Izvor: Telegraf.rs, 25.Jan.2017, 13:23 (ažurirano 02.Apr.2020.)
Croatian in victory tears: She survived the worst family violence, and now she is playing Serena Williams for the finals! (VIDEO)
Mirjana Lucic Baroni achieved the feat of her career after placing in semifinals of the Australian open being 34-year-old.
She won against the favored Czech Karolina Pliskova with 6:4, 3:6, 6:4 even though she made a great number of mistakes, she got the advantage with great ratio of winners (42:23), but big challenge is yet to come. She will play against Serena Williams in the semifinals, but, if she plays like she was in trance like when she played against the fifth player of >> Pročitaj celu vest na sajtu Telegraf.rs << the world, nothing is impossible.
The story about Mirjana is especially inspiring because she showed magnificent life force, she had a tough childhood and her father harassed her and her mother Andjelka, threatened to kill them, and they ran away to America. Goran Ivanisevic helped them, but the father did not give up.
He threatened to destroy her career, and the most shocking memory is the detail from childhood when he hit her in the bathtub because of defeat in the semifinals of the junior tournament. Now she deserved to enjoy her 5 minutes of fame, she never got this far on some big tournament. That is why it is not surprising that she was lying on the ground in Melbourne for a long time, finally in tears of joy.
Mirjana #LucicBaroni is through to the SF #AusOpen pic.twitter.com/ywsCOXuXpz
— #AusOpen (@AustralianOpen) January 25, 2017
(Telegraf.co.uk)
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