Andrea Sestini Hlaváčková

Andrea Sestini Hlaváčková
Hlaváčková, 2015 in Madrid
Nation:	Czech Republic
Birthday:	10th August 1986 (age 34)
Size:	174 cm
Weight:	62 kg
1st professional season:	2000
Playing hand:	Right, two-handed backhand
Prize money:	$ 5,261,917
singles
Career record:	359: 317
Career title:	0 WTA , 8 ITF
Highest ranking:	58 (September 10, 2012)
Grand Slam record
Double
Career record:	492: 233
Career title:	27 WTA, 19 ITF
Highest ranking:	3 (October 22, 2012)
Grand Slam record
Mixed
Grand Slam record
Olympic games
Last update of the infobox: February 10, 2020
Sources: official player profiles at the ATP / WTA and ITF (see web links )

Andrea Hlaváčková Sestini (* 10. August 1986 as Andrea Hlaváčková in Pilsen , Czechoslovakia ) is a Czech tennis player .

Career

On May 13, 2007, she won her first WTA title at the double competition in Prague alongside her compatriot Petra Cetkovská . From 2008 she played mostly with Lucie Hradecká , with whom she won twelve WTA double titles.

On June 3, 2011, she secured her first title at a Grand Slam tournament with Hradecká, with whom she also reached the final in Memphis . They defeated Sania Mirza and Jelena Wesnina 6: 4 and 6: 3 in the final of the French Open . This climbed Hlaváčková, who was also with Klára Zakopalová in the final in Palermo , among the top 20 in the double world rankings ; in May 2012 she was already number 7. At Wimbledon, she also reached the final with Hradecká, in which the Williams sisters were able to prevail in two sets. In singles, she lost in Melbourne in 2011 in round two against Asaranka . At the grass tournament in Birmingham she made it into the round of 16, at Wimbledon she ended in round two. At the US Open , she missed the jump into the main field.

In 2012, after moving into the round of 16 in Cincinnati (4-6, 6-7 defeat to Angelique Kerber ), she confirmed her good form at the US Open , where, after a three-set win over Maria Kirilenko , she also played in the singles round of a Grand Slam for the first time Tournament stand. There she got from Serena Williams with 0: 6, 0: 6, however, the maximum penalty; nevertheless, after the tournament she was able to show her best individual placement with position 58. In doubles she was with Hradecká for the first time in the final in New York , which they lost to Roberta Vinci and Sara Errani 4-6 and 2-6. With their ninth joint title win, Hlaváčková climbed to 3rd place on October 22, 2012 - their best position in the doubles ranking.

In 2013 she and Hradecká reached the semi-finals of the French Open , from which Jekaterina Makarowa and Jelena Wesnina emerged victorious in two sets. The Czechs won the WTA tournament in Budapest in July with a smooth final victory over Nina Bratchikova and Anna Tatishvili - it was their tenth joint title. At the clay court tournament in Bad Gastein , Hlaváčková even reached the individual finals, in which she lost to Yvonne Meusburger 5: 7, 2: 6. At the US Open , Hlaváčková won two titles. In the mixed final, together with Max Mirny , she defeated Abigail Spears and Santiago González in 86 minutes , and she and Hradecká won the double final against Ashleigh Barty and Casey Dellacqua . At the end of the season, she separated from her doubles partner Hradecká after five years.

With her new doubles partner Lucie Safarova , the new 2014 season started in Auckland , where they in the quarterfinals of the double Sharon Fichman and Maria Sanchez with 6: 7 ⁶ documents 6 and 4. FIG. The duo only reached one final at the ITF tournament in Prague , which they lost against Lucie Hradecká and Michaëlla Krajicek with 3: 6 and 2: 6. After the French Open , where they were eliminated in the first round, she played the rest of the season with different partners. At the tournament in Quebec , she and Julia Görges only lost in the final. At the end of the season she won the tournament in Beijing with Peng Shuai . Then she played again with Hradecká and they won their first tournament in Poitiers .

In 2015 she played the entire season with Hradecká with a few exceptions. They did not win a title, but reached a final three times. The reward was the qualification for the WTA Championships , where they were eliminated in the semi-finals.

At the Australian Open , she and Hradecká reached the final of this Grand Slam tournament for the first time in 2016, where they had to admit defeat to the top-placed women's doubles Martina Hingis and Sania Mirza 6: 7, ¹ and 3: 6. In 2017 , Hlaváčková reached the final there again alongside Peng Shuai ; this time Bethanie Mattek-Sands and Lucie Šafářová prevailed 6: 7, ⁴ , 6: 3 and 6: 3.

She has been playing for the Czech Fed Cup team since 2012 , with which she won the team competition in 2012 and 2014 . Her record in the Fed Cup : 4: 1 wins in doubles and one defeat in the only singles so far.

Sestini Hlaváčková played her last international tournament so far in October 2018. She is therefore no longer in the world rankings.

Personal

Hlaváčková's father Jan is a master brewer, her mother Jana a doctor. Andreas older sister Jana Hlaváčková (* 1981) was also a professional tennis player; she reached place 202 in singles and 193 in doubles in the world rankings. In 2004 the two sisters regularly competed in doubles at ITF tournaments.

On July 22, 2017, she married Fabrizio Sestini. Since the 2018 season it has been running under the name Andrea Sestini Hlaváčková . She had a child in the summer of 2019.

Tournament victories

Double

No.	date	competition	category	Topping	Partner	Final opponents	Result
1.	May 13, 2007	Prague	WTA Tier IV	sand	Petra Cetkovská	Ji Chunmei Sun Shengnan	7: 6 7 , 6: 2
2.	May 4, 2008	Prague	WTA Tier IV	sand	Lucie Hradecká	Jill Craybas Michaëlla Krajicek	1: 6, 6: 3, [10: 6]
3.	July 20, 2008	Bad Gastein	WTA Tier III	sand	Lucie Hradecká	Sesil Karatancheva Nataša Zorić	6: 3, 6: 3
4th	July 26, 2009	Bad Gastein	WTA International	sand	Lucie Hradecká	Tatjana Malek Andrea Petković	6: 2, 6: 4
5.	January 9, 2010	Brisbane	WTA International	Hard court	Lucie Hradecká	Melinda Czink Arantxa Parra Santonja	2: 6, 7: 6 3 , [10: 4]
6th	April 24, 2011	Fez	WTA International	sand	Renata Voráčová	Nina Bratchikova Sandra Klemenschits	6: 3, 6: 4
7th	May 21, 2011	Brussels	WTA Premier	sand	Galina Voskoboyeva	Klaudia Jans Alicja Rosolska	3: 6, 6: 0, [10: 5]
8th.	June 3, 2011	French Open	Grand Slam	sand	Lucie Hradecká	Sania Mirza Jelena Wesnina	6: 4, 6: 3
9.	January 7, 2012	Auckland	WTA International	Hard court	Lucie Hradecká	Julia Görges Flavia Pennetta	6: 7 2 , 6: 2, [10: 7]
10.	February 25, 2012	Memphis	WTA International	Hard court (hall)	Lucie Hradecká	Wera Duschewina Wolha Hawarzowa	6: 3, 6: 4
11.	20th August 2012	Cincinnati	WTA Premier 5	Hard court	Lucie Hradecká	Katarina Srebotnik Zheng Jie	6: 1, 6: 3
12.	October 21, 2012	Luxembourg	WTA International	Hard court (hall)	Lucie Hradecká	Irina-Camelia Begu Monica Niculescu	6: 3, 6: 4
13.	July 14, 2013	Budapest	WTA International	sand	Lucie Hradecká	Nina Bratchikova Anna Tatishvili	6: 4, 6: 1
14th	September 7, 2013	US Open	Grand Slam	Hard court	Lucie Hradecká	Ashleigh Barty Casey Dellacqua	6: 7 4 , 6: 1, 6: 4
15th	4th October 2014	Beijing	WTA Premier Mandatory	Hard court	Peng Shuai	Cara Black Sania Mirza	6: 4, 6: 4
16.	April 29, 2016	Prague	WTA International	sand	Margarita Gasparjan	María Irigoyen Paula Kania	6: 4, 6: 2
17th	June 12, 2016	Nottingham	WTA International	race	Peng Shuai	Gabriela Dabrowski Yang Zhaoxuan	7: 5, 3: 6, [10: 7]
18th	18th September 2016	Quebec	WTA International	Carpet (hall)	Lucie Hradecká	Alla Kudrjawzewa Alexandra Panowa	7: 6 2 , 7: 6 2
19th	October 21, 2016	Moscow	WTA Premier	Hard court (hall)	Lucie Hradecká	Darja Gavrilowa Darja Kassatkina	4: 6, 6: 0, [10: 7]
20th	January 7, 2017	Shenzhen	WTA International	Hard court	Peng Shuai	Ioana Raluca Olaru Olha Savchuk	6: 1, 7: 5
21st	5th May 2017	Rabat	WTA International	sand	Tímea Babos	Nina Stojanović Maryna Sanewska	2: 6, 6: 3, [10: 5]
22nd	17th September 2017	Quebec	WTA International	Carpet (hall)	Tímea Babos	Bianca Andreescu Carson Branstine	6: 3, 6: 1
23.	September 30, 2017	Tashkent	WTA International	Hard court	Tímea Babos	Nao Hibino Oksana Kalashnikova	7: 5, 6: 4
24.	20th October 2017	Moscow	WTA Premier	Hard court (hall)	Tímea Babos	Nicole Melichar Anna Smith	6: 2, 3: 6, [10: 3]
25th	October 29, 2017	Singapore	WTA Tour Championships	Hard court (hall)	Tímea Babos	Kiki Bertens Johanna Larsson	4: 6, 6: 4, [10: 5]
26th	August 25, 2018	New Haven	WTA Premier	Hard court	Barbora Strýcová	Hsieh Su-wei Laura Siegemund	6: 4, 6: 7 7 , [10: 4]
27.	October 7, 2018	Beijing	WTA Premier Mandatory	Hard court	Barbora Strýcová	Xu Yifan Gabriela Dabrowski	6: 4, 4: 6, [10: 8]

Mixed

No.	date	competition	category	Topping	partner	Final opponent	Result
1.	September 6, 2013	US Open	Grand Slam	Hard court	Max Mirny	Abigail Spears Santiago González	7: 6 5 , 6: 3

Performing in Grand Slam tournaments and the WTA Tour Championships

singles

competition	2010	2011	2012	2013	2014	2015	Career
Australian Open	-	2	1	1	-	-	2
French Open	-	1	-	1	-	1	1
Wimbledon	2	2	2	1	1	Q1	2
US Open	-	-	AF	-	-	-	AF

Double

competition	2007	2008	2009	2010	2011	2012	2013	2014	2015	2016	2017	2018	Career
Australian Open	-	-	2	AF	2	HF	2	VF	AF	F.	F.	VF	F.
French Open	-	-	1	AF	S.	HF	HF	1	HF	VF	2	HF	S.
Wimbledon	2	1	1	2	1	F.	VF	HF	2	AF	AF	AF	F.
US Open	-	-	2	1	VF	F.	S.	VF	AF	AF	VF	AF	S.
WTA Tour Championships	-	-	-	-	-	F.	-	-	HF	VF	S.	HF	S.

Mixed

competition	2009	2010	2011	2012	2013	2014	2015	2016	2017	2018	Career
Australian Open	-	-	-	VF	AF	AF	VF	AF	1	VF	VF
French Open	-	AF	-	1	AF	1	2	HF	HF	AF	HF
Wimbledon	1	1	2	2	2	AF	AF	AF	2	AF	AF
US Open	-	1	1	AF	S.	AF	HF	AF	1	VF	S.

Web links

Commons : Andrea Sestini Hlaváčková  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• WTA profile of Andrea Sestini Hlaváčková (English)
• ITF profile of Andrea Sestini Hlaváčková (English)
• Fed Cup stats by Andrea Hlaváčková Sestini (English)
• Andrea Sestini Hlaváčková in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• Website of Andrea Hlaváčková

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Hlavackova and Hradecka split up. (No longer available online.) In: tennisnet.com. October 29, 2013, archived from the original on March 30, 2016 ; accessed on March 30, 2016 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
2. ↑ Two-time Grand Slam doubles champion and Olympic silver medalist Andrea Hlavackova got married on Saturday. In: wtatennis.com. July 22, 2017, accessed November 13, 2017 . 
3. ↑ Hlaváčková: Potkávat se s manželem na Tour? Za to jsem vděčná. In: tenisportal.cz. September 1, 2017, Retrieved November 13, 2017 (Czech). 
4. ↑ sestini-hlavackova-announces-pregnancy-keeping-wta-comeback-options-open. In: wtatennis.com. February 6, 2019, accessed on February 13, 2020 .