Nataly Cahana | |
Fullname: | Nataly Cahana-Fleishman[1] |
Birth Date: | 2 December 1978 |
Height: | 5 ft 5 in |
Plays: | Right-handed |
Careerprizemoney: | $35,695 |
Singlestitles: | 1 ITF |
Highestsinglesranking: | No. 232 (3 May 1999) |
Doublestitles: | 5 ITF |
Highestdoublesranking: | No. 179 (5 July 1999) |
Team: | yes |
Fedcupresult: | 8–2 |
Nataly Cahana-Fleishman (born 2 December 1978) is an Israeli former professional tennis player.
Cahana, a right-handed player from Haifa, competed on the professional tour in the 1990s, primarily on the ITF Circuit.
She reached a best singles ranking of 232 and won a $25k title in Caracas in 1998. As a doubles player, she was ranked as high as 179 in the world and won five ITF titles.[2]
From 1996 to 1999 she featured in eight Fed Cup ties for Israel, mostly in doubles.
Her only WTA Tour main-draw appearance came at the 1999 Tashkent Open, where she and partner Julia Abe made the quarterfinals of the doubles.[3]
In the early 2000s, she played American college tennis for Old Dominion University (ODU) in Norfolk, Virginia. A two-time All-American, she made four NCAA Championship appearances in a row and finished with a team record of 231 career wins, across singles and doubles. In 2007, she began serving ODU as an assistant coach.[4]
$25,000 tournaments | |
$10,000 tournaments |
Result | No. | Date | Tournament | Surface | Opponent | Score | |
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Loss | 1. | 17 March 1996 | ITF Tel Aviv, Israel | Hard | ![]() | 1–6, 1–6 | |
Loss | 2. | 8 March 1997 | ITF Tel Aviv, Israel | Hard | Miroslava Vavrinec | 3–6, 6–7 | |
Loss | 1. | 4 October 1998 | ITF Caracas, Venezuela | Hard | ![]() | 6–1, 3–6, 6–3 |
Result | No. | Date | Tournament | Surface | Partner | Opponents | Score | |
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Loss | 1. | 22 August 1993 | ITF Haifa, Israel | Hard | ![]() | ![]() ![]() | 0–6, 4–6 | |
Loss | 2. | 29 August 1993 | ITF Haifa, Israel | Hard | ![]() | ![]() ![]() | 5–7, 5–7 | |
Win | 1. | 4 December 1994 | ITF Beersheba, Israel | Hard | ![]() | ![]() ![]() | 2–6, 6–4, 6–0 | |
Loss | 3. | 3 April 1995 | ITF Tiberias, Israel | Hard | ![]() | ![]() ![]() | 4–6, 1–6 | |
Loss | 4. | 13 August 1995 | ITF Southsea, United Kingdom | Grass | ![]() | ![]() ![]() | 4–6, 5–7 | |
Loss | 5. | 30 October 1995 | ITF Nicosia, Cyprus | Clay | ![]() | Vanessa Brilleman Henriëtte van Aalderen | 6–3, 6–7(2), 4–6 | |
Loss | 6. | 14 July 1996 | ITF Vigo, Spain | Clay | ![]() | ![]() ![]() | 2–6, 4–6 | |
Win | 2. | 17 August 1997 | ITF Catania, Italy | Hard | Martine Vosseberg | ![]() ![]() | 7–5, 4–6, 6–4 | |
Win | 3. | 5 October 1997 | ITF Coatzacoalcos, Mexico | Hard | Martine Vosseberg | ![]() ![]() | 4–6, 2–6 | |
Loss | 4. | 22 November 1997 | ITF Jaffa, Israel | Hard | Maaike Koutstaal | ![]() ![]() | 6–2, 6–1 | |
Win | 5. | 10 August 1998 | ITF İstanbul, Turkey | Hard | Eleni Daniilidou | ![]() ![]() | 3–6, 6–3, 6–3 | |
Loss | 7. | 3 May 1999 | ITF Beersheba, Israel | Hard | ![]() | ![]() ![]() | 1–6, 4–6 | |
Loss | 8. | 31 January 2000 | ITF İstanbul, Turkey | Hard | Katarina Mišić | ![]() ![]() | 3–6, 6–3, 4–6 |