Angélica Gavaldón

Angélica Gavaldón was a Mexican tennis player who played professionally from 1990 to 2000. Gavaldón achieved a career-best singles ranking of 34 in the world in January 1996. Gavaldón had her best success on the ITF circuit at San Luis Potosí, Mexico where she won three of her four career titles. She won her singles titles in 1991 and 1992, beating Canadian Suzanne Italiano and Maureen Drake, respectively. In 1991 she also won her only doubles title when she teamed with Xóchitl Escobedo. Gavaldón’s only other ITF title came in June 1997 in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, when she beat Israel’s Anna Smashnova in the singles.

At Grand Slams Gavaldón reached the quarter-finals of the singles at the Australian Open on two occasions (1990, 1995). She competed at the 1992 Barcelona Olympics and the 1996 Atlanta Olympics. In Barcelona she reached the third round in the singles, and competed in the doubles with Lupita Novelo. At the 1996 Games she reached the second round in the singles where she lost to Gabriela Sabatini in straight sets.