The five editions like a tournament of the ITF Women Circuit and the three editions belonging to the WTA Tour, have transformed the Copa Colsanitas in the tournament with more history on the last decade in Latin-America.

The tournament was born in 1993 like an ITF Professional Satellite and whose objective was to promote Colombian and Latin-American tennis, is by these days a Tier IVA tournament and one of the biggest in Central and South-America.

It took place in the Academia Colombiana de Tenis, with tennis players from North, Center and South America. There were Colombians like Carmiña Giraldo, Ximena Rodríguez and Cecilia Hincapié.

It was the opportunity to show Fabiola Zuluaga´s conditions in a US$10.000 tournament, knowing that she had been playing junior tournaments. Organization gave her a Wild Card, and then she worked hard until being finalist.

Colsanitas began to work the idea of consolidate a female tennis team, and first it duplicated the prize money to give more opportunities to colombian players. It was the very first chance for them to play with María José Gaidano (Argentina), Luciana Tella and Andrea Vieira (Brazil), important tennis players. Fabiola Zuluaga got the second round and Ximena Rodríguez was finalist in doubles tournament.

Colsanitas effort had its reward this time. The Colsanitas Cup became a US$50.000 tournament and by those days, title was for a colombian junior tennis player: Fabiola Zuluaga. Being 17 years old, this girl from the Colsanitas Team won her second professional tournament playing against some of the best 150 tennis players around the world.

Prize money and points were bigger by this time, and it made it better for some WTA experienced tennis players. It was the time Colsanitas entered to the ITF (International Tennis Federation) Circuit. Players from 5 continents, some of them were WTA Top-100, came to Colombia to fight for the Colsanitas Cup title. Fabiola Zuluaga and Carmiña Giraldo, from the Colsanitas Team, played for Colombia, overtaking first and second round, respectively.

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It was the first of the WTA Tour played in Latin America, another Colsanitas big step. There were in Santa Fe de Bogotá D. C. some tennis players located between the 150 world ranking. Fabiola Zuluaga got third round and colombian junior, Mariana Mesa, got second round.

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Winner in the 1996 edition, his victory in 1999 allows Fabiola Zuluaga to include on his personal record the first WTA Tour championship. The Academia Colombiana de Tenis was the tournament site that congregated in its main draw, 10 of the Top 100 players, showing up the Chinese Fang Li (40 in the WTA ranking).

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