1990 - Played ITF/Buenos Aires-ARG doubles, reaching SF.
1991 - Played first ITF Circuit singles events, reaching three finals in five events, winning two titles.
1992 - Won four consecutive ITF Circuit titles.
1993 - Made Tour debut at Curitiba, reaching QF; won ITF/La Plata-ARG.
1994 - Turned pro on March 1; qualified for Delray Beach and Amelia Island; in fourth Tour event, reached SF at Prague; made Grand Slam debut at
Roland Garros as qualifier, afterwards (June 6) breaking into Top 100 at No.94; reached
US Open 2r.
1995 - As No.173 qualifier, d. No.12 MJ.Fernandez in
Roland Garros 1r; won ITF/Buenos Aires 2-ARG.
1996 - Reached SF at Bol (won first Tour doubles there w/Montalvo) and 3r at Rome and Amelia Island.
1997 - Reached 3r at
US Open for the first time.
1998 - At Bogotß, won first Tour singles (d. Jeyaseelan in final) and doubles titles (w/Husarova), one of six doubles titles for the season (incl. Rome w/Ruano Pascual); won three ITF Circuit singles titles.
1999 - Reached Madrid final as a LL, d. No.11 and defending champion Schnyder, No.23 Rubin and No.26 Serna; won doubles title (w/Ruano Pascual), one of three for season (Sopot and Sao Paulo w/Montalvo).
2000 - First Top 50 finish in singles; won five doubles titles (three w/Montalvo, two w/Ruano Pascual) and singles runner-up at Sao Paulo (l. to Kuti Kis 75 third set); first-time Grand Slam doubles runner-up at
Roland Garros (w/Ruano Pascual); reached first Tier II SF at Amelia Island, d. No.6 S.Williams (who ret. trailing 5-2 third set, SußrezÆs first Top 10 win) and No.14 Kournikova; broke into Top 50 on April 17 at No.44; qualified for season-ending Championships in doubles (w/Ruano Pascual); represented Argentina at Sydney Olympics (l. in singles 1r to Davenport and in doubles 2r w/Montalvo).
2001 - Won one singles title (Bogotß, having won 1998 title there) and three doubles titles, incl. first major at
Roland Garros (w/Ruano Pascual û also won Madrid and Vienna with her); also reached Auckland singles final (l. to Tu) and d. No.7 Pierce to reach
Australian Open 4r, her best Grand Slam showing at the time; qualified for season-ending Championships in doubles (w/Ruano Pascual), reaching SF, during which she
injured her ankle and was forced to retire; withdrew from Hamburg in May with right wrist injury; out most of
August with left shoulder injury, playing
US Open but withdrawing from tournaments afterwards with same injury; broke into doubles Top 5 on January 29 at No.4;
Roland Garros mixed doubles finalist (w/Oncins).
2002 - First No.1 doubles finish and third consecutive in singles Top 40; played career-high 138 matches (54 singles, 84 doubles), reaching one singles final and winning career-best seven doubles titles; in singles, runner-up at Acapulco (l. to Srebotnik) and debut Grand Slam QF at
Roland Garros, d. No.10 Testud in 1r before falling to compatriot C.Fernandez in first all-Argentine Grand Slam womenÆs singles QF; doubles season highlighted by successful defense of
Roland Garros title (d. Raymond/Stubbs in final) and first
US Open crown (d. Dementieva/Husarova in final); after
US Open (September 9), became first Argentine woman to be ranked No.1 in doubles; also won Bogotß, Acapulco, Rome, MontrTal [Canadian Open] and Bahia (all w/Ruano Pascual) and runner-up another four times (incl.
Wimbledon, l. to Williams sisters); qualified for season-ending Championships for third time; as No.1 seeds, upset in 1r by Fujiwara/Sugiyama; reached
Australian Open mixed doubles final (w/Etlis).
2003 - Won third career singles titles at Vienna (d. No.11 Dokic in 2r and qualifier Sprem in final), becoming 10th woman in the Open Era to win a Tour singles title while ranked No.1 in doubles; SF at Bogotß and Toronto [Canadian Open] (d. No.8 Hantuchova, l.to Krasnoroutskaya 75 third set); first 4r at
Wimbledon (d. No.11 Mag.Maleeva) and then first QF at
US Open (first Argentine woman since Sabatini in 1995); afterwards (September 8), broke into Top 20 at No.19; also d. No.10 Dokic in 1r of Sarasota (career Top 10 wins tally stands at four); in doubles (w/Ruano Pascual), won five titles in 10 finals û one Grand Slam, season-ending Championships, two Tier I (Charleston, Berlin) and one Tier II (New Haven); reached all four major finals for a streak of seven straight; finished season as No.1 team, winning
US Open (d. Kuznetsova/Navratilova in final) and first season-ending Championships at fourth attempt (d. rivals Clijsters/Sugiyama in final); runner-up at
Australian Open (l. to Williams sisters),
Roland Garros (l. to Clijsters/Sugiyama 97 third set) and
Wimbledon (l. to Clijsters/Sugiyama); first $1 million-plus season ($1,050,691); one of 10 women to earn more than $1 million in 2003, the first season of its kind on the Tour; second season to finish doubles No.1, having surrendered top ranking between August 4 and November 9 (returning to No.1 after win in Los Angeles); had held No.1 for 47 consecutive weeks following 2002
US Open win; reached
Roland Garros mixed doubles SF (w/Woodbridge); withdrew from Sydney doubles w/left wrist injury; retired in Acapulco 1r vs.
Diaz-Oliva w/right rib sprain; withdrew from Æs-Hertogenbosch, Leipzig and Moscow w/upper back strain.
2004 - Season highlighted by first Grand Slam singles SF appearance, Top 10 singles debut, fourth career Tour singles title and outstanding doubles play; at
Roland Garros, did not drop a set en route to third career Grand Slam QF, d. No.18 seed Sharapova 61 63 in QF to make Grand Slam SF debut, falling to Dementieva 60 75 after holding set point in second set; afterwards (June 7) made Top 10 debut at No.9; won lone singles title of season at Canberra, d. Farina Elia 36 64 76(5) in final, closing out victory on third mp, overcoming 5-2 third set deficit and 5mp; SF at Auckland (as top seed, l. to eventual champion Daniilidou 76(13) 64), QF at Amelia Island (d. No.10 Sugiyama in 3r; l. to Davenport), Berlin (d. No.6 Petrova in 3r; l. in 3s to V.Williams),
Wimbledon (l. in 3s to Mauresmo) and Znrich (l. to Schnyder); 2-0 in 4-1 Fed Cup 1r win vs. Japan; in doubles (w/Ruano Pascual), won at
Australian Open (first there),
Roland Garros (third there, and ninth consecutive Grand Slam final, a feat unmatched since Navratilova/Shriver reached 11 straight major finals between 1983
Wimbledon and 1985
Australian Open) and
US Open (seventh Grand Slam together); outside of majors (w/Ruano Pascual), won three more titles (Indian Wells, Charleston and Luxembourg), runner-up five times and SF four times (incl. Season-Ending Championships); Olympics SF in doubles (w/Tarabini), eventually claiming bronze medal for Argentina; withdrew from Dubai and Doha w/left calf injury, from Warsaw w/low back injury, from Vienna for rest and recovery, and from Æs-Hertogenbosch w/back injury.
2005 - Strong start to season marred by injury, highlighted by eighth career Grand Slam doubles title at
Roland Garros (w/Ruano Pascual); as top seeds, d. No.2 seeds Black/L.Huber in final for eighth major doubles title together (sixth straight at
Roland Garros); also won Tour doubles titles (w/Ruano Pascual) earlier in season at Dubai (d. Kuznetsova/Molik in final) and Tier I Indian Wells (d. Petrova/Shaughnessy in final); career tally of 39 Tour doubles titles places her 15th on all-time list; best singles showings in seven events were reaching 3r at Rome (upset world No.7 Kuznetsova en route for eighth career Top 10 victory; l. to Bovina 76 third set) and 2r at Strasbourg (withdrew prior to 2r match vs. Cohen-Aloro w/left adductor injury); withdrew from
Wimbledon and rest of season w/hip injury (which later required surgery); had also struggled with injuries during first half of season, withdrawing from Sydney and
Australian Open w/leg injury and from Charleston, Warsaw and Berlin w/neck sprain; granted a Special Ranking of No.55 for entry purposes.
2006 - Successful return to Tour competition after missing second half of 2005 w/hip injury that ended up needing surgery; season highlighted by reaching
Wimbledon doubles final (unseeded w/Ruano Pascual, d. top seeds Raymond/Stosur en route, losing to No.4 seeds Yan/Zheng in 63 36 62; now 8-6 lifetime in Grand Slam doubles finals, incl. 0-3 at
Wimbledon; would have become sixth team in Tour history to complete career doubles Grand Slam, having won others at least once each); won at Los Angeles, Beijing and Seoul (Tour doubles title tallies now at 32 for team and 42 individual); runner-up at Sydney; reached two other SF; played nine singles events, making QF at 's-Hertogenbosch (d. world No.20 Kirilenko en route to first Tour singles QF since October 2004; ret. vs. Daniilidou w/left calf strain) and Seoul (l. to Sugiyama); also 3r at San Diego (d. No.15 Safina en route for second Top 20 win of year; l. to Schnyder in 3s); reached 2r four times, incl. Pattaya City, Tokyo [Japan Open] (ret. w/right calf strain at both); fell 1r two times; withdrew from Acapulco, Indian Wells, Miami, Amelia Island, Charleston w/right calf strain, from Istanbul w/right hip inflammation, and from Bali w/right shoulder injury; on August 14 (after Los Angeles), became 32nd of now 33 in Tour history (second South American, after Sabatini) to pass $5 million in career prize money earnings.
