Pilar Pérez Pilar Pérez Pilar Pérez (born 22 September 1973) is a former professional tennis player from Spain. Pérez, who began competing on the ITF circuit in the 1989 season, was the Orange Bowl champion in 1990, becoming the first Spanish female to win the prestigious junior tournament. As a 16-year old she featured in two Federation Cup ties for Spain, as the doubles partner of Conchita Martinez. Pérez and Martinez were beaten in both matches. This included the deciding rubber of the 1990 World Group semi-final against the USSR, as a replacement for Arantxa Sánchez Vicario, who was injured during her
Spanish naming customs surnames, with an example being tennis player Arantxa Sánchez Vicario – whereas her older brothers Emilio and Javier, also professional tennis players, are mainly known only by the paternal surname of Sánchez in everyday life, although they also would "formally" be addressed as "Sánchez Vicario". Where Basque and Romance cultures have linguistically long coexisted, the surnames denote the father's name and the (family) house or town/village. Thus the Romance patronymic and the place-name are conjoined with the prepositional particle "de" ("from"+"provenance"). For example, in the name "José Ignacio López de Arriortúa", the composite surname "López de Arriortúa" is a single