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Spanish tennis player (born )

For another tennis player born , see Conchita Martínez Granados.

In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Martínez and the second or maternal family name is Bernat .

Conchita Martínez at the US Open
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Retired	15 April
Plays	Right-handed (one-handed backhand)
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Conchita Martínez Bernat (born 16 April ) is a Spanish former professional tennis player and coach.

She was the first Spaniard to win the women's singles title at Wimbledon, doing so in Martínez also was the runner-up at the Australian Open and the French Open. She reached a career-high ranking of world No. 2 in October , and was in the year-end top 10 for nine years. Martínez won 33 singles and 13 doubles titles during her year career, as well as three Olympic medals.

She was inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame in ^[2]

A five-time winner of the Fed Cup as a player, Martínez was the Spanish team captain from to and the Spanish Davis Cup team captain from to , leading the Davis Cup team back into the top-tier World Group under her captaincy.^[3] She has also served as a part-time coach to Garbiñe Muguruza, guiding her to the Wimbledon Championships title, and was the full-time coach to Karolína Plíšková through and She began coaching Muguruza on a full-time basis in November Martínez won the WTA Coach of the Year award for her work coaching Muguruza.

She is currently a coach to Mirra Andreeva.

She was inducted alongside Goran Ivanišević into the Tennis Hall of Fame class of ^[4]

Career

– Breakthrough, top 10, Grand Slam quarterfinals

Born in Monzón, Martínez turned professional in At the age of just 16, she reached the fourth round at the French Open in her third professional tournament.

She upset ninth-seed Lori McNeil en route, before losing to Bettina Fulco in two sets.^[5] In , her breakthrough year, Martínez got rid of Sabatini to win the title at Tampa and also won two Tier V tournaments (Wellington, Phoenix). She also reached the quarterfinals of the French Open, losing to Steffi Graf.

She finished the year world No. 7. In and , Martínez won a further six titles and again reached the quarterfinals at the French Open both years (losing to Graf in and Monica Seles in ).

The following year, Martínez was a silver medalist in doubles at the Olympic Games in Barcelona (partnering Arantxa Sánchez Vicario) and the runner-up in women's doubles at the French Open.^[6] Once again, Martínez was a quarterfinalist at the French Open, losing a tight match with Sabatini.

In she was runner up in Indian Wells and San Diego.

– Highest ranking, Wimbledon singles title

In , Martínez became the first Spanish woman since Lilí de Álvarez in to reach the semifinals at Wimbledon, where she lost to Steffi Graf in two sets. In November, Martínez defeated Graf for the first and only time in her career, at a tournament in Philadelphia in the final.

At the Italian Open, Martínez defeated Sabatini in the final in straight sets to become the first Spaniard to win the tournament since de Álvarez in ^[7] She again reached the quarterfinals at the French Open for the fifth year in a row, losing a 2-hour, minute three-set battle with Anke Huber.^[8]

Martínez reached the Wimbledon singles final in beating Rene Simpson, Nana Smith, Nathalie Tauziat, Kristine Kunce and Lindsay Davenport in the quarterfinal and Lori McNeil in the semifinals where the third set went to 10–8, where she faced nine-time Wimbledon champion Martina Navratilova.

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Navratilova's last Wimbledon triumph had come four years earlier, but many observers felt that the year-old Czech-born American was the favourite going into the match given her long track record of success on grass courts, whereas Martínez's most significant tournament victories up to that time had been on slower-playing surfaces, particularly on clay courts.

Martínez, however, won the match in three sets and became the first Spanish woman to win Wimbledon.^[9][10] In , Martínez was a semifinalist at all four Grand Slam tournaments and reached her career-high singles ranking of World No. 2. In the Australian Open she beat Lindsay Davenport in the quarterfinals before losing to Mary Pierce in the semifinals.

At Wimbledon, Martínez beat Sabatini in the quarterfinals before losing to Arantxa Sánchez Vicario in the semifinals. She also had a new coach that year, Carlos Kirmayr.

In , Martínez became the only player to win the Italian Open singles title four consecutive years, after a straight-sets victory in the final against year-old Martina Hingis.^[11][12] She also partnered Sánchez Vicario to claim a women's doubles Olympic bronze medal in Atlanta.^[6]

– Out of top 10 and return, Australian and French Open runner-up

In , Martínez reached her second career Grand Slam singles final at the Australian Open.

She beat Lindsay Davenport in the semifinals, before losing to Martina Hingis in the final in straight sets.^[13][14] At the German Open in May, she defeated Amélie Mauresmo to win her first singles title in 18 months.^[15] She also helped Spain win the Fed Cup that year, beating Patty Schnyder of Switzerland 6–3, 2–6, 9–7 in 3 hours, 19 minutes in the final.

In January at the Australian Open Martínez beat Elena Likhovtseva in the quarterfinals after Likhovtseva twice failed to serve for the match to reach the semifinals where she was beaten by Martina Hingis. Martínez reached the final of the French Open in , where she lost to Mary Pierce in two sets after beating Sánchez Vicario in the semifinals.^[16] She also won the German Open, beating Hingis in a semifinal and Amanda Coetzer in the final.^[17][18] In , Martínez was a runner-up in the women's doubles at the French Open (partnering Jelena Dokic).

Martínez also reached the quarterfinals at Wimbledon for the first time in six years but lost to Justine Henin of Belgium. In , she reached her last Grand Slam quarterfinal in the French Open losing to Kim Clijsters. Also that year, she reached the final at Eastbourne losing to Chanda Rubin.^[19]

Martínez won her second Olympic silver medal in the women's doubles in in Athens, Greece (partnering Virginia Ruano Pascual).^[6] In , Martínez won her first singles title in five years at Pattaya, Thailand.

It was her last singles title, bringing her career total to 33 top-level singles titles, nine of which were Tier I events, and 13 doubles titles. On 15 April , aged 33 and after 18 years of playing professionally, she announced her retirement. She is still the spanish female player with more singles titles so far.^[20][21]

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In , and , Martínez played at Wimbledon in the Ladies Invitations Doubles.

In , her partner in doubles was Nathalie Tauziat.

Playing style

Nicknamed Senorita Topspin, Martínez was a patient, right-handed baseline player who won matches by disrupting her opponents' rhythm through changes of spin, pace, depth, height, and angle. She had a strong backhand, played single-handedly, and used heavy topspin on her forehand and slower topspin and slice on her backhand.^[22][23] A characteristic shot of Martínez was to hit a deep, looping forehand with a lot of topspin with the intent to drive her opponent to the back of the court and make her hit the ball at shoulder height.^[24][25] She often sought out the ball with which she had won the previous point.

This sometimes irritated her opponents; Patty Schnyder once pocketed the ball to prevent Martínez from retrieving it, and rejected the traditional handshake at the end of the match.^[26]

Performance timelines

Main article: Conchita Martínez career statistics

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(W) winner; (F) finalist; (SF) semifinalist; (QF) quarterfinalist; (#R) rounds 4, 3, 2, 1; (RR) round-robin stage; (Q#) qualification round; (DNQ) did not qualify; (A) absent; (NH) not held; (SR) strike rate (events won / competed); (W–L) win–loss record.

Singles

Doubles

See also

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