Mirjana Lucic
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Mirjana Lučić is a Croatian
professional tennis
player. She enjoyed a promising career on the WTA Tour in the late 1990s, during which she set several "youngest-ever" records, won one Grand Slam women's doubles title at the Australian Open
in 1998 when she was only 15 years old, partnering Martina Hingis
, and reached the semifinals of Wimbledon
in 1999. Following a series of personal problems from 2000 onwards, she faded from the scene. After toiling through the challenger circuit through much of the next decade, Lučić reemerged as a top 100 player following the 2010 season.
in 1996, and the girls' singles and doubles crowns at the Australian Open in 1997, becoming only the third player in the Open Era to win two junior Grand Slam singles titles by the age of 14 (the others being Martina Hingis
and Jennifer Capriati
).
Lučić turned professional in April 1997 at the age of 15. One week after turning pro, she won the very first WTA Tour event she played in at Bol
. She then reached the final of her second career event in Strasbourg
, where she lost to Steffi Graf
.
In 1998, playing in her very first tour doubles event, Lučić became the youngest player in history to win a title at the Australian Open at age 15 years, 10 months and 21 days, when she and Hingis won the women's doubles title. The win made Lučić the first player to win both the very first singles and doubles events they had ever played in on the WTA Tour. And she went on to win the second doubles event of her career when she partnered Hingis to win the Pan Pacific Open in Tokyo. Later that year, Lučić defended her singles title at Bol, becoming the youngest player ever to defend a tour title at age 16 years, 1 month and 24 days. She also finished runner-up in the 1998 mixed doubles event at Wimbledon
, partnering Mahesh Bhupathi
.
In 1999, Lučić achieved her career-best Grand Slam singles performance when she reached the semi-finals at Wimbledon, before losing in three sets to Graf 6–7 (4), 6–4, 6–3. In the 3rd round, she stunned World No. 4 and 9 time Grand Slam champion, Monica Seles
7–6, 7–6. She also beat 1998 Wimbledon finalist Nathalie Tauziat
in the quarter finals after Tauziat served for the match twice in the third set.
After 1999, Lučić's suffered a series of personal and financial problems and she failed to make any further significant impact on the tour. She then proceeded to take an extended hiatus from competition; her career-high world rankings were World No. 32 in singles and World No. 19 in doubles (both achieved in 1998). Since then, she has returned to the WTA tour and won her first qualifying match in the 2007 Region championships. Her last appearance on the tour before that was in 2003.
Mirjana Lučić gave an interview in New York Daily News in April 2006 explaining why she stopped playing and describing her life with an abusive father, vowing that would not stop her and she will continue to fight to the end. She had been training with a new coach, Ivan Beros, and said she was fit and ready to continue tennis.
As a "wild card" in the qualifying draw of the Cellular South Cup in Memphis in February, Lučić won one match (def. Melanie Oudin
, 1–6 6–3 6–3) before losing in the second round (to Natalie Grandin, 6–4 3–6 6–2). She was also awarded a wild card to the 2007 Pacific Life Open in Indian Wells (CA) in March, where she again won her first match [def. Lindsey Nelson, 6–4 7–6(5)] before losing in the second round (to Anna Chakvetadze
, 6–2 7–5).
She also received a wild card to the Tiro A Volo tournament in Rome, where she lost in the first round (to Karin Knapp
, 6–4 6–3). That being her third tournament within the previous 12 months, she received her first WTA ranking since her return to the professional tour. She re-entered the rankings at 524.
Even though she lost the first round to Knapp in the Rome challenger, she received a wild card for the 1.3 million dollar tournament in Rome and beat the 65th-ranked player in the world, Elena Vesnina
. She then went on to lose to Catalina Castaño
in the 2nd round. Her ranking jumped to 444 with the result.
In September 2008 Mirjana started working with her new Coach Alberto Gutierrez, planning a comeback. In the 2009 season, she was given a wildcard into the ASB Classic in Auckland, New Zealand. In her first WTA main draw match since Indian Wells 2007, she lost to Anne Keothavong
in the first round 6–4 6–2.
Lučić continued to toil on the ITF challenger circuit for several years prior to mounting somewhat of a comeback in the 2010 season. During that year, Lučić won her first title in 12 years at a $25K ITF event in Jackson, Florida April 11. Shortly after, Lučić qualified for the WTA event in Birmingham, going on to win her first main draw match since Indian Wells 2007, this time over Colombian Mariana Duque Mariño
, 6–1 6–2. She continued her good form as she defeated fellow Croatian player Karolina Šprem
6–3 5–7 7–6 in the second round. She was beaten by top 20 player Aravane Rezaï
of France in the third round by a score of 7–5 6–3. Lučić then competed in the Wimbledon Qualifying tournament at Roehampton. She won her first two rounds and beat Michaëlla Krajicek
in the third round to qualify for the main draw of Wimbledon, her first Grand Slam since the 2002 US Open. After a good showing, Lučić fell to 14th seed Victoria Azarenka
in the first round 3–6, 3–6 on Centre Court.
After Wimbledon Lučić moved onto the European summer clay court events. She failed to qualify for Bastad but the following week came through three rounds of qualifying at the 2010 Palermo
event, and won her first round match, defeating Pauline Parmentier
7–5, 0–6, 7–6 (7), recovering from a 0–4 third set deficit and saving 3 match points. She then fell to third seed Sara Errani
in the second round recovering a 2–4 deficit to force a tie-break before falling 0–6 6–7(4–7). Her ranking rose to 151, the highest of her comeback so far.
Following Palermo Lučić returned to the US for the summer hard court season. Her first event is the $700,000 Premier event in Stanford, the Bank of the West Classic. Seeded fifth in the qualifying draw Lučić defeated both Heidi El Tabakh and Tamaryn Hendler in straight sets before repeating her Wimbledon victory over Michaëlla Krajicek
with a 6–1 7–6(8–6) win to qualify for the main draw where she will face Russian Maria Kirilenko
.
In the 2010 US Open
, after winning three qualifying matches to enter the main draw, she beat Alicia Molik
, 7–6(5), 6–1 to set up a second round clash with seed # 4 Jelena Janković
. Lucić lost in three sets 4–6, 6–3, 2–6. Even with this defeat, this was her best performance in a Grand Slam in nearly a decade.
Lučić started out the 2011 season poorly with a string of early losses on both the WTA and ITF circuits early in the year. Her fortunes began to change during the clay court season where Lucic reached her first WTA Tour quarterfinal in over 10 years at the Strasbourg event, losing to Anabel Medina Garrigues.
Coach: Angel Diaz
Croats
Croats are a South Slavic ethnic group mostly living in Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina and nearby countries. There are around 4 million Croats living inside Croatia and up to 4.5 million throughout the rest of the world. Responding to political, social and economic pressure, many Croats have...
professional tennis
Tennis
Tennis is a sport usually played between two players or between two teams of two players each . Each player uses a racket that is strung to strike a hollow rubber ball covered with felt over a net into the opponent's court. Tennis is an Olympic sport and is played at all levels of society at all...
player. She enjoyed a promising career on the WTA Tour in the late 1990s, during which she set several "youngest-ever" records, won one Grand Slam women's doubles title at the Australian Open
Australian Open
The Australian Open is the only Grand Slam tennis tournament held in the southern hemisphere. The tournament was held for the first time in 1905 and was last contested on grass in 1987. Since 1972 the Australian Open has been held in Melbourne, Victoria. In 1988, the tournament became a hard court...
in 1998 when she was only 15 years old, partnering Martina Hingis
Martina Hingis
Martina Hingis is a retired Swiss professional tennis player who spent a total of 209 weeks as World No. 1. She won five Grand Slam singles titles...
, and reached the semifinals of Wimbledon
The Championships, Wimbledon
The Championships, Wimbledon, or simply Wimbledon , is the oldest tennis tournament in the world, considered by many to be the most prestigious. It has been held at the All England Club in Wimbledon, London since 1877. It is one of the four Grand Slam tennis tournaments, the other three Majors...
in 1999. Following a series of personal problems from 2000 onwards, she faded from the scene. After toiling through the challenger circuit through much of the next decade, Lučić reemerged as a top 100 player following the 2010 season.
Career
Lučić began playing tennis at age four by hiding in the car when her older sister went to tennis classes and then sneaking into the lessons herself. As a junior player, she won the girls' singles title at the US OpenU.S. Open (tennis)
The US Open, formally the United States Open Tennis Championships, is a hardcourt tennis tournament which is the modern iteration of one of the oldest tennis championships in the world, the U.S. National Championship, which for men's singles was first contested in 1881...
in 1996, and the girls' singles and doubles crowns at the Australian Open in 1997, becoming only the third player in the Open Era to win two junior Grand Slam singles titles by the age of 14 (the others being Martina Hingis
Martina Hingis
Martina Hingis is a retired Swiss professional tennis player who spent a total of 209 weeks as World No. 1. She won five Grand Slam singles titles...
and Jennifer Capriati
Jennifer Capriati
Jennifer Marie Capriati is a former world number one ranked professional tennis player, and the winner of three women's singles championships in Grand Slam tournaments. Capriati made her professional debut in 1990 at the age of 14 when she reached the finals of the hard court tournament in Boca...
).
Lučić turned professional in April 1997 at the age of 15. One week after turning pro, she won the very first WTA Tour event she played in at Bol
Bol, Croatia
Bol is a town on the south of the island of Brač in theSplit-Dalmatia County of Croatia, population 1,661 .Bol is renowned for its most popular beach, the Zlatni rat . It is a promontory composed mostly of pebble rock that visibly shifts with the tidal movement, a unique sight...
. She then reached the final of her second career event in Strasbourg
Strasbourg
Strasbourg is the capital and principal city of the Alsace region in eastern France and is the official seat of the European Parliament. Located close to the border with Germany, it is the capital of the Bas-Rhin département. The city and the region of Alsace are historically German-speaking,...
, where she lost to Steffi Graf
Steffi Graf
Steffi Graf is a former World No. 1 German tennis player.In total, Graf won 22 Grand Slam singles titles, second among male and female players only to Margaret Court's 24...
.
In 1998, playing in her very first tour doubles event, Lučić became the youngest player in history to win a title at the Australian Open at age 15 years, 10 months and 21 days, when she and Hingis won the women's doubles title. The win made Lučić the first player to win both the very first singles and doubles events they had ever played in on the WTA Tour. And she went on to win the second doubles event of her career when she partnered Hingis to win the Pan Pacific Open in Tokyo. Later that year, Lučić defended her singles title at Bol, becoming the youngest player ever to defend a tour title at age 16 years, 1 month and 24 days. She also finished runner-up in the 1998 mixed doubles event at Wimbledon
The Championships, Wimbledon
The Championships, Wimbledon, or simply Wimbledon , is the oldest tennis tournament in the world, considered by many to be the most prestigious. It has been held at the All England Club in Wimbledon, London since 1877. It is one of the four Grand Slam tennis tournaments, the other three Majors...
, partnering Mahesh Bhupathi
Mahesh Bhupathi
Mahesh Shrinivas Bhupathi is an Indian professional tennis player widely regarded as among the best doubles players in the world with 11 Grand Slam titles to his credit. In 1997, he became the first Indian to win a Grand Slam tournament...
.
In 1999, Lučić achieved her career-best Grand Slam singles performance when she reached the semi-finals at Wimbledon, before losing in three sets to Graf 6–7 (4), 6–4, 6–3. In the 3rd round, she stunned World No. 4 and 9 time Grand Slam champion, Monica Seles
Monica Seles
Monica Seles is a former world no. 1 professional tennis player and a member of the International Tennis Hall of Fame. She was born in Novi Sad, Serbia, former Yugoslavia to Hungarian parents. She became a naturalized United States citizen in 1994 and also received Hungarian citizenship in June 2007...
7–6, 7–6. She also beat 1998 Wimbledon finalist Nathalie Tauziat
Nathalie Tauziat
Nathalie Tauziat is a former professional tennis player from France. She was the runner-up in women's singles at the 1998 Wimbledon Championships. Her career-high singles ranking was third in 2000....
in the quarter finals after Tauziat served for the match twice in the third set.
After 1999, Lučić's suffered a series of personal and financial problems and she failed to make any further significant impact on the tour. She then proceeded to take an extended hiatus from competition; her career-high world rankings were World No. 32 in singles and World No. 19 in doubles (both achieved in 1998). Since then, she has returned to the WTA tour and won her first qualifying match in the 2007 Region championships. Her last appearance on the tour before that was in 2003.
Mirjana Lučić gave an interview in New York Daily News in April 2006 explaining why she stopped playing and describing her life with an abusive father, vowing that would not stop her and she will continue to fight to the end. She had been training with a new coach, Ivan Beros, and said she was fit and ready to continue tennis.
As a "wild card" in the qualifying draw of the Cellular South Cup in Memphis in February, Lučić won one match (def. Melanie Oudin
Melanie Oudin
Melanie Oudin is an American tennis player and former World Junior No. 2. Her career high rank is World No. 31, which she achieved on April 19, 2010...
, 1–6 6–3 6–3) before losing in the second round (to Natalie Grandin, 6–4 3–6 6–2). She was also awarded a wild card to the 2007 Pacific Life Open in Indian Wells (CA) in March, where she again won her first match [def. Lindsey Nelson, 6–4 7–6(5)] before losing in the second round (to Anna Chakvetadze
Anna Chakvetadze
Anna Djambulilovna Chakvetadze is a Russian professional tennis player . On September 10, 2007, she reached her career-high professional singles ranking of World No. 5. She has won eight WTA Singles Titles and appeared in the 2007 US Open semifinals. As of July 4, 2011, Chakvetadze is ranked World...
, 6–2 7–5).
She also received a wild card to the Tiro A Volo tournament in Rome, where she lost in the first round (to Karin Knapp
Karin Knapp
Karin Knapp is an Italian female tennis player. She was ranked World No. 35 on 25 February 2008.-Career:...
, 6–4 6–3). That being her third tournament within the previous 12 months, she received her first WTA ranking since her return to the professional tour. She re-entered the rankings at 524.
Even though she lost the first round to Knapp in the Rome challenger, she received a wild card for the 1.3 million dollar tournament in Rome and beat the 65th-ranked player in the world, Elena Vesnina
Elena Vesnina
Elena Sergeevna Vesnina is a professional female tennis player from Russia. Her career high rank was #22, achieved on 12 October 2009...
. She then went on to lose to Catalina Castaño
Catalina Castaño
Catalina Castaño Alvarez is a professional female Colombian tennis player. On July 10, 2006, Catalina reached her career-high singles ranking: World No. 35. Since November 2006, she is the highest ranked South American female tennis player...
in the 2nd round. Her ranking jumped to 444 with the result.
In September 2008 Mirjana started working with her new Coach Alberto Gutierrez, planning a comeback. In the 2009 season, she was given a wildcard into the ASB Classic in Auckland, New Zealand. In her first WTA main draw match since Indian Wells 2007, she lost to Anne Keothavong
Anne Keothavong
Anne Viensouk Keothavong is a British professional tennis player. She is a former long-standing British number 1, however she is the current British number 2, behind Elena Baltacha and is ranked 71st in the world...
in the first round 6–4 6–2.
Lučić continued to toil on the ITF challenger circuit for several years prior to mounting somewhat of a comeback in the 2010 season. During that year, Lučić won her first title in 12 years at a $25K ITF event in Jackson, Florida April 11. Shortly after, Lučić qualified for the WTA event in Birmingham, going on to win her first main draw match since Indian Wells 2007, this time over Colombian Mariana Duque Mariño
Mariana Duque Marino
Mariana Duque Mariño is a Colombian tennis player, born in Bogotá. Her career high rank is #94, achieved on February 22, 2010....
, 6–1 6–2. She continued her good form as she defeated fellow Croatian player Karolina Šprem
Karolina Šprem
Karolina Šprem was a Croatian tennis player.She has won eight titles all at the ITF level. She has not won any titles on the WTA Tour. Career highlight is a quarterfinal appearance at Wimbledon in 2004 where she defeated two-time champion, four-time finalist and then-world No...
6–3 5–7 7–6 in the second round. She was beaten by top 20 player Aravane Rezaï
Aravane Rezaï
Aravane Rezaï is an Iranian-French tennis player born in Saint-Étienne, France to Iranian parents. She is the current French No. 5 in women's tennis. Rezaï took up tennis after a childhood stint as her older brother's ball girl...
of France in the third round by a score of 7–5 6–3. Lučić then competed in the Wimbledon Qualifying tournament at Roehampton. She won her first two rounds and beat Michaëlla Krajicek
Michaëlla Krajicek
Michaëlla Krajicek is a Dutch professional tennis player. Her highest WTA ranking was number 30 on 11 February 2008. She currently is the second best ranked player from the Netherlands behind Arantxa Rus.-Personal life:...
in the third round to qualify for the main draw of Wimbledon, her first Grand Slam since the 2002 US Open. After a good showing, Lučić fell to 14th seed Victoria Azarenka
Victoria Azarenka
Victoria Azarenka is a Belarusian professional tennis player. Her career high and current ranking is world no. 3, which she first achieved on 12 September 2011. She became the highest-ranked Belarusian player ever, surpassing Natasha Zvereva by two spots....
in the first round 3–6, 3–6 on Centre Court.
After Wimbledon Lučić moved onto the European summer clay court events. She failed to qualify for Bastad but the following week came through three rounds of qualifying at the 2010 Palermo
2010 Internazionali Femminili di Palermo – Singles
Flavia Pennetta was the defending champion but lost to Kaia Kanepi in the final 6–4, 6–3.-Seeds:# Flavia Pennetta # Aravane Rezaï # Sara Errani # Tsvetana Pironkova ...
event, and won her first round match, defeating Pauline Parmentier
Pauline Parmentier
Pauline Parmentier is a professional tennis player from France. Her career high was #40, achieved on 21 July 2008 and her highest ranking in doubles was World Number 146 on 15 June 2009.-Background:...
7–5, 0–6, 7–6 (7), recovering from a 0–4 third set deficit and saving 3 match points. She then fell to third seed Sara Errani
Sara Errani
Sara Errani , nicknamed "Poco Gigante", is a professional female tennis player from Italy. On February 23, 2009, she reached a new career high of No. 31 on the Tour rankings...
in the second round recovering a 2–4 deficit to force a tie-break before falling 0–6 6–7(4–7). Her ranking rose to 151, the highest of her comeback so far.
Following Palermo Lučić returned to the US for the summer hard court season. Her first event is the $700,000 Premier event in Stanford, the Bank of the West Classic. Seeded fifth in the qualifying draw Lučić defeated both Heidi El Tabakh and Tamaryn Hendler in straight sets before repeating her Wimbledon victory over Michaëlla Krajicek
Michaëlla Krajicek
Michaëlla Krajicek is a Dutch professional tennis player. Her highest WTA ranking was number 30 on 11 February 2008. She currently is the second best ranked player from the Netherlands behind Arantxa Rus.-Personal life:...
with a 6–1 7–6(8–6) win to qualify for the main draw where she will face Russian Maria Kirilenko
Maria Kirilenko
Maria Yuryevna Kirilenko is a Russian professional tennis player. Kirilenko won her first WTA Tour title in 2005, defeating Anna-Lena Grönefeld in the China Open. Kirilenko reached no. 18, her career-high singles ranking, on the WTA tour in July 2008. She won the junior event at the 2002 Canadian...
.
In the 2010 US Open
2010 US Open (tennis)
The 2010 US Open was a tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts, held from August 30 to September 13, 2010 in the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center at Flushing Meadows, Queens, New York City, United States....
, after winning three qualifying matches to enter the main draw, she beat Alicia Molik
Alicia Molik
Alicia Molik is a Australian professional female tennis player. She reached a career high singles rank of number 8 and also won a bronze medal for Australia at the 2004 Athens Olympics. Molik also reached a career high doubles ranking of number 6, and won two grand slam doubles titles, at the...
, 7–6(5), 6–1 to set up a second round clash with seed # 4 Jelena Janković
Jelena Janković
Jelena Janković is a former world no. 1 professional tennis player from Serbia. She reached the final of the 2008 US Open and won the 2007 Wimbledon Mixed Doubles title. Janković is ranked world no...
. Lucić lost in three sets 4–6, 6–3, 2–6. Even with this defeat, this was her best performance in a Grand Slam in nearly a decade.
Lučić started out the 2011 season poorly with a string of early losses on both the WTA and ITF circuits early in the year. Her fortunes began to change during the clay court season where Lucic reached her first WTA Tour quarterfinal in over 10 years at the Strasbourg event, losing to Anabel Medina Garrigues.
Singles (5)
| Legend: Before 2009 | Legend: Starting in 2009 |
|---|---|
| Grand Slam Grand Slam (tennis) The four Major tennis tournaments, also called the Slams, are the most important tennis events of the year in terms of world tour ranking points, tradition, prize-money awarded, strength and size of player field, and public attention. They are the Australian Open, the French Open, Wimbledon, and... tournaments (0) |
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| WTA Championships (0) | |
| Tier I (0) | Premier Mandatory (0) |
| Tier II (0) | Premier 5 (0) |
| Tier III (0) | Premier (0) |
| Tier IV & V (2) | International (0) |
| ITF Titles (3) | |
| Outcome | No. | Date | Tournament | Surface | Opponent in Final | Score in Final |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Winner | 1. | May 4, 1997 |  BolCroatian Bol Ladies Open Croatian Bol Ladies Open was the annual women's tennis tournament on the WTA Tour, on the Croatian island of Brač, in the small town of Bol. The tournament was held in late April in 1991, and from 1995 until 2003, when it was replaced by Western & Southern Women's Open on the WTA Tour.-Singles:-... |
Clay |  Corina MorariuCorina Morariu Corina Marie Morariu is a former American female professional tennis player of Romanian heritage.Morariu turned professional in 1994. Mainly known as a doubles specialist, she won the women's doubles title at Wimbledon in 1999 with Lindsay Davenport. She also won the mixed doubles title at the... |
7–5, 6(4)–7, 7–6(5) |
| Runner-up | 1. | May 24, 1997 |  StrasbourgInternationaux de Strasbourg The Internationaux de Strasbourg is a tennis tournament held in Strasbourg, France. Held since 1987, this WTA Tour event is an International-level tournament played on outdoor clay courts.... |
Clay |  Steffi GrafSteffi Graf Steffi Graf is a former World No. 1 German tennis player.In total, Graf won 22 Grand Slam singles titles, second among male and female players only to Margaret Court's 24... |
6–2, 7–5 |
| Winner | 2. | May 3, 1998 | Bol Croatian Bol Ladies Open Croatian Bol Ladies Open was the annual women's tennis tournament on the WTA Tour, on the Croatian island of Brač, in the small town of Bol. The tournament was held in late April in 1991, and from 1995 until 2003, when it was replaced by Western & Southern Women's Open on the WTA Tour.-Singles:-... |
Clay | Corina Morariu Corina Morariu Corina Marie Morariu is a former American female professional tennis player of Romanian heritage.Morariu turned professional in 1994. Mainly known as a doubles specialist, she won the women's doubles title at Wimbledon in 1999 with Lindsay Davenport. She also won the mixed doubles title at the... |
6–4, 6–2 |
Doubles (3)
| Legend: Before 2009 | Legend: Starting in 2009 |
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| Grand Slam Grand Slam (tennis) The four Major tennis tournaments, also called the Slams, are the most important tennis events of the year in terms of world tour ranking points, tradition, prize-money awarded, strength and size of player field, and public attention. They are the Australian Open, the French Open, Wimbledon, and... tournaments (1) |
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| WTA Championships (0) | |
| Tier I (1) | Premier Mandatory (0) |
| Tier II (0) | Premier 5 (0) |
| Tier III (0) | Premier (0) |
| Tier IV & V (0) | International (0) |
| ITF Titles (1) | |
| No. | Date | Tournament | Surface | Partner | Opponent in the final | Score |
| 1. | December 16, 1996 |  SalzburgSalzburg -Population development:In 1935, the population significantly increased when Salzburg absorbed adjacent municipalities. After World War II, numerous refugees found a new home in the city. New residential space was created for American soldiers of the postwar Occupation, and could be used for... |
Carpet (I) | Chanda Rubin Chanda Rubin Chanda Rubin is an American tennis player. Winning seven WTA Tour singles titles, she reached her highest ranking World No. 6 on April 8, 1996, after reaching semifinals at the 1996 Australian Open. Rubin is also former World No... |
Anca Barna Anca Barna Anca Barna is a retired professional German tennis player. Barna turned professional in 1992 and retired in 2005. On 12 April 2004, Barna reached her highest singles ranking: World Number 46. Her highest doubles ranking came on on 21 April 1997, when she became World Number 119. In her career, she... Adriana BarnaAdriana Barna Adriana Barna is a retired professional German tennis player. Also she is a younger sister of Anca Barna and currently resides in Nuremberg, Germany.- External links :... |
6–3, 6–2 |
| 2. | February 1, 1998 |  MelbourneAustralian Open The Australian Open is the only Grand Slam tennis tournament held in the southern hemisphere. The tournament was held for the first time in 1905 and was last contested on grass in 1987. Since 1972 the Australian Open has been held in Melbourne, Victoria. In 1988, the tournament became a hard court... |
Hard |  Martina HingisMartina Hingis Martina Hingis is a retired Swiss professional tennis player who spent a total of 209 weeks as World No. 1. She won five Grand Slam singles titles... |
Lindsay Davenport Lindsay Davenport Lindsay Ann Davenport is a former World No. 1 American professional tennis player. She has won three Grand Slam singles tournaments and an Olympic gold medal in singles. In 2005, TENNIS Magazine ranked her as the 29th-best player of the preceding forty years...  Natasha ZverevaNatasha Zvereva Natalya "Natasha" Zvereva, or Zverava is a former tennis player from Belarus. Zvereva was the first major athlete in the Soviet Union to demand publicly that she should be able to keep her tournament earnings... |
6–4, 2–6, 6–3 |
| 3. | February 8, 1998 |  TokyoToray Pan Pacific Open The is a WTA Tour affiliated professional tennis tournament for women, held every year since 1984 on in Tokyo, Japan. It is classified on the WTA Tour as a Tier I tournament since 1993. The event has traditionally been played on indoor carpet at the Tokyo Metropolitan Gymnasium, but the 2008 event... |
Carpet (I) | Martina Hingis Martina Hingis Martina Hingis is a retired Swiss professional tennis player who spent a total of 209 weeks as World No. 1. She won five Grand Slam singles titles... |
Lindsay Davenport Lindsay Davenport Lindsay Ann Davenport is a former World No. 1 American professional tennis player. She has won three Grand Slam singles tournaments and an Olympic gold medal in singles. In 2005, TENNIS Magazine ranked her as the 29th-best player of the preceding forty years... Natasha ZverevaNatasha Zvereva Natalya "Natasha" Zvereva, or Zverava is a former tennis player from Belarus. Zvereva was the first major athlete in the Soviet Union to demand publicly that she should be able to keep her tournament earnings... |
7–5, 6–4 |
Coach: Angel Diaz
Singles Performance timeline
| Tournaments | 1997 | 1998 | 1999 | 2000 | 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | W-L | |||
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| Australian Open Australian Open The Australian Open is the only Grand Slam tennis tournament held in the southern hemisphere. The tournament was held for the first time in 1905 and was last contested on grass in 1987. Since 1972 the Australian Open has been held in Melbourne, Victoria. In 1988, the tournament became a hard court... |
A | 2R | 1R | 1R | A | A | A | A | A | A | A | A | A | A | 1R | 1–4 | |||
| French Open | A | A | 1R | 1R | 3R | 2R | LQ | A | A | A | A | A | A | A | 1R | 3–5 | |||
| Wimbledon The Championships, Wimbledon The Championships, Wimbledon, or simply Wimbledon , is the oldest tennis tournament in the world, considered by many to be the most prestigious. It has been held at the All England Club in Wimbledon, London since 1877. It is one of the four Grand Slam tennis tournaments, the other three Majors... |
A | 2R | SF | 2R | LQ | LQ | A | A | A | A | A | A | A | A | 1R | 7–4 | |||
| US Open | 3R | 3R | 2R | 1R | LQ | 1R | LQ | A | A | A | A | A | A | 2R | 2R | 7–7 | |||