104 Facts About Bojana Jovanovski

Bojana Jovanovski Petrovic is a former Serbian tennis player.

Bojana Jovanovski began playing tennis aged seven at the Red Star Tennis Club.

Bojana Jovanovski turned professional in 2006 and played her first junior event at the tournament in Pancevo, Serbia, losing in straight sets to Ana Veselinovic.

In 2007, Bojana Jovanovski won junior events in Citta' Di Santa Croce, defeating Michelle Larcher de Brito, and reached the finals in Prato and Milan, losing to Romana Tabakova and Anastasia Pivovarova, respectively.

In 2008 Bojana Jovanovski decided to pursue her professional career on the ITF Circuit, but would play at the junior Grand Slam events.

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Bojana Jovanovski would reach the quarterfinals at the Australian Open and Wimbledon, losing to Arantxa Rus and Laura Robson, respectively.

Bojana Jovanovski made her professional debut on the ITF Circuit in 2006 in Prokuplje, Serbia where she lost to Karolina Jovanovic in the second round.

In 2008 Bojana Jovanovski reached an additional three finals, winning two of them.

Bojana Jovanovski continued playing on the ITF Circuit, reaching the semifinals of three events – Belek, Sarajevo and Torun – being defeated by Tetyana Arefyeva, Ana Jovanovic, and Oksana Kalashnikova, respectively.

Bojana Jovanovski played qualifications for the 2009 US Open but lost to American Carly Gullickson.

On 20 November 2009, Bojana Jovanovski reached the final of an ITF event in Pune, India but lost to Fujiwara.

At her first ITF tournament in 2010, in Quanzhou, Bojana Jovanovski reached the semifinals, losing in three sets to fellow Serb Aleksandra Krunic.

Bojana Jovanovski then played in the qualification tournament for the Australian Open, but lost to Kathrin Worle, despite having a match point in the third set.

Bojana Jovanovski was then awarded with a wild card for the main draw of Malaysian Open.

However, Bojana Jovanovski then lost to the first seed Elena Dementieva in round two.

Bojana Jovanovski lost her first singles match to Daniela Hantuchova, but then won her second rubber against Magdalena Rybarikova.

Bojana Jovanovski subsequently lost to Sara Errani in the first round.

Bojana Jovanovski then suffered losses in the semifinal of the ITF event in Maribor and the Aegon International qualifications, but managed to enter into the main draw at Wimbledon.

Bojana Jovanovski defeated Casey Dellacqua in the first round, but lost to eighth seed Victoria Azarenka in the second.

Bojana Jovanovski then played at the Banka Koper Slovenia Open but lost to compatriot and world No 2 Jelena Jankovic in the opening round.

Bojana Jovanovski then attempted to qualify for the Rogers Cup and the Pilot Pen Tennis tournaments, but fell to Sorana Cirstea and Elena Vesnina respectively.

Bojana Jovanovski played her second Grand Slam event at the US Open, but was defeated by Anastasia Rodionova in the first round.

Bojana Jovanovski competed in women's doubles partnering with Jankovic, but they were defeated by Kimiko Date-Krumm and Ayumi Morita.

Bojana Jovanovski then played at the Guangzhou International Open, but lost to Alla Kudryavtseva in the first round.

Bojana Jovanovski lost in the first round of the Hansol Korea Open to Kirsten Flipkens, after easily winning three qualification matches.

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Bojana Jovanovski was then defeated in the first round of the Toray Pan Pacific Open qualifications by Pauline Parmentier.

Bojana Jovanovski then participated at the ITF tournaments in Torhout, Poitiers and Taipei, defeating players such as Sania Mirza, Rika Fujiwara and Noppawan Lertcheewakarn, but without much further success.

Bojana Jovanovski finished the year as the youngest player in the top-100 of the WTA rankings.

Bojana Jovanovski defeated Julia Babilon in the first round, Petra Martic in the second and world No 45 Anastasija Sevastova in the quarterfinals, then former world No 16 Anabel Medina Garrigues in her semifinal, before losing to Sania Mirza in the final.

Bojana Jovanovski opened the season in Brisbane, defeating Anastasia Rodionova in the first round.

Bojana Jovanovski then lost to Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova in the second.

Bojana Jovanovski defeated Kaia Kanepi, Aravane Rezai and Flavia Pennetta, but lost her first WTA semifinal to future champion Li Na.

At the Australian Open, Bojana Jovanovski defeated Chang Kai-chen in the first round but lost to the second seed Vera Zvonareva in round two.

Bojana Jovanovski played doubles partnering with Varvara Lepchenko; they lost to Kimiko Date-Krumm and Zhang Shuai.

Bojana Jovanovski was the highest ranked Serbian player in the Serbia Fed Cup team for the World Group II rubber against Canada.

Bojana Jovanovski played alongside Ana Jovanovic, Aleksandra Krunic and Tamara Curovic against Rebecca Marino, Aleksandra Wozniak, Marie-Eve Pelletier and Sharon Fichman in Novi Sad.

Bojana Jovanovski won both of her singles matches against Wozniak and Marino.

Bojana Jovanovski was the eighth seed at the Malaysian Open where she defeated Tamarine Tanasugarn and Urszula Radwanska before losing to former world No 4 and eventual champion Jelena Dokic in the quarterfinals.

Bojana Jovanovski then suffered two consecutive first–round losses, at the BNP Paribas Open to Urszula Radwanska, and at the Sony Ericsson Open to Monica Niculescu.

On 25 March 2011, Bojana Jovanovski was awarded with the Heart Award, given by the Fed Cup for her performances in her national colours.

Bojana Jovanovski then played for Serbia in a World Group Play–off rubber against Slovakia.

At the Madrid Open, Bojana Jovanovski defeated Greta Arn in the first round, but then lost to world No 1 Caroline Wozniacki in the second.

Bojana Jovanovski then lost to the tenth seed Shahar Pe'er in the first round of the Italian Open.

Bojana Jovanovski defeated Alla Kudryavtseva in the first round of the Internationaux de Strasbourg, but was defeated by Anabel Medina Garrigues in the round two.

Bojana Jovanovski lost to the 15th seed Andrea Petkovic in the first round of the French Open.

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Bojana Jovanovski played her first grass-court event of the year at the Aegon Classic.

Bojana Jovanovski lost to the seventh seed Samantha Stosur in the second.

Bojana Jovanovski defeated qualifier Petra Rampre in the first round and Jill Craybas in the second, before losing to former world No 3 and eventual champion Nadia Petrova in the quarterfinals.

Bojana Jovanovski was then beaten by former world No 1 Maria Sharapova in the second round.

Bojana Jovanovski then lost to Gisela Dulko in the first round of the Texas Tennis Open.

At the US Open, Bojana Jovanovski lost in the first round to the 28th seed and former world No 1 Serena Williams.

Bojana Jovanovski then lost her first-round matches in four consecutive tournaments, the Tashkent Open, the Guangzhou International, the Pan Pacific Open and the China Open.

Bojana Jovanovski won her first match after the streak of seven first–round losses at the Kremlin Cup, beating Alona Bondarenko.

Bojana Jovanovski defeated Casey Dellacqua, a wild-card entrant, in the first round, but then lost to the fourth seed Serena Williams.

Bojana Jovanovski then played the qualification tournament for the Apia International Sydney qualifications, defeating Tamira Paszek and Virginie Razzano, before losing to Stefanie Vogele.

Bojana Jovanovski then played for the Serbia Fed Cup team in the World Group first round against Belgium, scoring one loss in singles, but a win in both singles and doubles to help Serbia advance to the semifinals.

At the Qatar Total Open, Bojana Jovanovski defeated Raquel Kops-Jones in the first round of qualification, eventually losing to Aleksandra Wozniak in the second.

Bojana Jovanovski then lost in the second qualifying round at the Dubai Tennis Championships to Mona Barthel, having previously beat Kurumi Nara in straight sets.

Bojana Jovanovski went on to suffer two consecutive first–round losses at the Malaysian Open and the BNP Paribas Open.

Bojana Jovanovski then played at the ITF event in the Bahamas, where she lost in the semifinals to Aleksandra Wozniak.

Bojana Jovanovski received a wildcard for the Sony Ericsson Open, and was defeated by Lourdes Dominguez Lino in the first round.

Bojana Jovanovski had defeated Stefanie Vogele, and upset the fourth seed Monica Niculescu, before losing in the quarterfinals to Petra Martic.

Bojana Jovanovski then played for Serbia in the Fed Cup semifinals against Russia.

Bojana Jovanovski played her first grass–court tournament of the year at the Aegon Classic, where she suffered a first–round loss to Michelle Larcher de Brito, a qualifier.

Bojana Jovanovski then tried to qualify for the Aegon International, but lost to Laura Robson in the final qualification round.

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At the Wimbledon Championships, Bojana Jovanovski led in the first–round match against Eleni Daniilidou, when the Greek retired.

Bojana Jovanovski then lost to 15th seed Sabine Lisicki in three sets.

Bojana Jovanovski defeated Lesia Tsurenko in the first round, Valeria Solovyeva in the second, fellow Serb Aleksandra Krunic in the quarterfinals, and the second seed Alexandra Panova in the semifinals to advance in her first career WTA final.

Bojana Jovanovski defeated another first–time finalist Julia Cohen to win her first WTA Tour title.

At the Texas Tennis Open, Bojana Jovanovski defeated Alexandra Panova, and Mirjana Lucic, and led the match against Peng Shuai, when Peng retired, to reach the semifinal, where she lost to the eventual champion Roberta Vinci.

Bojana Jovanovski then reached the quarterfinals of the Tashkent Open by defeating Dinah Pfizenmaier and Eleni Daniilidou, before falling to Donna Vekic.

At her last four WTA tournaments of the season, Bojana Jovanovski reached the second round of the Guangzhou International Open, being defeated by Chanelle Scheepers; the third round of the Pan Pacific Open, losing to Caroline Wozniacki; the third round of the China Open, losing to Marion Bartoli; and the first round of the Kremlin Cup, being defeated by Sofia Arvidsson.

Bojana Jovanovski was a member of the Serbia Fed Cup team during the 2012 World Group Final, but did not play any matches.

Bojana Jovanovski played her first event of the season at the Shenzhen Open, where she was seeded eighth.

Bojana Jovanovski defeated Alexandra Cadantu in the first round and Duan Yingying in the second, but lost in the quarterfinals to Li Na, who went on to win the tournament.

Bojana Jovanovski then played in Hobart, where she defeated Maria Teresa Torro Flor, before losing to Kirsten Flipkens in the second round.

At the Australian Open, Bojana Jovanovski again defeated Torro Flor, the 17th seed Lucie Safarova, and Kimiko Date-Krumm, before losing to eventual semifinalist Sloane Stephens in the fourth round.

In doubles, Bojana Jovanovski partnered with Melinda Czink to triumph over Simona Halep and Arantxa Rus in the first round, but then fell to Natalie Grandin and Vladimira Uhlirova in the second.

At the Tashkent Open Bojana Jovanovski won her second WTA title, coming through seven matches in eight days.

Bojana Jovanovski defeated Olga Govortsova in the final in three sets.

Bojana Jovanovski won the title at the WTA 125K series event in Ningbo; beating Zhang Shuai in the final, again in three sets.

Bojana Jovanovski defeated 2011 Roland Garros champion Francesca Schiavone in round one, and Hsieh Su-wei.

Bojana Jovanovski started season playing in Shenzhen, suffering a first round loss to German qualifier Anna-Lena Friedsam.

Bojana Jovanovski then beat Annika Beck and Olivia Rogowska in Hobart, before losing to top seed Samantha Stosur in the quarterfinals.

But, after the withdrawal of Jamie Hampton who was seeded, Bojana Jovanovski became the 33rd seed and she was moved to the other side of draw.

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Bojana Jovanovski started well with a three-set win over Jana Cepelova, but lost in the second round to Yvonne Meusburger.

Bojana Jovanovski tried to play at the Open GDF Suez in Paris, but lost to Andrea Petkovic.

Bojana Jovanovski lost convincingly at next four events in Acapulco, Indian Wells, Miami, and first clay tournament of season in Marrakech, winning a total of just two matches.

In Oeiras, Bojana Jovanovski defeated Monica Puig in round one to face Elena Vesnina in round two, serving for the match and holding a match point for her first quarterfinal since Hobart, but lost in three sets.

Bojana Jovanovski however missed a big chance to reach next round, falling to Czech qualifier and world No 176 Tereza Smitkova.

Bojana Jovanovski played in doubles, partnering with Eva Hrdinova, and mixed doubles too, with Mate Pavic, losing in the second round in both competitions.

Bojana Jovanovski then played in Istanbul, losing in the second round.

Bojana Jovanovski then played in Baku, and reached second final at that tournament after beating Stefanie Vogele.

Bojana Jovanovski went on to North America where the first tournament she played was at Washington.

Bojana Jovanovski arrived in Montreal but soon found a downturn in form.

Bojana Jovanovski played two Australian Open warm-up events, and reached the second round of both.

Bojana Jovanovski was finally stopped in round three by Maria Sharapova.

In September 2017, Bojana Jovanovski confirmed that she will return to court in early 2018.

Bojana Jovanovski lost in the first round of qualifying to Oceane Dodin in straight sets.

Bojana Jovanovski Petrovic became eligible to play professional tournaments again from 28 November 2020.

Bojana Jovanovski cites forehand as her favourite shot and hard as her favourite court surface, and stated she would like to improve her court movement and become mentally stronger.

Bojana Jovanovski was born to father Zoran, a former football player, and mother Snezana, and has a sister Viktorija.

Bojana Jovanovski cites Maria Sharapova as her idol for being "an aggressive player and a strong personality".

Bojana Jovanovski is good friends with Serbian tennis player Jelena Jankovic.