Tamara Čurović
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Tamara Čurović is a Serbia
n tennis player. Although she plays junior mostly, she also competes at professional tournaments. In 2009, Čurović reached her first ITF
final, in Doboj
. As of 7 March 2011, Čurović is ranked World No. 686. In 2011, she was the member of the Serbia Fed Cup team
in the World Group II
rubber against Canada
, along with Bojana Jovanovski
, Aleksandra Krunić
and Ana Jovanović
, but did not play any matches.
, former champion of Russia
in chess
. She has a brother, Vladislav. Čurović began playing tennis aged nine in local tennis clinic, and is currently member of TK Partizan
. She cites Maria Sharapova
, Ana Ivanović
and Jelena Janković
as her idols.
Serbia
Serbia , officially the Republic of Serbia , is a landlocked country located at the crossroads of Central and Southeast Europe, covering the southern part of the Carpathian basin and the central part of the Balkans...
n tennis player. Although she plays junior mostly, she also competes at professional tournaments. In 2009, Čurović reached her first ITF
International Tennis Federation
The International Tennis Federation is the governing body of world tennis, made up of 205 national tennis associations.It was established as the International Lawn Tennis Federation by 12 national associations meeting at a conference in Paris, France on 1 March 1913...
final, in Doboj
Doboj
Doboj is a city and a municipality in northern Bosnia and Herzegovina, situated in the northern part of the Republika Srpska entity on the river Bosna. Doboj is the largest national railway junction; as such, the seats of the Republika Srpska Railways, and the Railways Corporation of Bosnia and...
. As of 7 March 2011, Čurović is ranked World No. 686. In 2011, she was the member of the Serbia Fed Cup team
Serbia Fed Cup team
The Serbian Fed Cup team represents Serbia in Fed Cup tennis competition and are governed by the Serbia Tennis Federation. They currently compete in the World Group.-Current team:-Before 1992:...
in the World Group II
2011 Fed Cup World Group II
The World Group II is the second highest level of Fed Cup competition in 2011. 4 of the winners will advanced to the World Group I Play-offs, and the losing nations advancing to the World Group II Play-offs.-Estonian team:...
rubber against Canada
Canada Fed Cup team
The Canada Fed Cup Team represents Canada in Fed Cup tennis competition and are governed by Tennis Canada.-History:Canada has reached the quarterfinals on four occasions - in 1964, 1967, 1987 and 1988. It has also only missed one Fed Cup since the inaugural competition in 1963.-Last tie:Canada lost...
, along with Bojana Jovanovski
Bojana Jovanovski
Bojana Jovanovski is a Serbian tennis player. As of 24 October 2011, Jovanovski is ranked World No. 56 and is the third highest ranked Serbian player, after World No. 14 Jelena Janković and No. 26 Ana Ivanović...
, Aleksandra Krunić
Aleksandra Krunić
Aleksandra Krunić is a Serbian professional tennis player, who is, as of October 03 2011, ranked No. 213. Krunić has won six ITF events — five in singles and one in doubles....
and Ana Jovanović
Ana Jovanovic
Ana Jovanović is a Serbian professional tennis player. She is coached by Nikola Pilić.- Tennis career :...
, but did not play any matches.
Early and personal life
Tamara Čurović was born to Slavko Čurović and Svetlana PrudnikovaSvetlana Prudnikova
Svetlana Prudnikova , is a Russian woman chess player.Prudnikova has the title Woman Grandmaster. Her Elo rating in October 2006 was 2355, but has been over 2400...
, former champion of Russia
Russia
Russia or , officially known as both Russia and the Russian Federation , is a country in northern Eurasia. It is a federal semi-presidential republic, comprising 83 federal subjects...
in chess
Chess
Chess is a two-player board game played on a chessboard, a square-checkered board with 64 squares arranged in an eight-by-eight grid. It is one of the world's most popular games, played by millions of people worldwide at home, in clubs, online, by correspondence, and in tournaments.Each player...
. She has a brother, Vladislav. Čurović began playing tennis aged nine in local tennis clinic, and is currently member of TK Partizan
Partizan
Partizan is the Serbo-Croatian, Macedonian, and Slovene term for a partisan. It is usually used in those languages to denote a member of the World War II resistance movement, the Yugoslav Partisans, which are always mentioned in those languages without the adjective "Yugoslav", i.e...
. She cites Maria Sharapova
Maria Sharapova
Maria Yuryevna Sharapova ,. is a Russian professional tennis player and a former world no. 1. A US resident since 1994, Sharapova has won 24 WTA singles titles, including three Grand Slam singles titles at the 2004 Wimbledon, 2006 US Open and 2008 Australian Open...
, Ana Ivanović
Ana Ivanovic
Ana Ivanović is a former world no. 1 Serbian tennis player. As of November 7, 2011, she is ranked 22th on the WTA rankings. She beat Dinara Safina to win the 2008 French Open and was the runner-up in singles at the 2007 French Open and the 2008 Australian Open...
and Jelena Janković
Jelena Janković
Jelena Janković is a former world no. 1 professional tennis player from Serbia. She reached the final of the 2008 US Open and won the 2007 Wimbledon Mixed Doubles title. Janković is ranked world no...
as her idols.
Playing style
Čurović is said to be powerful and intelligent at court. She hits the ball long, not with much spin, and is described as a mixture of both girls' and boys' playing style.Awards
- 2008 — Tennis Association of Serbia Award for Best Female Player U–14
- 2009 — Tennis Association of Serbia Award for Best Female Player U–16
ITF singles finals (1–1)
| $100,000 tournaments |
| $75,000 tournaments |
| $50,000 tournaments |
| $25,000 tournaments |
| $10,000 tournaments |
| Outcome | No. | Date | Tournament | Surface | Opponent | Score |
| Runner–up | 1. | 20 September 2009 | Doboj Doboj Doboj is a city and a municipality in northern Bosnia and Herzegovina, situated in the northern part of the Republika Srpska entity on the river Bosna. Doboj is the largest national railway junction; as such, the seats of the Republika Srpska Railways, and the Railways Corporation of Bosnia and... , Bosnia and Herzegovina Bosnia and Herzegovina Bosnia and Herzegovina , sometimes called Bosnia-Herzegovina or simply Bosnia, is a country in Southern Europe, on the Balkan Peninsula. Bordered by Croatia to the north, west and south, Serbia to the east, and Montenegro to the southeast, Bosnia and Herzegovina is almost landlocked, except for the... |
Clay |  Matea Mezak |
6–4, 2–6, 4–6 |
| Winner | 1. | 5 June 2011 | Paros Paros Paros is an island of Greece in the central Aegean Sea. One of the Cyclades island group, it lies to the west of Naxos, from which it is separated by a channel about wide. It lies approximately south-east of Piraeus. The Municipality of Paros includes numerous uninhabited offshore islets... , Greece Greece Greece , officially the Hellenic Republic , and historically Hellas or the Republic of Greece in English, is a country in southeastern Europe.... |
Carpet |  Yuliya Lysa |
6–4, 6–1 |
ITF doubles finals (3–1)
| $100,000 tournaments |
| $75,000 tournaments |
| $50,000 tournaments |
| $25,000 tournaments |
| $10,000 tournaments |
| Outcome | No. | Date | Tournament | Surface | Partner | Opponents | Score |
| Winners | 1. | 30 January 2011 | Tallinn Tallinn Tallinn is the capital and largest city of Estonia. It occupies an area of with a population of 414,940. It is situated on the northern coast of the country, on the banks of the Gulf of Finland, south of Helsinki, east of Stockholm and west of Saint Petersburg. Tallinn's Old Town is in the list... , Estonia Estonia Estonia , officially the Republic of Estonia , is a state in the Baltic region of Northern Europe. It is bordered to the north by the Gulf of Finland, to the west by the Baltic Sea, to the south by Latvia , and to the east by Lake Peipsi and the Russian Federation . Across the Baltic Sea lies... |
Hard | Yevgeniya Kryvoruchko |
 Maret AniMaret Ani Maret Ani is an Estonian tennis player. At the start of 2006, she was the top-ranked player in Estonia, before losing that spot to Kaia Kanepi.... Anett KontaveitAnett Kontaveit Anett Kontaveit is an Estonian female junior tennis player. Kontaveit won Estonian Championships in 2009 and again in 2010 being the youngest player ever in Estonia to do so. From February 2010 Anett Kontaveit is coached by Märten Tamla.She has had success on the junior tour, her best grand slam... |
7–6(8), 6–1 |
| Winners | 2. | 27 May 2011 | Paros Paros Paros is an island of Greece in the central Aegean Sea. One of the Cyclades island group, it lies to the west of Naxos, from which it is separated by a channel about wide. It lies approximately south-east of Piraeus. The Municipality of Paros includes numerous uninhabited offshore islets... , Greece Greece Greece , officially the Hellenic Republic , and historically Hellas or the Republic of Greece in English, is a country in southeastern Europe.... |
Carpet | Yuliya Lysa |
 Kim-Alice Grajdek Anastasia Kharchenko |
3–6, 6–0, [11–9] |
| Winners | 3. | 3 June 2011 | Paros, Greece | Carpet | Yuliya Lysa |
 Anneliese Tepper Bianca Tepper |
6–4, 7–5 |
| Runner–up | 1. | 17 June 2011 | Astana Astana Astana , formerly known as Akmola , Tselinograd and Akmolinsk , is the capital and second largest city of Kazakhstan, with an officially estimated population of 708,794 as of 1 August 2010... , Kazakhstan Kazakhstan Kazakhstan , officially the Republic of Kazakhstan, is a transcontinental country in Central Asia and Eastern Europe. Ranked as the ninth largest country in the world, it is also the world's largest landlocked country; its territory of is greater than Western Europe... |
Hard |  Sabina Sharipova |
Veronika Kapshay  Ekaterina Yashina |
6–2, 3–6, [13–15] |
Additional (1–0)
| Outcome | Year | Competition | Surface | Winners | Finalists | Score |
| Winners | 2009 | National Tennis Championships | Clay |  TK PartizanFK Partizan Fudbalski klub Partizan is a professional football club based in Belgrade, Serbia. In its long history, FK Partizan won as many as 37 trophies. The club is the holder of 23 national championships, 12 national cups and 1 national supercup, and has also won the Mitropa Cup in 1978... Tamara Čurović Bojana Jovanovski Bojana Jovanovski Bojana Jovanovski is a Serbian tennis player. As of 24 October 2011, Jovanovski is ranked World No. 56 and is the third highest ranked Serbian player, after World No. 14 Jelena Janković and No. 26 Ana Ivanović... Marija Marković Andrea Petković Andrea Petkovic Andrea Petkovic is a professional German tennis player of Serbian origin. She is the highest ranked German tennis player. She lives in Griesheim near Darmstadt, Germany.... |
Red Star Red Star Belgrade Red Star Belgrade is a football club from Belgrade, Serbia. The club is a part of the Red Star Sports Society.Red Star Belgrade is the most successful Serbian club, with a record of 25 national championships and 23 national cups in both Serbian and ex-Yugoslav competitions... Ana Jovanović Ana Jovanovic Ana Jovanović is a Serbian professional tennis player. She is coached by Nikola Pilić.- Tennis career :... Karmen Klasška Aleksandra Ludvig Ana Timotić Ana Timotic Ana Timotić is a professional Serbian tennis player, who is, as of 21 September 2009, ranked No. 668. Timotić has won eight ITF singles and two ITF doubles titles, and has also made 19 appearances for Serbia Fed Cup team, previously Serbia and Montenegro, scoring 3–6 in singles and 6–4 in... |
5:0 |
External links
- Tamara Čurović at the Women's Tennis AssociationWomen's Tennis AssociationThe Women's Tennis Association , founded in 1973 by Billie Jean King, is the principal organizing body of Women's Professional Tennis. It governs the WTA Tour which is the worldwide professional tennis tour for women. Its counterpart organization in the men's professional game is the Association of...
- Tamara Čurović at the International Tennis FederationInternational Tennis FederationThe International Tennis Federation is the governing body of world tennis, made up of 205 national tennis associations.It was established as the International Lawn Tennis Federation by 12 national associations meeting at a conference in Paris, France on 1 March 1913...
- Tamara Čurović at the International Tennis FederationInternational Tennis FederationThe International Tennis Federation is the governing body of world tennis, made up of 205 national tennis associations.It was established as the International Lawn Tennis Federation by 12 national associations meeting at a conference in Paris, France on 1 March 1913...
Junior Profile - Tamara Čurović at the Fed CupFed CupFed Cup is the premier team competition in women's tennis, launched in 1963 to celebrate the 50th Anniversary of the International Tennis Federation...