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Silvia Farina
Height: 5-foot-7 3/4
Weight: 138 		Plays: Right-handed
Career Titles: 0 		Birthplace: Milan, Italy
Birthdate: April 27, 1972


Career Highlights

1998

  • Had her best year on the WTA Tour, reaching four finals -- at Auckland, Warsaw, Budapest, and Luxembourg -- while becoming the first Italian woman since 1991 to rank among the world's Top 20 players.

  • At Lipton, earned her first win over a Top 10 player, upsetting No. 5 Amanda Coetzer.

  • Ousted sixth seed Anna Kournikova in the first round of Moscow -- ranked 24th, she ended Kournikova's nearly two-year long streak of not losing to anyone ranked outside the Top 15.

    1997

  • Had her best Grand Slam season ever, winning five matches.

    1996

  • Ranked No. 55, defeated 16th-ranked Martina Hingis in the second round at Paris.

  • Won 150th career match with win over Anna Kournikova to reach quarterfinals as a qualifier at Zurich.

    1994

  • Captured first victory over a Top 10 player at French Open, upsetting eighth-ranked Gabriela Sabatini in first round -- two weeks later, topped then-No. 6-ranked Kimiko Date en route to Eastbourne quarterfinal finish.

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