Garcia has been representing France in the Billie Jean King Cup since 2013, and she was a member of the team that won the championship in 2019.
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Caroline Garcia is a professional tennis player from France. In both singles and doubles, she has been ranked in the top five. Garcia is a two-time major doubles champion, having won the French Open women’s doubles title with Kristina Mladenovic in 2016 and 2022. The pair also finished second at the 2016 US Open and advanced to the semifinals at the 2017 Australian Open. Garcia achieved her career-high doubles ranking of world No. 2 in October 2016, and she has won seven WTA Tour doubles titles, including the 2016 Madrid Open. She has also qualified for the WTA Finals twice and was named the 2016 WTA Doubles Team of the Year with Mladenovic.
Garcia is also an accomplished singles player. She has a number of WTA Tour singles titles to her name, including three at the WTA 1000 level: the 2017 Wuhan Open, the 2017 China Open, and the 2022 Cincinnati Open. In September 2018, she achieved her career-high singles ranking of world No. 4 and advanced to the WTA Finals semifinals. Garcia has been representing France in the Billie Jean King Cup since 2013, and she was a member of the team that won the championship in 2019. In 2016, she received a Fed Cup Heart Award for her role in leading France to its first Fed Cup final in eleven years. She has also represented France at the Olympics twice. She was also the winner of the 2022 WTA Finals.
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Being a native of Lyon, it is not surprising that Caroline Garcia is a supporter of Olympique Lyonnais. Also known as Lyon, the club currently plays in the French top flight, Ligue 1, alongside clubs like Paris Saint-Germain, St Etienne, Reims and others. Founded 73 years ago, Lyon have been the champions of France seven times so far in their history. Their most recent success came in the 2007-08 season. They currently sit in eighth place in Ligue 1 with 32 points and won their most recent fixture 1-3 against Troyes.
As per reports, Caroline Garcia’s sporting idol is not a tennis player. Rather, she looks up to one of the NBA’s greatest ever players, Tony Parker. The majority owner of ASVEL Basket in the LNB Pro A is Parker, a former professional basketball player who is French-American. Parker, who is the son of a professional basketball player, began playing basketball in France with Paris Basket Racing before joining the San Antonio Spurs of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He retired from the NBA playoffs as the fifth-leading passer and ninth-leading scorer overall.
Caroline’s Garcia’s father, Louis Paul Garcia, used to be her coach until quite recently. He reportedly used to be a salesman before his daughter showed an inclination towards tennis. Whilst she was under his coaching, Garcia won five singles and six doubles titles. The last one was the singles crown at the 2017 Wuhan Open.
As per reports, Caroline Garcia is quite adept at water sports. The Frenchwoman also enjoys hiking, which is a testament to how well she has maintained herself physically so that she is at the top of her game. She might be 29 but Garcia’s career is looking up and it will not be long before she has her name on the list of Grand Slam winners.
This is not much of a surprise as a cornerstone of being a world class athlete in today’s world is having proper nutrition habits. Garcia herself reportedly takes a keen interest in what she eats, and she is said to experiment with different kinds of food. Her favourite type of food is reportedly sea food and she also has a passion for baking.
