Jelena Kostanić Tošić

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Jelena Kostanić Tošić Tennis player
Jelena Kostanić Tošić
Jelena Tošić in Sofia in 2008
Nation: CroatiaCroatia Croatia
Birthday: July 6, 1981
Size: 168 cm
1st professional season: 1999
Resignation: 2010
Playing hand: Left, two-handed backhand
Prize money: $ 1,577,765
singles
Career record: 328: 261
Career title: 0 WTA , 4 ITF
Highest ranking: 32 (July 26, 2004)
Grand Slam record
Grand Slam title: 00000  0
Australian Open 3R (2000, 2006, 2007)
French Open 2R (2002-2005)
Wimbledon 1R (2000, 2002-2007)
US Open 3R (2004)
Double
Career record: 198: 179
Career title: 8 WTA, 10 ITF
Highest ranking: 30 (October 4, 2004)
Grand Slam record
Grand Slam title: 00000  0
Australian Open 2R (2003, 2004, 2007, 2008)
French Open 2R (2003, 2004)
Wimbledon 2R (2002, 2004)
US Open VF (2008)
Sources: official player profiles at the ATP / WTA and ITF (see web links )

Jelena Kostanic Tosic (* 6. July 1981 in Split , SFR Yugoslavia as Jelena Kostanic ) is a former Croatian tennis player .

Career

Kostanić Tošić started playing tennis at the age of seven. In 1999 she reached the top 100 singles, in 2004 she was among the top 50. On July 8, 2006, she married the Croatian table tennis player Roko Tošić, until then she had played under her maiden name.

Her greatest successes were the third round participation at the Australian Open in 2000, 2006 and 2007 and at the US Open in 2004. In addition, she made three finals at WTA tournaments, 2003 in Espoo and 2006 in Pattaya and Bangalore .

In doubles she was in the top 30 in October 2004. She won a total of eight WTA titles, the last two in 2006 at the Japan Open in Tokyo and at the tournament in Bangkok within two weeks.

From 1998 to 2010 she competed for Croatia in the Fed Cup . Her record shows 12 wins and 13 defeats in singles and seven wins and seven defeats in doubles.

Kostanić Tošić took part in the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens. In the singles she failed in the first round, in doubles she reached the round of 16 with her compatriot Karolina Šprem .

In 2010 she ended her career as a professional tennis player.

Tournament victories

Double

No. date competition category Topping Partner Final opponent Result
1. May 2, 1999 CroatiaCroatia Bol WTA Tier III sand Czech RepublicCzech Republic Michaela Paštiková United StatesUnited States Meghann Shaughnessy Andreea Ehritt-Vanc
RomaniaRomania  		7: 5, 6: 7 1 , 6: 2
2. November 14, 1999 MalaysiaMalaysia Kuala Lumpur WTA Tier III Hard court SlovakiaSlovakia Tina Pisnik JapanJapan Rika Hiraki Yuka Yoshida
JapanJapan  		3: 6, 6: 2, 6: 4
3. May 12, 2002 PolandPoland Warsaw WTA Tier III sand SlovakiaSlovakia Henrieta Nagyová RussiaRussia Yevgenia Kulikovskaya Silvija Talaya
CroatiaCroatia  		6: 1, 6: 1
4th May 26, 2002 FranceFrance Strasbourg WTA Tier III sand United StatesUnited States Jennifer Hopkins FranceFrance Caroline Dhenin Maja Matevžič
SlovakiaSlovakia  		0: 6, 6: 4, 6: 4
5. January 10, 2004 AustraliaAustralia Auckland WTA Tier IV Hard court Bosnia and HerzegovinaBosnia and Herzegovina Mervana Jugic-Salkic SpainSpain Virginia Ruano Pascual Paola Suarez
ArgentinaArgentina  		7: 6 6 , 3: 6, 6: 1
6th January 17, 2004 AustraliaAustralia Canberra WTA Tier V Hard court LuxembourgLuxembourg Claudine Schaul FranceFrance Caroline Dhenin Lisa McShea
AustraliaAustralia  		6: 4, 7.6 3
7th October 8, 2006 JapanJapan Tokyo WTA Tier III Hard court United StatesUnited States Vania King Chinese TaipeiChinese Taipei Chan Yung-jan Chuang Chia-jung
Chinese TaipeiChinese Taipei  		7: 6 2 , 5: 7, 6: 2
8th. October 15, 2006 ThailandThailand Bangkok WTA Tier III Hard court United StatesUnited States Vania King ArgentinaArgentina Mariana Diaz-Oliva Natalie Grandin
South AfricaSouth Africa  		7: 5, 2: 6, 7: 5

Personal

On July 8, 2006, she married Roko Tošić.

Web links

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personal data
SURNAME Kostanić Tošić, Jelena
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Croatian tennis player
DATE OF BIRTH July 6, 1981
PLACE OF BIRTH Split