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  Iva Majoli
Iva Majoli had eeriness with Monica Seles, as they both come from the former Yugoslavia and they both died their hair blonde.
Majoli beat Lucic at the Australian Open in the second round, but she failed for the second year in a row, with a third round loss.
Majoli defeated Zvereva and Martinez to reach the Quarter finals of the French Open, where she lost a re-match to Davenport.
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  Iva Majoli - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Iva Majoli (born August 12, 1977) is a professional tennis player from Zagreb, Croatia.
Iva Majoli defied all expectations with her aggressive baseline play and defying all odds, played one of the best matches of her career.
Majoli announced her retirement from the game on June 12, 2004.
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 SI.com - Tennis - Iva Majoli says she lacks motivation, retires - Tuesday June 29, 2004 11:19AM
ZAGREB (Reuters) -- Croatia's Iva Majoli, the 1997 French Open champion, announced her retirement from competitive tennis on Tuesday saying she lacked motivation.
Majoli, who beat Swiss Martina Hingis in the 1997 Roland Garros final, was once rated as high as No. 4 but has seen her world ranking plummet to 294.
The winner of eight career WTA Tour titles, including the French Open, Majoli was not at Wimbledon this year having slipped too far in the rankings, and she did not try to qualify.
sportsillustrated.cnn.com /2004/tennis/specials/wimbledon/2004/06/29/majoli.retired   (196 words)

  
 Washingtonpost.com: Majoli Upsets Hingis, Captures French
Iva Majoli — a bubbly, demonstrative 19-year-old from Croatia, wrought the biggest French Open upset in the open era today on Center Court, where she made her Grand Slam final debut.
Majoli kept her boyfriend practically locked in their hotel room — "He was my prisoner," she joked today — during her earlier matches, because she was so nervous about her performance.
Majoli seemed almost overwhelmed when she received the traditional Suzanne Lenglen trophy from Chris Evert, one of her idols, and she broke into a fit of giggles when she was asked to give a little speech.
www.washingtonpost.com /wp-srv/sports/tennis/longterm/1998/french/articles/launch/frenchw97.htm   (911 words)

  
 Gulfnews: Majoli targets top 10 spot
Iva Majoli was gracious and great in defeat.
A shoulder surgery followed by an elbow injury did not help the Croatian cause very much as Majoli was sidelined for nearly two years from the WTA Tour.
In the early dawn of her career, Majoli, then 20 years old, created a sensation when she went on to break top seed Martina Hingis' 33-week unbeaten run to clinch the 1997 French Open.
archive.gulfnews.com /articles/03/02/19/77893.html   (297 words)

  
 Augusta Georgia: sports@ugusta: No. 9 seed stuns Hingis, overcomes virus, history 6/8/97
Croatia's Iva Majoli celebrates her upset of top-seeded Martina Hingis in the French Open women's singles finals on Saturday.
Majoli was still blowing her nose on the court Saturday, and she acknowledged she was on antibiotics and taking ``lots of medication.''
Right after Majoli had broken for 3-2 in the third set, putting her up a set and a break, her opponent suddenly took a bathroom break, leaving the court for several minutes.
chronicle.augusta.com /stories/060897/spo_major.html   (709 words)

  
 Croatian Iva Majoli ends her tennis career. || teamwta.com - Unofficial Womens Tennis News and Views   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Majoli won the 1997 French Open final were she held off Martina Hingis from winning all four Grand Slams.
Majoli won her first two singles titles as a professional that same year, both ITF tournaments at Simons Island and Evansville in the USA.
In 1999 Iva Majoli was troubled by injuries missing most tournament after she sprained her right ankle, injured her right shoulder and had surgery on her right shoulder missing the beginning of the 2000 season.
www.sportnetwork.net /main/s133/st54511.htm   (479 words)

  
 Iva Majoli pictures, posters, photos, interviews and wallpapers.
Iva was born in 1977 in Croatia and is a professional tennis player.
Iva took correspondence courses to graduate from Bradenton Academy in 1996.
Iva describes herself as a woman with a lot of energy and she likes to spend time with friends when she's at home.
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 Gulfnews: Kuznetsova sends Majoli packing
But Kuznetsova's victory yesterday against Majoli was creditable as she was much stronger in her approach and resolve against her Croatian opponent.
But Majoli bungled at this moment as Kuznetsova broke her serve in the very next game to draw level 5-5.
Majoli had a second opportunity to take the set as she broke the Russian to lead 6-5.
archive.gulfnews.com /articles/03/02/18/77773.html   (457 words)

  
 ESPN.com - Unseeded Majoli claims tournament's top prize
CHARLESTON, S.C. -- Iva Majoli became the lowest ranked player to win a top-tier tournament when she defeated Patty Schnyder 7-6 (5), 6-4 Sunday for the championship of the Family Circle Cup, her first singles title since the 1997 French Open.
Majoli also became the first unseeded player to win the Family Circle Cup, earning $182,000 in the $1.2 million tournament at the Tennis Center at Daniel Island.
Majoli had missed almost a year on the tour after undergoing shoulder surgery in 1999.
sports.espn.go.com /espn/print?id=1371937&type=news   (474 words)

  
 Hardcourts Prove Too Much for Muster and Majoli
But these metropolitan hardcourts have been harsher, and Wednesday Iva Majoli of Croatia, the 1997 French Open champion, and Thomas Muster of Austria, who ruled the roost at Roland Garros in 1995, were drummed out of contention at the U.S. Open in back-to-back upsets on the wind-blown Arthur Ashe Stadium.
The fourth-seeded Majoli, who has not played like a champion since her surprising victory over top-ranked Martina Hingis in the French Open finale last June, was eliminated in the second round by Sandrine Testud of France, 6-4, 2-6, 6-1.
Majoli said she has allowed her title to become something of an albatross.
partners.nytimes.com /library/sports/082897ten-us-open.html   (960 words)

  
 Cross Court TENNIS NEWS   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
In one hour 19 minutes by the score of 6-4, 6-2, Iva Majoli had become the first ever Croatian to win a Grand Slam title, eclipsing even her more illustrious compatriot Goran Ivanisevic who had twice been a runner-up at Wimbledon.
Majoli went on the attack from the start of the match and held break point on the Hingis serve.
Majoli drilled some exceptional forehands to the corners and cleaned the lines with some brilliant passing shots.
www.crosscourt.com.au /cgi-bin/ccstory.pl?TD=0469742132   (640 words)

  
 BBC SPORT | TENNIS | Majoli ousted in Florida
Majoli was clearly struggling with her serve and hit double-faults to go down 0-30 and 0-40 in that second game.
Although Majoli was able to recoup the service break in the fifth game of the first set, Myskina won the last three games of the set from 3-3.
Majoli won the first point of the second set and then lost the next 13 points to put Myskina ahead 3-0, 15-0.
news.bbc.co.uk /sport1/hi/tennis/1269827.stm   (320 words)

  
 Iva Majoli
Iva Majoli (born August 12, 1977) is a professional tennis player from Zagreb, Croatia.
Iva Majoli defied all expectations with her aggressive baseline play and defying all odds, played one of the best matches of her career.
In the latter years of her tennis career, Majoli suffered from series of injuries - most notably a shoulder injury - and struggled to find a consistent playing form.
www.basictennis.com /Iva-Majoli.html   (220 words)

  
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The daughter of director John Farrow, Mia Farrow is an American actress born Maria de Lourdes Villiers Farrow but always known as Mia.
Iva Majoli is a gorgeous Croatian lady who made her living out of playing professional tennis.
Iva was born in Zagreb on 12th August 1977.
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 Hingis stays on track despite Majoli upset   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Majoli said: "I was playing really well and maybe I did think, 'Did she really need to go to the bathroom?' On the other hand there's nothing I can do, so it was better not to think about it.
Although Majoli, 19, had won two titles already this year, there was serious doubt whether she possessed the temperament to succeed at the very top.
The way Majoli recovered from 5-7, 0-4 to beat Olympic champion Lindsay Davenport in the fourth round had given her the lift in confidence she needed.
www.telegraph.co.uk /htmlContent.jhtml?html=/archive/1997/06/09/sthing09.html   (633 words)

  
 WTA Tour Notes & Netcords   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
MAJOLI VICTORIOUS IN FILDERSTADT: Croatia's Iva Majoli played through a bout of the flu to capture her second consecutive WTA TOUR singles title with a 6-4, 7-6(7-4) victory against Argentine Gabriela Sabatini in the final of the $430,000 Porsche Tennis Grand Prix.
Majoli, who won the first WTA TOUR title of her career at last week's European Indoors in Zurich, saved a set point in the 12th game of the second set before sealing the victory on her first match point in a match that lasted one hour and 48 minutes.
Majoli added that she had felt sick during the match but said the thought of winning a Porsche offered by the tournament's sponsor was a large inspiration.
www.tennisserver.com /WTA/WTA_10_16_95.html   (1381 words)

  
 Iva Majoli Blog   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
When Iva Majoli steps onto the court at the Fort Snelling Tennis and Learning Center for the American Family Mortgage $50,000 women's tennis tournament this week, it will be the latest in what has been a trying road back to what she hopes is the top of her game.
Iva's shocking 3 set loss to Paola Suarez in the first round of the Generali Ladies Open in Linz, put an abrupt end to her 2002 campaign.
Iva Majoli made an impressive start to her US Open campaign with an easy victory in the first round.
blogs.tennisuniverse.com /rss.php?siteid=majoli   (263 words)

  
 Majoli wins match of her career
But nobody picked Iva Majoli to win the French Open -- even when she made the finals.
Majoli won six straight games to take the set at 6-4, then took the third set 6-2.
 Right after Majoli had broken for 3-2 in the third set, putting her up a set and a break, her opponent suddenly took a bathroom break, leaving the court for several minutes.
www.canoe.ca /SlamTennis97FrenchOpen/jun7_majoli.html   (573 words)

  
 Wimbledon Preview - Iva Majoli News
Iva Majoli heads to Wimbledon next week and will face a stern challenge in the first round.
The two have never locked horns before, but Iva is sure to realise the potential danger of this match, especially as grass is not her favorite surface.
Iva has a 2-0 winning record against Zvonareva this year, however if they are to meet it will be the third different surface that they play eachother on.
majoli.wtnworld.com /majoli/News/575   (267 words)

  
 Iva Majoli at 1995 WTA Tour Championships; Tennis; November 15, 1995; ASAPSports FastScripts; Sports Interviews, ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
IVA MAJOLI: Yeah, I mean the beginning of the year was good and bad.
IVA MAJOLI: I guess I played better in the first set until 4-1 and she was making probably more errors, you know.
IVA MAJOLI: I think it's tough to play if the opponent is playing pretty bad the whole match and then suddenly everything changes and she starts hitting all the winners.
www.asapsports.com /tennis/1995wta/111595IM.html   (988 words)

  
 ABC Sport - Tennis- Majoli retires at 26
Croatia's Iva Majoli, the 1997 French Open champion, announced her retirement from competitive tennis overnight saying she lacked motivation.
Majoli, who beat Swiss Martina Hingis in the 1997 Roland Garros final, was once rated as high as number four but has seen her world ranking plummet to 294.
The winner of eight career WTA Tour titles, Majoli was not at Wimbledon this year having slipped too far in the rankings and she did not try to qualify.
www.abc.net.au /sport/content/200406/s1143341.htm   (231 words)

  
 WTAworld.com - Most Mermorable Matches
Iva took the first set, but the speedy amanda grabbed the second and appeared on the verge of her first grandslam final leading 4-2 in the third with Iva tiring badly and Amanda's superior conditioning telling.
Iva was in another realm as everything came into sync at the right time and she showed no ill effects of her tough route to the final.
In the end Iva beat three of the top 5 year end players for that year (Martina #1, Lindsay #3 and Amanda #4) enroute to this title and became the lowest seeded woman at #9 ever to win a major :eek: (although she has since been supplanted by Jennifer Capriati).
www.wtaworld.com /printthread.php?t=9088   (1471 words)

  
 Amelia Island - A Tennis Gem
Iva Majoli of Croatia and Florida made her sixth appearance at the Bausch and Lomb last year.
Iva has had to come back from some injuries and found Amelia Island a great place to rehabilitate her form, even if she doesn't play as well as she would like in the tournament.
Iva has been fond of the Amelia Island and Hilton Head sites since starting on the WTA tour, especially since she likes playing on clay courts.
www.amelianow.com /spring03-tennis.htm   (1220 words)

  
 Hyundai Hopman Cup :: Past Results - Hopman Cup VIII (31st Dec 1995 - 6th Jan 1996)
With a world ranking of 16, the winner of most of the world's top junior tournaments had well and truly graduated into senior ranks even though, as at January 1996, she hadn't won a singles title on the women's Tour, she was a force to be reckoned with.
More young talent coming up and this time the fans could see why the 18-year-old Majoli was in the top 10 as she disposed of France's Catherine Tanvier and when Wimbledon runner-up Ivanisevic beat Arnaud Boetsch and they combined for a three-set win in the mixed, the top seeds were 3-0 winners.
Hingis was too polished for Majoli in the battle of the teenage doubles partners, winning 6-3, 6-0 in their first clash in a tournament.
www.hopmancup.com.au /default.aspx?id=311&comp=viii   (1176 words)

  
 Iva Majoli, Family Circle Magazine Cup, Tennis, ASAPSports FastScripts, Sports Interviews, Quotes, Transcript   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
IVA MAJOLI: Well, she was missing less, you know.
I mean, the first set because I probably gave her a chance and in the first set I was in control and I was making winners and everything, then in the second and third set she start doing that and I was just giving the balls back, you know, making errors.
IVA MAJOLI: I don't know, every time you lose a match in which you had lots of chances, especially if you play the No. 4 player in the world, I'm sure I'm going to think about.
www.asapsports.com /tennis/1995fcircle/033195IM.html   (606 words)

  
 Iva - Crutchfield Advisor - Mobile Video - Review of the Alpine IVA-D300   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
IVA BITTOVA - is one of the most remarkable personalities in Czech music.
Iva was born and raised in Los Angeles.
IVA is een wetenschappelijk instituut voor onderzoek en advies op contractbasis, dat nauwe banden onderhoudt met de Universiteit van Tilburg.
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Iva Majoli is known as the first Croatian to win a Grand Slam title.
Coached by Nick Bollettieri, Iva seized 4th place worldwide in 1996, barely three months after breaking in to the Top 10.
Last year, Iva lost some of her momentum and slipped out of the Top 10, but with so much capability at her command, a recovery may well occur at any time.
www.gotennis.com /protour/Profile.asp?PlayerId=121&Gender=F   (66 words)

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