Gisela Dulko - Tennis Player from Argentina

Gisela Dulko (born on January 30, 1985 in Tigre, Buenos Aires Province, Argentina) is an Argentine female tennis player. On November 21, 2005 Dulko reached her career-high singles ranking: World No. 26.

She has won 6 titles in doubles, including the 2000 US Open Juniors with María Emilia Salerni, the 2002 Australian Open Juniors with Angelique Widjaja, the 2001 Wimbledon Championships with Ashley Harkleroad, and the 2006 Cincinnati Women's Open with Italian Maria Elena Camerin. In singles, she was a runner-up in Hobart in 2005, losing to Zheng Jie (CHN), and a runner-up in Pattaya in 2007, losing to Sybille Bammer (AUT) 7-5, 3-6, 7-5. Gisela Dulko currently dates Chilean tennis player Fernando González, and has previously dated Spanish tennis stars Fernando Verdasco and Tommy Robredo.

On April 29, 2007, Dulko finally won her first WTA Tour title by defeating Sorana Cirstea of Romania 6-7(2), 6-2, 6-2 in the final of the Tier III event in Budapest. With this win, her ranking was set to rise to No. 34 in the World. On August 25, 2007, Dulko won her second WTA Tour title at the Forest Hills Tier IV event defeating Virginie Razzano 6-2 6-2 in the final.

Career in review

1999 - Played first event of career on ITF Circuit in Buenos Aires.

2000- Won one singles title and two doubles titles on ITF Circuit.

2001 - Fell in Indian Wells qualifying then made Tour main draw debut at Miami (as WC, l. 1r); won four ITF Circuit singles titles.

2002 - Played three more Tour main draws, reaching first SF at Casablanca (l. to Zakopalova); fell in qualifying at all four majors; won one singles title and one doubles title on ITF Circuit.

2003 - Reached QF at Estoril; made Grand Slam main draw debut at Roland Garros (as qualifier, l. 1r) and fell in qualifying at other three; won first Tour doubles title at Casablanca (w/Salerni).

2004 - Breakthrough season; QF at Memphis, Indian Wells (d. No.12 Petrova for first career Top 20 win en route to first Tier I QF; l. to Davenport), Bali and Beijing; played all four Grand Slams in a year for first time, reaching 3r at both Roland Garros (d. WC Navratilova and No.20 seed Martínez en route; l. to Asagoe) and Wimbledon (d. No.23 seed Dokic and WC Navratilova en route; l. to No.12 seed Zvonareva); in Fed Cup, went 1-1 in Argentina's 4-1 World Group 1r win over Japan (d. Sugiyama) and 1-2 in 4-1 QF loss to Russia (d. Kuznetsova); Fed Cup wins over No.10 Sugiyama and No.9 Kuznetsova along with Montréal 2r win over No.6 Dementieva were first three career Top 10 wins; on February 16 rose from No.112 to No.98 (Top 100 debut) and on August 2 rose from No.52 to No.43 (Top 50 debut); won two ITF Circuit doubles titles.

2005 - First and so far only Top 30 finish to date, highlighted by first Tour singles final at Hobart (l. to Zheng), SF runs at Estoril, 's-Hertogenbosch (l. to Safarova at both) and Bangkok (l. to Vaidisova) and second Tier I QF at Toronto (l. to Myskina); notched three Top 10 wins, over No.5 Dementieva (Rome 2r), No.8 Petrova ('s-Hertogenbosch 2r) and No.4 Kuznetsova (Toronto 3r), also d. No.14 Molik in New Haven 1r for eighth career Top 20 win; reached 2r at all four Grand Slams; won three straight Tour doubles titles in four weeks in fall; member of Fed Cup Team and runner-up Hopman Cup Team (w/Coria).