Jarmila Groth Bio - Biography

Name Jarmila Groth
Height 5 ft 9 in
Naionality Slovak-Australian
Date of Birth 26-April-1987
Place of Birth Bratislava, Czechoslovakia
Famous for Tennis Player
Jarmila Groth also known as Jarmila Gajdosova is a Slovak-Australian tennis player. She turned professional in 2005. Gajdosova began competing on the ITF circuit just days after her fourteenth birthday in late April 2001, and that year entered three ITF tournaments, winning two matches and losing three. In 2002, she again entered only three tournaments, but this time won four matches and lost three.

Early in 2003, still aged fifteen, she stepped up her schedule, and that February she reached the semi-final of a $25,000 tournament at Redbridge, defeating Severine Beltrame, Sandra Kloesel, and Roberta Vinci before losing to Olga Barabanschikova. She won the next tournament she entered, her third of the year and only the ninth of her career. It was the $10,000 event at Rabat in March; and in the semi-final she defeated Ekaterina Bychkova. On the strength of this result, she found herself wild-carded into qualifying for her first WTA Tour event, a clay-court tournament at Budapest in April, and justified the wild-card by defeating all three of her opponents in the qualifying draw, including Melinda Czink, in straight sets, then Virginie Razzano of France in the second round of the main draw, before losing 6–4, 6–3 to Alicia Molik of Australia. On her sixteenth birthday she entered qualifying for a $50,000 ITF event on grass at Gifu, Japan. Again, she qualified, defeating Aiko Nakamura of Japan in the qualifying round; and she reached the second round of the main draw before losing to another top Japanese player, Akiko Morigami. The next week, she came through three straight matches in qualifying at her third successive event, another Japanese $50,000 grass-court tournament, at Fukuoka, defeating Sanda Mamic of Croatia in the qualifying round, before advancing to the quarter-final of the main draw after a second-round victory over Zheng Jie of China, only to lose to Saori Obata.

At the US Open in August, and reached the final round of qualifying with upset of Anabel Medina Garrigues of Spain, but ultimately lost to Aniko Kapros of Hungary. Her season ended with two more losses in the later stages of qualifying draws at WTA events to higher ranked players. The sixteen-year-old Slovak ended the year ranked World No. 197. Gajdosova started off 2013 at the 2013 Brisbane International where she caused a stunning upset in the first round and defeated Roberta Vinci, World No. 16 in three sets, 4–6, 6–1, 6–3. This victory also snapped Gajdosova's nine match losing streak that started eight months ago in singles. Jarmila lost in the second round to Ukrainian lucky loser Lesia Tsurenko in three sets, 6–1, 1–6, 4–6. Gajdosova then headed to Hobart to compete at the 2013 Moorilla Hobart International where she was a wildcard. In the first round Gajdosova defeated Romina Oprandi 6–4, 7–5.

Gajdosova then won her second round match against Olga Govortsova 6–3, 6–1. This was her first back to back win in around 10 months. Gajdosova lost her quarterfinal match to eventual champion Elena Vesnina 3–6, 2–6. Gajdosova drew Yanina Wickmayer in the first round of the 2013 Australian Open, to the same opponent back in 2011; she lost the match, 1–6, 5–7. Gajdosova won the mixed doubles title at the Australian Open pairing with fellow Australian Matthew Ebden, her first grand slam title and her maiden mixed doubles title. Gajdosova and Ebden's title makes them the third all Australian pair to win the Australian Open mixed doubles title and the first since 2005 when Samantha Stosur and Scott Draper won that title.

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