Biba Golic, the Anna Kournikova of table tennis

Biba Golic is from Serbia, formerly Yugoslavia and started playing tennis at the age of 10. Her father was a table tennis coach and she learned the game from him. She was the Yugoslavian Women’s champion twice in singles and mixed doubles. Later, when she was 17, the internal wars broke out in Yugoslavia and she missed 2 years in her table tennis career. Yugoslavia got divided and her new country was known as Serbia. She relocated to Germany and then settled in the United States to complete her studies and to further her playing career. Biba also played for Serbia and her team finished fourth in the 2003 European Championships team event. Biba, her real name is Biljana, had been called ‘the Anna Kournikova of table tennis.’ Killerspin, the Chicago-based marketer of table tennis equipment, is her main sponsor.

The sponsor has shown full support to Biba’s relocation from Texas to Chicago. Biba is planning to study at Illinois Institute of Technology, Texas Wesleyan University. She will be getting scholarship for her education at Illinois.

If to list her accomplishments, it will be like:

• 2003 Pacific Rim Open in Portland OR, Women’s singles champion
• 2004 CA Open in San Francisco Women’s singles champion
• 2004 Buckeye Open in Ohio, Women’s singles champion
• 2004 National Collegiate champion in Women’s singles, doubles, Mixed dbls, & team
• Honored by the 2004 TX Wesleyan Most Valuable Table Tennis Player Award
• Overall ranked number 1 Female in TX, number 8 in USA, and number 1 for colleges

Though called “Anna of ping pong”, Biba differs from Anna when it comes to court. She has earned considerable fame and success while playing her favorite sport. To her credit are the honors of being number two ranked female collegiate player in the country. She is in the list of top 10 women playing in the United States, and is ranked at 209th position among women worldwide. All, despite the fact that she is originally a non-US player.