Kristýna Plíšková

Kristýna Plíšková
2010 as a junior at Wimbledon
Nation:	Czech Republic
Birthday:	March 21, 1992
Size:	184 cm
Weight:	73 kg
1st professional season:	2009
Playing hand:	Left, two-handed backhand
Trainer:	Jaroslav Levinsky
Prize money:	$ 2,844,938
singles
Career record:	391: 324
Career title:	1 WTA , 1 WTA Challenger, 9 ITF
Highest ranking:	35 (July 31, 2017)
Current placement:	69
Grand Slam record
Double
Career record:	156: 130
Career title:	3 WTA, 8 ITF
Highest ranking:	51 (September 15, 2014)
Current placement:	58
Grand Slam record
Last update of the infobox: March 16, 2020
Sources: official player profiles at the ATP / WTA and ITF (see web links )

Kristýna Plíšková (born March  21, 1992 in Louny , Czechoslovakia ) is a Czech tennis player . She is the twin sister of the former world number one in women's tennis Karolína Plíšková .

Career

Kristýna Plíšková, who started playing tennis at the age of four, already had great success as a junior. In 2010 she first reached the semi-finals of the junior competition at the Australian Open , before she triumphed in the junior women competition in Wimbledon that same year and rose to fourth place in the world junior rankings.

In 2006, Plíšková received a wildcard for qualifying for the WTA tournament in Prague , where it failed at the start to Kirsten Flipkens . She then played parallel to her junior career on the ITF Women's World Tennis Tour and won her first professional title at the 2010 $ 50,000 tournament in Kurume after a three-set win in the final over her twin sister Karolína . In her subsequent debut in the main draw of a WTA tournament, also in Prague, where she was allowed to start with a wildcard, she lost in the first round to Anabel Medina Garrigues . In New York she was in the qualification of a Grand Slam tournament for the first time and made it to the final round straight away.

In 2011 Plíšková was able to record her first victory in the main draw of a WTA tournament in Fez when she beat Renata Voráčová in the first round coming from qualifying . In Wimbledon she was able to qualify for the first time for the main draw of a Grand Slam tournament in the same year, but was eliminated at the start against Marion Bartoli . Several years followed, in which Plíšková initially tried unsuccessfully to establish herself on the WTA Tour and to live up to expectations after her early successes as a junior. Only on fast rubbers was she able to land one or two respectable successes thanks to her serve strength. In Wimbledon 2012 she was able to celebrate her first success in the main round of a Grand Slam tournament in the first round against Polona Hercog before losing to Francesca Schiavone in round two . In 2013 she won the ITF $ 50,000 tournament in Limoges and the following year in Nottingham in a $ 75,000 tournament, her biggest title to date. Things went better for Plíšková in doubles, where she won three titles alongside her sister Karolina in 2013 and 2014. After their first triumph in Linz at the end of 2013, the two were also successful in Bad Gastein and Hong Kong the following year . Plíšková started the first half of the 2015 season strongly with three more ITF titles and reaching the third round of a Grand Slam tournament in Wimbledon for the first time , but due to a weak second half, she also ended this season outside the top 100 in the world rankings.

In 2016 she caused a sensation at the Australian Open when she set a new WTA record in the second round against Monica Puig with a total of 31 aces in a main draw match. Nevertheless, Plíšková lost the game 7: 9 in the extension of the third set. After she advanced to the third round for the first time in Miami , she succeeded in the fall with victory at a tournament of the WTA Challenger Series in Dalian , where she benefited from an injury-related task Misa Eguchi in the final with a score of 2: 5 in the final set then the biggest title, followed three weeks later after a three-set win over Nao Hibino, her first triumph at a WTA tournament in Tashkent . In 2016, it ended a year in the top 100 in the world for the first time.

In 2017, after moving into the third round of Melbourne and her second WTA final in Prague , which she lost to Mona Barthel , Plíšková was even able to achieve her best world rankings in 35th place, but her results remained inconsistent. In the 2018 season, she only reached two quarter-finals in smaller WTA tournaments on the WTA Tour, but came to the quarter-finals in Charleston after defeating her compatriot Petra Kvitová and later in Madrid as a qualifier, the third round. In 2019, Plíšková reached the semi-finals in Lugano and Tashkent and advanced to the quarter-finals in Birmingham after her fifth win against a top 10 player, her twin sister Karolína, in which she was defeated by Barbora Strýcová . In addition, she won her fourth WTA title in doubles with Viktória Kužmová in Bucharest . She also finished in the world's top 100 for the fourth year in a row.

Kristýna Plíšková has only played once for the extremely successful Czech Fed Cup team , in 2017 in the semifinals against the USA , where she lost in doubles.

Kristýna and Karolína Plíšková have played in the German Bundesliga since 2013 for the Eckert Tennis Team, the 1st team of the TC Rot-Blau Regensburg , which was represented in the Bundesliga for the first time since the 2015 season after the championship in the 2nd Bundesliga South and is now In 2016 and 2017 he was a two-time German champion. Kristýna Plíšková is active for the TC Blau-Weiß Dresden-Blasewitz in the 2019 Bundesliga season .

Tournament victories

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No.	date	competition	category	Topping	Final opponent	Result
1	May 16, 2010	Kurume	ITF $ 50,000	race	Karolína Plíšková	5: 7, 6: 2, 6: 0
2	January 29, 2012	Andrézieux-Bouthéon	ITF $ 25,000	Hard court (hall)	Anna-Giulia Remondina	6: 2, 6: 2
3	20th October 2013	Limoges	ITF $ 50,000	Hard court (hall)	Tamira Paszek	3: 6, 6: 3, 6: 2
4th	March 9, 2014	Preston	ITF $ 25,000	Hard court (hall)	Çağla Büyükakçay	6: 3, 7: 6 4
5	June 7, 2014	Nottingham	ITF $ 75,000	race	Sarina Dijas	6: 2, 3: 6, 6: 4
6th	February 8, 2015	Glasgow	ITF $ 25,000	Hard court (hall)	Ana Bogdan	6: 2, 6: 2
7th	April 12, 2015	Barnstaple	ITF $ 25,000	Hard court (hall)	Nina Zander	6: 3, 6: 2
8th	May 10, 2015	Fukuoka	ITF $ 50,000	race	Nao Hibino	7: 5, 6: 4
9	February 28, 2016	Kreuzlingen	ITF $ 50,000	Carpet (hall)	Amra Sadikovic	7: 6 4 , 7: 6 3
10	11th September 2016	Dalian	WTA Challenger	Hard court	Misa Eguchi	7: 5, 4: 6, 2: 5 task
11	October 1, 2016	Tashkent	WTA International	Hard court	Nao Hibino	6: 3, 2: 6, 6: 3

Double

No.	date	competition	category	Topping	Partner	Final opponents	Result
1	October 13, 2013	Linz	WTA International	Hard court (hall)	Karolína Plíšková	Gabriela Dabrowski Alicja Rosolska	7: 6 6 , 6: 4
2	July 13, 2014	Bad Gastein	WTA International	sand	Karolína Plíšková	Andreja Klepač María Teresa Torró Flor	4: 6, 6: 3, [10: 6]
3	September 14, 2014	Hong Kong	WTA International	Hard court	Karolína Plíšková	Patricia Mayr-Achleitner Arina Rodionowa	6: 2, 2: 6, [12:10]
4th	September 8, 2018	Chicago	WTA Challenger	Hard court	Mona Barthel	Asia Muhammad Maria Sanchez	6: 3, 6: 2
5.	2nd March 2019	Indian Wells	WTA Challenger	Hard court	Yevgenia Rodina	Taylor Townsend Yanina Wickmayer	7: 6 7 , 6: 4
6th	August 16, 2020	Prague	WTA International	sand	Lucie Hradecká	Monica Niculescu Raluca Olaru	6: 2, 6: 2

Performing in Grand Slam tournaments

singles

competition	2011	2012	2013	2014	2015	2016	2017	2018	2019	2020	Career
Australian Open	-	-	2	-	-	2	3	1	2	1	3
French Open	-	-	1	-	-	1	1	1	1		1
Wimbledon	1	2	1	1	3	1	2	1	1		3
US Open	-	2	-	1	Q1	Q2	2	1	2		2

Double

competition	2011	2012	2013	2014	2015	2016	2017	2018	2019	2020	Career
Australian Open	-	-	-	-	-	-	AF	2	-	1	AF
French Open	-	-	-	1	2	-	2	-	-		2
Wimbledon	-	-	-	1	1	-	1	-	-		1
US Open	-	1	-	1	-	-	1	-	-		1

Web links

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

• WTA profile of Kristýna Plíšková (English)
• ITF profile of Kristýna Plíšková (English)
• ITF junior profile Kristyna Pliskova (English)
• Fed Cup statistics from Kristýna Plíšková (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Kristyna Pliskova with the second most aces in history - and still lost. In: mytennis.info. October 18, 2019, accessed July 15, 2020 . 
2. ↑ TC Rot-Blau Regensburg e. V .: Sensation! Angelique Kerber plays for the Eckert tennis team on October 21, 2014, accessed on October 25, 2014
3. ↑ bwdresden.de , accessed on May 3, 2019.