100	Hard	Nuria Párrizas Díaz	3–6, 6–3, 6–7(2)

Doubles: 27 (17 titles, 10 runner–ups)

Legend $100,000 tournaments (2–0) $80,000 tournaments (0–1) $50/60,000 tournaments (2–2) $25,000 tournaments (9–6) $10/15,000 tournaments (4–1)

Finals by surface Hard (6–3) Clay (11–7)

Result	W–L	Date	Tournament	Tier	Surface	Partner	Opponents	Score
Win	1–0	Dec 2014	ITF Mérida, Mexico	25,000	Hard	Tatjana Maria	Jan Abaza Hsu Chieh-yu	7–6(1), 6–1
Win	2–0	Dec 2014	ITF Mérida, Mexico	25,000	Hard	Tatjana Maria	Andrea Gámiz Valeria Savinykh	6–4, 6–1
Loss	2–1	Apr 2015	ITF Guadalajara, Mexico	15,000	Hard	Maria Fernanda Alves	Marcela Zacarías Laura Pigossi	1–6, 2–6
Win	3–1	Jun 2015	ITF Charlotte, United States	10,000	Clay	Maria Fernanda Alves	Lauren Herring Ellen Perez	6–4, 6–7(6), [10–8]
Win	4–1	Jun 2015	ITF Manzanillo, Mexico	10,000	Hard	Zoë Gwen Scandalis	Bárbara Gatica Stephanie Petit	6–1, 6–2
Win	5–1	Oct 2015	ITF Rock Hill, United States	25,000	Hard	Ema Burgić Bucko	Elitsa Kostova Florencia Molinero	7–5, 6–2
Win	6–1	Dec 2015	ITF Santiago, Chile	25,000	Clay	Victoria Rodríguez	Florencia Molinero Laura Pigossi	6–2, 5–7, [10–7]
Win	7–1	Apr 2016	ITF León, Mexico	10,000	Hard	Chanel Simmonds	Sabastiani Leon Nazari Urbina	6–0, 6–2
Loss	7–2	May 2016	ITF Naples, United States	25,000	Clay	Sophie Chang	Gabriela Cé Justyna Jegiołka	1–6, 2–6
Win	8–2	May 2016	ITF Madrid, Spain	10,000	Clay	Marcela Zacarías	Andrea Raaholt Jasmina Tinjić	6–4, 6–4
Loss	8–3	Sep 2016	ITF Lubbock, United States	25,000	Hard	Ema Burgić Bucko	Emina Bektas Catherine Harrison	3–6, 4–6
Loss	8–4	Nov 2016	Waco Showdown, US	50,000	Hard	Mihaela Buzărnescu	Michaëlla Krajicek Taylor Townsend	w/o
Win	9–4	Jan 2017	ITF Wesley Chapel, US	25,000	Clay	Chanel Simmonds	Elizabeth Halbauer Sofia Kenin	6–2, 7–6(5)
Loss	9–5	Apr 2017	ITF Indian Harbour Beach, US	80,000	Clay	Laura Pigossi	Kristie Ahn Quinn Gleason	3–6, 2–6
Loss	9–6	May 2017	Solgironès Open, Spain	25,000	Clay	Jaqueline Cristian	Olesya Pervushina Valeriya Strakhova	5–7, 2–6
Win	10–6	Jun 2017	ITF Ystad, Sweden	25,000	Clay	Valentyna Ivakhnenko	Quirine Lemoine Eva Wacanno	6–3, 3–6, [10–5]
Win	11–6	Oct 2017	ITF Seville, Spain	25,000	Clay	Luisa Stefani	Estrella Cabeza Candela Andrea Gámiz	7–6(2), 7–6(3)
Win	12–6	Nov 2017	ITF Sant Cugat, Spain	25,000	Clay	Luisa Stefani	Olga Danilović Guiomar Maristany	6–1, 6–4
Win	13–6	Jul 2018	Internazionale di Roma, Italy	60,000	Clay	Laura Pigossi	Anastasia Grymalska Giorgia Marchetti	6–1, 4–6, [13–11]
Win	14–6	Jul 2018	Ashland Tennis Classic, US	60,000	Hard	Jovana Jakšić	Sanaz Marand Whitney Osuigwe	6–3, 5–7, [10–4]
Loss	14–7	Sep 2018	Open de Valencia, Spain	60,000	Clay	Valentini Grammatikopoulou	Irina Khromacheva Nina Stojanović	1–6, 4–6
Loss	14–8	Nov 2018	ITF Sant Cugat, Spain	25,000	Clay	Andreea Roșca	Miriam Bulgaru Nicoleta Dascălu	1–6, 6–4, [7–10]
Win	15–8	Oct 2019	ITF Cucúta, Colombia	W25	Clay	Carolina Alves	Emiliana Arango Victoria Bosio	6–1, ret.
Loss	15–9	Nov 2019	ITF Orlando, United States	W25	Clay	Carolina Alves	Katharine Fahey Stephanie Wagner	4–6, 6–2, [10–7]
Win	16–9	May 2022	Solgironès Open, Spain	W100+H	Clay	Victoria Jiménez Kasintseva	Alicia Barnett Olivia Nicholls	6–4, 2–6, [10–8]
Loss	16–10	Jan 2023	ITF Boca Raton, United States	W25	Clay	Kayla Cross	Tiphanie Fiquet Ashley Lahey	6–4, 1–6, [4–10]
Win	17–10	Jul 2023	Championnats de Granby, Canada	W100	Clay	Marcela Zacarías	Carmen Corley Ivana Corley	6–3, 6–3

Notes and References

1. Web site: Macpherson. Alex. September 25, 2020. Zarazua, Sherif qualify for Roland Garros, score national milestones. September 30, 2020. WTA.
2. Web site: Renata Zarazua's Bio. September 30, 2020. WTA.
3. Web site: Livaudais. Stephanie. April 13, 2020. Renata Zarazua reflects on historic Acapulco run, lockdown life. September 30, 2020. WTA.
4. Web site: Sharp. Alex. September 25, 2020. HALEP PROVIDES BLUEPRINT FOR ZARAZUA. September 30, 2020. www.rolandgarros.com.
5. Web site: Renata Zarazua reflects on historic Acapulco run, lockdown life. WTA. 13 July 2024.
6. Web site: Zarazua: 'I'm living a dream here in Paris'.
7. Web site: Zarazua outlasts top seed Parry to win WTA 125 Montevideo title .
8. Web site: Renata Zarazúa Makes History as First Mexican Player in WTA Top-100 in Almost 30 Years. 8 January 2024.
9. Web site: Photos: The Top 100 breakthroughs of 2024 .
10. Web site: Zarazua, Korneeva, Yastremska qualify for Australian Open.
11. Web site: WIMBLEDON: BRITAIN'S EMMA RADUCANU SEALS IMPRESSIVE OPENING WIN OVER RENATA ZARAZUA TO BEGIN CAMPAIGN AT SW19. Eurosport. 13 July 2024.
12. Web site: Five Players Withdraw From US Open. 21 August 2024.
13. Web site: Renata Zarazua. 7 April 2021. Australian Open.