Cláudia Chabalgoity
# Cláudia Chabalgoity

Cláudia Silvia Chabalgoity (born 13 March 1971) is a former professional tennis player from Brazil.

## Biography

Born in Brasilia, Chabalgoity began playing tennis at the age of three. She has an elder brother, Carlos, who also played briefly on the pro tour.

Right-handed Chabalgoity began touring internationally in 1989 and won two ITF $25k titles that year, one at home in São Paulo and the other in the Spanish city of Pamplona. She had a best singles ranking of 121, attained in 1990. As a doubles player, she made it to 102 in the world and was runner-up in two WTA Tour tournaments. She appeared in the main draw of two Grand Slam events, the women's doubles at the 1990 US Open, then both the women's doubles and mixed doubles at the 1991 French Open.

During her career, she represented Brazil in several international competitions. As a member of the Brazil Fed Cup team, she featured in a total of six ties, all across 1990 and 1991 (overall record: 1–7). Her only win was in singles, against Bulgaria's Elena Pampoulova. At the 1991 Pan American Games in Havana, she was a gold medalist in the team competition, and also won silver medals in both the women's doubles and mixed doubles events. She competed for Brazil in the women's doubles tournament at the 1992 Summer Olympics, where she and partner Andrea Vieira won their first-round match against Sweden's Catarina Lindqvist and Maria Lindström, before being beaten by the bronze medal-winning Australian team in the second round.

She now runs a tennis school in Brasilia for people with disabilities.

## WTA career finals

### Doubles: 2 (2 runner-ups)

| Result | Date | Tournament | Tier | Surface | Partner | Opponents | Score |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Loss | Dec 1989 | Brasil Open | Tier V | Hard | Luciana Corsato | Mercedes Paz Patricia Tarabini | 2–6, 2–6 |
| Loss | Oct 1993 | Brasil Open | Tier IV | Clay | Andrea Vieira | Sabine Hack Veronika Martinek | 2–6, 6–7 |

## ITF finals

* $25,000 tournaments
* $10,000 tournaments

### Singles: 10 (4–6)

| Result | No. | Date | Tournament | Surface | Opponent | Score |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Loss | 1. | 16 July 1989 | ITF Caserta, Italy | Clay | Mara Eijkenboom | 5–7, 7–5, 3–6 |
| Win | 1. | 17 September 1989 | ITF Pamplona, Spain | Clay | Ulrike Priller | 6–3, 6–3 |
| Win | 2. | 10 December 1989 | ITF São Paulo, Brazil | Clay | Luciana Corsato-Owsianka | 6–1, 7–5 |
| Loss | 2. | 25 March 1990 | ITF Moulins, France | Carpet (i) | Naoko Sawamatsu | 3–6, 1–6 |
| Loss | 3. | 2 April 1990 | ITF Turin, Italy | Clay | Sandra Dopfer | 2–6, ret. |
| Loss | 4. | 14 May 1990 | ITF Cascais, Portugal | Clay | Catherine Mothes-Jobkel | 3–6, 2–6 |
| Win | 3. | 30 August 1992 | ITF Querétaro, Mexico | Hard | María Virginia Francesa | 6–2, 6–3 |
| Loss | 5. | 19 October 1992 | ITF Buenos Aires, Argentina | Clay | Mariana Díaz Oliva | 4–6, 6–2, 2–6 |
| Win | 4. | 11 April 1993 | ITF Athens, Greece | Clay | Irina Zvereva | 6–2, 4–6, 6–3 |
| Loss | 6. | 19 July 1993 | ITF Bilbao, Spain | Clay | Neus Ávila | 3–6, 0–6 |

### Doubles: 7 (4–3)

| Result | No. | Date | Tournament | Surface | Partner | Opponents | Score |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Loss | 1. | 31 October 1988 | ITF Guarujá, Brazil | Clay | Luciana Della Casa | Carin Bakkum Simone Schilder | 6–0, 3–6, 4–6 |
| Winner | 1. | 11 September 1989 | ITF Pamplona, Spain | Hard | Ana Segura | Eva Bes Virginia Ruano Pascual | 6–3, 6–0 |
| Win | 2. | 12 November 1990 | ITF Porto Alegre, Brazil | Clay | Luciana Tella | Anne Grousbeck Lihini Weerasuriya | 6–1, 6–1 |
| Win | 3. | 25 November 1990 | ITF Florianópolis, Brazil | Clay | Christina Rozwadowski | Tatiana Buss Alessandra Kaul | 6–0, 6–1 |
| Loss | 2. | 13 April 1992 | ITF Mexico City | Hard | Isabela Petrov | Lucila Becerra Xóchitl Escobedo | 3–6, 2–6 |
| Winner | 4. | 23 August 1992 | ITF Cuernavaca, Mexico | Hard | Isabela Petrov | Estelle Gevers Liezel Huber | 7–5, 5–7, 6–2 |
| Loss | 3. | 15 November 1993 | ITF La Plata, Argentina | Clay | Larissa Schaerer | Laura Montalvo Mercedes Paz | 1–6, 4–6 |
