IVA MAJOLI

'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, she stunned Roland Garros, winning handily 6-4 6-2 in the French Open final in 1997. Everyone had expected 16-year-old teen tennis sensation, Martina Hingis to win the French Open title. Iva Majoli defied all expectations with her aggressive baseline play and defying all odds, played one of the best matches of her career, ending Hingis's 37-match winning streak.
She played her best tennis as a teenager, reaching her career high ranking of 4 in 1996. After a quarterfinal appearance at the French Open in 1998, she failed to get the third round of any subsequent Grand Slams. Her game steadily declined, with her ranking plummeting to 131 in 2003. In the latter years of her tennis career, Majoli suffered from a series of injuries - most notably a shoulder injury - and struggled to find a consistent playing form. Her jet-setting lifestyle, well documented by the press, may have contributed. Not living up to high expectations after her spectatular French Open win, she has been called yet another "One Slam Wonder."
In 2002, Majoli shocked tennis by defeating Patty Schnyder, ranked No. 30 in the world, in the final of the Family Circle Cup in Charleston, SC, USA. Majoli's ranking had plummeted to No. 58 prior to the final, and her ranking rocketed back up to No. 33. She reached another final shortly there after, and her wins prompted people to believe that she was back. This, however, was wishful thinking, as Majoli's ranking then plummeted even further, and 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.

Contents

Grand Slam singles final

Win (1)

Titles (9)

Singles (8)

Doubles (1)

Runner-ups (13)

Singles (9)

Doubles (4)

Grand Slam singles performance timeline

External links

Grand Slam singles final

Win (1)

'Year	'Championship	'Opponent in Final	'Score in Final
1997	French Open	Martina Hingis	6-4, 6-2

Titles (9)

'Legend (Singles)' Grand Slam (1) WTA Championships (0) Tier I Event (3) WTA Tour (4)

'Titles by Surface' Hard (1) Clay (3) Grass (0) Carpet (4)

Singles (8)

'No.'	'Date'	'Tournament'	'Surface'	'Opponents in the final'	'Score'
1.	October 8, 1995	Zurich, Switzerland	Carpet	Mary Pierce	6-4, 6-4
2.	October 15, 1995	Filderstadt, Germany	Hard	Gabriela Sabatini	6-4, 7-6
3.	February 14, 1996	Tokyo, Japan (Toray Pan Pacific Open)	Carpet	Arantxa Sanchez Vicario	6-4, 6-1
4.	February 25, 1996	Essen, Germany	Carpet	Jana Novotná	7-5, 1-6, 7-6
5.	February 23, 1997	Hannover, Germany	Carpet	Jana Novotná	4-6, 7-6, 6-4
6.	May 4, 1997	Hamburg, Germany	Clay	Ruxandra Dragomir	6-3, 6-2
7.	June 7, 1997	French Open, Paris, France	Clay	Martina Hingis	6-4, 6-2
8.	April 21, 2002	Charleston, USA	Clay	Patty Schnyder	7-6, 6-4

Doubles (1)

'No.'	'Date'	'Tournament'	'Surface'	'Partnering'	'Opponents in the final'	'Score'
1.	February 11, 2001	Paris, France	Carpet	Virginie Razzano	Kimberly Po & Nathalie Tauziat	6-3, 7-5

Runner-ups (13)

Singles (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

Tournament	1992	1993	1994	1995	1996	1997	1998	1999	2000	2001	2002	2003	Career SR
Australian Open	A	A	A	A	QF	1R	3R	A	A	3R	2R	1R	'0 / 6'
French Open	A	4R	4R	QF	QF	'W'	QF	A	2R	1R	2R	2R	'1 / 10'
Wimbledon	A	A	1R	1R	A	QF	2R	A	A	1R	3R	1R	'0 / 7'
U.S. Open	2R	2R	4R	1R	1R	2R	2R	1R	A	3R	3R	1R	'0 / 11'
SR	0 / 1	0 / 2	0 / 3	0 / 3	0 / 3	1 / 4	0 / 4	0 / 1	0 / 1	0 / 4	0 / 4	0 / 4	'1 / 34'

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

★ Majoli announces retirement

★ More about her French Open Win

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