Iva Majoli

Infobox Tennis player
playername= Iva Majoli


nickname=
country= CRO
residence= Zagreb, Croatia &
Bradenton, Florida U.S.
datebirth= birth date and age|mf=yes|1977|8|12
placebirth= Zagreb, SR Croatia, SFR Yugoslavia
height= height|m=1.75
weight= convert|61|kg|lb st|abbr=on|lk=on
turnedpro= August, 1991
retired= June, 2004
plays= Right-handed (two-handed backhand)
careerprizemoney= $4,405,867
singlesrecord= 316–225
singlestitles= 8 (2 ITF)
highestsinglesranking= No. 4 (February 5, 1996)
AustralianOpenresult= QF (1996)
FrenchOpenresult= W (1997)
Wimbledonresult= QF (1997)
USOpenresult= 4th Round (1994)
doublesrecord= 99–124
doublestitles= 1
highestdoublesranking= No. 24 (August 21, 1995)
updated=

Iva Majoli Marić (born August 12, 1977) is a former professional tennis player from Zagreb, Croatia. She turned pro in 1991 at the age of fourteen.

At age 19, Majoli won the 1997 French Open singles title, defeating Martina Hingis in the final 6–4, 6–2. Most had expected Hingis, the 16-year-old tennis sensation, to win the title. Majoli, however, played aggressively from the baseline and ended Hingis's 37-match winning streak.

Majoli played her best tennis as a teenager, reaching her career high ranking of World No. 4 in 1996. After a quarterfinal appearance at the French Open in 1998, she failed to reach the third round of any subsequent Grand Slam singles tournament. Her game steadily declined, with her ranking plummeting to 131 in 2003. In the final years of her tennis career, Majoli suffered from a series of injuries - most notably a shoulder injury - and struggled to play consistently. Her jet-setting lifestyle, well documented by the press, may have contributed. Not living up to high expectations after her French Open title, she has been called yet another "One Slam Wonder."

In 2002, Majoli, ranked No. 58 in the world, defeated Patty Schnyder, ranked No. 30 in the world, in the final of the Family Circle Cup in Charleston, South Carolina. The victory increased Majoli's ranking to No. 33. She reached another final shortly thereafter, prompting some to believe that she was climbing back to the top of the game. This, however, was wishful thinking, as Majoli's ranking then plummeted even further. On June 12, 2004, Majoli announced her retirement from the game.

In 2006, she announced that she was engaged and pregnant with her first child. She married a local businessman, Stipe Marić, on September 9, 2006, with Jennifer Capriati and Mary Pierce attending the wedding. She gave birth to her daughter Mia on October 31, 2006.

In 2007 she participated in TV show called "Dancing With the Stars" where she danced with Marko Herceg. She was eliminated in 4th episode.

Grand Slam singles final

Win (1)

Doubles (1)

Runner-ups (13)

ingles (9)

*1994: Osaka (lost to Manuela Maleeva-Fragnière)
*1994: Barcelona (lost to Arantxa Sanchez Vicario)
*1994: Essen (lost to Jana Novotna)
*1995: Barcelona (lost to Arantxa Sanchez Vicario)
*1996: Paris (lost to Julie Halard-Decugis)
*1996: Leipzig (lost to Anke Huber)
*2000: Kuala Lumpur (lost to Henrieta Nagyova)
*2001: Quebec (lost to Meghann Shaughnessy)
*2002: Bol (lost to Asa Svensson)

Doubles (4)

*1995: Linz (with Petra Schwarz) (lost to Meredith McGrath and Nathalie Tauziat)
*1995: Barcelona (with Mariaan de Swardt) (lost to Arantxa Sanchez Vicario and Larisa Neiland)
*1995: Rogers Cup (with Martina Hingis) (lost to Gabriela Sabatini and Brenda Schultz-McCarthy)
*1997: Hamburg (with Ruxandra Dragomir) (lost to Anke Huber and Mary Pierce)

Grand Slam singles performance timeline

A = did not participate in the tournament.

SR = the ratio of the number of Grand Slam singles tournaments won to the number of those tournaments played.

External links

* [http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2004/tennis/specials/wimbledon/2004/06/29/majoli.retired/ Majoli announces retirement]
* [http://www.zexpe.freeserve.co.uk/iva/articles/RG97c.txt More about her French Open Win]
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