Katarína Bašternáková (; born 12 October 1982) is a former Slovak

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player. A native of

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, she was runner-up at the 1999 Australian Open – Girls' singles tournament. Bašternáková reached a career-high doubles ranking of world number 441 during her playing career in which she won two ITF doubles titles. Although she never won an ITF singles title, her world singles ranking peaked at number 292 in May 2001. Together with

Stanislava Hrozenská Stanislava Hrozenská (; born 17 June 1982 in Nitra) is a retired Slovak tennis player. She was a semifinalist at the 1999 US Open – Girls' doubles tournament. Hrozenská won three singles and eleven doubles titles on the ITF Women's Circui ...

, Bašternáková won a silver medal in tennis doubles at the

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games.

ITF finals (2–1)

Singles (0–1)

Doubles (2–0)

Grand Slam finals

Girls' singles

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Basternakova, Katarina 1982 births Living people People from Hurbanovo Sportspeople from the Nitra Region Slovak female tennis players Summer World University Games medalists in tennis FISU World University Games silver medalists for Slovakia Medalists at the 2003 Summer Universiade Medalists at the 2005 Summer Universiade 21st-century Slovak sportswomen