Aleksandra Krunić

Aleksandra Krunić
Aleksandra Krunić at Wimbledon in 2015
Nation:	Serbia
Birthday:	March 15, 1993
Size:	163 cm
Weight:	53 kg
1st professional season:	2008
Playing hand:	Right, two-handed backhand
Trainer:	Elise Tamaëla
Prize money:	$ 2,407,243
singles
Career record:	297: 215
Career title:	1 WTA , 1 WTA Challenger, 9 ITF
Highest ranking:	39 (June 18, 2018)
Current placement:	66
Grand Slam record
Double
Career record:	158: 128
Career title:	4 WTA, 6 ITF
Highest ranking:	43 (April 24, 2017)
Current placement:	72
Grand Slam record
Last update of the infobox: June 17th, 2019
Sources: official player profiles at the ATP / WTA and ITF (see web links )

Aleksandra Krunić ( Serbian - Cyrillic Александра Крунић ; born March 15, 1993 in Moscow , Russia ) is a Serbian tennis player .

Career

Krunić began playing tennis at the age of seven at Spartak Moscow , where later tennis stars such as Anna Kurnikowa , Anastassija Myskina , Marat Safin , Igor Andreyev and many others also started tennis. During this time she was trained by Edouard Safonov. In 2006 she reached the semifinals of the junior competition of the Kremlin Cup , which she lost to Bulgarian Dalia Zafirova . The following year she won the junior competitions in Podgorica , Livorno and Maia . In 2008 she reached the quarter-finals of the European Junior Championships in Moscow and won the women's junior competition in Budapest . In 2009 she played both the singles and doubles competitions at all Grand Slam tournaments . In April 2009 she achieved her best position in the world junior ranking with position 17. In the same year she was together with Sandra Zaniewska in the junior women double finals of the US Open. Together with Bojana Jovanovski and Doroteja Erić , she took part with the Serbian team at the European Championships organized by the ITF and Tennis Europe .

As a member of Red Star Belgrade , Krunić won the Serbian tennis championships. On July 6th, 2008, she won the Prokuplje tournament as the youngest title winner of the year . In October 2008 she played two ITF tournaments in Dubrovnik .

In July 2009, Krunić won her first ITF title in doubles alongside Ema Polić . In August 2009 she qualified for the ITF tournament in La Marsa , where she lost in the second round to Francesca Mazzali 3: 6, 2: 6. At the tournament in Velenje she won her second ITF individual title. On September 14, Krunić appeared for the first time in the world rankings (position 795), on October 18, she won her third ITF individual title in Dubrovnik .

In January 2010, her fourth ITF individual title followed in Quanzhou . In May she won the single title in Moscow and was in the final of the double competition. Krunić played her first match on the WTA Tour at the Banka Koper Slovenia Open , where she competed alongside Jelena Janković in 2010 and was able to advance to the semi-finals. They defeated Sesil Karatancheva and Anna Tatishvili in the first round 6: 3 and 6: 4 and in the quarter-finals Eleni Daniilidou and Jasmin Wöhr , who were in fourth place, 4: 6, 6: 4, [10: 6]; for the semi-finals against Marija Kondratjewa and Vladimíra Uhlířová they could not compete because of an injury to Janković. Krunić played her first individual on the WTA Tour in 2011 at the Poli-Farbe Budapest Grand Prix .

She celebrated her greatest success so far in 2014 at the US Open , when she played her way through qualification to the second round; there she was defeated by the former world number one Wiktoryja Asaranka just 6: 4, 4: 6 and 4: 6. Only two weeks later she won her first WTA title in Tashkent alongside Kateřina Siniaková from the Czech Republic.

For the play-off games in the Fed Cup against Spain , Krunić was nominated for the first time for the Serbian team by coach Dejan Vraneš . Serbia won the match 4-0 with two wins each for Jelena Janković and Ana Ivanović against Anabel Medina Garrigues and María José Martínez Sánchez . Krunić made his debut on April 25, 2009 in doubles on the side of Ana Jovanović against Nuria Llagostera Vives and Lourdes Domínguez Lino . The Spaniards were leading 6-2, 1-0 when the game was canceled due to rain. In Krunić's Fed Cup record there are eleven wins and seven defeats.

Tournament victories

singles

No.	date	competition	category	Topping	Final opponent	Result
1.	July 6, 2008	Prokuplje	ITF $ 10,000	sand	Tanja Germanliewa	6: 4, 6: 1
2.	August 30, 2009	Velenje	ITF $ 10,000	sand	Nika Ožegović	6: 3, 6: 1
3.	October 18, 2009	Dubrovnik	ITF $ 10,000	sand	Karin Morgošová	6: 0, 6: 3
4th	January 10, 2010	Quanzhou	ITF $ 50,000	Hard court	Zhou Yimiao	6: 3, 7: 5
5.	May 23, 2010	Moscow	ITF $ 25,000	Sand (hall)	Natalia Ryzhonkova	6: 4, 4: 6, 6: 2
6th	June 24, 2012	Lenzerheide / Lai	ITF $ 25,000	sand	Chiara Scholl	6: 3, 6: 3
7th	March 10, 2013	Irapuato	ITF $ 25,000	Hard court	Olha Savchuk	7: 6 4 , 6: 4
8th.	September 8, 2013	Trabzon	ITF $ 50,000	Hard court	Stéphanie Foretz Gacon	1: 6, 6: 4, 6: 3
9.	December 21, 2014	Ankara	ITF $ 50,000	Hard court (hall)	Oqgul Omonmurodova	3: 6, 6: 2, 7: 6 4
10.	June 11, 2017	Bol	WTA Challenger	sand	Alexandra Cadanțu	6: 3, 3: 0 task
11.	17th June 2018	's-Hertogenbosch	WTA International	race	Kirsten Flipkens	6: 7 0 , 7: 5, 6: 1

Double

No.	date	competition	category	Topping	Partner	Final opponents	Result
1.	July 12, 2009	Prokuplje	ITF $ 10,000	sand	Ema Polić	Aleksandra Josifoska Cristina Stancu	6: 2, 7: 6 3
2.	June 24, 2012	Lenzerheide / Lai	ITF $ 25,000	sand	Ana Vrljić	Xenija Lykina Isabella Schinikowa	6: 2, 6: 4
3.	April 28, 2013	Tunis	ITF $ 25,000	sand	Katarzyna Piter	Réka Luca Jani Yevgenia Pashkova	6: 2, 3: 6, [10: 7]
4th	August 11, 2013	Izmir	ITF $ 25,000	Hard court	Katarzyna Piter	Kristi Boxx Abigail Guthrie	6: 2, 6: 2
5.	15th September 2013	Trabzon	ITF $ 50,000	Hard court	Oksana Kalashnikova	Ani Amiraghjan Dalila Jakupović	6: 2, 6: 1
6th	July 27, 2014	Rokietnica-Sobota	ITF $ 50,000	sand	Barbora Krejčíková	Anastasija Wassyljewa Maryna Sanewska	3: 6, 6: 0, [10: 6]
7th	September 13, 2014	Tashkent	WTA International	Hard court	Kateřina Siniaková	Margarita Gasparjan Alexandra Panova	6: 2, 6: 1
8th.	April 29, 2016	Rabat	WTA International	sand	Xenia Knoll	Tatjana Maria Ioana Raluca Olaru	6: 3, 6: 0
9.	January 12, 2019	Sydney	WTA Premier	Hard court	Kateřina Siniaková	Eri Hozumi Alicja Rosolska	6: 1, 7: 6 3
10.	June 16, 2019	's-Hertogenbosch	WTA International	race	Shūko Aoyama	Lesley Kerkhove Bibiane Schoofs	7: 5, 6: 3
11.	February 15, 2020	Cairo	ITF $ 100,000	Hard court	Katarzyna Piter	Arantxa Rus Mayar Sherif	6: 4, 6: 2

Performing in Grand Slam tournaments

singles

competition	2011	2012	2013	2014	2015	2016	2017	2018	2019	Balance sheet	Career
Australian Open	-	Q3	Q1	Q1	1	1	Q2	1	2	0: 3	1
French Open	-	Q1	Q2	Q2	1	Q1	Q3	1	2	1: 3	2
Wimbledon	Q1	-	-	Q1	3	1	Q3	1		2: 3	3
US Open	Q2	Q2	1	AF	1	1	3	3		7: 6	AF

Double

competition	2015	2016	2017	2018	2019	Balance sheet	Career
Australian Open	-	-	1	2	1	1: 3	1
French Open	1	AF	2	2	1	4: 5	AF
Wimbledon	1	AF	2	1		3: 4	AF
US Open	AF	1	1	-		2: 3	AF

Personal

Her parents, Bratislav and Ivana Krunić, emigrated from Serbia to Russia. Aleksandra Krunić, who has a sister named Anastasia, lives in her native Moscow and speaks Serbian , Russian and English .

Awards

• 2007: Tennis Europe , 2nd place in the U14 player of the year category
• 2012: Serbian Fed Cup Team , Team of the Year in Serbia

Web links

Commons : Aleksandra Krunić  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• WTA profile of Aleksandra Krunić (English)
• ITF profile Aleksandra Krunić (English)
• Fed Cup stats by Aleksandra Krunić (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ITF Prokuplje individual results
2. ↑ Krunićeva osvojila Dubrovnik (Croatian)
3. ↑ Krunićeva osvojila Kinu (Serbian)
4. ↑ Team biography of the Serbian Fed Cup team ( Memento from February 8, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
5. ↑ Aleksandra Krunić dobila srebrnu medalju (Serbian) ( Memento of the original from October 23, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
6. ↑ Krunić: Verujem since Cemo pobediti Japan