Polona Hercog is a Slovenian professional tennis player.
69 Facts About Polona Hercog
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Polona Hercog has won five titles on the WTA Tour, three in singles and two in doubles.
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Polona Hercog was born in Maribor, Slovenia, to florist Romana and bar owner Vojko.
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Polona Hercog is fluent in Slovenian, English, and Italian, and cites Justine Henin as her role model.
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Polona Hercog made her WTA Tour debut at the Slovenia Open, losing to Elena Vesnina in three sets.
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Polona Hercog played qualifying at the US Open, but lost to Sandra Zahlavova in the first round, in straight sets.
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Polona Hercog entered the 2009 Morocco Open in Fes via qualifying, and beat seventh seed Roberta Vinci to reach the quarterfinals, where she was defeated by Alisa Kleybanova.
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At the US Open, Polona Hercog was beaten by American wildcard Christina McHale, in the first round.
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Polona Hercog played the Luxembourg Open, defeating Maria Elena Camerin in the opening round.
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Polona Hercog then lost to Sabine Lisicki in two sets.
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Polona Hercog managed to make it up to the second round at the 2009 Allianz Cup in Sofia but was beaten by Bojana Jovanovski.
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Polona Hercog began season at the Auckland Open where she lost to Shahar Pe'er in the first round.
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At the Mexican Open in Acapulco, Polona Hercog reached her first WTA Tour singles final and won her first WTA doubles title.
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Polona Hercog defeated Rossana de los Rios in the first round, Alize Cornet in the second, Agnes Szavay retired from the quarterfinals match when Hercog was leading by a set, and Carla Suarez Navarro in two sets in the semifinals.
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At the Indian Wells Open, Polona Hercog defeated Raluca Olaru in the first round and was defeated by 11th seed Marion Bartoli in the second round.
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Polona Hercog caused an upset in the second round of the French Open by defeating No 24, Lucie Safarova.
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Polona Hercog began the year at the Brisbane International where she lost in the first round to Iveta Benesova in two sets.
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Polona Hercog defeated Julia Gorges she lost to Andrea Petkovic in straight sets.
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Polona Hercog then stayed in Mexico for the Monterrey Open.
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Polona Hercog then reached the semifinals where she lost to top seed Jelena Jankovic in two sets.
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At the Indian Wells Open, Polona Hercog lost in the first round to Anastasija Sevastova.
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Polona Hercog began her clay-court season at the Andalucia Tennis Experience.
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At the Barcelona Open, Polona Hercog won her first-round match against lucky loser Jamie Hampton.
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Polona Hercog lost both of her rubbers to Kimiko Date-Krumm and Ayumi Morita.
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At the Open GDF Suez, Polona Hercog lost in the first round to Chanelle Scheepers in straight sets.
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Polona Hercog suffered another first-round loss at the Qatar Open to Tsvetana Pironkova.
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At Wimbledon, Polona Hercog lost in the first round to qualifier Kristyna Pliskova.
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Polona Hercog then played at the Swedish Open as the defending champion and prevailed again, defeating Mathilde Johansson in the final.
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Polona Hercog played one warm-up tournament before the US Open.
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At the US Open, Polona Hercog was defeated in the first round by fifth seed Petra Kvitova.
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Polona Hercog lost in the first round to eventual champion Heather Watson.
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Polona Hercog won the ITS Cup as the top seed beating Katarzyna Piter in the final.
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At the US Open, Polona Hercog was defeated in the first round by 24th seed Ekaterina Makarova.
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Polona Hercog made her comeback during the clay-court season at the Morocco Open.
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Polona Hercog was then stopped in the quarterfinals by eventual champion Maria Teresa Torro Flor in two tie-breakers.
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Polona Hercog lost in the quarterfinals to top seed and eventual champion, Carla Suarez Navarro.
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Polona Hercog lost in the first round at Rosmalen to sixth seed Kirsten Flipkens.
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Polona Hercog began the US Open Series at the Washington Open.
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Polona Hercog lost in the first round to sixth seed and eventual champion Svetlana Kuznetsova.
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Polona Hercog lost in the first round to third seed and eventual finalist, Karolina Pliskova.
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At the Korea Open, Polona Hercog was defeated in the first round by top seed and defending champion Agnieszka Radwanska.
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Polona Hercog started the year at the Shenzhen Open where she lost to Zheng Saisai in the second round.
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Polona Hercog stayed in Mexico to compete at the Monterrey Open.
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Polona Hercog was defeated in the second round by eighth seed Magdalena Rybarikova.
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Polona Hercog had multiple match points in the third set but failed to convert.
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Polona Hercog lost in the second round to 25th seed Caroline Garcia.
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At the Miami Open, Polona Hercog was defeated in the first round by Anna Karolina Schmiedlova.
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In Poland at the Katowice Open, Polona Hercog lost in the second round to second seed and defending champion Alize Cornet.
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Polona Hercog began the year at Auckland where she lost in the first round to fifth seed and eventual champion, Sloane Stephens.
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Polona Hercog lost in the first round to Sabine Lisicki.
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Polona Hercog began her clay-court season at the Porsche Grand Prix.
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Polona Hercog lost in the final round of qualifying to German Laura Siegemund.
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At the US Open, Polona Hercog faced second seed Angelique Kerber in the first round.
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Polona Hercog returned to the tour for her first tournament since the 2016 US Open at the French Open.
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However, in the second round, Polona Hercog lost to Zarina Diyas.
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Polona Hercog lost in the first round to third seed Hsieh Su-wei.
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Polona Hercog was defeated in the first round by lucky loser Stefanie Vogele.
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Polona Hercog reached the third round where she was eliminated by second seed Simona Halep.
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Polona Hercog won her third WTA singles title at the Lugano Open beating Iga Swiatek in the final.
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Polona Hercog kicked off new season at the Australian Openwhere she lost in the second round to top seed Ashleigh Barty.
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Polona Hercog was defeated in the first round by Italian wildcard Elisabetta Cocciaretto.
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Polona Hercog skipped both the Cincinnati Open and the US Open.
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Polona Hercog fell in the third round to 12th seed Marketa Vondrousova.
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Polona Hercog played her final tournament of the season at the Al Habtoor Challenge in Dubai.
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Polona Hercog started her season at the first edition of the Abu Dhabi Open.
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Polona Hercog lost in the first round to fourth seed and eventual champion, Aryna Sabalenka.
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Polona Hercog was defeated in the first round by Jelena Ostapenko.
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Polona Hercog ended up losing in the third round to 20th seed and 2019 finalist, Marketa Vondrousova.
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At the Birmingham Classic, Polona Hercog was defeated in the first round by fourth seed and eventual finalist, Daria Kasatkina.