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Jarmila Gajdošová
Country (sports)	Slovakia (2005–2009), Australia (2009–present)
Residence	Melbourne, Australia
Born	26 April 1987 (age 37); Bratislava, Czechoslovakia; now Slovakia
Height	1.74 m (5 ft 9 in)
Turned pro	May 2005
Plays	Right-handed (two-handed backhand)
Prize money	$1,993,989
Official website	Official website
Singles
Career record	333–219
Career titles	2 WTA, 12 ITF
Highest ranking	No. 25 (16 May 2011)
Current ranking	No. 234
Grand Slam singles results
Australian Open	1R (2006-2013)
French Open	4R (2010)
Wimbledon	4R (2010)
US Open	3R (2006)
Doubles
Career record	135–117
Career titles	1 WTA, 5 ITF
Highest ranking	No. 31 (27 August 2012)
Current ranking	No. 234
Grand Slam doubles results
Australian Open	3R (2012)
French Open	QF (2012)
Wimbledon	3R (2006)
US Open	3R (2011)
Mixed doubles
Career titles	1
Grand Slam mixed doubles results
Australian Open	W (2013)
French Open	SF (2011)
Wimbledon	2R (2011)
US Open	QF (2011)
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Jarmila Gajdošová (born 26 April 1987), known as Jarmila Groth from 2009 to 2011, is a Slovak Australian tennis player. She achieved a career high singles ranking of World No. 25 on 16 May 2011. Highlights of Gajdošová's career thus far including winning two WTA singles titles, one WTA doubles title and the 2013 Australian Open mixed doubles title with Matthew Ebden.

Personal life

Gajdošová's father is an engineer, as was her mother who died in September 2012; her older brother Ján was a professional skiier. She enjoys biking. She married Australian tennis player Samuel Groth in February 2009. The couple was divorced in 2011; since then, Gajdošová has used her birth name again.^[1]

Junior career

Although she had already been playing in senior events for some years by the time, the highlights of her junior career came as she reached the semifinals at two junior Grand Slam tournaments. In the 2003 Wimbledon junior competition she lost in semifinal to the eventual winner Kirsten Flipkens. In the Australian Open junior competition, 2004, she reached semifinal in both singles and doubles (with Shahar Pe'er). Both times she lost to Nicole Vaidišová. Another success came in winning doubles at the Italian Open junior tournament in 2003 with Andrea Hlaváčková.

Professional career

2001–2003

Gajdošová began competing on the ITF circuit just days after her fourteenth birthday in late April 2001, and that year entered three ITF tournaments, winning two matches and losing three. In 2002, she again entered only three tournaments, but this time won four matches and lost three.

Early in 2003, still aged fifteen, she stepped up her schedule, and that February she reached the semi-final of a $25,000 tournament at Redbridge, defeating Séverine Beltrame, Sandra Kloesel, and Roberta Vinci before losing to Olga Barabanschikova. She won the next tournament she entered, her third of the year and only the ninth of her career. It was the $10,000 event at Rabat in March; and in the semi-final she defeated Ekaterina Bychkova. On the strength of this result, she found herself wild-carded into qualifying for her first WTA Tour event, a clay-court tournament at Budapest in April, and justified the wild-card by defeating all three of her opponents in the qualifying draw, including Melinda Czink, in straight sets, then Virginie Razzano of France in the second round of the main draw, before losing 6–4, 6–3 to Alicia Molik of Australia.

On her sixteenth birthday she entered qualifying for a $50,000 ITF event on grass at Gifu, Japan. Again, she qualified, defeating Aiko Nakamura of Japan in the qualifying round; and she reached the second round of the main draw before losing to another top Japanese player, Akiko Morigami. The next week, she came through three straight matches in qualifying at her third successive event, another Japanese $50,000 grass-court tournament, at Fukuoka, defeating Sanda Mamić of Croatia in the qualifying round, before advancing to the quarter-final of the main draw after a second-round victory over Zheng Jie of China, only to lose to Saori Obata.

At the US Open in August, and reached the final round of qualifying with upset of Anabel Medina Garrigues of Spain, but ultimately lost to Anikó Kapros of Hungary. Her season ended with two more losses in the later stages of qualifying draws at WTA events to higher ranked players. The sixteen-year-old Slovak ended the year ranked World No. 197.

2004–2005

In 2004, Gajdošová suffered six successive losses between August and October. Earlier in the season she scored wins over Lilia Osterloh and Tzipora Obziler in qualifying for Memphis, Akiko Morigami and Tiffany Dabek at Fukuoka, Zuzana Ondrášková in Wimbledon qualifying, and Elena Baltacha in a $50,000 ITF event at Lexington, while her performance in reaching the final of the $50,000 event at Fukuoka was her career-best in a tournament of its class. Her year-end ranking was World No. 217.

In February 2005, she qualified for the annual WTA Tour event at Hyderabad, and beat Li Ting of China in the first round of the main draw before losing to Anna-Lena Grönefeld of Germany. She did not play in March or April, but returned in May to win her first $25,000 ITF event and her second career tournament on the clay of Catania, Italy, beating Ivana Abramović of Croatia in the final. The following week, she reached the quarter-final of another $50,000 event at Saint-Gaudens, France, beating Argentine María Emilia Salerni and French player Pauline Parmentier to this end. She entered qualifying at the French Open, and defeated Shikha Uberoi but lost to Swede Sofia Arvidsson in the second leg.

Over May and June, the eighteen-year-old suffered two consecutive losses in $25,000 tournaments to Chinese player Yuan Meng. She was able to win her second $25,000 tournament of the year and third career title on the grass courts of Felixstowe in July, beating Katie O'Brien of Great Britain in the semi-final and Alla Kudryavtseva of Russia in the final. The following week, she reached the semi-final of the $50,000 event at Vittel, France, with wins over German Jana Kandarr and her countrywoman Sandra Kloesel.

For the second successive summer, she experienced several consecutive early defeats. But in late September she defeated Alona Bondarenko, Kateryna Bondarenko, and María Emilia Salerni of Argentina to qualify for the WTA event at Luxembourg, in the first round of which she defeated Slovenian Katarina Srebotnik in two close sets before losing to Russian Dinara Safina. She had improved her year-end ranking to World No. 147.

2006

The 18-year-old Gajdošová came through the qualifying draw to gain entry to her first Grand Slam main draw at the Australian Open. She then lost a close three set first-round match to Martina Müller of Germany. But the ranking points accrued were sufficient to lift her to World No. 117 on 6 February 2006.

Staying in Australia for the rest of the month, she retreated temporarily to the ITF circuit, winning two $25,000 tournaments in consecutive weeks, at Gosford and Sydney, the fourth and fifth ITF singles titles of her career. These two minor tournament victories resulted in her ranking rising to World No. 106.

In mid-March, she followed up these two tournament victories by entering another $25,000 event at Canberra, and again came through as the victor, defeating World No. 178 Hanna Nooni of Sweden in the semifinals and Australian Monique Adamczak in the final.

The next week, she extended her winning streak to seventeen matches in reaching the quarter-finals of a $25,000 event in Melbourne, but then lost to Australian World No. 260 Sophie Ferguson, 6–1, 6–4. She had succeeded in breaking through into the WTA Top 100 for the first time in her career.

In April, staying at the $25,000 tournament level that had recently brought her so much success, she reached another semi-final at Patras, Greece (losing in three sets to Estonian World No. 240 Margit Rüütel), but only reached the second-round at Bari, Italy, before retiring when trailing upcoming French player Alizé Cornet 6–0, 4–1.

In early May she decided to return to the WTA Tour, entering qualifying for the Tier I Qatar Telecom German Open in Berlin while ranked World No. 94. However, she lost in three sets in the second-round of the qualifying draw to Ukrainian World No. 147 Julia Vakulenko, 3–6, 7–6(5), 6–3. The next week, she lost in the first round of qualifying for the Tier I Internazionali BNL d'Italia in Rome to World No. 115 Victoria Azarenka of Belarus 6–3, 6–3.

At the end of the month, entering a Grand Slam as a direct entrant for the first time at the French Open, as World No. 100, she defeated lower-ranked wildcard Stéphanie Cohen-Aloro in Round One before losing in straight sets to World No. 9 Patty Schnyder in Round Two.

The following week, in early June, she entered a $75,000 ITF event at Prostějov in the Czech Republic and defeated two Czech players in succession, World No. 31 Lucie Šafářová and World No. 239 Renata Voráčová (3–6 6–2 7–6), before losing in the quarter-finals to in-form Italian Romina Oprandi in straight sets, 3–6 4–6.

Buoyed by her career-best ranking of World No. 86, she reached the second round of the Tier III tournament at Birmingham with a 6–3 6–4 win over Yuan Meng of China before losing to Japanese veteran Ai Sugiyama. She then came through three rounds of qualifying in straight sets at Eastbourne, a Tier II tournament, with wins over Stéphanie Foretz of France, Galina Voskoboeva of Russia and Samantha Stosur of Australia, but lost in the first round of the main draw to Russian former World No. 2 Anastasia Myskina. A week later, as a direct entrant at The Championships, Wimbledon, she lost to Australian Nicole Pratt in the first round.

At the $50,000 event in Vittel, France, she won the event, beating Frenchwoman Olivia Sanchez. Her ranking rose ten places to No. 86. However, in the Tier IV WTA tournament in Budapest the following week, she lost 6–7 2–6 in the first round to fellow Slovakian Martina Suchá.

As a direct entrant to the main draw of the US Open, she reached the third round with straight-sets victories over American hopeful Alexa Glatch and the Ukraine's Viktoriya Kutuzova before succumbing to Russian Dinara Safina 3–6 0–6. As a result, her ranking leapt to World No. 65.

Despite an uninspired finish to 2006, she finished the year ranked World No. 71.

2007

She began the new season, still in Australia, at the end of December 2006, by narrowly failing to qualify for Gold Coast. Then in qualifying for Hobart in January, she fell at the first hurdle to Czech Klára Zakopalová in straight sets. And as a direct entrant to the Australian Open, she lost in Round One to Venezuelan Milagros Sequera, also in straight sets.

In February, she managed to pull together a string of back-to-back victories in an ITF $75,000 tournament at Las Vegas, with wins over Kristina Barrois of Germany (in three sets), Ahsha Rolle of the United States (6–0 6–2) and Tatiana Poutchek of Belarus (6–4 6–3), before bowing out to Japan's Akiko Morigami in the semifinals.

In March, as a direct entrant to the Tier I event at Indian Wells, ranked World No. 90, she lost in the first round to Dane Caroline Wozniacki, 3–6 1–6. Then she came through qualifying for Miami with a straight-sets wins over Kristina Barrois and Luxembourg's Anne Kremer before losing a close two-set match in the first round of the main draw to Catalina Castaño of Colombia, 3–6 5–7. And in the first round of the main draw of the Tier II fixture at Amelia Island, her ranking having slipped back to World No. 99, she was defeated by American Alexa Glatch, 4–6 3–6.

In May, ranked World No. 95, she reached the quarter-finals of the Tier IV fixture at Prague with straight-sets victories over Anastasia Rodionova of Russia and Sandra Kloesel of Germany before losing to French player Marion Bartoli. At the end of the month, in the first round, she lost to Andrea Petkovic of Germany at the French Open.

In June, at The Championships, Wimbledon, she defeated American Meghann Shaughnessy 6–2 7–4 before losing to Jelena Janković of Serbia in Round Two, 1–6 1–6. She returned to action in mid-August in Canada, again ranked World No. 105, and attempted to qualify for the Tier I Canadian Open, but lost to Italian Flavia Pennetta. Her only other tournament that month was the US Open, where she again faced Jelena Janković, this time losing 2–6 6–7.

The Slovak would play only four more tournaments that season, recording her sole victory in the first round of the Tier III event at Kolkata, India against Youlia Fedossova of France in mid-September. Her ranking was World No. 142 by the end of the year.

2008

Gajdošová received a wild card into the main draw of the Mondial Australian Women's Hardcourts in Gold Coast, Australia where she lost in the first round to World No. 15 Dinara Safina 4–6, 6–1, 6–2. She then lost in the second round of the qualifying competition for the Medibank International in Sydney to World No. 100 Jill Craybas 7–5, 6–2. Gajdošová then received a wild card into the main draw of the Australian Open where she lost in the first round to World No. 7 Serena Williams 6–3, 6–3.

She then played two tournaments in the United States. She lost in the first round of the qualifying competition for the Tier I Pacific Life Open in Indian Wells, California to World No. 101 Alla Kudryavtseva 6–2, 6–0. She then lost in the first round of the ITF Circuit event in Redding, California to World No. 199 Margalita Chakhnashvili 4–0 retired.

She then played three ITF Circuit tournaments in South Korea. In Incheon, she lost in the first round to World No. 374 Jin-A Lee 6–4, 5–7, 6–2. The following week, Gajdošová won the tournament in Gimcheon, defeating World No. 295 Lu Jingjing in the final. She then lost in the second round of the tournament in Changwon to World No. 432 Zhang Ling 6–1, 6–4. As of 26 May 2008, her ranking had dropped to World No. 195.

2009

Gajdošová started the year at the Brisbane International losing in a tight second round to eventual champion Victoria Azarenka. In the Sydney International Gajdošová again lost in the second round to eventual champion Elena Dementieva. At the Australian Open Gajdošová lost a tight three-setter to Virginie Razzano. She then married Sam Groth taking his name from Feb onwards. At the 2009 Indian Wells tournament Groth played in the qualifying winning her first match and losing her final qualifying match, resulting in a slight rise in the rankings.

At Roland Garros, Groth defeated French wildcard Kinnie Laisné 6–4 6–3 and Mariana Duque Marino 6–2 7–6. She then lost to fifth seed Jelena Janković in the third round 1–6 1–6. At Wimbledon, in the first round, Gajdošová defeated Lucie Šafářová 6–3 3–6 6–3, and lost to second seed Serena Williams 2–6 1–6 in the second round. After solid performances at both Roland Garros and Wimbledon Groth received a career high singles ranking of No. 57.

She was then out of action with an ankle injury until returning to the tour in 2010 as a fully fledged Australian player available for Fed Cup Team selection after being granted Australian citizenship on 23 November 2009.

2010

Starting 2010 with the task to re-enter the top 100 she started the year at Brisbane and Sydney falling in 2nd round of Qualifying. Then lost another tough three set 1st round at Australia Open to Sofia Arvidsson 6–2 4–6 6–4. Groth remained in Australia to gain ranking points and was very successful winning the $25 000 Sydney ITF, Finalist at the $25 000 Burnie ITF and a Quarterfinalist at the Midura ITF. She also had success in doubles with a Semifinal and Final showings at the Burnie and Mildura ITF's. She received a wild card entry into the 2010 French Open and played Chan Yung-jan in the first round. Groth moved into the 2nd round winning 6–2 6–3. She then played Kimiko Date-Krumm from Japan. Krumm had knocked out Dinara Safina the round before. She beat Krumm 6–0 6–3. Groth then faced fellow Australian player Anastasia Rodionova. They played a long 3 setter but Groth prevailed 6–3 5–7 6–2. In the fourth round Groth lost to Kazakh Yaroslava Shvedova 6–4, 6–3. Her French Open rund was her best in Grand Slam tournaments. After the French Open, she was ranked No. 88. At the 2010 Wimbledon Championships, she progressed to the fourth round where she was beaten by Venus Williams 6–4 7–6.

On 23 August, she reached a new career high ranking of 56 and became the second highest ranked Australian behind No. 6 Samantha Stosur.

At the 2010 U.S. Open, she lost to Maria Sharapova 6–4, 3–6, 1–6 in the first round. In doubles partnering Klára Zakopalová she defeated Angelique Kerber and Līga Dekmeijere 6–1 4–6 6–2.

After the US Open, Groth participated in the 2010 Guangzhou International Women's Open as top seed. She made it to her first WTA tour final after defeating Edina Gallovits in the semifinals 6–0, 6–1 in 38 minutes. In the final Groth defeated Alla Kudryavtseva 6–1, 6–4 to win her maiden title. Groth's ranking rose to a career high of 41 as a result of her performance.

Her next tournament was the 2010 Hansol Korea Open where she faced top seed Nadia Petrova in the first round. She was defeated, 3–6, 2–6.

2011

Groth started off the year in the 2011 Brisbane International where she made it to the quarterfinals after beating her countrywoman and 1st seed Samantha Stosur in the previous round but lost 3–6, 4–6 to German Andrea Petkovic. It was Jarmila's first win against a top 10 player. She then competed at the 2011 Moorilla Hobart International where she defeated Sweden's Johanna Larsson in the first round 6–1, 6–3. In the second round, Groth faced qualifier Tamira Paszek and won 6–4, 7–6(5). She then defeated fourth seed Roberta Vinci in the quarter finals 6–1, 6–2. In the semi finals, Groth defeated fifth seed and her current doubles partner Klára Zakopalová 6–3, 6–2. Groth defeated American Bethanie Mattek-Sands in the final to gain her second WTA title. In doubles, Gajdošová and her partner Zakopalová won their first round match 6–3, 6–1. They defeated fourth seeds Natalie Grandin and Vladimíra Uhlířová in the quarter finals 6–4, 7–5. They lost to Kateryna Bondarenko and Līga Dekmeijere in the semifinals, 2–6, 4–6. In the 2011 Australian Open she faced 2009 US Open semi-finalist Yanina Wickmayer in the first round. Wickmayer eventually triumphed in a close 3 set match, with the score 6–3, 2–6, 6–4.

After the Australian Open, she was part of the Australian Fed Cup team for the first time. Despite Australia losing 1–3, she managed to grab a win against World No. 4 Francesca Schiavone 6–7(4), 6–3, 6–3. Groth then played at the Dubai Tennis Championships where she defeated Slovakian Dominika Cibulková in the first round 7–6(5), 6–2. However, she lost to 15th seed Alisa Kleybanova 4–6, 3–6. After Dubai, she took part in the Qatar Ladies Open where she had to qualify for the main draw. As top seed in qualifying, she defeated Wild Card Selima Sfar in the first round, fellow Australian Jelena Dokić in the second round and sixth seed Timea Bacsinszky to qualify in the main draw. There, she faced Dominika Cibulková in the first round, where she lost in three sets, 4–6, 6–4, 6–7(8).

Groth's next tournament was the 2011 BMW Malaysian Open where she received a wild card into the main draw and was seeded fourth coming into this tournament. She won her first match against qualifier Sun Shengnan, 7–6(2), 6–3, and followed that up with a win against Misaki Doi, 7–6(6), 6–3. She then defeated the sixth seed Ayumi Morita, 7–5, 3–6, 7–5, to advance to the semi-finals where she met her doubles partner and fifth seed Lucie Šafářová. She ended up losing to Šafářová, 2–6, 6–3, 3–6.

In Miami, Groth was seeded 28 heading into the tournament and had a first round bye. In round 2, she got her revenge against Yaroslava Shvedova in last year's French Open to win, 6–4, 3–1 r. Her next opponent was World No. 3 Vera Zvonareva in their first ever encounter, and who she lost to 6(4)–7, 2–6.

Groth next travelled to Melbourne to partake with Anastasia Rodionova in the 2011 Fed Cup World Group Play-offs. Although she won both of her singles matches against Olga Savchuk (6–1, 6–1) and Lesia Tsurenko (6–1, 6–3), Rodionova lost both of hers (1–6, 4–6 against Tsurenko and 6(3)–7, 6(12)–7 against Savchuk). As such, it came down to the doubles, where despite easily taking the first set 6–0, Groth and Rodionova ended up losing to Savchuk and Tsurenko, 6–0, 6(3)–7, 3–6. Australia, as a result, was relegated to the 2012 Fed Cup World Group II.

At the 2011 Estoril Open, Groth, who from that point changed her name to Jarmila Gajdošová, was seeded 2nd. She defeated Renata Voráčová, 6–4, 6–0, and compatriot Casey Dellacqua, 6–2, 6–4, to successfully defend her quarterfinal appearance. However, she advanced no further as she lost to Romanian Monica Niculescu, 7–5, 4–6, 2–6.

Gajdošová then travelled to Madrid where she defeated Maria Kirilenko in the first round, 7–5, 3–6, 7–6(4). She then upset tenth seed Agnieszka Radwańska, 3–6, 6–3, 6–3, before losing to Lucie Šafářová, 3–6, 3–6.

Gajdošová's next tournament was Rome, where she opened up by defeating wildcard Corinna Dentoni, 6–1, 6–2, and followed that up with a win against Bethanie Mattek-Sands, 6–2, 6–4. Her next opponent was World No. 6 and 4th seed Li Na, and she lost, 2–6, 1–6. In doubles, Groth partnered with Romanian Alexandra Dulgheru as an alternative. Their run ended in the semifinals against Chinese pair Peng Shuai and Zheng Jie where they led in the first set 6–3, but lost the second 4–6 and the match tie-break 5–10. However, their best victory was in the quarterfinals where they upset top seed and world no. 1 doubles players Gisela Dulko and Flavia Pennetta 7–6(6), 6–4.

Gajdošová beat Virginie Razzano and Spain's Anabel Medina Garrigues in the 2011 French Open, where she was seeded 24th, but lost 6–2 4–6 6–3 in the third round to Germany's Andrea Petkovic, the 15th seed.

At the 2011 Wimbledon Championships she defeated former top 20 player Alona Bondarenko 7–5, 6–3. As the last Australian standing in the women's singles draw, she then beat Andrea Hlaváčková to reach the third round, but lost against World No. 1 Caroline Wozniacki, 3–6, 2–6.

She then went on a 5 match losing streak. Losing in first rounds at the 2011 Gastein Ladies open, 2011 Mercury Insurance open in Carslbad, 2011 Rogers Cup in Toronto, the 2011 Western & Southern Open in Cincinnati where she led world number 11 Andrea Petkovic by winning the first set 7–5 and led the second set tiebreak 3–1. She lost her 5th straight match at the 2011 Texas Tennis Open where she again won the first set but lost 6–3, 4–6, 2–6 to Sorana Cîrstea. She broke her losing streak at the 2011 U.S. Open although hitting 57 unforced errors she did hit 29 winners and it was enough to defeat Iveta Benešová 7–6(5), 7–5 . In the second round she was defeated by Vania King 2–6, 0–6.

Jarmila last 4 tournaments of the year are in Asia. Her first tournament of the Asian swing was at the 2011 Guangzhou International Women's Open where she was the defending champion. She reached the quarterfinals by defeating Xinyun Han 6–2, 6–1 and Mandy Minella 4–6, 6–2, 6–3. In the quarterfinal however she lost to world number 72 Magdaléna Rybáriková 6–4, 6–3. Gajdosova then played in the 2011 Toray Pan Pacific Open where in the first round she played world number 55 Rebecca Marino and easily lost the first set before making a comeback to win a tough match 1–6, 6–2, 7–5. She then played world number 1 Caroline Wozniacki and looked out down 6–1, 5–3 and again made a comeback but this time was not able to win the match going down 1–6, 7–6(4), 3–6. The next week she played at the China Open where she defeated world number 29 Anabel Medina Garrigues 6–3, 6–0 but lost to world number 1 Caroline Wozniacki in the second round for the second straight week 6–2, 6–3. Her last tournament of the year was at the 2011 HP Open where she lost in the second round.

2012

Jarmila started her year at the Hopman Cup partnering Lleyton Hewitt. In the first tie against Spain, Jarmila put Australia up by beating Anabel Medina Garrigues, 6–3, 3–6, 6–3. They eventually lost the tie by losing the deciding mixed doubles, 6–3, 3–6, [9–11], despite leading 5–1 in the final set tiebreak. In the second tie against France, Gajdosova left the court in tears after losing to Marion Bartoli, 6–0 6–0. In the final tie against China, Jarmila lost to Na Li and won the mixed doubles. She then played at the 2012 Moorilla Hobart International, where she was the defending champion. In the first round, she defeated Ayumi Morita, 6–3, 6–4, and then defeated Anastasia Rodionova in a very tough second-round match, 6–3, 1–6, 6–4. Although she started well against qualifier and eventual champion Mona Barthel, she eventually lost, 2–6, 6–3, 6–2.

Gajdosova then played in the 2012 Australian Open, where she faced Maria Kirilenko. She was trying to get past the first round for the first time in seven attempts, but lost the match, 6–4, 6–2. Jarmila left that disappointing result behind and headed to Fribourg, Switzerland to take on the Swiss in the Fed Cup. Gajdosova competed in the second singles rubber, but had a shock loss to Stefanie Vögele, 0–6, 7–6(8), 8–6. She then played in the fourth rubber and confirmed a win for Australia with a 6–3, 3–6, 8–6 win over Amra Sadikovic despite a heavy struggle in which she almost lost to a player not even ranked in the top 450.

She then competed in the 2012 Open GDF Suez, where she again lost a tight match, 6–1, 4–6, 6–4 to Monica Niculescu. She then lost in the first round of the 2012 Qatar Total Open to Sorana Cîrstea, 6–4, 6–1. She was the fourth seed at the 2012 Malaysian Open. She won her first round over Kathrin Wörle, again losing the first set but coming back to win, 1–6, 7–6(2), 7–5. She lost her second round match, 6–4, 6–0, to Eleni Daniilidou.

At the BNP Paribas Open, she defeated American wildcard Coco Vandeweghe, even though she had another slow start. In the second round, she got revenge for her tough first-round defeat at the 2011 Australian Open, defeating Yanina Wickmayer after another first-set loss, 2–6, 6–2, 6–4. She lost in the third round to American Jamie Hampton. Gajdosova was down 6–2, 5–2 and came back to win a second-set tiebreak, but lost the match 6–2, 6–7 (1), 6–2. Then at the 2012 Sony Ericsson Open, she was delt a tough first round match against four-time Grand Slam winner Kim Clijsters, who had not played since the Australian Open semifinal. Gajdosova started well, but Clijsters came storming back to win 4–6 6–1 6–0.

Her next tournament was the 2012 Family Circle Cup, where she played Stefanie Vögele in the first round and lost, 6–4 2–6 6–4. Jarmila then competed in the 2012 Fed Cup World Group Play-offs against Germany in Stuttgart, enjoying a return to good form where she beat top 20 player Julia Görges 6–4 6–4. Gajdošová finished the year as World No. 183.

2013

Gajdošová began her 2013 season at the Brisbane International as a wildcard. She came back from a set down to defeat world number 16 Roberta Vinci in the first round and thus ended her nine match losing streak from the previous season.^[2] She lost in the second round to Lesia Tsurenko despite winning the first set.^[3] After receiving a wildcard into the Hobart International, Gajdošová reached the quarterfinals for the third consecutive year after defeating Romina Oprandi and Olga Govortsova but lost to the eventual champion Elena Vesnina in straight sets.^[4] At the Australian Open, Gajdošová failed to progress beyond the first round of the event for the eighth consecutive year, losing to twentieth seed Yanina Wickmayer in straight sets. However, she won the mixed doubles title with compatriot Matthew Ebden and in doing so, won her first grand slam title and first mixed doubles title. This win made Gajdošová and Ebden the third all Australian pairing to win the Australian Open mixed doubles title and the first since 2005 when Samantha Stosur and Scott Draper won that title.^[5]

In April, Gajdošová was diagnosed with mononucleosis which left her out of the game for six months.^[6] She made her comeback at the 2013 Nanjing Ladies Open where she advanced to the semifinal before losing to Ayumi Morita.^[7] At the Wildcard Playoff for the 2014 Australian Open, Gajdošová opened with a straight sets win over Jelena Dokic. However she lost in the quarterfinals against Tammi Patterson.^[8]^[9] However she lost in the quarterfinals against Tammi Patterson. Gajdosova ended 2013 ranked 232 in the world.

2014

Gajdosova started her season in qualifying at the Brisbane International. She opened with a tough three sets win over Mirjana Lucic-Baroni and then a straight sets win over the seventh seed Teliana Pereira. Gajdosova lost in the final round of qualifying to Heather Watson. Gajdosova received a wildcard into the APIA International where she lost in the opening round against Lauren Davis.^[10] On January 8, Gajdošová was awarded a wild card into the 2014 Australian Open. ^[11]

Major finals

Grand Slam

Mixed Doubles: 1 (1 Title)

Outcome	Year	Championship	Surface	Partner	Opponents	Score
Winner	2013	Australian Open	Hard	Matthew Ebden	Lucie Hradecká František Čermák	6–3, 7–5

WTA career finals

Singles: 2 (2–0)

Winner – Legend
Grand Slam tournaments (0–0)
WTA Tour Championships (0–0)
Premier Mandatory & Premier 5 (0–0)
Premier (0–0)
International (2–0)

Titles by Surface
Hard (2–0)
Grass (0–0)
Clay (0–0)
Carpet (0–0)

Outcome	No.	Date	Championship	Surface	Opponent in the final	Score in the final
Winner	1.	19 September 2010	Guangzhou International Women's Open, Guangzhou, China	Hard	Alla Kudryavtseva	6–1, 6–4
Winner	2.	15 January 2011	Moorilla Hobart International, Hobart, Australia	Hard	Bethanie Mattek-Sands	6–4, 6–3

Doubles: 5 (1–4)

Winner – Legend
Grand Slam tournaments (0–0)
WTA Tour Championships (0–0)
Premier Mandatory & Premier 5 (0–0)
Premier (0–1)
International (1–3)

Titles by Surface
Hard (1–3)
Grass (0–0)
Clay (0–1)
Carpet (0–0)

Outcome	No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Partner	Opponent	Score
Winner	1.	26 April 2006	Nordea Nordic Light Open, Stockholm, Sweden	Hard	Eva Birnerová	Yan Zi Zheng Jie	0–6, 6–4, 6–2
Runner-up	1.	24 February 2007	Cellular South Cup, Memphis, United States	Hard	Akiko Morigami	Nicole Pratt Bryanne Stewart	5–7, 6–4, [5–10]
Runner-up	2.	17 July 2011	Gastein Ladies, Bad Gastein, Austria	Clay	Julia Görges	Eva Birnerová Lucie Hradecká	6–4, 2–6, [10–12]
Runner-up	3.	16 July 2012	Bank of the West Classic, Stanford, United States	Hard	Vania King	Marina Erakovic Heather Watson	5–7, 6–7^(7–9)
Runner-up	4.	22 September 2012	Guangzhou International Women's Open, Guangzhou, China	Hard	Monica Niculescu	Tamarine Tanasugarn Zhang Shuai	6–2, 2–6, [8–10]

ITF Circuit finals

Singles 16 (12–4)

$100,000 tournaments
$75,000 tournaments
$50,000 tournaments
$25,000 tournaments
$10,000 tournaments

Outcome	No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Opponent	Score
Winner	1.	30 February 2003	Rabat, Morocco	Clay	Astrid Waernes-Garcia	6–3 6–0
Runner-up	2.	9 May 2004	Fukuoka, Japan	Carpet	Ana Ivanovic	2–6 7–6^(7–4) 6–7^(4–7)
Winner	3.	7 May 2005	Catania, Italy	Clay	Ivana Abramović	6–3 7–5
Winner	4.	10 July 2005	Felixstowe, England	Grass	Alla Kudryavtseva	7–5 6–1
Winner	5.	19 February 2006	Sydney, Australia	Hard	Sophie Ferguson	6–4 3–6 7–6^(7–3)
Winner	6.	26 February 2006	Gosford, Australia	Hard	Chan Yung-jan	6–3 3–0 RET
Winner	7.	19 March 2006	Canberra, Australia	Clay	Monique Adamczak	7–6^(7–5) 6–2
Winner	8.	23 July 2006	Vittel, France	Clay	Olivia Sanchez	6–4 6–0
Winner	9.	4 May 2008	Gimcheon, South Korea	Hard	Lu Jing-jing	6–3 6–2
Runner-up	10.	14 September 2008	Rockhampton, Australia	Hard	Monique Adamczak	6–4 2–6 6–7^(4–7)
Winner	11.	21 September 2008	Kawana, Australia	Hard	Isabella Holland	7–5 6–4
Winner	12.	12 October 2008	Traralgon, Australia	Hard	Melanie South	6–3 3–6 6–1
Winner	13.	26 October 2008	Taipei	Carpet	Corinna Dentoni	4–6 6–4 6–1
Runner-up	14.	2 November 2008	Tokyo, Japan	Hard	Ayumi Morita	2–6 6–2 3–6
Runner-up	15.	7 February 2010	Burnie, Australia	Hard	Arina Rodionova	1–6 0–6
Winner	16.	7 March 2010	Sydney, Australia	Hard	Yurika Sema	6–3 6–3

Doubles 11 (5–6)

$100,000 tournaments
$75,000 tournaments
$50,000 tournaments
$25,000 tournaments
$10,000 tournaments

Outcome	No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Partner	Opponents	Score
Runner-up	1.	9 July 2005	Felixstowe, England	Grass	Alla Kudryavtseva	Leanne Baker Francesca Lubiani	1–6 6–4 2–3 ret.
Runner-up	2.	23 July 2005	Galatina, Italy	Clay	Tatiana Poutchek	Casey Dellacqua Lucia Gonzalez	4–6 3–6
Winner	3.	16 April 2006	Patras, Greece	Hard	Christina Horiatopoulos	Mervana Jugić-Salkić Yana Levchenko	6–1 6–4
Winner	4.	9 June 2006	Prostějov, Czech Republic	Clay	Akiko Morigami	Līga Dekmeijere Alicja Rosolska	6–3 7–6^(7–3)
Winner	5.	6 August 2006	Baden-Baden, Germany	Clay	Frederica Piedade	Libuše Průšová Barbora Záhlavová-Strýcová	7–5 4–6 7–6^(8–6)
Winner	6.	27 April 2008	Incheon, South Korea	Hard	Chan Chin-wei	Chang Kyung-mi Lee Jin-a	6–2 6–0
Winner	7.	4 May 2008	Gimcheon, South Korea	Hard	Chan Chin-wei	Cho Yoon-jeong Lee Jin-a	6–2 6–0
Runner-up	8.	12 September 2008	Rockhampton, Australia	Hard	Michaela Johansson	Remi Tezuka Zhou Yi-Miao	6–7^(2–7) 4–6
Runner-up	9.	10 October 2008	Traralgon, Australia	Hard	Jessica Moore	Natalie Grandin Robin Stephenson	4–6 2–6
Runner-up	10.	10 October 2008	Mildura, Australia	Grass	Jade Hopper	Casey Dellacqua Jessica Moore	2–6 6–7^(3–7)
Runner-up	11.	27 March 2010	Jersey	Hard	Melanie South	Maret Ani Anna Smith	5–7 4–6

Singles performance timeline

Only Main Draw results in WTA Tour are considered. This table is current through the 2013 Australian Open.

Tournament	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008	2009	2010	2011	2012	2013	W–L
	Slovakia						Australia
Grand Slam Tournaments
Australian Open		LQ	LQ	1R	1R	1R	1R	1R	1R	1R	1R	0–8
French Open		LQ	LQ	2R	1R	1R	3R	4R	3R	2R	A	9–7
Wimbledon		LQ		1R	2R	LQ	2R	4R	3R	1R	A	7–6
US Open	LQ	LQ	LQ	3R	1R	A	1R	1R	2R	1R	A	3–6
Win–Loss	0–0	0–0	0–0	3–4	1–4	0–2	3–4	6–4	5–4	1–4	0–1	19–27
Year-End Championship
WTA Tour Championships				A	A	A	A	A	A			0–0
Tournament of Champions				Not Held			A	A	A			0–0
Olympic Games
Summer Olympics				Not Held		A	Not Held					0–0
WTA Premier Mandatory Tournaments
Indian Wells	A	LQ	A	A	1R	LQ	LQ	A	2R	3R	A	2–3
Miami	A	A	A	A	1R	A	LQ	A	3R	1R	1R	1–3
Madrid	Not Held						A	A	3R	1R	A	2–2
Beijing	Not Tier I						A	A	2R	A	A	1–1
WTA Premier 5 Tournaments
Dubai	Not Tier I						A	A	2R	NP5		1–1
Doha	Not Tier I					A	Not P5			1R	A	0–1
Rome	A	A	A	LQ	A	A	A	A	3R	2R	A	2–2
Cincinnati	NH	Not Tier I					LQ	A	1R	A	A	0–1
Toronto / Montreal	A	A	A	A	LQ	A	A	2R	1R	A	A	1–2
Tokyo	A	A	A	A	A	A	A	LQ	2R	A	A	1–1
Overall Win–Loss	2–1	0–1	2–2	8–12	6–14	3–6	9–14	19–12	31–24	9–13	11-9	333-219
Win %	67%	0%	50%	30%	33%	33%	39%	61%	56%	41%	55%	60%
Year End Ranking	197	217	145	71	145	98	112	42	33	180	232

Doubles performance timeline