Lucie Hradecká

Lucie Hradecká

Country	Czech Republic
Residence	Prague, Czech Republic
Born	21 May 1985 (1985-05-21) Prague, Czechoslovakia
Height	1.76 m (5 ft 9 in)
Weight	65 kg (140 lb)
Turned pro	2004
Retired	Active
Plays	Right-handed (two-handed strokes)
Career prize money	$1,227,516
Singles
Career record	337–191
Career titles	0 WTA, 18 ITF
Highest ranking	No. 41 (6 June 2011)
Current ranking	No. 47 (30 January 2012)
Grand Slam results
Australian Open	2R (2012)
French Open	2R (2009, 2011)
Wimbledon	1R (2009, 2010, 2011)
US Open	1R (2009, 2010, 2011)
Doubles
Career record	273–116
Career titles	13 WTA, 29 ITF
Highest ranking	No. 20 (6 June 2011)
Grand Slam Doubles results
Australian Open	SF (2012)
French Open	W (2011)
Wimbledon	3R (2006)
US Open	QF (2011)
Last updated on: 18 July 2011.

Lucie Hradecká (born 21 May 1985 in Prague) 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

Hradecká has won 18 ITF singles titles, but no WTA singles titles. She has won 11 WTA and 29 ITF doubles titles.

She won her first doubles title on the WTA Tour in 2006 at Portorož with partner Renata Voráčová, as the fourth-seeded team. In the final, the Czech team defeated Eva Birnerová and Émilie Loit, the second seeds, by walkover. They also had a victory over the top seeds Maria Elena Camerin and Emmanuelle Gagliardi in the semifinal.

She reached the third round of doubles competition with Hana Šromová as qualifiers at the 2006 Wimbledon Championships before going down to fifth seeds Meghann Shaughnessy and Anna-Lena Grönefeld. En route they defeated twelfth seeds Svetlana Kuznetsova and Amélie Mauresmo, both Grand Slam singles champions at the time and the previous year's Wimbledon doubles runner-ups by walkover.

In 2007, she made the doubles semifinals of the 2007 Indian Wells Masters tournament with Voráčová. En route, the team defeated Janette Husárová and Meghann Shaughnessy, the seventh seeds, in the first round, and legendary team and third-seeded Virginia Ruano Pascual and Paola Suárez in three sets in the quarterfinals, before losing to top seeds Lisa Raymond and Samantha Stosur.

Later that year, Hradecká and Voráčová won Bad Gastein over Ágnes Szávay and Vladimíra Uhlířová. She again won the 2007 Portorož title with Voráčová over Elena Likhovtseva and Andreja Klepač in the final.

Hradecká reached her very first singles final at Bad Gastein in July 2008, where, as a qualifier, she defeated players such as Patricia Mayr of Austria to get to the final, where she lost to the fourth seed Pauline Parmentier 4–6, 4–6, after leading 4–1 in the first set. She also reached the doubles final. As a result of the singles final, Hradecká rose from her ranking of 237 to about 150 in the world.

At the 2009 Wimbledon Championships, Hradecká held two match points over 13th seeded Ana Ivanović in the first round. However, she was unable to close it out, losing 5–7, 6–2, 8–6.

At her home tournament, the 2010 ECM Prague Open, Hradecká pleased her fans with a dramatic comeback to defeat Stefanie Vögele in the first round. Hradecká came back from 1–5 down in the first set to win 7–6, 6–2. In the second round she crushed fellow double-hander Monica Niculescu 6–2, 6–1 and reached the semifinals before losing to Ágnes Szávay.

A year later at the same tournament, Hradecká was the winner, defeating qualifier Paula Ormaechea in the final.

Major Finals

Grand Slam Finals

Doubles: 1 (1–0)

Outcome	Year	Championship	Surface	Partner	Opponents	Score
Winner	2011	French Open	Clay	Andrea Hlaváčková	Sania Mirza Elena Vesnina	6–4, 6–3

WTA Career Finals

Singles: 4 (0–4)

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

Outcome	No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Opponent in the final	Score
Runner-up	1.	20 July 2008	Bad Gastein, Austria	Clay	Pauline Parmentier	4–6, 4–6
Runner-up	2.	18 May 2009	Strasbourg, France	Clay	Aravane Rezaï	6–7(2–7), 1–6
Runner-up	3.	2 August 2009	Istanbul, Turkey	Hard	Vera Dushevina	0–6, 1–6
Runner-up	4.	30 April 2011	Barcelona, Spain	Clay	Roberta Vinci	6–4, 2–6, 2–6

Doubles: 17 (13–4)

Legend: Before 2009	Legend: Starting in 2009
Grand Slam tournaments (1–0)
WTA Championships (0–0)
Tier I (0–0)	Premier Mandatory (0–0)
Tier II (0–0)	Premier 5 (0–0)
Tier III (2–1)	Premier (0–1)
Tier IV & V (3–0)	International (7–2)

Outcome	No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Partner	Opponents in the final	Score
Runner-up	1.	18 July 2006	Budapest, Hungary	Hard	Renata Voráčová	Janette Husárová Michaëlla Krajicek	6–4, 4–6, 4–6
Winner	1.	24 September 2006	Portorož, Slovenia	Hard	Renata Voráčová	Eva Birnerová Émilie Loit	Walkover
Winner	2.	29 July 2007	Bad Gastein, Austria	Clay	Renata Voráčová	Ágnes Szávay Vladimíra Uhlířová	6–3, 7–5
Winner	3.	23 September 2007	Portorož, Slovenia	Hard	Renata Voráčová	Andreja Klepač Elena Likhovtseva	5–7, 6–4, [10–7]
Winner	4.	3 May 2008	Prague, Czech Republic	Clay	Andrea Hlaváčková	Jill Craybas Michaëlla Krajicek	1–6, 6–3, [10–6]
Winner	5.	20 July 2008	Bad Gastein, Austria	Clay	Andrea Hlaváčková	Sesil Karatantcheva Nataša Zorić	6–3, 6–3
Winner	6.	26 July 2009	Bad Gastein, Austria	Hard	Andrea Hlaváčková	Tatjana Malek Andrea Petkovic	6–2, 6–4
Winner	7.	1 August 2009	Istanbul, Turkey	Hard	Renata Voráčová	Julia Görges Patty Schnyder	2–6, 6–3, [12–10]
Runner-up	2.	29 August 2009	New Haven, USA	Hard	Iveta Benešová	Nuria Llagostera Vives María José Martínez Sánchez	2–6, 5–7
Winner	8.	9 January 2010	Brisbane, Australia	Hard	Andrea Hlaváčková	Melinda Czink Arantxa Parra Santonja	2–6, 7–6(7–3), [10–4]
Winner	9.	25 July 2010	Bad Gastein, Austria	Clay	Anabel Medina Garrigues	Timea Bacsinszky Tathiana Garbin	6–7(2–7), 6–1, [10–5]
Runner-up	3.	19 February 2011	Memphis, USA	Hard (i)	Andrea Hlaváčková	Olga Govortsova Alla Kudryavtseva	3–6, 6–4, [8–10]
Winner	10.	3 June 2011	Paris, France	Clay	Andrea Hlaváčková	Sania Mirza Elena Vesnina	6–4, 6–3
Winner	11.	18 July 2011	Bad Gastein, Austria	Clay	Eva Birnerová	Jarmila Gajdošová Julia Görges	4–6, 6–2, [12–10]
Runner-up	4.	25 October 2011	Luxembourg City, Luxembourg	Hard (i)	Ekaterina Makarova	Iveta Benešová Barbora Záhlavová-Strýcová	5–7, 3–6
Winner	12.	7 January 2012	Auckland, New Zealand	Hard	Andrea Hlaváčková	Julia Görges Flavia Pennetta	6–7(2–7), 6–2, [10–7]
Winner	13.	25 February 2012	Memphis, United States	Hard (i)	Andrea Hlaváčková	Vera Dushevina Olga Govortsova	6–3, 6–4

Doubles performance timeline

This table is current through the 2009 French Open.

Tournament	2006	2007	2008	2009	2010	2011	2012	W–L
Grand Slam Tournaments
Australian Open	A	1R	1R	2R	3R	2R	SF	8–6
French Open	1R	1R	2R	1R	3R	W		9–5
Wimbledon	3R	1R	1R	1R	2R	2R		2–6
US Open	1R	1R	2R	2R	1R	QF		5–6
Win–Loss	1–3	0–4	2–4	3–4	5–4	10–3	4–1	25–23

Singles performance timeline

This table is current through the 2012 Australian Open.

Tournament	2009	2010	2011	2012	W–L
Grand Slam Tournaments
Australian Open	LQ	1R	1R	2R	1–3
French Open	2R	1R	2R		2–3
Wimbledon	1R	1R	1R		0–3
US Open	1R	1R	1R		0–3
Win–Loss	1–3	0–4	1–4	1–1	3–12

External links

• Lucie Hradecká at the Women's Tennis Association
• Lucie Hradecká at the International Tennis Federation