Rafaella Baquerizo Explained

Rafaella Baquerizo
Birth Date:	25 March 1998
Birth Place:	Guayaquil, Ecuador
College:	Purdue (2016–18)
Usopenjuniorresult:	Q1 (2016)
Team:	yes
Fedcupresult:	3–3
Updated:	16 March 2020

Rafaella Baquerizo (born 25 March 1998) is an Ecuadorian tennis player.

Playing for Ecuador at the Fed Cup, Baquerizo has a win–loss record of 3–3.

On the juniors tour, Baquerizo has a career high ITF junior combined ranking of 85, achieved on 24 February 2014.^[1]

She played tennis at Purdue University, between 2016 and 2018.^[2]

ITF junior finals

Grand Slam
Category GA
Category G1
Category G2
Category G3
Category G4
Category G5

Singles (3–1)

Outcome	W–L	Date	Tournament	Grade	Surface	Opponent	Score
Winner	1–0	12 November 2012	Guayaquil, Ecuador	G5	Hard	Stephanie Nemtsova	6–3, 6–7^(8–10), 6–3
Winner	2–0	9 November 2013	Santa Cruz, Bolivia	G3	Clay	Katie Swan	6–1, 6–3
Runner-up	2–1	31 October 2015	La Paz, Bolivia	G5	Clay	Yuliana Monroy	3–6, 6–7^(7–9)
Winner	3–1	21 November 2015	Guayaquil, Ecuador	G5	Hard	Jimena Rodriguez-Benito	6–4, 6–3

Doubles (9–7)

Outcome	W–L	Date	Tournament	Grade	Surface	Partner	Opponents	Score
Runner-up	0–1	29 September 2012	Quillota, Chile	G5	Clay	Fernanda Astete	Luisa Rosa Catalina Vives	1–6, 4–6
Runner-up	0–2	10 November 2012	Santa Cruz, Bolivia	G3	Clay	Rafaela Gómez	Nabila Farah Noelia Zeballos	4–6, 1–6
Winner	1–2	24 November 2012	Guayaquil, Ecuador	G5	Hard	Rafaela Gómez	Stephanie Nemtsova Stephanie Rodríguez	6–4, 6–3
Winner	2–2	20 October 2013	Florianópolis, Brazil	G4	Clay	Ivone Álvaro	Maria Vitória Beirão Sofia Sualehe	6–1, 6–2
Runner-up	2–3	26 October 2013	Montevideo, Uruguay	G2	Clay	Leticia Garcia Vidal	Olivia Hauger Cassandra Vázquez	6–4, 3–6, [6–10]
Runner-up	2–4	19 January 2014	Caracas, Venezuela	G1	Hard	Luisa Stefani	Anna Blinkova Jessica Ho	3–6, 3–6
Winner	3–4	26 January 2014	Barranquilla, Colombia	G1	Clay	Usue Maitane Arconada	Jaqueline Cristian Dasha Ivanova	6–3, 6–3
Runner-up	3–5	1 February 2014	Guayaquil, Ecuador	G1	Clay	Doménica González	Luisa Stefani Renata Zarazúa	1–6, 6–3, [7–10]
Runner-up	3–6	22 March 2014	San José, Costa Rica	G3	Hard	Madison Bourguignon	Anna Brogan Gabriella Pollner
Winner	4–6	6 April 2014	La Paz, Bolivia	B1	Clay	Doménica González	Ornella Garavani Thaisa Grana Pedretti	6–3, 6–4
Winner	5–6	31 January 2015	Guayaquil, Ecuador	G1	Clay	Jaqueline Cristian	Francesca Di Lorenzo Meghan Kelley	6–1, 6–4
Winner	6–6	31 October 2015	La Paz, Bolivia	G5	Clay	Daniela Alejandra la Fuente Strassburger	Julia Goldberg Yuliana Monroy	6–0, 1–6, [15–13]
Winner	7–6	7 November 2015	Santa Cruz, Bolivia	G3	Clay	Lara Escauriza	María Lourdes Carlé Anastasia Iamachkine	6–2, 7–6^(7–2)
Winner	8–6	13 February 2016	La Paz, Bolivia	G2	Clay	Camila Romero	Anri Nagata Yuki Naito	2–6, 6–4, [10–8]
Winner	9–6	26 March 2016	Mar del Plata, Argentina	B1	Clay	Camila Romero	Fernanda Labraña Nathalia Wolf Gasparin	6–4, 6–3
Runner-up	9–7	10 April 2016	Mendoza, Argentina	G3	Clay	Fernanda Labraña	Melany Solange Krywoj Azul Agustina Pedemonti	3–6, 6–7^(11–13)

National representation

Fed Cup

Baquerizo made her Fed Cup debut for Ecuador in 2014, while the team was competing in the Americas Zone Group I, when she was 15 years and 318 days old.

Fed Cup (3–3)

Group membership World Group (0–0) World Group Play-off (0–0) World Group II (0–0) World Group II Play-off (0–0) Europe/Africa Group (3–3) Matches by surface Hard (0–0) Clay (3–3) Grass (0–0) Carpet (0–0) Matches by type Singles (1–0) Doubles (2–3) Matches by setting Indoors (0–0) Outdoors (3–3)

Doubles (2–3)

Edition	Stage	Date	Location	Against	Surface	Partner	Opponents	W/L	Score
2014 Fed Cup Americas Zone Group I	Pool B	6 February 2014	Lambaré, Paraguay	Colombia	Clay	Rafaela Gómez	María Herazo González Paula Andrea Pérez	L	1–6, 4–6
		7 February 2014		Bahamas			Nikkita Fountain Larika Russell	W	6–4, 6–2
2016 Fed Cup Americas Zone Group I	Pool B	3 February 2016	Santa Cruz, Bolivia	Argentina	Clay	Marie Elise Casares	María Irigoyen Catalina Pella	L	0–6, 0–6
		4 February 2016		Brazil		Charlotte Römer	Paula Cristina Gonçalves Beatriz Haddad Maia	L	6–7^(3–7), 3–6
		5 February 2016		Peru		Camila Romero	Bianca Botto Anastasia Iamachkine	W	6–4, 6–0

Notes and References

1. Web site: Rafaella Baquerizo junior stats on ITF official site . . 3 May 2020.
2. Web site: Rafaella Baquerizo Bio – Purdue University Official Athletic Site. purduesports.com. 3 May 2020.