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{{short description|Puerto Rican tennis player}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=October 2024}}
{{Infobox tennis biography
|name                    = Kristina Brandi
|image                   =
|caption                 =
|fullname                =
|country                 = {{PUR}}
|residence               =
|birth_date              = {{birth date and age|1977|3|29}}
|birth_place             = [[San Juan, Puerto Rico|San Juan]], Puerto Rico
|death_date              =
|death_place             =
|height                  =
|turnedpro               = 1995
|retired                 = 2007
|plays                   = Right-handed
|careerprizemoney        = $1,248,528
|singlesrecord           = 441–333
|singlestitles           = 1 WTA, 16 ITF
|highestsinglesranking   = No. 27 (December 4, 2000)
|AustralianOpenresult    = 4R (2000)
|FrenchOpenresult        = 2R (2000, 2005)
|Wimbledonresult         = 4R (2000)
|USOpenresult            = 2R (1996, 2000, 2004)
|Othertournaments        = yes
|Olympicsresult          = 2R (2004)
|doublesrecord           = 48–86
|doublestitles           = 1 ITF
|highestdoublesranking   = No. 246 (June 19, 1995)
|AustralianOpenDoublesresult = 2R (2006)
|FrenchOpenDoublesresult = 1R (2005)
|WimbledonDoublesresult = 1R (2005)
|USOpenDoublesresult    = 1R (1999, 2005)
| medaltemplates-expand = yes
| medaltemplates =
{{MedalCompetition|[[Pan American Games]]}}
{{MedalSilver|[[2003 Pan American Games|2003 Santo Domingo]]|Doubles}}
{{MedalBronze|[[2003 Pan American Games|2003 Santo Domingo]]|Singles}}
}}

'''Kristina Brandi''' (born March 29, 1977) is a Puerto Rican former tennis player. She was the first tennis player representing Puerto Rico to win a singles match in an Olympic tennis tournament.

Some of Brandi's career highlights: She achieved her best ranking in singles of number 27 on 4 December 2000, and her highest rank for doubles of number 246 in June 1995. Brandi won one career singles title, in 1999 on grass at 's Hertogenbosch in the Netherlands.

==Career==
===Early years===
Brandi was born and raised in [[San Juan, Puerto Rico]], where she became interested in the sport of tennis at an early age. She made her professional debut in 1995 when she was 17 years old.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.tennis-x.com/playernews/Kristina-Brandi.php |title=Kristina Brandi |website=Tennis-X.com}}</ref> Her father is Joe Brandi, who coached Pete Sampras.

===USTA Circuit===
In 2003, Brandi won the most titles of any woman on the "USTA Circuit".{{Citation needed|date=November 2010}} She took home trophies from six events. Brandi was a member of the 2003 Puerto Rican Fed Cup team where she captured the singles championship at the $75k event in Albuquerque, New Mexico, plus the $50k event in Troy, Alabama and the $25k event in Peachtree City, Georgia.<ref name="SI">{{cite web |url=http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/tennis/news/2000/03/14/brandi_six/ |title=Kristina Brandi Tennis Diary: Advice for junior players |website=SportsIllustrated.cnn.com |date=March 14, 2000 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20000819081825/http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/tennis/news/2000/03/14/brandi_six/ |archive-date=August 19, 2000 |url-status=dead}}</ref>

===2004 Olympics===
Brandi represented Puerto Rico in the [[2004 Summer Olympics]] in [[Athens, Greece]]. She became the first tennis player representing Puerto Rico to win a singles match in an Olympic tournament when she beat [[Jelena Kostanić]] from Croatia (7–5, 6–1). She lost in the second round to Russian [[Anastasia Myskina]].<ref>{{cite Sports-Reference |url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/br/kristina-brandi-1.html |title=Kristina Brandi |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200418070049/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/br/kristina-brandi-1.html |archive-date=2020-04-18 |url-status=dead}}</ref>

===Later years===
Kristina Brandi resides in [[Tampa, Florida]] and continued to be active on the [[Women's Tennis Association|WTA Tour]] for many years after the 2004 Olympic Games.

Brandi defended her ITF-Surbiton title, defeating Laura Granville from the U.S. Brandi's grass-court season for 2006 at the WTA Tour level included the main draw of the Birmingham tournament, as well as the qualifying tournament at [[Aegon International|Eastbourne]], before heading to compete in the [[Wimbledon Championships]] main draw.

Brandi, who has since retired, is the niece of [[Andy Brandi]] who played for the [[Trinity Tigers]] men's tennis team in NCAA [[Division I (NCAA)|Division I]] competition.<ref name=jenkins8221984>Paul Jenkins, "[https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=XDxWAAAAIBAJ&sjid=xOkDAAAAIBAJ&pg=2249,2294088&dq=andy-brandi&hl=en  Gators hire new women's tennis coach]," ''The Gainesville Sun'', pp. 1D & 4D (August 22, 1984). Retrieved June 16, 2011.</ref>

==WTA career finals ==
===Singles: 1 (1 title)===
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!style="width:40px"|Result
!style="width:100px"|Date
!style="width:50px"|Tier
!style="width:260px"|Tournament
!style="width:70px"|Surface
!style="width:160px"|Opponent
!style="width:100px" class="unsortable"|Score
|- style="background:#cfc;"
| style="background:#98fb98;"|Win
| 20 June 1999
| Tier III
| [[Rosmalen Grass Court Championships|Rosmalen Championships]], Netherlands
| Grass
| {{flagicon|CRO}} [[Silvija Talaja]]
| 6–0, 3–6, 6–1
|}

==ITF Circuit finals==
===Singles: 25 (16 titles, 9 runner-ups)===
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|-valign=top
|
{|class=wikitable style=font-size:85%
!Legend
|-bgcolor=f88379
|$100,000 tournaments
|-bgcolor=f7e98e
|$75,000 tournaments
|-bgcolor=addfad
|$50,000 tournaments
|-bgcolor=lightblue
|$25,000 tournaments
|-bgcolor=f0f8ff
|$10,000 tournaments
|}
|
{|class=wikitable style=font-size:90%
!Finals by surface
|-
|Hard (13–8)
|-
|Clay (0–0)
|-
|Grass (3–1)
|-
|Carpet (0–0)
|}
|}
{|class="sortable wikitable"
!Result
!class="unsortable"|No.
!Date
!Tournament
!Surface
!Opponent
!class="unsortable"| Score
|-
| style="background:#98fb98;"|Win
| 1.
| 4 July 1994
| ITF Indianapolis, United States
| Hard
| {{flagicon|USA}} [[Mashona Washington]]
| 6–1, 6–3
|-
| style="background:#ffa07a;"|Loss
| 2.
| 25 July 1994
| ITF Roanoke, United States
| Hard
| {{flagicon|JPN}} [[Keiko Nagatomi]]
| 6–7, 3–6
|-bgcolor=addfad
| style="background:#ffa07a;"|Loss
| 3.
| 9 October 1995
| ITF Sedona, United States
| Hard
| {{flagicon|USA}} [[Tami Whitlinger]]
| 4–6, 4–6
|-bgcolor=addfad
| style="background:#ffa07a;"|Loss
| 4.
| 6 April 1997
| ITF Phoenix, United States
| Hard
| {{flagicon|CHN}} [[Li Fang (tennis)|Li Fang]]
| 1–6, 2–6
|-bgcolor=lightblue
| style="background:#98fb98;"|Win
| 5.
| 26 January 1998
| ITF Clearwater, United States
| Hard
| {{flagicon|USA}} Mashona Washington
| 6–1, 6–2
|-bgcolor=addfad
| style="background:#98fb98;"|Win
| 6.
| 5 April 1998
| ITF Phoenix, United States
| Hard
| {{flagicon|USA}} [[Lilia Osterloh]]
| 6–0, 6–4
|- bgcolor=lightblue 
| style="background:#98fb98;"|Win
| 7.
| 20 July 1998
| ITF Peachtree City, United States
| Hard
| {{flagicon|LUX}} [[Anne Kremer]]
| 6–3, 6–3
|- bgcolor=lightblue 
| style="background:#ffa07a;"|Loss
| 8.
| 2 August 1998
| ITF Salt Lake City, United States
| Hard
| {{flagicon|RSA}} [[Mariaan de Swardt]]
| 2–6, 2–6
|-bgcolor=addfad
| style="background:#98fb98;"|Win
| 9.
| 1 November 1998
| ITF Austin, United States
| Hard
| {{flagicon|USA}} [[Meilen Tu]]
| 3–6, 6–3, 6–4
|- bgcolor=lightblue 
| style="background:#98fb98;"|Win
| 10.
| 1 August 1999
| ITF Salt Lake City, United States
| Hard
| {{flagicon|CHN}} Li Fang
| 6–4, 6–3
|-bgcolor=f7e98e
| style="background:#ffa07a;"|Loss
| 11.
| 30 April 2000
| ITF Sarasota, United States
| Hard
| {{flagicon|USA}} [[Meghann Shaughnessy]]
| 1–6, 3–6
|- bgcolor="lightblue"
| style="background:#ffa07a;"|Loss
| 12.
| 4 June 2001
| ITF Surbiton, United Kingdom
| Grass
| {{flagicon|JPN}} [[Rika Fujiwara]]
| 3–6, 3–6
|- style="background:lightblue;"
| style="background:#98fb98;"|Win
| 13.
| 13 May 2003
| ITF Charlottesville, United States
| Clay
| {{flagicon|AUS}} [[Christina Wheeler]]
| 4–6, 6–4, 6–2
|- bgcolor="lightblue"
| style="background:#98fb98;"|Win
| 14.
| 8 June 2003
| ITF Surbiton, United Kingdom
| Grass
| {{flagicon|KOR}} [[Cho Yoon-jeong]]
| 6–1, 6–3
|-style="background:lightblue;"
| style="background:#98fb98;"|Win
| 15.
| 8 July 2003
| ITF College Park, United States
| Hard
| {{flagicon|RUS}} [[Lioudmila Skavronskaia]]
| 6–1, 6–1
|- style="background:#addfad;"
| style="background:#98fb98;"|Win
| 16.
| 28 July 2003
| ITF Louisville, United States
| Hard
| {{flagicon|USA}} [[Shenay Perry]]
| 3–6, 6–4, 6–4
|- bgcolor=lightblue 
| style="background:#98fb98;"|Win
| 17.
| 14 September 2003
| ITF Peachtree City, United States
| Hard
| {{flagicon|USA}} [[Allison Bradshaw]]
| 6–0, 6–1
|-bgcolor=f7e98e
| style="background:#98fb98;"|Win
| 18.
| 22 September 2003
| ITF Albuquerque, United States
| Hard
| {{flagicon|VEN}} [[Milagros Sequera]]
| 6–2, 6–2
|- style="background:#addfad;"
| style="background:#98fb98;"|Win
| 19.
| 5 October 2003
| ITF Troy, United States
| Hard
| {{flagicon|ITA}} [[Maria Elena Camerin]]
| 7–6<sup>(7)</sup>, 6–3
|-style="background:#addfad;"
| style="background:#ffa07a;"|Loss
| 20.
| 19 October 2003
| ITF Sedona, United States
| Hard
| {{flagicon|PUR}} [[Samantha Reeves]]
| 5–7, 6–1, 4–6
|- bgcolor="lightblue"
| style="background:#98fb98;"|Win
| 21.
| 4 June 2005
| ITF Surbiton, United Kingdom
| Grass
| {{flagicon|USA}} [[Laura Granville]]
| 6–3, 6–1
|-bgcolor=ADDFAD
| style="background:#ffa07a;"|Loss
| 22.
| 2 October 2005
| ITF Ashland, United States
| Hard
| {{flagicon|THA}} [[Napaporn Tongsalee]]
| 4–6, 6–2, 4–6
|-bgcolor=ADDFAD
| style="background:#98fb98;"|Win
| 23.
| 16 October 2005
| ITF San Francisco, United States
| Hard
| {{flagicon|USA}} Lilia Osterloh
| 5–7, 6–4, 6–4
|- bgcolor="lightblue"
| style="background:#98fb98;"|Win
| 24.
| 10 June 2006
| ITF Surbiton, United Kingdom
| Grass
| {{flagicon|USA}} Laura Granville
| 7–5, 6–0
|- bgcolor="#f7e98e"
| style="background:#ffa07a;"|Loss
| 25.
| 19 September 2006
| ITF Albuquerque, United States
| Hard
| {{flagdeco|USA}} [[Ahsha Rolle]]
| 2–6, 4–6
|}

===Doubles: 6 (1 title, 5 runner-ups)===
{| class="wikitable" style="font-size:85%"
|- style="background:#f88379;"
| $100,000 tournaments
|- bgcolor="#f7e98e"
| $75,000 tournaments
|- bgcolor="#addfad"
| $50,000 tournaments
|- bgcolor="#ADD8E6"
| $25,000 tournaments
|- bgcolor="#f0f8ff"
| $10,000 tournaments
|}
{| class="sortable wikitable" style="font-size:97%;"
!Result
!class="unsortable"|No.
!Date
!Tournament
!Surface
!Partner
!Opponents
!class="unsortable"| Score
|-
| style="background:#ffa07a;"|Loss
| 1.
| 20 June 1994
| ITF Hilton Head, United States
| Clay
| {{flagicon|USA}} [[Karin Miller]]
| {{flagicon|USA}} [[Angela Lettiere]] <br /> {{flagicon|USA}} [[Stacy Sheppard]]
| 6–4, 2–6, 6–7
|-
| style="background:#98fb98;"|Win
| 2.
| 4 July 1994
| ITF Indianapolis, United States
| Hard
| {{flagicon|USA}} Karin Miller
| {{flagicon|USA}} Angela Lettiere <br /> {{flagicon|RUS}} [[Vera Vitels]]
| 6–2, 4–6, 7–6
|-
| style="background:#ffa07a;"|Loss
| 3.
| 25 July 1994
| ITF Roanoke, United States
| Hard
| {{flagicon|USA}} Karin Miller
| {{flagicon|AUS}} [[Gail Biggs]] <br/> {{flagicon|NZL}} [[Claudine Toleafoa]]
| 6–4, 3–6, 5–7
|- bgcolor=lightblue 
| style="background:#ffa07a;"|Loss
| 4.
| 1 February 1998
| ITF Clearwater, United States
| Hard
| {{flagicon|USA}} Karin Miller
| {{flagicon|CAN}} [[Maureen Drake]] <br/> {{flagicon|CAN}} [[Renata Kolbovic]]
| 6–4, 3–6, 4–6
|- style="background:lightblue;"
| style="background:#ffa07a;"|Loss
| 5.
| 10 September 2002
| ITF Peachtree City, United States
| Hard
| {{flagicon|USA}} [[Allison Baker]]
| {{flagicon|USA}} [[Jennifer Russell (tennis)|Jennifer Russell]] <br/> {{flagicon|AUS}} [[Christina Wheeler]]
| 2–6, 6–7<sup>(3)</sup>
|- style="background:lightblue;"
| style="background:#ffa07a;"|Loss
| 6.
| 8 July 2003
| ITF College Park, United States
| Hard
| {{flagicon|RSA}} [[Kim Grant (tennis)|Kim Grant]]
| {{flagicon|USA}} Jennifer Russell <br/> {{flagicon|AUS}} [[Lisa McShea]]
| 2–6, 6–4, 5–7
|}

==See also==
{{Portal|Puerto Rico|Biography}}
* [[List of Puerto Ricans]]
* [[Corsican immigration to Puerto Rico]]
* [[History of women in Puerto Rico]]
* [[Sports in Puerto Rico]]
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==References==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
* {{WTA}}
* {{ITF}}
* {{Fed Cup player}}
* {{Wimbledon player}}
* {{ESPN Tennis}}
* {{Olympedia}}
* {{Olympics.com profile|kristina-brandi}}

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