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Pennetta has defeated multiple Grand Slam singles champions such as Justine Henin, Mary Pierce, Martina Hingis, Amélie Mauresmo, Venus Williams and Maria Sharapova.
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Pennetta has won nine career WTA singles titles, including back-to-back titles in Bogotá and Acapulco in 2005.
After the forfeit at the 2012 US Open ( the last of a series of recent retirements ), August 27, 2012 Flavia Pennetta has undergone a surgical cleaning of the right wrist, made by the same doctor Rafael Nadal and the Spanish Federation.
She also has notched wins against top players such as Jelena Janković, Katarina Srebotnik, Flavia Pennetta, Jelena Dokić, Elena Likhovtseva and Alona Bondarenko.
Pennetta and defeated
Playing in the U. S Open, she defeated Olga Govortsova in the first round but was double-bagled by 10th seed Flavia Pennetta.
She defeated Nuria Llagostera Vives, Anna Chakvetadze, and Elena Vesnina, before missing six match points and crumbling to Flavia Pennetta, 6 – 3, 6 – 7 ( 6 ), 0 – 6, at the 2009 US Open.
As the second seed at the 2011 Medibank International Sydney, Zvonareva received a bye into the second round, where she was defeated by Flavia Pennetta, 7 – 5, 7 – 5.
At Los Angeles in July, Safina defeated top-seeded Jelena Janković in the semifinals before claiming her second title of the year by defeating Flavia Pennetta in the final.
Going into the Australian Open, Pennetta defeated Cara Black and Martina Suchá, before falling to Nicole Vaidišová in the third round.
Pennetta defeated Olga Savchuk in the first round of the Internazionali BNL d ' Italia in Rome before losing to defending champion Jelena Janković in the second round 6 – 4, 6 – 1.
At the French Open, Pennetta defeated eighth-seeded Venus Williams in the third round before losing to Carla Suárez Navarro in the fourth round.
At the following tournament, the Rogers Cup, Pennetta was defeated by a qualifier, Michelle Larcher de Brito, in the second round.
At her last tournament of the year, the Generali Linz Open, Pennetta defeated Ágnes Szávay in the first round and Dominika Cibulková in the second round before losing to former World No. 1 and eventual champion Ana Ivanovic in the quarterfinals 6 – 4, 6 – 4.
Pennetta began her year at the 2011 Medibank International Sydney, where in her first match she defeated qualifier Lucie Hradecká 6 – 4 6 – 3.
In the second round she was defeated by 12th seed Flavia Pennetta.
She was defeated in first round at Los Angeles by Elena Vesnina and then reached the second round at 2009 Western & Southern Financial Group Women's Open where she was defeated by Flavia Pennetta.
However, Stosur and Petrova were defeated in the second straight final, losing in a super-tiebreak 3 – 6, 6 – 4, to Gisela Dulko and Flavia Pennetta.
Top seeds Dulko and Pennetta defeated Victoria Azarenka and Maria Kirilenko, 2 – 6, 7 – 5, 6 – 1, in the final.
Other high – ranked players she defeated include Jelena Dokić, Chanda Rubin, Flavia Pennetta, Agnieszka Radwańska, Nadia Petrova, Marion Bartoli and Samantha Stosur.
At the Australian Open, she was defeated in the first round by 12th-seed Flavia Pennetta, 6 – 3, 3 – 6, 6 – 2.
Raymond and Stosur defeated Elena Dementieva and Flavia Pennetta in the final, 6 – 2, 5 – 7, 6 – 3.
Pennetta and Grand
At the 2009 Porsche Tennis Grand Prix in Stuttgard, Petrova was seeded sixth but lost in the second round to Flavia Pennetta 6 – 2, 6 – 2.
In doubles, Pennetta won her first Grand Slam title at the 2011 Australian Open with partner Gisela Dulko, and also reached the 2005 US Open final partnered with Elena Dementieva.
Returning to clay courts, Pennetta lost in the second round of two consecutive WTA tour tournaments, the Grand Prix SAR La Princesse Lalla Meryem in Casablanca and the Estoril Open in Portugal.
At the Budapest Grand Prix, Pennetta lost in the semifinals to eventual champion Jelena Janković 6 – 3, 6 – 4.
Pennetta then lost to Kateryna Bondarenko in the first round of the Porsche Tennis Grand Prix ; to World No. 1 Janković in the quarterfinals of the Kremlin Cup in Moscow ; and to Venus Williams in the final of the Zürich Open.
She was given a wild card into the qualifying draw of her home Grand Slam, The Championships, Wimbledon where Flavia Pennetta beat her in three sets.
Dulko and Pennetta next teamed together in the 2010 Porsche Tennis Grand Prix in Stuttgart, and won the tournament, extending their winning streak to ten matches.
Dulko teamed with Pennetta to win their first Grand Slam event title by winning the 2011 Australian Open.
Pennetta and singles
As of 24 September 2012, Pennetta is ranked World No. 23 in singles and World No. 14 in doubles.
In 1999, Pennetta won two singles titles and two doubles titles on the ITF circuit.
Pennetta won both her singles matches over Amélie Mauresmo ( 2 – 6, 7 – 6 ( 6 ), 6 – 4 ) and Alizé Cornet ( 6 – 2, 6 – 2 ).
Despite her poor singles result in Miami, Pennetta was able to win the doubles title in Miami partnering Gisela Dulko and defeating Samantha Stosur and Nadia Petrova in the final.
In 2006 she again faced Pennetta in the Bogotá final, and won her first WTA Tour singles tournament.
Pennetta and champions
She experienced more success in the doubles tournament with partner Kuznetsova, where as an unseeded pair, they reached the final, beating defending champions Gisela Dulko and Flavia Pennetta in the process.
Pennetta and Mary
# Flavia Pennetta ( Fourth Round, lost to Mary Pierce )
Pennetta and Mauresmo
Pennetta lost in the third round of the Sony Ericsson Open in Key Biscayne, Florida, another Premier Mandatory event, to Mauresmo 6 – 7 ( 5 ), 6 – 2, 6 – 2.
Pennetta and Williams
At the French Open, Williams was seeded eighth but was eliminated by 26th-seeded Italian Flavia Pennetta in the third round.
A fortnight later, Williams won the Zurich Open, defeating Ivanovic in the semifinals before defeating Pennetta in the final to claim her second title of the year and secure a position in the year-ending 2008 WTA Tour Championships in Doha, Qatar.
Williams won another title the following week at the Abierto Mexicano Telcel in Acapulco, Mexico, defeating Pennetta in the final.
Pennetta is also one of only seven women to beat Williams three consecutive times.
Pennetta and Maria
Pennetta begun 2007 with three first-round loses at Gold Coast, Hobart and the Australian Open, falling to Maria Kirilenko, Aiko Nakamura and Kaia Kanepi, respectively.
On the hard courts of Los Angeles, Pennetta upset Vera Zvonareva en route to the semifinals where she would be extended to three sets by Maria Sharapova.
At the Barcelona Ladies Open, Vinci earned her second career title, defeating Pauline Parmentier in the first round, Flavia Pennetta in the second, Anastasiya Yakimova in the quarterfinals, Francesca Schiavone in the semifinals, and defending champion Maria Kirilenko in the final.
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