María Vento-Kabchi


María Alejandra Vento-Kabchi is a former female tennis player from Venezuela. In July 2004, she reached her career-high singles ranking of world No. 26. She won four WTA titles in doubles.
Vento-Kabchi reached the fourth round of the US Open in 2005, where she was heavily defeated by the eventual champion, Kim Clijsters. Vento-Kabchi likened the defeat to being "run over by a truck".
Her best results in Grand Slam tournaments are reaching the fourth round in Wimbledon and US Open.
She competed as María Vento until July 21, 2001, when she married lawyer Gamal Kabchi.
Vento-Kabchi retired from professional tennis in 2006.

WTA career finals

Singles (1 runner-up)

OutcomeNo.DateTournamentSurfaceOpponentScore
Runner-up1.11 January 1998Gold Coast, AustraliaHard Ai Sugiyama5–7, 0–6

ITF finals

Singles (7–6)

Doubles (2–2)