Iva Majoli

Iva Majoli

Country (sports)	Croatia
Residence	Zagreb, Croatia & Bradenton, Florida U.S.
Born	(1977-08-12) 12 August 1977 Zagreb, SR Croatia, SFR Yugoslavia
Height
Turned pro	August 1991
Retired	June 2004
Plays	Right-handed (two-handed backhand)
Prize money	$4,405,867
Singles
Career record	316–225
Career titles	8 (2 ITF)
Highest ranking	No. 4 (5 February 1996)
Grand Slam Singles results
Australian Open	QF (1996)
French Open	W (1997)
Wimbledon	QF (1997)
US Open	4R (1994)
Doubles
Career record	99–124
Career titles	1
Highest ranking	No. 24 (21 August 1995)
Team competitions
Fed Cup	QF (1999, 2002)
Hopman Cup	W (1996)

Iva Majoli Marić (Iva Majoli) (born 12 August 1977) is a former professional tennis player from Croatia. She upset Martina Hingis to win the women's singles title at the French Open in 1997. Majoli also won seven other singles titles and one doubles title during her career. She reached a career-high singles ranking of world No. 4 in February 1996.

Career

Majoli was born in Zagreb, SR Croatia, SFR Yugoslavia and turned professional in 1991 at the age of 14. At age 19, Majoli won the 1997 French Open singles title, defeating Martina Hingis in straight sets 6-4, 6-2. Most had expected Hingis, 16 years old, to win the title. Majoli, however, played aggressively from the baseline and ended Hingis's 37-match winning streak and handed Hingis her first sound defeat in a final of a grand slam. Her adept ground-strokes kept Hingis moving, therefore Hingis was not allowed to control the rallies.

Majoli played her best tennis as a teenager, reaching her career high ranking of World No. 4 in 1996. After a quarterfinal appearance at the 1998 French Open, she failed to reach the fourth round of any subsequent Grand Slam singles tournament. Her game steadily declined, with her ranking plummeting to World No. 131 in 2003. In the final years of her tennis career, Majoli suffered from a series of injuries – most notably a shoulder injury – and struggled to play consistently. Her jet-setting lifestyle, well documented by the press, may have contributed.

In 2002, Majoli, ranked World No. 58, defeated Patty Schnyder, ranked World No. 30, in the final of the Family Circle Cup in Charleston, South Carolina. The victory increased Majoli's ranking to World No. 33. She reached another final shortly thereafter, prompting some to believe that she was climbing back to the top of the game. This, however, was wishful thinking, as Majoli's ranking then plummeted even further. On June 12, 2004, Majoli announced her retirement from the game.

In 2006, she announced that she was engaged and pregnant with her first child. She married a local businessman, Stipe Marić, on 9 September 2006, with Jennifer Capriati and Mary Pierce attending the wedding. She gave birth to her daughter Mia on 31 October 2006.

In 2007, Majoli participated in the second season of the Croatian version of Dancing with the Stars. Her partner was Marko Herceg. She was eliminated in the fourth episode.

In 2012, she´s the non-playing captain of the Croatian Fed Cup team [1].

Majoli made a comeback in professional tennis at the 2015 Kremlin Cup, where she received a wildcard with Anastasia Bukhanko in doubles.

Major finals

Grand Slam finals

Singles: 1 (1–0)

Outcome	Year	Championship	Surface	Opponent	Score
Winner (1/1)	1997	French Open	Clay	Martina Hingis	6–4, 6–2

WTA Tour Finals

Singles: 17 (8–9)

Winner — Legend Grand Slam tournaments (1–0) WTA Tour Championships (0–0) Tier I (3–0) Tier II (4–5) Tier III, IV & V / International (0–4)

Titles by Surface Hard (1–1) Grass (0–0) Clay (3–3) Carpet (4–5)

Outcome	No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Opponent	Score
Runner-up	1.	7 February 1994	Osaka	Carpet (i)	Manuela Maleeva-Fragniere	1–6, 6–4, 5–7
Runner-up	2.	18 April 1994	Barcelona	Clay	Arantxa Sánchez Vicario	0–6, 2–6
Runner-up	3.	24 October 1994	Essen	Carpet (i)	Jana Novotná	2–6, 4–6
Runner-up	4.	24 April 1995	Barcelona	Clay	Arantxa Sánchez Vicario	7–5, 0–6, 2–6
Winner	1.	2 October 1995	Zürich	Carpet (i)	Mary Pierce	6–4, 6–4
Winner	2.	9 October 1995	Filderstadt	Hard (I)	Gabriela Sabatini	6–4, 7–6(7–4)
Winner	3.	29 January 1996	Tokyo	Carpet (i)	Arantxa Sánchez Vicario	6–4, 6–1
Runner-up	5.	12 February 1996	Paris	Carpet (i)	Julie Halard-Decugis	5–7, 6–7(4–7)
Winner	4.	19 February 1996	Essen	Carpet (i)	Jana Novotná	7–5, 1–6, 7–6(8–6)
Runner-up	6.	30 September 1996	Leipzig	Carpet (i)	Anke Huber	7–5, 3–6, 1–6
Winner	5.	17 February 1997	Hanover	Carpet (i)	Jana Novotná	4–6, 7–6(7–2), 6–4
Winner	6.	28 April 1997	Hamburg	Clay	Ruxandra Dragomir	6–3, 6–2
Winner	7.	26 May 1997	French Open	Clay	Martina Hingis	6–4, 6–2
Runner-up	7.	6 November 2000	Kuala Lumpur	Hard	Henrieta Nagyová	4–6, 2–6
Runner-up	8.	17 September 2001	Quebec City	Carpet (i)	Meghann Shaughnessy	1–6, 3–6
Winner	8.	15 April 2002	Charleston	Clay	Patty Schnyder	7–6(7–5), 6–4
Runner-up	9.	29 April 2002	Bol	Clay	Åsa Svensson	3–6, 6–4, 1–6

Doubles: 5 (1–4)

Winner — Legend Grand Slam tournaments (0–0) WTA Tour Championships (0–0) Tier I (0–1) Tier II (1–2) Tier III, IV & V / International (0–1)

Titles by Surface Hard (0–1) Grass (0–0) Clay (0–2) Carpet (1–1)

Outcome	No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Partner	Opponents	Score
Runner-up	1	20 February 1995	Linz	Carpet (i)	Petra Schwarz	Meredith McGrath Nathalie Tauziat	1–6, 2–6
Runner-up	2.	24 April 1995	Barcelona	Clay	Mariaan de Swardt	Larisa Neiland Arantxa Sánchez Vicario	5–7, 6–4, 5–7
Runner-up	3.	14 August 1995	Toronto	Hard	Martina Hingis	Gabriela Sabatini Brenda Schultz-McCarthy	6–4, 0–6, 3–6
Runner-up	4.	28 April 1997	Hamburg	Clay	Ruxandra Dragomir	Anke Huber Mary Pierce	6–4, 6–7(1–7), 2–6
Winner	1.	5 February 2001	Paris	Carpet (i)	Virginie Razzano	Kimberly Po Nathalie Tauziat	6–3, 7–5

Grand Slam singles performance timeline

Tournament	1992	1993	1994	1995	1996	1997	1998	1999	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	Career SR	W / L
Australian Open	A	A	A	A	QF	1R	3R	A	A	3R	2R	1R	A	0 / 6	9 / 6
French Open	A	4R	4R	QF	QF	W	QF	A	2R	1R	2R	2R	A	1 / 10	28 / 10
Wimbledon	A	A	1R	1R	A	QF	2R	A	A	1R	3R	1R	A	0 / 7	7 / 7
US Open	2R	2R	4R	1R	1R	2R	2R	1R	A	3R	3R	1R	A	0 / 11	11 / 11
SR	0 / 1	0 / 2	0 / 3	0 / 3	0 / 3	1 / 4	0 / 4	0 / 1	0 / 1	0 / 4	0 / 4	0 / 4	0 / 0	1 / 34
Year End Ranking	50	46	13	9	8	6	25	163	73	42	32	131	315

A = did not participate in the tournament.

SR = the ratio of the number of Grand Slam singles tournaments won to the number of those tournaments played.

External links

• Iva Majoli at the Women's Tennis Association
• Iva Majoli at the Fed Cup
• Majoli announces retirement
• More about her French Open Win

Awards
Preceded by Debbie Graham	WTA Newcomer of the Year 1993	Succeeded by Irina Spîrlea
Preceded by Sabine Appelmans	Comeback Player of the Year 2000	Succeeded by Barbara Schwartz