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Silvija Talaja

This page provides a comprehensive overview of Silvija Talaja’s Grand Slam career. It combines key background information and career-level statistics with a complete, filterable list of her tournament results, showing how far she progressed in each Grand Slam event across her career.

Insights

Career peak came in 2000-2004, not at debut

Talaja’s two best Grand Slam runs were both in this middle stretch: R32 at Wimbledon in 2000 and R32 at the French Open in 2004. Across those five seasons, she also added four R64 results, showing her strongest period was sustained rather than a single spike.

French Open was her most productive major

Her best result came twice at Roland Garros territory: R64 in 1997, R32 in 1999, R128 in 2000 and 2001, R128 in 2002, R64 in 2003, and R32 in 2004. That gives her three of her four deepest runs at the French Open, more than any other Slam.

2002 was a complete Grand Slam shutout

She played all four majors in 2002, but every result was R128: Australian Open, French Open, Wimbledon, and US Open. It is the only season in the data where she failed to reach the second round at any Slam.

Her best Wimbledon and US Open results were limited but notable

Wimbledon produced her top finish only once, the R32 in 2000, while the US Open peaked at R64 in 2001 and 2003. In both events, she otherwise exited in the first round or did not improve beyond those marks.

Grand Slam activity was concentrated in a nine-year span

Her listed Grand Slam career runs from 1997 to 2005, with 28 tournaments and 40 matches overall. The results table shows appearances in every season from 1997 through 2005 except that the data are sparse only in 1998, when she appears at Wimbledon alone.

Basics

Born 14 January 1978
GenderFemale
NationCroatia
EraOpen Era
Grand Slam careerCareer1997-2005

Grand Slam statistics

Tournaments28
Best results
3 x R32
6 x R64
19 x R128
Total matches40
W/L-record12-28 (30% won)

Compared with other women

In the Open Era#720 of 1961
With overlapping career#197 of 428
From Croatia#9 of 21
Born in 1978#6 of 31

Grand Slam results

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Silvija Talaja – Grand Slam results (year, tournament, result, age)
YearTournamentResultAge
2005French OpenR12827
2005Australian OpenR12827
2004US OpenR12826
2004WimbledonR6426
2004French OpenR3226
2004Australian OpenR12826
2003US OpenR6425
2003WimbledonR12825
2003French OpenR6425
2003Australian OpenR12824?
2002US OpenR12824
2002WimbledonR12824
2002French OpenR12824
2002Australian OpenR12824
2001US OpenR6423
2001French OpenR12823
2001Australian OpenR6423
2000US OpenR12822
2000WimbledonR3222
2000French OpenR12822
2000Australian OpenR12822
1999US OpenR12821
1999WimbledonR12821
1999French OpenR3221
1999Australian OpenR12821
1998WimbledonR12820
1997French OpenR6419
1997Australian OpenR12818?