Darija Jurak is a 24 y.o. Croatian tennis player, winner of 8 ITF singles titles and 27 ITF doubles titles, one of which she won this year. Her favorite surface is clay and current year win/loss singles record is 15-10. Her career high ranking is 188 for singles and 108 for doubles, while her current singles ranking is 413, which is the highest she's been in almost 18 months. She reached two QF's on 25k this year.
This week she's playing in Bad Saulgau 25k, where she qualified for MD (just like last year) and drew 2nd seed and world's number 208 Tereza Hladikova (CZE) as her first opponent. Since she's defending QF from last year, a loss here could push her down some 30 places in the rankings, but let's hope for the best. She applied for doubles also, not defending anything, she and her partner play against top seeds in the first round. She's playing in Germany next week as well, on another 25k where she lost in R1 last year after going through qualies, but is defending finals of doubles.
Good Lord I didn't even notice she was playing somewhere, and she not only won a tournament, but won a 100k+H so only a step below tour level. Huge congratulations! Just for comparison, about the same time last year she was a finalist on 10k, so she's in a significantly better form. This will not only bring her to top100, but even close to #90, so we should see her on the biggest tournaments in doubles draws soon.
Darija climbed to #93 in doubles this week and is playing Estoril WTA. She teamed up with Jugic-Salkic and in R1 they beat Coin/Pin in three! This will bring her another 5-6 places up at least, cause she's not defending anything this week or in the next few. In the quarters they'll face the 3rd seeds Barrois/Woehr.
keep going
they had better stats throughout the match...finally were able to pull away in the end. pin/coin had 5-2 in the second (and i think darija and mervana had more points won at that stage--stupid doubles scoring)
Darija is playing RG doubles with Martic. They have a winnable R1 match, against Feuerstein/Foretz, a WC team.
A win is worth a whopping 160 points. Darija reached a new career-high ranking in doubles this week: 88, up from 89. If she and Martic win their first match, Darija would probably move into the top 80
76 in the third is much closer than I expected. At least they won.
This is a very important win for Darija. She'll move up by almost ten spots to the high 70s, a new career-high. She started the year in the 110s, so she has made excellent progress.
At this point she'll be able to enter just about any tournament and have the choice of some very good doubles partners.
It'll be interesting to see how far Darija can go.
It's a shame she lost, but I think it's more than obvious her focus is now much more on doubles, which, looking at the rankings and results, really makes sense the most.
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