Patricia Maria Țig

Patricia Maria Țig

Tig at the 2016 US Open
Full name	Patricia Maria Țig
Country (sports)	Romania
Born	27 July 1994 Caransebeș, Caraș-Severin, Romania
Plays	Right-handed (two-handed backhand)
Prize money	$ 168,377
Singles
Career record	177–92
Career titles	0 WTA, 12 ITF
Highest ranking	No. 99 (23 May 2016)
Current ranking	No. 117 (26 September 2016)
Grand Slam Singles results
Australian Open	Q1 (2015, 2016)
French Open	Q2 (2015)
Wimbledon	1R (2016)
US Open	1R (2016)
Doubles
Career record	63–61
Career titles	0 WTA, 4 ITF
Highest ranking	No. 166 (6 June 2016)
Current ranking	No. 172 (11 July 2016)
Last updated on: 4 May 2016.

Patricia Maria Țig (born 27 July 1994) is a Romanian tennis player.

Țig has a career high WTA singles ranking of 99, achieved on May 2016. She also has a career high WTA doubles ranking of 171 achieved on 24 August 2015. Țig has won 12 ITF singles titles and 4 ITF doubles titles.

2015: First WTA finals (doubles and singles)

Țig made her WTA main draw debut at the 2015 BRD 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 in straight sets (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 6-1,6-3 Oksana Kalashnikova 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 6-3,6-2 seed no.1 and World no.42 Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova, thus reaching her first WTA singles final (without losing any set) and entering Top 120 in the WTA rankings. She lost the final in 3 sets to Margarita Gasparyan (3–6, 7–5, 0–6).

WTA career finals

Singles: 1 (1 runner-up)

Legend
Grand Slam tournaments (0–0)
WTA Tour Championships (0–0)
Tier I / Premier Mandatory & Premier 5 (0–0)
Tier II / Premier (0–0)
Tier III, IV & V / International (0–1)

Outcome	No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Opponent	Score
Runner-up	1.	2 August 2015	Baku Cup, Baku, Azerbaijan	Hard	Margarita Gasparyan	3–6, 7–5, 0–6

Doubles: 2 (2 runner-up)

Legend Grand Slam tournaments (0–0) WTA Tour Championships (0–0) Tier I / Premier Mandatory & Premier 5 (0–0) Tier II / Premier (0–0) Tier III, IV & V / International (0–1)

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

Outcome	No.	Date	Championship	Surface	Partner	Opponents	Score
Runner-up	1.	19 July 2015	BRD Bucharest Open, Bucharest, Romania	Clay	Andreea Mitu	Oksana Kalashnikova Demi Schuurs	2–6, 2–6
Runner-up	2.	22 October 2016	Luxembourg Open, Luxembourg City, Luxembourg	Hard (i)	Monica Niculescu	Kiki Bertens Johanna Larsson	6–4, 5–7, [9–11]

ITF finals : (16-11)

Singles (12–4)

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Finals by surface Hard (1–1) Clay (11–2) 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 Dascalu	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

Doubles (4–8)

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Finals by surface Hard (1–1) Clay (3–7) 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)
Runner-up	2.	3 June 2012	Arad, Romania	Clay	Alexandra Damaschin	Viktora Malova Lina Gjorcheska	walkover
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 Andreea 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

External links

• Patricia Maria Țig at the Women's Tennis Association
• Patricia Maria Țig at the International Tennis Federation