Laura Montalvo

Laura Montalvo

Country (sports)	Argentina
Born	(1976-03-29) 29 March 1976 (age 45) Buenos Aires, Argentina[1]
Height	1.73 m (5 ft 8 in)[1]
Prize money	$389,178
Singles
Career record	143–76
Career titles	0 WTA, 8 ITF
Highest ranking	No. 191 (19 June 1995)
Doubles
Career record	266–152
Career titles	9 WTA, 20 ITF
Highest ranking	No. 23 (21 May 2001)
Grand Slam Doubles results
French Open	QF (2000)
Wimbledon	QF (1998)
US Open	2R (1996, 1997, 2000, 2001)

Laura Montalvo (born 29 March 1976) is an Argentine former professional tennis player.

Montalvo won eight ITF singles titles and reached a career high of No. 191 in singles in June 1995. Her win-loss record for singles is 143–76, 266–152 for doubles.^[2] Being a "doubles specialist" on the WTA Tour, she reached the ranking of No. 23 in doubles in May 2001. She played on doubles teams with both Liezel Huber and Paola Suárez. With Huber, she reached the quarterfinals of the French Open in 2000. They regularly competed together in Grand Slam tournaments and tour events for the next two years. She also frequently partnered her countrywoman Suárez, including at the 2000 Sydney Olympics, where they lost in the second round. The pair won eight titles together, which make up all but one of Montalvo's total title haul in doubles.

WTA Career Finals[]

Doubles (9–5)[]

Result	No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Partner	Opponents	Score
Win	1.	Apr 1996	Bol, Croatia	Clay	Paola Suárez	Alexia Dechaume Alexandra Fusai	6–7, 6–3, 6–4
Win	2.	Apr 1997	Bol, Croatia	Clay	Henrieta Nagyová	María José Gaidano Marion Maruska	6–3, 6–1
Win	3.	Apr 1998	Bol, Croatia	Clay	Paola Suárez	Joannette Kruger Mirjana Lučić	w/o
Loss	1.	Apr 1998	Budapest, Hungary	Clay	Cătălina Cristea	Virginia Ruano Pascual Paola Suárez	6–4, 1–6, 1–6
Win	4.	Jul 1998	Maria Lankowitz, Austria	Clay	Paola Suárez	Tina Križan Katarina Srebotnik	6–1, 6–2
Loss	2.	Feb 1999	Bogotá, Colombia	Clay	Paola Suárez	Christína Papadáki Seda Noorlander	4–6, 6–7(5)
Runner-up	3.	Apr 1999	Budapest, Hungary	Clay	Virginia Ruano Pascual	Evgenia Kulikovskaya Sandra Načuk	3–6, 4–6
Win	5.	Jul 1999	Warsaw, Poland	Clay	Paola Suárez	Gala León García María Sánchez Lorenzo	6–4, 6–3
Loss	4.	11 July 1999	Pörtschach, Austria	Clay	Olga Lugina	Silvia Farina Karina Habšudová	4–6, 4–6
Win	6.	Oct 1999	São Paulo, Brazil	Clay	Paola Suárez	Janette Husárová Florencia Labat	6–7, 7–5, 7–5
Win	7.	Feb 2000	Bogotá, Colombia	Clay	Paola Suárez	Rita Kuti-Kis Petra Mandula	6–4, 6–2
Win	8.	Feb 2000	São Paulo, Brazil	Clay	Paola Suárez	Janette Husárová Florencia Labat	5–7, 6–4, 6–3
Win	9.	Jul 2000	Klagenfurt, Austria	Clay	Paola Suárez	Barbara Schett Patty Schnyder	6–4, 6–3
Loss	5.	Feb 2001	Bogotá, Colombia	Clay	Paola Suárez	Tathiana Garbin Janette Husárová	4–6, 6–2, 4–6

ITF Circuit finals[]

Singles (8–5)[]

Outcome	No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Opponent in the final	Score in the final
Winner	1.	26 April 1993	Santiago, Chile	Clay	María Fernanda Landa	6–4, 2–6, 6–3
Winner	2.	7 June 1993	Plovdiv, Bulgaria	Clay	Monika Maštalířová	0–6, 6–4, 6–4
Runner-up	1.	28 June 1993	Supetar, Croatia	Clay	Ivona Horvat	6–0, 1–6, 4–6
Winner	3.	5 July 1993	Bol, Croatia	Clay	Svetlana Krivencheva	6–0, 6–4
Winner	4.	18 October 1993	Buenos Aires, Argentina	Clay	Mariana Díaz Oliva	6–2, 6–4
Winner	5.	1 November 1993	Asuncion, Paraguay	Clay	Cintia Tortorella	6–3, 2–6, 6–4
Winner	6.	14 November 1994	Buenos Aires, Argentina	Clay	María Fernanda Landa	6–2, 6–2
Runner-up	2.	6 November 1995	São Paulo, Brazil	Clay	Mariana Díaz Oliva	3–6, 1–6
Winner	7.	15 December 1996	São Paulo, Brazil	Clay	Renee Reid	6–2, 5–7, 6–2
Runner-up	3.	14 September 1997	La Paz, Bolivia	Clay	Vanessa Menga	3–6, 5–7
Runner-up	4.	21 September 1997	Santiago, Chile	Clay	Miriam D'Agostini	6–4, 2–6, 1–6
Runner-up	5.	28 September 1997	Tucumán, Argentina	Clay	Mariana Díaz Oliva	2–6, 7–6(3), 6–7(0)
Winner	8.	20 October 1997	Novo Hamburgo, Brazil	Clay	Vanessa Menga	6–3, 6–0

Doubles (20–12)[]

Outcome	No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Partner	Opponents	Score
Runner-up	1.	14 October 1991	Buenos Aires, Argentina	Clay			4–6, 3–6
Winner	1.	19 October 1992	Buenos Aires, Argentina	Clay		Florencia Cianfagna María Fernanda Landa	6–3, 3–6, 6–3
Winner	2.	3 May 1993	Buenos Aires, Argentina	Clay		María Fernanda Landa	6–1, 3–6, 6–2
Winner	3.	6 June 1993	Sofia, Bulgaria	Clay		Galia Angelova Teodora Nedeva	7–6(6), 2–6, 7–6(4)
Winner	4.	5 July 1993	Bol, Croatia	Clay		Svetlana Krivencheva	3–6, 6–3, 7–5
Runner-up	2.	19 July 1993	Sezze, Italy	Clay		Ivana Jankovská Eva Melicharová	2–6, 5–7
Winner	5.	18 October 1993	Buenos Aires, Argentina	Clay	Mariana Díaz Oliva	Veronica Stele	6–2, 5–7, 6–1
Winner	6.	15 November 1993	La Plata, Argentina	Clay	Mercedes Paz	Cláudia Chabalgoity Larissa Schaerer	6–1, 6–4
Winner	7.	22 November 1993	Buenos Aires, Argentina	Clay		Veronica Stele Cintia Tortorella	6–3, 7–6(5)
Winner	8.	11 April 1994	Supetar, Croatia	Clay	María Fernanda Landa	Teodora Nedeva Antoaneta Pandjerova	6–4, 6–2
Runner-up	3.	13 June 1994	Sezze, Italy	Clay	Silvia Ramón-Cortés	Laura Garrone Rita Grande	4–6, 4–6
Runner-up	4.	7 November 1994	Buenos Aires, Argentina	Clay	Nannie de Villiers	Virág Csurgó Petra Mandula	3–6, 3–6
Winner	9.	14 November 1994	Buenos Aires, Argentina	Clay	Mercedes Paz	Patrícia Marková Yuka Tanaka	6–4, 6–3
Winner	10.	5 June 1995	Novi Sad, Serbia	Clay	Larissa Schaerer	Tatjana Ječmenica Antoaneta Pandjerova	5–7, 6–1, 6–1
Runner-up	5.	12 June 1995	Barcelona, Spain	Clay	Silvia Ramón-Cortés	Patricia Aznar Eva Bes	3–6, 6–2, 4–6
Winner	11.	23 September 1995	Sofia, Bulgaria	Clay	Geraldine Aizenberg	Lubomira Bacheva Réka Vidáts	6–2, 6–2
Runner-up	6.	6 November 1995	São Paulo, Brazil	Clay	Cintia Tortorella	Katalin Marosi Miriam D'Agostini	1–6, 6–1, 5–7
Winner	12.	17 December 1995	Tucumán, Argentina	Clay	Paola Suárez	Larissa Schaerer Veronica Stele	6–2, 7–6(4)
Winner	13.	11 February 1996	Mar del Plata, Argentina	Hard	Paola Suárez	Marion Maruska Noëlle van Lottum	6–3, 6–1
Winner	14.	22 September 1996	Sofia, Bulgaria	Clay	Lenka Němečková	Teodora Nedeva Antoaneta Pandjerova	6–2, 6–0
Winner	15.	1 December 1996	São Paulo, Brazil	Clay	Luciana Tella	Miriam D'Agostini Andrea Vieira	6–3, 6–4
Winner	16.	8 December 1996	São Paulo, Brazil	Clay	Luciana Tella		2–6, 6–3, 7–5
Runner-up	7.	23 February 1997	Bogotá, Colombia	Clay	Mercedes Paz	Seda Noorlander Christína Papadáki	6–7, 6–4, 5–7
Runner-up	8.	8 September 1997	La Paz, Bolivia	Clay		Monika Maštalířová Karin Palme	6–4, 3–6, 2–6
Runner-up	9.	11 November 1996	Santiago, Chile	Clay		Monika Maštalířová Aliénor Tricerri	4–6, 3–6
Winner	17.	5 October 1997	Buenos Aires, Argentina	Clay	Mercedes Paz	Celeste Contín Romina Ottoboni	4–6, 6–2, 6–4
Winner	18.	2 November 1997	Mogi das Cruzes, Brazil	Clay	Mercedes Paz	Miriam D'Agostini Vanessa Menga	6–2, 6–0
Runner-up	10.	27 September 1998	Tucuman, Argentina	Clay	Luciana Masante	Mercedes Paz Patricia Tarabini	7–5, 4–6, 6–7
Winner	19.	5 October 1998	Santiago, Chile	Clay	Paola Suárez	Miriam D'Agostini Katalin Marosi	6–1, 6–2
Winner	20.	19 October 1998	Montevideo, Uruguay	Clay	Paola Suárez	Eva Bes María Fernanda Landa	6–2, 6–2
Runner-up	11.	7 December 1998	Cali, Colombia	Clay	Alicia Ortuño	Katarina Srebotnik Zuzana Váleková	6–2, 3–6, 2–6
Runner-up	12.	13 September 1999	Buenos Aires, Argentina	Clay	Paola Suárez	Paula Racedo Aliénor Tricerri	w/o

References[]

External links[]

• Laura Montalvo at the Women's Tennis Association
• Laura Montalvo at the International Tennis Federation
• Laura Montalvo at the Billie Jean King Cup