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Katarina Srebotnik

Katarina Srebotnik (born 12 March 1981) is a Slovenian former professional tennis player. She reached a career-high singles ranking of world No. 20, on 7 August 2006. On 4 July 2011, she became the No. 1 of the WTA doubles rankings, holding this ranking for ten weeks.

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Srebotnik at the 2016 US Open
Slovenia
Dubai, United Arab Emirates
(1981-03-12) 12 March 1981Slovenj Gradec, Yugoslavia(now Slovenia)
1.80 m (5 ft 11 in)
1999
2022 (last match in 2020)
Right-handed (two-handed backhand)
$8,183,702
377–281
4
No. 20 (7 August 2006)
3R (2003, 2007, 2008)
4R (2002, 2008)
3R (2005, 2006, 2007)
4R (2008)
754–421
39
No. 1 (4 July 2011)
SF (2006, 2011, 2014)
F (2007, 2010)
W (2011)
F (2006)
5
W (2011)
W (1999, 2006, 2010)
F (2008)
W (2003)
QF (2003), record 33–20

Katarina Srebotnik (born 12 March 1981) is a Slovenian former professional tennis player. She reached a career-high singles ranking of world No. 20, on 7 August 2006. On 4 July 2011, she became the No. 1 of the WTA doubles rankings, holding this ranking for ten weeks.

Srebotnik won four singles titles on the WTA Tour and was ranked inside the top 30 for several years. However, her best results have been in doubles draws, where she won 39 career titles, including a Grand Slam title at the 2011 Wimbledon Championships alongside Květa Peschke. She also won five major titles in mixed doubles, three at the French Open in 1999, 2006 and 2010; one at the US Open in 2003; and another at the Australian Open in 2011.

In September 2021, Srebotnik was recognized by the Guinness World Records as the first and youngest tennis player, male or female, to win her first tournament in all three categories, singles, doubles and mixed doubles. Srebotnik won her debut in singles (1999 Oeiras); in doubles (1998 Makarska, with Tina Križan); and in mixed doubles (1999 Roland Garros, with Piet Norval).

Srebotnik, 2013

As a junior, she won the 1998 Wimbledon singles title and was runner-up at the US Open. Srebotnik was ranked No. 2 in the junior rankings in 1997 and 1998. She was mentored by Gabriela Sabatini.

Srebotnik made her debut on the ITF Women's Circuit in 1995, winning the singles tournaments in Ismailia in 1996, Zadar in 1997 and Šibenik in 1998.

In 1998, Srebotnik won the doubles title on her WTA Tour debut at the Makarska Open (with Tina Križan), and later that year reached the doubles final at the Austrian Open, also with Križan.

In 1999, her win at the ITF tournament in Dubai gave her direct entry into her first tour-level singles event in Estoril, where she became the fourth player to win on her tour debut, defeating Rita Kuti Kis in the final. She broke into the top 100 on April 12, 1999 at No. 88.

In May 1999, Srebotnik played in her first Grand Slam singles main draw at Roland Garros, losing to Arantxa Sánchez Vicario in the second round. She won her first Grand Slam title in the mixed doubles with Piet Norval, becoming the first woman ever to win her first tour event in singles, doubles and mixed doubles. Only Mirjana Lučić had previously won on debut in both singles and doubles.

Srebotnik reached her first Tier-I semifinal in Tokyo at the Pan Pacific Open, which she lost to Sandrine Testud. On 7 February 2000, Srebotnik broke into the top 50 at No. 49. She won her fourth career doubles title at Estoril (with Tina Križan).

Srebotnik and Križan won their only doubles title of 2001 at Hawaii. They reached their biggest doubles final of their career in Toronto at the Canadian Open by defeating Martina Navratilova and Arantxa Sánchez Vicario in the semifinals, and they were doubles finalists at Estoril. They qualified for their debut doubles season-ending championships. Srebotnik reached a doubles ranking of No. 19 on 8 October.

In 2002, Srebotnik reached the finals at Bogotá (losing to Fabiola Zuluaga) and Acapulco (defeating Paola Suárez) in the final. She reached the fourth round at Roland Garros, which is her career-best Grand Slam performance. Srebotnik later achieved her then-best win at Los Angeles by defeating world No. 6, Kim Clijsters. She reached the semifinals in Luxembourg. She achieved her second appearance at the doubles season-ending championships with Križan.

2003 saw Srebotnik reaching her fourth tour final at Palermo. She won the Bogotá doubles title with Asa Svensson, and reached her second Tier I quarterfinals in Toronto at the Canadian Open. She won her second Grand Slam mixed-doubles title at the US Open, this time with Bob Bryan.

Her 2004 season was highlighted by reaching the semifinals at Palermo, and the quarterfinals at Strasbourg and Forest Hills.

Srebotnik won her seventh doubles title in Tokyo at the Japan Open (with Shinobu Asagoe).

Her best season to date was highlighted by two singles and four doubles titles as well as a career-best victory over Amélie Mauresmo.

Srebotnik captured her third and fourth career WTA Tour singles titles at Auckland (defeating Shinobu Asagoe in the final, and she teamed with Asagoe for the doubles title) and in Stockholm (defeating world No. 14 Anastasia Myskina in the final and teaming with Émilie Loit for the doubles title).

She was the only player in 2005 to sweep singles and doubles titles twice. She also finished runner-up at Portorož, losing to Klára Zakopalová (now Koukalová) in three sets in the final. She also became runner-up in doubles with Jelena Kostanić.

Srebotnik reached the quarterfinals five times: at Tier II at Antwerp (lost to Anastasia Myskina), Tier I Charleston (losing to Elena Dementieva in three sets), Budapest (losing to Laura Pous Tió in a third set tie-break), Tier I Zurich (losing to Ana Ivanovic), and Hasselt (losing to Dinara Safina in a third set tie-break).

Her best finish in a major was a third-round loss at Wimbledon to Maria Sharapova.

A new career-high singles ranking of No. 28 came on 7 November.

In addition to Auckland and Stockholm, Srebotnik won doubles titles at Budapest and Hasselt (both with Émilie Loit). She reached the US Open mixed-doubles final (with Nenad Zimonjić, losing to Daniela Hantuchová and Mahesh Bhupathi).

Srebotnik opened the 2006 season with an early exit at the Auckland Open. Two weeks later at the Australian Open, with partner Shinobu Asagoe, she made it to the semifinals in doubles, losing to Yan Zi and Zheng Jie. She won doubles titles in Antwerp (with Dinara Safina) and Amelia Island (with Shinobu Asagoe). At the French Open, she won the mixed doubles championship with Nenad Zimonjić.

At the US Open, she reached the doubles final partnering Dinara Safina. In Stuttgart, she reached the semifinals in doubles with Dinara Safina. At the Zurich Open, Srebotnik reached the semifinals of a Tier I tournament for the first time in six years (Pan Pacific Open, Japan). Also, Srebotnik and Liezel Huber reached the doubles final. In her final event of the season at the Linz Open, Srebotnik reached the doubles final with Corina Morariu.

At the French Open, Srebotnik caused an upset when she defeated Serena Williams, whom she had never beaten in four previous attempts, in the third round. At the US Open in the same year, she upset former champion Svetlana Kuznetsova in the third round. On both occasions, she lost to Patty Schnyder in the next round.

In that year, Srebotnik teamed with Květa Peschke, and won the WTA tournaments of Indian Wells (defeating Nadia Petrova and Sam Stosur in the final) and New Haven (defeating Bethanie Mattek-Sands and Meghann Shaughnessy), and reached the final of the WTA Championships in Doha.

Srebotnik had an excellent doubles outing at the French Open. In the ladies' doubles, she and Peschke defeated the second seeds Nuria Llagostera Vives and María José Martínez Sánchez in the semifinals, but lost to Serena and Venus Williams in the final. She also partnered with Nenad Zimonjić to win the mixed doubles title with a thrilling tiebreak win against Yaroslava Shvedova and Julian Knowle.

Srebotnik and Peschke reached the final at the Rogers Cup. It was the second time this year that Srebotnik and Peschke reached a final of a Premier-5 tournament after Dubai in February.

At the end of the 2010 season, Srebotnik announced that she would focus on doubles for the remainder of her career.

Although she played her last match at Roland Garos in 2020, she was officially honored for her career in Portorož in September 2022.

Result	Year	Championship	Surface	Partner	Opponents	Score
Loss	2006	US Open	Hard	Dinara Safina	Nathalie Dechy Vera Zvonareva	6–7, 5–7
Loss	2007	French Open	Clay	Ai Sugiyama	Alicia Molik Mara Santangelo	6–7, 4–6
Loss	2007	Wimbledon	Grass	Ai Sugiyama	Cara Black Liezel Huber	6–3, 3–6, 2–6
Loss	2010	French Open (2)	Clay	Květa Peschke	Serena Williams Venus Williams	2–6, 3–6
Win	2011	Wimbledon	Grass	Květa Peschke	Sabine Lisicki Samantha Stosur	6–3, 6–1

Result	Year	Championship	Surface	Partner	Opponents	Score
Win	1999	French Open	Clay	Piet Norval	Larisa Neiland Rick Leach	6–3, 3–6, 6–3
Loss	2002	US Open	Hard	Bob Bryan	Lisa Raymond Mike Bryan	6–7, 6–7
Win	2003	US Open	Hard	Bob Bryan	Lina Krasnoroutskaya Daniel Nestor	5–7, 7–5, 7–6(7–5)
Loss	2005	US Open	Hard	Nenad Zimonjić	Daniela Hantuchová Mahesh Bhupathi	4–6, 2–6
Win	2006	French Open (2)	Clay	Nenad Zimonjić	Elena Likhovtseva Daniel Nestor	6–3, 6–4
Loss	2007	French Open	Clay	Nenad Zimonjić	Nathalie Dechy Andy Ram	5–7, 3–6
Loss	2008	French Open	Clay	Nenad Zimonjić	Victoria Azarenka Bob Bryan	2–6, 6–7(4–7)
Loss	2008	Wimbledon	Grass	Mike Bryan	Samantha Stosur Bob Bryan	5–7, 4–6
Win	2010	French Open (3)	Clay	Nenad Zimonjić	Yaroslava Shvedova Julian Knowle	4–6, 7–6(7–5), [11–9]
Win	2011	Australian Open	Hard	Daniel Nestor	Chan Yung-jan Paul Hanley	6–3, 3–6, [10–7]
Loss	2011	French Open	Clay	Nenad Zimonjić	Casey Dellacqua Scott Lipsky	6–7(6–8), 6–4, [7–10]

Legend
Grand Slam tournaments
Tier I / Premier M & Premier 5
Tier II / Premier
Tier III, IV & V / International (4–6)

Result	W-L	Date	Tournament	Surface	Opponent	Score
Win	1–0	Apr 1999	Portugal Open, Estoril	Clay	Rita Kuti-Kis	6–3, 6–1
Loss	1–1	Feb 2002	Copa Colsanitas, Bogotá	Clay	Fabiola Zuluaga	1–6, 4–6
Win	2–1	Mar 2002	Abierto Mexicano, Acapulco	Clay	Paola Suárez	6–7(1–7), 6–4, 6–2
Loss	2–2	Jul 2003	Palermo Ladies Open, Italy	Clay	Dinara Safina	3–6, 4–6
Win	3–2	Jan 2005	Auckland Open, New Zealand	Hard	Shinobu Asagoe	5–7, 7–5, 6–4
Win	4–2	Aug 2005	Nordic Light Open, Stockholm	Hard	Anastasia Myskina	7–5, 6–2
Loss	4–3	Sep 2005	Slovenia Open, Portorož	Hard	Klára Koukalová	2–6, 6–4, 3–6
Loss	4–4	Jul 2006	Cincinnati Open, US	Hard	Vera Zvonareva	2–6, 4–6
Loss	4–5	Sep 2007	Slovenia Open, Portorož	Hard	Tatiana Golovin	6–2, 4–6, 4–6
Loss	4–6	May 2008	Internationaux de Strasbourg, France	Clay	Anabel Medina Garrigues	6–4, 6–7(4–7), 0–6

Legend (pre/post 2009)
Grand Slam tournaments (1–4)
Tour Championships (0–3)
Tier I / Premier M & Premier 5 (9–12)
Tier II / Premier (14–12)
Tier III, IV & V / International (15–12)

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$100,000 tournaments
$75,000 tournaments
$50,000 tournaments
$25,000 tournaments
$10,000 tournaments

Result	No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Opponent	Score
Win	1.	24 November 1996	Ismailia, Egypt	Clay	Nina Schwarz	7–5, 7–6(7–3)
Loss	1.	21 September 1997	Biograd na Moru, Croatia	Clay	Ľudmila Cervanová	4–6, 2–6
Win	2.	29 September 1997	Zadar, Croatia	Clay	Jelena Kostanić Tošić	4–6, 6–4, 6–4
Loss	2.	2 November 1997	Ramat HaSharon, Israel	Hard	Adriana Serra Zanetti	4–6, 2–6
Loss	3.	12 April 1998	Dubrovnik, Croatia	Clay	Nadia Petrova	4–6, 5–7
Win	3.	21 September 1998	Šibenik, Croatia	Clay	Eszter Molnár	6–1, 6–2
Win	4.	1 March 1999	Dubai, United Arab Emirates	Hard	Anne Kremer	6–1, 6–1
Win	5.	9 May 1999	Bratislava, Slovakia	Clay	Kristie Boogert	6–3, 6–1
Win	6.	30 July 2001	Lexington Challenger, United States	Hard	Sabine Klaschka	6–4, 7–5

Result	No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Partner	Opponents	Score
Loss	1.	17 November 1996	Cairo, Egypt	Hard	Jessica Steck	Maaike Koutstaal Andrea van den Hurk	w/o
Win	1.	24 November 1996	Ismailia, Egypt	Clay	Teodora Nedeva	Shiri Burstein Debby Haak	6–4, 6–4
Loss	2.	3 August 1997	Lexington, United States	Hard	Kaoru Shibata	Elly Hakami Danielle Jones	2–6, 5–7
Win	2.	21 April 1997	Biograd na Moru, Croatia	Clay	Jelena Kostanić Tošić	Katia Altilia Charlotte Aagaard	6–4, 6–2
Win	3.	29 April 1997	Zadar, Croatia	Clay	Jelena Kostanić Tošić	Yvette Basting Susanne Trik	7–5, 7–5
Loss	3.	27 October 1997	Ramat Hasharon, Israel	Hard	Petra Rampre	Kirstin Freye Hila Rosen	1–6, 1–6
Win	4.	15 February 1998	Rogaška Slatina, Slovenia	Hard (i)	Tina Križan	Tina Pisnik Miriam Schnitzer	6–0, 6–3
Win	5.	23 March 1998	Makarska, Croatia	Clay	Jelena Kostanić Tošić	Ľudmila Cervanová Zuzana Váleková	6–3, 6–1
Win	6.	5 April 1998	Hvar, Croatia	Clay	Jelena Kostanić Tošić	Helena Vildová Antoaneta Pandjerova	7–5, 6–3
Win	7.	10 May 1998	Cardiff, United Kingdom	Clay	Liezel Horn	Petra Langrová Nancy Feber	6–4, 6–3
Win	8.	17 May 1998	Porto, Portugal	Clay	Nancy Feber	Surina De Beer Rebecca Jensen	5–7, 6–1, 6–4
Win	9.	20 September 1998	Otočec, Slovenia	Clay	Jasmin Wöhr	Nóra Köves Dragana Zarić	6–2, 6–3
Win	10.	27 September 1998	Šibenik, Croatia	Hard (i)	Marijana Kovačević	Blanka Kumbárová Olga Vymetálková	6–3, 6–1
Win	11.	22 November 1998	Buenos Aires, Argentina	Clay	Seda Noorlander	Eva Bes María Fernanda Landa	7–6(7–5), 6–3
Win	12.	23 November 1998	Lima, Peru	Clay	Zuzana Váleková	Alice Canepa Conchita Martínez Granados	6–7(4–7), 7–5, 6–4
Win	13.	30 November 1998	Bogotá, Colombia	Clay	Zuzana Váleková	Mariana Mesa Fabiola Zuluaga	6–3, 6–4
Win	14.	30 November 1998	Cali, Colombia	Clay	Zuzana Váleková	Laura Montalvo Alicia Ortuño	2–6, 6–3, 6–2
Win	15.	11 January 1999	Miami, United States	Hard	Zuzana Váleková	Olga Vymetálková Gabriela Chmelinová	4–6, 6–4, 7–5
Win	16.	18 January 1999	Boca Raton, United States	Hard	Zuzana Váleková	Dawn Buth Rebecca Jensen	4–6, 6–4, 6–1
Win	17.	25 January 1999	Clearwater, United States	Hard	Zuzana Váleková	Karin Miller Jean Okada	6–2, 6–0
Win	18.	8 February 1999	Rogaška Slatina, Slovenia	Carpet (i)	Tina Križan	Eva Martincová Svetlana Krivencheva	7–5, 6–2
Win	19.	9 May 1999	Bratislava, Slovakia	Clay	Tina Križan	Lenka Němečková Radka Zrubáková	6–1, 6–3

At the 2002 US Open, Srebotnik and Bob Bryan received a second-round walkover, this is not counted as a win.
At the 2008 French Open, Srebotnik and Zimonjić received a semifinal walkover, this is not counted as a win.
At the 2011 Australian Open, Srebotnik and Nestor received a quarterfinal walkover, this is not counted as a win.
At the 2011 Wimbledon Championships, Srebotnik and Zimonjić withdrew before their third-round match, this is not counted as a loss.
At the 2016 Wimbledon Championships, Srebotnik and Marcin Matkowski received a second-round walkover, this is not counted as a win.

#	Player	Rank	Event	Surface	Rd	Score
2002
1.	Kim Clijsters	No. 6	LA Championships	Hard	2R	6–4, 2–6, 6–4
2005
2.	Amélie Mauresmo	No. 4	Zurich Open	Hard (i)	2R	6–2, 6–0
2006
3.	Patty Schnyder	No. 8	Cincinnati Open	Hard	SF	4–6, 6–3, 7–6(8–6)
4.	Elena Dementieva	No. 7	Zurich Open	Hard (i)	2R	6–1, 6–4
2007
5.	Svetlana Kuznetsova	No. 4	Sydney International	Hard	2R	6–2, ret.
2008
6.	Anna Chakvetadze	No. 6	Sydney International	Hard	1R	7–5, 6–1
7.	Serena Williams	No. 5	French Open	Clay	3R	6–4, 6–4
8.	Svetlana Kuznetsova	No. 4	US Open	Hard	3R	6–3, 6–7(1–7), 6–3
9.	Elena Dementieva	No. 4	Pan Pacific Open	Hard	QF	6–3, 6–4
10.	Agnieszka Radwańska	No. 10	Zurich Open	Hard (i)	2R	2–6, 7–6(8–6), 6–3

In 2011, Srebotnik won seven titles (six in doubles, one in mixed doubles), more than any other player on the WTA Tour.
Katarina Srebotnik at the Women's Tennis Association
Katarina Srebotnik at the International Tennis Federation
Katarina Srebotnik at the Billie Jean King Cup (archived)

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