Rebecca Marino

On 11 July 2011, she reached her highest WTA singles ranking of world No. 38. Marino was awarded Female Player of the Year by Tennis Canada two times, in 2010 and 2011.

Rebecca Marino

Marino at the 2022 French Open
Full name	Rebecca Catherine Marino
Country (sports)	Canada
Residence	Vancouver, British Columbia
Born	(1990-12-16) December 16, 1990 (age 33) Toronto, Ontario
Height	1.83 m (6 ft 0 in)
Turned pro	2008
Plays	Right-handed (two-handed backhand)
College	UBC Thunderbirds
Prize money	US$ 1,892,673
Singles
Career record	317–209 (60.3%)
Career titles	14 ITF
Highest ranking	No. 38 (11 July 2011)
Current ranking	No. 165 (5 February 2024)
Grand Slam singles results
Australian Open	2R (2011, 2021)
French Open	3R (2011)
Wimbledon	2R (2011)
US Open	3R (2022)
Doubles
Career record	75–98 (43.4%)
Career titles	1 WTA 125, 3 ITF
Highest ranking	No. 156 (21 March 2022)
Current ranking	No. 1303 (5 February 2024)
Grand Slam doubles results
Australian Open	1R (2012, 2023)
French Open	1R (2011, 2023)
Wimbledon	1R (2011)
US Open	1R (2011)
Grand Slam mixed doubles results
Wimbledon	1R (2011)
Team competitions
BJK Cup	RR (2022), record 7–9
Last updated on: 11 February 2024.

She decided in late February 2013 to take an indefinite break from tennis. During her break, she studied English literature at the University of British Columbia and was part of the rowing team. She was also a certified Club Pro 1 coach at the UBC Tennis Centre. In October 2017, Marino announced her intention to return to the pro circuit but her comeback was delayed due to ITF administrative regulations. She was eligible to return at the end of January 2018 and won the title in her first tournament back, a $15k in Antalya, Turkiye.

Rebecca Marino was born in Toronto to Joe Marino, owner of the construction firm Marino General Contracting, and Catherine Hungerford. The family moved to Vancouver before she turned two. Her father was of Italian descent. Marino's uncle, George Hungerford, won gold for Canada at the 1964 Summer Olympics in rowing. She has a younger brother named Steven, who also competed in rowing at the University of California, Berkeley. At five, Marino's mother signed her up for badminton. Before long, a tennis coach convinced her to switch racquets and she started playing tennis at age 10. At only 14, she won Vancouver's premier amateur tennis tournament, the Stanley Park Open, becoming the tournament's youngest champion in 75 years. From August 2008 to April 2009, she trained in Davos, Switzerland with German coach Nina Nittinger. Later in 2009, she moved to Montreal to train at the National Training Centre.

2005–09: Early years

Marino played the first professional event of her career at the $25k Vancouver Open in August 2005, losing in qualifying. In August 2006, she lost in the qualifying first round of the Rogers Cup as a wildcard. Marino won in August 2008 her first singles title at the $10k in Trecastagni and two in doubles, respectively, in Evansville, Indiana in July and in Southlake, Texas in October of the same year. In November 2008, she won her first WTA Tour main-draw match at the Challenge Bell as a qualifier, defeating Jill Craybas in the first round. She was defeated by Galina Voskoboeva in the second round. In September 2009 at the Challenge Bell, Marino reached the second round for the second straight year with a win over Lauren Albanese, but lost her next match to Julia Görges.

2010: Breakthrough

Marino played the first Grand Slam of her career at the US Open in August. After winning three qualifying matches to enter the main draw, she beat Ksenia Pervak to set up a second round clash with world No. 4, Venus Williams. She lost after a close first set which ended in a tiebreak. After the match, Venus said: "It seemed like every time I had an opening she came up with a big serve, so I guess I know what it is like now playing myself." Her next tournament was in Quebec City at the Challenge Bell in September where she beat fellow Canadian Heidi El Tabakh in the first round. Marino upset first seeded and world No. 14, Marion Bartoli, in straight sets in the second round, which was her first career win against a top-20 player. She lost her quarterfinal match against Bethanie Mattek-Sands. Staying in the province of Québec, she played at the $50k Saguenay Challenger the following week. Marino made it to the final and defeated Alison Riske in three tough sets to win the tournament, the second singles title of her career. She won her second straight $50k two weeks later in Kansas City by defeating Edina Gallovits in the final. Marino won her third straight $50k in Troy where she defeated Ashley Weinhold. In November, she lost in the semifinals of the $50k Toronto Challenger against Alizé Lim, who stopped her winning streak at 18.

2011: First WTA Tour final and career-high ranking of No. 38

 

At the Australian Open in January, Marino defeated Junri Namigata in the first round. She lost in the second round against sixth seed Francesca Schiavone with a score of 7–9 in the final set. In February, Marino reached her first WTA final at the event in Memphis, where she faced Magdaléna Rybáriková. She was forced to retire from the match after losing the first set because of an abdominal strain. Marino qualified for the Indian Wells Open in March, but lost in the first round to Ekaterina Makarova. Following her first round exit, Marino took part in the inaugural $100k Bahamas Women's Open. As the fourth seed, she defeated qualifier Sophie Ferguson in the first round, Pauline Parmentier, and another qualifier, Heather Watson to reach the semifinals, where she lost against fifth seeded Angelique Kerber. At the French Open in May, she won her first round match over Kateryna Bondarenko and her second round match against María José Martínez Sánchez. She lost against 13th seed Svetlana Kuznetsova in the third round, her best Grand Slam performance so far. The next month, she reached the second round for her fourth straight Grand Slam at Wimbledon where she lost to Roberta Vinci. At the US Open in August, Marino lost for the first time of her career in the first round of a major to Gisela Dulko. In September, she reached the quarterfinals of the Challenge Bell for the second straight year after beating fellow Canadians Stéphanie Dubois and Aleksandra Wozniak in the first and second round, respectively, but lost to Michaëlla Krajicek. At the last tournament of her season, the Luxembourg Open in October, she surprised the second seed and No. 15 player in the world Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova in the first round which was the second win of her career over a top-20 player. She lost her second-round match against qualifier Bibiane Schoofs.

2012–13: Breaks from tennis

In January 2012, Marino lost in the first round of the Australian Open to Gréta Arn. She took a break from tennis to deal with mental and physical fatigue from February 2012 to late August 2012. Marino made a comeback the second week of September 2012 at the $25k in Redding, California, losing in the second round to Sachie Ishizu. The next month, in only her fifth tournament since coming back, she defeated fellow Canadian Sharon Fichman to win the $25k in Rock Hill, South Carolina as a qualifier. She then lost a week later in the first round of the $50k Saguenay Challenger to Maria Sanchez, stopping her winning streak at eight matches. In November 2012, at the $50k Toronto Challenger, Marino was forced to retire in her second round match after suffering an abdominal strain. She was supposed to end her season the next week at the $75k event in Phoenix, but had to withdraw following her injury.

At the Australian Open in January 2013, her first Grand Slam championship since coming back, Marino made it to the main draw with her protected ranking of 115, but lost to Peng Shuai in the opening round. After playing some ITF and WTA tournaments, she decided in late February 2013 to take a second break from tennis with no timetable for her return.

2017–18: Return to competition

Marino started training again during the first week of September 2017 and decided to return to competition in October 2017, after being away from the game for nearly five years. She was scheduled to play the $60k Saguenay Challenger but her comeback was delayed by three months due to ITF administrative regulations. She returned at a $15k event in Antalya at the end of January 2018 and won the title in her first tournament back, not losing a set along the way. The next week, she won her second straight title at a $15k in Antalya, without losing a set once again. Again in Antalya the week after, she captured her third $15k event in a row. Playing her fourth straight tournament in Antalya, the first on clay, Marino lost her quarterfinal match, ending her winning-streak at 19 matches. At her next tournament in March, a $25k tournament in Kōfu, she reached the quarterfinals as a qualifier but was defeated by world No. 101, Luksika Kumkhum, in three sets. In April at the $25k in Osaka, she advanced to her fourth final of the season where she lost to Destanee Aiava.

2020–21: Hiatus and another comeback to the tour

Marino began the season using a protected ranking to gain entry into the qualifying tournament for the 2021 Australian Open, held in Dubai mid-January. She qualified for her first Grand Slam tournament in ten years, defeating Jaqueline Cristian, Viktoriya Tomova and Maryna Zanevska without dropping a set. She was granted direct entry into the Gippsland Trophy, one of three makeshift WTA lead-up tournaments created for the participants of the upcoming Australian Open, also held in Melbourne, however she lost in the first round to Jasmine Paolini. Marino won her first-round match at the Australian Open defeating Kimberly Birrell 6–0, 7–6, but was defeated in the second round by Markéta Vondroušová 6–1, 7–5, despite serving for the second set up 5–3. She won her qualifying match against Mayo Hibi 6–4, 6–3 at the Phillip Island Trophy, another makeshift tournament created in light of the COVID-19 pandemic. In the first round, she beat Mona Barthel to set up a second-round meeting with fourth seeded Petra Martić.

2022: US Open third round

At the US Open, she reached the third round for the first time at this major, and only a second time at a Grand Slam-level defeating Daria Snigur before losing to Zhang Shuai.

2024

Ranked No. 182, Marino qualified for the Australian Open main draw, making her seventh appearance at this major.

In February, entering as the sixth seed, Marino won the biggest title of her career at the $100k Guanajuato Open. Losing only one set in the tournament, she upset fourth seed Jule Niemeier, in straight sets in the final.

Only main-draw results in WTA Tour, Grand Slam tournaments, Fed Cup/Billie Jean King Cup and Olympic Games are included in win–loss records.

Singles

Current after the 2023 Indian Wells Open.

Doubles

Singles: 1 (runner-up)

Result	W–L	Date	Tournament	Tier	Surface	Opponent	Score
Loss	0–1	Feb 2011	National Indoors, United States	International	Hard (i)	Magdaléna Rybáriková	2–6, ret.

Doubles: 1 (title)

Result	W–L	Date	Tournament	Surface	Partner	Opponents	Score
Win	1–0	Jul 2021	Charleston Pro, United States	Clay	Liang En-shuo	Erin Routliffe   Aldila Sutjiadi	5–7, 7–5, [10–7]

Singles: 23 (14 titles, 9 runner–ups)

Result	W–L	Date	Tournament	Tier	Surface	Opponent	Score
Loss	0–1	May 2008	ITF Landisville, United States	10,000	Hard	Kristie Ahn	3–6, 6–2, 3–6
Loss	0–2	Aug 2008	ITF London, United Kingdom	10,000	Hard	Anna Smith	3–6, 6–3, 5–7
Win	1–2	Aug 2008	ITF Trecastagni, Italy	10,000	Hard	Alice Moroni	6–2, 6–2
Loss	1–3	Mar 2009	ITF Tenerife, Spain	25,000	Hard	Elena Bovina	2–6, 4–6
Loss	1–4	Jul 2009	ITF Boston, United States	50,000	Hard	Michaëlla Krajicek	3–6, 4–6
Loss	1–5	Apr 2010	ITF Torhout, Belgium	50,000	Hard (i)	Mona Barthel	6–2, 4–6, 2–6
Win	2–5	Sep 2010	Challenger de Saguenay, Canada	50,000	Hard (i)	Alison Riske	6–4, 6–7(4–7), 7–6(9–7)
Win	3–5	Oct 2010	ITF Kansas City, United States	50,000	Hard	Edina Gallovits-Hall	6–7(4–7), 6–0, 6–2
Win	4–5	Oct 2010	Classic of Troy, United States	50,000	Hard	Ashley Weinhold	6–1, 6–2
Win	5–5	Oct 2012	ITF Rock Hill, United States	25,000	Hard	Sharon Fichman	3–6, 7–6(7–5), 6–2
Win	6–5	Feb 2018	ITF Antalya, Turkey	15,000	Hard	Cristina Ene	6–3, 6–3
Win	7–5	Feb 2018	ITF Antalya, Turkey	15,000	Hard	Nina Stadler	6–1, 6–4
Win	8–5	Feb 2018	ITF Antalya, Turkey	15,000	Hard	Gaia Sanesi	6–2, 6–1
Loss	8–6	Apr 2018	ITF Osaka, Japan	25,000	Hard	Destanee Aiava	3–6, 6–7(2–7)
Win	9–6	Jul 2018	ITF Winnipeg, Canada	25,000	Hard	Julia Glushko	7–6(7–3), 7–6(7–4)
Win	10–6	Sep 2018	ITF Lubbock, United States	25,000	Hard	Robin Anderson	6–4, 6–1
Loss	10–7	Apr 2019	ITF Kashiwa, Japan	25,000	Hard	Daria Snigur	4–6, 2–6
Win	11–7	May 2019	Kurume Cup, Japan	60,000	Carpet	Yuki Naito	6–4, 7–6(7–0)
Win	12–7	Jul 2021	ITF Evansville, United States	25,000	Hard	Mayo Hibi	6–3, 3–6, 6–0
Loss	12–8	Feb 2022	ITF Cancún, Mexico	25,000	Hard	Linda Fruhvirtová	3–6, 4–6
Win	13–8	Mar 2022	Arcadia Pro Open, United States	60,000	Hard	Alycia Parks	7–6(7–0), 6–1
Loss	13–9	Mar 2022	Guanajuato Open, Mexico	60,000	Hard	Zhu Lin	4–6, 1–6
Win	14–9	Feb 2024	Guanajuato Open, Mexico	100,000	Hard	Jule Niemeier	6–1, 6–2

Doubles: 10 (3 titles, 7 runner–ups)

Result	W–L	Date	Tournament	Tier	Surface	Partner	Opponents	Score
Loss	0–1	Apr 2008	ITF Toluca, Mexico	10,000	Hard	Lena Litvak	Agustina Lepore   Frederica Piedade	4–6, 2–6
Win	1–1	Jul 2008	ITF Evansville, United States	10,000	Hard	Ellah Nze	Courtney Dolehide   Kirsten Flower	7–5, 6–3
Win	2–1	Oct 2008	ITF Southlake, United States	10,000	Hard	Beatrice Capra	Mary Gambale   Elizabeth Lumpkin	3–6, 6–4, [10–6]
Loss	2–2	Feb 2009	ITF Sutton, United Kingdom	25,000	Hard (i)	Katie O'Brien	Raquel Kops-Jones   Renata Voráčová	3–6, 3–6
Loss	2–3	Sep 2009	Challenger de Saguenay, Canada	50,000	Hard (i)	Stéphanie Dubois	Sofia Arvidsson   Séverine Beltrame	3–6, 1–6
Loss	2–4	May 2010	ITF Caserta, Italy	25,000	Hard	Nicole Clerico	Ekaterina Dzehalevich   Irena Pavlovic	3–6, 3–6
Loss	2–5	Sep 2010	Challenger de Saguenay, Canada	50,000	Hard (i)	Heidi El Tabakh	Jorgelina Cravero   Stéphanie Foretz Gacon	3–6, 4–6
Win	3–5	Jul 2019	ITF Gatineau, Canada	25,000	Hard	Leylah Fernandez	Hsu Chieh-yu   Marcela Zacarías	7–6(7–5), 6–3
Loss	3–6	Apr 2021	Bellinzona Ladies Open, Switzerland	60,000	Clay	Yuki Naito	Anna Danilina   Ekaterine Gorgodze	5–7, 3–6
Loss	3–7	Feb 2024	Guanajuato Open, Mexico	100,000	Hard	Ann Li	Hailey Baptiste   Whitney Osuigwe	5–7, 4–6

Marino's record against players who have been ranked in the top 10, with those who are active in boldface.

• Statistics correct as of 11 December 2023^[update].

Player	Years	Record	Win %	Hard	Clay	Grass	Carpet
Number 1 ranked players
Venus Williams	2010–22	1–1	50%	1–1	–	–	–
Ana Ivanovic	2011	0–1	0%	–	–	0–1	–
Aryna Sabalenka	2021	0–1	0%	0–1	–	–	–
Angelique Kerber	2010–11	0–2	0%	0–2	–	–	–
Number 2 ranked players
Svetlana Kuznetsova	2011	0–1	0%	–	0–1	–	–
Petra Kvitová	2011	0–1	0%	0–1	–	–	–
Number 3 ranked players
Nadia Petrova	2011	0–1	0%	–	0–1	–	–
Elena Rybakina	2019	0–1	0%	–	0–1	–	–
Maria Sakkari	2022	0–1	0%	–	–	0–1	–
Elina Svitolina	2021	0–1	0%	0–1	–	–	–
Coco Gauff	2022–23	0–2	0%	0–1	0–1	–	–
Number 4 ranked players
Johanna Konta	2010	1–0	100%	1–0	–	–	–
Caroline Garcia	2010–22	1–1	50%	1–1	–	–	–
Francesca Schiavone	2011	0–1	0%	0–1	–	–	–
Number 5 ranked players
Eugenie Bouchard	2010	1–0	100%	1–0	–	–	–
Jeļena Ostapenko	2022	0–1	0%	–	–	0–1	–
Markéta Vondroušová	2019–23	0–3	0%	0–2	0–1	–	–
Number 7 ranked players
Madison Keys	2021	1–0	100%	1–0	–	–	–
Marion Bartoli	2010–11	1–1	50%	0–1	–	–	1–0
Roberta Vinci	2011–12	0–3	0%	0–2	–	0–1	–
Number 8 ranked players
Daria Kasatkina	2023	0–1	0%	0–1	–	–	–
Karolína Muchová	2019	0–1	0%	–	0–1	–	–
Ekaterina Makarova	2010–11	0–3	0%	0–3	–	–	–
Number 9 ranked players
CoCo Vandeweghe	2011	2–0	100%	2–0	–	–	–
Andrea Petkovic	2022	1–0	100%	1–0	–	–	–
Timea Bacsinszky	2011	1–0	100%	1–0	–	–	–
Julia Görges	2009	0–1	0%	–	–	–	0–1
Number 10 ranked players
Maria Kirilenko	2011	0–1	0%	0–1	–	–	–
Total	2009–23	10–30	25%	9–19	0–6	0–4	1–1

• 2010 – Tennis Canada: Female Player of the Year
• 2011 – Tennis Canada: Female Player of the Year