Renata Zarazúa Ruckstuhl (Latin American Spanish: [reˈnata saɾaˈsu.a]; born 30 September 1997) is a Mexican tennis player. She reached a best singles ranking of world No. 95 on 17 June 2024, and she peaked at No. 135 in the doubles rankings on 8 October 2018. She has won one singles and one doubles titles on the WTA Challenger Tour. On the ITF Circuit, she has won four titles in singles and seventeen in doubles. On the WTA Tour, her biggest result to date was reaching the semifinals of the 2020 Mexican Open. In 2020, she qualified for the main draw of the French Open, her Major debut. She was the first Mexican female tennis player to compete in the main draw of a Grand Slam championship since 2000.[1]
Playing for Mexico Fed Cup team, Zarazúa has a win–loss record of 15–12 in Fed Cup competition (as of April 2024).
Zarazúa was born on 30 September 1997 to Jose Luis and Alejandra in Mexico City. She also has an older brother named Patricio, who is a former college tennis player for Palm Beach Atlantic University. Her great-uncle Vicente Zarazúa, a Mexican pro tennis player, participated in 16 Davis Cup ties for Mexico and claimed gold medals in exhibition doubles at the 1968 Olympic Games in Mexico City.[2][3] During an interview at the 2020 French Open, Zarazúa stated that Simona Halep is the player she admires the most.
Zarazúa made her WTA Tour singles debut at the 2016 Brazil Cup, where she reached the main draw through qualifying.
In February 2018 at the Mexican Open, she defeated Kristýna Plíšková to reach the round of 16.
In late February 2020, Zarazúa received a wildcard to play again at the Mexican Open in Acapulco, where she reached her first WTA Tour singles semifinal. In the first round, she upset top-seeded Sloane Stephens. She became the first Mexican woman to play a tour semifinal since 1993.
In September 2020, she qualified .
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