1. Iva Majoli was born on 12 August 1977 and is a Croatian former professional tennis player who played for both Yugoslavia and Croatia.
30 Facts About Iva Majoli
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Iva Majoli won three WTA Tier I singles tournaments and upset the world No 1, Martina Hingis, to win the women's singles title at the 1997 French Open.
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Iva Majoli was born in Zagreb in SR Croatia, SFR Yugoslavia to Stanko, and Dragica.
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Iva Majoli has an older brother Drago and an older sister Nina.
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Iva Majoli had her WTA main draw debut at the 1992 Virginia Slims of Houston in April.
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Iva Majoli finished the year ranked no 46 and received the WTA Newcomer of the Year award.
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In 1994 Iva Majoli reached three WTA finals, at the Asia Women's Tennis Open Osaka, at the Barcelona Ladies Open, and at the Nokia Grand Prix Essen.
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Iva Majoli defended her 4th-round points at the French Open and reached the 4th round at the US Open.
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Iva Majoli started the 1995 season reaching the semifinals in Tokyo in January and Paris in February.
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Iva Majoli would stay in the top 10 for 138 consecutive weeks.
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Iva Majoli started the 1996 by playing at the Australian open for the first time in her career.
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Iva Majoli went on to reach the quarterfinals without dropping a set, and then lost to the eventual champion Monica Seles.
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Iva Majoli kept this ranking for 51 weeks in total.
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At the 1996 French Open Iva Majoli again lost to Graf in the quarterfinals.
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The most successful season of Iva Majoli's career started with a quarterfinal showing at Sydney and a loss to Patty Schnyder in the first round of the Australian Open.
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Iva Majoli played aggressively from the baseline to end Hingis's 37-match winning streak and prevented Hingis from winning the Grand Slam.
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Iva Majoli was the lowest seed to win a Grand Slam singles title in Open Era and, at 19 years of age, the 11th teenager to win Roland Garros.
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Later in the year Iva Majoli withdrew from Indian Wells and Miami with bronchitis.
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Iva Majoli missed the Italian and German Opens, Roland Garros and Wimbledon due to the right shoulder injury and lost in the 1st round in the next five events.
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In 2001 Iva Majoli continued her slow but steady climb up the rankings.
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At Paris Indoors Iva Majoli won her first WTA doubles tournament, partnering Virginie Razzano.
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In 2002, ranked world No 58, Iva Majoli reached the final of the Family Circle Cup Tier I tournament in Charleston.
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Iva Majoli defeated Coetzer and Sandrine Testud before defeating Patty Schnyder in the final for her first win in five meetings.
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However, her ranking started to continually decline since, and Iva Majoli only reached one more WTA semifinal in the next two years.
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In September 2003 Iva Majoli dropped out of top 100 and in April 2004 out of top 200.
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Iva Majoli made a brief comeback in professional tennis at the 2015 Kremlin Cup, where she received a wildcard with Anastasia Bukhanko in the doubles draw.
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In 2006, Iva Majoli announced that she was engaged and pregnant with her first child.
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Iva Majoli married a local businessman, Stipe Maric, on 9 September 2006, with Jennifer Capriati and Mary Pierce attending the wedding.
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Iva Majoli gave birth to her daughter Mia on 31 October 2006.
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In 2007, Iva Majoli participated in the second season of the Croatian version of Dancing with the Stars.