Emiliana Arango (Spanish pronunciation:[emiˈljanaaˈɾaŋɡo]; born 28 November 2000) is a Colombian tennis player.[1]
She has a career-high singles ranking of world No. 109, achieved on 20 November 2023. She has won three singles titles on the ITF Circuit.[2]
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.[4]
Professional
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.
2023: WTA 125 semifinal, WTA 1000 debut and quarterfinal, top 110
Arango reached the semifinals at the 2023 Copa Oster, losing to eventual champion Nadia Podoroska in straight sets. 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.
At the Guadalajara Open, on her WTA 1000 level debut she defeated, 11th seed Anastasia Potapova for her first WTA 1000 and top 30 win.[6][7] 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.[8] She defeated Taylor Townsend to reach the quarterfinals of a WTA Tour event for the first time. She became the first Colombian player to make a WTA 1000 quarterfinal since Fabiola Zuluaga at Berlin 2004.[9] As a result, she moved 60 positions up into the top 120 in the singles rankings on 25 September 2023.
2024
Ranked No. 121, she qualified into the main draw of the 2024 Miami Open making her debut at this WTA 1000 tournament and recorded her first win over Tatjana Maria.
Performance timelines
Key
W
F
SF
QF
#R
RR
Q#
P#
DNQ
A
Z#
PO
G
S
B
NMS
NTI
P
NH
(W) winner; (F) finalist; (SF) semifinalist; (QF) quarterfinalist; (#R) rounds 4, 3, 2, 1; (RR) round-robin stage; (Q#) qualification round; (P#) preliminary round; (DNQ) did not qualify; (A) absent; (Z#) Davis/Fed Cup Zonal Group (with number indication) or (PO) play-off; (G) gold, (S) silver or (B) bronze Olympic/Paralympic medal; (NMS) not a Masters tournament; (NTI) not a Tier I tournament; (P) postponed; (NH) not held; (SR) strike rate (events won / competed); (W–L) win–loss record.
To avoid confusion and double counting, these charts are updated at the conclusion of a tournament or when the player's participation has ended.
^Edition is split into the two years due to COVID-19.
^During the season, she did not play in the main-draw of any WTA Tour-level tournaments. However, she played at the Billie Jean King Cup, which is not counted as a played tournament but as matches counted.