Ana Catarina Nogueira (born 20 September 1978) is a Portuguese professional padel player and former international tennis player.
Biography Born in Porto, Nogueira holds the Portugal Fed Cup record for most ties played and is the most successful doubles player in the team's history. She featured in 36 ties between 1997 and 2008, winning 22 matches, 16 of which came in doubles.
Nogueira won three ITF singles titles and had a best ranking of 383 in the world. Most of her WTA Tour main-draw appearances came in her home country's events, including the Estoril Open where she played in the singles main draw as a wild card on four occasions.
She now competes on the World Padel Tour and in 2018 became the first Portuguese player to win a tournament.
ITF finals Singles (3–3) $25,000 tournaments $10,000 tournaments Result No. Date Tournament Surface Opponent ScoreLoss 1. 30 July 2000 Vancouver, Canada Hard Annica Cooper 2–6, 1–6Loss 2. 5 August 2001 Pontevedra, Spain Hard Arantxa Parra Santonja 3–6, 1–6Win 1. 20 June 2004 Montemor-o-Novo, Portugal Hard Lizaan du Plessis 6–2, 6–3Win 2. 15 August 2004 Albufeira, Portugal Hard Irina Kotkina 7–5, 6–0Loss 3. 25 July 2006 A Coruña, Spain Hard Sara del Barrio Aragón 3–6, 6–7(4)Win 3. 14 October 2007 Espinho, Portugal Clay Claire de Gubernatis 7–5, 3–6, 6–1
Doubles (3–3) Result No. Date Tournament Surface Partner Opponents ScoreWin 1. 30 November 1998 Mallorca, Spain Clay Yoriko Yamagishi Silvia Sosnarová Marie Vrba 6–4, 3–6, 6–1Loss 1. 17 May 1999 Elvas, Portugal Hard Ayami Takase Hanna-Katri Aalto Kirsi Lampinen 4–6, 4–6Loss 2. 27 February 2000 Vilamoura, Portugal Hard Nicola Payne Maria Elena Camerin Barbara Hellwig 2–6, 0–6Loss 3. 7 May 2001 Mersin, Turkey Clay Angela Cardoso Duygu Akşit Oal Elena Yaryshka 1–6, 4–6Win 2. 25 June 2001 Elvas, Portugal Hard Maria Fernanda Alves Oleksandra Kravets Arantxa Parra Santonja 6–3, 6–4Win 3. 21 August 2005 Coimbra, Portugal Hard María José Martínez Sánchez Angelique Kerber Tatjana Priachin 6–4, 7–6(1)
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