Jarmila Wolfe

Jarmila Wolfe
Jarmila Wolfe 2009 at Brisbane International
Nickname:	Jarka, Bugsy
Nation:	Slovakia 2005–2009 Australia 2009–2017
Birthday:	April 26, 1987
Size:	174 cm
1st professional season:	2005
Playing hand:	Right, two-handed backhand
Prize money:	$ 2,732,099
singles
Career record:	404: 276
Career title:	2 WTA , 14 ITF
Highest ranking:	25 (May 16, 2011)
Grand Slam record
Double
Career record:	186: 148
Career title:	1 WTA, 10 ITF
Highest ranking:	31 (August 27, 2012)
Grand Slam record
Mixed
Grand Slam record
Sources: official player profiles at the ATP / WTA and ITF (see web links )

Jarmila Wolfe , divorced Groth (* 26. April 1987 as Jarmila Gajdošová in Bratislava , Czechoslovakia ) is a former Australian tennis player . She played for Slovakia until 2009 , after which she played for Australia.

Life

Born in Czechoslovakia, she married Australian tennis professional Sam Groth in February 2009 . She took his name and became an Australian citizen. The marriage was divorced in April 2011. Until her marriage in October 2015 to the US naval pilot Adam Wolfe, she again carried her maiden name Gajdošová. She had her first child on November 11, 2017.

Career

With a 6: 1, 6: 4 final win in Guangzhou over Alla Kudrjawzewa from Russia, she won her first individual title on the WTA Tour in 2010 . With the move into the round of 16 of the French Open (4: 6, 3: 6 against Jaroslawa Schwedowa, who played for Kazakhstan ) and that of Wimbledon (4: 6, 6: 7, ⁵ against Venus Williams ), she scored her best in the same year Performing at a Grand Slam tournament . In addition, she won a total of 14 ITF titles in singles .

In doubles, she secured her only WTA title alongside Eva Birnerová in Stockholm in 2006 (6-2 in the third set over the two-time Grand Slam winners Yan Zi and Zheng Jie from China). Furthermore, she and her partner changed ten times on the winners' lists of ITF tournaments.

In 2011 she won the WTA tournament in Hobart . On the way to her final victory over Bethanie Mattek-Sands (6: 4, 6: 3), she also defeated Roberta Vinci and Klára Zakopalová .

In 2012, with good results in doubles at the Grand Slam tournaments in Melbourne and Paris, she was able to improve in the world rankings to 32nd place (best in August 2012, 31st place). She did not run at Wimbledon. At the side of Vania King she also reached the final of Stanford , in which the two Marina Eraković and Heather Watson lost 5-7 and 6-7.

After the WTA tournament in Miami in March and her smooth Fed Cup defeat against the Swiss Romina Oprandi in April, Wolfe only had one appearance in 2013. She was sick with glandular fever and was unable to play a tournament for seven months. It only started again at the Challenger tournament in Nanjing at the end of October; as a qualifier, she reached the semi-finals there.

In July 2003 she played in Charleroi against Belgium for the first time for the Slovak Fed Cup team . For Australia , she played a total of 16 Fed Cup games from 2011; Out of 13 singles she was able to win six, all three doubles were lost.

With the Bundesliga team of TC Blau-Weiss Bocholt , she was German runner-up in 2010.

In January 2017, she declared her tennis career over due to chronic back problems.

Tournament victories

singles

No.	date	competition	category	Topping	Final opponent	Result
1.	September 19, 2010	Guangzhou	WTA International	Hard court	Alla Kudryavtseva	6: 1, 6: 4
2.	January 15, 2011	Hobart	WTA International	Hard court	Bethanie Mattek-Sands	6: 4, 6: 3

Double

No.	date	competition	category	Topping	Partner	Final opponents	Result
1.	August 13, 2006	Stockholm	WTA Tier IV	Hard court	Eva Birnerová	Yan Zi Zheng Jie	0: 6, 6: 4, 6: 2

Mixed

No.	date	competition	category	Topping	partner	Final opponent	Result
1.	January 27, 2013	Australian Open	Grand Slam	Hard court	Matthew Ebden	Lucie Hradecká František Čermák	6: 3, 7: 5

Performing in Grand Slam tournaments

singles

competition	2006	2007	2008	2009	2010	2011	2012	2013	2014	2015	2016	Career
Australian Open	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	2	1	2
French Open	2	1	1	3	AF	3	2	-	-	1	-	AF
Wimbledon	2	1	-	2	AF	3	1	-	2	1	-	AF
US Open	3	1	-	1	1	2	1	-	1	1	-	3

Double

competition	2006	2007	2008	2009	2010	2011	2012	2013	2014	2015	Career
Australian Open	-	2	1	1	1	1	AF	1	VF	2	VF
French Open	-	AF	-	1	-	2	VF	-	2	1	VF
Wimbledon	AF	2	-	1	-	2	-	-	2	AF	AF
US Open	1	-	2	1	2	AF	2	-	AF	1	AF

Web links

Commons : Jarmila Wolfe  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• WTA profile Jarmila Wolfe (English)
• ITF profile Jarmila Wolfe (English)
• Fed Cup stats by Jarmila Wolfe (English)
• Profile of Jarmila Wolfe on "tennis.com.au" (English)
• Official website of Jarmila Wolfe

Individual evidence

1. ↑ womenstennisblog.com: Jarmila Gajdosova and Ons Jabeur tie the knot published on November 3, 2015, accessed on December 3, 2015
2. ↑ Wolfe joins 2017 mom club after arrival of cub. In: wtatennis.com. November 15, 2017, accessed November 15, 2017 . 
3. ↑ wtatennis.com: Glandular Fever : The Insidious Disease
4. ^ Petrova and Wolfe announce their retirement from tennis. In: fedcup.com. January 11, 2017, accessed January 18, 2017 .