5 unknown facts about giant killer Mirjana Lucic-Baroni

#4. She has won a Doubles title at the Australian Open

Lucic-Baroni won the Women’s Doubles title at the 1998 Australian Open partnering Martina Hingis

Mirjana Lucic-Baroni is actually a Grand Slam title. The only Grand Slam of her career came here at the Australian Open back in 1998. At that time, a 15-year old Lucic-Baroni was partnering a 17-year old Martina Hingis who was doing brilliantly in the singles tournament.The Swiss-Croat duo began their tournament by beating the Japanese pair of Miho Saeki and Yuka Yoshida before beating the Russian-Latvian pair of Anna Kournikova and Larisa Neiland and the Bulgarian-Ukrainian pair of Svetlana Krivencheva and Olena Tatarkova to reach the quarter-finals where they demolished the second seeded Dutch-Spanish pair of Manon Bollegraf and Arantxa Sanchez Vicario. They defeated eight seeds Lisa Raymond and Rennae Stubs before beating the top seeds Lindsay Davenport and Arantxa Sanchez Vicario in the final in three sets to win the title.