María Alejandra Vento-Kabchi (born 24 May 1974) is a Venezuelan former professional tennis player. She competed as María Vento until 21 July 2001, when she married lawyer Gamal Kabchi and began competing under the name Vento-Kabchi. She reached career-high WTA rankings of world No. 26 in singles and No. 15 in doubles, both in July 2004. Vento-Kabchi won four doubles titles on the WTA Tour and reached one WTA Tour singles final, finishing runner-up at the 1998 Australian Women's Hardcourts. She retired from professional tennis in 2006.

In Grand Slam tournaments, Vento-Kabchi reached the fourth round in singles at Wimbledon in 1997 and the US Open in 2005. All four of her major doubles quarterfinals came alongside Angelique Widjaja: at Wimbledon and the US Open in 2003, and at the Australian Open and Wimbledon in 2004. The pair also won the 2003 Wismilak International and finished runners-up at the 2003 Canadian Open, then a Tier I tournament.

Representing Venezuela, Vento-Kabchi won four gold medals at the 1998 Central American and Caribbean Games, in singles, women's doubles, mixed doubles and the team event. She subsequently won the women's singles gold medal at the 1999 Pan American Games. Vento-Kabchi competed at the 2000 and 2004 Olympic Games, reaching the second round in singles at both editions and the women's doubles quarterfinals in 2000 alongside Milagros Sequera.

WTA career finals Singles: 1 (runner-up) Legend Tier I (0–0) Tier II (0–0) Tier III (0–1) Tier IV & V (0–0) Finals by surface Hard (0–1)

ResultW/L DateTournamentSurfaceOpponentScore Loss 0–1 Gold Coast, Australia Hard Ai Sugiyama 5–7, 0–6 Doubles: 10 (4 titles, 6 runner-ups) Legend Tier I (0–1) Tier II (2–1) Tier III (1–3) Tier IV & V (1–1) Finals by surface Hard (4–4) Clay (0–2)

Result W–L Date Tournament Surface Partner Opponents Score Loss 0–1 Strasbourg, France Clay Kim Grant Sonya Jeyaseelan Florencia Labat 4–6, 3–6 Win 1–1 Dubai, United Arab Emirates Hard Barbara Rittner Sandrine Testud Roberta Vinci 6–3, 6–2 Loss 1–2 Estoril, Portugal Clay Barbara Rittner Elena Bovina Zsófia Gubacsi 3–6, 1–6 Win 2–2 Waikoloa, United States Hard Meilen Tu Nannie de Villiers Irina Selyutina 1–6, 6–2, 6–3 Loss 2–3 Doha, Qatar Hard Angelique Widjaja Janet Lee Wynne Prakusya 1–6, 3–6 Loss 2–4 Canadian Open, Canada Hard Angelique Widjaja Svetlana Kuznetsova Martina Navratilova 6–3, 3–6, 1–6 Win 3–4 Bali, Indonesia Hard Angelique Widjaja Émilie Loit Nicole Pratt 7–5, 6–2 Loss 3–5 China Open, China Hard Gisela Dulko Emmanuelle Gagliardi Dinara Safina 4–6, 4–6 Win 4–5 China Open, China Hard Nuria Llagostera Vives Yan Zi Zheng Jie 6–2, 6–4 Loss 4–6 Japan Open, Japan Hard Shinobu Asagoe Gisela Dulko Maria Kirilenko 5–7, 6–4, 3–6

Performance timelines Only main-draw results in Grand Slam tournaments are included in the Grand Slam win–loss records.

Singles Tournament 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 Career W–L Australian Open A A A A 1R A 1R 1R 1R 2R A A 1R 1R 1R 1–8 French Open A A A A A A 1R 1R 1R 1R A A 2R 1R 1R 1–7 Wimbledon A A A 1R A 4R 3R 2R 1R 1R 1R A 2R 2R A 8–9 US Open 1R A A 1R A 2R 2R 1R 2R A A 2R 3R 4R A 9–9 Win–loss 0–1 0–0 0–0 0–2 0–1 4–2 3–4 1–4 1–4 1–3 0–1 1–1 4–4 4–4 0–2 19–33

Doubles Tournament 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 Career W–L Australian Open 1R A 3R QF 2R 1R 6–5 French Open 1R 2R 2R 1R 2R 2R 4–6 Wimbledon 3R 1R QF QF 1R 1R 8–6 US Open A 1R QF 1R 1R 1R 3–5 Win–loss 2–3 1–3 9–4 6–4 2–4 1–4 21–22

Mixed doubles Tournament 2002 2003 2004 2005 Career W–L Australian Open A A 1R 2R 1–2 French Open A A 1R 1R 0–2 Wimbledon 2R 1R 2R 1R 1–4 US Open A 2R 1R A 1–2 Win–loss 1–1 1–2 0–4 1–3 3–10

Olympic Games Event 2000 2004 Career W–L Singles 2R 2R 2–2 Doubles QF A 2–1

ITF finals $100,000 tournaments $75,000 tournaments $50,000 tournaments $25,000 tournaments $10,000 tournaments

Singles (7–6) ResultNo.DateTournamentSurfaceOpponentScoreWin 1. 26 June 1989 Guadalajara, Mexico Clay Sofie Albinus 3–2 ret.Loss 1. 14 May 1990 Guadalajara, Mexico Clay Suzanne Italiano 7–6, 4–6, 3–6Win 2. 21 May 1990 Aguascalientes, Mexico Clay Jean Lozano 6–3, 6–3Loss 2. 27 May 1991 Sanibel, United States Hard Nicole Arendt 1–6, 1–6Win 3. 5 July 1993 Indianapolis, United States Hard Christine Neuman 6–4, 3–6, 6–4Win 4. 26 July 1993 Roanoke, United States Hard Annie Miller 6–0, 5–7, 6–0Win 5. 2 August 1993 Norfolk, United States Hard Annie Miller 7–5, 6–1Win 6. 31 July 1995 Brasília, Brazil Clay Andrea Glass 6–2, 5–7, 6–4Loss 3. 6 October 1996 Puerto Vallarta, Mexico Hard Jana Nejedly 6–7, 4–6Win 7. 27 July 1997 Peachtree City, United States Hard Sonya Jeyaseelan 6–4, 6–0Loss 4. 10 October 1999 Albuquerque, United States Hard Jennifer Hopkins 6–4, 6–7, 4–6Loss 5. 8 October 2000 Albuquerque, United States Hard Brie Rippner 0–6, 0–6Loss 6. 25 February 2003 St Paul, United States Hard (i) Shenay Perry 2–6, 4–6

Doubles (2–2) ResultNoDateTournamentSurfacePartnerOpponentsScoreWin 1. 14 May 1990 Guadalajara, Mexico Clay Rita Winebarger Belkis Rodríguez Blanca Borbolla 0–6, 7–5, 6–4Loss 1. Orlando, United States Clay Sandra Cacic Trisha Laux Michelle Jackson-Nobrega 3–6, 6–2, 4–6Loss 2. 31 March 1997 Phoenix, United States Hard María José Gaidano Lea Ghirardi Nino Louarsabishvili 0–6, 2–6Win 2. 24 July 2000 Caracas, Venezuela Hard María Virginia Francesa Candice de la Torre Gabriela Voleková 6–1, 6–4

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