Paula Cabezas

Full name	Paula Andrea Cabezas
Country (sports)	Chile
Born	(1972-08-21)21 August 1972 (age 53) Santiago, Chile
Prize money	$67,345
Singles
Career record	166–87
Career titles	14 ITF
Highest ranking	No. 212 (14 April 1997)
Doubles
Career record	126–61
Career titles	17 ITF
Highest ranking	No. 178 (8 June 1992)
Team competitions
Fed Cup	49–21

Paula Andrea Cabezas (born 21 August 1972) is a Chilean former professionaltennis player.

Born inSantiago, Cabezas competed on the professional tour in the 1990s, mostly on theITF Circuit, winning 14 singles and 17 doubles titles. HerWTA Tour performances include a semifinal appearance in the doubles at São Paulo in 1991, partnering withAndrea Vieira. She qualified for her only singles main draw at the1995 Puerto Rico Open. She reached a best singles ranking of 212 in the world, attained in 1997.^[1]

During her career, she featured in a total of 39 ties for theChile Fed Cup team. This included a World Group fixture against defending champions Spain in 1994, where she lost a singles match to world No. 2,Arantxa Sánchez Vicario.^[2] She won 49 matches overall, 23 of them in doubles, both of which are national records.

Cabezas represented Chile in doubles at the1996 Atlanta Olympics and was a multiplePan American Games medalist. She won a bronze medal at the1991 Pan American Games in Havana and a silver at the1999 Pan American Games in Winnipeg, both in doubles.

She now lives inBarcelona and competes on the ITF seniors circuit under Spanish nationality.^[3][4]

Result	No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Opponent	Score
Win	1.	9 September 1991	ITF Guayaquil, Ecuador	Clay	María Luciana Reynares	6–1, 6–7(6), 6–1
Win	2.	1 October 1991	ITF La Paz, Bolivia	Clay	Lorena Rodríguez di Laura	6–2, 6–2
Win	3.	7 October 1991	ITF Santiago, Chile	Clay	María Luciana Reynares	7–5, 6–3
Win	4.	3 November 1991	ITF Porto Alegre, Brazil	Clay	Sumara Passos	6–7(9), 7–5, 6–2
Win	5.	6 September 1993	ITF Caracas, Venezuela	Clay	Magalí Benítez	5–7, 6–2, 6–3
Loss	1.	26 September 1993	ITF Guayaquil, Ecuador	Clay	Sumara Passos	5–7, 2–6
Win	6.	11 October 1993	ITF Santiago, Chile	Clay	Cintia Tortorella	6–3, 6–4
Win	7.	14 March 1994	ITF Mexico City, Mexico	Clay	Tomoe Hotta	6–3, 4–6, 6–2
Win	8.	27 March 1994	ITF Puerto Vallarta, Mexico	Clay	Renata Kolbovic	6–2, 6–3
Win	9.	15 May 1994	ITF Acapulco, Mexico	Clay	Lindsay Lee-Waters	6–2, 6–2
Loss	2.	6 November 1994	ITF Freeport, Bahamas	Clay	Ingrid Kurta	6–3, 1–6, 5–7
Loss	3.	13 November 1994	ITF Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic	Clay	Joelle Schad	3–6, 2–6
Win	10.	20 November 1994	ITF San Salvador, El Salvador	Hard	Kristine Kurth	6–2, 6–2
Win	11.	4 June 1995	ITF Sevilla, Spain	Clay	Marta Cano	6–1, 6–3
Win	12.	13 October 1996	ITF Mexico City, Mexico	Hard	Renata Kolbovic	2–6, 6–3, 6–2
Win	13.	20 October 1996	ITF Coatzacoalcos, Mexico	Hard	Karin Palme	5–7, 7–5, 6–2
Loss	4.	31 August 1997	ITF Guayaquil, Ecuador	Clay	Miriam D'Agostini	7–6(0), 5–7, 6–7(4)
Loss	5.	12 April 1998	ITF Viña del Mar, Chile	Clay	Celeste Contín	2–6, 4–6
Win	14.	27 September 1998	ITF Santiago, Chile	Clay	Mariana Lopez Palacios	6–4, 7–5

Result	No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Partner	Opponents	Score
Win	1.	14 October 1990	ITF La Paz, Bolivia	Clay	Sandra Ugarriza	Paula Boccia Inés Gorrochategui	6–2, 4–6, 7–5
Loss	1.	22 October 1990	ITF Santiago, Chile	Clay	Sandra Ugarriza	Inés Gorrochategui Patricia Miller	6–3, 1–6, 5–7
Win	2.	9 September 1991	ITF Guayaquil, Ecuador	Clay	Nuria Niemes	Macarena Miranda María Dolores Campana	6–1, 7–5
Win	3.	16 September 1991	ITF Bogotá, Colombia	Clay	Macarena Miranda	Carla Rodriguez Lorena Rodríguez di Laura	6–4, 6–2
Loss	2.	30 September 1991	ITF La Paz, Bolivia	Clay	Janaina Mercadante	Rossana de los Ríos Larissa Schaerer	3–6, 5–7
Win	4.	13 October 1991	ITF Santiago, Chile	Clay	Paulina Sepúlveda	Helene Kappler Eleonora Vegliante	7–5, 2–6, 6–4
Win	5.	4 November 1991	ITF Florianópolis, Brazil	Clay	Macarena Miranda	Rita Pichardo Belkis Rodríguez	3–6, 6–2, 6–2
Loss	3.	11 November 1991	ITF Rio de Janeiro, Brazil	Clay	Macarena Miranda	Rita Pichardo Belkis Rodríguez	2–6, 3–6
Win	6.	18 October 1992	ITF Santiago, Chile	Clay	Nuria Niemes	Maria-Farnes Capistrano Ninfa Marra	3–6, 6–4, 6–4
Win	7.	29 November 1992	ITF Buenos Aires, Argentina	Clay	Paulina Sepúlveda	Mariana Randrup Gretel Gonzalez-Glanzmann	6–2, 6–1
Loss	4.	7 June 1993	ITF Caserta, Italy	Clay	Adriana Serra Zanetti	Karin Lušnic Maja Murić	6–2, 2–6, 3–6
Loss	5.	20 September 1993	ITF Guayaquil, Ecuador	Clay	Nuria Niemes	Veronica Stele Cintia Tortorella	2–6, 1–6
Win	8.	21 March 1994	ITF Puerto Vallarta, Mexico	Clay	María Dolores Campana	Shizuka Tokiwa Kiyoko Yazawa	6–1, 6–2
Win	9.	9 May 1994	ITF Acapulco, Mexico	Clay	Emilie Viqueira	Kim Grant Ditta Huber	3–6, 6–2, 6–1
Win	10.	17 July 1994	ITF Vigo, Spain	Clay	Emilie Viqueira	Jitka Dubcová Sylvia Plischke	6–4, 6–3
Win	11.	19 September 1994	ITF Guayaquil, Ecuador	Clay	Emilie Viqueira	Vanessa Menga Luciana Tella	6–4, 6–4
Win	12.	6 May 1996	ITF Amazonas, Brazil	Hard	Bárbara Castro	Sandra De Amelio Paula Racedo	6–1, 6–3
Loss	6.	6 October 1996	ITF Puerto Vallarta, Mexico	Hard	Veronica Stele	María Fernanda Landa Marlene Weingärtner	6–4, 5–7, 3–6
Win	13.	31 August 1997	ITF Guayaquil, Ecuador	Clay	Miriam D'Agostini	Mariana Lopez Palacios Romina Ottoboni	6–1, 6–4
Loss	7.	6 April 1998	ITF Viña del Mar, Chile	Clay	Celeste Contín	Melisa Arévalo Daniela Muscolino	3–6, 4–6
Loss	8.	4 May 1998	ITF Tampico, Mexico	Hard	Vanessa Menga	Adria Engel Alina Jidkova	6–7, 5–7
Win	14.	11 May 1998	ITF Poza Rica, Mexico	Hard	Vanessa Menga	Adria Engel Alina Jidkova	3–6, 6–2, 6–2
Win	15.	18 May 1998	ITF Coatzacoalcos, Mexico	Hard	Vanessa Menga	Adria Engel Alina Jidkova	6–3, 6–2
Win	16.	17 August 1998	ITF Ibarra, Ecuador	Clay	Joanne Moore	Elena Juricich María Eugenia Rojas	6–3, 6–4
Win	17.	21 September 1998	ITF Santiago, Chile	Clay	Aliénor Tricerri	Mariana Lopez Palacios María-Alejandra Quezada	6–4, 6–1

• Paula Cabezas at theWomen's Tennis Association
• Paula Cabezas at theInternational Tennis Federation
• Paula Cabezas at theBillie Jean King Cup (archived)

• 1972 births
• Living people
• Chilean female tennis players
• Tennis players from Santiago, Chile
• Chilean emigrants to Spain
• Tennis players at the 1996 Summer Olympics
• Olympic tennis players for Chile
• Pan American Games silver medalists for Chile
• Pan American Games bronze medalists for Chile
• Pan American Games silver medalists in tennis
• Pan American Games bronze medalists in tennis
• Tennis players at the 1991 Pan American Games
• Tennis players at the 1999 Pan American Games
• South American Games medalists in tennis
• South American Games gold medalists for Chile
• South American Games bronze medalists for Chile
• Competitors at the 1990 South American Games
• Competitors at the 1994 South American Games
• Competitors at the 1998 South American Games
• Medalists at the 1999 Pan American Games
• 20th-century Chilean sportswomen

• CS1 Spanish-language sources (es)
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