Karolína Plíšková

Karolína Plíšková
Karolína Plíšková at the 2016 French Open
Nation:	Czech Republic
Birthday:	March 21, 1992
Size:	186 cm
Weight:	72 kg
1st professional season:	2009
Playing hand:	Right, two-handed backhand
Trainer:	Conchita Martínez
Prize money:	$ 19,784,968
singles
Career record:	531: 289
Career title:	16 WTA , 10 ITF
Highest ranking:	1 (July 17, 2017)
Current placement:	2
Weeks as No. 1:	8th
Grand Slam record
Double
Career record:	172: 134
Career title:	5 WTA, 6 ITF
Highest ranking:	11 (October 31, 2016)
Current placement:	90
Grand Slam record
Last update of the infobox: January 26th, 2020
Sources: official player profiles at the ATP / WTA and ITF (see web links )

Karolína Plíšková (officially Karolína Hrdličková , born March  21, 1992 in Louny , Czechoslovakia ) is a Czech tennis player who, like her twin sister Kristýna Plíšková, competes on the WTA Tour . In July 2017, she took over the leadership of the tennis world rankings as the 23rd player .

Career

Plíšková began playing tennis at the age of four, preferring hard courts. On January 30, 2010, she won the Australian Open junior competition . Seeded at number 6, she defeated the unseeded Laura Robson in the final 6: 1, 7: 6 ⁵ .

In 2008 Plíšková won her first ITF tournament, and in 2013 her first WTA title. Also in 2013, she reached the second round of a Grand Slam tournament for the first time at Wimbledon .

In 2014, she reached the second round in both Auckland and the Australian Open earlier this year. At the hard court tournament in Pattaya she was defeated in the final by Ekaterina Makarova in two sets. She lost her second final of the year at the Nuremberg Insurance Cup in three sets against Eugenie Bouchard ; with her doubles partner Michaëlla Krajicek , however, she won the doubles title there. In August she was in the top 50 of the WTA world rankings for the first time in singles and doubles . At the US Open , she reached the third round of singles this time - her best result so far in a Grand Slam tournament, which she then repeated at the Australian Open . In autumn 2014 Plíšková won two WTA tournaments. In Seoul she won against Varvara Lepchenko , in Linz against Camila Giorgi .

In 2015 she was in five WTA finals; she won the tournament in Prague and reached the top ten in the world rankings in August 2015.

Karolína Plíšková has played since 2013 (until 2014 with her sister Kristýna) for the Eckert tennis team , the 1st team of the TC Rot-Blau Regensburg , which after the championship in the 2nd Bundesliga South in the 2015 season for the first time in the Bundesliga was represented. After finishing third in the first season, Plíšková won the title with Regensburg in 2016.

In February 2015 she appeared for the first time for the Czech Fed Cup team ; she won both singles against Canada in Quebec . She has now played 16 Fed Cup games, of which she has won thirteen.

Plíšková's greatest success so far in singles was reaching the finals at the US Open in 2016 . As number 10 on the seeding list, she lost out in the final against Angelique Kerber with 3: 6, 6: 4, 4: 6. Pliskova climbed in the world rankings but in position 6. Among other things, by their strong showing at the Australian Open (quarter-finals) improved it in January 2017 3rd place in Wimbledon eliminated them in the second round, but took over due to the early retirement of Angelique Kerber and Simona Halep took the lead in the world rankings for the first time on July 17, 2017 .

Tournament victories

singles

No.	date	competition	category	Topping	Final opponent	Result
1.	April 20, 2008	Bol	ITF $ 10,000	sand	Florence Haring	6: 4, 7: 5
2.	May 31, 2009	Grado	ITF $ 25,000	sand	Julia Schruff	7: 6 2 , 7: 5
3.	September 13, 2009	Noto	ITF $ 25,000	carpet	Shiho Hisamatsu	3: 6, 7: 6 2 , 7: 6 9
4th	May 2, 2010	Gifu	ITF $ 50,000	Hard court	Sun Shengnan	6: 3, 3: 6, 6: 3
5.	October 24, 2010	Glasgow	ITF $ 25,000	Hard court (hall)	Eirini Georgatou	3: 6, 6: 0, 6: 3
6th	October 22, 2011	Makinohara	ITF $ 25,000	carpet	Erika Sema	6: 7 5 , 6: 2, 6: 0
7th	October 30, 2011	Hamanako	ITF $ 25,000	carpet	Junri Namigata	6: 2, 7: 6 4
8th.	5th February 2012	Grenoble	ITF $ 25,000	Hard court (hall)	Kristýna Plíšková	7: 6 11 , 7: 6 6
9.	November 18, 2012	Sowade	ITF $ 25,000	Carpet (hall)	Ana Vrljić	6: 3, 6: 2
10.	March 3, 2013	Kuala Lumpur	WTA International	Hard court	Bethanie Mattek-Sands	1: 6, 7: 5, 6: 3
11.	September 14, 2013	Sanya	ITF $ 50,000	Hard court	Zheng Saisai	6: 3, 6: 4
12.	September 21, 2014	Seoul	WTA International	Hard court	Varvara Lepchenko	6: 3, 6: 7 5 , 6: 2
13.	October 12, 2014	Linz	WTA International	Hard court (hall)	Camila Giorgi	6: 7 4 , 6: 3, 7: 6 4
14th	May 2, 2015	Prague	WTA International	sand	Lucie Hradecká	4: 6, 7: 5, 6: 3
15th	June 12, 2016	Nottingham	WTA International	race	Alison Riske	7: 6 8 , 7: 5
16.	August 21, 2016	Cincinnati	WTA Premier 5	Hard court	Angelique Kerber	6: 3, 6: 1
17th	January 7, 2017	Brisbane (1)	WTA Premier	Hard court	Alizé Cornet	6: 0, 6: 3
18th	18th February 2017	Doha	WTA Premier	Hard court	Caroline Wozniacki	6: 3, 6: 4
19th	July 1, 2017	Eastbourne (1)	WTA Premier	race	Caroline Wozniacki	6: 4, 6: 4
20th	April 29, 2018	Stuttgart	WTA Premier	Sand (hall)	Coco Vandeweghe	7: 6 2 6: 4
21st	23rd September 2018	Tokyo	WTA Premier	Hard court (hall)	Naomi Osaka	6: 4, 6: 4
22nd	January 6, 2019	Brisbane (2)	WTA Premier	Hard court	Lesja Zurenko	4: 6, 7: 5, 6: 2
23.	19th May 2019	Rome	WTA Premier 5	sand	Johanna Konta	6: 3, 6: 4
24.	June 29, 2019	Eastbourne (2)	WTA Premier	race	Angelique Kerber	6: 1, 6: 4
25th	15th September 2019	Zhengzhou	WTA Premier	Hard court	Petra Martić	6: 3, 6: 2
26th	January 12, 2020	Brisbane (3)	WTA Premier	Hard court	Madison Keys	6: 4, 4: 6, 7: 5

Double

No.	date	competition	category	Topping	Partner	Final opponents	Result
1.	October 13, 2013	Linz	WTA International	Hard court (hall)	Kristýna Plíšková	Gabriela Dabrowski Alicja Rosolska	7: 6 6 , 6: 4
2.	May 24, 2014	Nuremberg	WTA International	sand	Michaëlla Krajicek	Iona Raluca Olaru Shahar Peer	6: 0, 4: 6, [10: 6]
3.	July 13, 2014	Bad Gastein	WTA International	sand	Kristýna Plíšková	Andreja Klepač María Teresa Torró Flor	4: 6, 6: 3, [10: 6]
4th	September 14, 2014	Hong Kong	WTA International	Hard court	Kristýna Plíšková	Patricia Mayr-Achleitner Arina Rodionowa	6: 2, 2: 6, [12:10]
5.	19th June 2016	Birmingham	WTA Premier	race	Barbora Strýcová	Vania King Alla Kudryavtseva	6: 3, 7: 6 1

Career statistics and tournament record

singles

competition	2010	2011	2012	2013	2014	2015	2016	2017	2018	2019	2020	total
Australian Open	-	Q1	Q1	1	2	3	3	VF	VF	HF	3	0
French Open	-	Q2	1	1	2	2	1	HF	3	3		0
Wimbledon	Q1	-	1	2	2	2	2	2	AF	AF		0
US Open	Q1	Q1	Q2	1	3	1	F.	VF	VF	AF		0
Tour Championships	-	-	-	-	-	-	RR	HF	VF	HF		0
Doha	n / A		-	2	2	a. K.	1	a. K.	AF	a. K.		0
Dubai	-	-	na or a. K.			F.	a. K.	2	a. K.	VF	a. K.	0
Indian Wells	-	-	Q1	Q1	3	AF	HF	HF	VF	VF		0
Miami	-	-	-	2	1	VF	2	HF	VF	F.		0
Rome	-	-	-	-	-	1	1	VF	2	S.		1
Madrid	-	-	-	Q1	2	2	AF	2	HF	2		0
Cincinnati	-	-	Q2	Q2	Q1	AF	S.	HF	2	QF		1
Montreal / Toronto	-	-	-	Q1	2	1	AF	VF	2	QF		0
Tokyo	-	1	-	-	other category							0
Wuhan	not carried out				AF	VF	AF	VF	2	AF		0
Beijing	-	-	-	Q2	1	1	AF	AF	AF	1		0
Olympic games	n / A		-	not carried out			-	not carried out				0
Fed Cup	-	-	-	-	-	S.	S.	HF	S.	PO		3

Explanation of symbols: S = tournament victory; F, HF, VF, AF = entry into the final / semi-finals / quarter-finals / round of 16; 1, 2, 3 = elimination in the 1st / 2nd / 3rd main round; RR = Round Robin (group stage); na = not carried out; a. K. = other category; PO (playoff) = promotion and relegation round in the Fed Cup; K1, K2, K3 = participation in continental groups I, II, III in the Fed Cup.

	2007	2008	2009	2010	2011	2012	2013	2014	2015	2016	2017	2018	2019	total
Tournament participation	1	1	1	1	3	6th	16	26th	26th	22nd	20th	23	5	151
Finals reached	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	5	6th	4th	3	3	2	24
Title won	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	2	1	2	3	2	1	12
Hard court wins / defeats	0-0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0: 2	1: 3	8: 8	36:18	37:19	24:13	28: 8	32:16	21: 5	187: 92
Sand victories / defeats	0: 1	2: 1	0: 1	0: 1	0: 1	0: 2	2: 5	7: 4	7: 3	6: 5	9: 5	12: 4	0-0	45:33
Turf wins / defeats	0-0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0: 1	1: 2	1: 2	6: 3	10: 3	5: 1	5: 3	0-0	28:15
Carpet victories / defeats	0-0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0-0
Overall wins / losses	0: 1	2: 1	0: 1	0: 1	0: 3	1: 6	11:15	44:24	50:25	40:21	42:14	49:23	21: 5	260: 140
World ranking points	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-		N / A
Year-end position	860	427	228	203	159	110	67	24	11	6th	4th	8th		N / A

Last updated: April 4, 2019

Double

competition	2012	2013	2014	2015	2016	2017	Career
Australian Open	-	-	1	1	HF	1	HF
French Open	-	1	1	2	AF	-	AF
Wimbledon	-	1	1	1	HF	-	HF
US Open	1	1	1	1	AF	-	AF

World ranking positions at the end of the season

year	2006	2007	2008	2009	2010	2011	2012	2013	2014	2015	2016	2017	2018
singles	1168	860	427	228	203	159	120	67	24	11	6th	4th	8th
Double	-	917	818	-	364	130	102	77	46	46	11	414	205

Personal

After a two and a half year relationship, she married the Czech presenter Michal Hrdlička in Monaco in mid-July 2018 . She took his name, but will continue to compete under Plíšková in tennis tournaments.

Web links

Commons : Karolína Plíšková  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• WTA profile of Karolína Plíšková (English)
• ITF profile of Karolína Plíšková (English)
• ITF junior profile karolína plíšková (English)
• Fed Cup Stats karolína plíšková (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ TC Rot-Blau Regensburg e. V .: Sensation! Angelique Kerber plays for the Eckert tennis team on October 21, 2014, accessed on October 25, 2014
2. ↑ Claus-Dieter Wotruba: The Eckert tennis ladies get the title. In: Mittelbayerische Zeitung. July 10, 2016, accessed January 17, 2017 . 
3. ↑ Pliskova Announces marriage to fiancé Michal Hrdlicka. In: wtatennis.com. July 19, 2018, accessed July 20, 2018 . 
4. ^ Tajná svatba: Karolína Plíšková se vdala za Michala Hrdličku. In: idnew.cz. July 19, 2018, Retrieved July 20, 2018 (Czech).