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Bojana Bobusic
	At the 2012 Australian Open Wildcard Playoff
Country (sports)	Australia
Residence	Perth, Western Australia
Born	2 October 1987 (age 37); Belgrade, SFR Yugoslavia
Height	1.70 m (5 ft 7 in)
Turned pro	2009
Retired	2014
Plays	Right-handed (two-handed backhand)
Prize money	$127,959
Singles
Career record	100–74
Career titles	1 ITF
Highest ranking	No. 222 (17 September 2012)
Grand Slam singles results
Australian Open	1R (2012, 2013)
Doubles
Career record	64–63
Career titles	3 ITF
Highest ranking	No. 187 (14 January 2013)
Grand Slam doubles results
Australian Open	2R (2012)

Bojana Bobusic (Serbian Cyrillic: Бојана Бобушић, Bojana Bobušić; born 2 October 1987) is a former professional Australian tennis player. On 20 February 2012, she reached her highest WTA singles ranking of 222. In her career, she won one singles title and three doubles titles on the ITF Women's Circuit. She was coached by Rohan Fisher.^[1]

Career

2004

Bobusic made her senior debut at the Australian Open losing to American Jennifer Hopkins in the first round of qualifying. She played on the ITF Junior Circuit for the rest of the year, with her highlight coming at Wimbledon where she defeated former world No. 1, Caroline Wozniacki, 1–6, 6–2, 10–8.

2005

In 2005, Bobusic played at ITF events in New Zealand, Australia, Indonesia and Thailand before she attended the University of California, Berkeley, majoring in Sociology.^[2] She graduated in 2009.

2009

Bobusic returned to Australia and competed in ITF events, losing to Sacha Jones in her first four events. She reached the final in Darwin and lost in the semifinals in Port Pirie. She ended the year ranked 441.

2010

Starting the year at ITF events in Australia and Korea, Bobusic played ITF events in America in June and July, but only won one of the six matches she competed in. She returned to Australia and entered seven ITF events, only winning two main-draw matches, both in Alice Springs. She finished 2010 with a win–loss record of 10–17, and dropped to 596 in the WTA rankings.

2011

Started the year by qualifying for five consecutive $25k events in Australia, winning a main draw match in Mildura and reaching the quarterfinals in Bundaberg. Bobusic travelled to America again, and reached her second and third ITF finals at Landisville and Hilton Head Island. She then played in three events in Great Britain and lost in her fourth career ITF final at Chiswick to Donna Vekić, in three sets. She returned to Australia and had a successful end to the year, reaching two $25k semifinals, losing her fifth ITF final to Olivia Rogowska and winning her first ITF title in her sixth final at the $25k event in Mount Gambier against Korean Han Sung-hee. She received direct entry into Tennis Australia's annual Australian Open Wildcard Playoff, where she defeated Viktorija Rajicic and Sally Peers and was beaten by Storm Sanders in the round-robin stage. In her semifinal match, Bobusic lost to defending champion Rogowska. She finished 2011 ranked 294, the highest year-end ranking of her career.

2012

Bobusic benefited from her career-best season in 2011 by receiving qualifying wildcards into the Brisbane International and Hobart International. In her WTA Tour debut, Bobusic faced Russian Nina Bratchikova and lost 1–6, 6–7. Against Heather Watson in Hobart, her first ever top 100 opponent, Bobusic lost a close match 6–3, 3–6, 5–7. Her first main-draw appearance in a major ended at the Australian Open with a 1–6, 3–6 loss to 30th seed Angelique Kerber.

Following the Australian season, Bobusic didn't play for four months due to plantar fasciitis.^[3] She returned to the ITF Circuit in June 2012, achieving mixed results for the remainder of the year. Her final tournament in 2012 was the Australian Open Wildcard Playoff tournament, which she won, defeating three higher-ranked opponents including second seed Ashleigh Barty, fourth seed Arina Rodionova and third seed Monique Adamczak. The tournament win secured Bobusic a wildcard in the 2013 Australian Open.^[4]

2013

Her win in the Wildcard Playoff helped Bobusic to gain a wildcard into the qualifying draw at the Brisbane International. It was only the third time she had played in a WTA Tour tournament. She drew fellow wildcard recipient Arina Rodionova in the first round of qualifying and won in three sets. In the second round she defeated Karin Knapp of Italy in a match lasting over three hours. She then defeated sixth seeded Kristýna Plíšková in three sets to qualify for the main draw of a WTA tournament for the first time. She drew world No. 44, Alizé Cornet, in the first round and lost in three sets.

Bobusic's strong performance in Brisbane help her to gain a wildcard to the main draw of the Hobart International where she lost a tight match to qualifier Lauren Davis, in the first round in three sets. In Hobart, she reached her first WTA doubles semifinal, partnering Ashleigh Barty.

Bobusic received a difficult challenge at the Australian Open, drawing fourth seed Agnieszka Radwańska. Bobusic played well above her ranking and served for the first set, before losing in straight sets.

Retirement

She announced retirement because of chronic back and foot injuries. Her last match was at the Hopman Cup (3 January 2014) where she competed together with Oliver Anderson, they were replacing players from the United States team – Sloane Stephens and John Isner. She has moved on to tennis and physical education teaching at Applecross Senior High School.

ITF Circuit finals

Legend
$50,000 tournaments
$25,000 tournaments
$10,000 tournaments

Singles: 6 (1–5)

Result	No.	Date	Tournament	Tier	Surface	Opponent	Score
Loss	1.	21 September 2009	Darwin, Australia	25,000	Hard	Sacha Jones	4–6, 1–6
Loss	2.	17 May 2011	Landisville, United States	10,000	Hard	Robin Anderson	2–6, 3–6
Loss	3.	31 May 2011	Hilton Head, United States	10,000	Hard	Alexandra Mueller	2–6, 0–6
Loss	4.	27 July 2011	Chiswick, United Kingdom	10,000	Hard	Donna Vekić	6–3, 3–6, 3–6
Loss	5.	25 October 2011	Port Pirie, Australia	25,000	Hard	Olivia Rogowska	3–6, 2–6
Win	6.	1 November 2011	Mount Gambier, Australia	25,000	Hard	Han Sung-hee	6–3, 6–2

Doubles: 8 (3–5)

Result	No.	Date	Tournament	Tier	Surface	Partner	Opponents	Score
Loss	1.	16 October 2009	Port Pirie, Australia	25,000	Hard	Alenka Hubacek	Erika Sema Yurika Sema	1–6, 7–5, [6–10]
Win	2.	25 July 2010	Lexington, United States	50,000	Hard	Christina Fusano	Jacqueline Cako Story Tweedie-Yates	6–4, 6–2
Win	3.	5 October 2010	Port Pirie, Australia	25,000	Hard	Alenka Hubacek	Melanie South Remi Tezuka	6–3, 6–3
Win	4.	23 May 2011	Sumter, United States	10,000	Hard	Nicola Slater	Ebony Panoho Storm Sanders	4–6, 7–5, [10–6]
Loss	5.	24 October 2011	Port Pirie, Australia	25,000	Hard	Monique Adamczak	Isabella Holland Sally Peers	w/o
Loss	6.	14 November 2011	Traralgon, Australia	25,000	Hard	Monique Adamczak	Stephanie Bengson Tyra Calderwood	7–6, 1–6, [8–10]
Loss	7.	28 January 2013	Burnie, Australia	25,000	Hard	Jessica Moore	Shuko Aoyama Erika Sema	w/o
Loss	8.	18 February 2013	Mildura, Australia	25,000	Grass	Emily Webley-Smith	Ksenia Lykina Yurika Sema	4–6, 2–6

Grand Slam performance timelines

Key
W	F	SF	QF	#R	RR	Q#	DNQ	A	NH

(W) winner; (F) finalist; (SF) semifinalist; (QF) quarterfinalist; (#R) rounds 4, 3, 2, 1; (RR) round-robin stage; (Q#) qualification round; (DNQ) did not qualify; (A) absent; (NH) not held; (SR) strike rate (events won / competed); (W–L) win–loss record.