Riza Zalameda
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Riza Angela Zalameda (born 10th February 1986) is an American
United States
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professional
Professional
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tennis
Tennis
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player of Filipino
Filipino people
The Filipino people or Filipinos are an Austronesian ethnic group native to the islands of the Philippines. There are about 92 million Filipinos in the Philippines, and about 11 million living outside the Philippines ....
background.
Zalameda plays for United States on the WTA Tour and the ITF Women's Circuit
ITF Women's Circuit
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. She has won 5 medals at the Southeast Asian Games
Tennis at the Southeast Asian Games
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, representing Philippines
Philippines
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Zalameda has 2 ITF singles titles and 6 doubles titles. Her career high singles ranking is No.534 (achieved on the 24th of July, 2006) and her career high doubles ranking is No.76 (achieved on the 12th of April, 2010).
Riza was born to Filipino parents Rolly and Angie Zalameda in Los Angeles
Los Ángeles
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. She started playing tennis at 5. She is coached by her father, Rolly. Her favourite surface is hard.
ITF singles titles
- 15 November 2005
$10,000 ManilaManilaManila is the capital of the Philippines. It is one of the sixteen cities forming Metro Manila.Manila is located on the eastern shores of Manila Bay and is bordered by Navotas and Caloocan to the north, Quezon City to the northeast, San Juan and Mandaluyong to the east, Makati on the southeast,...
, Philippines- def.
Chan Venise Wing-yau, 6-3, 6-2 - 27 June 2006
$10,000 Edmond, OK, United States- def. Alexa GlatchAlexa Glatch-Junior career:She started playing tennis at the age of five. As a junior player, she won the prestigious Easter Bowl title in the Girls 14s and Girls 18s divisions and the Orange Bowl in the Girls 16s division in 2004. She achieved a World Junior Ranking of #5 in 2005, advancing to the 2005 US...
, 6-4, 6-1
ITF doubles titles
- 20 November 2005 $10,000 ManilaManilaManila is the capital of the Philippines. It is one of the sixteen cities forming Metro Manila.Manila is located on the eastern shores of Manila Bay and is bordered by Navotas and Caloocan to the north, Quezon City to the northeast, San Juan and Mandaluyong to the east, Makati on the southeast,...
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- 8 August 2009
$75,000 VancouverVancouverVancouver is a coastal seaport city on the mainland of British Columbia, Canada. It is the hub of Greater Vancouver, which, with over 2.3 million residents, is the third most populous metropolitan area in the country,...
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