Karolina ?prem

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Karolina ?prem
?prem at the 2010 NSW Medibank Tennis Open.
Country (sports)   Croatia
Residence Vara?din , Croatia
Born ( 1984-10-25 ) 25 October 1984 (age 39)
Vara?din, SFRY
Height 1.74 m (5 ft 8 + 1 ⁄ 2  in)
Turned pro July 2001
Retired 2011
Plays Right-handed (two-handed backhand)
Coach Sa?a Hir?zon [1]
Prize money $1,298,606
Singles
Career record 266?170 (61.0%)
Career titles 0 WTA, 10 ITF
Highest ranking No. 17 (11 October 2004)
Grand Slam singles results
Australian Open 4R ( 2005 )
French Open 3R ( 2006 )
Wimbledon QF ( 2004 )
US Open 1R ( 2003 , 2004 , 2005 , 2006 )
Other tournaments
Olympic Games 3R (2004)
Doubles
Career record 14?16 (46.7%)
Career titles 0 WTA, 1 ITF
Highest ranking No. 182 (8 May 2006)
Grand Slam doubles results
Australian Open 2R (2006)
Wimbledon 1R (2005)
Team competitions
Fed Cup 9?7

Karolina ?prem Baghdatis (born 25 October 1984) is a former professional tennis player from Croatia. She won eleven titles (ten singles), all at the ITF level. Her highest ranking is world No. 17, achieved in October 2004.

Personal life [ edit ]

Karolina was born to Gabro and Bo?ena ?prem in Vara?din , SFRY. She was introduced to tennis by her father at nine years of age. She turned professional in July 2001.

?prem represented Croatia at the 2004 Summer Olympics held in Athens where she reached the third round in singles and the second round in doubles (with Jelena Kostani? ).

On 14 July 2012, ?prem married ATP player Marcos Baghdatis at Trako??an Castle in Croatia. [2] At Wimbledon , as a spectator for Baghdatis' match on centre court against Andy Murray , ?prem confirmed that she and Baghdatis were expecting their first child. Karolina gave birth to a girl, named Zahara, on 20 October 2012. [3]

Professional career [ edit ]

2003?2006 [ edit ]

?prem displayed stunning results at the beginning of the 2003 season. Playing on the ITF Circuit, she had a record 29-match winning streak from January to March, which earned her four titles at Grenoble, Southampton, Redbridge and Castellon.

Later in the year, she went on to reach two WTA Tour -level finals in Strasbourg and Vienna. She also reached the semifinals of the WTA Tour event in Helsinki, and won the ITF event in Poitiers.

?prem's career highlight came 2004 at Wimbledon, where she was a quarterfinalist. She defeated the then-two-time champion, four-time finalist and world No. 8, Venus Williams , en route. Her run was ended by Lindsay Davenport . The umpire of her match against Venus had awarded her an extra point in the second set tiebreak by mistake. [4] [5]

After Wimbledon, Karolina struggled to find her good form she had, losing early in many tournaments. She began training with Borna Biki?.

She rebounded at the Australian Open 2005, where she had a run to the fourth round. In September 2005, at the WTA event in Kolkata , India, she reached the final after a string of good wins. However, she lost the final to Anastasia Myskina .

2007?2009 [ edit ]

Sprem at the 2008 US Open

In late 2007, ?prem announced a permanent split from Bikic and returned to her old coach Ricardo Sanchez. She had to cope with a serious elbow injury, which needed surgery. [6] She was out of the tour for 10 months.

In April 2008, she returned to the pro tour, winning in Amelia Island over Ai Sugiyama and top-10 player Daniela Hantuchova , before falling to Lindsay Davenport in the third round.

In July, ?prem made the semifinals of a Tier III event in Budapest.

In 2009, Karolina won three big ITF Circuit titles in Biberach, Torhout, and Mestre.

2010?2011 [ edit ]

In 2010, she scored one of her biggest wins in years when she defeated 25th seed Anabel Medina Garrigues at the Australian Open .

During the Australian hard-court season in 2011, Karolina suffered a left-wrist injury, which forced her to stop competing. She tried playing in April at the tournament in Estoril, Portugal, but was unable to finish her first qualifying match against Heather Watson . This confirmed that the injury was very serious. She has been out of the tour since, and is still recovering. [7]

WTA career finals [ edit ]

Singles: 3 (3 runner-ups) [ edit ]

Outcome No. Date Tournament Surface Opponent Score
Runner-up 1. 24 May 2003 Internationaux de Strasbourg , France Clay Italy Silvia Farina Elia 3?6, 6?4, 4?6
Runner-up 2. 14 June 2003 Austrian Open , Vienna Clay Argentina Paola Suarez 6?7 (0?7) , 6?2, 4?6
Runner-up 3. 25 September 2005 Sunfeast Open , India Hard (i) Russia Anastasia Myskina 2?6, 2?6

ITF Circuit finals [ edit ]

Singles: 14 (10?4) [ edit ]

$100,000 tournaments
$75,000 tournaments
$50,000 tournaments
$25,000 tournaments
$10,000 tournaments
Outcome No. Date Tournament Surface Opponent Score
Runner-up 1. 2 September 2001 Mostar , Bosnia Clay Bosnia and Herzegovina Adriana Basari? 4?6, 3?6
Winner 1. 27 January 2002 Courmayeur , Italy Hard (i) Germany Stefanie Weis 4?6, 7?6 (7?3) , 6?4
Winner 2. 17 February 2002 Bergamo , Italy Hard (i) Italy Rita Degli Esposti 6?1, 6?2
Runner-up 2. 31 March 2002 Rome? Parioli , Italy Clay Russia Dinara Safina 7?6 (7?3) , 2?6, 3?6
Runner-up 3. 23 June 2002 Gorizia , Italy Clay Spain Ainhoa Goni 6?7 (4?7) , 1?6
Runner-up 4. 11 August 2002 Rimini , Italy Clay France Laurence Andretto 5?7, 4?6
Winner 3. 26 January 2003 Grenoble , France Hard (i) France Sophie Lefevre 7?5, 7?5
Winner 4. 16 February 2003 Southampton , England Hard (i) Czech Republic Magdalena Zd?novcova 6?1, 3?0 ret.
Winner 5. 23 February 2003 Redbridge , England Hard (i) Belarus Olga Barabanschikova 6?3, 6?2
Winner 6. 23 March 2003 Castellon , Spain Clay Slovakia ?udmila Cervanova 6?3, 6?3
Winner 7. 2 November 2003 Poitiers , France Hard (i) Italy Roberta Vinci 6?4, 7?5
Winner 8. 1 March 2009 Biberach Open , Germany Hard (i) Belgium Kirsten Flipkens 6?1, 6?2
Winner 9. 11 April 2009 Torhout , Belgium Hard (i) Ukraine Viktoriya Kutuzova 6?1, 6?4
Winner 10. 11 April 2009 Save Cup Mestre , Italy Hard Austria Yvonne Meusburger 2?6, 6?2, 6?4

Doubles (1?0) [ edit ]

Outcome No. Date Tournament Surface Partner Opponents Score
Winner 1. 24 November 2002 Zagreb , Croatia Hard (i) Bosnia and Herzegovina Mervana Jugi?-Salki? Croatia Jelena Kostani?
Croatia Matea Mezak 		6?2, 6?4

Grand Slam singles performance timeline [ edit ]

Key
W  F  SF QF #R RR Q# DNQ A NH
(W) winner; (F) finalist; (SF) semifinalist; (QF) quarterfinalist; (#R) rounds 4, 3, 2, 1; (RR) round-robin stage; (Q#) qualification round; (DNQ) did not qualify; (A) absent; (NH) not held; (SR) strike rate (events won / competed); (W?L) win?loss record.
Tournament 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011
Australian Open A 1R 4R 2R 1R A 1R 2R 1R
French Open A 1R 2R 3R A 1R 1R 1R A
Wimbledon 2R QF 1R 3R A A 1R 2R A
US Open 1R 1R 1R 1R A LQ LQ 1R A

References [ edit ]

  1. ^ "VARA?DINSKI TENISA? Sa?a Hir?zon: 'Ne fali mi ?ivot na touru, ?elim podi?i Varteks na vi?u razinu' " (in Croatian). 9 June 2020 . Retrieved 19 October 2020 .
  2. ^ "Baghdatis and Sprem make it a true mixed-doubles marriage" . Archived from the original on 3 February 2013 . Retrieved 23 August 2012 .
  3. ^ "Karolina ?prem rodila djevoj?icu Zaharu. Ime je odabrao otac, ciparski tenisa? Marcos Baghdatis" . 13 August 2013.
  4. ^ "Tennis: Williams Loses Count and Match", The New York Times, 25 June 2004, p. D1
  5. ^ Wimbledon officials to review umpire error ? ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
  6. ^ "Arhiv Slobodne Dalmacije - digitalni arhiv tiskanih izdanja Slobodne Dalmacije" .
  7. ^ 'Karolina & Marcos: It all started in Sydney' WTA (Retrieved 19 September 2012)

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