Emanuela Zardo is a former professional female tennis

Tennis

Tennis is a sport usually played between two players or between two teams of two players each . Each player uses a racket that is strung to strike a hollow rubber ball covered with felt over a net into the opponent's court. Tennis is an Olympic sport and is played at all levels of society at all...

 player who competed for Switzerland. She was active on the WTA Tour

Women's Tennis Association

The Women's Tennis Association , founded in 1973 by Billie Jean King, is the principal organizing body of Women's Professional Tennis. It governs the WTA Tour which is the worldwide professional tennis tour for women. Its counterpart organization in the men's professional game is the Association of...

 in the late 1980s and through the 1990s, and was among the top 100 in the world between 1990 and 1994.

Zardo reached her highest ranking of No. 27 on May 6, 1991. She won one WTA singles title, and was also twice a runner-up in singles competition.

Her best performance at a Grand Slam occurred at the 1994 Australian Open

1994 Australian Open

The 1994 Australian Open was a tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts at Flinders Park in Melbourne in Victoria in Australia...

, when she made the fourth round before losing to Jana Novotná

Jana Novotná

Jana Novotná is a former professional tennis player from the Czech Republic. She played a serve and volley game, an increasingly rare style of play among women during her career. She won the women's singles title at Wimbledon in 1998 and was runner-up in three previous Grand Slam tournaments...

.

Wins (1)

Legend (Singles) WTA Championship (0) Grand Slam (0) Tier I (0) Tier II (0) Tier III (0) Tier IV/V (1)

Titles by Surface Hard (0) Clay (1) Grass (0) Carpet (0)

No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Opponent in the Final	Score
1.	April 29, 1991	Taranto Ilva Trophy The Ilva Trophy is a defunct WTA Tour affiliated tennis tournament played from 1984 to 1994, with the exception of 1986 and 1987. It was held in Taranto in Italy and played on outdoor clay courts. It was a Tier V tournament until 1992 and was promoted to Tier IV for its last two... , Italy Italy Italy , officially the Italian Republic languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Italy's official name is as follows:;;;;;;;;), is a unitary parliamentary republic in South-Central Europe. To the north it borders France, Switzerland, Austria and...	Clay	Petra Ritter	7–5, 6–2

Runners-up (2)

No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Opponent in the Final	Score
1.	April 27, 1992	Taranto Ilva Trophy The Ilva Trophy is a defunct WTA Tour affiliated tennis tournament played from 1984 to 1994, with the exception of 1986 and 1987. It was held in Taranto in Italy and played on outdoor clay courts. It was a Tier V tournament until 1992 and was promoted to Tier IV for its last two... , Italy Italy Italy , officially the Italian Republic languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Italy's official name is as follows:;;;;;;;;), is a unitary parliamentary republic in South-Central Europe. To the north it borders France, Switzerland, Austria and...	Clay	Julie Halard	6–0, 7–5
2.	September 14, 1992	Paris Clarins Open The Open Clarins is a defunct WTA Tour affiliated tennis tournament played from 1987 to 1992. It was held in Paris in France and played on outdoor clay courts. It was a Tier V tournament until 1989 and was subsequently promoted to Tier IV, raising prize money from $50,000 to $150,000. It was... , France France The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...	Clay	Sandra Cecchini Sandra Cecchini Anna-Maria Cecchini is a former Italian professional tennis player.Cecchini or Sandra as she was known on the WTA tour, played from 1981 to 1998 and won 11 singles titles. Her most notable Grand Slam performance came in her first appearance at Roland Garros in 1984, when she reached the quarter...	6–2, 6–1

Grand Slam Singles performance

Tournament	1990	1991	1992	1993	1994	1995
Australian Open Australian Open The Australian Open is the only Grand Slam tennis tournament held in the southern hemisphere. The tournament was held for the first time in 1905 and was last contested on grass in 1987. Since 1972 the Australian Open has been held in Melbourne, Victoria. In 1988, the tournament became a hard court...	1R	1R	1R	1R	4R	1R
French Open	1R	2R	2R	1R	1R	A
Wimbledon	A	2R	A	1R	1R	A
US Open	2R	2R	2R	2R	2R	A