page_title: Petra Martić
section_title: 2006–2009: Early career
hierarchical_section_title: Petra Martić / Tennis career / 2006–2009: Early career
caption_attribution_description: English: Petra Martić at the French Open (2009) Français&#160;: Petra Martić au tournoi de Roland-Garros 2009
context_page_description: Petra Martić is a professional tennis player from Croatia. Having made her international debut in 2008, she reached a career high singles ranking of No. 14 in January 2020. Martic has won one singles title on the WTA Tour—the 2019 Istanbul Cup, and reached the quarterfinals of the 2019 French Open. She has also won one WTA 125K series singles and one doubles tournament, as well as four singles and five doubles titles on the ITF Circuit.
context_section_description: The best result in her junior career was the quarterfinals in 2006 US Open. In 2007, she played her first WTA Tour main draw at Miami (falling in first round as a wild card to Russian Alina Jidkova). In 2008, Martić won the ITF Zagreb Open, defeating Yvonne Meusburger, and then made it to the quarterfinals of the WTA event Slovenia Open, losing to Julia Görges.
  She qualified for the 2009 French Open and lost in the second round to 21-year-old Canadian world No. 24 Aleksandra Wozniak. She then made it to another Portorož Open quarterfinal, losing to defending champion and fifth seed Sara Errani. In September 2009, at the age of 18 years and 8 months, Martić entered top 100 for the first time (year-end ranking was No. 82).
caption: At the 2009 French Open
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