Lana Popadić | |
Birth Date: | 24 April 1983 |
Careerprizemoney: | $50,689 |
Highestsinglesranking: | No. 182 (5 July 2004) |
Australianopenresult: | Q2 (2005) |
Frenchopenresult: | Q1 (2004) |
Usopenresult: | Q2 (2004) |
Doublestitles: | 1 ITF |
Highestdoublesranking: | No. 277 (29 September 2003) |
Lana Popadić (born 24 April 1983) is a former professional tennis player from Croatia.
Popadić is most noted for her performance at the 2004 Copa Colsanitas Seguros Bolivar, a WTA Tour tournament held in Bogota. Going into the event with a ranking of 235, Popadić won her way through qualifying, then had wins in two main-draw matches, over world No. 61 Arantxa Parra Santonja and Antonella Serra Zanetti of Italy. She was beaten in the quarterfinals by second seed María Sánchez Lorenzo in three sets.[1]
Most of her career was played on the ITF circuit and she won one title in 2001, the doubles of a $10,000 tournament in Athens, where she was also runner-up in the singles that year.[2] She never made a Grand Slam main draw but participated in the qualifying draws for the Australian, French and US Opens. In 2005, she retired from professional tennis.
She now works as a lawyer in Zagreb as owner at Odvjetnički ured Lana Popadić Katić.[3]
$25,000 tournaments | |
$10,000 tournaments |
Outcome | No. | Date | Tournament | Surface | Partner | Opponents | Score | |
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Winner | 1. | 1 July 2001 | Athens, Greece | Clay | Dina Milošević | Irini Alevizopoulou Irina Kornienko | 7–6(3), 6–3 | |
Runner-up | 1. | 23 September 2001 | Barcelona, Spain | Clay | María José Sánchez Alayeto | Anna Font Arantxa Parra Santonja | 1–6, 2–6 | |
Runner-up | 2. | 14 April 2003 | San Luis Potosí, Mexico | Clay | Jorgelina Cravero Vanina García Sokol | 1–6, 3–6 | ||
Runner-up | 3. | Périgueux, France | Clay | Natacha Randriantefy | María José Martínez Sánchez Anabel Medina Garrigues | 0–6, 3–6 |