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Tamara Čurović

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Country (sports)
  
Prize money
  
US$14,562

Career titles
  
0 WTA, 1 ITF

Role
  
Tennis player

Turned pro
  
2008

Residence
  
Belgrade, Serbia

Career record
  
59–32 (69.49%)

Name
  
Tamara Curovic

Height
  
1.79 m

Parents
  
Svetlana Prudnikova

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Born
  
31 October 1994 (age 29) Belgrade, Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (now Serbia) (
1994-10-31
)

Plays
  
Right–handed (two–handed backhand)

Tamara Čurović (Serbian Cyrillic: Тамара Чуровић; born 31 October 1994) is a Serbian tennis player. She has won two ITF singles titles and 13 ITF doubles titles. Čurović has been a member of the Serbia Fed Cup team since 2011, but she is yet to play her first Fed Cup match.

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Early and personal life

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Tamara Čurović was born to Slavko Čurović and Svetlana Prudnikova, former champion of Russia in chess. She has a brother, Vladislav. Čurović began playing tennis aged nine in local tennis clinic, and is currently member of TK Partizan. She cites Maria Sharapova, Ana Ivanovic and Jelena Janković as her idols.

Playing style

Čurović is said to be powerful and intelligent at court. She hits the ball long, not with much spin, and is described as a mixture of both girls' and boys' playing style.

Awards

  • 2008 – Tennis Association of Serbia Award for Best Female Player U–14
  • 2009 – Tennis Association of Serbia Award for Best Female Player U–16
  • References

    Tamara Čurović Wikipedia