Kristýna Plíšková
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Kristýna Plíšková is a Czech
tennis player. She won the 2010 Wimbledon Championships
in junior singles, beating Sachie Ishizu
6–3, 4–6, 6–4, while her twin sister Karolína
is the 2010 Australian Open
junior singles champion.
, who is also a tennis player. She is currently coached by Jan Bedan.
junior final at Malta
ITF Junior Tournament in 2006, losing to Cristina Sánchez Quintanar 6(4)–7, 6–4, 6–2. Plíšková made her Grand Slam
debut at the 2010 Australian Open
and reached the semifinals. She defeated the first seed Tímea Babos
6–4, 4–6, 7–5 in the quarterfinals, but then lost to Laura Robson
6–3, 6–1. Robson was eventually beaten in the final 6–1, 7–6(5) by Plíšková's twin sister Karolína
. At the 2010 French Open
, Plíšková was defeated by Danka Kovinić 7–6(4), 6–2 in the first round. She then went on to win the 2010 AEGON International
Junior Tournament, beating Tara Moore
6–2, 6–4. Plíšková eventually won the 2010 Wimbledon Championships
, defeating Sachie Ishizu
6–3, 4–6, 6–4.
, losing to Kirsten Flipkens
6–0, 6–3 in the first round. She proceeded with competing at the ITF Circuit
.
for the 2007 ECM Prague Open and lost to the first seed Marion Bartoli
6–1, 6–2. She also competed at the doubles event with her sister Karolína
, but they lost to another Czech team, Lucie Hradecká
and Renata Voráčová
, 6–2, 6–0 in the first round.
in both singles and doubles. In singles, Plíšková fell to Roberta Vinci
6–2, 6–0.
, but was defeated by Anastasia Grymalska 2–6, 6–1, 6–2.
, she lost to the fifth seed Anabel Medina Garrigues
in the first round with 6–1, 6–3. In doubles, she and her sister lost to Klaudia Jans and Alicja Rosolska
in the opening round with 6(6)–7, 6–4, [12–10]. Than she played her first senior Grand Slam at US Open. She defeated Lauren Albanese
and Arantxa Rus
, but then she lost to Lourdes Domínguez Lino
3–6 6–3 0–6 in final qualifying round.
. She defeated all three of her opponents to qualify for her first senior grand slam.
Czech Republic
The Czech Republic is a landlocked country in Central Europe. The country is bordered by Poland to the northeast, Slovakia to the east, Austria to the south, and Germany to the west and northwest....
tennis player. She won the 2010 Wimbledon Championships
2010 Wimbledon Championships
The 2010 Wimbledon Championships took place on the outdoor grass courts at the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club in Wimbledon, London, United Kingdom. The tournament ran from Monday 21 June until Sunday 4 July 2010. It was the 124th staging of the Wimbledon Championships, and the third Grand...
in junior singles, beating Sachie Ishizu
Sachie Ishizu
Sachie Ishizu is a professional Japanese tennis player playing in the ITF Women's Circuit. On June 06, 2011, she reached her highest WTA singles ranking of 224. She is coached by her father, Yasuhiko Ishizu. Sachie was the runner-up in the girls' singles event of the 2010 Wimbledon Championships,...
6–3, 4–6, 6–4, while her twin sister Karolína
Karolína Plíšková
Karolína Plíšková is a professional Czech tennis player. Her highest WTA singles ranking is 168, which she reached on 24 May 2010. Her career high in doubles is 239, which she reached on 1 August 2011. Her twin sister Kristýna is also a tennis player...
is the 2010 Australian Open
2010 Australian Open
The 2010 Australian Open was a tennis tournament that took place in Melbourne Park in Melbourne, Australia, from 18 to 31 January. It was the 98th edition of the Australian Open, and the first Grand Slam event of the year....
junior singles champion.
Personal life
Plíšková was born to Radek and Martina Plíšková, and has a twin sister KarolínaKarolína Plíšková
Karolína Plíšková is a professional Czech tennis player. Her highest WTA singles ranking is 168, which she reached on 24 May 2010. Her career high in doubles is 239, which she reached on 1 August 2011. Her twin sister Kristýna is also a tennis player...
, who is also a tennis player. She is currently coached by Jan Bedan.
Junior career
Plíšková began competing professionally in 2005. She played her first ITFInternational Tennis Federation
The International Tennis Federation is the governing body of world tennis, made up of 205 national tennis associations.It was established as the International Lawn Tennis Federation by 12 national associations meeting at a conference in Paris, France on 1 March 1913...
junior final at Malta
Malta
Malta , officially known as the Republic of Malta , is a Southern European country consisting of an archipelago situated in the centre of the Mediterranean, south of Sicily, east of Tunisia and north of Libya, with Gibraltar to the west and Alexandria to the east.Malta covers just over in...
ITF Junior Tournament in 2006, losing to Cristina Sánchez Quintanar 6(4)–7, 6–4, 6–2. Plíšková made her Grand Slam
Grand Slam (tennis)
The four Major tennis tournaments, also called the Slams, are the most important tennis events of the year in terms of world tour ranking points, tradition, prize-money awarded, strength and size of player field, and public attention. They are the Australian Open, the French Open, Wimbledon, and...
debut at the 2010 Australian Open
2010 Australian Open
The 2010 Australian Open was a tennis tournament that took place in Melbourne Park in Melbourne, Australia, from 18 to 31 January. It was the 98th edition of the Australian Open, and the first Grand Slam event of the year....
and reached the semifinals. She defeated the first seed Tímea Babos
Tímea Babos
Tímea Babos is a professional Hungarian tennis player. Her highest WTA singles ranking is 176, which she reached on 11 July 2011. Her career high in doubles is 175, which she achieved on 18 July 2011. To date, Babos has won nine singles and nine doubles professional tennis titles.Babos is a member...
6–4, 4–6, 7–5 in the quarterfinals, but then lost to Laura Robson
Laura Robson
Laura Robson is a British tennis player. She debuted on the International Tennis Federation junior tour in 2007, and a year later won the Wimbledon Junior Girls' Championship at the age of 14. As a junior, she also twice reached the final of the Australian Open, in 2009 and 2010. She won her...
6–3, 6–1. Robson was eventually beaten in the final 6–1, 7–6(5) by Plíšková's twin sister Karolína
Karolína Plíšková
Karolína Plíšková is a professional Czech tennis player. Her highest WTA singles ranking is 168, which she reached on 24 May 2010. Her career high in doubles is 239, which she reached on 1 August 2011. Her twin sister Kristýna is also a tennis player...
. At the 2010 French Open
2010 French Open
The 2010 French Open was a tennis tournament played on outdoor clay courts. It was the 109th edition of the French Open, and the second Grand Slam event of the year...
, Plíšková was defeated by Danka Kovinić 7–6(4), 6–2 in the first round. She then went on to win the 2010 AEGON International
2010 AEGON International
The 2010 AEGON International was a combined men's and women's tennis tournament played on outdoor grass courts. It was the 35th edition of the event for the women and the 2nd edition for the men. It was classified as a WTA Premier tournament on the 2010 WTA Tour and as an ATP World Tour 250 series...
Junior Tournament, beating Tara Moore
Tara Moore
Tara Shanice Moore is an English professional tennis player. She is currently the British no. 8 and ranked 321 in the world . So far in her career she has won 3 ITF singles titles, 2 ITF doubles titles and reached a career-high singles ranking of world no...
6–2, 6–4. Plíšková eventually won the 2010 Wimbledon Championships
2010 Wimbledon Championships
The 2010 Wimbledon Championships took place on the outdoor grass courts at the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club in Wimbledon, London, United Kingdom. The tournament ran from Monday 21 June until Sunday 4 July 2010. It was the 124th staging of the Wimbledon Championships, and the third Grand...
, defeating Sachie Ishizu
Sachie Ishizu
Sachie Ishizu is a professional Japanese tennis player playing in the ITF Women's Circuit. On June 06, 2011, she reached her highest WTA singles ranking of 224. She is coached by her father, Yasuhiko Ishizu. Sachie was the runner-up in the girls' singles event of the 2010 Wimbledon Championships,...
6–3, 4–6, 6–4.
2006
Plíšková played her first WTA Tour qualifications at the 2006 ECM Prague OpenECM Prague Open
The Strabag Prague Open is a tennis tournament held in Prague, the capital of the Czech Republic . Held since 1992 but interrupted between 1999 and 2005, this WTA Tour event is a WTA International Tournaments and is played on outdoor clay courts...
, losing to Kirsten Flipkens
Kirsten Flipkens
Kirsten Flipkens is a professional female Belgian tennis player since 2003. Her career high rank for singles is No. 59 . She won 10 ITF Singles titles, and 1 ITF Doubles title....
6–0, 6–3 in the first round. She proceeded with competing at the ITF Circuit
International Tennis Federation
The International Tennis Federation is the governing body of world tennis, made up of 205 national tennis associations.It was established as the International Lawn Tennis Federation by 12 national associations meeting at a conference in Paris, France on 1 March 1913...
.
2007
In 2007, Plíšková was awarded with a wild cardWild card
Wild card may refer to:* Wild card , a playing card that substitutes for any other card in card games* Wild card , a tournament or playoff berth awarded to an individual or team that has not qualified through normal play...
for the 2007 ECM Prague Open and lost to the first seed Marion Bartoli
Marion Bartoli
Marion Bartoli is a French professional tennis player and the current French no. 1. She has won seven Women's Tennis Association singles titles and three doubles titles. She was also a runner-up at the 2007 Wimbledon Championships....
6–1, 6–2. She also competed at the doubles event with her sister Karolína
Karolína Plíšková
Karolína Plíšková is a professional Czech tennis player. Her highest WTA singles ranking is 168, which she reached on 24 May 2010. Her career high in doubles is 239, which she reached on 1 August 2011. Her twin sister Kristýna is also a tennis player...
, but they lost to another Czech team, Lucie Hradecká
Lucie Hradecká
Lucie Hradecká is a professional tennis player from the Czech Republic. In her career, Hradecká has won ten WTA doubles titles. This total includes the 2011 French Open, in which she won her first Grand Slam title.-Career:...
and Renata Voráčová
Renata Vorácová
Renata Voráčová is a professional female tennis player from the Czech Republic. Her career high singles ranking is No...
, 6–2, 6–0 in the first round.
2008
In 2008, Plíšková won a wild card for the 2008 ECM Prague Open2008 ECM Prague Open
The 2008 ECM Prague Open was a tennis tournament played on outdoor clay courts. It was the 13th edition of the ECM Prague Open, and was part of the Tier IV Series of the 2008 WTA Tour and of the 2008 ATP Challenger Tretorn Serie+. It took place at the I. Czech Lawn Tennis Club in Prague, Czech...
in both singles and doubles. In singles, Plíšková fell to Roberta Vinci
Roberta Vinci
Roberta Vinci is an Italian tennis player. As of 29 August 2011, Vinci is ranked World No. 20, on the WTA Tour Rankings. Vinci has won thirteen WTA Tour titles, six in singles and seven in doubles....
6–2, 6–0.
2009
In 2009, she reached her first ITF Circuit singles final in PesaroPesaro
Pesaro is a town and comune in the Italian region of the Marche, capital of the Pesaro e Urbino province, on the Adriatic. According to the 2007 census, its population was 92,206....
, but was defeated by Anastasia Grymalska 2–6, 6–1, 6–2.
2010
Plíšková won her first ITF title in May 2010 in Kurume, beating her sister 5–7, 6–2, 6–0 in the final. At the 2010 ECM Prague Open2010 ECM Prague Open
The 2010 ECM Prague Open was a tennis tournament played on outdoor clay courts. It was the 14th edition of the ECM Prague Open, and was part of the WTA International tournaments of the 2010 WTA Tour...
, she lost to the fifth seed Anabel Medina Garrigues
Anabel Medina Garrigues
Ana Isabel Medina Garrigues , better known as Anabel Medina, is a Spanish female tennis player. She reached a career high WTA Tour ranking of No. 16 on 4 May 2009, and has won 11 singles titles and 14 doubles titles, including the 2008 French Open and 2009 French Open with Virginia Ruano Pascual...
in the first round with 6–1, 6–3. In doubles, she and her sister lost to Klaudia Jans and Alicja Rosolska
Alicja Rosolska
Alicja Rosolska is a Polish professional tennis player. Rosolska made her bow as a professional at the 2002 J&S Cup.She is primarily a doubles player, partnering countrywoman Klaudia Jans. She and Jans have reached five finals on the WTA...
in the opening round with 6(6)–7, 6–4, [12–10]. Than she played her first senior Grand Slam at US Open. She defeated Lauren Albanese
Lauren Albanese
Lauren Albanese is an American tennis player. She began her professional career in 2006.-Singles Titles :-Doubles Titles :-External links:...
and Arantxa Rus
Arantxa Rus
Arantxa Rus is a Dutch female tennis player. In 2008 she won the Australian Open for juniors, defeating Jessica Moore from Australia. Because of this win she went from 35th to 2nd place on the junior tennis list, but soon she became new junior No.1 player...
, but then she lost to Lourdes Domínguez Lino
Lourdes Dominguez Lino
Lourdes Domínguez Lino is a Spanish professional female tennis player. On 11 September 2006 Domínguez Lino reached her career-high singles ranking: World No...
3–6 6–3 0–6 in final qualifying round.
2011
Plíšková was given a wild card into the qualifying rounds of the 2011 Wimbledon Championships2011 Wimbledon Championships
The 2011 Wimbledon Championships took place at the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club in Wimbledon, London, England, from 20 June to 3 July 2011. It was the 125th edition of the championships, and the third Grand Slam tournament of the year. It was played on grass courts and was part of the...
. She defeated all three of her opponents to qualify for her first senior grand slam.
ITF Circuit singles finals (1–1)
| $100,000 tournaments |
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| Outcome | No. | Date | Tournament | Surface | Opponent | Score |
| Runner–up | 1. | 16 August 2009 | Pesaro Pesaro Pesaro is a town and comune in the Italian region of the Marche, capital of the Pesaro e Urbino province, on the Adriatic. According to the 2007 census, its population was 92,206.... , Italy |
Clay |  Anastasia GrymalskaAnastasia Grymalska Anastasia Grymalska is a professional Italian tennis player of Ukrainian origin. On June 20, 2011, she reached her highest WTA singles ranking of 365 whilst her best doubles ranking was 335 on April 4, 2011.-ITF Circuit finals:... |
6–2, 1–6, 2–6 |
| Winner | 2. | 16 May 2010 | Kurume, Japan | Carpet |  Karolína PlíškováKarolína Plíšková Karolína Plíšková is a professional Czech tennis player. Her highest WTA singles ranking is 168, which she reached on 24 May 2010. Her career high in doubles is 239, which she reached on 1 August 2011. Her twin sister Kristýna is also a tennis player... |
5–7, 6–2, 6–0 |
ITF Circuit doubles finals (2–1)
| $100,000 tournaments |
| $75,000 tournaments |
| $50,000 tournaments |
| $25,000 tournaments |
| $10,000 tournaments |
| Outcome | No. | Date | Tournament | Surface | Partner | Opponents | Score |
| Runner–up | 1. | 16 May 2010 | Kurume, Japan | Clay | Karolína Plíšková Karolína Plíšková Karolína Plíšková is a professional Czech tennis player. Her highest WTA singles ranking is 168, which she reached on 24 May 2010. Her career high in doubles is 239, which she reached on 1 August 2011. Her twin sister Kristýna is also a tennis player... |
 Sheng-Nan Sun Yi-Fan Xu |
0–6, 3–6 |
| Winners | 1. | 13 February 2011 | Rancho Mirage Rancho Mirage, California Rancho Mirage is a resort city in Riverside County, California, United States. The population was 17,218 at the 2010 census, up from 13,249 at the 2000 census, but the seasonal population can exceed 20,000. In between Cathedral City and Palm Desert, it is one of the eight cities of the Coachella... , the United States United States The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district... |
Hard | Karolína Plíšková Karolína Plíšková Karolína Plíšková is a professional Czech tennis player. Her highest WTA singles ranking is 168, which she reached on 24 May 2010. Her career high in doubles is 239, which she reached on 1 August 2011. Her twin sister Kristýna is also a tennis player... |
 Nadejda Guskova  Sandra ZaniewskaSandra Zaniewska Sandra Zaniewska is a Polish professional tennis player, who is, as of November 14, 2011, ranked No. 295. She has won two ITF tournaments and was the runner–up of the 2009 Australian Open in Girls' Doubles.- Personal life :... |
6(6)–7, 6–1, [10–5] |
| Winners | 2. | 7 August 2011 | Vancouver Vancouver Vancouver is a coastal seaport city on the mainland of British Columbia, Canada. It is the hub of Greater Vancouver, which, with over 2.3 million residents, is the third most populous metropolitan area in the country,... , Canada |
Hard | Karolína Plíšková Karolína Plíšková Karolína Plíšková is a professional Czech tennis player. Her highest WTA singles ranking is 168, which she reached on 24 May 2010. Her career high in doubles is 239, which she reached on 1 August 2011. Her twin sister Kristýna is also a tennis player... |
 Jamie HamptonJamie Hampton Jamie Lee Hampton is a professional American tennis player playing in the ITF Women's Circuit. On April 4, 2011, she reached her highest WTA singles ranking of World No. 116. Hampton lived in Enterprise, Alabama until she was 13, when she moved to Auburn, Alabama...  N. LertcheewakarnNoppawan Lertcheewakarn Noppawan Lertcheewakarn is a professional Thai tennis player. At the Wimbledon 2009, she won the junior singles title. As of 12 April 2010, Lertcheewakarn has a rank on the WTA singles tour of 150 and doubles tour of 97.-Playing style:... |
5–7, 6–2, [10–2] |
Junior Grand Slam singles finals (1–0)
| Outcome | Year | Tournament | Surface | Opponent | Score |
| Winner | 2010 2010 Wimbledon Championships The 2010 Wimbledon Championships took place on the outdoor grass courts at the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club in Wimbledon, London, United Kingdom. The tournament ran from Monday 21 June until Sunday 4 July 2010. It was the 124th staging of the Wimbledon Championships, and the third Grand... |
Wimbledon Championships The Championships, Wimbledon The Championships, Wimbledon, or simply Wimbledon , is the oldest tennis tournament in the world, considered by many to be the most prestigious. It has been held at the All England Club in Wimbledon, London since 1877. It is one of the four Grand Slam tennis tournaments, the other three Majors... |
Grass |  Sachie IshizuSachie Ishizu Sachie Ishizu is a professional Japanese tennis player playing in the ITF Women's Circuit. On June 06, 2011, she reached her highest WTA singles ranking of 224. She is coached by her father, Yasuhiko Ishizu. Sachie was the runner-up in the girls' singles event of the 2010 Wimbledon Championships,... |
6–3, 4–6, 6–4 |