Sofia Arvidsson

Lena Sofia Alexandra Arvidsson (born 16 February 1984) is a Swedish professional padel player and a former tennis player.

In her tennis career, she won two singles titles and one doubles title on the WTA Tour, as well as 20 singles and 13 doubles titles on the ITF Circuit.

In 1999, she combined the ITF Junior and ITF Women's Circuit into her schedule, and in 1999 made the semifinals of a $10k women's event in Båstad.

In 2000, she made the final of Nasbypark and had her first appearances in the Fed Cup.

Arvidsson reached the finals of the junior Australian Open, losing to Jelena Janković.

Her breakthrough came in the same year when she took titles in Sunderland and Stockholm (both $10k tournaments).

She then won her third ITF title in Buchen, Germany.

She stepped up her tournament game as she played qualifying at a $50k event in Dinan, where she qualified and defeated the world No. 146 in the main draw.

In May 2002, Arvidsson reached her first $25k final, as a qualifier, eventually losing to Barbora Strýcová.

In the same year, she lifted the Bastas $25k trophy in her home country beating fellow Swede Maria Wolfbrandt in the final.

Her ranking was now high enough to compete at Grand Slam level in qualifying.

Her debut came at the US Open as a qualifier, where she made the final round of qualifying, losing to Brie Rippner.

She made two more ITF finals in 2002, winning in Southampton ($25k) and losing in the final in Prague, which was her final event of the year.

Her ranking now 147, Arvidsson began the year in WTA events mainly in qualifying.

She failed to qualify in Hobart and the Australian Open, took a step down and played the $50k event in Ortisei, making the final that she lost to Mara Santangelo.

After the beginning of 2003, Arvidsson lost in the opening qualifying rounds of the French Open and Wimbledon.

She won her first Grand Slam match at the US Open, beating Olga Blahotová.

Two weeks later, she took the $25k Glasgow crown and lost in the final of another $25k tournament in Jersey.

She played the WTA event in Luxembourg, again as a qualifier, making the second round before losing to Maria Sharapova.

This was her best tournament as it was the first time she had won a WTA main-draw match.

She then played the WTA tournament in Quebec City where she made the second round of the main draw.

Arvidsson made the quarterfinals in Tokyo, Kolkata and Stockholm in 2005 before reaching her first WTA Tour final in Quebec City, losing to Amy Frazier.

On 1 May 2006, she reached her career-high singles ranking of world No. 29.

Arvidsson began 2006 at the Hopman Cup alongside Thomas Johansson, beating the eventual winners in the group stages (USA).

She then posted her best Grand Slam result at the Australian Open, beating Dinara Safina in round two before losing to Anastasia Myskina.

She won her first WTA title in Memphis, beating Marta Domachowska in the final.

This slump continued in early 2007, before she won a Swedish tour event (Volkswagen Cup) beating Johanna Larsson.

After that, she won the doubles and singles at the $50k event in St Paul.

Then she returned as the defending champion to Memphis, beating Ekaterina Bychkova and Nicole Pratt on the way to a quarterfinal appearance against Meilen Tu, but lost.

Arvidsson lost in the opening round of the Las Vegas $75k and Indian Wells to Michaëlla Krajicek.

She qualified for Miami losing in three sets to Olga Puchkova.

On clay in Estoril, she made the quarterfinals, losing to Gréta Arn in straight sets.

At the end of the 2007 season, she hit back taking the $25k Nantes title in doubles, the $25k Glasgow doubles title and also the championship in singles at the $50k event in Joué-lès-Tours and the $25k event in Glasgow.

Arvidsson started the season in Auckland at the Auckland Open beating Ahsha Rolle in the first round before a straight-sets loss to top seed Vera Zvonareva.

She then moved to Sydney, gaining three straight set wins in qualifying by defeating Galina Voskoboeva, Stéphanie Dubois, Tzipora Obziler and in the main draw beat Elena Dementieva, before finally bowing out against Kaia Kanepi in the second round.

In her first Grand Slam tournament of the year, Arvidsson made the second round, beating No. 10 seed Marion Bartoli, before losing to Marta Domachowska.

She recorded another win in the Fed Cup, beating Patty Schnyder in three sets.

On 12 September 2011, she peaked at No. 67 in the WTA doubles rankings.

Over her career, Arvidsson defeated top-ten players Marion Bartoli, Anna Chakvetadze, Jelena Janković, Petra Kvitová, Sam Stosur, and Caroline Wozniacki.

Arvidsson began playing tennis at the age of eight.