Karolina Šprem

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**Karolina Šprem**

Country	Croatia
Residence	Varaždin, Croatia
Date of birth	October 25, 1984
Place of birth	Varaždin, Croatia then (Yugoslavia)
Height	1.74 m (5'8")
Weight	60 kg (132 lb)
Turned Pro	2001
Plays	Right-handed (two-handed backhand)
Career Prize Money	$ 913,774
Singles
Career record:	171-107
Career titles:	0 (7 ITF)
Highest ranking:	No. 17 (October 11, 2004)
Grand Slam results
Australian Open	4r (2005)
French Open	3r (2006)
Wimbledon	QF (2004)
U.S. Open	1r (2003, 2004, 2005)
Doubles
Career record:	14-16
Career titles:	0 (1 ITF)
Highest ranking:	No. 182 (May 8, 2006)
Infobox last updated on: November 6, 2006.

Karolina Šprem (born October 25, 1984) is a Croatian tennis player born in Varaždin. Her current WTA ranking is #48 (as of July 17, 2006).

She has won 8 titles (7 singles, 1 Doubles) all at the ITF level. She has not won any titles on the WTA Tour. Career highlight is a quarterfinal appearance at Wimbledon in 2004 where she defeated then world No. 8 Venus Williams in the second round (lost to Lindsay Davenport in QF).

1 Titles (8)
2 Doubles (1)
3 External links

[edit] Titles (8)

Legend (Singles)
Grand Slam (0)
WTA Championships (0)
Tier I Event (0)
WTA Tour (0)
ITF Circuit (7)

[edit] Singles (7)

No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Opponent in the final	Score
1.	January 27, 2002	ITF/Courmayeur, Italy	Hard	Stefanie Weis (Germany)	4-6 7-6 6-4
2.	February 17, 2002	ITF/Bergamo, Italy	Hard	Rita Degli-Esposti (Italy)	6-1 6-2
3.	January 26, 2003	ITF/Grenoble, France	Hard	Sophie Lefevre (France)	7-5 7-5
4.	February 16, 2003	ITF/Southampton, United Kingdom	Hard	Magdelena Zdenovcova (Czech Republic)	6-1 3-0 ret.
5.	February 23, 2003	ITF/Redbridge, United Kingdom	Hard	Olga Barabanschikova (Belarus)	6-3 6-2
6.	March 23, 2003	ITF/Castellon, Spain	Clay	Ludmila Cervanova (Slovakia)	6-3 6-3
7.	November 2, 2003	ITF/Poitiers, France	Hard	Roberta Vinci (Italy)	6-4 7-5

[edit] Singles Finalist (7)

2001: ITF/Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina (lost to Adriana Basaric)
2002: ITF/Rimini, Italy (lost to Laurence Andretto)
2002: ITF/Gorizia, Italy (lost to Ainhoa Blanco Goni)
2002: ITF/Roma Parioli, Italy (lost to Dinara Safina)
2003: WTA/Vienna, Austria (lost to Paola Suarez)
2003: WTA/Strasbourg, France (lost to Silvia Farina Elia)
2005: WTA/Kolkata, India (lost to Anastasia Myskina)

[edit] Grand Slam performance timeline

Tournament	2006	2005	2004	2003
Australian Open	2r	4r	1r	-
French Open	3r	2r	1r	-
Wimbledon	3r	1r	QF	2r
U.S. Open	1r	1r	1r	1r

Legend (Doubles)
Grand Slam (0)
WTA Championships (0)
Tier I Event (0)
WTA Tour (0)
ITF Circuit (1)

[edit] Doubles (1)

No.	Date	Tournament	Partner	Surface	Opponent in the final	Score
1.	November 24, 2002	ITF/Zagreb, Croatia	Mervana Jugić-Salkić (BIH)	Hard	Jelena Kostanić (Croatia) & Matea Mezak (Croatia)	6-2 6-4