Sofia Prazeres

Sofia Prazeres
Full name	Sofia Prazeres
Country (sports)	Portugal
Born	19 June 1974 (age 47); Porto, Portugal
Prize money	$85,935
Singles
Highest ranking	No. 152 (9 June 1997)
Doubles
Highest ranking	No. 171 (5 May 1997)

Sofia Prazeres (born 19 June 1974) is a former professional tennis player from Portugal.

Biography[]

Born in Porto, Prazeres started playing tennis at the age of seven.

Prazeres debuted on the WTA Tour as a 16 year old at the 1990 Estoril Open, featuring in both the singles and doubles draws. In 1991 she began representing Portugal in Fed Cup competition and went on to become the most capped player in the team's history, with 30 wins from 49 matches.^[1] She made main draw appearances in singles at the 1995 Moscow Ladies Open and the 1997 Styrian Open. After making it to the final round of qualifying at the 1997 French Open, she reached her highest singles ranking of 152 in the world. This was the highest rank attained by a female player from Portugal until surpassed by Frederica Piedade.^[2]

She retired in 1998 soon after winning Portugal's national championship for the nine successive year.^[3]

ITF finals[]

$25,000 tournaments
$10,000 tournaments

Singles: 9 (1-8)[]

Result	No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Opponent	Score
Loss	1.	17 June 1991	Covilhã, Portugal	Clay	Galia Angelova	6–3, 4–6, 1–6
Loss	2.	8 February 1993	Faro, Portugal	Hard	Gala León García	3–6, 3–6
Loss	3.	21 February 1994	Valencia, Spain	Clay	Ángeles Montolio	3–6, 0–6
Loss	4.	12 September 1994	Sofia, Bulgaria	Clay	Kateřina Kroupová-Šišková	3–6, 3–6
Loss	5.	3 July 1995	Sezze, Italy	Clay	Marzia Grossi	3–6, 2–6
Loss	6.	1 July 1996	Vaihingen, Germany	Clay	Sandra Klösel	6–2, 6–7, 3–6
Loss	7.	7 April 1997	Athens, Greece	Hard (i)	María Sánchez Lorenzo	7–6^(9–7), 1–6, 6–7^(4–7)
Win	8.	21 April 1997	Guimarães, Portugal	Hard	Keirsten Alley	6–3, 6–1
Loss	9.	9 February 1998	Faro, Portugal	Hard	Paula Hermida	4–6, 4–6

Doubles: 11 (6–5)[]

Result	No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Partner	Opponents	Score
Loss	1.	17 June 1991	Aveiro, Portugal	Hard	Christina Zachariadou	Siobhán Nicholson	0–6, 6–2, 2–6
Loss	2.	24 February 1992	Vilamoura, Portugal	Hard	Tânia Couto	Svetlana Krivencheva Elena Likhovtseva	3–6, 2–6
Win	3.	12 July 1993	Vigo, Spain	Clay	María Fernanda Landa	Petra Kamstra Linda Niemantsverdriet	7–6⁽⁶⁾, 3–6, 7–6⁽⁵⁾
Win	4.	19 July 1993	Bilbao, Spain	Clay	María Fernanda Landa	Silvia Ramón-Cortés Inmaculada Varas	6–4, 6–4
Win	5.	6 June 1994	Elvas, Portugal	Hard	Ann Devries	Désirée Leupold Janet Souto	6–2, 4–6, 7–5
Loss	6.	16 June 1996	Salzburg, Austria	Clay	Emmanuelle Gagliardi	Alicia Ortuño Veronica Stele	0–6, 4–6
Win	7.	8 September 1996	Spoleto, Italy	Clay	Miriam D'Agostini	Alicia Ortuño Joelle Schad	6–4, 6–4
Win	8.	13 January 1997	Pontevedra, Spain	Hard (i)	Alicia Ortuño	Tathiana Garbin	4–6, 6–1, 6–4
Win	9.	20 January 1997	Orense, Spain	Hard (i)	Alicia Ortuño		6–2, 6–3
Loss	10.	16 February 1997	Cali, Colombia	Clay	Larissa Schaerer	Rachel McQuillan Syna Schmidle	2–6, 3–6
Loss	11.	9 February 1998	Faro, Portugal	Hard	Abigail Tordoff	Alena Paulenková	2–6, 2–6