Estrella Cabeza Candela

Cabeza Candela in Wimbledon, 2014
Country (sports)	Spain
Residence	Barcelona, Spain
Born	(1987-02-20) 20 February 1987 Los Palacios y Villafranca, Spain
Height	1.73 m (5 ft 8 in)
Retired	2020
Plays	Right-handed (two-handed backhand)
Prize money	$507,072
Singles
Career record	469–303 (60.8%)
Career titles	13 ITF
Highest ranking	No. 95 (13 May 2013)
Grand Slam singles results
Australian Open	Q3 (2013)
French Open	1R (2014)
Wimbledon	1R (2013)
US Open	1R (2013)
Doubles
Career record	175–134 (56.6%)
Career titles	16 ITF
Highest ranking	No. 176 (2 April 2012)

Estrella Cabeza Candela (Spanish pronunciation: [esˈtɾeʎa kaˈβeθa kanˈdela]; born 20 February 1987) is a former Spanish tennis player.

In her career, Cabeza Candela won 13 singles and 16 doubles titles on the ITF Women's Circuit. On 13 May 2013, she reached her best singles ranking of world No. 95. On 2 April 2012, she peaked at No. 176 in the doubles rankings.

Personal life

Cabeza Candela was born in Los Palacios y Villafranca to Manuel Cabeza (tennis coach) and Estrella Candela, sister is Ana (training to be an aeronautic engineer). She began playing tennis at age four with father and sister, and started playing seriously aged seven. Her Tennis idol was Monica Seles, favorite surface clay court.

Career

Coached by Gonzalo Lopez and Martin Vilar, Cabeza Candela had a break out year in 2013. She broke into the top 100 for the first time at age 26, by reaching No. 95 on 13 May 2013.

Later that summer, she played her first Grand Slam main-draw at Wimbledon, and lost in the first round to Caroline Wozniacki, 0–6, 2–6. In early July, Cabeza Candela reached her best result in a WTA Tour tournament by reaching the semifinals at Palermo, losing to Roberta Vinci, in three sets.

She announced her retirement from professional tennis ın 2020.^[1]

ITF Circuit finals

Singles: 29 (13 titles, 16 runner-ups)

Legend $100,000 tournaments $75,000 tournaments $50,000 tournaments $25,000 tournaments $15,000 tournaments $10,000 tournaments

Finals by surface Hard (5–4) Clay (8–12) Grass (0–0) Carpet (0–0)

Result	No.	Date	Tournament	Tier	Surface	Opponent	Score
Loss	1.	Aug 2004	ITF Pontevedra, Spain	10,000	Hard	Lucía Jiménez Almendros	7–6(3), 6–7(4), 6–7(2)
Win	1.	Jun 2005	ITF Les Franqueses del Vallès, Spain	10,000	Hard	Justine Ozga	7–6(3), 4–6, 6–2
Loss	2.	Nov 2005	ITF Mallorca, Spain	10,000	Clay	Núria Roig	3–6, 3–6
Win	2.	Feb 2006	ITF Mallorca, Spain	10,000	Clay	Stella Menna	6–4, 6–1
Win	3.	Mar 2006	ITF Sabadell, Spain	10,000	Clay	María José Martínez Sánchez	6–3, 7–5
Win	4.	Jul 2006	ITF Valladolid, Spain	25,000	Hard	Monique Adamczak	2–6, 7–6(3), 7–5
Loss	3.	Jun 2008	ITF Galatina, Italy	25,000	Clay	Anastasija Sevastova	4–6, 4–6
Win	5.	Jun 2008	ITF Getxo, Spain	25,000	Clay	Chayenne Ewijk	6–4, 6–4
Win	6.	Jul 2008	ITF Valladolid, Spain	25,000	Hard	Frederica Piedade	6–4, 7–6(4)
Loss	4.	Sep 2008	ITF Madrid, Spain	25,000	Hard	Angelique Kerber	1–6, 3–6
Loss	5.	Sep 2008	ITF Granada, Spain	25,000	Hard	Regina Kulikova	3–6, 4–6
Loss	6.	Jul 2009	ITF Rome, Italy	25,000	Clay	Eloisa Compostizo de Andrés	3–6, 7–6(2), 2–6
Loss	7.	Jul 2009	ITF Valladolid, Spain	25,000	Hard	Heidi El Tabakh	2–6, 6–3, 3–6
Win	7.	Sep 2010	ITF Mollerusa, Spain	10,000	Hard	Yevgeniya Kryvoruchko	6–2, 6–4
Win	8.	Mar 2011	ITF Madrid, Spain	10,000	Clay	Laura-Ioana Andrei	6–3, 6–2
Loss	8.	Oct 2011	ITF Seville, Spain	25,000	Clay	Réka Luca Jani	6–2, 3–6, 3–6
Loss	9.	Sep 2012	Save Cup, Italy	50,000	Clay	Karin Knapp	1–6, 6–3, 1–6
Loss	10.	Sep 2012	Open de Saint-Malo, France	25,000	Clay	Maryna Zanevska	2–6, 7–6(5), 0–6
Loss	11.	Oct 2012	ITF Sant Cugat del Vallès, Spain	25,000	Clay	María Teresa Torró Flor	1–6, 4–6
Loss	12.	Oct 2012	ITF Seville, Spain	25,000	Clay	Teliana Pereira	6–4, 6–7(3), 6–7(5)
Loss	13.	Mar 2013	ITF Osprey, United States	50,000	Clay	Mariana Duque Mariño	6–7(2), 1–6
Loss	14.	Jun 2015	ITF Madrid, Spain	10,000	Clay	Olga Sáez Larra	4–6, 0–6
Win	9.	Oct 2015	ITF La Vall d'Uixó, Spain	10,000	Clay	Oleksandra Korashvili	7–6(5), 6–2
Win	10.	Oct 2015	ITF Melilla, Spain	10,000	Hard	María José Luque Moreno	6–3, 6–4
Win	11.	Nov 2015	ITF Vinaròs, Spain	10,000	Clay	Noelia Bouzó Zanotti	6–2, 6–2
Win	12.	Apr 2017	ITF Hammamet, Tunisia	15,000	Clay	Fernanda Brito	6–3, 7–5
Loss	15.	May 2017	ITF La Bisbal, Spain	25,000	Clay	Georgina García Pérez	2–6, 6–0, 4–6
Loss	16.	Dec 2017	ITF Castellón, Spain	15,000	Clay	Ekaterine Gorgodze	0–6, 6–3, 1–6
Win	13.	Jun 2018	ITF Barcelona, Spain	25,000	Clay	Aliona Bolsova	6–2, 6–3

Doubles: 30 (16 titles, 14 runner-ups)

Result	No	Date	Tournament	Tier	Surface	Partner	Opponents	Score
Loss	1.	May 2004	ITF Tortosa, Spain	10,000	Clay	Katia Sabate-Orera	Marta Fraga Nuria Sánchez García	6–4, 4–6, 4–6
Win	1.	Nov 2004	ITF Mallorca, Spain	10,000	Clay	Adriana González Peñas	Hanne Skak Jensen Karina Jacobsgaard	6–3, 6–3
Win	2.	Jul 2005	ITF Getxo, Spain	10,000	Clay	Núria Roig	Anna Gil Mares Tara Wigan	6–1, 6–0
Loss	2.	Aug 2005	ITF Vigo, Spain	10,000	Hard	Matilde Muñoz Gonzalves	Anna Font María José Martínez Sánchez	2–6, 3–6
Win	3.	Feb 2006	ITF Mallorca, Spain	10,000	Clay	Núria Roig	Eleonora Iannozzi Stella Menna	3–6, 6–3, 6–1
Loss	3.	Feb 2006	ITF Mallorca, Spain	10,000	Clay	Núria Roig	Marta Fraga Laura Thorpe	4–6, 5–7
Win	4.	Mar 2006	ITF Sabadell, Spain	10,000	Clay	Núria Roig	Marta Fraga María José Martínez Sánchez	6–1, 6–1
Loss	4.	May 2006	ITF Tenerife, Spain	25,000	Hard	Laura Vallvaerdu-Zafra	Monique Adamczak Annette Kolb	6–4, 4–6, 1–6
Win	5.	May 2007	ITF Monzón, Spain	75,000	Hard	María Emilia Salerni	Iryna Brémond Vesna Dolonc	6–2, 6–1
Win	6.	Aug 2007	ITF Vigo, Spain	25,000	Hard	Carla Suárez Navarro	Ria Sabay Justine Ozga	6–1, 4–6, 6–3
Loss	5.	Mar 2008	ITF La Palma, Spain	25,000	Hard	Sílvia Soler Espinosa	Yuliya Beygelzimer Stefanie Vögele	5–7, 6–7(5)
Loss	6.	Jun 2008	ITF Getxo, Spain	25,000	Clay	Sara del Barrio Aragón	Julie Coin Story Tweedie-Yates	3–6, 1–6
Loss	7.	Jul 2009	ITF Valladolid, Spain	25,000	Clay	Sara del Barrio Aragón	Heidi El Tabakh Paula Fondevila Castro	2–6, 4–6
Loss	8.	Feb 2010	Copa Bionaire, Colombia	75,000	Clay	Laura Pous Tió	Edina Gallovits-Hall Polona Hercog	6–3, 3–6, [8–10]
Loss	9.	Sep 2010	ITF Foggia, Italy	25,000	Clay	Laura Pous Tió	María Irigoyen Florencia Molinero	2–6, 2–6
Loss	10.	Oct 2010	ITF Saint-Raphaël, France	50,000	Hard (i)	Laura Pous Tió	Sandra Klemenschits Tatjana Maria	2–6, 4–6
Win	7.	Oct 2011	ITF Seville, Spain	25,000	Clay	Lara Arruabarrena	Leticia Costas Inés Ferrer Suárez	6–4, 6–4
Win	8.	Jun 2015	ITF Madrid, Spain	10,000	Clay	Cristina Sánchez Quintanar	Sílvia García Jiménez Olga Sáez Larra	4–6, 6–4, [10–7]
Win	9.	Jul 2015	ITF Prokuplje, Serbia	10,000	Clay	Alexandra Nancarrow	Maryna Kolb Nadiya Kolb	2–6, 6–4, [10–6]
Loss	11.	Sep 2015	ITF Barcelona, Spain	15,000	Clay	Oleksandra Korashvili	Aliona Bolsova Gaia Sanesi	3–6, 4–6
Win	10.	Sep 2015	ITF Madrid, Spain	10,000	Hard	Cristina Sánchez Quintanar	Deborah Chiesa Isabelle Wallace	7–6(4), 7–5
Win	11.	Sep 2015	ITF Madrid, Spain	10,000	Hard	Cristina Sánchez Quintanar	María Martínez Martínez Olga Sáez Larra	6–4, 6–3
Win	12.	Oct 2015	ITF Melilla, Spain	10,000	Hard	Oleksandra Korashvili	Irene Burillo Escorihuela Isabelle Wallace	6–3, 6–1
Win	13.	Nov 2015	ITF Vinaròs, Spain	10,000	Clay	Oleksandra Korashvili	Alicia Herrero Liñana Ksenija Sharifova	6–2, 4–6, [10–5]
Loss	12.	May 2016	ITF Monzón, Spain	10,000	Hard	Cristina Sánchez Quintanar	Alice Bacquié Gabriella Taylor	1–6, 1–6
Win	14.	Jul 2017	ITF Turin, Italy	25,000	Clay	Paula Cristina Gonçalves	Irene Burillo Escorihuela Yvonne Cavallé Reimers	5–7, 6–0, [10–8]
Win	15.	Jul 2017	ITF Imola, Italy	25,000	Carpet	Paula Cristina Gonçalves	Eleni Kordolaimi Seone Mendez	6–3, 1–6, [10–3]
Loss	13.	Oct 2017	ITF Seville, Spain	25,000	Clay	Andrea Gámiz	Luisa Stefani Renata Zarazúa	6–7(2), 6–7(3)
Loss	14.	Oct 2017	ITF Riba-roja de Túria, Spain	15,000	Clay	Ángela Fita Boluda	Yvonne Cavallé Reimers Guadalupe Pérez Rojas	4–6, 4–6
Win	16.	Apr 2018	ITF Óbidos, Portugal	25,000	Carpet	Ángela Fita Boluda	Freya Christie An-Sophie Mestach	7–6(3), 1–6, [10–6]

References

External links

• Estrella Cabeza Candela at the Women's Tennis Association
• Estrella Cabeza Candela at the International Tennis Federation
• Estrella Cabeza Candela at the Billie Jean King Cup
• Estrella Cabeza Candela at ESPN.com