Teodora Mirčić

Teodora Mirčić (Serbian Cyrillic: Теодора Мирчић, pronounced [teodǒːra mîːrtʃitɕ]; born 3 March 1988) is a retired Serbian tennis player. She won three singles and 33 doubles titles on the ITF Circuit, and also played for the Serbia Fed Cup team.[2]

Teodora Mirčić
Теодора Мирчић

Country (sports)	FR Yugoslavia (2000–2003)  Serbia and Montenegro (2003–2006)  Serbia (2006–2014)
Residence	Sarasota, Florida, United States[1]
Born	3 March 1988 Belgrade, SR Serbia, SFR Yugoslavia
Height	1.68 m (5 ft 6 in)
Turned pro	2002
Retired	2014
Plays	Right-handed (two-handed backhand)
Prize money	$151,315
Singles
Career record	263–221
Career titles	3 ITF
Highest ranking	No. 249 (16 June 2008)
Doubles
Career record	258–144
Career titles	33 ITF
Highest ranking	No. 125 (5 May 2014)
Team competitions
Fed Cup	0–3

Personal life

Teodora Mirčić was born to Miomir and Draginja Mirčić in Belgrade, and also has a brother, Radovan.[1] A great fan of sports, she cites hard as her favourite surface, and Roger Federer and Monica Seles her idols.[3] Mirčić began training tennis aged 8 at Belgrade's tennis club As.[3] She trained at the Nick Bollettieri Tennis Academy in Bradenton, Florida with a full scholarship, and currently resides in Sarasota, Florida.[1]

Tennis career

Teodora Mirčić was one of the best doubles players Serbia has had on the pro tour. She is the only female Serbian tennis player to win 33 ITF doubles titles. In singles, Mirčić was always ranked amongst the top 5 in the country. As a young player, she started competing on both WTA and ITF tournaments. She also captured three singles titles on ITF Circuit. As a young player, Mirčić played her first WTA Tour qualifications in 2005, at the Budapest Grand Prix, but lost in the first round.[4] She then earned a wild card for the 2006 Budapest Grand Prix, losing to Kaia Kanepi in the first round.[4] Tsvetana Pironkova defeated her in the first round of the 2008 Budapest Grand Prix in straight sets.[4] In 2009, Mirčić played qualifications for two WTA Tour events, the Grand Prix SAR La Princesse Lalla Meryem and the Swedish Open, but lost both times.[5] At the 2011 Poli-Farbe Budapest Grand Prix, she played singles qualifications, losing to Aleksandra Krunić in the second round. Along with Laura Thorpe, Mirčić competed in doubles at the 2011 Internazionali Femminili di Palermo. The pair defeated the fourth seeds Sorana Cîrstea and Andreja Klepač in a super tiebreak in the first round and later reached the semifinals.[6] She lost to Karin Knapp in the last round of singles qualifying. Mirčić reached another doubles semifinal at a WTA event, partnering Veronika Kapshay in Bad Gastein (July 2013), as well as a quarterfinal at the WTA Tashkent Open.

Mirčić joined the Serbia Fed Cup team in 2008, playing with Jelena Janković, Ana Ivanovic and Ana Jovanović against Poland.[7] Ivanovic defeated Urszula Radwańska, and then Janković defeated Agnieszka Radwańska, securing Serbia a place in World Group II.[7] In the dead rubber, Mirčić and Jovanović lost to Klaudia Jans and Alicja Rosolska in straight sets.[7] The same Serbian team played against Croatia.[8] Mirčić lost her singles match, but Janković, Ivanovic and Jovanović defeated their opponents, with Serbia winning the tie 3–2.[8] Mirčić and Jovanović also played a doubles match, but retired for a final 4–1 result.[8] Mirčić has not played in the Fed Cup since 2008.

ITF Circuit finals

$100,000 tournaments

$75,000 tournaments

$50,000 tournaments

$25,000 tournaments

$10,000 tournaments

Singles: 6 (3–3)

Outcome	No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Opponent	Score
Runner-up	1.	11 July 2004	ITF Felixstowe, United Kingdom	Grass	Amanda Janes	2–6, 1–6
Winner	1.	1 July 2007	ITF Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina	Clay	Karolina Jovanović	6–3, 6–3
Runner-up	2.	27 October 2007	ITF Saint-Denis, France	Hard	Virginie Pichet	1–6, 3–6
Runner-up	3.	20 February 2011	ITF Antalya, Turkey	Clay	Christina Shakovets	4–6, 1–6
Winner	2.	12 August 2012	ITF Pirot, Serbia	Clay	Lina Gjorcheska	6–3, 6–1
Winner	3.	7 April 2013	ITF Heraklion, Greece	Carpet	Aleksandra Karamanoleva	6–0, 6–1

Doubles: 49 (33–16)

Outcome	No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Partner	Opponents	Score
Runner-up	1.	15 September 2006	ITF Torre del Greco, Italy	Clay	Emilia Desiderio	Andreea Roxana Vaideanu Erika Zanchetta	1–6, 6–1, 1–6
Winner	1.	23 September 2006	ITF Lecce, Italy	Clay	Ekaterina Lopes	Kildine Chevalier Adriana Serra Zanetti	7–6^(7–4), 6–4
Winner	2.	22 October 2006	ITF Dubrovnik, Croatia	Clay	Ana Veselinović	Ana Jovanović Polona Reberšak	6–4, 7–5
Winner	3.	29 October 2006	ITF Dubrovnik, Croatia	Clay	Stefanie Haidner	Aleksandra Lukič Patricia Vollmeier	6–4, 6–3
Runner-up	2.	1 April 2007	ITF Hammond, United States	Hard	Marie-Ève Pelletier	Chan Chin-wei Tetiana Luzhanska	1–6, 6–7^(3–7)
Runner-up	3.	9 June 2007	Zagreb Ladies Open, Croatia	Clay	Danica Krstajić	Ana Jovanović Anastasia Poltoratskaya	6–0, 4–6, 1–6
Winner	4.	23 June 2007	ITF Fontanafredda, Italy	Clay	Mervana Jugić-Salkić	Carmen Klaschka Magda Mihalache	6–2, 6–1
Winner	5.	29 June 2007	ITF Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina	Clay	Karolina Jovanović	Katarína Poljaková Zuzana Zlochová	6–1, 6–0
Winner	6.	5 July 2007	ITF Båstad, Sweden	Clay	Hanna Nooni	Mervana Jugić-Salkić Anna Koumantou	7–5, 7–5
Winner	7.	27 October 2007	ITF Saint-Denis, France	Hard	Marinne Giraud	Florence Haring Virginie Pichet	6–2, 7–5
Winner	8.	2 December 2007	ITF Sintra, Portugal	Clay	Caroline Maes	Neuza Silva Roxane Vaisemberg	6–4, 6–1
Winner	9.	21 March 2008	ITF Noida, India	Hard	Lenka Tvarošková	Kelly Anderson Chanelle Scheepers	6–2, 6–7^(7–9), [10–6]
Runner-up	4.	14 May 2008	ITF Szczecin, Poland	Clay	Emma Laine	Iveta Gerlová Tereza Hladíková	1–6, 4–6
Winner	10.	24 May 2008	ITF Moscow, Russia	Clay	Emma Laine	Maria Kondratieva Oksana Teplyakova	7–6^(7–5), 6–2
Winner	11.	21 June 2008	ITF Istanbul, Turkey	Hard	Lenka Tvarošková	Stefania Boffa Nikola Fraňková	7–5, 7–6^(7–4)
Winner	12.	27 July 2008	ITF Les Contamines, France	Hard	Mervana Jugić-Salkić	Justine Ozga Darina Šeděnková	6–1, 6–4
Runner-up	5.	15 August 2008	Palić Open, Serbia	Clay	Mervana Jugić-Salkić	Olga Brózda Magdalena Kiszczyńska	3–6, 5–7^(6–8)
Winner	13.	30 August 2008	ITF Vlaardingen, Netherlands	Clay	Mervana Jugić-Salkić	Irina Kuzmina Anastasia Poltoratskaya	6–1, 6–2
Winner	14.	22 November 2008	ITF Phoenix, Mauritius	Hard	Lenka Tvarošková	Kelly Anderson Natalie Grandin	6–4, 3–6, [10–4]
Winner	15.	12 April 2009	ITF Šibenik, Croatia	Clay	Nataša Zorić	Tina Obrez Mika Urbančič	6–0, 6–3
Winner	16.	17 July 2009	ITF Rome, Italy	Clay	María Irigoyen	Elisa Balsamo Stefania Chieppa	7–5, 6–2
Winner	17.	5 September 2009	ITF Brčko, Bosnia and Herzegovina	Clay	Karolina Jovanović	Patricia Chirea Petra Pajalič	6–4, 6–1
Runner-up	6.	13 September 2009	Open Porte du Hainaut, France	Clay	Magdalena Kiszczyńska	Elena Chalova Ksenia Lykina	4–6, 3–6
Runner-up	7.	10 October 2009	ITF Podgorica, Montenegro	Clay	Karolina Jovanović	Nicole Clerico Karolina Kosińska	7–6^(7–4), 4–6, [4–10]
Runner-up	8.	25 April 2010	Hardee's Pro Classic, United States	Clay	María Irigoyen	Alina Jidkova Anastasia Yakimova	4–6, 2–6
Winner	18.	12 June 2010	ITF Budapest, Hungary	Clay	Lenka Wienerová	Anna Livadaru Florencia Molinero	6–4, 6–1
Winner	19.	2 July 2010	ITF Toruń, Poland	Clay	Marija Mirkovic	Katarzyna Piter Barbara Sobaszkiewicz	4–6, 6–2, [10–5]
Winner	20.	10 July 2010	ITF Aschaffenburg, Germany	Clay	Erika Sema	Elena Bogdan Andrea Koch Benvenuto	7–6^(7–4), 2–6, [10–8]
Runner-up	9.	6 August 2010	ITF Moscow, Russia	Clay	Marija Mirkovic	Nadejda Guskova Valeria Solovyeva	6–7^(5–7), 3–6
Runner-up	10.	15 January 2011	ITF Glasgow, United Kingdom	Hard (i)	Jasmina Tinjić	Ulrikke Eikeri Isabella Shinikova	4–6, 4–6
Winner	21.	12 February 2011	ITF Antalya, Turkey	Clay	Marina Shamayko	Sultan Gönen Anna Karavayeva	6–4, 6–4
Runner-up	11.	29 April 2011	ITF Minsk, Belarus	Hard (i)	Nicole Rottmann	Lyudmyla Kichenok Nadiya Kichenok	1–6, 2–6
Winner	22.	18 June 2011	ITF Istanbul, Turkey	Hard	Marta Domachowska	Daniella Dominikovic Melis Sezer	6–4, 6–2
Winner	23.	10 September 2011	Saransk Cup, Russia	Clay	Mihaela Buzărnescu	Eva Hrdinová Veronika Kapshay	6–3, 6–1
Runner-up	12.	19 March 2012	ITF Antalya, Turkey	Clay	Claudia Giovine	Evelyn Mayr Julia Mayr	2–6, 3–6
Winner	24.	23 April 2012	ITF San Severo, Italy	Clay	Anastasia Grymalska	Chiara Mendo Giulia Sussarello	6–2, 6–4
Winner	25.	26 May 2012	ITF Timișoara, Romania	Clay	Andreea Mitu	Lina Gjorcheska Dalia Zafirova	6–1, 6–2
Runner-up	13.	4 June 2012	ITF Qarshi, Uzbekistan	Clay	Veronika Kapshay	Valentyna Ivakhnenko Kateryna Kozlova	5–7, 3–6
Winner	26.	25 June 2012	ITF Izmir, Turkey	Hard	Ana Bogdan	Abbie Myers Melis Sezer	6–3, 3–0 ret.
Runner-up	14.	25 June 2012	Save Cup Mestre, Italy	Clay	Réka Luca Jani	Mailen Auroux Maria Irigoyen	7–5, 4–6, [8–10]
Runner-up	15.	4 February 2013	ITF Antalya, Turkey	Clay	Ana Bogdan	Giulia Bruzzone Martina Caregaro	3–6, 6–1, [6–10]
Winner	27.	11 February 2013	ITF Antalya, Turkey	Clay	Raluca Elena Platon	Ekaterine Gorgodze Sofia Kvatsabaia	1–6, 4–5 ret.
Winner	28.	1 April 2013	ITF Heraklion, Greece	Carpet	Vivien Juhászová	Giulia Sussarello Sara Sussarello	7–5, 6–7^(7), [10–4]
Winner	29.	8 Apr 2013	ITF Heraklion, Greece	Carpet	Marina Melnikova	Giulia Sussarello Despina Papamichail	6–1, 6–4
Winner	30.	13 May 2013	ITF Balikpapan, Indonesia	Hard	Naomi Broady	Chen Yi Xu Yifan	6–3, 6–3
Winner	31.	20 May 2013	ITF Tarakan, Indonesia	Hard (i)	Naomi Broady	Tang Haochen Tian Ran	6–2, 1–6, [10–5]
Runner-up	16.	3 June 2013	ITF Qarshi, Uzbekistan	Clay	Veronika Kapshay	Margarita Gasparyan Polina Pekhova	2–6, 1–6
Winner	32.	16 September 2013	ITF Dobrich, Bulgaria	Clay	Xenia Knoll	Isabella Shinikova Dalia Zafirova	7–5, 7–6^(7–5)
Winner	33.	20 January 2014	ITF Daytona Beach, United States	Clay	Nicole Melichar	Asia Muhammad Allie Will	6–7^(5–7), 7–6^(7–1), [10–1]

Fed Cup participation

Singles (0–1)

Edition	Round	Date	Against	Surface	Opponent	Result	Score
2008 Fed Cup World Group II	Quarterfinals	26 April 2008	Croatia	Hard	Ana Vrljić	Loss	4–6, 5–7

Doubles (0–2)

Edition	Round	Date	Against	Surface	Partner	Opponents	Result	Score
2008 Fed Cup Europe/Africa Group I D	Round Robin	31 January 2008	Poland	Carpet	Ana Jovanović	Klaudia Jans Alicja Rosolska	Loss	3–6, 2–6
2008 Fed Cup World Group II	Quarterfinals	27 April 2008	Croatia	Hard	Ana Jovanović	Jelena Kostanić Tošić Ana Vrljić	Loss	1–4 ret.

References

1. Teodora Mirčić at the International Tennis Federation
2. Teodora Mirčić at the Billie Jean King Cup
3. SvetTenisa.net: Intervju s Teodorom Mirčić Archived 9 August 2008 at the Wayback Machine (26 July 2007)
4. Teodora Mirčić at the Women's Tennis Association
5. ITF Tennis – Women's Circuit – Players Activity – Mirčić, Teodora (SRB)
6. 2011 Internazionali Femminili di Palermo: Doubles Main Draw (11 July 2011)
7. Fed Cup: Group I, Europe/Africa 2008, Group D Round Robin: Serbia defeated Poland 2–1 in Hungary
8. Fed Cup: World Group II, Playoff: Serbia defeated Croatia 3–2 in Croatia

External links

• Teodora Mircic at the Women's Tennis Association
• Teodora Mircic at the International Tennis Federation
• Teodora Mircic at the Billie Jean King Cup