Karolina Šprem
Karolina Šprem 
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| Nation: |
 Croatia
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| Birthday: | October 25, 1984 | ||||||||||||
| Size: | 174 cm | ||||||||||||
| 1st professional season: | 2001 | ||||||||||||
| Resignation: | 2011 | ||||||||||||
| Playing hand: | Right, two-handed backhand | ||||||||||||
| Prize money: | $ 1,298,606 | ||||||||||||
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| Career record: | 266: 171 | ||||||||||||
| Career title: | 0 WTA, 10 ITF | ||||||||||||
| Highest ranking: | 17 (October 11, 2004) | ||||||||||||
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| Career record: | 14:16 | ||||||||||||
| Career title: | 0 WTA, 1 ITF | ||||||||||||
| Highest ranking: | 182 (May 8, 2006) | ||||||||||||
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| Sources: official player profiles at the ATP / WTA and ITF (see web links ) | |||||||||||||
Karolina Šprem (born October 25, 1984 in Varaždin , Yugoslavia ) is a former Croatian tennis player .
Career
Karolina Šprem, who started tennis at the age of nine, turned pro at 17. She won ten singles and one double titles in her career at the ITF Women's Circuit .
She often had to struggle with injuries that set her back from 17th place in the world rankings, which she held in October 2004. In the Croatian Fed Cup team, she was the undisputed number 1. Šprem was best known for her uncompromising game and her tough basic strokes. She celebrated her greatest success in 2004 when she reached the quarter-finals at the All England Championships at Wimbledon , where she was eliminated by Lindsay Davenport . Before that she had defeated Venus Williams in a strange match 7: 6, 7: 6. The chair referee miscounted in their favor in the tie-break of the second set.
At the beginning of 2006, she lost her first round game in the preparatory tournaments for the Australian Open on the Gold Coast and in Canberra . She achieved a respectable success in Melbourne when she only lost the first set in the tie-break against Lindsay Davenport in the second round and delivered a solid performance at 6: 7, 4 , 3: 6. She was able to celebrate a great success with the Croatian Fed Cup team , when it saved the country the chance of promotion to the world group with a 3-2 win against Argentina . Between 2001 and 2006 she played 16 Fed Cup games for her country, of which she won nine.
In May 2006, Šprem reached the quarter-finals in Istanbul . She defeated her compatriot Jelena Kostanić Tošić before she was defeated by the German number 1, Anna-Lena Grönefeld . When she moved into the third round, she achieved her best result at the French Open . Here she first defeated the seeded Jelena Lichowzewa 6: 1, 6: 1, but then lost to Venus Williams with 5: 7 and 3: 6. In Wimbledon she won her first round match against local hero Anne Keothavong 6: 2, 6: 0, before defeating Marion Bartoli 3: 6, 6: 2, 6: 3 in the second round . In the third round, however, she had to admit defeat to 10th seed Nicole Vaidišová 5: 7, 5: 7.
In 2008 Šprem made her comeback after elbow surgery. In Amelia Islands she defeated the top ten player Daniela Hantuchová and the Japanese top player Ai Sugiyama after a long injury break . Again she was eliminated against Lindsay Davenport, albeit extremely tight.
In July she achieved the greatest success after her break. At the WTA tournament in Budapest she reached the semifinals, in which she was eliminated against Andreja Klepač .
Also in 2010 she had to cancel some tournaments due to injury. In Palermo, she withdrew because of breathing difficulties. In early 2011 she failed in Brisbane and Sydney in the qualification, at the Grand Slam tournament in Melbourne then in the first round. Since May 2011 she has not started after another injury except for a single attempt in October 2013 when she failed at the ITF tournament in Dubrovnik with a three-set defeat in round one.
Private
Šprem is married to tennis professional Marcos Baghdatis . The couple have two daughters.
Web links
- WTA profile of Karolina Šprem (English)
- ITF profile of Karolina Šprem (English)
- Fed Cup stats by Karolina Šprem (English)
- Karolina Šprem in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://www.atpworldtour.com/News/Tennis/2012/10/Features/Baghdatis-Becomes-A-Father.aspx
- ↑ Marcos Baghdatis and Carolina Sprem become parents again! In: tennisworldusa.org. December 19, 2015, accessed January 19, 2017 .
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Šprem, Karolina |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Croatian tennis player |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 25, 1984 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Varaždin , Yugoslavia |