Květa Peschke

Květa Peschke

Full name	Květoslava Peschkeová
Country (sports)	Czech Republic
Residence	Prague, Czech Republic
Born	(1975-07-09) July 9, 1975 Bílovec, Czechoslovakia
Height	1.65 m (5 ft 5 in)
Plays	Right-handed (two-handed backhand)
Prize money	$3,496,768
Singles
Career record	322–213
Career titles	1 WTA (10 ITF titles)
Highest ranking	No. 26 (November 7, 2005)
Grand Slam singles results
Australian Open	3R (2000)
French Open	3R (1999, 2000)
Wimbledon	4R (2005)
US Open	2R (1998, 2000)
Doubles
Career record	414–226
Career titles	22 WTA (8 ITF titles)
Highest ranking	No. 1 (July 4, 2011)
Grand Slam doubles results
Australian Open	SF (2011)
French Open	F (2010)
Wimbledon	W (2011)
US Open	SF (2006),(2007)
Other doubles tournaments
Tour Finals	F (2011)
Last updated on: nov 15, 2011.

Květoslava "Květa" Peschke (Template:Lang-cz, née Hrdličková; born July 9, 1975 in Bílovec, Czechoslovakia) is a professional female tennis player from the Czech Republic. She plays mostly on the baseline, with her best shot being the forehand. Her favourite surfaces are hard court and carpet. At Wimbledon 2011 Květa Peschke claimed her first grand slam doubles title alongside Slovenia's Katarina Srebotnik. Peschke became the first Czech player to win the Wimbledon women's doubles title since Jana Novotná in 1998. Peschke and Srebotnik also took over the No. 1 ranking in doubles and they won a WTA Award as 'Doubles Team of the Year' in November 2011.

Career

Prior to 2003, Peschke was known as Květa Hrdličková

After a 2004 season playing primarily on the ITF circuit, in the 2005 tennis season, as one of the older players on the WTA tour, she had a successful year in both singles and doubles. In her first event of the season, she reached the quarter-finals of a Tier V event in Hobart, defeating two top players on the way in Martina Suchá and Anabel Medina Garrigues, the fifth-seeded player of the tournament. After a first round loss at the Australian Open to the number three-seeded player from Russia, Anastasia Myskina, she failed to get very far in any tournaments until April at the Tier II event in Amelia Island, reaching the last 16 after qualifying and defeating Amy Frazier, the 16th seed, before falling to the number one in the world at that time, Lindsay Davenport. Peschke again reached the last 16 at the Tier I event in Berlin, defeating the fifth-seeded and number 10 in the world, Vera Zvonareva, before losing to Justine Henin-Hardenne of Belgium in a tough three-set match, 6–4 4–6 2–6. After a disappointing second-round loss at the French Open to Israel's Shahar Peer and a first-round loss at S'Hertogenbosch to Russia's Maria Kirilenko, she sprung back to prominence at Wimbledon. On the way to a fourth-round appearance at the Grand Slam grass event, she defeated three players of higher ranking than herself, Dally Randriantefy, Vera Zvonareva and Conchita Martínez, a former Wimbledon champion herself. She suffered a hard loss in the last 16 to Nadia Petrova of Russia in three sets, 7–6 6–7 3–6. Towards the end of the season she did have some success at two key tournaments; she reached her first semi-final of the year at a tier II event in Linz, defeating two number two seeded Russian, Elena Dementieva, Vera Zvonareva and Japan's Ai Sugiyama. She also reached a quarterfinal at another Tier II event in Philadelphia before losing to Elena Dementieva in three sets, 6–4, 0–6, 3–6.

Her 2006 season, however, was not as successful. She reached the second round of only five tournaments, suffering a crushing 14 first-round losses at WTA Tour events. However, she did manage to reach the semi-finals of a Tier II event at Luxembourg in late September. In this tournament she picked up a straight-set victory over Dinara Safina of Russia and lost in a tight three-set match to Ukraine's Alyona Bondarenko 3–6, 7–5, 5–7.

Peschke's doubles career has been more successful, including her top 10 debut in the doubles ranking in September 2006. In 2005 she won 2 WTA tour doubles titles in Paris (Tier II) and in Linz (Tier II), reached the finals of 4 WTA tour doubles events and various other hugely successful achievements. 2006 saw an even greater rise to her doubles career, winning a further 2 WTA tour doubles titles, defending her 2005 title at Paris and winning in Dubai (Tier II). Her main successes in doubles have come at three of the four grand slams, reaching the quarter-finals of the French Open, the quarter-finals of Wimbledon and, more recently, the semi-finals of the 2006 U.S. Open, her partner being Francesca Schiavone each time, and lost in the 2006 U.S. Open mixed doubles final aside Martin Damm to Bob Bryan and Martina Navratilova.

2007

In 2007, Peschke did not play in the Australian Open. Upon her return at the 2007 French Open, she qualified for the singles main draw and upset two-time Roland Garros semifinalist Nadia Petrova in the first round, 7–5, 5–7, 6–0, and played in doubles with Rennae Stubbs as for Schiavone returned to her Australian Open doubles partner Emmanuelle Gagliardi. At the 2007 U.S. Open, Peschke and Stubbs reached the doubles semifinals, before losing to Nathalie Dechy and Dinara Safina. The Peschke-Stubbs team won their first title in Stuttgart, Germany. In the final, the team defeated Chan Yung-jan and Dinara Safina in three sets. Their second title at Los Angeles over French Open champions Alicia Molik and Mara Santangelo 6–0, 6–1, and won their first Tier I tournament at the 2007 Zürich Open, defeating former partner Francesca Schiavone and Lisa Raymond 7–5, 7–6 (1) in the final, winning their third title on the 2007 WTA Tour.

2010

Peschke partnered with Aisam-ul-Haq Qureshi of Pakistan in the mixed doubles draw of the 2010 United States Open, where they defeated the fifth-seeded team of American Vania King and Romanian Horia Tecău in the first round, then beat Kazakhstani Yaroslava Shvedova and Austrian Julian Knowle to advance to the quarterfinals, dropping the first set of both matches before winning the second set and match tiebreak. In the quarterfinal round, they ousted the South American team of Argentine Gisela Dulko and Uruguayan Pablo Cuevas, again losing the first set before coming back to win the second set and match tiebreak by a wide margin. Peschke and Qureshi cruised into the final after defeating Anna-Lena Grönefeld of Germany and Mark Knowles of the Bahamas in straight sets. In the final, Peschke and Qureshi lost to Bob Bryan and Liezel Huber in a straight 6–4, 6–4. However, doing so she has won the hearts and minds of millions of Pakistanis and has become the most favourite international female tennis personality in Pakistan as quoted by her on-court double partner Aisam-ul-Haq Qureshi at the post match winning ceremony interview.

The Czech also competed in women's doubles at the Open, where she partnered with Katarina Srebotnik from Slovenia as the fourth-seeded team. Peschke and Srebotnik sent home fellow Czech Petra Kvitová and Switzerland's Stefanie Vögele by way of a brief first-round encounter, then defeated American sisters Chelsey and Carly Gullickson, but lost in the third round to another all-American team, the 15th-seeded duo of seasoned veteran Meghann Shaughnessy and late-blooming Bethanie Mattek-Sands.

Major finals

Grand Slam finals

Doubles: 2 (1 win, 1 runner-up)

Outcome	Year	Championship	Surface	Partner	Opponents in the final	Score in the final
Runner-up	2010	French Open	Clay	Katarina Srebotnik	Serena Williams Venus Williams	2–6, 3–6
Winner	2011	Wimbledon	Grass	Katarina Srebotnik	Sabine Lisicki Samantha Stosur	6–3, 6–1

Mixed doubles

Outcome	Year	Championship	Surface	Partner	Opponents in the final	Score in the final
Runner-up	2006	US Open	Hard	Martin Damm	Martina Navratilova Bob Bryan	2–6, 3–6
Runner-up	2010	US Open	Hard	Aisam-ul-Haq Qureshi	Liezel Huber Bob Bryan	4–6, 4–6

WTA Tour singles finals (2)

Legend: Before 2009
Grand Slam (0/0)
WTA Championships (0/0)
Tier I (0/0)
Tier II (0/1)
Tier III (0/0)
Tier IV & V (1/0)

Outcome	No.	Date	Tournament	Location	Surface	Opponent in Final	Score in Final
Winner	1.	April 19, 1998	Makarska International Championships	Makarska, Croatia	Clay	Li Fang	6–3, 6–1
Runner-up	1.	November 1, 1999	Sparkassen Cup	Leipzig, Germany	Carpet (i)	Nathalie Tauziat	1–6, 3–6

WTA Tour Doubles Titles (23)

Legend: Before 2009	Legend: Starting in 2009
Grand Slam tournaments (1)
WTA Championships (0)
Tier I (3)	Premier Mandatory (2)
Tier II (8)	Premier 5 (0)
Tier III (0)	Premier (5)
Tier IV & V (2)	International (2)

No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Partner	Opponent in the final	Score in the final
1.	August 2, 1998	Sopot, Poland	Clay	Helena Vildová	Åsa Svensson Seda Noorlander	6–3, 6–2
2.	April 15, 2001	Estoril, Portugal	Clay	Barbara Rittner	Tina Križan Katarina Srebotnik	6–3, 6–2
3.	February 13, 2005	Paris, France(1)	Carpet (i)	Iveta Benešová	Anabel Medina Garrigues Dinara Safina	6–2, 2–6, 6–2
4.	October 30, 2005	Linz, Austria	Hard (i)	Gisela Dulko	Conchita Martínez Virginia Ruano Pascual	6–2, 6–3
5.	February 12, 2006	Paris, France(2)	Carpet (i)	Émilie Loit	Cara Black Rennae Stubbs	7–6(5), 6–4
6.	February 25, 2006	Dubai, United Arab Emirates	Hard	Francesca Schiavone	Svetlana Kuznetsova Nadia Petrova	3–6, 7–6(1), 6–3
7.	October 1, 2006	Luxembourg City, Luxembourg	Hard (i)	Francesca Schiavone	Anna-Lena Grönefeld Liezel Huber	2–6, 6–4, 6–1
8.	October 15, 2006	Moscow, Russia	Carpet (i)	Francesca Schiavone	Iveta Benešová Galina Voskoboeva	6–4, 6–7(4), 6–1
9.	August 19, 2007	Los Angeles, United States	Hard	Rennae Stubbs	Alicia Molik Mara Santangelo	6–0, 6–1
10.	October 14, 2007	Stuttgart, Germany	Hard (i)	Rennae Stubbs	Chan Yung-jan Dinara Safina	6–7(5), 7–6(4), [10–2]
11.	October 21, 2007	Zürich, Switzerland	Hard (i)	Rennae Stubbs	Lisa Raymond Francesca Schiavone	7–5, 7–6(1)
12.	February 24, 2008	Doha, Qatar	Hard	Rennae Stubbs	Cara Black Liezel Huber	6–1, 5–7, [10–7]
13.	August 23, 2008	New Haven, United States	Hard	Lisa Raymond	Sorana Cîrstea Monica Niculescu	4–6, 7–5, [10–7]
14.	January 16, 2010	Hobart, Australia	Hard	Chuang Chia-jung	Chan Yung-jan Monica Niculescu	3–6, 6–3, [10–7]
15.	March 20, 2010	Indian Wells, California, United States	Hard	Katarina Srebotnik	Nadia Petrova Samantha Stosur	6–4, 2–6, [10–5]
16.	August 28, 2010	New Haven, Connecticut, USA	Hard	Katarina Srebotnik	Bethanie Mattek-Sands Meghann Shaughnessy	7–5, 6–0
17.	January 8, 2011	Auckland, New Zealand	Hard	Katarina Srebotnik	Sofia Arvidsson Marina Erakovic	6–3, 6–0
18.	February 26, 2011	Doha, Qatar	Hard	Katarina Srebotnik	Liezel Huber Nadia Petrova	7–5, 6–7(2), [10–8]
19.	June 18, 2011	Eastbourne, United Kingdom	Grass	Katarina Srebotnik	Liezel Huber Lisa Raymond	6–3, 6–0
20.	June 26, 2011	London, United Kingdom	Grass	Katarina Srebotnik	Sabine Lisicki Samantha Stosur	6–3, 6–1
21.	August 7, 2011	Carlsbad, USA	Hard	Katarina Srebotnik	Raquel Kops-Jones Abigail Spears	6–0, 6–2
22.	October 8, 2011	Beijing, China	Hard	Katarina Srebotnik	Gisela Dulko Flavia Pennetta	6-3, 6–4
23.	January 13, 2012	Sydney, Australia	Hard	Katarina Srebotnik	Liezel Huber Lisa Raymond	6–1, 4–6, [13–11]

External links

• Květa Peschke at the Women's Tennis Association
• Květa Peschke at the Billie Jean King Cup