Patricia Maria Țig

Patricia Maria Țig

Țig at the 2019 Wimbledon Qualifying Tournament
Country (sports)	Romania
Born	(1994-07-27) 27 July 1994 Caransebeș, Caraș-Severin, Romania
Height	1.80 m (5 ft 11 in)
Plays	Right-handed (two-handed backhand)
Prize money	US$ 642,661
Singles
Career record	209–138
Career titles	0 WTA, 1 WTA Challenger, 14 ITF
Highest ranking	No. 83 (10 April 2017)
Current ranking	No. 118 (07 October 2019)
Grand Slam singles results
Australian Open	1R (2017)
French Open	1R (2017)
Wimbledon	1R (2016)
US Open	1R (2016)
Doubles
Career record	72–73
Career titles	0 WTA, 4 ITF
Highest ranking	No. 155 (14 November 2016)

Patricia Maria Țig (born 27 July 1994) is a professional tennis player from Romania.

Țig has a career-high WTA singles ranking of no. 83, achieved on 10 April 2017. Her best doubles ranking of no. 171 she achieved on 24 August 2015. Țig has won one WTA 125K series singles title as well as 12 singles and four doubles titles on the ITF Women's Circuit. She is coached by Răzvan Sabău.

2015: First WTA finals (doubles and singles)

Țig made her WTA debut at the Bucharest Open where she received a wildcard into the singles main draw, and she won to Sílvia Soler Espinosa (retired at 6–4, 3–1) in the first round, before losing 0–6, 2–6 to Polona Hercog. In the doubles competition, paired to conational Andreea Mitu, Țig reached her first WTA final, but they lost.

She then did much better in Baku by defeating Oksana Kalashnikova 6–1, 6–3 to qualify, then in the main draw, qualifiers Olga Ianchuk (6–4, 6–2) and Olga Savchuk (7–5, 6–4), and then Donna Vekić (6–3, 6–2), and in the semifinals she defeated seed no. 1 and world no. 42 Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova, 6–3, 6–2, thus reaching her first WTA singles final (without losing one set) and entering top 120 in the WTA rankings. She lost the final in three sets to Margarita Gasparyan.

2018: Inactivity status

After a period of struggling with her performances in the second half of 2017 season, she decided to focus on her health, citing back pain as the main source of discomfort. Her last played tournament was the (Guangzhou Open) in September 2017. Țig became an inactive player on 24 September 2018 after not playing for 52 consecutive weeks.

2019: Back active on the ITF Circuit, return to WTA competition, back in the top 150

Țig returned to action in April 2019, after healing her injuries and giving birth to daughter Sofia in November 2018. She played a series of nine $15,000 ITF tournaments over 10 weeks in Cancun, Mexico. She retired or gave her opponent a walkover in three of the first four, as the inactivity led to injuries – including a recurrence of the knee issue. By the fifth tournament, she made the final. She did the same in the seventh, and won the last two.

The Romanian would have preferred to start at the $25,000 level. But the new ITF pro circuit rules instituted for 2019 made it impossible for her to gain entry with no ranking. She earned no ranking points for those results. "So we went there for nothing. I got, like, 30 points (actually, 37), which means I’m going to be around 500 (in the WTA rankings). So that doesn’t get me anywhere," she said in an interview. Țig will find them reinstated in August as the ITF partly rolls back the new circuit rules. She could gain as many as 25 more spots in the rankings when that occurs.

Țig returned to the WTA circuit at the 2019 Bucharest Open as a wildcard into qualifying. She won her three rounds of qualifying to make it to the main draw. She defeated Anna Bondár in the first round to advance to the last 16. In the second round she defeated the top seed and defending champion Anastasija Sevastova 6–2, 7–5. She went on to defeat Kristýna Plíšková and Laura Siegemund. In the final, she lost to Elena Rybakina. This was the second singles final in her career. She returned to rankings July 22 at number 264.

At the 2019 Baltic Open, where she used her PR, she defeated Ankita Raina and Anhelina Kalinina, before losing to Anastasia Potapova.

Țig won the Karlsruhe Open, defeating Alison Van Uytvanck and advancing to no. 148.

WTA career finals

Singles: 2 (2 runners-up)

Legend WTA Tour Championships (0–0) Premier Mandatory & Premier 5 (0–0) Premier (0–0) International (0–2)

Titles by Surface Hard (0–1) Grass (0–0) Clay (0–1) Carpet (0–0)

Result	W–L	Date	Tournament	Tier	Surface	Opponent	Score
Loss	0–1	Aug 2015	Baku Cup, Azerbaijan	International	Hard	Margarita Gasparyan	3–6, 7–5, 0–6
Loss	0–2	Jul 2019	Bucharest Open, Romania	International	Clay	Elena Rybakina	2–6, 0–6

Doubles: 2 (2 runners-up)

Legend WTA Tour Championships (0–0) Tier I / Premier Mandatory & Premier 5 (0–0) Tier II / Premier (0–0) Tier III, IV & V / International (0–2)

Titles by Surface Hard (0–1) Grass (0–0) Clay (0–1) Carpet (0–0)

Result	W–L	Date	Tournament	Tier	Surface	Partner	Opponents	Score
Loss	0–1	Jul 2015	Bucharest Open, Romania	International	Clay	Andreea Mitu	Oksana Kalashnikova Demi Schuurs	2–6, 2–6
Loss	0–2	Oct 2016	Luxembourg Open, Luxembourg	International	Hard (i)	Monica Niculescu	Kiki Bertens Johanna Larsson	6–4, 5–7, [9–11]

WTA 125K Series finals

Singles: 1 (1 title)

Result	W–L	Date	Tournament	Tier	Surface	Opponent	Score
Win	1–0	Aug 2019	Karlsruhe, Germany	125K	Clay	Alison Van Uytvanck	3–6, 6–1, 6–2

ITF finals

Singles (14–7)

Legend $100,000 tournaments $75,000 tournaments $50,000 tournaments $25,000 tournaments $15,000 tournaments

Finals by surface Hard (3–4) Clay (11–3) Grass (0–0) Carpet (0–0)

Outcome	No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Opponent	Score
Runner-up	1.	5 December 2011	Antalya, Turkey	Clay	Viktoriya Kutuzova	6–3, 1–6, 1–6
Winner	1.	1 July 2012	Balș, Romania	Clay	Alexandra Damaschin	6–4, 7–5
Winner	2.	15 July 2012	Iași, Romania	Clay	Raluca Elena Platon	6–2, 3–6, 6–4
Runner-up	2.	2 September 2012	Mamaia, Romania	Clay	Sharon Fichman	3–6, 7–6(7–5), 3–6
Winner	3.	3 November 2013	Antalya, Turkey	Clay	Raluca Elena Platon	6–2, 4–2 ret.
Winner	4.	10 November 2013	Antalya, Turkey	Clay	Martina Kubicikova	6–7(5–7), 6–2, 6–2
Winner	5.	16 December 2013	Antalya, Turkey	Clay	Conny Perrin	6–2, 7–5
Winner	6.	3 February 2014	Antalya, Turkey	Clay	Alyona Sotnikova	5–7, 6–1, 6–3
Winner	7.	10 February 2014	Antalya, Turkey	Clay	Sofia Kvatsabaia	6–3, 6–2
Winner	8.	25 May 2014	Bol, Croatia	Clay	Tena Lukas	6–2, 7–5
Winner	9.	1 June 2014	Sibiu, Romania	Clay	Nicoleta Dascălu	6–2, 6–4
Winner	10.	14 July 2014	Galați, Romania	Clay	Irina Maria Bara	7–6(7–3), 3–6, 6–2
Winner	11.	7 September 2014	Galați, Romania	Clay	Elizaveta Ianchuk	6–3, 6–3
Winner	12.	1 December 2014	Mérida, Mexico	Hard	Beatriz Haddad Maia	3–6, 6–3, 6–1
Runner-up	3.	23 February 2015	Saint Petersburg, Russia	Hard (i)	Jeļena Ostapenko	6–3, 5–7, 2–6
Runner-up	4.	20 November 2016	Shenzhen, China	Hard	Peng Shuai	6–3, 5–7, 4–6
Runner-up	5.	19 May 2019	Cancún, Mexico	Hard	Marcela Zacarias	3–6, 3–6
Runner-up	6.	2 June 2019	Cancún, Mexico	Hard	Thaisa Grana Pedretti	4–6, 4–6
Winner	13.	9 June 2019	Cancún, Mexico	Hard	Fernanda Contreras	6–0, 6–0
Winner	14.	16 June 2019	Cancún, Mexico	Hard	Melany Krywoj	6–2, 4–6, 6–3
Runner-up	7.	20 October 2019	Seville, Spain	Clay	Arantxa Rus	4-6, 4-6

Doubles (4–8)

Legend $100,000 tournaments $75,000 tournaments $50,000 tournaments $25,000 tournaments $15,000 tournaments

Finals by surface Hard (1–2) Clay (3–6) Grass (0–0) Carpet (0–0)

Outcome	No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Partner	Opponents	Score
Runner-up	1.	14 January 2012	Antalya, Turkey	Clay	Patricia Chirea	Anastasia Frolova Eugeniya Pashkova	4–6, 6–7(2–7)
Runner-up	2.	3 June 2012	Arad, Romania	Clay	Alexandra Damaschin	Viktora Malova Lina Gjorcheska	w/o
Winner	1.	15 July 2012	Iași, Romania	Clay	Alexandra Damaschin	Martina Kubicikova Tereza Malikova	6–3, 3–6, [11–9]
Runner-up	3.	11 February 2013	Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt	Hard	Elena-Teodora Cadar	Alice Savoretti Despina Papamichail	3–6, 4–6
Runner-up	4.	19 August 2013	Bucharest, Romania	Clay	Raluca Elena Platon	Ioana Loredana Roșca Irina Maria Bara	4–6, 4–6
Runner-up	5.	16 December 2013	Antalya, Turkey	Clay	Gabriela Talabă	Irina Maria Bara Conny Perrin	3–6, 1–6
Runner-up	6.	10 February 2014	Antalya, Turkey	Hard	Gabriela Talabă	Li Yihong Zhu Lin	2–6, ret.
Winner	2.	11 May 2014	Bol, Croatia	Clay	Pernilla Mendesova	Raluca Elena Platon Irina Maria Bara	w/o
Winner	3.	16 June 2014	Galați, Romania	Clay	Camelia Hristea	Maryna Kolb Nadiya Kolb	6–3, 6–1
Runner-up	7.	30 August 2014	Mamaia, Romania	Clay	Georgia Crăciun	Irina Maria Bara Andreea Mitu	4–6, 1–6
Winner	4.	25 October 2014	Ciudad Victoria, Mexico	Hard	Maria Fernanda Alves	Carolina Betancourt Lenka Wienerová	6–1, 6–2
Runner-up	8.	17 November 2014	Asunción, Paraguay	Clay	Anastasia Pivovarova	Guadalupe Pérez Rojas Sofía Luini	3–6, 3–6

Tournaments	2015	2016	2017	2018	2019	W–L
Grand Slam tournaments
Australian Open	Q1	Q1	1R	A	A	0–1
French Open	Q2	Q1	1R	A	A	0–1
Wimbledon	Q1	1R	Q1	A	Q1	0–1
US Open	Q2	1R	Q1	A	Q1	0–1
Win–Loss	0–0	0–2	0–2	0–0	0–0	0–4
Premier Mandatory tournaments
Indian Wells Open	A	Q1	1R	A	A	0–1
Miami Open	A	Q1	3R	A	A	2–1
Madrid Open	A	QF	A	A	A	3–1
China Open	Q1	A	A	A	A	0–0
Premier 5 tournaments
Canadian Open	A	A	Q2	A	A	0–0
Wuhan Open	1R	A	A	A	A	0–1

External links

• Patricia Maria Țig at the Women's Tennis Association