49 Facts About Jarmila Groth

Jarmila Groth won her first WTA Tour title in 2006, emerging as the Nordic Light Open doubles champion, her first singles title came in 2010 at the Guangzhou International Open, and the following year she won the Hobart International.

Jarmila Groth married Australian tennis player Sam Groth in February 2009 and competed as Jarmila Groth from 2009 to 2011.

Jarmila Groth won the next tournament she entered, her third of the year and only the ninth of her career.

Jarmila Groth's season ended with two more losses in the later stages of qualifying draws at WTA events to higher ranked players.

Jarmila Groth entered qualifying at the French Open, and defeated Shikha Uberoi but lost to Sofia Arvidsson in the second leg.

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Jarmila Groth then lost a close three set first-round match to Martina Muller of Germany.

Jarmila Groth had succeeded in breaking through into the WTA top 100 for the first time in her career.

Jarmila Groth then came through three rounds of qualifying in straight sets at Eastbourne, a Tier II tournament, with wins over Stephanie Foretz, Galina Voskoboeva and Samantha Stosur, but lost in the first round of the main draw to Russian former world No 2, Anastasia Myskina.

Jarmila Groth began the new season, still in Australia, at the end of December 2006, by narrowly failing to qualify for Gold Coast.

Jarmila Groth then played three ITF Circuit tournaments in South Korea.

Jarmila Groth then lost in the second round of the tournament in Changwon to world No 432, Zhang Ling, in two straight sets.

Jarmila Groth was then out of action with an ankle injury until returning to the tour in 2010 as a fully fledged Australian player available for Fed Cup Team selection, after being granted Australian citizenship on 23 November 2009.

Jarmila Groth remained in Australia to gain ranking points and was very successful winning the $25k Sydney, finalist at the $25k Burnie and a quarterfinalist at the Mildura ITF.

Jarmila Groth had success in doubles with a semifinal and final showings at the Burnie and Mildura ITF events.

Jarmila Groth's ranking rose to a career high of 41 as a result of her performance.

Jarmila Groth started off the year at the Brisbane International where she reached the quarterfinals by beating first seed Sam Stosur in the previous round.

Jarmila Groth then competed at the Hobart International where she defeated Johanna Larsson, Tamira Paszek, fourth seed Roberta Vinci and Klara Zakopalova all in straight sets to reach the final.

Jarmila Groth defeated Bethanie Mattek-Sands in the final to gain her second WTA title.

Jarmila Groth then became part of the Australia Fed Cup team for the first time.

Jarmila Groth then played at the Dubai Tennis Championships where she defeated Dominika Cibulkova in the first round.

Jarmila Groth then took part in the Qatar Ladies Open where she had to qualify to reach the main draw.

Jarmila Groth won her first match against qualifier Sun Shengnan and followed that up with a win against Misaki Doi.

Jarmila Groth then defeated the sixth seed Ayumi Morita in three close sets to advance to the semifinals where she met her doubles partner and ended up losing to fifth seed Safarova in straight sets.

Jarmila Groth was the 29th seed at the Indian Wells Open and received a first-round bye.

Jarmila Groth was defeated in the next round by world No 3, Vera Zvonareva.

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Jarmila Groth next travelled to Melbourne to partake with Anastasia Rodionova in the Fed Cup World Group Play-offs.

Jarmila Groth defeated Renata Voracova and compatriot Casey Dellacqua to successfully defend her quarterfinal appearance.

In doubles, Jarmila Groth partnered with Romanian Alexandra Dulgheru as an alternative.

Jarmila Groth broke her losing streak at the US Open; although hitting 57 unforced errors, she did hit 29 winners, and it was enough to defeat Iveta Benesova.

Jarmila Groth reached the quarterfinals by defeating Han Xinyun and Mandy Minella.

Jarmila Groth then played world No 1, Caroline Wozniacki, going down in three sets.

Jarmila Groth started her year at the 2012 Hopman Cup partnering Lleyton Hewitt.

Jarmila Groth then played at the Hobart International, where she was the defending champion.

Jarmila Groth was trying to get past the first round for the first time in seven attempts, but lost the match.

Jarmila Groth then lost in the first round of the Qatar Open to Sorana Cirstea.

Jarmila Groth was the fourth seed at the Malaysian Open where she won her first round over Kathrin Worle after losing the first set.

Jarmila Groth came back from a set down to defeat world No 16 Roberta Vinci in the first round and thus ended her nine-match losing streak from the previous season.

Jarmila Groth lost in the second round to Lesia Tsurenko despite winning the first set.

Jarmila Groth made her comeback at the Nanjing Ladies Open where she advanced to the semifinal before losing to Ayumi Morita.

Jarmila Groth was awarded a wildcard for the Australian Open where she lost in the first round to Angelique Kerber.

Jarmila Groth next played at the Australian Open, where she had never won a main-draw match, but she was able to break her duck there defeating Alexandra Dulgheru in straight sets to move into the second round where she then lost to world No 3, Simona Halep, in straight sets.

Jarmila Groth then lost to Andrea Petkovic in another three set match.

Jarmila Groth then played at the Thailand Open as the sixth seed where she lost to eventual finalist Ajla Tomljanovic in the second round.

Jarmila Groth reached the semifinals before again losing to Dulgheru.

Jarmila Groth then contested the Premier Mandatory Madrid Open where she lost to world No 5, Caroline Wozniacki.

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Jarmila Groth lost in the first round of the French Open to the lower ranked Amandine Hesse.

Jarmila Groth lost in the first round at Birmingham to Johanna Konta before qualifying at Eastbourne, winning the first round against Lauren Davis before losing in the second round to Caroline Wozniacki.

Jarmila Groth ended the year with a poor run of failures in qualifying and then losing in the first round in Hong Kong to Yaroslava Shvedova.

Jarmila Groth was beaten by Karolina Pliskova and Elina Svitolina in the respective ties against the Czech Republic and Ukraine.