Mervana Jugić-Salkić is a Bosnian

Bosnians

Bosnians are people who reside in, or come from, Bosnia and Herzegovina. By the modern state definition a Bosnian can be anyone who holds citizenship of the state. This includes, but is not limited to, members of the constituent ethnic groups of Bosnia and Herzegovina: Bosniaks, Bosnian Serbs and...

 tennis player. She turned professional in 1999, and reached her highest singles ranking on 21 June 2004, when she was ranked Word No. 99. On 10 July 2006, Jugić-Salkić reached No. 59 in doubles, after winning ASB Classic

ASB Classic

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 in 2004 with Jelena Kostanić

Jelena Kostanic

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 and Internazionali di Modena

Internazionali di Modena

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 in 2005 with Yulia Beygelzimer

Yulia Beygelzimer

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. She also won 14 singles and 31 doubles events organized by International Tennis Federation

International Tennis Federation

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. Jugić-Salkić represented Bosnia and Herzegovina at the 2004 Summer Olympics

2004 Summer Olympics

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, but fell to Maria Elena Camerin

Maria Elena Camerin

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 in the first round. During her long career, she defeated players such as Yan Zi, Victoria Azarenka

Victoria Azarenka

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, Bethanie Mattek

Bethanie Mattek

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, Sania Mirza

Sania Mirza

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, Anabel Medina Garrigues

Anabel Medina Garrigues

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, Nuria Llagostera Vives

Nuria Llagostera Vives

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 and Sybille Bammer

Sybille Bammer

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.

Personal life

Jugić-Salkić was born to Hidajet and Hašiha Jugić. She began playing tennis relatively late, aged 13, citing Gabriela Sabatini

Gabriela Sabatini

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 as her idol. She fluent in Bosnian

Bosnian language

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 and English.

WTA Tour doubles finals (3; 2–1)

Legend: Before 2009	Legend: Starting in 2009
Grand Slam (0/0)
WTA Championships (0/0)
Tier I (0/0)	Premier Mandatory (0/0)
Tier II (0/0)	Premier 5 (0/0)
Tier III (0/0)	Premier (0/0)
Tier IV & V (2/1)	International (0/0)

Outcome	No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Partner	Opponents	Result
Winner	1.	2004-01-10	Auckland, New Zealand ASB Classic The ASB Classic is a tennis tournament held in Auckland, New Zealand. Held since 1986, this WTA Tour event is an International series tournament and is played on outdoor hardcourts during the first week of the year....	Hard	Jelena Kostanić Jelena Kostanic Jelena Kostanić Tošić is a retired professional female tennis player from Croatia. On July 26, 2004 she reached her career-high singles ranking: World No. 32...	Virginia Ruano Pascual Virginia Ruano Pascual Virginia Ruano Pascual is a Spanish professional female tennis player. She was born in Madrid, Spain.She has won three career singles titles but she has been more successful in doubles where she has won 43 titles, including 10 Grand Slam titles Between 2002...     Paola Suárez Paola Suárez Paola Suárez was a top 10 tennis player in the early 2000s. She gained prominence in 2004 by reaching the finals of nine straight WTA doubles tournaments, and by reaching the singles semifinals of the French Open tournament, held in Paris."La Negra" Suárez began playing professional tennis at the...	7–6(6), 3–6, 6–1
Winner	2.	2005-07–07	Modena, Italy Internazionali di Modena The Internazionali di Modena was a tennis tournament held in Modena, Italy. Held once, in 2005, this WTA Tour event was played on outdoor claycourts.-Singles:-Doubles:-References:*...	Clay	Yulia Beygelzimer Yulia Beygelzimer Yulia Beygelzimer is a professional female tennis player from Ukraine.Beygelzimer has competed for Ukraine both at the Olympics and the Fed Cup, finally reaching the Top 100, at number 83 in September 2006....	Gabriela Navrátilová Gabriela Navrátilová Gabriela Navrátilová is a professional tennis player from the Czech Republic.Until 2003, Navrátilová played mainly on the ITF circuit in Europe, garnering over 60 titles....     Michaela Paštiková Michaela Paštiková Michaela Paštiková is a professional female tennis player from the Czech Republic. On January 31, 2005, Paštiková achieved her career-high singles ranking: World No. 89.-Singles titles :-External links:...	6–2, 6–0
RU	1.	2008-04-19	Estoril, Portugal 2008 Estoril Open The 2008 Estoril Open was a tennis tournament played on outdoor clay courts. It was the 19th edition of the Estoril Open, and was part of the International Series of the 2008 ATP Tour, and of the Tier IV Series of the 2008 WTA Tour...	Clay	İpek Şenoğlu Ipek Senoglu İpek Şenoğlu , nicknamed İpeko, is a Turkish tennis player. Şenoğlu first made history in June 2004 when she was accepted into the women's doubles qualifying for Wimbledon. Though İpek did not advance into the main draw of Wimbledon, she became the first Turk ever to play in a qualifying tournament...	Maria Kirilenko Maria Kirilenko Maria Yuryevna Kirilenko is a Russian professional tennis player. Kirilenko won her first WTA Tour title in 2005, defeating Anna-Lena Grönefeld in the China Open. Kirilenko reached no. 18, her career-high singles ranking, on the WTA tour in July 2008. She won the junior event at the 2002 Canadian...     Flavia Pennetta Flavia Pennetta Flavia Pennetta is an Italian professional tennis player. She became Italy's first top 10 female singles player on 17 August 2009 and also the first ever Italian Tennis player to be ranked No.1 in Doubles on 28 February 2011. As of 10 October 2011, Pennetta is ranked World No. 18 in singles and...	4–6, 4–6

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