{"id":1245,"date":"2015-04-24T07:42:45","date_gmt":"2015-04-24T07:42:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mariabueno.org\/indextemp.php\/?p=1245"},"modified":"2015-04-24T07:44:16","modified_gmt":"2015-04-24T07:44:16","slug":"brazilian-wins-wta-tour-event-in-colombia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.mariabueno.org\/indextemp.php\/brazilian-wins-wta-tour-event-in-colombia\/","title":{"rendered":"Brazilian wins WTA Tour event in Colombia"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Teliana Perreira with Maria Bueno at the Rio Open, March 2014<\/p><\/div>\n

Sometimes Maria Bueno’s dominance of women’s tennis is overlooked by the younger generations because her influence in laying the foundations for the WTA Tour happened before the association was founded in 1973 and so-called official records began being formally tracked in the Open Era.<\/p>\n

It is therefore heartening to see her contribution being acknowledged by WTA staff in the following article that appeared on wtatennis.com on 21 April 2015.<\/p>\n

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Bueno, Dias, Pereira: The Connection?<\/h2>\n

BOGOT\u00c1, Colombia – On Sunday, after she won her first WTA title at the Claro Open Colsanitas in Bogot\u00e1, we at wtatennis.com told you that Teliana Pereira was the first Brazilian woman to win a WTA title since Neige Dias won Barcelona in April 1988, a few months before Pereira was even born.<\/em><\/p>\n

Well, it turns out there’s even more to it – in the entire Open Era, which began in 1968, Pereira is just the third Brazilian woman at all to win a WTA title, after Maria Bueno and Neige Dias.<\/em><\/p>\n

Bueno, whose career spanned almost three decades until she retired in 1977, won three WTA titles in the Open Era – Eastbourne and Manchester in 1968 and Tokyo [Japan Open] in 1974. But she won 71 titles all-time, including seven Grand Slam titles – three Wimbledons in 1959, 1960 and 1964 and four US Opens in 1959, 1963, 1964 and 1966. She also won 11 Grand Slam doubles titles and one mixed.<\/em><\/p>\n

The S\u00e3o Paulo native was inducted into the International Tennis Hall Of Fame in 1979.<\/em><\/p>\n

Dias won two WTA titles in her career, in Guaruja, Brazil in 1987 and in Barcelona, Spain in 1988.<\/em><\/p>\n

After her title run in Bogot\u00e1, Pereira soared from No.130 to No.81 on the WTA Rankings, passing her previous career-high of No.87. She’s the only South American player in the Top 100 and one of only two Latin American players in the Top 100, after Puerto Rico’s Monica Puig, who’s currently No.47.<\/em><\/p>\n

Check out some highlights from Pereira’s victory over Yaroslava Shvedova in the Bogot\u00e1 final here:<\/em>
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