47 Facts About Jarmila Wolfe

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Jarmila Wolfe is a Slovak-Australian former tennis player.

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Jarmila Wolfe 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.

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

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

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

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

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Jarmila Wolfe had improved her year-end ranking to No 147.

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

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

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Jarmila Wolfe 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.

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

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Jarmila Wolfe's ranking was No 142 by the end of the year.

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Jarmila Wolfe then played two tournaments in the United States.

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

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

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Jarmila Wolfe 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.

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

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Jarmila Wolfe 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.

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

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

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Jarmila Wolfe 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.

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Jarmila Wolfe was defeated in the second round by Sara Errani.

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

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

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Jarmila Wolfe 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Jarmila Wolfe lost in the third round to American Jamie Hampton.

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Jarmila Wolfe 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.

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

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

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

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Jarmila Wolfe 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.

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

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

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Jarmila Wolfe reached the semifinals before again losing to Dulgheru.

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

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

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Jarmila Wolfe 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.

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

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

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In January 2017, Jarmila Wolfe announced her retirement from the tour.