Lucie Hradecká

Lucie Hradecká

Country (sports)	Czech Republic
Residence	Prague, Czech Republic
Born	(1985-05-21) 21 May 1985 Prague, Czechoslovakia
Height	1.76 m (5 ft 9+1⁄2 in)
Turned pro	2004
Retired	Active
Plays	Right-handed (two-handed strokes)
Prize money	$US707,084
Singles
Career record	276–165
Career titles	0 WTA, 18 ITF
Highest ranking	No. 41 (6 June 2011)
Current ranking	No. 41 (6 June 2011)
Grand Slam singles results
Australian Open	1R (2010, 2011)
French Open	2R (2009, 2011)
Wimbledon	1R (2009, 2010)
US Open	1R (2009, 2010)
Doubles
Career record	238–97
Career titles	10 WTA, 29 ITF
Highest ranking	No. 32 (7 June 2010)
Grand Slam doubles results
Australian Open	3R (2010)
French Open	W (2011)
Wimbledon	3R (2006)
US Open	2R (2008, 2009)
Last updated on: 18 October 2010.

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, including the 2011 French Open title. As of 18 October 2010, she is ranked 37 for doubles and has been World No. 32 on 7 June 2010. Her highest singles ranking was World No. 56, which she achieved on 6 July 2009. She won her first Grand Slam title by winning the doubles at Roland Garros in 2011.

Career

Hradecká has won 18 ITF singles titles, but no WTA singles titles. She has won 9 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(4), 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.

WTA Finals

Singles (4)

Singles runner-ups (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)

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

Doubles (13)

Doubles wins (10)

Legend: Before 2009	Legend: Starting in 2009
Grand Slam tournaments (1)
WTA Championships (0)
Tier I (0)	Premier Mandatory (0)
Tier II (0)	Premier 5 (0)
Tier III (2)	Premier (0)
Tier IV & V (3)	International (4)

No.	Date	Tournament	Tier	Partner	Opponents in the final	Score
1.	24 September 2006	Portorož, Slovenia	Hard	Renata Voráčová	Eva Birnerová Émilie Loit	Walkover
2.	29 July 2007	Bad Gastein, Austria	Clay	Renata Voráčová	Ágnes Szávay Vladimíra Uhlířová	6–3, 7–5
3.	23 September 2007	Portorož, Slovenia	Hard	Renata Voráčová	Andreja Klepač Elena Likhovtseva	5–7, 6–4, [10–7]
4.	3 May 2008	Prague, Czech Republic	Red Clay	Andrea Hlaváčková	Jill Craybas Michaëlla Krajicek	1–6, 6–3, [10–6]
5.	20 July 2008	Bad Gastein, Austria	Red Clay	Andrea Hlaváčková	Sesil Karatantcheva Nataša Zorić	6–3, 6–3
6.	26 July 2009	Bad Gastein, Austria	Hard	Andrea Hlaváčková	Tatjana Malek Andrea Petkovic	6–2, 6–4
7.	1 August 2009	Istanbul, Turkey	Hard	Renata Voráčová	Julia Görges Patty Schnyder	2–6, 6–3, [12–10]
8.	9 January 2010	Brisbane, Australia	Hard	Andrea Hlaváčková	Melinda Czink Arantxa Parra Santonja	2–6, 7–6(3), [10–4]
9.	25 July 2010	Gastein Ladies	Clay	Anabel Medina Garrigues	Timea Bacsinszky Tathiana Garbin	6–7(2), 6–1, [10–5]
10.	03 June 2011	Paris, France	Clay	Andrea Hlaváčková	Sania Mirza Elena Vesnina	6–4, 6–3

Doubles runners-up (3)

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 (1)	Premier (1)
Tier IV & V (0)	International (1)

No.	Date	Tournament	Tier	Partner	Opponents in the final	Score
1.	18 July 2006	Budapest, Hungary	Hard	Renata Voráčová	Janette Husárová Michaëlla Krajicek	4–6, 6–4, 6–4
2.	29 August 2009	New Haven, USA	Hard	Iveta Benešová	Nuria Llagostera Vives María José Martínez Sánchez	6–2, 7–5
3.	19 February 2011	Memphis, USA	Hard (i)	Andrea Hlaváčková	Olga Govortsova Alla Kudryavtseva	6–3, 4–6, [10–8]

Doubles performance timeline

NM5				means an event that is neither a Premier Mandatory nor a Premier 5 tournament.

To prevent confusion and double counting, information in this table is updated only once a tournament or the player's participation in the tournament has concluded. This table is current through the 2009 French Open, which ended 6 June 2010.

Tournament	2006	2007	2008	2009	2010	2011	Career Win-Loss
Grand Slam Tournaments
Australian Open	A	1R	1R	2R	3R	2R	4–5
French Open	1R	1R	2R	1R	3R	W	9–5
Wimbledon	3R	1R	1R	1R	2R		3–5
US Open	1R	1R	2R	2R	1R		2–5
Win-Loss	2–3	0–4	2–4	3–4	5–4	7–1	19–18

Doubles performance timeline

NM5				means an event that is neither a Premier Mandatory nor a Premier 5 tournament.

To prevent confusion and double counting, information in this table is updated only once a tournament or the player's participation in the tournament has concluded. This table is current through the 2009 French Open, which ended 6 June 2010.

Tournament	2009	2010	2011	Career Win-Loss
Grand Slam Tournaments
Australian Open	LQ	1R	1R	0–2
French Open	2R	1R		1–2
Wimbledon	1R	1R		0–2
US Open	1R	1R		0–2
Win-Loss	1–3	0–4	0–1	1–7

External links

• Lucie Hradecká at the Women's Tennis Association