
Lucic Baroni during the Australian Open 2007
She was undoubtedly the WTA Tour's biggest surprise of the 2017 season.
Promising player in the late 1990s, Lucic Baroni seemed almost out of fashion in an era marked by the domination of Kerber, Williams, Halep and Radwanska.
Flashback to the exceptional career of an extraordinary fighter who beat all the odds at the 2017 Australian Open.

In 1999, Mirjana Lučić-Baroni was one of the most promising players on the WTA circuit, as evidenced by her semi-final win at Wimbledon at just 19 years of age.
Powerful from the baseline and capable of rivalling some of the sport's greatest legends, the rising star of Croatian tennis looked set for a brilliant career.
Few years of success later, to the surprise of the tennis world, the gifted Lučić-Baroni decided to step away from the courts at the age of just 22, following serious personal issues that would become publicly known a few years later.
In 2007, Having been away for 5 long years, Mirjana decided to make her return to competition in a completely new era. Filled with determination, the player who had once been at the very top of the tennis world started from scratch to conquer precious points on secondary circuits in what appeared to be her second career.

Lučić-Baroni reaching the semi-final of a grand slam tournament for the second time in her career.
Back in the top 100 after having been through countless tournaments around the world, Lučić-Baroni secured her place in the first calendar grand slam of the 2017 season, the start of an incredible journey.
Inspired by a new lease of life, the Croatian tornado successively swept aside Radwanska, Sakkari and Plíšková to reach the semi-finals of a major tournament once again, almost 18 years after her Wimbledon adventure.
Having become the new Melbourne favourite, Lučić-Baroni even brought the Rod Laver crowd to tears as they witnessed the best comeback of the year…
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