Tamarine Tanasugarn is a professional Thai tennis player. She was born in Los Angeles, California, United States, and turned professional in 1994. She has been in the top twenty in both singles and doubles.

CAREER:

Tanasugarn's highest Women's Tennis Association (WTA) world ranking has been 19, achieved on 13 May 2002, which is the highest ranking ever achieved for a Thai female player. She has won four singles titles and five doubles titles. She was briefly a doubles partner with Maria Sharapova with whom she won two titles in 2003. Her highest world doubles ranking was 15 which she achieved on 13 September 2004. With Liezel Huber she reached the 2004 US Open doubles quarter-finals. Her biggest success came in 2008 when she became the first Thai tennis player ever to reach quarterfinals in a Grand Slam.

2010:

Tanasugarn started the year by playing at the Australian Open. She won her first first-round match in five years with a 6–1, 7–6 victory over a Sesil Karatantcheva, but lost to Kim Clijsters in the second round 3–6, 3–6. At the PTT Pattaya Open, Tanasugarn worked her way past Alla Kudryavtseva 6–1, 6–1, the number two seed Sabine Lisicki 6–3, 3–6, 7–5, Anna Chakvetadze 6–1, 6–4, and Sesil Karatantcheva 6–2, 6–0. She finally lost to top seed, and defending champion, Vera Zvonareva in a dramatic final 4–6, 4–6.

Tanasugarn and her New Zealand partner Marina Erakovic won the PTT Pattaya Open doubles title beating Anna Chakvetadze and Ksenia Pervak 7–5, 6–1, giving Tanasugarn a successful defence of her homeland double title. Tanasugarn's next scheduled tournament was the Malaysian Open where she lost to seventh seed Magdaléna Rybáriková in the first round 5–7, 3–6. At the American fortnight tours she entered a main draw in Indian Wells as a lucky loser and advanced into the second round before losing to nineteenth seed Aravane Rezaï