Celeste Contín

Celeste Contín
Country (sports)	Argentina
Born	17 February 1978 (age 46)
Prize money	$68,132
Singles
Career record	177-116
Career titles	8 ITF
Highest ranking	No. 236 (20 July 1998)
Doubles
Career record	121-85
Career titles	11 ITF
Highest ranking	No. 142 (8 September 1997)

Celeste Contín (born 17 February 1978) is a former professional tennis player from Argentina.

Biography

Contín, who reached a career-high singles ranking of 236 in the world, competed mostly on the ITF Circuit, winning eight singles titles. She also has a career win over Justine Henin, whom she beat at an ITF tournament in Spartanburg in 1998.

Her career included a Fed Cup appearance for Argentina in 1998, a World Group II Play-off tie against Australia in Canberra. She played in the second singles rubber, which she lost to Nicole Pratt.^[1]

On the WTA Tour, Contín's best performance came when she won her way through to the round of 16 at the 1999 Copa Colsanitas in Bogota, having made the main draw as a qualifier.^[2]

ITF finals

Singles (8–7)

$25,000 tournaments
$10,000 tournaments

Result	No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Opponent	Score
Win	1.	8 October 1995	Lima, Peru	Hard	Maria-Farnes Capistrano	6–4, 6–3
Loss	1.	5 November 1995	Santiago, Chile	Clay	Miriam D'Agostini	2–6, 1–6
Win	2.	18 August 1996	Guayaquil, Ecuador	Clay	Kristine Kurth	6–3, 6–2
Loss	2.	8 September 1996	Santiago, Chile	Clay	Luciana Masante	4–6, 6–2, 2–6
Win	3.	15 September 1996	Buenos Aires, Argentina	Clay	Veronica Stele	7–5, 7–6
Loss	3.	3 November 1996	Minas Gerais, Brazil	Clay	Martina Nejedly	6–7⁽²⁾, 2–6
Win	4.	11 November 1996	São Paulo, Brazil	Clay	Zdeňka Málková	6–3, 6–4
Loss	4.	7 April 1997	Viña del Mar, Chile	Clay	Katalin Marosi	1–6, 4–6
Loss	5.	12 October 1997	Montevideo, Uruguay	Clay	Clarisa Fernández	6–7, 4–6
Win	5.	12 April 1998	Viña del Mar, Chile	Clay	Paula Cabezas	6–2, 6–4
Loss	6.	5 September 1999	San Juan, Argentina	Clay	Romina Ottoboni	1–6, 6–4, 4–6
Loss	7.	19 August 2002	Asunción, Paraguay	Clay	Maria Fernanda Alves	1–6, 1–6
Win	6.	1 September 2002	Santiago, Chile	Clay	Bruna Colósio	6–3, 3–6, 6–2
Win	7.	29 September 2002	San Salvador, El Salvador	Clay	Jacquelyn Rosen	4–6, 6–4, 6–2
Win	8.	6 October 2002	Mexicali, Mexico	Hard	Ana Lucía Migliarini de León	4–6, 6–3, 6–4

Doubles (11–9)

Result	No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Partner	Opponents	Score
Win	1.	8 September 1996	Santiago, Chile	Clay	Romina Ottoboni	Renata Brito Luciana Masante	6–2, 6–7, 6–3
Win	2.	15 September 1996	Buenos Aires, Argentina	Clay	Romina Ottoboni	Renata Brito María Eugenia Rojas	6–4, 4–6, 7–6
Win	3.	22 September 1996	Asunción, Paraguay	Clay	Romina Ottoboni	Mariana Faustinelli Geraldine Aizenberg	6–2, 4–6, 6–0
Win	4.	3 November 1996	Minas Gerais, Brazil	Clay	Romina Ottoboni	Martina Nejedly Lilian Silva	4–6, 6–4, 6–2
Loss	1.	7 April 1997	Viña del Mar, Chile	Clay	Luciana Masante	Katalin Marosi Veronica Stele	1–6, 7–5, 2–6
Loss	2.	4 May 1997	Balaguer, Spain	Clay	Conchita Martínez Granados	Nuria Montero Lourdes Domínguez Lino	6–0, 2–6, 4–6
Loss	3.	5 October 1997	Buenos Aires, Argentina	Clay	Romina Ottoboni	Laura Montalvo Mercedes Paz	6–4, 2–6, 4–6
Loss	4.	23 November 1997	São Paulo, Brazil	Clay	Cintia Tortorella	Vanessa Menga Miriam D'Agostini	1–6, 3–6
Loss	5.	6 April 1998	Viña del Mar, Chile	Clay	Paula Cabezas	Melisa Arévalo Daniela Muscolino	3–6, 4–6
Win	5.	27 April 1998	Hatfield, United Kingdom	Clay	Mariam Ramón Climent	Lizzie Jelfs Amanda Keen	3–6, 6–3, 6–4
Loss	6.	12 September 1998	Mexico City, Mexico	Hard	Jessica Fernández	Seda Noorlander Christína Papadáki	3–6, 1–6
Win	6.	28 November 1999	Rio de Janeiro, Brazil	Clay	Joana Cortez	Miriam D'Agostini Carla Tiene	6–1, 3–6, 6–3
Win	7.	1 April 2001	Santiago, Chile	Clay	Romina Ottoboni	Marcela Evangelista Letícia Sobral	6–1, 6–3
Win	8.	6 April 2002	Belo Horizonte, Brazil	Hard	Romina Ottoboni	Vanessa Menga Maria Fernanda Alves	6–4, 2–6, 7–5
Loss	7.	3 June 2002	Poznań, Poland	Clay	Ana Lucía Migliarini de León	Jolanda Mens Tessy van de Ven	2–6, 2–6
Win	9.	1 September 2002	Santiago, Chile	Clay	Bruna Colósio	Larissa Carvalho Soledad Esperón	w/o
Loss	8.	29 September 2002	San Salvador, El Salvador	Clay	Micaela Moran	Jacquelyn Rosen Jacqueline Froehlich	w/o
Win	10.	1 October 2002	Mexicali, Mexico	Hard	Ana Lucía Migliarini de León	Marcela Evangelista Letícia Sobral	6–4, 6–2
Win	11.	7 October 2002	Los Mochis, Mexico	Clay	Ana Lucía Migliarini de León	Jorgelina Barrera Florencia Rivolta	7–5, 6–1
Loss	9.	14 June 2002	Pachuca, Mexico	Clay	Ana Lucía Migliarini de León	Erika Clarke Graciela Vélez	0–6, 1–6