Aleksandra Krunić (Александра Крунић; born 15 March 1993) is a Serbian professional tennis player.
She has won one singles title and six doubles titles on the WTA Tour along with one singles title on WTA 125 tournaments.
2006
In 2006, Krunić reached the semifinals of junior Kremlin Cup, losing to Dalia Zafirova.
The following year, she won junior events in Podgorica, Livorno and Maia.
2008
In 2008, Krunić reached the quarterfinals of European Junior Championships in Moscow and won the junior event in Budapest.
She also played at the junior event in Kramfors, however, withdrew from the final match against Croatian Silvia Njirić due to injury by a score of 6–3, 6–1 for Njirić.
As a member of TK Red Star, Krunić won the national club championships in 2008.
She was awarded with a wildcard for tennis event in Prokuplje, Serbia organized by the ITF.
On 6 July 2008, Krunić won the tournament and became the youngest title winner in 2008 by winning this event.
She beat one wildcard, third seed, and next three players were qualifiers.
In October 2008, she also played two ITF events in Dubrovnik, but lost both times in first round.
2009
Krunić was the runner–up of 2009 Australian Open in girls' doubles, along with Sandra Zaniewska.
In 2009, she played the second round of Australian Open in girls' singles and the final of girls' doubles event, partnering with Sandra Zaniewska.
The two lost to Christina McHale and Ajla Tomljanović in the super-tiebreaker.
She reached the second round of both girls' singles and doubles at the French Open, and lost in the first round of girls' singles at Wimbledon.
Krunić also partnered with Tamara Čurović at the girls' doubles, however they lost in the first round to Tímea Babos and Ajla Tomljanović.
In April 2009, she reached her highest junior ranking when she was ranked world No. 17.
Although she had decided not to play juniors anymore, Krunić took part in the European Championships organized by both ITF and Tennis Europe, along with Bojana Jovanovski and Doroteja Erić in the team of Serbia.
Krunić was invited by Serbia Fed Cup team coach Dejan Vraneš to join the team for the 2009 Fed Cup World Group play-offs versus Spain.
Jelena Janković and Ana Ivanovic secured Serbia 4–0 win.
Krunić debuted in a doubles match played on 25 April 2009, along with Ana Jovanović, and they were down 6–2, 1–0 against Llagostera Vives and Domínguez Lino, when the match was cancelled due to rain.
In 2009, Krunić won a total of three ITF titles, including first in doubles.
On 14 September 2009, she was ranked No. 795.
2010
She made her WTA Tour debut at 2010 Slovenia Open, playing doubles with world No. 2, Jelena Janković, and made her WTA singles debut at the 2011 Budapest Grand Prix.
In January 2010, Krunić won her fourth ITF tournament in Quanzhou, China defeating domestic player Zhou Yimiao in the final, after beating top seed and compatriot Bojana Jovanovski in semifinal.
In May, she won ITF singles title in Moscow and was the doubles runner–up.
Krunić made her WTA Tour debut at the Slovenia Open, playing doubles with world No. 2 and compatriot Janković.
The two reached semifinals beating the fourth seeds Eleni Daniilidou and Jasmin Wöhr in process, but then had to withdraw from their semifinal match due to an injury of Janković.
2011
In February 2011, Krunić again was invited to play for the Serbia Fed Cup team in the World Group II rubber against Canada.
2014
In 2014 US Open, in her second main-draw appearance at a Grand Slam tournament, Krunić won her first main-draw match and then reached the fourth round, beating 27th seed Madison Keys and third seed Petra Kvitová in the process.
Krunić has wins over prime or close to their prime Garbiñe Muguruza, Petra Kvitová, Jeļena Ostapenko, Elina Svitolina, Johanna Konta, CoCo Vandeweghe, Sara Errani, Roberta Vinci, Madison Keys, Ekaterina Makarova and Caroline Garcia.
She has wins over former top-10 players, Timea Bacsinszky, while she was coming back from injury, as well as over Kimiko Date and Roberta Vinci in their last career matches, which were played in front of their home crowds in Tokyo and Rome, respectively.
She also has wins in the qualifying rounds over former top-5 players Francesca Schiavone and Daniela Hantuchová.
Krunić was born to Bratislav and Ivana Krunić in Moscow and has a sister named Anastasia.
She resides in Moscow, Bratislava and Belgrade, and speaks - beside Serbian - Slovak, Russian and English fluently.
Krunić picked up a tennis racquet aged seven.
She began training tennis at the Spartak Moscow club, which spawned numerous tennis stars such as Anna Kournikova, Elena Dementieva, Marat Safin, Anastasia Myskina, Igor Andreev and others.
Since then Krunić has been coached by Edouard Safonov.
2018
In June 2018, she reached her best singles rankings of world No. 39.
2019
On 30 September 2019, she peaked at No. 35 in the doubles rankings.
