title: Maria Pavlidou
text: # Maria Pavlidou
  
  Maria Pavlidou (born 20 January 1978) is a Greek former professional tennis player.
  
  A right-handed player from Thessaloniki, Pavlidou spent much of her early career playing college tennis in the United States for the University of Arkansas. She was an All-American in 1999 when she became the first female Arkansas player to reach the quarterfinals of an NCAA singles championships.
  
  Pavlidou represented Greece in the Fed Cup from 2000 to 2003, featuring in a total of five singles and four doubles rubbers. She also competed for Greece at the Mediterranean Games, winning a gold medal in Tunis in 2001, as partner of Eleni Daniilidou in the women's doubles.
  
  ## ITF finals
  
  ### Singles: 2 (0–2)
  
  | Outcome | No. | Date | Tournament | Surface | Opponent | Score |
  | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
  | Runner-up | 1. | 20 May 2001 | Tel Aviv, Israel | Hard | Cheli Bargil | 6–3, 4–6, 3–6 |
  | Runner-up | 2. | 30 September 2001 | Kastoria, Greece | Clay | Karina Jacobsgaard | 1–6, 1–6 |
  
  ### Doubles: 11 (5–6)
  
  | Outcome | No. | Date | Tournament | Surface | Partner | Opponents | Score |
  | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
  | Winner | 1. | 28 June 1998 | Kavala, Greece | Hard | Réka Vidáts | Branka Bojović Evagelia Roussi | 6–1, 6–1 |
  | Winner | 2. | 28 May 2000 | Tel Aviv, Israel | Hard | Simona Arghire | Elena Voropaeva Irina Kornienko | 6–1, 6–2 |
  | Runner-up | 1. | 8 October 2000 | Fiumicino, Italy | Clay | Asimina Kaplani | Martina Babáková Scarlett Werner | 1–4, 4–1, 2–4 |
  | Runner-up | 2. | 15 October 2000 | Ciampino, Italy | Clay | Asimina Kaplani | Adriana Burz Andreea Ehritt-Vanc | 2–4, $5–4^{(5)},$ 2–4, 1–4 |
  | Winner | 3. | 20 May 2001 | Tel Aviv 1, Israel | Hard | Irina Kornienko | Evghenia Ablovatchi Yevgenia Savranska | 6–2, 6–4 |
  | Winner | 4. | 27 May 2001 | Tel Aviv 2, Israel | Hard | Irina Kornienko | Emily Hewson Natasha van der Merwe | w/o |
  | Runner-up | 3. | 5 August 2001 | Istanbul, Turkey | Hard | Evagelia Roussi | Maria Kondratieva Svetlana Mossiakova | 2–6, 5–7 |
  | Runner-up | 4. | 26 August 2001 | Volos, Greece | Carpet | Asimina Kaplani | Radoslava Topalova Virginia Trifonova | 2–6, 6–4, 5–7 |
  | Winner | 5. | 30 September 2001 | Kastoria, Greece | Clay | Asimina Kaplani | İpek Şenoğlu Biljana Pawlowa-Dimitrova | 6–3, 7–5 |
  | Runner-up | 5. | 28 July 2002 | Algiers, Algeria | Clay | Asimina Kaplani | Rushmi Chakravarthi Christina Zachariadou | 2–6, 2–6 |
  | Runner-up | 6. | 11 August 2002 | Bath, Great Britain | Hard | Asimina Kaplani | Samantha Stosur Sarah Stone | 4–6, 1–6 |
  