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Katia Piccolini

ITA Age 53 168 cm / 5'6" Plays: Right-Handed WTA Tour years active: 1989–1993

Katia Piccolini represented Italy on the WTA Tour and reached a career-high ranking of No. 37. In TennisDB's records, Katia Piccolini finished with a career record of 29–40 and one singles title. Pre-2000 WTA match coverage is incomplete, so the career record may be understated.

Peak singles rank

37 (Jul 22, 1991)

Elo peak

1694 (57th percentile)

Singles record

29–40 (42.0%)

Singles titles

Prize money

$185,854

Records cover recorded main-draw singles results in TennisDB's WTA event archive, including credited walkovers; qualifying is shown separately below.

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WTA Matches full match log →

Katia Piccolini's recent, live, and scheduled WTA matches
Opponent	Score	Result	H2H	Match Data	Date	Round	Tournament	Category	Surface
Adriana Serra Zanetti #228	0-6 6-7	L	H2H	Match data	Jul 29, 1993*	R32	San Marino	WTA 250	Clay
Andrea Strnadova #110	2-6 6-3 3-6	L	H2H	Match data	Jul 16, 1993*	R32	Prague	WTA 250	Clay
Marzia Grossi #155	4-6 2-6	L	H2H	Match data	Jul 9, 1993*	R32	Palermo	WTA 250	Clay
Sandra Wasserman #115	2-6 6-7(4)	L	H2H	Match data	May 26, 1993*	R128	Roland Garros	Grand Slam	Clay
Claudia Porwik #119	7-5 4-6 0-6	L	H2H	Match data	May 20, 1993*	R32	Lucerne	WTA 250	Clay

Rivals all rivalries →

Katia Piccolini's most-played WTA rivals
Opponent	W	L	M	Last Played	H2H
Marzia Grossi	0	2	2	Jul 9, 1993	H2H
Maja Zivec Skulj	0	2	2	May 5, 1993	H2H
Sabine Hack	1	1	2	Apr 23, 1993	H2H
Petra Langrova	0	2	2	Jul 9, 1992	H2H
Silvia Farina Elia	1	1	2	Jul 21, 1991	H2H

Titles (1)

Katia Piccolini titles by season and category
Season	Age	Titles	GS	WTA 1000 including documented historical predecessor categories	WTA 500 including documented historical predecessor categories	WTA 250 including documented historical predecessor categories	WTA Finals	Tournaments
1991	18	1	—	—	—	1	—	San Marino
Total		1	—	—	—	1	—

Asterisked totals include editions mapped from documented historical predecessor categories. Mapping details.

Olympic Singles Results (1)

Katia Piccolini Olympic singles results
Edition	Event	Result	W	L	Last Match	H2H	Match Data
1992	Barcelona Olympics	First Round	0	1	Nicole Bradtke #36 def. Katia Piccolini #124 6-1 6-0	H2H	Match data

Career Results

Katia Piccolini career results by season
Season	Age	W	L	M	Win %	Start Rank	End Rank
1989	16	3	2	5	60.0%	308	180
1990	17	14	9	23	60.9%	180	47
1991	18	10	10	20	50.0%	49	64
1992	19	2	10	12	16.7%	62	102
1993	20	0	9	9	0.0%	102	197
Career		29	40	69	42.0%	—	—

Career Results by Surface

Katia Piccolini career results by season and surface
Season	Age	Hard				Clay				Grass				Total
Season	Age	W	L	M	Win %	W	L	M	Win %	W	L	M	Win %	W	L	M	Win %
1989	16	—	—	—	—	3	2	5	60.0%	—	—	—	—	3	2	5	60.0%
1990	17	2	1	3	66.7%	12	7	19	63.2%	0	1	1	0.0%	14	9	23	60.9%
1991	18	0	2	2	0.0%	10	8	18	55.6%	—	—	—	—	10	10	20	50.0%
1992	19	0	2	2	0.0%	2	8	10	20.0%	—	—	—	—	2	10	12	16.7%
1993	20	0	1	1	0.0%	0	8	8	0.0%	—	—	—	—	0	9	9	0.0%
Career	—	2	6	8	25.0%	27	33	60	45.0%	0	1	1	0.0%	29	40	69	42.0%

Career Results by Opponent Rank

Katia Piccolini career results by season and opponent rank
Season	Age	1-10				11-30				31-100				100+				Total
Season	Age	W	L	M	Win %	W	L	M	Win %	W	L	M	Win %	W	L	M	Win %	W	L	M	Win %
1989	16	0	0	—	—	0	0	—	—	1	1	2	50.0%	2	1	3	66.7%	3	2	5	60.0%
1990	17	0	2	2	0.0%	2	1	3	66.7%	4	4	8	50.0%	5	1	6	83.3%	11	8	19	57.9%
1991	18	0	3	3	0.0%	0	1	1	0.0%	1	3	4	25.0%	5	2	7	71.4%	6	9	15	40.0%
1992	19	0	0	—	—	0	0	—	—	0	6	6	0.0%	2	1	3	66.7%	2	7	9	22.2%
1993	20	0	0	—	—	0	1	1	0.0%	0	1	1	0.0%	0	6	6	0.0%	0	8	8	0.0%
Career		0	5	5	0.0%	2	3	5	40.0%	6	15	21	28.6%	14	11	25	56.0%	22	34	56	39.3%

Opponent ranking data available for 56/69 (81.2%) of Katia Piccolini's WTA main draw matches.

Advanced Stats

Katia Piccolini advanced statistics by season
Season	Age	Elo	P+	Serve+	Return+	PD	TPW%	Hard Elo	Clay Elo	Grass Elo	Set Win %	Set Margin	Dec. Set	Tiebreak	Pressure+	Schedule
1989	16	1537	109.8	—	—	—	—	—	+55	—	63.6%	+0.73	0–1	—	—	+0.67
1990	17	1668	127.8	—	—	—	—	-88	+43	—	61.1%	+0.63	3–5 (38%)	4–2 (67%)	100.8	+1.37
1991	18	1668	121.0	—	—	—	—	—	+80	—	48.8%	-0.26	2–1 (67%)	3–1 (75%)	102.5	+0.25
1992	19	1549	88.8	—	—	—	—	—	+29	—	21.4%	-2.11	2–2 (50%)	2–1 (67%)	100.2	+0.48
1993	20	1435	87.8	—	—	—	—	—	+1	—	10.0%	-3.15	0–2	0–2	—	+0.43
Career		1694	113.9	—	—	—	—	-88	+47	—	44.2%	-0.58	7–11 (39%)	9–6 (60%)	98.5	+4.64

Tournament Results by Category

Grand Slams

Katia Piccolini Grand Slams results by season
Season	Age	RG	W	USO	W-L Win %
1990	17	R128	R128	R32	2–3 (40%)
1991	18	R128	—	R128	0–2 (0%)
1992	19	R64	—	—	1–1 (50%)
1993	20	R128	—	—	0–1 (0%)
W-L		1–4 (20%)	0–1 (0%)	2–2 (50%)	3–7 (30%)

WTA 1000

Katia Piccolini WTA 1000 results by season
Season	Age	ITA	BER	BOC	CAN	HIL	KEY	W-L Win %
1990	17	R64	R16	—	—	—	—	2–2 (50%)
1991	18	R16	R64	—	R64	R64	—	2–4 (33%)
1992	19	R64	R32	R64	—	—	R128	1–4 (20%)
1993	20	R64	—	—	—	—	R128	0–2 (0%)
W-L		2–4 (33%)	3–3 (50%)	0–1 (0%)	0–1 (0%)	0–1 (0%)	0–2 (0%)	5–12 (29%)

WTA 500

Katia Piccolini WTA 500 results by season
Season	Age	BAR	W-L Win %
1993	20	R32	0–1 (0%)
W-L		0–1 (0%)	0–1 (0%)

WTA 250

Katia Piccolini WTA 250 results by season
Season	Age	BAR	EST	GEN	ATH	LUC	PAL	PRA	SAN	STR	TAR	W-L Win %
1989	16	—	SF	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	R32	3–2 (60%)
1990	17	—	QF	—	F	—	QF	—	—	—	QF	10–4 (71%)
1991	18	R16	—	R16	—	—	R32	—	W	—	R32	8–4 (67%)
1992	19	—	—	—	—	—	R32	—	R32	R32	R32	0–4 (0%)
1993	20	—	—	—	—	R32	R32	R32	R32	—	R32	0–5 (0%)
W-L		2–1 (67%)	5–2 (71%)	1–1 (50%)	4–1 (80%)	0–1 (0%)	2–4 (33%)	0–1 (0%)	5–2 (71%)	0–1 (0%)	2–5 (29%)	21–19 (52%)

Results show the best round reached per tournament and season.

WTA Ranking History full ranking history →

Career high

Career-high date

Jul 22, 1991

First Top 100

May 21, 1990

First Top 50

Sep 24, 1990

First Top 20

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First Top 10

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Ranking History Matrix

Katia Piccolini ranking history by month and season
Season	Age	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
1988	15	—	—	—	—	—	—	387	314	291	300	300	309
1989	16	301	301	308	288	309	303	169	167	171	172	171	180
1990	17	182	180	174	129	100	94	93	85	44	49	47	47
1991	18	48	48	41	41	52	53	37	42	67	67	62	64
1992	19	63	61	68	67	78	71	124	102	116	107	105	102
1993	20	101	98	92	112	117	136	158	185	197	—	—	—
1994	21	—	—	—	307	321	319	320	—	—	—	—	—
1997	24	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	687	601	605	607	614
1998	25	608	609	611	602	528	487	361	381	345	345	360	364
1999	26	361	358	362	345	358	362	484	504	683	604	603	600
2000	27	595	600	596	665	740	845	—	—	—	—	—	—

Data coverage: WTA match coverage from Jeff Sackmann's archive is incomplete before 2000. Career win-loss totals, surface splits, and head-to-head counts for this player's pre-2000 era may understate actual results.

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Katia Piccolini's most statistically similar WTA players
Player	Country	Peak Rank	Peak Elo	Titles	M	W	L	Win %	Years	Match Log
Laura Golarsa	ITA	39	1,761	1	307	127	180	41.4%	1985–1999	Match log
Isabelle Demongeot	FRA	35	1,841	1	276	119	157	43.1%	1984–1996	Match log
Carrie Cunningham	USA	38	1,738	0	128	54	74	42.2%	1988–1994	Match log
Eva Sviglerova	CZE	33	1,712	1	104	42	62	40.4%	1989–1994	Match log
Karin Kschwendt	AUT	37	1,712	0	195	79	116	40.5%	1989–2000	Match log
Linda Ferrando	ITA	36	1,734	0	188	87	101	46.3%	1985–1995	Match log
Elly Hakami	USA	32	1,808	1	98	43	55	43.9%	1986–1995	Match log
Ann Henricksson	USA	36	1,755	0	357	147	210	41.2%	1980–1994	Match log
Karine Quentrec	FRA	45	1,739	1	129	55	74	42.6%	1988–1994	Match log
Debbie Graham	USA	35	1,757	0	173	83	90	48.0%	1987–1996	Match log
Angelica Gavaldon	MEX	34	1,735	0	186	75	111	40.3%	1988–2000	Match log
Nathalie Herreman	FRA	42	1,727	1	257	103	154	40.1%	1982–1995	Match log

Frequently Asked Questions

How old is Katia Piccolini?: Katia Piccolini is 53 years old, born on January 15, 1973.
Which country does Katia Piccolini represent?: Katia Piccolini represents Italy in TennisDB's WTA records.
How tall is Katia Piccolini?: Katia Piccolini is 168 cm / 5'6".
Is Katia Piccolini left-handed or right-handed?: Katia Piccolini plays right-handed.
How many Grand Slam singles titles has Katia Piccolini won?: Katia Piccolini has not won a Grand Slam singles title.
How many WTA 1000 titles has Katia Piccolini won?: TennisDB does not group any of Katia Piccolini's titles under the modern WTA 1000 category.
How many WTA titles has Katia Piccolini won?: Katia Piccolini has won 1 WTA singles title across all categories. The most recent was San Marino in 1991.
What is Katia Piccolini's highest WTA ranking?: Katia Piccolini's career-high WTA singles ranking is world No. 37, first achieved on July 22, 1991.
What is Katia Piccolini's career win-loss record?: Katia Piccolini has a career WTA singles record of 29 wins and 40 losses (42.0%).
How much career prize money has Katia Piccolini earned?: Katia Piccolini has earned at least $185,854 in career prize money from professional tennis.
Which seasons of Katia Piccolini's career appear in TennisDB?: Katia Piccolini appears in TennisDB's WTA main-tour match records from 1989 through 1993.
On which surface does Katia Piccolini have the highest recorded win rate?: Among surfaces with at least 20 recorded matches, Katia Piccolini's highest WTA main-draw win rate is on clay: 45.0% (27–33).
Who has Katia Piccolini faced most often?: Katia Piccolini's most frequent opponent is Marzia Grossi, with a head-to-head record of 0–2 across 2 meetings.