{{Short description|Italian tennis player}} {{Infobox tennis biography | name = Stella Menna | image = Stella Menna.jpg | fullname = | country_represented = {{ITA}} | birth_date = {{birth date and age|1988|02|18|df=yes}} | birth_place = | death_date = | death_place = | height = | plays = Right-handed | careerprizemoney = $26,707 | singlesrecord = 61–72 | singlestitles = 1 ITF | highestsinglesranking = No. 336 (19 March 2007) | doublesrecord = 21–32 | doublestitles = 1 ITF | highestdoublesranking = No. 435 (1 October 2007) }}
'''Stella Menna''' (born 18 February 1988) is an Italian former professional tennis player and an Italian food blogger known as UnaStellaInCucina.
Menna, a right-handed player from Rome, featured in the junior draws at the 2005 Australian Open.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Vincenzo |first1=Martucci |title=Stella, una romana con la testa capoccia |url=http://archiviostorico.gazzetta.it/2001/gennaio/18/Stella_una_romana_con_testa_ga_0_0101182094.shtml |work=La Gazzetta dello Sport |date=18 January 2001 |language=Italian}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=Day eight schedule |url=https://www.smh.com.au/sport/tennis/day-eight-schedule-20050124-gdkjw1.html |work=The Sydney Morning Herald |date=24 January 2005 |language=en}}</ref>
On the professional tour, Menna reached a career-high singles ranking of 336. In 2007, she made her WTA Tour main-draw debut in the women's doubles of the 2007 Italian Open and featured in her only other main draw a week later at the 2007 İstanbul Cup, also in doubles.<ref>{{cite news |title=Rome Masters Monday |url=https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/151851779/ |work=St. Louis Post-Dispatch |date=15 May 2007}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=WTA: Istanbul Cup At Istanbul, Turkey |url=https://tulsaworld.com/archive/tennis/article_9f58aa55-4923-500c-a3d3-7c7953b3ed74.html |work=Tulsa World |date=23 May 2007 |language=en}}</ref>
==ITF finals== {|class=wikitable style="font-size:85%" !Legend |- style="background:lightblue;" |$25,000 tournaments |- style="background:#f0f8ff;" |$10,000 tournaments |}
===Singles (1–4)=== {|class="sortable wikitable" style=font-size:97% |- ! Result ! class="unsortable"|No. ! Date ! Location ! Surface ! Opponent ! class="unsortable"|Score |- style="background:#f0f8ff;" | style="background:#ffa07a;"|Loss | 1. | 27 November 2005 | Giza, Egypt | Clay | {{flagicon|NED}} Leonie Mekel | 6–2, 3–6, 6–7<sup>(1)</sup> |- style="background:#f0f8ff;" | style="background:#ffa07a;"|Loss | 2. | 19 February 2006 | Mallorca, Spain | Clay | {{flagicon|ESP}} Estrella Cabeza Candela | 4–6, 1–6 |- style="background:#f0f8ff;" | style="background:#ffa07a;"|Loss | 3. | 26 March 2006 | Al Mansoura, Egypt | Clay | {{flagicon|ROU}} Corina Corduneanu | 1–6, 6–7<sup>(2)</sup> |- style="background:lightblue;" | style="background:#ffa07a;"|Loss | 4. | 22 October 2006 | Victoria, Mexico | Hard | {{flagicon|ITA}} Jorgelina Cravero | 2–6, 1–6 |- style="background:#f0f8ff;" | style="background:#98fb98;"|Win | 1. | 11 March 2007 | Toluca, Mexico | Hard | {{flagicon|COL}} Mariana Duque Mariño | 6–1, 7–5 |}
===Doubles (1–2)=== {|class="sortable wikitable" style=font-size:97% |- ! Result ! class="unsortable"|No. ! Date ! Tournament ! Surface ! Partner ! Opponents ! class="unsortable"|Score |- style="background:#f0f8ff;" | style="background:#ffa07a;"|Loss | 1. | 24 July 2005 | ITF Ancona, Italy | Clay | {{flagicon|ITA}} Eleonora Iannozzi | {{flagicon|SLO}} Aleša Bagola <br/> {{flagicon|SLO}} Tina Obrez | 1–6, 0–6 |- style="background:#f0f8ff;" | style="background:#ffa07a;"|Loss | 2. | 11 February 2006 | ITF Mallorca, Spain | Clay | {{flagicon|ITA}} Eleonora Iannozzi | {{flagicon|ESP}} Núria Roig <br/> {{flagicon|ESP}} Estrella Cabeza Candela | 6–3, 3–6, 1–6 |- style="background:#f0f8ff;" | style="background:#98fb98;"|Win | 1. | 23 September 2007 | style="background:#f0f8ff;"|Open de Limoges, <br/>France | Hard (i) | {{flagicon|ITA}} Bibiane Schoofs | {{flagicon|FRA}} Adeline Goncalves <br/> {{flagicon|FRA}} Gracia Radovanovic | 6–4, 6–1 |}
==References== {{Reflist}}
==External links== * {{WTA|311176}} * {{ITF|stella-menna/800241359/ita}}
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Menna, Stella}} Category:1988 births Category:Living people Category:Italian female tennis players Category:Tennis players from Rome Category:21st-century Italian sportswomen