Kristína Kučová

Kristína Kučová

Kristína Kučová at the 2015 Wimbledon qualifying tournament
Country (sports)	Slovakia
Residence	Bratislava, Slovakia
Born	(1990-05-23) 23 May 1990 Bratislava, Czechoslovakia
Height	1.63 m (5 ft 4 in)
Turned pro	2007
Plays	Right-handed (two-handed both sides)
Prize money	$ 587,281
Singles
Career record	310–227
Career titles	0 WTA, 10 ITF
Highest ranking	No. 71 (12 September 2016)
Current ranking	No. 71 (12 September 2016)
Grand Slam Singles results
Australian Open	1R (2010)
French Open	Q3 (2016)
Wimbledon	2R (2009)
US Open	1R (2016)
Doubles
Career record	58–62
Career titles	0 WTA, 5 ITF
Highest ranking	No. 168 (5 October 2009)
Current ranking	No. 275 (1 August 2016)
Team competitions
Fed Cup	1–4
Last updated on: 1 August 2016.

Kristína Kučová (born 23 May 1990 in Bratislava) is a Slovak tennis player.

Kučová has won ten singles and five doubles on the ITF tour in her career. On 1 August 2016, she reached her best singles ranking of world number 77. On 5 October 2009, she peaked at world number 168 in the doubles rankings.

Kučová was an accomplished junior player, having won the Girls' Singles title at the 2007 US Open and reaching a combined career-high junior ranking of world number 3 on 10 September 2009.

Playing for Slovakia at the Fed Cup, she has a win-loss record of 1-4.^[1]

Kučová's elder sister Zuzana is also a tennis player, having retired from the professional tour in 2013.

Tennis career

Juniors

At the 2007 US Open – Girls' Singles, the unseeded Kučová took the title, defeating thirteenth seed Julia Glushko in the third round, top seed and defending champion Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova in the quarterfinals, and number two seed Urszula Radwańska in the final. In addition to this, Kučová reached the 2007 Wimbledon Championships and 2007 French Open girls' doubles quarterfinals. Both times, Kučová was seeded seventh, however, she reached the French Open quarterfinals with compatriot Klaudia Boczová, losing to eventual champions and third seeds Ksenia Milevskaya and Urszula Radwańska. She reached the Wimbledon quarterfinals along with compatriot Lenka Juríková. The seventh-seeded Slovak pair lost to eventual runners-up Misaki Doi and Kurumi Nara.

2014

She started off the year in the qualifying for Sydney where she lost to Misaki Doi 6-4 6-3, then she lost in the first round of qualifying for the Australian Open to Paula Kania 4-6 7-5 6-2. She lost in qualifying for Doha to Mirjana Lucic-Baroni 7-5 6-4 and also in Dubai where she lost to Flavia Pennetta 3-6 6-1 6-4. She managed to qualify for Katowice and then beat Monica Niculescu 6-1 6-1 in the first round before losing to Alize Cornet 6-3 4-6 6-3. She lost in qualifying for the French Open to the wildcard Irina Ramialison 6-1 6-0 and in qualifying for Wimbledon to Maryna Zanevska 6-4 4-6 6-3.

She reached her first WTA Semifinal at Bucharest by beating Anna Schmiedlova 6-3 6-3, Cristina Dinu 6-2 6-3 and Danka Kovinic 6-4 1-6 6-3 then she lost to Roberta Vinci 6-1 6-3 in the semifinals. She won a $50,000 in Sobota/Rokietnica in Poland by beating Sesil Karatantcheva 1-6 7-5 6-3. She won a $25,000 event in Fleurus, Belgium by beating Evgeniya Rodina 6-3 6-4 in the final. She lost in the second round of qualifying in Linz to Anna-Lena Friedsam 7-5 6-0 and in the first round of qualifying for Limoges to Katarzyna Piter 6-2 6-4.

2016:Breakthrough and into the Top 100

Kučová failed to qualify to the Australian Open. She lost in the final qualifying round to Wang Yafan, despite having a match point in the second set.^[2]

After defeating Stefanie Vögele and Hsieh Su-wei, Kučová reached the quarterfinals in Kuala Lumpur, where she lost to the second seed Elina Svitolina despite winning the first set 6–1.

She qualified for the main draw of the 2016 Rogers Cup by defeating Erin Routliffe and Christina McHale. She upset Yanina Wickmayer of Belgium in the first round, who had won the singles and doubles titles in Washington the week prior. In the second round she caused a bigger upset by defeating the No. 8 seed Carla Suarez Navarro , setting up a third round clash with Canadian Eugenie Bouchard. Kučová won the match in three sets to reach her first WTA Premier level quarterfinal, where she beat 15th seed Johanna Konta in straight sets. She was eventually eliminated in the semifinals by 10th seed Madison Keys. Following the tournament she broke into the world's top 100 in the rankings for the first time in her career.

ITF finals

Singles: 21 (10–11)

Outcome	No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Opponent	Score
Runner–up	1.	20 April 2007	Hvar, Croatia	Clay	Karolina Jovanović	1–6 4–6
Winner	2.	14 May 2007	Michalovce, Slovakia	Clay	Katarzyna Piter	2–6 6–3 6–4
Runner–up	3.	25 May 2008	Galați, Romania	Clay	Valentina Sulpizio	2–6 6–7(2)
Runner–up	4.	10 August 2008	Hechingen, Germany	Clay	Maša Zec Peškirič	6–3 6–7(1) 3–6
Runner–up	5.	7 September 2008	Maribor, Slovenia	Clay	Maša Zec Peškirič	2–6 6–7(6)
Runner–up	6.	29 March 2009	La Palma, Spain	Hard	Anastasija Sevastova	6–4 1–6 1–6
Runner–up	7.	5 June 2009	Pozoblanco, Spain	Hard	Angelique Kerber	3–6 4–6
Runner–up	8.	6 June 2010	Brno, Czech Republic	Clay	Zuzana Ondrášková	3–6 6–4 2–6
Runner–up	9.	26 September 2010	Bucharest, Romania	Clay	Mădălina Gojnea	4–6 4–6
Winner	10.	18 June 2012	Alkmaar, Netherlands	Clay	Janina Toljan	6–3 6–4
Winner	11.	8 July 2012	Denain, France	Clay	Michaela Hončová	6–2 1–6 6–2
Runner–up	12.	30 June 2013	Zlín, Czech Republic	Clay	Melanie Klaffner	3–6 2–6
Winner	13.	28 July 2013	Les Contamines, France	Hard	Clothilde de Bernardi	7–5 6–7(3) 6–3
Winner	14.	18 August 2013	Craiova, Romania	Clay	Alberta Brianti	7–5 3–6 6–4
Runner–up	15.	15 September 2013	Sofia, Bulgaria	Clay	Patricia Mayr-Achleitner	2–6 6–1 3–6
Runner–up	16.	26 October 2013	Herzliya, Israel	Hard	Yuliya Beygelzimer	3–6 6–4 2–5 ret.
Winner	17.	27 July 2014	Sobota, Poland	Clay	Sesil Karatantcheva	1–6, 7–5, 6–3
Winner	18.	31 August 2014	Fleurus, Belgium	Clay	Evgeniya Rodina	6–3, 6–4
Winner	19.	28 February 2015	Beinasco, Italy	Clay (i)	Barbora Krejčíková	6–4, 7–6(7–3)
Winner	20.	5 July 2015	Toruń, Poland	Clay	Giulia Gatto-Monticone	4–6, 6–1, 6–4
Winner	21.	26 September 2015	Bucha, Ukraine	Clay	Alexandra Cadanțu	4–6, 7–6(7–5), 6–0

Doubles (5–2)

Outcome	No	Date	Tournament	Surface	Partner	Opponents in the final	Score
Winner	1.	17 March 2007	Cairo, Egypt	Clay	Zuzana Kučová	Melissa Berry Michelle Gerards	6–7 (3) 6–4 6–3
Winner	2.	20 May 2007	Michalovce, Slovakia	Clay	Klaudia Boczová	Olga Brózda Justyna Jegiołka	7–5 4–6 6–3
Runner-up	3.	11 May 2008	Jounieh, Lebanon	Clay	Stefanie Vögele	Nina Bratchikova Veronika Kapshay	5–7, 6–3, [6–10]
Winner	4.	25 May 2008	Galați, Romania	Clay	Valentina Sulpizio	Alexandra Cadanțu Antonia Xenia Tout	6–0 6–2
Runner-up	5.	3 May 2009	Johannesburg, South Africa	Hard	Anastasija Sevastova	Naomi Cavaday Lesia Tsurenko	2–6 6–2 [9–11]
Winner	6.	14 June 2009	Zlín, Czech Republic	Clay	Zuzana Kučová	Nikola Fraňková Carmen Klaschka	6–3 6–4
Winner	7.	20 September 2015	Saint-Malo, France	Clay	Anastasija Sevastova	Maria Marfutina Natalia Vikhlyantseva	6–7(1–7), 6–3, [10–5]

Fed Cup participation

Singles (1–2)

Edition	Stage	Date	Location	Against	Surface	Opponent	W/L	Score
2008 Fed Cup	World Group II Play-offs	27 April 2008	Bratislava, Slovakia	Uzbekistan	Clay (i)	Vlada Ekshibarova	W	6-1, 2-6, 6-4
2010 Fed Cup	World Group II	7 April 2010	Bratislava, Slovakia	China	Hard (i)	Han Xinyun	L	1-6, 1-6
2014 Fed Cup	World Group Play-offs	19 April 2014	Quebec City, Canada	Canada	Hard (i)	Eugenie Bouchard	L	6-7(0-7), 6-2, 1-6

Doubles (0–2)

Edition	Stage	Date	Location	Against	Surface	Partner	Opponents	W/L	Score
2010 Fed Cup	World Group Play-offs	28 April 2006	Bratislava, Slovakia	China	Hard (i)	Dominika Cibulková	Lu Jingjing Zhang Shuai	L	3-2, ret.
2015 Fed Cup	World Group II	8 February 2015	Apeldoorn, Netherlands	Netherlands	Clay (i)	Kristína Schmiedlová	Richèl Hogenkamp Michaëlla Krajicek	L	5-7, 1-6

Junior Grand Slam finals

Girls' Singles

Outcome	Year	Championship	Surface	Opponent	Score
Winner	2007	US Open	Hard	Urszula Radwańska	6–3, 1–6, 7–6(7–4)

Top 10 wins

#	Player	Rank	Event	Surface	Round	Score
2016
1.	Carla Suárez Navarro	No. 9	Rogers Cup, Canada	Hard	2nd Round	3–6, 6–4, 6–4

References

External links

• Kristína Kučová at the Women's Tennis Association
• Kristína Kučová at the International Tennis Federation
• Kristína Kučová at the Fed Cup
  

Women's Tennis Association: Top Slovak female singles tennis players as of 12 December 2016
1. Dominika Cibulková (5 ) 2. Kristína Kučová (82 ) 3. Jana Čepelová (99 ) 4. Rebecca Šramková (120 ) 5. Magdaléna Rybáriková (154 )
6. Viktória Kužmová (225 ) 7. Anna Karolína Schmiedlová (227 ) 8. Daniela Hantuchová (228 ) 9. Michaela Hončová (337 ) 10. Zuzana Zlochová (371 )