Olga Danilović ( sr-cyr, Олга Даниловић, ; born 23 January 2001) is a Serbian
tennis
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player.
In July 2018, Danilović won her first
WTA Tour
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WTA Tour tourna ...
singles title in
Moscow
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by beating
Anastasia Potapova
Anastasia Sergeyevna Potapova (born 30 March 2001) is a Russian tennis player.
Potapova has a career-high ranking of No. 44 achieved on 17 October 2022 and a doubles ranking of No. 44 achieved on 3 October 2022. Potapova is a former junior No ...
in the final. She also won two WTA doubles titles, first in
Tashkent
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and the second one in
Lausanne
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. On the
WTA Challenger Tour
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In the past (2012–2015) sometimes called the WTA Challenger seriesITF Women's Circuit
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History
It serves as a developmental ...
. On 8 October 2018, she reached her best singles ranking of world No. 96. On 24 June 2019, she peaked at No. 117 in the WTA doubles rankings.
In 2018, Danilović's coach became former world No. 2,
Àlex Corretja
Àlex Corretja i Verdegay (; born 11 April 1974) is a Spanish former professional tennis player. During his career, he was twice a major runner-up at the French Open (in 1998 and 2001), won the Tour Finals in 1998, reached a career-high singl ...
,
having been her mentor since 2016. During her title tour in Moscow, former Serbian Fed Cup captain, Dejan Vraneš, traveled with Danilović and coached her although he is not her official coach.
[ In 2018-19, she was briefly coached by Petar Popović. In 2017–18, her coach was Juan Lizariturry.] Danilović was coached in the past by Denis Bejtulahi (in 2017) and Tatjana Ječmenica (in two stints – before late 2015 and in 2016).
Playing for Serbia Fed Cup team
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, Danilović has a win–loss record of 8–6 in Fed Cup
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competition.
Personal life
Olga's father is Serbian former basketball player Predrag Danilović
Predrag "Saša" Danilović ( sr-cyr, Предраг "Саша" Даниловић, ; born February 26, 1970), usually referred to in English as Sasha Danilović, is a Serbian professional basketball executive and former player, considered one of ...
, while her mother, Svetlana (née Radošević), is a sports reporter for Radio Television of Serbia
Radio Television of Serbia ( sr-Cyrl, Радио-телевизија Србије, sr-Lat, Radio-televizija Srbije, italics=yes; abbr. RTS/PTC) is Serbia's public broadcaster. It broadcasts and produces news, drama, and sports programming thro ...
.
Tennis career
Junior years
As a junior, Danilović posted a win–loss record of 93–33 in singles and 72–24 in doubles, and reached No. 5 in the combined junior world rankings in January 2018.
She won three Junior Grand Slam doubles titles (each on a different surface) with three different partners – 2016 French Open with Paula Arias Manjón
Paula Arias Manjón (born 26 February 2000) is a Spanish tennis player.
Arias Manjón won the 2016 French Open girls' doubles title, partnering with Olga Danilović. They defeated Olesya Pervushina and Anastasia Potapova
Anastasia Sergeye ...
, 2017 Wimbledon with Kaja Juvan
Kaja Juvan (born 25 November 2000) is a Slovenian tennis player who turned professional on 17 October 2016. Juvan has a career-high singles ranking of world No. 58, achieved on 6 June 2022, and peaked at No. 99 in the doubles rankings on 11 July ...
and 2017 US Open with Marta Kostyuk
Marta Olehivna Kostyuk ( uk, Марта Олегівна Костюк; born 28 June 2002) is a Ukrainian tennis player. She has career-high rankings of 49 in singles, achieved on 14 February 2022, and world No. 39 in doubles, reached on 19 Septem ...
.
Junior Grand Slam results - Singles:
* Australian Open: 3R (2017
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* French Open: 2R (2016
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* Wimbledon: 3R (2016
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)
* US Open: QF (2017
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Junior Grand Slam results - Doubles:
* Australian Open: 2R (2017
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* French Open: W (2016
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* Wimbledon: W (2017
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* US Open: W (2017
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2018: Top 100, first WTA titles; Fed Cup Heart Award
Danilović made her Fed Cup debut in February 2018 in Group I of Fed Cup Europe/Africa Zone, winning all three singles matches, including a 6–2, 6–4 win over world No. 15, Anastasija Sevastova
Anastasija Sevastova (born 13 April 1990) is an inactive professional tennis player from Latvia. She reached her career-high singles ranking of world No. 11 in October 2018, after reaching her first Premier Mandatory final at the China Open. She ...
, in the promotional play-offs. The courageous performances for the national team earned Danilović a Fed Cup Heart Award and a cheque of $1,000 to be donated to a charity, which she chose to donate to University Children's Hospital in Belgrade.
In March, she won her first $25k title in Santa Margherita di Pula. In May, she was given a qualifying wildcard for the Premier Mandatory tournament in Madrid
Madrid ( , ) is the capital and most populous city of Spain. The city has almost 3.4 million inhabitants and a metropolitan area population of approximately 6.7 million. It is the second-largest city in the European Union (EU), and ...
, where she beat the former top 30 player Kateryna Bondarenko
Kateryna Volodymyrivna Volodko (née Bondarenko; uk, Катерина Володимирівна Бондаренко; born 8 August 1986) is a tennis player from Ukraine. She was the doubles champion in 2008 at the Australian Open, partnering ...
in the first round, but lost to Aryna Sabalenka
Aryna Siarhiejeŭna Sabalenka ( be, Арына Сяргееўна Сабаленка; russian: Арина Сергеевна Соболенко, ''Arina Sergeyevna Sobolenko'', born 5 May 1998) is a Belarusian professional tennis player. She ha ...
in the final round of qualifying. In mid-July, Danilović won the first $60k title in her career when she came back from one set down to beat another former top 30 player, Laura Siegemund
Laura Natalie Siegemund (born 4 March 1988, in Filderstadt) is a German professional tennis player.
She is a two-time Grand Slam champion, having won the 2020 US Open in women's doubles with Vera Zvonareva, as well as the 2016 US Open in mi ...
, 5–7, 6–1, 6–3, in the final of Versmold. She also reached the final in doubles of the same tournament with compatriot Nina Stojanović
Nina Stojanović ( sr-cyr, Нина Стојановић, ; born 30 July 1996) is a Serbian professional tennis player. On 2 March 2020, Stojanović reached a career-high singles ranking of world No. 81. On 17 January 2022, she peaked at No. 37 in ...
.
In late July, she won her first career WTA Tour singles title in Moscow
Moscow ( , US chiefly ; rus, links=no, Москва, r=Moskva, p=mɐskˈva, a=Москва.ogg) is the capital and largest city of Russia. The city stands on the Moskva River in Central Russia, with a population estimated at 13.0 million ...
, defeating Anastasia Potapova
Anastasia Sergeyevna Potapova (born 30 March 2001) is a Russian tennis player.
Potapova has a career-high ranking of No. 44 achieved on 17 October 2022 and a doubles ranking of No. 44 achieved on 3 October 2022. Potapova is a former junior No ...
in the final, in three sets. Danilović became the first player born in the third millennium (after 2000) to win a WTA tournament singles title. She also became the second lucky loser
A lucky loser is a sports competitor (player or team) who loses a match in a knockout tournament or loses in qualifying, but who then enters the main draw, usually when another competitor withdraws during the tournament because of illness, injury ...
in the history of the WTA Tour to win the title. This was the first WTA tournament final between two players under 18 since Tatiana Golovin
Tatiana Golovin ( rus, Татья́на Григóрьевна Головина́, r=Tatyana Grigoryevna Golovina; born 25 January 1988) is a Russian-born French professional tennis player. She won the 2004 French Open mixed-doubles event, partn ...
and Nicole Vaidišová
Nicole Vaidišová Štěpánková (; born 23 April 1989) is a Czech former professional tennis player.
Vaidišová is an Australian Open and French Open semifinalist as well as a two-time quarterfinalist at Wimbledon. She started playing tenni ...
played in the final of the 2005 Japan Open.
She participated in the US Open qualifying, where she beat Bianca Andreescu
Bianca Vanessa Andreescu (; born June 16, 2000) is a Canadian professional tennis player. She has a career-high ranking of No. 4 in the world, and is the highest-ranked Canadian in the history of the Women's Tennis Association (WTA). Andreescu ...
, before losing to Jaimee Fourlis
Jaimee Fourlis (born 17 September 1999) is a professional Australian tennis player of Greek descent. She has a career-high singles ranking of world No. 147, achieved on 18 July 2022, and a highest doubles ranking of world No. 138, reached on 2 ...
. She then entered the Tashkent Open
The Tashkent Open by Zeromax is a women's tennis tournament held in Tashkent, Uzbekistan. Held since 1999, this WTA Tour event is an International tournament and is played on outdoor hard courts.
Since 2014, the event has been scheduled in early ...
, where she beat Anna Kalinskaya
Anna Nikolayevna Kalinskaya ( rus, Анна Николаевна Калинская, , ˈanːə kɐˈlʲinskəjə, Ru-Anna_Kalinskaya.ogg; born 2 December 1998) is a Russian professional tennis player. Ranked by the Women's Tennis Association (WT ...
in the first round, before losing to Anastasia Potapova
Anastasia Sergeyevna Potapova (born 30 March 2001) is a Russian tennis player.
Potapova has a career-high ranking of No. 44 achieved on 17 October 2022 and a doubles ranking of No. 44 achieved on 3 October 2022. Potapova is a former junior No ...
in a Moscow re-match. In the same tournament, she won the doubles title partnering Tamara Zidanšek
Tamara Zidanšek (; born 26 December 1997) is a Slovenian tennis player.
She has career-high WTA rankings of No. 22 in singles and No. 54 in doubles, and is the current number-one Slovene tennis player in singles. She has won one singles title an ...
.
On 1 October 2018, Danilović entered the top 100 for the first time when she reached a singles ranking of 97. The following week, she reached her highest ranking of the season, No. 96.
In mid-October, she lost in the first round of qualifying in Linz
Linz ( , ; cs, Linec) is the capital of Upper Austria and third-largest city in Austria. In the north of the country, it is on the Danube south of the Czech border. In 2018, the population was 204,846.
In 2009, it was a European Capital of ...
and Luxembourg
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. She next participated in the WTA 125
WTA 125 tournaments are an international series of professional women's tennis tournaments organized by the Women's Tennis Association since 2012.
In the past (2012–2015) sometimes called the WTA Challenger seriesMumbai Open
This was a former WTA 125K tennis tournament.
The tournament was not held between 2013–16 due to various reasons, but in 2017 it was reinstated as a WTA 125K series tournament and relocated to Mumbai.
The Maharashtra State Lawn Tennis Assoc ...
, where she was seeded fourth and lost to Danka Kovinić
Danka Kovinić ( cnr, Данка Ковинић; born 18 November 1994) is a Montenegrin professional tennis player.
On 22 February 2016, she reached a career-high singles ranking of world No. 46, and on 20 June 2016, she peaked at No. 67 in th ...
in the first round, whom she also partnered with to reach the semifinals in doubles. This proved to be her last tournament of the year as she withdrew from the following week's WTA 125 Open de Limoges
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.
2021: Australian Open and US Open debut
Along with Francesca Jones, Danilović made her Grand Slam main draw debut at the Australian Open
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. She won in the first round of the tournament where she faced Petra Martic
Petra ( ar, ٱلْبَتْرَاء, Al-Batrāʾ; grc, Πέτρα, "Rock", Nabataean: ), originally known to its inhabitants as Raqmu or Raqēmō, is an historic and archaeological city in southern Jordan. It is adjacent to the mountain of Jab ...
. She was defeated in the second round by Shelby Rogers
Shelby Rogers (born October 13, 1992) is an American professional tennis player. She has career-high WTA rankings of world No. 30 in singles achieved August 2022 and No. 40 in doubles, achieved February 2022, and has won six singles and two doub ...
, in straight sets. In July, she made two back-to-back quarterfinals. First, at the Budapest Grand Prix
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The tournament was formerly known as ...
, she won first two rounds before losing to Dalma Gálfi
Dalma Rebeka Gálfi (born 13 August 1998) is a Hungarian tennis player.
She has won nine singles titles and ten doubles titles on the ITF Women's Circuit. On 20 June 2022, she reached her best singles ranking of world No. 81. On the same day, ...
in the quarterfinal. The following week, at the Palermo Ladies Open, she lost to Zhang Shuai
Zhang Shuai (; ; born 21 January 1989) is a Chinese professional tennis player.
She is a two-time Grand Slam champion in women's doubles, having won the 2019 Australian Open and the 2021 US Open, both alongside Samantha Stosur. Zhang also ...
in the same round.
2022: French Open debut
At the French Open
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, she qualified for the main draw to make her debut at this major defeating Viktoriya Tomova
Viktoriya Konstantinova Tomova ( bg, Виктория Константинова Томова, born 25 February 1995) is a professional Bulgarian tennis player. Tomova reached a career-high WTA singles ranking of 89 achieved on 31 October 2022. ...
.
Ranked No. 124 as a qualifier at the Ladies Open Lausanne, she reached her second career final by beating Misaki Doi
is a Japanese professional tennis player. Her highest WTA rankings are No. 30 in singles and No. 77 in doubles.
Doi reached two junior Grand Slam doubles finals – at Wimbledon in 2007 with Kurumi Nara, and at the Australian Open in 2008 ...
in the first, Anna Kalinskaya
Anna Nikolayevna Kalinskaya ( rus, Анна Николаевна Калинская, , ˈanːə kɐˈlʲinskəjə, Ru-Anna_Kalinskaya.ogg; born 2 December 1998) is a Russian professional tennis player. Ranked by the Women's Tennis Association (WT ...
in the second, home favorite Simona Waltert
Simona Waltert (born 13 December 2000) is a Swiss tennis player.
Waltert has career-high WTA rankings of 118 in singles, achieved on 12 September 2022, and 180 in doubles, reached on 7 March 2022. Up to date, she has won one doubles title on the ...
in the quarterfinals and Anastasia Potapova
Anastasia Sergeyevna Potapova (born 30 March 2001) is a Russian tennis player.
Potapova has a career-high ranking of No. 44 achieved on 17 October 2022 and a doubles ranking of No. 44 achieved on 3 October 2022. Potapova is a former junior No ...
in the semifinals. In the final, she was beaten by Petra Martić. At the same tournament, she won the doubles event, partnering Kristina Mladenovic
Kristina "Kiki" Mladenovic (; sr, Кристина "Кики" Младеновић, Kristina "Kiki" Mladenović, ; born 14 May 1993) is a French professional tennis player and a former world No. 1 in doubles.
She is a nine-time Grand Slam ch ...
.
Performance timelines
''Only main-draw results in WTA Tour, Grand Slam tournaments, Fed Cup/Billie Jean King Cup and Olympic Games are included in win–loss records.''
Singles
''Current through the 2022 Cluj Open.''
Doubles
''Current through the 2022 Ladies Open Lausanne.''
WTA career finals
Singles: 2 (1 title, 1 runner-up)
Doubles: 3 (2 titles, 1 runner-up)
WTA Challenger finals
Doubles: 2 (1 title, 1 runner-up)
ITF Circuit finals
Singles: 8 (5 titles, 3 runner–ups)
Doubles: 4 (1 title, 3 runner–ups)
Junior Grand Slam finals
Girls' doubles: 3 (3 titles)
Fed Cup/Billie Jean King Cup participations
Singles (6–2)
Doubles (2–4)
Head-to-head records
Record against top-10 players
''Danilović's record against players who have been ranked in the top 10. Active players are in boldface.''
Record against No. 11–20 players
Danilović's record against players who have been ranked world No. 11–20. Active players are in boldface:
* Kaia Kanepi
Kaia Kanepi (; born 10 June 1985) is an Estonian professional tennis player. She achieved her career-high ranking of world No. 15 on 20 August 2012 and has won four singles titles on the WTA Tour.
Described as a 'resident Grand Slam upset spec ...
* Petra Martić
Petra Martić (; born 19 January 1991) is a Croatian professional tennis player. She has a career-high singles ranking of world No. 14, achieved in January 2020. Martić has won two singles titles on the WTA Tour, one singles and one doubles tou ...
* Anastasija Sevastova
Anastasija Sevastova (born 13 April 1990) is an inactive professional tennis player from Latvia. She reached her career-high singles ranking of world No. 11 in October 2018, after reaching her first Premier Mandatory final at the China Open. She ...
* Sabine Lisicki
* Veronika Kudermetova
Veronika Eduardovna Kudermetova; ; tt-Cyrl, Вероника Эдуард кызы Кадыйрмәтова, translit=Veronika Edward qızı Qadıyrmätova. (born 24 April 1997) is a Russian professional tennis player.
She has a career-high si ...
* Kirsten Flipkens
Kirsten "Flipper" Flipkens (; born 10 January 1986) is a Belgian professional tennis player. She has a career-high ranking of No. 13 by the Women's Tennis Association (WTA). Flipkens has won one singles title on the WTA Tour, winning the 2012 T ...
* Leylah Fernandez
Leylah Annie Fernandez (born 6 September 2002) is a Canadian professional tennis player. She has a career-high ranking of No. 13 by the Women's Tennis Association (WTA), achieved on 8 August 2022. Fernandez won her first WTA Tour title at the 20 ...
* Beatriz Haddad Maia
Beatriz Haddad Maia (born 30 May 1996) is a Brazilian professional tennis player. On 22 August 2022, she reached a career-high in the WTA rankings in singles at No. 15. Haddad Maia has won two singles and four doubles titles on the WTA Tour, on ...
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Wins over top 10 players
Award
* 2018 – Fed Cup Heart Award (Europe/Africa Zone Group I)[
]
Notes
References
External links
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2001 births
Living people
Serbian female tennis players
Tennis players from Belgrade
French Open junior champions
Wimbledon junior champions
US Open (tennis) junior champions
Grand Slam (tennis) champions in girls' doubles