1998 - Played first ITF Circuit event, qualifying for ITF/Bratislava-SVK 1999 - Finished first full season ranked No. 201; won first ITF Circuit titles at ITF/Jackson-USA (as a qualifier) and ITF/Fano and reached SF at ITF/Bratislava-SVK; made Tour debut at Bratislava (l. 1r to Appelmans); also played Tour qualifying at Birmingham 2000 - Improved 93 spots to No. 108; reached first Tour QF at Strasbourg (as LL) and Luxembourg (d. world No. 7 Tauziat in 2r for first Top 10 win); also qualified for Oklahoma City, reaching 2r; won first Tour doubles title at Bratislava (w/Habsudova); won ITF/Bronx-USA as a qualifier; received WC into Philadelphia (l. to Tauziat in 2r) 2001 - First Top 100 finish at No. 38; played all four Grand Slams for first time, reaching 2r at Roland Garros and Wimbledon; recorded second Top 10 win at Oklahoma City, d. world No. 10 Coetzer en route to first Tour SF (l. to No. 6 Capriati in 3s); afterwards (February 26) broke into Top 100 at No. 86; in Canadian Open 2r, l. to Capriati again in 3s after leading 75 41; advanced to second career SF at Birmingham; as a qualifier into Rome reached 3r (l. to Mauresmo in 3s); at Wimbledon, won first Grand Slam title, claiming mixed doubles crown (w/Friedl); reached three other QF at Basel, Leipzig (as a qualifier, d. world No. 11 Dokic, saving mp) and Zurich (as a qualifier, d. world No. 12 Shaughnessy, l. to Davenport in 3s in first Tier I QF); won second career doubles title at Luxembourg (w/Bovina) 2002 - Career-best season to date, winning first Tour singles title and reaching SF or better at six events (all Tier II or above); season highlighted by breakthrough title win at Indian Wells; ranked No. 26 and seeded No. 18, became lowest seed to win a Tier I event, breaking No. 14 seed Dokic’s record set at 2001 Rome; scored career-best wins over world No. 7 Henin and No. 4 Hingis en route; Hingis was appearing in her 63rd career Tour singles final, while it was Hantuchova’s first; became one of five players to win her debut singles title at a Tier I event (instituted in 1980), others being Bonder (1983 Tokyo [Queens Grand Prix]), Graf (1986 Family Circle Cup), Majoli (1995 Zurich) and Dokic (2001 Rome); afterwards (March 18), broke into Top 20 at No. 17, the first Slovak woman in Top 20 since Habsudova in September 1997; also runner-up at Filderstadt (l. Clijsters in 3s), breaking into the Top 10 afterwards (October 14) at No. 9; semifinalist at Eastbourne (d. 11-time champion Navratilova in 2r in 3s), Canadian Open, New Haven and Linz; in Australian Open 3r, held points for 5-4 third set lead on No. 2 seed V. Williams before falling; reached first two Grand Slam QF at Wimbledon (d. Dokic) and US Open (d. Henin); in doubles, winner of Amelia Island and New Haven, runner-up at Australian Open (all w/Sanchez-Vicario), mixed doubles champion at Australian Open (second Grand Slam title in two attempts in mixed doubles) and runner-up at Wimbledon (both w/Ullyett); instrumental in Slovakia’s first-ever Fed Cup title, winning a singles rubber and the deciding doubles to lead Slovakia over Switzerland 3-2 in 1r; won both singles rubbers vs. France, including win over Mauresmo in 3s to lead Slovakia into SF; d. Farina Elia in SF win over Italy and in final, d. Serna 62 61 and C. Martinez 67(8) 75 64 in three hours, 21 minutes; reached career-high doubles ranking of No. 5 on August 26; qualified for season-ending Championships in both singles and doubles (w/Sanchez-Vicario) for first time; seeded No. 7 in singles, l. 1r to Mag. Maleeva; withdrew from doubles due to Sanchez-Vicario’s right thigh strain sustained in Fed Cup SF 2003 - Became first Slovak woman to rank in singles Top 5 on January 27; rose to career-high No. 5 after third straight Grand Slam QF appearance at Australian Open (l. to V. Williams), but slumped to No. 19 by year’s end; did not beat a higher-ranked player and scored only two Top 20 wins all season; reached QF or better at first four and six of first eight events, but after QF finish at Amelia Island in April, reached only two more QF for remainder of year; best result of season was SF finish at Antwerp (l. to V. Williams); seven-time quarterfinalist (three times after 1r bye); best win of season was over world No. 15 Schnyder in Australian Open 4r; suffered narrow losses at Grand Slams - in Roland Garros 2r to Harkleroad (trailed 5-1 third set then recovered to serve for match at 6-5 before falling 97) and Wimbledon 2r to Asagoe (led 5-2 third set and held 3 mp before falling 12-10); in doubles, reached SF at Roland Garros and Eastbourne (both w/Rubin) and six other QF (with six different partners) 2004 - Fourth straight Top 40 finish, highlighted by runner-up result at Eastbourne; as world No.54, reached first final in 20 months and first on grass at Eastbourne, d. No.33 Frazier, No.35 Sprem, No.13 Sugiyama and No.4 Mauresmo (top seed) in SF en route (was second Top 5 win of career after No.4 Hingis at 2002 Indian Wells), l. to No.9 Kuznetsova (served for match at 6-5 in second set); afterwards on June 21, reentered Top 40 at No.38; reached QF at Tokyo [Pan Pacific] (d. Sharapova en route, l. to eventual champion Davenport) and New Haven (l. to Raymond); reached 3r at Miami, Wimbledon and US Open; began year as No.19, dropped to No.54 on June 7 (lowest since September 24, 2001) and rose to No.31 by season's end; reached Hopman Cup final for Slovakia (w/Kucera), l. 2-1 to US team Davenport/Blake; represented Slovakia at Olympics in singles (l. 2r) and doubles (w/Husarova, l. 1r); in mixed doubles, reached SF at Roland Garros (w/Woodbridge); upper respiratory infection caused withdrawal prior to 2r at Paris [Indoors] and retirement during 2r match vs. Golovin at Birmingham.