Patricia Maria Țig

Patricia Maria Țig

Țig at the 2023 US Open
Country (sports)	Romania
Born	(1994-07-27) 27 July 1994 (age 29) Caransebeș, Caraș-Severin, Romania
Height	1.80 m (5 ft 11 in)
Turned pro	2009
Plays	Right-handed (two-handed backhand)
Prize money	US$ 1,375,364
Singles
Career record	288–175 (62.2%)
Career titles	1 WTA, 1 WTA 125
Highest ranking	No. 56 (26 October 2020)
Current ranking	No. 700 (28 August 2023)
Grand Slam singles results
Australian Open	1R (2017, 2021, 2023)
French Open	3R (2020)
Wimbledon	1R (2016, 2021)
US Open	2R (2020, 2023)
Doubles
Career record	81–81 (50.0%)
Career titles	5 ITF
Highest ranking	No. 155 (14 November 2016)
Current ranking	No. 1391 (3 October 2022)
Grand Slam doubles results
Australian Open	1R (2021)
French Open	3R (2020)
Wimbledon	1R (2021)
Last updated on: 8 October 2022.

Patricia Maria Țig (born 27 July 1994) is a Romanian tennis player.

Țig has a career-high WTA singles ranking of No. 56, achieved on 26 October 2020.^[1] Her best doubles ranking of world No. 155, she achieved on 14 November 2016.^[2] Țig has won one singles title on the WTA Tour, plus one on WTA 125 tournaments, as well as 14 singles titles and four doubles titles on the ITF Circuit.^[3]

Career overview

2015: First WTA-level finals

Țig made her WTA Tour debut at the Bucharest Open where she received a wildcard into the singles main draw, and she won to Sílvia Soler Espinosa (retired at 6–4, 3–1) in the first round, before losing 0–6, 2–6 to Polona Hercog. In the doubles competition, paired to co-national Andreea Mitu, Țig reached her first WTA final, but they lost.^[4]

She then did much better in Baku by defeating Oksana Kalashnikova 6–1, 6–3 to qualify, then in the main draw, qualifiers Olga Ianchuk (6–4, 6–2) and Olga Savchuk (7–5, 6–4), and then Donna Vekić (6–3, 6–2), and in the semifinals she defeated top seed and world No. 42, Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova, 6–3, 6–2, thus reaching her first WTA singles final (without losing one set) and entering top 120 in the WTA rankings. She lost the final in three sets to Margarita Gasparyan.

2018: Inactivity status

After a period of struggling with her performances in the second half of 2017 season, she decided to focus on her health, citing back pain as the main source of discomfort. Her last played tournament was the (Guangzhou Open) in September 2017. Țig became an inactive player on 24 September 2018, after not playing for 52 consecutive weeks.^[5][6]

2019: Back on the ITF Circuit, return to WTA competition

Țig returned to action in April 2019, after healing her injuries and giving birth to daughter Sofia in November 2018.^[7] She played a series of nine $15k tournaments over ten weeks in Cancún, Mexico. She retired or gave her opponent a walkover in three of the first four, as the inactivity led to injuries – including a recurrence of the knee issue. By the fifth tournament, she made the final. She did the same in the seventh, and won the last two.

The Romanian would have preferred to start at the $25k level. But the new pro circuit rules instituted for 2019 made it impossible for her to gain entry with no ranking. She earned no ranking points for those results. "So we went there for nothing. I got, like, 30 points (actually, 37), which means I'm going to be around 500 (in the WTA rankings). So that doesn't get me anywhere", she said in an interview.^[7] Țig will find them reinstated in August as the ITF partly rolls back the new circuit rules.^[8] She could gain as many as 25 more spots in the rankings when that occurs.

Țig returned to the WTA Tour at the Bucharest Open as a wildcard into qualifying. She won her three rounds of qualifying to make it to the main draw where she defeated Anna Bondár in the first round to advance to the last 16. In the second round, she defeated the top seed and defending champion Anastasija Sevastova, 6–2, 7–5. She went on to defeat Kristýna Plíšková and Laura Siegemund. In the final, she lost to Elena Rybakina. This was the second singles final in her career. She returned to rankings on July 22, at No. 264.^[7]

At the Baltic Open, where she used her protected ranking, she defeated Ankita Raina and Anhelina Kalinina, before losing to Anastasia Potapova.

Țig won the Karlsruhe Open, a WTA 125 tournament, defeating Alison Van Uytvanck and advancing back in the top 150, to No. 148.

2020: French Open third round, first WTA title & top 60 debut

After reaching semifinals at the Thailand Open, where she lost to Magda Linette, Țig reentered top 100, reaching No. 84.

In September, she won her first WTA Tour title at Istanbul.^[9] On 26 October she reached her career-high ranking of No. 56.

2023: Comeback

She came back at the 2023 Hobart International and at the 2023 Australian Open using protected ranking after a year and a half of inactivity on the WTA tour (since Wimbledon 2021).

She also entered the Italian Open using protected ranking, but later withdrew before the start of the tournament.

She reached the quarterfinals in Bucharest in June in an ITF event, then also the quarterfinals in Bacău a month later. Also in July, Tig entered two WTA 250 tournaments, in Lausanne and Prague, but lost each time in the first round. She also entered the 2023 Transylvania Open with protected ranking.

Performance timelines

Only main-draw results in WTA Tour, Grand Slam tournaments, Fed Cup/Billie Jean King Cup and Olympic Games are included in win–loss records.^[10]

Singles

Current after the 2023 Cincinnati Open.

WTA career finals

Singles: 3 (1 title, 2 runner-ups)

Result	W–L	Date	Tournament	Tier	Surface	Opponent	Score
Loss	0–1	Aug 2015	Baku Cup, Azerbaijan	International	Hard	Margarita Gasparyan	3–6, 7–5, 0–6
Loss	0–2	Jul 2019	Bucharest Open, Romania	International	Clay	Elena Rybakina	2–6, 0–6
Win	1–2	Sep 2020	İstanbul Cup, Turkey	International	Clay	Eugenie Bouchard	2–6, 6–1, 7–6(4)

Doubles: 2 (2 runner-ups)

Result	W–L	Date	Tournament	Tier	Surface	Partner	Opponents	Score
Loss	0–1	Jul 2015	Bucharest Open, Romania	International	Clay	Andreea Mitu	Oksana Kalashnikova Demi Schuurs	2–6, 2–6
Loss	0–2	Oct 2016	Luxembourg Open	International	Hard (i)	Monica Niculescu	Kiki Bertens Johanna Larsson	6–4, 5–7, [9–11]

WTA 125 tournament finals

Singles: 1 title

Result	W–L	Date	Tournament	Surface	Opponent	Score
Win	1–0	Aug 2019	Karlsruhe Open, Germany	Clay	Alison Van Uytvanck	3–6, 6–1, 6–2

ITF Circuit finals

Singles: 25 (15 titles, 10 runner–ups)

Result	W–L	Date	Tournament	Tier	Surface	Opponent	Score
Loss	0–1	Dec 2011	ITF Antalya, Turkey	10,000	Clay	Viktoriya Kutuzova	6–3, 1–6, 1–6
Win	1–1	Jul 2012	ITF Balș, Romania	10,000	Clay	Alexandra Damaschin	6–4, 7–5
Win	2–1	Jul 2012	ITF Iași, Romania	10,000	Clay	Raluca Elena Platon	6–2, 3–6, 6–4
Loss	2–2	Sep 2012	ITF Mamaia, Romania	25,000	Clay	Sharon Fichman	3–6, 7–6(5), 3–6
Win	3–2	Nov 2013	ITF Antalya, Turkey	10,000	Clay	Raluca Elena Platon	6–2, 4–2 ret.
Win	4–2	Nov 2013	ITF Antalya, Turkey	10,000	Clay	Martina Kubiciková	6–7(5), 6–2, 6–2
Win	5–2	Dec 2013	ITF Antalya, Turkey	10,000	Clay	Conny Perrin	6–2, 7–5
Win	6–2	Feb 2014	ITF Antalya, Turkey	10,000	Clay	Alyona Sotnikova	5–7, 6–1, 6–3
Win	7–2	Feb 2014	ITF Antalya, Turkey	10,000	Clay	Sofia Kvatsabaia	6–3, 6–2
Win	8–2	May 2014	ITF Bol, Croatia	10,000	Clay	Tena Lukas	6–2, 7–5
Win	9–2	Jun 2014	ITF Sibiu, Romania	10,000	Clay	Nicoleta Dascălu	6–2, 6–4
Win	10–2	Jul 2014	ITF Galați, Romania	10,000	Clay	Irina Bara	7–6(3), 3–6, 6–2
Win	11–2	Sep 2014	ITF Galați, Romania	10,000	Clay	Elizaveta Ianchuk	6–3, 6–3
Win	12–2	Dec 2014	ITF Mérida, Mexico	25,000	Hard	Beatriz Haddad Maia	3–6, 6–3, 6–1
Loss	12–3	Feb 2015	St. Petersburg Trophy, Russia	50,000	Hard (i)	Jeļena Ostapenko	6–3, 5–7, 2–6
Loss	12–4	Nov 2016	Shenzhen Open, China	100,000	Hard	Peng Shuai	6–3, 5–7, 4–6
Loss	12–5	May 2019	ITF Cancún, Mexico	15,000	Hard	Marcela Zacarías	3–6, 3–6
Loss	12–6	Jun 2019	ITF Cancún, Mexico	15,000	Hard	Thaisa Grana Pedretti	4–6, 4–6
Win	13–6	Jun 2019	ITF Cancún, Mexico	15,000	Hard	Fernanda Contreras	6–0, 6–0
Win	14–6	Jun 2019	ITF Cancún, Mexico	15,000	Hard	Melany Krywoj	6–2, 4–6, 6–3
Loss	14–7	Oct 2019	ITF Seville, Spain	25,000	Clay	Arantxa Rus	4–6, 4–6
Loss	14–8	Jan 2020	Canberra International, Australia[b]	25,000	Hard	Magdalena Fręch	w/o
Loss	14–9	Feb 2020	ITF Nonthaburi, Thailand	25,000	Hard	Irina Fetecău	3–6, 0–0 ret.
Win	15–9	Sep 2022	ITF Varna, Bulgaria	15,000	Clay	Lucija Ćirić Bagarić	6–1, 6–0
Loss	15–10	Oct 2022	ITF Antalya, Turkey	15,000	Hard	Anca Todoni	2–6, 6–7(4–7)

Doubles: 13 (5 titles, 8 runner–ups)

Result	W–L	Date	Tournament	Tier	Surface	Partner	Opponents	Score
Loss	0–1	Jan 2012	ITF Antalya, Turkey	10,000	Clay	Patricia Chirea	Anastasia Frolova Eugeniya Pashkova	4–6, 6–7(2)
Loss	0–2	Jun 2012	ITF Arad, Romania	10,000	Clay	Alexandra Damaschin	Viktora Malova Lina Gjorcheska	w/o
Win	1–2	Jul 2012	ITF Iași, Romania	10,000	Clay	Alexandra Damaschin	Martina Kubicikova Tereza Malikova	6–3, 3–6, [11–9]
Loss	1–3	Feb 2013	ITF Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt	10,000	Hard	Elena-Teodora Cadar	Alice Savoretti Despina Papamichail	3–6, 4–6
Loss	1–4	Aug 2013	ITF Bucharest, Romania	10,000	Clay	Raluca Elena Platon	Ioana Loredana Roșca Irina Bara	4–6, 4–6
Loss	1–5	Dec 2013	ITF Antalya, Turkey	10,000	Clay	Gabriela Talabă	Irina Bara Conny Perrin	3–6, 1–6
Loss	1–6	Feb 2014	ITF Antalya, Turkey	10,000	Hard	Gabriela Talabă	Li Yihong Zhu Lin	2–6, ret.
Win	2–6	May 2014	ITF Bol, Croatia	10,000	Clay	Pernilla Mendesova	Raluca Elena Platon Irina Bara	w/o
Win	3–6	Jun 2014	ITF Galați, Romania	10,000	Clay	Camelia Hristea	Maryna Kolb Nadiya Kolb	6–3, 6–1
Loss	3–7	Aug 2014	ITF Mamaia, Romania	25,000	Clay	Georgia Crăciun	Irina Bara Andreea Mitu	4–6, 1–6
Win	4–7	Oct 2014	ITF Victoria, Mexico	25,000	Hard	Maria Fernanda Alves	Carolina Betancourt Lenka Wienerová	6–1, 6–2
Loss	4–8	Nov 2014	Asunción Open, Paraguay	50,000	Clay	Anastasia Pivovarova	Guadalupe Pérez Rojas Sofía Luini	3–6, 3–6
Win	5–8	Sep 2022	ITF Varna, Bulgaria	15,000	Clay	Maria Toma	Melis Sezer Julia Stamatova	6–4, 6–4

Personal life

Țig met her future husband Răzvan Sabău when she began coming to his academy for training around 2015. However, as time passed, the two began liking each other and eventually started dating. Born in 1994, Tig is 17 years younger than Sabău.^[11] Under his guidance, Tig made tremendous progress despite recurring injuries, which forced her out of the court once for nearly two years in the late 2010s. Tig achieved a career-high WTA singles ranking of No. 56 on 26 October 2020.^[11]

They had a daughter named Sofia in November 2018. Tig and Sabău were not married at the time of their daughter’s birth, but they eventually did.^[11] The couple ended their relationship in 2021. Although Sabău had initially taken Sofia with him, Tig later won custody of her daughter.^[11] Sabău left coaching tennis following this separation from Tig and began living in Cyprus, where he began to play professional poker.^[12]

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