The 21st century
Slovenia · born Slovenj Gradec, 1981 · Wimbledon girls' champion 1998 and doubles champion 2011 with Květa Peschke
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Matches played at Wimbledon in singles, doubles and mixed, 1998 to 2019
1998
Wimbledon girls' singles champion, beating Kim Clijsters in the final
3
Eastbourne doubles titles, each with a different partner
10
Weeks at world No. 1 in doubles after the 2011 Wimbledon title
39
WTA doubles titles
Born in Slovenj Gradec in 1981, Srebotnik won the Wimbledon girls' singles in 1998. As a teenager she won the first tour-level event she entered in each category: doubles at Makarska in 1998 with Tina Križan, singles at Estoril in 1999 and the mixed doubles at the 1999 French Open with Piet Norval. Guinness World Records recognised the sequence in 2021 as a first in professional tennis.
In singles she won four WTA titles and reached No. 20, with wins over players including Serena Williams, Kim Clijsters and Amélie Mauresmo. From 2010 she concentrated on doubles. She won 39 doubles titles and five major mixed titles, three at Roland Garros and one each at the Australian and US Opens. With Květa Peschke she reached the 2010 French Open final and won Wimbledon in 2011, which took them to No. 1 for ten weeks.
She played for Slovenia at the 2000, 2004 and 2012 Olympics. She retired after a 23-year professional career and was given a farewell at the Portorož tournament in September 2022, at 41.
| Junior Wimbledon | Won the 1998 girls' singles as seventh seed, beating the unseeded Kim Clijsters 7-6 (7-3), 6-3. A year earlier she lost the girls' doubles final with Maja Matevžič |
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| Wimbledon 2011 final | Seeded fourth with Peschke, beat the unseeded Sabine Lisicki and Samantha Stosur 6-3, 6-1 in 71 minutes |
| Wimbledon finals lost | 2007 doubles with Ai Sugiyama, beaten by Cara Black and Liezel Huber 3-6, 6-3, 6-2; 2008 mixed with Mike Bryan, beaten by Bob Bryan and Samantha Stosur 7-5, 6-4 |
| Long matches | 1999 doubles quarter-final with Liezel Horn: beat Kristie Boogert and Anne-Gaëlle Sidot 6-4, 1-6, 17-15. 2008 singles first round: lost to Julia Görges 4-6, 7-6 (8-6), 16-14 after 3 hours 41 minutes |
| Eastbourne | 2011 with Peschke, beat Liezel Huber and Lisa Raymond 6-3, 6-0; 2013 with Nadia Petrova, beat Monica Niculescu and Klára Zakopalová 6-3, 6-3; 2015 with Caroline Garcia, beat Chan Yung-jan and Zheng Jie 7-6 (7-5), 6-2 |
| Wimbledon | ||
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | Women's doubles | with Květa Peschke |
| Eastbourne | ||
| 2011 | Women's doubles | with Květa Peschke |
| 2013 | Women's doubles | with Nadia Petrova |
| 2015 | Women's doubles | with Caroline Garcia |
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"I could never set a goal like that in my wildest dreams."
The person behind the player.
Estoril and Paris, 1999
Srebotnik won her first doubles, singles and mixed events in her first attempts, the last of them at 18 years and 83 days. "Can you imagine, I completed the trifecta in 1999, and I didn't really know about it for 14 years," she said when Guinness recognised it.
Source: WTA, 2021Wimbledon 1998
The girl she beat in the 1998 junior final, Kim Clijsters, also went on to become world No. 1 in doubles, in August 2003.
Source: Wimbledon Compendium 2025 (AELTC); International Tennis Hall of FamePortorož, 2022
At her farewell in Slovenia she received video messages from Billie Jean King, Martina Navratilova, Monica Seles, Květa Peschke and Ai Sugiyama. She had played so long, she said, "not because I had to, but because I enjoyed every second of it."
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