Iva Majoli
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| Country |  Croatia |
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| Residence | Zagreb, Croatia & Bradenton, Florida USA |
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| Date of birth | August 12, 1977 | |
| Place of birth | Zagreb, Croatia (then Yugoslavia) |
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| Height | 1.75 m (5' 9) | |
| Weight | 61 kg (134 lbs.) | |
| Turned Pro | August 1991 | |
| Retired | June 2004 | |
| Plays | Right-handed (two-handed backhand) | |
| Career Prize Money | $4,405,867 | |
| Singles | ||
| Career record: | 316-225 | |
| Career titles: | 8 (2 ITF) | |
| Highest ranking: | No. 4 (February 5, 1996) | |
| Grand Slam results | ||
| Australian Open | QF (1996) | |
| French Open | W (1997) | |
| Wimbledon | QF (1997) | |
| U.S. Open | 4th (1994) | |
| Doubles | ||
| Career record: | 99-124 | |
| Career titles: | 1 | |
| Highest ranking: | No. 24 (August 21, 1995) | |
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 has failed to get the third round of a Grand Slam. After that, 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.
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[edit] Grand Slam singles final
[edit] Win (1)
| Year | Championship | Opponent in Final | Score in Final |
| 1997 | French Open |  Martina Hingis |
6-4, 6-2 |
[edit] Titles (9)
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[edit] 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 |
[edit] 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 |
[edit] Runner-ups (13)
[edit] 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 Assa Svensson)
[edit] 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)
[edit] Grand Slam singles performance timeline
| Tournament | 1992 | 1993 | 1994 | 1995 | 1996 | 1997 | 1998 | 1999 | 2000 | 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | Career SR |
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| 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.
[edit] External links
| Preceded by Sabine Appelmans |
Comeback Player of the Year 2000 |
Succeeded by Barbara Schwartz |
| * Open Era | Nancy Richey (1968) | Margaret Smith Court (1969–70, 1973) | Evonne Goolagong (1971) | Billie Jean King (1972) | Chris Evert (1974–75, 1979–80, 1983, 1985–86) | Sue Barker (1976) | Mima Jaušovec (1977) | Virginia Ruzici (1978) | Hana Mandlíková (1981) | Martina Navrátilová (1982, 1984) | Steffi Graf (1987–88, 1993, 1995–96, 1999) | Arantxa Sánchez Vicario (1989, 1994, 1998) | Monica Seles (1990–92) | Iva Majoli (1997) | Mary Pierce (2000) | Jennifer Capriati (2001) | Serena Williams (2002) | Justine Henin (2003, 2005–06) | Anastasia Myskina (2004) |
