Ana Konjuh (; born 27 December 1997) is a Croatian

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player. A successful junior player, Konjuh won both the

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junior events at the

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in January 2013 and, as a result, moved up to No. 1 in the

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world rankings. Later in the year, she also won the girls' singles event at the 2013 US Open. She turned her attention to the main tour in 2014, and made her debut in the top 100 aged 16. Konjuh won her first singles title on the

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at the

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, becoming the youngest player to win a main tour event since 2006. She has also won one title on the

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. On 31 July 2017, she reached her career-high singles ranking of world No. 20.

Tennis career

Junior career

Aged 14, Konjuh was the runner-up at the 2012 Wimbledon Championships in girls' doubles. In December 2012, Konjuh won two prestigious junior tennis tournaments, Eddie Herr and the

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. In January 2013, she won the

and

events at the

, and became the No. 1 junior in the world. She also received a call up to the Croatia Fed Cup team, where she scored the biggest win of her career, defeating Poland's

Urszula Radwańska Urszula Radwańska (; born 7 December 1990) is a Polish professional tennis player. Radwańska has won one doubles title on the WTA Tour, as well as seven singles and ten doubles titles on the ITF Women's Circuit. On 8 October 2012, she reached ...

, ranked No. 37 in the world, at the age of 15. In September 2013, Konjuh won the

title at the US Open, her second singles junior Grand Slam. Despite being eligible to continue playing junior tournaments for two more years, Konjuh ceased playing junior events at the end of 2013, changing her focus to competing on the main tour in 2014. Ana Konjuh at the 2013 US Open 1

2014: First full tour season and top-100 ranking

Konjuh was awarded a main-draw wildcard for the Auckland Open in New Zealand. On her debut at

-level, she stunned the top seed and world No. 14

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, in the first round in three sets. At the

, she came through qualifying to reach her first Grand Slam main draw, but lost in the first round to the fourth seed and eventual champion,

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. Konjuh underwent elbow surgery on 23 January in

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. Her recovery lasted four months, and she made her return in May by defeating

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at the Open Saint-Gaudens. Konjuh made it to the semifinals of the $50k tournament in France, before losing to the eventual champion

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 straight sets. This run helped her up to a new world ranking high of No. 189 and enabled her to enter the qualifying draw at Roland Garros, but she again suffered defeat to Kovinić in the second round. She was more successful at Wimbledon, qualifying for the main draw with victories over

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and

Stephanie Vogt Stephanie Vogt (; born 15 February 1990) is a retired tennis player from Liechtenstein. In her career, Vogt won two doubles titles on the WTA Tour, as well as 12 singles titles and 11 doubles titles on the ITF Circuit. On 24 February 2014, she ...

. She then earned her first career Grand Slam main-draw win by defeating

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in the first round, and followed it up with the bigger win of her career to date, toppling former world No. 12

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in the second round. Konjuh's run came to an end in the following round with a straight-sets loss to the former world No. 1,

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. Konjuh's good form continued at the Istanbul Cup, where she came through qualifying to reach her first main-draw semifinal, defeating top-40 players

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and Elina Svitolina en route. Her run came to an end with a defeat to Roberta Vinci. Konjuh suffered disappointment at the US Open when she lost to Urszula Radwańska in the first round of qualifying. In October, she competed at the Japan Women's Open in Osaka and made the quarterfinals before losing to

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. The result saw her ranking climb to within the top 100 for the first time, aged just 16. She completed her year by competing in three tournaments in France, reaching the semifinals of ITF events in Poitiers and Nantes, and the quarterfinals of the

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. This saw Konjuh rise to a new career-high ranking of No. 84, and she completed the season ranked 90, and as the youngest player within the top 100.

2015: First WTA Tour title

Konjuh began the year in

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, comfortably defeating

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before losing to

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in the second round. She lost in the first round of the

to Magdaléna Rybáriková. After a string of early losses, she qualified for the main draw of the

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in April, where she defeated the seventh seed, world No. 34

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, in three sets in the first round. Konjuh then lost in the second round to wildcard Klara Koukalová. Konjuh's indifferent form continued through the clay-court season, but she earned her first main-draw win at the

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by defeating

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, before losing to the 30th seed

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in the second round. In June, Konjuh competed in the main draw at the inaugural

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and reached the quarterfinals with victories over

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and

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. After being delayed for over two days due to poor weather, Konjuh advanced to the semifinals by defeating

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, and later that day reached her first WTA Tour final by beating

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. Owing to poor weather, the final was held back to Monday. Konjuh dropped the first set to

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, but recovered to earn victory and her first WTA Tour title. At the age of 17, she was the youngest player to win a main-tour title since Tamira Paszek in 2006.

2016: First Grand Slam quarterfinal

Ranked No. 87 in the world, Konjuh began the season at the

, where she lost in the second round to Daria Kasatkina, after beating Urszula Radwańska. Except for a quarterfinal appearance at the San Antonio Open, she had early exits at most of her tournaments, including Indian Wells, Miami Open and Madrid Open. At the

, Konjuh reached the second round after beating

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in straight sets. She then lost to the No. 22 seed

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. After a semifinal appearance at the Bol Ladies Open, Konjuh withdrew from the

owing to an injury she sustained at the previous tournament, and fell from the top 100. After early exits at the

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and the

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, Konjuh reached the second round of Wimbledon after beating Karin Knapp. She then lost to

Agnieszka Radwańska Agnieszka Roma Radwańska (; born 6 March 1989) is a Polish former professional tennis player. She won 20 career singles WTA Tour titles, two doubles titles, and achieved a career-high singles ranking of world No. 2 on 9 July 2012. Her achiev ...

in a three-set thriller in which a late ankle injury halted Konjuh's chances of winning the match. After her campaign, she returned to the top 100. Her next tournament was the Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, where she beat

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before losing to the world No. 12,

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. Despite losing in the second round of qualifying at the Western & Southern Open, Konjuh qualified for the Connecticut Open where she reached the second round by beating

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. She then lost to Roberta Vinci in straight sets. At the US Open, Konjuh upset the 20th seed

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in the first round. She went on to beat

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and

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en route to her first major fourth round. She then beat the fourth seed Agnieszka Radwańska in straight sets to become the youngest US Open quarterfinalist in a decade and the first Croatian female quarterfinalist since Karolina Šprem at Wimbledon in 2004. She lost to the tenth seed and eventual finalist Karolína Plíšková in the quarterfinals in straight sets. After the tournament ended, her ranking rose from 92 to 52. After failing in the qualifying round in both the

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and the China Open, Konjuh reached semifinals at

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and quarterfinals at the Kremlin Cup, losing to

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and Elina Svitolina, respectively. She ended the year as the world No. 48.

2017: World No. 20

Konjuh started the year at the Auckland Open, where she reached her second WTA tournament final, beating

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and

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en-route. She then lost in straight sets to

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. Despite her loss, Konjuh reached a career-high ranking of world No. 36. At the

, she beat

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in straight sets before losing to Daria Gavrilova. After losing in the round of 16 of the St. Petersburg Ladies' Trophy to the top seed Simona Halep, Konjuh played at

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, where she defeated

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in the first round. She then had back-to-back upsets over the No. 12 seed

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, and the No. 8 seed

en route to the quarterfinals where she lost to the top seed,

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. At Wimbledon, she defeated world No. 9, Dominika Cibulková, but lost to the eventual finalist,

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, in the fourth round. Following this successful run, she achieved a career-high ranking of world No. 20, on 31 July 2017. In September 2017, Konjuh underwent surgery on her right elbow.

2018-2020: Out of top 500, and later top 1000

2021: Back to top 100

In 2021, at the Miami Open, Konjuh got her first main-draw win after three years as a wildcard. Later, she defeated 18th seeded Madison Keys to reach the third round of the tournament. In the next round, Konjuh recorded her upset against 15th seed

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, one of the best performances in her career. In the round of 16, she went down 1-6, 5-7 against

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. At the

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, Konjuh reached the final in more than four years as a qualifier, defeating second seed Yulia Putintseva in the round of 16, fifth seed

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in the quarterfinal and teenager María Camila Osorio in the semifinal. She retired due to a right hip injury in the final with

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but thanks to another great run, she returned to the top 150, climbing 44 spots in the rankings to No. 144, her best ranking since 2018.

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 Tunis.''

Doubles

WTA career finals

Singles: 3 (1 title, 2 runner-ups)

ITF finals

Singles: 6 (4 titles, 2 runner–ups)

Doubles: 1 (runner–up)

Notes

Junior Grand Slam finals

Girls' singles: 2 (2 titles)

Girls' doubles: 2 (1 title, 1 runner–up)

Fed Cup/Billie Jean King Cup participation

Singles (12–6)

Doubles (10–4)

Awards

Head-to-head records

Top 10 wins

Double-bagel matches

References

External links

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