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• Serbian table tennis player and actress Biba Golic received the honor of being named ESPN's "Sexiest Women in Sports."

• Fast Facts

  1. Birth date: November 9, 1977RightFielders: Biba Golic Is A Ping Pong Beauty (August 31, 2008)
  2. Birthplace: Senta, Serbia
  3. Full name: Biljana Golic
  4. Measurements: 32-28-34RightFielders: Biba Golic Is A Ping Pong Beauty (August 31, 2008)
  5. Member of the German table tennis Bundes League
  6. Tournament wins: Balkan Mixed Doubles, Yugoslavian Singles, twice, and Mediterranean Doubles
  7. Referred to as the "Anna Kournikova of table tennis"
  8. Attended Wesleyan University in Texas on a scholarship
  9. Named the Most Valuable Player for her Wesleyan University's table tennis team
  10. Signed by Killerspin, a table tennis equipment company

• The Early Years

  Golic was trained by her father, who was a table tennis coach. She started learning the game at the age of ten, and by the age of twelve she became a member of the Serbian National Cadet Team, and was sponsored by Yugoslavia, who paid her housing and travel expenses. Five years later, her career came to a halt when the wars in Yugoslavia made her ineligible to play internationally. Two years later, Texas Wesleyan University offered her a scholarship and a place on their table tennis team, so she moved to the United States to pursue an education and to further her career.

• U.S. Career Highlights

  • Ohio Open Champion
  • Portland Open Champion
  • California Open Champion
  • Placed second as a US National Collegiate
  • US National Collegiate Champion

• Film Career

  Golic played herself, in a table tennis tournament, as well as an extra in the comedy film Balls of Fury with Christopher Walken and George Lopez. She plays an uncredited role in the film Ping Pong Playa and is a ping pong player in the first episode, "Guess Who's Coming to Criticize Dinner", of the Bravo reality show Welcome to the Parker.

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