What nationality is former professional tennis player Gabriela Sabatini?

Gabriela Beatriz Sabatini is an Argentine former professional tennis player. She was one of the leading players from the mid-1980s to the mid-1990s, amassing 41 titles and achieving a career-high ranking of 3 in both singles and doubles. In singles, Sabatini won the 1990 U.S. Open, was runner-up at Wimbledon in 1991, and was the silver medalist at the 1988 Olympic Games in Seoul, South Korea. In doubles, she won Wimbledon in 1988 with Steffi Graf. In 2006, she was inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame and in 2018 'Tennis' magazine ranked her as the 20th-greatest player of the preceding 50 years.

She was born 16 May 1970 in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and started playing tennis at age 6. In 1983, at 13, she became the youngest player to win the prestigious Orange Bowl, a veritable stage of the world’s finest players - which the Argentine had become. At age 13, Sabatini left her native Argentina to train in the United States for a professional career that oozed with potential.

Sabatini was glamorous both on and off the court, her Latin American beauty attracting a legion of followers that would cram her practice sessions to watch her play. In the late 1980s she launched a line of fragrances and in retirement has forged a successful business career promoting her line of perfumes and cosmetics. In 1994 she published a motivational autobiography, "My Story".

Today, Sabatini resides in Buenos Aires, Boca Raton (Florida) and Pfäffikon in Switzerland.