Bahia Mouhtassine (born 23 August 1979 in Mohammedia

Mohammedia

Mohammedia is a port city on the west coast of Morocco located between Casablanca and Rabat in the region of Greater Casablanca. It hosts the most important oil refinery of Morocco, Samir, which makes it the center of the Moroccan petrol...

) is a former Moroccan

Morocco

Morocco , officially the Kingdom of Morocco , is a country located in North Africa. It has a population of more than 32 million and an area of 710,850 km², and also primarily administers the disputed region of the Western Sahara...

 professional

Professional

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 tennis player. Her career high singles ranking is No.139, achieved on 24 June 2002. She is the highest ever ranked player from Morocco.

Mouhtassine is the first and only Moroccan player yet to feature at the main draw of a Grand Slam tournament

Grand Slam (tennis)

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. She lost in the first rounds of the 2002 Australian Open

2002 Australian Open

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 and 2003 French Open

2003 French Open

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 to Spanish Anabel Medina Garrigues

Anabel Medina Garrigues

Ana Isabel Medina Garrigues , better known as Anabel Medina, is a Spanish female tennis player. She reached a career high WTA Tour ranking of No. 16 on 4 May 2009, and has won 11 singles titles and 14 doubles titles, including the 2008 French Open and 2009 French Open with Virginia Ruano Pascual...

 and Czech Zuzana Ondrášková

Zuzana Ondrášková

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, repectively.

 In her career, Mouhtassine has won 11 ITF Women's Circuit

ITF Women's Circuit

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 singles titles, 9 doubles titles and played on many WTA Tour events. She has won 6 gold medal

Gold medal

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s at the Pan Arab Games

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 and one gold at the Mediterranean Games

Mediterranean Games

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, representing Morocco. Mouthassine's biggest career win was at the Grand Prix SAR La Princesse Lalla Meryem

Grand Prix SAR La Princesse Lalla Meryem

The Grand Prix SAR La Princesse Lalla Meryem is a women's professional tennis tournament held in Fes, Morocco.  This WTA Tour event is classified as an International tournament and is played on outdoor clay courts. It is the only WTA tournament held in Africa....

 in Casablanca

Casablanca

Casablanca is a city in western Morocco, located on the Atlantic Ocean. It is the capital of the Grand Casablanca region.Casablanca is Morocco's largest city as well as its chief port. It is also the biggest city in the Maghreb. The 2004 census recorded a population of 2,949,805 in the prefecture...

 in 2004. She upset 3rd-seeded Slovenian Katarina Srebotnik

Katarina Srebotnik

Katarina Srebotnik is a Slovenian professional tennis player. Srebotnik is right-handed, 1.80 m, weighs 65 kg and lives in Dubai. She reached a career-high ranking of No. 20 on the Sony Ericsson WTA Tour on August 7, 2006.Srebotnik won 4 singles titles on the WTA-tour and was a steady top 30...

, who was ranked 183 spots above her, in straight sets, 6-3, 7-5. She has also beaten Indian Sania Mirza

Sania Mirza

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 at an ITF final in Rabat

Rabat

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 in 2004. 

Bahia retired after losing in the first round of the 2007 Grand Prix SAR La Princesse Lalla Meryem

2007 Grand Prix SAR La Princesse Lalla Meryem

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 to American Vania King

Vania King

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.