Marie Bouzková

Marie Bouzková
Marie Bouzková, 2018 in London
Nickname:	Maruška, Mary
Nation:	Czech Republic
Birthday:	July 21, 1998
Size:	180 cm
Weight:	61 kg
Playing hand:	Right, two-handed backhand
Trainer:	Cristian Requeni Milan Bouzek (father)
Prize money:	$ 804,354
singles
Career record:	239: 124
Career title:	0 WTA , 12 ITF
Highest ranking:	47 (March 16, 2020)
Current placement:	47
Grand Slam record
Double
Career record:	21:16
Career title:	0 WTA, 3 ITF
Highest ranking:	163 (March 9, 2020)
Current placement:	163
Grand Slam record
Last update of the infobox: March 16, 2020
Sources: official player profiles at the ATP / WTA and ITF (see web links )

Marie Bouzková (born  July 21, 1998 in Prague ) is a Czech tennis player .

Career

Bouzková, who learned to play tennis at the age of five years at the club of parents who moved even with ten to Florida to attend the prestigious academy of Nick Bollettieri to train. Her greatest success as a junior was winning the junior competition at the US Open 2014 , where she prevailed against Anhelina Kalinina in the final and stayed without losing a set during the entire tournament. Before that, she had already reached the double-finals of the Wimbledon junior women's competition at the side of Dalma Gálfi , in which the two Tami Grende and Ye Qiuyu had to admit defeat. Thanks to her success at the Grand Slam tournaments, she climbed to seventh place in the junior women's tennis world rankings .

In 2013 Bouzková began playing on the ITF Women's World Tennis Tour after making her WTA debut with a wildcard for qualifying in WTA Katowice , but was eliminated there in the first round. The following year she won her first professional title, and in 2016 her first $ 25,000 tournament in Cuernacava . After two more ITF titles in early 2017, Bouzková qualified for the main draw of a WTA tournament for the first time in Biel , but there she lost in the first round to Barbora Strýcová . In London she started in the same year for the first time in the qualification of a Grand Slam tournament and reached the second round. In 2018 Bouzková made her debut in the main draw of a Grand Slam tournament after successfully qualifying in New York , where she lost to Ana Bogdan in the first round . In Québec she then won her first match in the main round of a WTA tournament against Sessil Karatancheva .

In 2019, Bouzková's career took off when she reached the second round from qualifying at the start of the season in Brisbane and advanced to the final in a WTA Challenger Series tournament in Guadalajara , which she lost to Weronika Kudermetowa . In Wimbledon , she survived the opening round of a Grand Slam tournament for the first time after moving up into the main field as a lucky loser and beating Mona Barthel there in the first round . This was followed by her biggest title win so far at an ITF tournament in the $ 80,000 category in Nur-Sultan and then with the move into the semi-finals of the Rogers Cup in Toronto, where she with Sloane Stephens in the second round and Simona Halep after giving up in the quarter-finals two Defeated players from the top 10 in the world rankings, the best result of her career so far. Only in the semifinals did she have to admit defeat to Serena Williams in three sets. Due to the successes, Bouzková finished the 2019 season confidently among the top 100 in the world for the first time.

Before the corona-related end of the season, she reached her first final on the WTA tour in Acapulco , in which she was defeated by Elina Switolina in three tight sets. Then she achieved her highest world ranking position to date with 47th place.

Tournament victories

singles

No.	date	competition	category	Topping	Final opponent	Result
1.	5th October 2014	Hilton Head Island	ITF $ 10,000	sand	Natalja Wichljanzewa	7: 5, 6: 1
2.	June 21, 2015	Grand Baie	ITF $ 10,000	Hard court	Lou Brouleau	6: 3, 6: 4
3.	June 28, 2015	Grand Baie	ITF $ 10,000	Hard court	Jaeda Daniel	7: 5, 6: 2
4th	5th July 2015	La Possession	ITF $ 10,000	Hard court	Ilze Hattingh	6: 2, 6: 3
5.	January 23, 2016	Petit-Bourg	ITF $ 10,000	Hard court	Theo Gravouil	6: 4, 6: 1
6th	February 21, 2016	Cuernavaca	ITF $ 25,000	Hard court	Lauren Albanese	0: 6, 6: 0, 6: 1
7th	May 14, 2016	Monzón	ITF $ 10,000	Hard court	Jessika Ponchet	6: 4, 6: 4
8th.	June 12, 2016	Puszczykowo	ITF $ 10,000	Hard court	Valeria Savinych	6: 2, 6: 0
9.	19th February 2017	Perth	ITF $ 25,000	Hard court	Markéta Vondroušová	1: 6, 6: 3, 6: 2
10.	March 12, 2017	Orlando	ITF $ 15,000	sand	Victoria Rodríguez	7: 5, 5: 7, 6: 0
11.	18th March 2018	Irapuato	ITF $ 25,000	Hard court	Kristína Kučová	6: 4, 6: 0
12.	July 21, 2019	Nur-Sultan	ITF $ 80,000	Hard court	Natalija Kostic	6: 3, 6: 3

Double

No.	date	competition	category	Topping	Partner	Final opponents	Result
1.	20th June 2015	Grand Baie	ITF $ 10,000	Hard court	Rosalie van der Hoek	Ilze Hattingh Madrie Le Roux	6: 3, 7: 5
2.	April 14, 2019	Istanbul	ITF $ 60,000	Hard court	Rosalie van der Hoek	Ilona Kramen Iryna Schymanowitsch	7: 5, 6: 7 2 , [10: 5]
3.	July 21, 2019	Nur-Sultan	ITF $ 80,000	Hard court	Vivian Heisen	Wlada Kowal Kamilla Rachimowa	7: 6 8 , 6: 1

World ranking positions at the end of the season

year	2013	2014	2015	2016	2017	2018	2019
singles	1195	497	378	257	187	142	57
Double	-	-	1069	-	-	1103	214

Web links

Commons : Marie Bouzková  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• WTA profile Marie Bouzková (English)
• ITF profile Marie Bouzková (English)
• ITF junior profile Marie Bouzková (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Omar Jasika and Marie Bouzkova Claim US Open Junior Championships September 7, 2014 (accessed August 29, 2015)