Betina Jozami

Betina Jozami

Country (sports)	Argentina
Prize money	$121,125
Singles
Career record	138-91
Career titles	0 WTA, 7 ITF
Highest ranking	No. 137 (January 12, 2009)
Grand Slam singles results
Australian Open	-
French Open	-
Wimbledon	-
US Open	-
Doubles
Career record	130-66
Career titles	0 WTA, 13 ITF
Highest ranking	No. 96 (May 19, 2008)
Last updated on: February 1, 2009.

Betina Jozami

Medal record
Representing Argentina
Women's Tennis
2007 Pan American Games
	2007 Rio de Janeiro	Doubles
	2007 Rio de Janeiro	Singles

Betina Jozami (born September 8, 1988 in Paraná) is a professional tennis player from Argentina. The Argentine hasn't won a Women's Tennis Association tennis title, but has won five singles titles and eleven doubles titles on the International Tennis Federation. Born to Beto and Andrea Jozami, the Argentine has two siblings. Jozami won the 2007 Pan American Games doubles gold medal with Jorgelina Cravero, and also earned the bronze medal in singles.

Career

In 2003, Jozami played her first ITF tennis event in July, where she reached the finals.

2004 saw Jozami reach the finals of two ITF doubles tournaments, reaching the final in the first event of the year before winning a doubles final in Asunción.

In 2006, Jozami won the first ITF doubles tournament that she entered. She won the Monterrey singles and doubles events, along with winning the Jalapa doubles event in Mexico. In addition, she won the Leon, Mexico singles title with a victory over Agustina Lepore in the final. Then, after losing in the Valencia  doubles semifinals, she won four straight doubles titles in Caracas, Tampico, Guadalajara, and Ciudad Juárez, winning the singles titles in Tampico, Guadalajara and Ciudad Juárez, and lost her 17-match doubles winning streak in the quarterfinals of the San Luis Potosi event. She won the singles title in the finals Tampico singles title along with a 6–3, 6–0 victory over Daniela Munoz Gallegos, and won the singles title of Ciudad Juárez over Estafania Craciun, the same person she defeated to win the Guadalajara title, 6–1, 0–6, 6–2.

In singles in 2007, Jozami qualified to reach various ITF singles semifinals. Jozami would go on to lose a close three-set battle to Alina Jidkova in Wimbledon's qualifying draw, falling 6–3, 6–7 (6), 14-12 in the first round. She lost in the first round of the 2007 U.S. Open qualifying to Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova, 6–2, 6–2.

In doubles, Jozami made the semifinals of the first three ITF tournaments that she played in in 2007, reaching two further semifinals in Charlottesville, Virginia and Indian Harbour Beach, Florida in the United States before reaching the Palm Beach Gardens, Florida finals with Estafania Craciun. She won a title in Madrid with compatriot Jorgelina Cravero, and won her second ITF title of the year, again with Cravero, in Washington, D.C. in the United States in August. She reached the finals in San Francisco, California, and in San Luis Potosi in Mexico, before finishing her year with an appearance in a 2007 WTA Tour event. Jozami teamed with Maria Fernanda Alves in the Quebec City doubles event, where they beat top seeds Meilen Tu and Vera Zvonareva in the quarterfinals before falling to Christina Fusano and Raquel Kops-Jones in the semifinals, a good end to Jozami's 2007 tennis season.

Jozami won the Waikoloa Village, Hawaii doubles title in the United States in 2008, teaming with Maria Fernanda Alves to win the final over Angela Haynes and Mashona Washington.

At the 2008 Copa Colsanitas, she defeated top seed Flavia Pennetta 6–1, 2–6, 6–4, before reaching the quarterfinals after a walkover win over Mariya Koryttseva. In the quarterfinals, she defeated ninth seed Martina Müller 6–3, 6–1, to set up a semifinal clash with Nuria Llagostera Vives.

WTA and ITF Titles

Singles Winner (6)

Legend (Doubles)
Tier I (0)
Tier II
Tier III (0)
Tier IV / V (0)
Grand Slam Title (0)
WTA Tour Championship (0)
ITF Circuit (6)

No.	Date	Tournament	Tier	Surface	Opponent in the final	Score
1.	May 28, 2006	Monterrey, Mexico	ITF	Hard	Mariana Duque Marino	6–3, 6–3
2.	June 4, 2006	Leon, Mexico	ITF	Hard	Agustina Lepore	N/A
3.	September 17, 2006	Tampico, Mexico	ITF	Hard	Daniela Munoz Gallegos	6–3, 6–0
4.	September 24, 2006	Guadalajara, Mexico	ITF	Clay	Estefania Craciun	6–3, 6–4
5.	October 1, 2006	Ciudad Juárez, Mexico	ITF	Clay	Estefania Craciun	6–1, 0–6, 6–2
6.	April 6, 2008	Civitavecchia, Italy	ITF	Clay	Polona Hercog	6-2, 6-2

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Betina Jozami in Albuquerque in 2008

Singles Runner-ups (3)

Legend (Doubles)
Tier I (0)
Tier II
Tier III (0)
Tier IV / V (0)
Grand Slam Title (0)
WTA Tour Championship (0)
ITF Circuit (3)

No.	Date	Tournament	Tier	Surface	Opponent in the final	Score
1.	July 27, 2003	Puerto Ordaz, Venezuela	ITF	Hard	Zuzana Cerna	6–0, 6–0
2.	September 12, 2004	Santiago, Chile	ITF	Clay	Maria Jose Argeri	6–4, 7–5
3.	July 23, 2006	Campos do Jordão, Brazil	ITF	Hard	Maria Jose Argeri	4–6, 6–2, 6–3

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Doubles Winner (11)

Legend (Doubles)
Tier I (0)
Tier II
Tier III (0)
Tier IV / V (0)
Grand Slam Title (0)
WTA Tour Championship (0)
ITF Circuit (11)

No.	Date	Tournament	Tier	Surface	Partner	Opponents in the final	Score
1.	September 5, 2004	Asunción, Paraguay	ITF	Clay	Veronica Spiegel	Bruna Colosio Ana Lucia Migliarini De Leon	7–5, 6–4
2.	February 12, 2006	Mérida, Yucatán, Mexico	ITF	Hard	Agustina Lepore	Erika Clarke Daniela Munoz Gallegos	6–1, 6–2
3.	May 28, 2006	Monterrey, Mexico	ITF	Hard	Agustina Lepore	Valerie Tetreault Lorena Villalobos Cruz	4–6, 6–1, 6–2
4.	June 11, 2006	Jalapa, Mexico	Hard	ITF	Daniela Munoz Gallegos	Maria Irigoyen Flavia Mingola	7–6 (8), 3–6, 6–1
5.	July 16, 2006	Caracas, Venezuela	Hard	ITF	Karina Andrea Koch Benvenuto	Maria Irigoyen Flavia Mingola	4–6, 6–2, 6–2
6.	September 17, 2006	Tampico, Mexico	Hard	ITF	Daniela Munoz Gallegos	Erika Clarke Courtney Nagle	N / A
7.	September 24, 2006	Guadalajara, Mexico	Clay	ITF	Daniela Munoz Gallegos	Alexandra Dulgheru Valeria Pulido Velasco	7–5, 6–4
8.	October 1, 2006	Ciudad Juárez, Mexico	Clay	ITF	Estefania Craciun	Erika Clarke Courtney Nagle	6–1, 6–1
9.	June 10, 2007	Madrid, Spain	ITF	Clay	Jorgelina Cravero	Nina Bratchikova Neuza Silva	6–4, 6–4
10.	August 5, 2007	Washington, D.C., United States	Hard	ITF	Jorgelina Cravero	Julie Ditty Natalie Grandin	1–6, 6–1, 6–2
11.	January 27, 2008	Waikoloa Village, Hawaii, United States	Hard	ITF	Maria Fernanda Alves	Angela Haynes Mashona Washington	7–5, 6–4
12.	April 5, 2008	Civitavecchia	Clay	ITF	Jorgelina Cravero	Stefania Chieppa Darya Kustova	4-6, 6-3, 10-6

External links

• Betina Jozami at the Women's Tennis Association