Nefisa Berberović (born 3 July 1999) is a Bosnian

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player. Berberović has career-high rankings of 221 in singles and 454 in doubles. Alongside Dea Herdželaš, she won the silver medal in the women's doubles at the

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. Playing for the Bosnia and Herzegovina Fed Cup team, she has a win–loss record of 13–5, as of July 2024

Career

Partnering Dea Herdželaš, she won the silver medal in the women's doubles at the

, losing to Turkish pair

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and

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in the final which went to a deciding champions tiebreak. Berberović made her

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debut at the 2022 Internationaux de Strasbourg as a

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becoming the first Bosnian in a WTA main draw since 2013. She stunned former top-10 player

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in the first round, the first Bosnian player to win a match since Mervana Jugic-Salkic at Hyderabad 2004.

ITF Circuit finals

Singles: 13 (7 titles, 6 runner–ups)

Doubles: 18 (11 titles, 7 runner–ups)

National representation

Fed Cup/Billie Jean King Cup

Berberović made her debut for the Bosnia and Herzegovina Fed Cup team in 2017, while it was competing in the Europe/Africa Zone Group I, when she was 17 years and 233 days old.

Singles (2–0)

Doubles (1–1)

Mediterranean Games

Doubles: 1 (silver medal)

References

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