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Romina Ottoboni

Country (sports)	Argentina
Born	(1978-06-19) 19 June 1978 (age 46)
Prize money	$43,750
Singles
Career record	124–76
Career titles	5 ITF
Highest ranking	No. 286 (17 August 1998)
Doubles
Career record	119–63
Career titles	14 ITF
Highest ranking	No. 157 (8 September 1997)

Romina Ottoboni (born 19 June 1978) is an Argentinian former professional tennis player.

Ottoboni reached a best singles ranking of 286 and won five ITF Circuit titles. As a doubles player she was more successful, with 14 titles on the ITF Circuit and the highest world ranking of 157.

On the WTA Tour, Ottoboni was a three-time doubles quarterfinalist and made her only singles main-draw appearance at the Copa Colsanitas in Bogotá, as a qualifier. She defeated the second seed in qualifying, Jelena Dokic, before being eliminated in the first round of the main draw by Gisela Riera.

Ottoboni most recently played in a professional match in March 2003, losing in the first round of an ITF doubles tournament in Rabat, Morocco. She played her final singles match a year prior, in April 2002, in Belo Horizonte, Brazil where she lost in the first round of the main draw as a qualifier.

ITF Circuit finals

Singles: 7 (5 titles, 2 runner-ups)

Result	No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Opponent	Score
Loss	1.	7 September 1997	ITF Lima, Peru	Clay	Miriam D'Agostini	3–6, 0–6
Loss	2.	19 April 1998	ITF Galatina,Italy	Clay	Noelia Serra	2–6, 6–4, 2–6
Win	1.	26 April 1998	ITF Bari, Italy	Clay	Rosa María Andrés Rodríguez	2–6, 6–2, 7–5
Win	2.	9 August 1998	ITF Catania, Italy	Clay	Bettina Fulco	6–4, 7–6
Win	3.	5 September 1999	ITF San Juan, Argentina	Clay	Celeste Contín	6–1, 4–6, 6–4
Win	4.	3 September 2000	ITF Buenos Aires, Argentina	Clay	Mariana Mesa	7–6, 6–2
Loss	3.	10 September 2000	ITF Buenos Aires	Clay	Natalia Gussoni	7–5, 1–6
Win	5.	17 September 2000	ITF Buenos Aires	Clay	Natalia Gussoni	6–3, 6–0

Doubles: 17 (14 titles, 3 runner-ups)

Result	No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Partner	Opponents	Score
Win	1.	8 September 1996	ITF Santiago, Chile	Clay	Celeste Contín	Renata Brito Luciana Masante	6–2, 6–7, 6–3
Win	2.	15 September 1996	ITF Buenos Aires, Argentina	Clay	Celeste Contín	Renata Brito María Eugenia Rojas	6–4, 4–6, 7–6
Win	3.	22 September 1996	ITF Asunción, Paraguay	Clay	Celeste Contín	Mariana Faustinelli Geraldine Aizenberg	6–2, 4–6, 6–0
Win	4.	6 October 1996	ITF Bogotá, Colombia	Clay	Giana Gutiérrez	Joanne Moore Carmiña Giraldo	1–6, 6–3, 6–1
Win	5.	3 November 1996	ITF Minas Gerais, Brazil	Clay	Celeste Contín	Martina Nejedly Lilian Silva	4–6, 6–4, 6–2
Loss	1.	31 August 1997	ITF Guayaquil, Ecuador	Clay	Mariana Lopez Palacios	Paula Cabezas Miriam D'Agostini	1–6, 4–6
Win	6.	7 September 1997	ITF Lima, Peru	Clay	Paula Racedo	María Eugenia Rojas Jacquelyn Rosen	6–0, 6–4
Loss	2.	5 October 1997	ITF Buenos Aires, Argentina	Clay	Celeste Contín	Laura Montalvo Mercedes Paz	6–4, 2–6, 4–6
Win	7.	3 May 1998	ITF San Severo, Italy	Clay	Eugenia Maia	Giana Gutiérrez Veronica Stele	1–6, 7–5, 7–5
Win	8.	11 May 1998	ITF Le Touquet, France	Clay	Vanina Casanova	Selima Sfar Élodie Le Bescond	7–6, 1–0 ret.
Loss	3.	4 July 1999	ITF Mont-de-Marsan, France	Clay	Giana Gutiérrez	María Fernanda Landa Eva Bes	4–6, 4–6
Win	9.	30 August 1999	ITF San Juan, Argentina	Clay	Eugenia Maia	Virginia Sadi Daniela Olivera	6–2, 6–2
Win	10.	23 April 2000	ITF San Luis Potosí, Mexico	Clay	María Fernanda Landa	Helen Crook Victoria Davies	6–4, 7–6
Win	11.	4 September 2000	ITF Buenos Aires, Argentina	Clay	Mariana Mesa	Sabrina Valenti Natalia Gussoni	1–6, 6–4, 6–3
Win	12.	7 January 2001	ITF São Paulo, Brazil	Hard	Clarisa Fernández	Miriam D'Agostini Vanessa Menga	6–1, 7–6
Win	13.	1 April 2001	ITF Santiago, Chile	Clay	Celeste Contín	Marcela Evangelista Letícia Sobral	6–1, 6–3
Win	14.	14 April 2002	ITF Belo Horizonte, Brazil	Hard	Celeste Contín	Vanessa Menga Maria Fernanda Alves	6–4, 2–6, 7–5

References

1. "Tennis Abstract: Romina Ottoboni ATP Match Results, Splits, and Analysis". www.tennisabstract.com.
2. "El Paso De Una Leyenda". El Tiempo (in Spanish). 16 February 1999.

External links

• Romina Ottoboni at the Women's Tennis Association
• Romina Ottoboni at the International Tennis Federation

• 1978 births
• Living people
• Argentine female tennis players
• 20th-century Argentine women
• 21st-century Argentine women