Emiliana Arango

Emiliana Arango (born 28 November 2000) is a Colombian tennis player.
She has a career-high singles ranking of world No. 120, achieved on 25 September 2023. Up to date, she has won three singles titles on the ITF Circuit. Playing for Colombia Fed Cup team, Arango has a win–loss record of 7–8.
Junior career
Grand Slam performance
Singles
Australian Open: –
French Open: 2R (2017)
Wimbledon: 1R (2016, 2017)
US Open: SF (2017)
Doubles
Australian Open: –
French Open: 2R (2017)
Wimbledon: QF (2017)
US Open: QF (2017)
On the ITF Junior Circuit, Arango has a career-high ranking of world No. 8, achieved in January 2018. In singles, she reached the semifinals at the 2017 Junior US Open. In doubles, she reached two quarterfinals, both in 2017, at Wimbledon and US Open, respectively. As a junior, she won three singles and three doubles titles.
Professional career
Arango made her WTA Tour singles debut at the 2016 Copa Colsanitas, where she lost in the first round to Irina Falconi, winning only one game.
At the 2018 Copa Colsanitas, she secured her first tour-level win with a three-set victory over fourth seed Verónica Cepede Royg from Paraguay.
2022: Grand Slam debut
Arango entered a Grand Slam tournament for the first time in the French Open qualifying competition in 2022, and she also competed and lost in qualifying at the Wimbledon Championships.
2023: WTA 125 semifinal, WTA 1000 debut, first top 30 win and quarterfinal, top 125
Arango reached the semifinal at the 2023 Copa Oster, losing to eventual champion Nadia Podoroska in straight sets, 5–7, 1–6. Having received an invitation to the San Luis Open Challenger, she reached the quarterfinals. Arango also received a wildcard for the qualifying competition for the Madrid Open. She qualified for the Catalonia Open, and in the main draw, she lost in the second round to Jil Teichmann, 6–3, 6–4.
Arango entered and lost in the qualifying at Roland Garrros and in the qualifying at Wimbledon.
At the 2023 Guadalajara Open Akron she defeated 11th seed Anastasia Potapova for her first WTA 1000 and top-30 win. Next she defeated Sloane Stephens in straight sets in one hour to reach the round of 16 of a WTA 1000 tournament for the first time in her debut at the WTA 1000 level. Next she defeated Taylor Townsend to reach the quarterfinals of a WTA tournament for the first time. She became the first Colombian player to make a WTA 1000 quarterfinal since Fabiola Zuluaga at Berlin 2004. As a result she moved 60 positions up into the top 120 in the singles rankings on 25 September 2023.
Performance timelines
Only main-draw results in WTA Tour, Grand Slam tournaments, Billie Jean King Cup and Olympic Games are included in win–loss records.
Singles
Current through the 2023 Cluj Open.
Doubles
Current through the 2023 Wimbledon Championships.
ITF Circuit finals
Singles: 6 (3 titles, 3 runner–ups)
Doubles: 2 (2 runner–ups)
Head-to-head records
Record against top 10 players
Arango's record against players who have been ranked in the top 10. Active players are in boldface.
Notes
References
External links
2000 births
Living people
Colombian female tennis players
People from Port St. Lucie, Florida
Sportspeople from Medellín
Tennis players at the 2019 Pan American Games
21st-century Colombian women