Markéta Vondroušová

Markéta Vondroušová

Vondroušová at the 2017 Wimbledon Championships
Country (sports)	Czech Republic
Born	(1999-06-28) 28 June 1999 Sokolov, Czech Republic
Height	1.53 m (5 ft 0 in)
Plays	Left-handed (two-handed backhand)
Coach	Jiří Hřebec & Jan Hernych
Prize money	$1,596,045
Singles
Career record	150–53
Career titles	1 WTA, 7 ITF
Highest ranking	No. 38 (20 May 2019)
Current ranking	No. 38 (20 May 2019)
Grand Slam singles results
Australian Open	2R (2018, 2019)
French Open	F (2019)
Wimbledon	1R (2017, 2018)
US Open	4R (2018)
Doubles
Career record	32–15
Career titles	0 WTA, 4 ITF
Highest ranking	No. 91 (29 April 2019)
Current ranking	No. 91 (20 May 2019)
Grand Slam doubles results
Australian Open	SF (2019)
French Open	2R (2019)
Wimbledon	QF (2017)
US Open	1R (2017)
Team competitions
Fed Cup	1–1
Last updated on: 8 June 2018.

Markéta Uplakánek Vondroušová (Czech: [ˈmarkɛːta ˈvondrouʃovaː], born 28 June 1999) is a Czech professional tennis player.

Vondroušová has won one singles title on the WTA Tour as well as seven singles and four doubles titles on the ITF Women's Circuit. On 20 May 2019, she reached her best singles ranking of world No. 38 and was one of the youngest players in the top 100. On 17 July 2017, she peaked at No. 152 in the doubles rankings, having reached the Wimbledon quarterfinal. Later on, on 29 April 2019, she was ranked as No. 91 in the doubles.

In 2015, Vondroušová won the girls' doubles event at the Australian Open with fellow Czech Miriam Kolodziejová, defeating Katharina Hobgarski and Greet Minnen in the final. In the same year, they won the girls' doubles event at the French Open, where they faced Caroline Dolehide and Katerina Stewart in the final.

After a series of troublesome injuries, Vondroušová's career improved in 2019. She was the finalist at the French Open. However, she was completely thrashed the final match to Ashleigh Barty and lost in straight sets 3-6 1-6. Vondroušová was reduced to tears after her Roland-Garros final defeat and she later conceded “She [Barty] was just too good - she gave me a lesson”.

Early life

Vondroušová was born in Sokolov, Czech Republic. She began playing tennis at 4 years old with her father, and by 10 years old she was practicing in Prague. She moved to Prague by herself at 15 years old to train.

Career

2015-2016: The beginnings, injury layoff

Vondroušová made her WTA Tour main-draw debut in doubles at the 2015 Sparta Prague Open, partnering Kateřina Vaňková. The pair lost their first round match against Kateryna Bondarenko and Eva Hrdinová. A year later, Vondroušová made her WTA debut in singles at the 2016 J&T Banka Prague Open, where she defeated Océane Dodin before her second-round loss to eventual tournament runner-up Samantha Stosur.

Vondroušová then played at the Roland Garros junior event, losing in the third round to Olesya Pervushina. Vondroušová did not play for the rest of the year, as she took time out to recover from an elbow injury.

2017: Return to tour, first WTA title, entering the top 100

On her comeback to the tour, Vondroušova immediately reeled off 20 consecutive wins, resulting in one $15,000 title, one $25,000 title, and two more $25,000 finals. In April, she reached her debut WTA singles final at the Ladies Open Biel/Bienne, coming through qualifying and scoring wins over Annika Beck, Kristýna Plíšková, and Top 20 player Barbora Strýcová. In just her second appearance in a WTA main draw, Vondroušová got past Anett Kontaveit in the final to clinch her maiden WTA title. This win propelled her close to a top-100 debut. Vondroušová became the youngest winner of a WTA title since Konjuh's title at the 2015 Nottingham Open.

Next, Vondroušova made her Fed Cup debut in the semifinals against the United States, where she lost to CoCo Vandeweghe in straight sets. In her second match, she earned her first Fed Cup win when she defeated Lauren Davis in straight sets.

After winning an ITF tournament in Trnava, Vondroušová improved her ranking to No. 94 and entered top 100 for the first time. She became the youngest player in the top 100 at the time.

2019: First Grand Slam final, top 20 debut

In January, Vondroušová and partner Barbora Strycova reached the women's doubles semi-final of the Australian Open, but were defeated by Sam Stosur and Zhang Shuai. In singles, Vondroušová defeated Evgeniya Rodina in the first round, but lost to Petra Martic in the second round. Vondroušová reached final in Budapest, defeating in her way Georgina Garcia Perez, Anna Blinkova, Irina-Camelia Begu and Anastasia Potapova. In the final, she lost to Alison Van Uytvanck. It was a close match, with Vondroušová holding multiple leads, but ultimately Van Uytvanck was able to close it out.

In March, she played very well at tournaments in Indian Wells and Miami. At Indian Wells, Vondroušová beat Laura Siegemund in the first round and then she won against the previous years runner-up Daria Kasatkina. In following rounds she took on Jelena Ostapenko and the second seed Simona Halep both in three sets on the way to quarterfinals, where she lost to Elina Svitolina. At Miami, she defeated countrywoman Barbora Strycova, Ostapenko again, Elise Mertens and Tatjana Maria in two sets on the way to quarterfinals, where she lost to another fellow-Czech Karolina Plíšková.

On April, she decided to play Fed Cup Play-off against Canada. She was successful in her both matches against Leylah Fernandez and Rebecca Marino, which helped the Czechs surviving in the world group. Vondroušová played her third WTA final in Istanbul. On the way, she defeated 5th seed Ajla Tomljanovic, former world number no. 2 Svetlana Kuznetsova, Lara Arruabarrena and Barbora Strycova again. In the final she lost to Petra Martić. It was a close match once again for Vondroušová, but she lost in three sets, in spite of winning first set 6-1.

Because of struggling a knee injury, she could not play in Prague and Madrid, nevertheless, she showed a very good performance in Rome. She met Strycova once again in the first round, where it looked like, Strycova can conquer Vondroušová for the first time, but Vondroušová won the match in the third set tie-break. In the second round, she shocked the third seed Simona Halep and the match 7-5 in the third. She defeated Kasatkina in the third round, but in quarterfinals lost to eventual finalist Johanna Konta.

At French Open she defeated Wang Yafan, Anastasia Potapova and 28th seed Carla Suarez Navarro in straight sets. In the fourth round, she outlasted Anastasija Sevastova by losing only two games in the match. In quarterfinals, she finally defeated Petra Martic after five previous losses and in semifinals, beat Johanna Konta. She became the first teenager to make the French Open final since Ana Ivanovic in 2007 and the first teenager to reach a Grand Slam final since Caroline Wozniacki competed in the final of the 2009 US Open. In the final, she was defeated in straight sets against Ashleigh Barty.

Grand Slam finals

Singles: (1 runner-ups)

Result	Year	Tournament	Surface	Opponent	Score
Loss	2019	French Open	Clay	Ashleigh Barty	1–6, 3–6

WTA career finals

Singles: 4 (1 title, 3 runners-up)

Legend Grand Slam tournaments (0–1) WTA Tour Championships (0–0) Premier Mandatory & Premier 5 (0–0) Premier (0–0) International (1–2)

Finals by surface Hard (1–1) Clay (0–2) Grass (0–0) Carpet (0–0)

Result	W–L	Date	Tournament	Tier	Surface	Opponent	Score
Win	1–0	Apr 2017	Ladies Open Biel Bienne, Switzerland	International	Hard (i)	Anett Kontaveit	6–4, 7–6(8–6)
Loss	1–1	Feb 2019	Hungarian Ladies Open, Budapest	International	Hard (i)	Alison Van Uytvanck	6–1, 5–7, 2–6
Loss	1–2	Apr 2019	İstanbul Cup, Turkey	International	Clay	Petra Martić	6–1, 4–6, 1–6
Loss	1–3	Jun 2019	French Open, Paris	Grand Slam	Clay	Ashleigh Barty	1–6, 3–6

ITF finals

Singles: 10 (7 titles, 3 runner-ups)

Legend $100,000 tournaments $75,000 tournaments $50,000 tournaments $25,000 tournaments $15,000 tournaments $10,000 tournaments

Finals by surface Hard (2–3) Clay (5–0) Grass (0–0) Carpet (0–0)

Result	W–L	Date	Tournament	Tier	Surface	Opponent	Score
Loss	0–1	Mar 2015	ITF Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt	10,000	Hard	Vera Lapko	5–7, 3–6
Win	1–1	May 2015	ITF Zielona Góra, Poland	10,000	Clay	Natela Dzalamidze	6–3, 6–3
Win	2–1	Jun 2015	ITF Přerov, Czech Republic	15,000	Clay	Ekaterina Alexandrova	6–1, 6–4
Win	3–1	Mar 2016	ITF Antalya, Turkey	10,000	Clay	Lisa Sabino	6–2, 6–0
Win	4–1	Jan 2017	ITF Stuttgart, Germany	15,000	Hard (i)	Anna Zaja	3–6, 6–2, 6–1
Win	5–1	Feb 2017	ITF Grenoble, France	25,000	Hard (i)	Anna Blinkova	7–5, 6–4
Loss	5–2	Feb 2017	ITF Perth, Australia	25,000	Hard	Marie Bouzková	6–1, 3–6, 2–6
Loss	5–3	Mar 2017	ITF Clare, Australia	25,000	Hard	Beatriz Haddad Maia	2–6, 2–6
Win	6–3	May 2017	ITF Trnava, Slovakia	100,000	Clay	Verónica Cepede Royg	7–5, 7–6(7–3)
Win	7–3	Jul 2017	ITF Prague, Czech Republic	80,000	Clay	Karolína Muchová	7–5, 6–1

Doubles: 6 (4 titles, 2 runners-up)

Legend $100,000 tournaments $75,000 tournaments $50,000 tournaments $25,000 tournaments $15,000 tournaments $10,000 tournaments

Finals by surface Hard (2–0) Clay (2–2) Grass (0–0) Carpet (0–0)

Result	W–L	Date	Tournament	Tier	Surface	Partner	Opponents	Score
Win	1–0	Mar 2015	ITF Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt	$10,000	Hard	Vera Lapko	Anna Morgina Caroline Rohde-Moe	6–2, 6–4
Win	2–0	May 2015	ITF Zielona Góra, Poland	$10,000	Clay	Miriam Kolodziejová	Natela Dzalamidze Margarita Lazareva	6–2, 6–2
Win	3–0	Jun 2015	ITF Přerov, Czech Republic	$15,000	Clay	Miriam Kolodziejová	Martina Borecká Jesika Malečková	6–4, 6–1
Loss	3–1	Aug 2015	ITF Prague, Czech Republic	$75,000	Clay	Miriam Kolodziejová	Kateřina Kramperová Bernarda Pera	6–7(4–7), 7–5, [1–10]
Loss	3–2	Mar 2016	ITF Antalya, Turkey	$10,000	Clay	Natálie Novotná	Olga Doroshina Anastasiya Vasylyeva	2–6, 1–6
Win	4–2	Jan 2017	ITF Stuttgart, Germany	$15,000	Hard (i)	Miriam Kolodziejová	Anita Husarić Kimberley Zimmermann	7–6(7–3), 7–5

Junior Grand Slam finals

Girls' Doubles

Result	Year	Tournament	Surface	Partner	Opponents	Score
Loss	2014	French Open	Clay	CiCi Bellis	Ioana Ducu Ioana Loredana Roșca	1–6, 7–5, [9–11]
Win	2015	Australian Open	Hard	Miriam Kolodziejová	Katharina Hobgarski Greet Minnen	7–5, 6–4
Win	2015	French Open	Clay	Miriam Kolodziejová	Caroline Dolehide Katerina Stewart	6–0, 6–3

Performance timeline

Key

W

F

SF

QF

#R

RR

Q#

P#

DNQ

A

Z#

PO

G

S

B

NMS

NTI

P

NH

(W) winner; (F) finalist; (SF) semifinalist; (QF) quarterfinalist; (#R) rounds 4, 3, 2, 1; (RR) round-robin stage; (Q#) qualification round; (P#) preliminary round; (DNQ) did not qualify; (A) absent; (Z#) Davis/Fed Cup Zonal Group (with number indication) or (PO) play-off; (G) gold, (S) silver or (B) bronze Olympic/Paralympic medal; (NMS) not a Masters tournament; (NTI) not a Tier I tournament; (P) postponed; (NH) not held; (SR) strike rate (events won / competed); (W–L) win–loss record.

To avoid confusion and double counting, these charts are updated at the conclusion of a tournament or when the player's participation has ended.

Singles

Only Main Draw results in WTA Tour, Grand Slam Tournaments and Olympic Games are included in Win–Loss records. This table is current through the 2019 Italian Open.

Tournament	2016	2017	2018	2019	SR	W–L	Win%
Grand Slam tournaments
Australian Open	A	A	2R	2R	0 / 2	2–2	50%
French Open	A	2R	1R	F	0 / 3	7–3	70%
Wimbledon	A	1R	1R		0 / 2	0–2	0%
US Open	A	1R	4R		0 / 2	3–2	60%
Win–Loss	0–0	1–3	4–4	1–1	0 / 8	12-9	57%
WTA Premier Mandatory tournaments
Indian Wells Open	A	A	4R	QF	0 / 2	7–2	78%
Miami Open	A	A	1R	QF	0 / 2	4–2	67%
Madrid Open	A	A	A	A	0 / 0	0–0	–
China Open	A	A	A		0 / 0	0–0	–
WTA Premier 5 tournaments
Dubai / Qatar Opens[1]	A	A	2R	A	0 / 1	1–1	50%
Italian Open	A	A	A	QF	0 / 1	3–1	75%
Canadian Open	A	A	A		0 / 0	0–0	–
Cincinnati Open	A	A	1R		0 / 1	0–1	0%
Wuhan Open	A	A	1R		0 / 1	0–1	0%
Career statistics
Tournaments played	1	7	16	6	30
Titles	0	1	0	0	1
Finals reached	0	1	0	2	3
Overall Win–Loss	1–1	8–6	14–16	20–6	1 / 30	43–29	60%
Win %	50%	57%	47%	77%	59.72%
Year-end ranking	376	67	67		$1,521,347

Notes

• ¹ The first Premier 5 event of the year has switched back and forth between the Dubai Tennis Championships and the Qatar Total Open since 2009. Dubai was classified as a Premier 5 event from 2009–2011 before being succeeded by Doha for the 2012–2014 period. In 2015, Dubai regained its Premier 5 status while Doha was demoted to Premier status. The two tournaments have since alternated status every year.

Top 10 wins

Season	2019	Total
Wins	2	2

#	Player	Rank	Event	Surface	Rd	Score	MVR
2019
1.	Simona Halep	No. 2	Indian Wells Masters, United States	Hard	4R	6–2, 3–6, 6–2	No. 61
2.	Simona Halep	No. 2	Italian Open, Italy	Clay	2R	2–6, 7–5, 6–3	No. 44

Personal

Vondroušová has a tattoo above her right elbow; “No rain, no flowers.”

External links

• Markéta Vondroušová at the Women's Tennis Association
• Markéta Vondroušová at the International Tennis Federation