Estrella Cabeza Candela Explained

Estrella Cabeza Candela
Residence:Barcelona, Spain
Birth Date:1987 2, df=yes
Birth Place:Los Palacios y Villafranca, Spain
Height:1.73 m
Retired:2020
Plays:Right (two-handed backhand)
Careerprizemoney:$507,072
Singlestitles:13 ITF
Highestsinglesranking:No. 95 (13 May 2013)
Australianopenresult:Q3 (2013)
Frenchopenresult:1R (2014)
Wimbledonresult:1R (2013)
Usopenresult:1R (2013)
Doublestitles:16 ITF
Highestdoublesranking:No. 176 (2 April 2012)

Estrella Cabeza Candela (pronounced as /es/; born 20 February 1987) is a former Spanish tennis player.

During her career, Cabeza Candela won 13 singles and 16 doubles titles on the ITF Women's Circuit. On 13 May 2013, she reached her best singles ranking of world No. 95. On 2 April 2012, she peaked at No. 176 in the doubles rankings.

Personal life

Cabeza Candela was born in Los Palacios y Villafranca to Manuel Cabeza (tennis coach) and Estrella Candela, sister is Ana (training to be an aeronautic engineer). She began playing tennis at age four with father and sister, and started playing seriously aged seven. Her Tennis idol was Monica Seles, favorite surface clay court.

Career

Coached by Gonzalo Lopez and Martin Vilar, Cabeza Candela had a break out year in 2013. She broke into the top 100 for the first time at age 26, by reaching No. 95 on 13 May 2013.

Later that summer, she played her first Grand Slam main-draw at Wimbledon, and lost in the first round to Caroline Wozniacki, 0–6, 2–6. In early July, Cabeza Candela reached her best result in a WTA Tour tournament by reaching the semifinals at Palermo, losing to Roberta Vinci, in three sets.

She announced her retirement from professional tennis ın 2020.[1]

ITF Circuit finals

Singles: 29 (13 titles, 16 runner-ups)

Legend
$75,000 tournaments
$50,000 tournaments
$25,000 tournaments
$10/15,000 tournaments
Finals by surface
Hard (5–4)
Clay (8–12)
ResultNo.DateTournament TierSurfaceOpponentScore
Loss1.Aug 2004ITF Pontevedra, Spain10,000Hard Lucía Jiménez Almendros7–6(3), 6–7(4), 6–7(2)
Win1.Jun 2005ITF Les Franqueses del Vallès, Spain10,000Hard Justine Ozga7–6(3), 4–6, 6–2
Loss2.Nov 2005ITF Mallorca, Spain10,000Clay Núria Roig3–6, 3–6
Win2.Feb 2006ITF Mallorca, Spain10,000Clay Stella Menna6–4, 6–1
Win3.Mar 2006ITF Sabadell, Spain10,000Clay María José Martínez Sánchez6–3, 7–5
Win4.Jul 2006ITF Valladolid, Spain25,000Hard Monique Adamczak2–6, 7–6(3), 7–5
Loss3.Jun 2008ITF Galatina, Italy25,000Clay Anastasija Sevastova4–6, 4–6
Win5.Jun 2008ITF Getxo, Spain25,000Clay Chayenne Ewijk6–4, 6–4
Win6.Jul 2008ITF Valladolid, Spain25,000Hard Frederica Piedade6–4, 7–6(4)
Loss4.Sep 2008ITF Madrid, Spain25,000Hard Angelique Kerber1–6, 3–6
Loss5.Sep 2008ITF Granada, Spain25,000Hard Regina Kulikova3–6, 4–6
Loss6.Jul 2009ITF Rome, Italy25,000Clay Eloisa Compostizo de Andrés3–6, 7–6(2), 2–6
Loss7.Jul 2009ITF Valladolid, Spain25,000Hard Heidi El Tabakh2–6, 6–3, 3–6
Win7.Sep 2010ITF Mollerusa, Spain10,000Hard Yevgeniya Kryvoruchko6–2, 6–4
Win8.Mar 2011ITF Madrid, Spain10,000Clay Laura-Ioana Andrei6–3, 6–2
Loss8.Oct 2011ITF Seville, Spain25,000Clay Réka Luca Jani6–2, 3–6, 3–6
Loss9.Sep 2012Save Cup, Italy50,000Clay Karin Knapp1–6, 6–3, 1–6
Loss10.Sep 2012Open de Saint-Malo, France25,000Clay Maryna Zanevska2–6, 7–6(5), 0–6
Loss11.Oct 2012ITF Sant Cugat del Vallès, Spain25,000Clay María Teresa Torró Flor1–6, 4–6
Loss12.Oct 2012ITF Seville, Spain25,000Clay Teliana Pereira6–4, 6–7(3), 6–7(5)
Loss13.Mar 2013ITF Osprey, United States50,000Clay Mariana Duque Mariño6–7(2), 1–6
Loss14.Jun 2015ITF Madrid, Spain10,000Clay Olga Sáez Larra4–6, 0–6
Win9.Oct 2015ITF La Vall d'Uixó, Spain10,000Clay Oleksandra Korashvili7–6(5), 6–2
Win10.Oct 2015ITF Melilla, Spain10,000Hard María José Luque Moreno6–3, 6–4
Win11.Nov 2015ITF Vinaròs, Spain10,000Clay Noelia Bouzó Zanotti6–2, 6–2
Win12.Apr 2017ITF Hammamet, Tunisia15,000Clay Fernanda Brito6–3, 7–5
Loss15.May 2017Internacional de La Bisbal, Spain25,000Clay Georgina García Pérez2–6, 6–0, 4–6
Loss16.Dec 2017ITF Castellón, Spain15,000Clay Ekaterine Gorgodze0–6, 6–3, 1–6
Win13.Jun 2018ITF Barcelona, Spain25,000Clay Aliona Bolsova6–2, 6–3

Doubles: 30 (16 titles, 14 runner-ups)

ResultNo.DateTournamentTierSurfacePartnerOpponentsScore
Loss1.May 2004ITF Tortosa, Spain10,000Clay Katia Sabate-Orera Marta Fraga
Nuria Sánchez García
6–4, 4–6, 4–6
Win1.Nov 2004ITF Mallorca, Spain10,000Clay Adriana González Peñas Hanne Skak Jensen
Karina Jacobsgaard
6–3, 6–3
Win2.Jul 2005ITF Getxo, Spain10,000Clay Núria Roig Anna Gil Mares
Tara Wigan
6–1, 6–0
Loss2.Aug 2005ITF Vigo, Spain10,000Hard Matilde Muñoz Gonzalves Anna Font
María José Martínez Sánchez
2–6, 3–6
Win3.Feb 2006ITF Mallorca, Spain10,000Clay Núria Roig Eleonora Iannozzi
Stella Menna
3–6, 6–3, 6–1
Loss3.Feb 2006ITF Mallorca, Spain10,000Clay Núria Roig Marta Fraga
Laura Thorpe
4–6, 5–7
Win4.Mar 2006ITF Sabadell, Spain10,000Clay Núria Roig Marta Fraga
María José Martínez Sánchez
6–1, 6–1
Loss4.May 2006ITF Tenerife, Spain25,000Hard Laura Vallvaerdu-Zafra Monique Adamczak
Annette Kolb
6–4, 4–6, 1–6
Win5.May 2007ITF Monzón, Spain75,000Hard María Emilia Salerni Iryna Brémond
Vesna Dolonc
6–2, 6–1
Win6.Aug 2007ITF Vigo, Spain25,000Hard Carla Suárez Navarro Ria Sabay
Justine Ozga
6–1, 4–6, 6–3
Loss5.Mar 2008ITF La Palma, Spain25,000Hard Sílvia Soler Espinosa Yuliya Beygelzimer
Stefanie Vögele
5–7, 6–7(5)
Loss6.Jun 2008ITF Getxo, Spain25,000Clay Sara del Barrio Aragón Julie Coin
Story Tweedie-Yates
3–6, 1–6
Loss7.Jul 2009ITF Valladolid, Spain25,000Clay Sara del Barrio Aragón Heidi El Tabakh
Paula Fondevila Castro
2–6, 4–6
Loss8.Feb 2010Copa Bionaire, Colombia75,000Clay Laura Pous Tió Edina Gallovits-Hall
Polona Hercog
6–3, 3–6, [8–10]
Loss9.Sep 2010ITF Foggia, Italy25,000Clay Laura Pous Tió María Irigoyen
Florencia Molinero
2–6, 2–6
Loss10.Oct 2010Open Saint-Raphaël, France50,000Hard (i) Laura Pous Tió Sandra Klemenschits
Tatjana Maria
2–6, 4–6
Win7.Oct 2011ITF Seville, Spain25,000Clay Lara Arruabarrena Leticia Costas
Inés Ferrer Suárez
6–4, 6–4
Win8.Jun 2015ITF Madrid, Spain10,000Clay Cristina Sánchez Quintanar Sílvia García Jiménez
Olga Sáez Larra
4–6, 6–4, [10–7]
Win9.Jul 2015ITF Prokuplje, Serbia10,000Clay Alexandra Nancarrow Maryna Kolb
Nadiya Kolb
2–6, 6–4, [10–6]
Loss11.Sep 2015ITF Barcelona, Spain15,000Clay Oleksandra Korashvili Aliona Bolsova
Gaia Sanesi
3–6, 4–6
Win10.Sep 2015ITF Madrid, Spain10,000Hard Cristina Sánchez Quintanar Deborah Chiesa
Isabelle Wallace
7–6(4), 7–5
Win11.Sep 2015ITF Madrid, Spain10,000Hard Cristina Sánchez Quintanar María Martínez Martínez
Olga Sáez Larra
6–4, 6–3
Win12.Oct 2015ITF Melilla, Spain10,000Hard Oleksandra Korashvili Irene Burillo Escorihuela
Isabelle Wallace
6–3, 6–1
Win13.Nov 2015ITF Vinaròs, Spain10,000Clay Oleksandra Korashvili Alicia Herrero Liñana
Ksenija Sharifova
6–2, 4–6, [10–5]
Loss12.May 2016ITF Monzón, Spain10,000Hard Cristina Sánchez Quintanar Alice Bacquié
Gabriella Taylor
1–6, 1–6
Win14.Jul 2017ITF Turin, Italy25,000Clay Paula Cristina Gonçalves Irene Burillo Escorihuela
Yvonne Cavallé Reimers
5–7, 6–0, [10–8]
Win15.Jul 2017ITF Imola, Italy25,000Carpet Paula Cristina Gonçalves Eleni Kordolaimi
Seone Mendez
6–3, 1–6, [10–3]
Loss13.Oct 2017ITF Seville, Spain25,000Clay Andrea Gámiz Luisa Stefani
Renata Zarazúa
6–7(2), 6–7(3)
Loss14.Oct 2017ITF Riba-roja de Túria, Spain15,000Clay Ángela Fita Boluda Yvonne Cavallé Reimers
Guadalupe Pérez Rojas
4–6, 4–6
Win16.Apr 2018ITF Óbidos, Portugal25,000Carpet Ángela Fita Boluda Freya Christie
An-Sophie Mestach
7–6(3), 1–6, [10–6]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Me gustaría hacerles el camino más fácil a quienes yo entrene. el-decano-deportivo. 10 November 2020.