Katarina Srebotnik

Katarina Srebotnik (born 12 March 1981) is a Slovenian former professional tennis player.

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.

Srebotnik was ranked No. 2 in the junior rankings in 1997 and 1998.

She was mentored by Gabriela Sabatini.

As a junior, she won the 1998 Wimbledon singles title and was runner-up at the US Open.

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 Tina Križan.

She has also won five Grand Slam titles in mixed doubles, at the French Open in 1999, 2006 and 2010, the US Open in 2003 and the Australian Open in 2011.

In September 2021, Srebotnik was recognized by the Guinness World Records as the first (and youngest) tennis player - men or women - to win their first main draw tournament across all three disciplines -

singles, doubles and mixed doubles.

Srebotnik won her debut in singles (1999 Oeiras), in doubles (1998 Makarska, with Tina Križan) and mixed doubles (1999 Roland Garros, with Piet Norval).

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 career-high doubles 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.

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 Krizan.

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 reached her career-high singles ranking of world No. 20 on 7 August 2006.

On 4 July 2011, she reached No. 1 of the WTA doubles rankings, holding this ranking for 10 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 on the doubles circuit, where she has won 39 WTA titles, including one Grand Slam title, at the 2011 Wimbledon Championships alongside Květa Peschke.