2017-18 Women's Tennis Roster
Katarina Jokic
- Height:
- 5-7
- Class:
- Freshman
- High School:
- TK Mladost
- Hometown:
- Novi Grad, Bosnia
CAREER BESTS
• ITA Singles Ranking: No. 1 (2019-20-21)
• ITA Doubles Ranking: No. 3 with Ariana Arseneault (2021)
• Single-Season Singles Wins: 31 (2017-18)
• Single-Season Dual Singles Wins: 17 (2021)
• Single-Season Doubles Wins: 30 (2017-18)
• Single-Season Dual Doubles Wins: 16 (2018)
• Career Singles Record: 95-19
• Career Dual Singles Record: 46-10
• Career Doubles Record: 77-33
• Career Doubles Dual Record: 49-17
SENIOR SEASON (2020-21)
Named a Honda Award Finalist...Earned All-America honors in singles and doubles...Final ITA national singles ranking of No. 5 after going 27-2 and ranked No. 4 in doubles with Ariana Arseneault as they went 15-7...Named the ITA Southeast Region Senior Player of the Year, Southeastern Conference Player of the Year and First Team All-SEC...Earned SEC Spring Academic Honor Roll distinction...Clinched team-high seven matches for the Bulldogs...Earned a No. 4 overall seed in the NCAA Singles Tournament and advanced to the second round, and a 5-8 seed in the NCAA Doubles Tournament with partner Ariana Arseneault (lost in first round)...Named SEC Player of the Year, joining Lauren Herring as only the second Bulldog to be SEC Freshman of the Year and Player of the Year in their career... Helped Bulldogs win the SEC Regular Season and Tournament titles and advance to the quarterfinals of the NCAA Championships, posting a final record of 23-2 and final ITA national ranking of No. 4...Ranked as the No. 1 ITA singles player in the country for two weeks...Named SEC Player of the Week four times this season (Feb. 3, Feb. 10, Feb. 17, March 17). First women’s tennis athlete to win the award three-straight weeks and four times in one season...Toppled the No. 1 ranked duo in the country in the quarterfinals of the SEC Tournament, defeated Akvile Parazinskaite and Fiona Arese of Kentucky with partner Arseneault...Defeated the No. 3 Alexa Graham of North Carolina 7-6(5), 4-6, 6-3 for best win of the season...Finished the fall going 13-3 with seven singles wins and six doubles wins… Went undefeated in singles at the SEC Challenge and was crowned SEC Challenge singles champion
JUNIOR SEASON (2019-20)
EXO-Tennis Bringing Tennis Back Event Champion (Competition took place after the cancellation of the 2020 season)…Had a singles record of 5-2 and a doubles record of 7-1 with partner Ania Hertel before the cancellation of the 2020 season…Had a singles ranking high of No. 1…Had a doubles ranking high of 30 with partner Ania Hertel…Named to the SEC Spring Academic Honor Roll…was named an ITA Singles All-American…named Liz Murphy Athlete of the Year…Picked up her first top-25 win of the season defeating No. 21 Natasha Subhash of Virginia…Reached round of 32 in the WTA Oracle challenger Series, defeating American Professional Kayla Day…Finished 5-1 in collegiate events…Recipient of the Leighton Ballew Women’s Tennis Scholarship donated by friends and family of Leighton Ballew
SOPHOMORE SEASON (2018-19)
Named ITA NCAA Division I National Player of the Year; the second Georgia player ever to receive the honor…Honda Award Finalist for tennis…Finished as the No. 1-ranked singles player in the country; the second Georgia player ever to receive the honor…2018 Oracle/ITA National Fall Singles Champion…NCAA Singles Runner-Up …Earned ITA All-America honors in singles and doubles…Selected to the ITA Collegiate All-Star Team…Named NCAA All-Tournament Team No. 1 singles and No. 1 doubles with Lourdes Carle…Named ITA National Team Indoor All-Tournament Most Outstanding Player, No. 1 singles (4-0), and No. 3 doubles (2-0) with Meg Kowalski…Received First Team All-SEC honors…Went 26-6 in singles overall with a 21-5 mark against ranked opponents and an 11-4 record at No. 1 dual singles…In doubles, she was 20-10 with an 11-6 record at No. 1 doubles with Lourdes Carle…Led the 2019 Georgia team to its fourth-ever NCAA Championship appearance, the ITA National Team Indoor Championship, the SEC regular season crown, and a SEC Tournament runner-up finish, while collecting a program-record 28 team win…Named SEC Player of the Week the week of Feb. 25…Advanced to the NCAA singles…Advanced to the quarterfinals of the NCAA Doubles Championship with Lourdes Carle)…The duo of Jokic/Carle faced 13 ranked opponents in their final 14 matches, going 8-4 in that span…Became the fifth women’s tennis player in history to win a grand slam and the seventh singles title in program history…Ranked No. 1 in singles for nine of 12 polls in 2018-19…First tabbed as the No. 1 singles player in the country in the last fall ITA Rankings on November 14…Advanced to the singles quarterfinals with two ranked wins in the ITA All-American Championships which secured her passage to the ITA National Fall Championships…Contained a 10-1 singles fall record - all but one against ranked opponents…Received an ITA Preseason Singles Ranking of No. 8 and Doubles ranking of No. 34 with Lourdes Carle…Recipient of the Leighton Ballew Women’s Tennis Scholarship…Earned J. Reid Parker Director of Athletics Honor Roll for the summer of 2018 and spring of 2019
FRESHMAN SEASON (2017-18)
Named Southeastern Conference Freshman of the Year, SEC First Team, SEC All-Freshman Team…Received ITA Southeast Regional Rookie of the Year…Garnered ITA All-America Singles honors with a No. 17 final ITA Singles Rankings - the highest ranked freshman in the nation…Led the Bulldogs on the No. 1 singles court, concluding with a team-best 31-8 overall record and 12-4 mark in duals…Notched five match clinchers, none more important than the one that beat No. 10 South Carolina, 4-3, in the NCAA Sweet Sixteen to secure the Bulldogs’ trip to the Elite Eight…Compiled 13 ranked wins including seven within the top-25…Paired with Mariana Gould on the No. 2 doubles court, finishing with a No. 21 final ITA Doubles Rankings, and a team-best 29-9 record…Received an at-large bid into the NCAA Singles and Doubles Championships…Two time SEC Freshman of the Week (Jan. 31 & Feb. 14)…In doubles, Gould and Jokic went 8-5 against ranked tandems, including a 5-2 mark versus top-25 teams…Named to the ITA National Indoor All-Tournament Team - No. 2 doubles with Gould after going undefeated with a season-best win over No. 2 Ellyse Hamlin and Kaitylin McCarthy of Duke…Compiled a team-best 19-3 singles record during fall action… ITA Southeast Regional Singles Champion…The duo reached the doubles quarterfinals at the ITA National Fall Championships and the semifinals of the ITA Southeast Championships…Made J. Reid Parker Director of Athletics Honor Roll Dean’s List in the fall, earning a 3.5 GPA or higher while taking 14+ hours…Named to the J. Reid Parker Director of Athletics Honor Roll for the spring semester…Recipient of the McMullan Women’s Tennis Scholarship Endowment
JUNIORS/HIGH SCHOOL
Trained at TK Mladost in Banja Luka in the Republic of Srpska…A career high ITF Junior ranking of No. 36 along with No. 604 on the WTA singles rankings…Tallied a 30-13 career singles record in ITF Pro Circuit main draw matches…Posted a 15-3 record in ITF pro circuit events in 2016 including winning a pair of $10K tournaments in Prokuplje, Serbia and Sibenik, Croatia…Part of the nation’s top-ranked recruiting class according to the Tennis Recruiting Network
PERSONAL
Born: April 19, 1998…Daughter of Nikola and Gordono Jokic…Major: Risk Management
