Mirjana Lucic-Baroni
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Lučić-Baroni at the 2016 French Open
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| Full name | Mirjana Lučić-Baroni |
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| Country (sports) |
 Croatia
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| Residence | Sarasota, Florida, United States |
| Born |
9 March 1982 Dortmund, West Germany |
| Height | 1.81 m (5 ft 11 in) |
| Turned pro | 26 April 1997 |
| Plays | Right-handed (two-handed backhand) |
| Prize money | $ 2,631,632 |
| Singles | |
| Career record | 357–287 |
| Career titles | 3 WTA, 4 ITF |
| Highest ranking | No. 32 (11 May 1998) |
| Current ranking | No. 79 (16 January 2017) |
| Grand Slam Singles results | |
| Australian Open | SF(2017) |
| French Open | 3R (2001, 2015) |
| Wimbledon | SF (1999) |
| US Open | 4R (2014) |
| Doubles | |
| Career record | 76–76 |
| Career titles | 3 WTA, 3 ITF |
| Highest ranking | No. 19 (26 October 1998) |
| Current ranking | No. 118 (16 January 2017) |
| Grand Slam Doubles results | |
| Australian Open | W (1998) |
| French Open | 3R (2013, 2016) |
| Wimbledon | QF (2013) |
| US Open | 3R (2013) |
| Team competitions | |
| Fed Cup | 14–3 |
| Last updated on: 16 January 2017. | |
Mirjana Lučić-Baroni (born 9 March 1982) is a Croatian tennis player. She enjoyed a promising career on the WTA Tour in the late 1990s, during which she set several "youngest-ever" records. She captured the Grand Slam women's doubles title at the 1998 Australian Open when she was only 15 years old, partnering Martina Hingis. She also won the first ever professional tournament she entered, the 1997 Croatian Bol Ladies Open, and defended it the following year at age 16, making her the youngest player in history to successfully defend a title. She then reached the semifinals of 1999 Wimbledon Championships, beating World No. 4 Monica Seles en route. Following a series of personal problems from 2000 onwards, she faded from the scene.
After toiling on the ITF circuit through much of the next decade, Lučić re-emerged as a WTA regular following the 2010 season. She married Daniele Baroni on 15 November 2011. In September 2014 she upset World No. 2 Simona Halep in the third round of the US Open. The following week she beat Venus Williams at the Tournoi de Québec singles final to claim the title (also winning the doubles event), which set the record for the longest gap between titles in the Open Era. On 25 January 2017, almost 18 years later after her first Grand Slam semi final, Lučić-Baroni reached the semi finals of the 2017 Australian Open to be played on 26 January.
Lučić began playing tennis at age four by hiding in the car when her older sister went to tennis classes and then sneaking into the lessons herself. As a junior player, she won the girls' singles title at the US Open in 1996, and the girls' singles and doubles crowns at the Australian Open in 1997, becoming the third player in the Open Era to win two junior Grand Slam singles titles before her 15th birthday (the others being Martina Hingis and Jennifer Capriati).
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