Dragana Zarić

Dragana Zarić (Serbian Cyrillic: Драгана Зарић, born 1 August 1977) is a Serbian former professional tennis player.

Dragana Zarić
Драгана Зарић
Country (sports) FR Yugoslavia
 Serbia and Montenegro
 Serbia
ResidenceVršac, Serbia
Born (1977-08-01) 1 August 1977
Vršac, SR Serbia, SFR Yugoslavia
Height1.70 m (5 ft 7 in)
Turned pro1994
Retired2006
PlaysRight-handed (two-handed backhand)
Prize money$165,828
Singles
Career record233–164
Career titles4 ITF
Highest rankingNo. 157 (2 April 2001)
Grand Slam Singles results
Australian OpenQ1 (2001, 2002)
French OpenQ3 (2001)
WimbledonQ1 (2001)
US OpenQ2 (2001)
Doubles
Career record218–122
Career titles24 ITF
Highest rankingNo. 82 (10 June 2002)
Grand Slam Doubles results
Australian Open3R (2003)
French Open3R (2002)
WimbledonQF (2001)
US Open1R (2001)
Grand Slam Mixed Doubles results
Wimbledon1R (2002)
Team competitions
Fed Cup33–19

Her career high was No. 157 in singles, in spring of 2001, and No. 82 in doubles, in summer of 2002. She won four ITF titles and 24 in ITF doubles tournaments. She also played for the Yugoslavian Fed Cup team from 1995 until 2005.

Zarić started her professional career in 1994, and in 1995 she won her first ITF title, in Nicosia, Cyprus. In 1998, she played her first WTA Tour qualifying draws in Maria Lankowitz and Istanbul, but lost. She kicked off the 2001 season with attempts to qualify on a couple of WTA and all Grand Slam tournaments, but failed to pass the qualifying rounds. In doubles, the same year, she got to the finals of the Budapest Grand Prix and the quarterfinals at the Wimbledon Championships.

Zarić retired from pro tennis 2006.

WTA career finals

Doubles: 1 (runner-up)

Result Date Tournament Tier Surface Partner Opponents Score
Loss 22 April 2001 Budapest Grand Prix, Hungary Tier V Clay Zsófia Gubacsi Janette Husárová
Tathiana Garbin
1–6, 3–6

ITF Circuit finals

Singles: 13 (4–9)

$100,000 tournaments
$75,000 tournaments
$50,000 tournaments
$25,000 tournaments
$10,000 tournaments
Outcome No. Date Tournament Surface Opponent Score
Runner-up 1. 20 March 1995 ITF Castellón de la Plana, Spain Clay Miho Saeki 1–6, 6–1, 6–7(2–7)
Runner-up 2. 16 October 1995 ITF Joué-lès-Tours, France Hard Emmanuelle Curutchet 6–7(6–8), 6–7(5–7)
Winner 3. 30 October 1995 ITF Nicosia, Cyprus Clay Antoaneta Pandjerova 6–2, 6–3
Runner-up 4. 12 May 1997 ITF Novi Sad, Serbia Clay Tathiana Garbin 4–6, 1–6
Runner-up 5. 1 March 1998 ITF Bushey, United Kingdom Carpet (i) Elena Tatarkova 2–6, 6–4, 0–6
Runner-up 6. 30 April 2000 ITF Bournemouth, United Kingdom Clay Selima Sfar 5–7, 2–6
Winner 7. 7 May 2000 ITF Hatfield, United Kingdom Clay Camille Pin 7–6(7–4), 6–4
Runner-up 8. 8 May 2000 ITF Swansea, United Kingdom Clay Christina Wheeler 4–6, 6–7(4–7)
Winner 9. 22 October 2000 ITF Cardiff, United Kingdom Carpet (i) Laurence Courtois 7–5, 5–7, 6–4
Runner-up 10. 18 February 2001 ITF Sutton, United Kingdom Hard (i) Irina Selyutina 3–6, 1–6
Runner-up 11. 17 February 2002 ITF Sutton, United Kingdom Hard (i) Zuzana Ondrášková 6–7(5–7), 4–6
Runner-up 12. 10 October 2004 ITF Podgorica, Montenegro Clay Miljana Adanko 3–6, 3–6
Winner 13. 16 October 2004 ITF Herceg Novi, Montenegro Clay Maša Zec Peškirič 6–7(4–7), 6–4, 7–6(7–5)

Doubles: 40 (24–16)

Outcome No. Date Tournament Surface Partner Opponents Score
Runner-up 1. 24 April 1995 ITF Bari, Italy Clay Marina Gojković Alice Canepa
Giulia Casoni
0–6, 0–6
Runner-up 2. 20 November 1995 ITF Le Havre, France Clay (i) Marina Lazarovska Markéta Štusková
Patricia Wartusch
4–6, 5–7
Winner 3. 4 March 1996 ITF Buchen, Germany Carpet (i) Marina Lazarovska Lisa Fritz
Katerina Tikhankina
6–4, 4–6, 6–4
Runner-up 4. 7 April 1996 Athens, Greece Clay Marlene Weingärtner Annica Lindstedt
Anna-Karin Svensson
0–6, 2–6
Winner 5. 5 May 1996 Balaguer, Spain Clay Ariadne Katsoulis Patricia Aznar
Yolanda Clemot-Lerendegui
7–5, 6–4
Winner 6. 26 January 1997 Bastad, Sweden Hard (i) Annica Lindstedt Anna-Karin Svensson
Patty Van Acker
6–7, 7–6, 6–3
Runner-up 7. 2 February 1997 Rungsted, Denmark Carpet (i) Kristina Pojatina Linda Jansson
Annica Lindstedt
6–4, 5–7, 4–6
Runner-up 8. 16 February 1997 Rogaska Slatina, Slovenia Carpet (i) Hila Rosen Barbara Schwartz
Patricia Wartusch
1–6, 4–6
Winner 9. 20 April 1997 Bari, Italy Clay Sandra Načuk Tzipora Obziler
Anna Smashnova
6–4, 6–2
Runner-up 10. 12 May 1997 Novi Sad, Serbia Clay Teodora Nedeva Tathiana Garbin
Francesca Guardigli
4–6, 4–6
Winner 11. 25 May 1997 Skopje, Macedonia Clay Teodora Nedeva Laura Fodorean
Katia Altilia
6–3, 6–2
Runner-up 12. 21 September 1997 Sofia, Bulgaria Clay Sandra Načuk Sandra Klösel
Karin Kschwendt
4–6, 4–6
Winner 13. 17 May 1998 Novi Sad, Serbia Clay Tatjana Ječmenica Antoaneta Pandjerova
Desislava Topalova
6–2, 7–5
Runner-up 14. 14 September 1998 Otočec, Slovenia Clay Nóra Köves Katarina Srebotnik
Jasmin Wöhr
2–6, 3–6
Winner 15. 15 February 1999 Redbridge, United Kingdom Hard (i) Nóra Köves Lenka Němečková
Patricia Wartusch
6–1, 6–4
Winner 16. 1 March 1999 Biel, Switzerland Hard (i) Nóra Köves Laura Bao
Marylene Losey
6–2, 6–2
Winner 17. 17 October 1999 Welwyn, United Kingdom Hard (i) Maja Matevžič Magda Mihalache
Zuzana Váleková
7–6(7–1), 5–7, 6–2
Winner 18. 8 May 2000 Swansea, United Kingdom Clay Nóra Köves Natalia Egorova
Ekaterina Sysoeva
2–6, 6–4, 6–3
Runner-up 19. 25 June 2000 Gorizia, Italy Clay Maja Matevžič Vanessa Menga
Alicia Ortuño
6–4, 4–6, 1–6
Winner 20. 9 October 2000 Welwyn, United Kingdom Hard (i) Shelley Stephens Antonella Serra Zanetti
Adriana Serra Zanetti
4–0, 5–3, 4–1
Winner 21. 16 September 2001 Bordeaux, France Clay Sandra Načuk Conchita Martínez Granados
Antonella Serra Zanetti
6–2, 7–6(8–6)
Runner-up 22. 4 November 2001 Bolton, United Kingdom Hard (i) Sandra Načuk Maria Goloviznina
Bahia Mouhtassine
4–6, 3–6
Winner 23. 12 February 2002 Sutton, United Kingdom Carpet Sylvia Plischke Maret Ani
Galina Fokina
7–5, 6–3
Winner 24. 13 May 2002 Bromma, Sweden Clay Katarina Mišić Joana Cortez
Tiffany Dabek
6–4, 6–4
Winner 25. 21 May 2002 Turin, Italy Clay Katarina Mišić Erica Krauth
Katalin Marosi
7–6(7–5), 6–3
Winner 26. 12 August 2002 Aosta, Italy Clay Katarina Mišić Maria Fernanda Alves
Andreea Ehritt-Vanc
7–5, 7–6(8–6)
Winner 27. 15 October 2002 Southampton, United Kingdom Hard (i) Amanda Hopmans Līga Dekmeijere
Yvonne Doyle
6–2, 6–1
Runner-up 28. 27 October 2002 Saint-Raphaël, France Hard (i) Katarina Mišić Antoaneta Pandjerova
Desislava Topalova
6–4, 3–6, 1–6
Runner-up 29. 18 February 2003 Redbridge, United Kingdom Hard (i) Katarina Mišić Olga Barabanschikova
Nadejda Ostrovskaya
4–6, 6–1, 5–7
Winner 30. 2 March 2003 Ostrava, Czech Republic Hard (i) Roberta Vinci Galina Voskoboeva
Magdalena Zděnovcová
6–2, 6–4
Runner-up 31. 23 June 2003 Fontanafredda, Italy Clay Maria Geznenge Li Ting
Sun Tiantian
4–6, 3–6
Runner-up 32. 30 June 2003 Vaihingen, Germany Clay Maria Geznenge Antonia Matic
Angelika Rösch
1–6, 6–7(2–7)
Winner 33. 21 September 2003 Sofia, Bulgaria Clay Desislava Topalova Daniela Klemenschits
Sandra Klemenschits
6–3, 7–5
Winner 34. 10 May 2004 Stockholm, Sweden Clay Nadejda Ostrovskaya Sofia Arvidsson
Hanna Nooni
7–6(7–3), 6–3
Runner-up 35. 5 July 2004 Darmstadt, Germany Clay Katarina Mišić Vanessa Henke
Martina Müller
1–6, 5–7
Winner 36. 10 October 2004 Podgorica, Montenegro Clay Katarina Mišić Janette Bejlková
Biljana Pawlowa-Dimitrova
6–1, 6–2
Winner 37. 16 October 2004 Herceg Novi, Montenegro Clay Katarina Mišić Alja Zec Peškirič
Maša Zec Peškirič
6–1, 6–2
Winner 38. 29 November 2004 ITF Cairo, Egypt Clay Katarina Mišić Galina Fokina
Raissa Gourevitch
7–5, 6–4
Winner 39. 6 December 2004 ITF Cairo, Egypt Clay Katarina Mišić Galina Fokina
Raissa Gourevitch
6–2, 6–2
Runner-up 40. 30 January 2005 ITF Sunderland, United Kingdom Hard (i) Katarina Mišić Sofia Arvidsson
Martina Müller
2–6, 3–6


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