Steffi Faasusivaitele Hearthington Carruthers (born 24 May 1993) is a Samoan former tennis player. She is the first Samoan woman to play professional tennis and the first Pacific Oceanian player to win a professional tournament.
Carruthers is from the village of Vailima, and was educated at Vaiala Beach School and Samoa College. and has played tennis since the age of 5, and competed in her first international tournament at the age of 10. She is named after German tennis player Steffi Graf.
Carruthers has career-high WTA rankings of 662 in singles and 556 in doubles. In her career, she won two ITF titles in doubles.
Playing for Pacific Oceania in Fed Cup, Carruthers has a win-loss record of 11–11.
Carruthers began training to become a professional in 2012, and played her first professional season in 2014. She later competed in the 2017 Pacific Mini Games in Port Vila, Vanuatu, winning gold in the doubles, gold in the singles, silver in the mixed doubles, and bronze in the women's team events. At the 2019 Pacific Games in Apia she won silver in the women's team event.
In 2016 she was nominated as Sports Woman of the Year in the annual SASNOC sports awards.
ITF finals Doubles (2–1) Legend $100,000 tournaments $75,000 tournaments $50,000 tournaments $25,000 tournaments $15,000 tournaments $10,000 tournamentsFinals by surfaceHard (1–1)Clay (1–0)Grass (0–0)Carpet (0–0) ResultNo.DateTournamentSurfacePartnerOpponentsScoreWin 1. 6 June 2015 ITF Manzanillo, Mexico Hard Carolina Betancourt Tornado Alicia Black Dasha Ivanova 6–3, 6–3Win 2. 12 September 2015 ITF Bol, Croatia Clay Alina Silich Barbara Kotelesova Natalija Sipek 7–6(3), 3–6, [10–5]Loss 1. 6 November 2015 GB Pro-Series Loughborough, United Kingdom Hard Sabastiani Leon Freya Christie Lisa Whybourn 1–6, 2–6
ITF Junior Circuit finals Category G1Category G2Category G3Category G4Category G5
Singles (0–1) ResultNo.DateTournamentSurfaceOpponentScoreLoss 1. 2 October 2010 Auckland, New Zealand Hard Anaève Pain 1–6, 0–6
Doubles (5–3) ResultNo.DateTournamentSurfacePartnerOpponentsScoreLoss 1. 27 June 2008 Nouméa, New Caledonia Hard Anaève Pain Abigail Tere-Apisah Harriet Sheahan 6–7(6), 6–0, 1–6Win 2. 5 July 2008 Lautoka, Fiji Hard Anaève Pain Celina Goetti Athena Nathalia 6–2, 7–6(5)Win 3. 31 January 2009 Christchurch, New Zealand Hard Anaève Pain Leela Beattie Gabrielle Grady 5–7, 6–2, [10–4]Loss 4. 19 July 2009 Darwin, Australia Hard Abigail Tere-Apisah Miyu Kato Risa Ozaki 3–6, 6–3, [9–11]Win 5. 26 June 2010 Nouméa, New Caledonia Hard Emily Burns Kaede Amano Asuka Sakamoto 6–2, 6–3Loss 6. 4 July 2010 Lautoka, Fiji Hard Anaève Pain Emily Fanning Heidi Stewart 1–6, 0–6Win 7. 25 September 2010 Hamilton, New Zealand Hard Anaève Pain Paige Hourigan Claudia Williams 6–4, 6–1Win 8. 2 October 2010 Auckland, New Zealand Hard Anaève Pain Carli Davis Danielle Feneridis 6–2, 6–4
Fed Cup participation Singles (4–5) EditionRoundDateLocationAgainstSurfaceOpponentW/LScore R/R 14 April 2015 Hyderabad, India Indonesia Hard (i) Deria Nur HalizaL 2–6, 0–6 15 April 2015 Sri Lanka Thisuri MolligodaW 6–2, 6–7(5), 6–1 P/O 17 April 2015 Singapore Wee Khee-yenW 6–2, 6–0 R/R 11 April 2016 Hua Hin, Thailand Hong Kong Hard Zhang LingL 5–7, 3–6 12 April 2016 Iran Sara AmiriW 6–0, 6–1 13 April 2016 Philippines Katharina LehnertL 0–6, 2–6 P/O 16 April 2016 Indonesia Deria Nur HalizaL 3–6, 1–6 R/R 19 July 2017 Dushanbe, Tajikistan Iran Hard Yasmin MansouriW 6–4, 6–2 20 July 2017 Hong Kong Eudice ChongL 5–7, 3–6
Doubles (1–2) EditionRoundDateLocationAgainstSurfacePartnerOpponentsW/LScore R/R 15 April 2015Hyderabad, India Sri LankaHard (i) Brittany Teei Amreetha Muttiah Medhira SamarasingheW 6–3, 3–6, 6–3 R/R 11 April 2016 Hua Hin, Thailand Hong Kong Hard Abigail Tere-Apisah Sher Chun-wing Zhang LingL 3–6, 2–6 13 April 2016 Philippines Abigail Tere-Apisah Khim Iglupas Katharina LehnertL 4–6, 3–6
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