At the Wimbledon Championships, Vekić stunned 21st seed Roberta Vinci in the first round.
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In the main draw, she upset 28th seed Svetlana Kuznetsova in the second round.
She was defeated in the third round by eighth seed Petra Kvitová.
At the Monterrey Open, Vekić beat fifth seed Garbiñe Muguruza in the first round in two tie-breaking sets, but lost to Karolína Plíšková in the second round, in three sets.
Seeded seventh at the Malaysian Open, Vekić won her first career WTA tournament title by defeating top seed Dominika Cibulková in the final.
At the Madrid Open, Vekić was defeated in the final round of qualifying by Kristina Mladenovic.
At the French Open in Roland-Garros, she lost in the first round to Julia Glushko.
Vekić played one grass-court tournament before Wimbledon, at the Birmingham Classic where she was defeated in the first round by Belinda Bencic.
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In the second, she lost to 29th seed Elena Vesnina.
At the Monterrey Open, she defeated Julia Cohen in the first round.
In the second round, she lost to seventh seed Urszula Radwańska.
Vekić won the $50k tournament in Istanbul, defeating Elizaveta Kulichkova in the final.
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Donna Vekić (born 28 June 1996) is a Croatian professional tennis player and businesswoman.
2010
She lost in the second round to 2010 Wimbledon finalist Vera Zvonareva.
At the İstanbul Cup, Vekić was defeated in the first round by third seed Klára Koukalová.
At the Baku Cup, she lost in the second round to Kristina Mladenovic.
Vekić started US Open Series at the Rogers Cup where she was eliminated in the first round of qualifying by Tamira Paszek.
At the Cincinnati Open, she lost in the first round of qualifying to Monica Niculescu.
At the Connecticut Open, she was defeated in the first round of qualifying by Belinda Bencic.
In Flushing Meadows, she lost in the first round to CoCo Vandeweghe.
2012
In February 2012, she played three rubbers at the tournament, including helping her country to a 2–0 win over Bosnia and Herzegovina.
At the Tashkent Open, Vekić made it to her first final on the WTA Tour.
It was her first main-draw appearance there, and she was the youngest player in six years to make it to the final of such an event.
However, she was defeated by Irina-Camelia Begu in straight sets.
Vekić started her year off by entering the main draw of the Australian Open and defeated Andrea Hlaváčková in the first round.
In the second, she fell to the tenth seed and former world No. 1, Caroline Wozniacki, in straight sets.
In March, she was awarded a wildcard for the Indian Wells Open where she lost in the second round to 12th seed Dominika Cibulková.
At the Miami Open in Key Biscayne, Vekić came through qualifying with wins over Alla Kudryavtseva and Johanna Larsson.
2013
Vekic ended the 2013 season ranked No. 86, her first top-100 season.
2014
She has won four singles titles on WTA Tour – at the 2014 Malaysian Open, at the 2017 Nottingham Open, the 2021 Courmayeur Ladies Open, and the 2023 Monterrey Open.
She has also won five titles in singles and one doubles title on the ITF Circuit.
Vekić began 2014 season at the Shenzhen Open where she lost in the first round to third seed Klára Zakopalová.
At the Australian Open, she was defeated in the first round by qualifier Lucie Hradecká.
In Thailand at the Pattaya Open, she lost in the first round to top seed Sabine Lisicki.
At the Brasil Tennis Cup, Vekić was defeated in the first round by third seed and eventual champion, Klára Zakopalová.
2016
Vekić qualified (seeded 16th) for the main draw of the Miami Open by defeating Marta Sirotkina and Valeria Savinykh.
In the first round, she beat fellow qualifier Yulia Putintseva.
2019
In November 2019, she achieved a career-high singles ranking by the WTA of 19.
Her best performances at a major event was reaching the quarterfinals of both the 2019 US Open and the 2023 Australian Open in singles.
Born in Osijek, Vekić is a member of the Croatia Fed Cup team.
