Tamarine Tanasugarn

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**Tamarine Tanasugarn**

Nickname(s)	Tammy
Country	Thailand
Residence	Bangkok, Thailand
Date of birth	May 24, 1977 (1977-05-24) (age 31)
Place of birth	Los Angeles, CA
Height	1.65 m (5 ft 5 in)
Weight	63 kg (140 lb/9.9 st)
Turned pro	1994
Plays	right-handed (two-handed backhand)
Career prize money	US$ 2,562,692
Singles
Career record:	434-331
Career titles:	2 WTA, 11 ITF
Highest ranking:	19 (13 May 2002)
Grand Slam results
Australian Open	4R (1998)
French Open	3R (2002)
Wimbledon	QF (2008)
US Open	4R (2003)
Doubles
Career record:	191-186
Career titles:	5 WTA, 3 ITF
Highest ranking:	15 (13 September 2004)
Grand Slam doubles results
Australian Open	4R (2000)
French Open	3R (2002, 2004, 2007)
Wimbledon	3R (1996, 1998, 2002, 2004, 2007)
US Open	QF (2004)
Infobox last updated on: 7 July 2008.

Tanasugarn on the right in this photo, with her doubles partner Su-Wei Hsieh.

Tamarine Tanasugarn (Thai: แทมมารีน ธนสุกาญจน์; born May 24, 1977) is a professional female Thai tennis player. She was born in Los Angeles, California, U.S. and turned professional in 1994. She has been in the top twenty in both singles and doubles.

Tanasugarn's highest WTA ranking has been world number 19, a ranking she achieved on May 13, 2002. She has won two singles titles. She was briefly a doubles partner with Maria Sharapova, with whom she won two titles in 2003. She won a total of five doubles titles. Her highest doubles ranking was world number 15 which she achieved on September 13, 2004. With Liezel Huber, she reached the 2004 U.S. Open doubles quarterfinals.

In her career, Tanasugarn has defeated former number ones Amélie Mauresmo^[1] and Jennifer Capriati^[2]. She has also beaten Mary Pierce^[3]. All of these women were Grand Slam champions.

Tanasugarn is also a regular competitor for the Thailand Fed Cup team, helping the team join the World Group II in 2005 and 2006.

At 2008 Wimbledon, Tanasugarn knocked out number two seed Jelena Jankovic to advance to her first Grand Slam singles quarterfinals, where she lost to the eventual champion Venus Williams.

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[edit] WTA Tour titles (7)

[edit] Singles (2)

Legend
Grand Slam (0)
WTA Championships (0)
Tier I (0)
Tier II (0)
Tier III (1)
Tier IV & V (1)

No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Opponent in the final	Score
1.	9 February 2003	Hyderabad, India	Hard	Iroda Tulyaganova	6–4, 6–4
2.	21 June 2008	's-Hertogenbosch, Netherlands	Grass	Dinara Safina	7-5, 6–3

[edit] Singles finalist (6)

No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Opponent in the final	Score
1.	18 November 1996	Pattaya City, Thailand	Hard	Ruxandra Dragomir	7–6, 6–4
2.	12 June 2000	Birmingham, England, United Kingdom	Grass	Lisa Raymond	6–2, 6–7 (7), 6–4
3.	1 October 2001	Tokyo, Japan	Hard	Monica Seles	6–3, 6–2
4.	7 January 2002	Canberra, Australia	Hard	Anna Smashnova	7–5, 7–6(2)
5.	11 February 2002	Doha, Qatar	Hard	Monica Seles	7–6(6), 6–3
6.	9 October 2006	Bangkok, Thailand	Hard	Vania King	2–6, 6–4, 6–4