Betina Jozami

Betina Jozami

Country (sports)	Argentina
Born	(1988-09-08) 8 September 1988 Paraná, Argentina
Height	1.80 m (5 ft 11 in)
Retired	2011
Plays	right, two-handed backhand
Prize money	$155,059
Singles
Career record	153–115
Career titles	0 WTA, 7 ITF
Highest ranking	No. 132 (9 February 2009)
Grand Slam Singles results
Australian Open	Q3 (2009)
French Open	Q3 (2008)
Wimbledon	Q1 (2007–2008)
US Open	Q1 (2007–2008–2009)
Doubles
Career record	153–82
Career titles	0 WTA, 15 ITF
Highest ranking	No. 96 (19 May 2008)
Grand Slam Doubles results
Wimbledon	1R (2008)
Medal record Women's tennis Representing  Argentina Pan American Games 2007 Rio de Janeiro Doubles 2007 Rio de Janeiro Singles

Betina Jozami (born 8 September 1988) is a former professional tennis player from Argentina. She has not won a Women's Tennis Association tennis title, but has won seven singles titles and fifteen doubles titles on the International Tennis Federation tour. 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

Betina Jozami in Albuquerque in 2008

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

In 2004, she reached 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, she 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 quarter finals of the San Luis Potosí event. She won the singles title in the finals Tampico singles title along with a 6–3, 6–0 victory over Daniela Múñoz 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 went 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, she made the semifinals of the first three ITF tournaments that she played 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 Potosí 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 against 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 quarter finals after a walkover win over Mariya Koryttseva. In the quarter finals, she defeated ninth seed Martina Müller 6–3, 6–1, to set up a semifinal clash with Nuria Llagostera Vives.

During the year 2010 Jozami did not play any international tournaments at all.

In June 2011, she returned briefly on the doubles scene to win her fifteenth ITF title with Jorgelina Cravero in Rosario, Santa Fe – and to conclude her career with a lost final, partnering Agustina Lepore in Santa Fe, Argentina.

Betina retired in 2011.

ITF Circuit finals

Singles: 10 (7–3)

Outcome	No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Opponent in the final	Score
Runner-up	1.	27 July 2003	Puerto Ordaz, Venezuela	Hard	Zuzana Černá	0–6, 0–6
Runner-up	2.	12 September 2004	Santiago, Chile	Clay	María José Argeri	4–6, 5–7
Winner	3.	28 May 2006	Monterrey, Mexico	Hard	Mariana Duque	6–3, 6–3
Winner	4.	4 June 2006	León, Mexico	Hard	Agustina Lepore	6–3, 6–1
Runner-up	5.	23 July 2006	Campos do Jordão, Brazil	Hard	María José Argeri	6–4, 2–6, 3–6
Winner	6.	17 September 2006	Tampico, Mexico	Hard	Daniela Múñoz Gallegos	6–3, 6–0
Winner	7.	24 September 2006	Guadalajara, Mexico	Clay	Estefania Craciún	6–3, 6–4
Winner	8.	1 October 2006	Ciudad Juárez, Mexico	Clay	Estefania Craciún	6–1, 0–6, 6–2
Winner	9.	6 April 2008	Civitavecchia, Italy	Clay	Polona Hercog	6–2, 6–2
Winner	10.	5 October 2008	Ciudad Juárez, Mexico	Clay	Jorgelina Cravero	2–2 ret.

Doubles: 27 (15–12)

Outcome	Date	Tournament	Surface	Partner	Opponents in the final	Score
Runner–up	20 July 2003	Puerto Ordaz, Venezuela	Hard	Virginia Donda	Soledad Esperón Flavia Mignola	4–6, 4–6
Runner–up	3 May 2004	Mérida, Mexico	Hard	Andrea Benítez	Erika Clarke Anne Mall	5–7, 5–7
Winner	5 September 2004	Asunción, Parguay	Clay	Verónica Spiegel	Bruna Colosio Ana Lucía Migliarini de León	7–5, 6–4
Runner–up	15 November 2005	Puebla, Mexico	Hard	Verónica Spiegel	Ivana Abramović Maria Abramović	6–4, 4–6, 6–7
Winner	12 February 2006	Mérida, Mexico	Hard	Agustina Lepore	Erika Clarke Daniela Múñoz Gallegos	6–1, 6–2
Winner	28 May 2006	Monterrey, Mexico	Hard	Agustina Lepore	Valérie Tétreault Lorena Villalobos Cruz	4–6, 6–1, 6–2
Winner	11 June 2006	Jalapa, Mexico	Hard	Daniela Múñoz Gallegos	María Irigoyen Flavia Mingola	7–6(10-8), 3–6, 6–1
Winner	16 July 2006	Caracas, Venezuela	Hard	Andrea Koch Benvenuto	María Irigoyen Flavia Mingola	4–6, 6–2, 6–2
Winner	17 September 2006	Tampico, Mexico	Hard	Daniela Múñoz Gallegos	Erika Clarke Courtney Nagle	WO
Winner	24 September 2006	Guadalajara, Mexico	Clay	Daniela Múñoz Gallegos	Alexandra Dulgheru Valeria Pulido Velasco	7–5, 6–4
Winner	1 October 2006	Ciudad Juárez, Mexico	Clay	Estefania Craciún	Erika Clarke Courtney Nagle	6–1, 6–1
Runner–up	15 May 2007	Palm Beach Gardens, United States	Clay	Estefania Craciún	Monique Adamczak Aleke Tsoubanos	5–7, 6–2, 3–6
Winner	10 June 2007	Madrid, Spain	Clay	Jorgelina Cravero	Nina Bratchikova Neuza Silva	6–4, 6–4
Winner	5 August 2007	Washington, United States	Hard	Jorgelina Cravero	Julie Ditty Natalie Grandin	1–6, 6–1, 6–2
Runner–up	8 October 2007	San Francisco, United States	Hard	Jorgelina Cravero	Angela Haynes Raquel Kops-Jones	6–3, 4–6, [7–10]
Runner–up	15 October 2007	San Luis Potosí, Mexico	Hard	Estefania Craciún	Debbrich Feys Chanelle Scheepers	1–6, 4–6
Runner–up	14 January 2008	Surprise, United States	Hard	Maria Fernanda Alves	Carly Gullickson Shenay Perry	4–6, 5–7
Winner	27 January 2008	Waikoloa Village, United States	Hard	Maria Fernanda Alves	Angela Haynes Mashona Washington	7–5, 6–4
Winner	5 April 2008	Civitavecchia, Italy	Clay	Jorgelina Cravero	Stefania Chieppa Darya Kustova	4–6, 6–3, [10–6]
Runner–up	7 April 2008	Biarritz, France	Clay	Jorgelina Cravero	Martina Müller Christina Wheeler	6–7, 6–3, [8–10]
Runner–up	15 September 2008	Albuquerque, United States	Clay	Jorgelina Cravero	Julie Ditty Carly Gullickson	3–6, 4–6
Winner	29 September 2008	Juarez, Mexico	Clay	Jorgelina Cravero	Soledad Esperón Florencia Molinero	6–0 7–6(10-8)
Winner	29 September 2008	Cali, Colombia	Clay	Arantxa Parra Santonja	Frederica Piedade Anastasiya Yakimova	6–3, 6–1
Runner–up	14 September 2009	Napoli, Italy	Clay	María Irigoyen	Nina Bratchikova Oksana Kalashnikova	6–7, 6–2, [8–10]
Runner–up	28 September 2009	Granada, Spain	Hard	Valeria Savinykh	Nina Bratchikova Arina Rodionova	1–6, 6–3, [5–10]
Winner	6 June 2011	Rosario, Argentina	Clay	Jorgelina Cravero	Florencia Di Biasi Vanesa Furlanetto	6–2, 7–6(9-7)
Runner–up	13 June 2011	Santa Fe, Argentina	Clay	Agustina Lepore	Florencia Di Biasi Vanesa Furlanetto	6–3, 4–6, 4–6

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