Květa Peschke

Infobox Tennis player
playername= Květa Peschke
country= CZE
residence= Prague, Czech Republic
datebirth= birthdate and age|1975|7|9
placebirth= Bílovec, Czechoslovakia
height= height|m=1.65
weight= convert|58|kg|lb|abbr=on|lk=on
retired=
turnedpro=
plays= Right-handed (two-handed backhand)
careerprizemoney= $2,201,436
singlesrecord= 322–213
singlestitles= 1 WTA (10 ITF titles)
highestsinglesranking= No. 26 (November 7, 2005)
AustralianOpenresult= 3rd Round (2000)
FrenchOpenresult= 3rd Round (1999, 2000)
Wimbledonresult= 4th Round (2005)
USOpenresult= 2nd Round (1998, 2000)
doublesrecord= 299–181
doublestitles= 13 WTA (8 ITF titles)
highestdoublesranking= No. 3 (July 7, 2008)
updated= October 6, 2008

Květa Peschke, also known as Květa Peschkeová (née Hrdličková; born July 9, 1975 in Bílovec, Czechoslovakia) is a professional female tennis player from the Czech Republic. She plays mostly on the baseline, with her best shot being the forehand. Her favourite surfaces are hard court and carpet.

Career

After a 2004 season playing primarily on the ITF circuit, in the 2005 tennis season, as one of the older players on the WTA tour, she had a surprisingly successful year in both singles and doubles. In her first event of the season, she reached the quarter-finals of a Tier V event in Hobart, defeating two top players on the way in Martina Sucha and Anabel Medina Garrigues, the fifth-seeded player of the tournament. After a first round loss at the Australian Open to the number three-seeded player from Russia, Anastasia Myskina, she failed to get very far in any tournaments until April at the Tier II event in Amelia Island, reaching the last 16 after qualifying and defeating Amy Frazier, the 16th seed, before falling to the number one in the world at that time, Lindsay Davenport. Peschke again reached the last 16 at the Tier I event in Berlin, defeating the fifth-seeded and number 10 in the world, Vera Zvonareva, before losing to Justine Henin-Hardenne of Belgium in a tough three-set match, 6–4 4–6 2–6. After a disappointing second-round loss at the French Open to Israel's Shahar Peer and a first-round loss at S'Hertogenbosch to Russia's Maria Kirilenko, she sprung back to prominence at Wimbledon. On the way to a fourth-round appearance at the Grand Slam grass event, she defeated three players of higher ranking than herself, Dally Randriantefy, Vera Zvonareva and Conchita Martínez, a former Wimbledon champion herself. She suffered a hard loss in the last 16 to Nadia Petrova of Russia in three sets, 7–6 6–7 3–6. After this loss, she never really regained momentum throughout the whole year, and what would prove to be nearly the whole of the 2006 season. Towards the end of the season she did have some success at two key tournaments; she reached her first semi-final of the year at a tier II event in Linz, defeating two number two seeded Russian, Elena Dementieva, Vera Zvonareva and Japan's Ai Sugiyama. She also reached a quarterfinal at another Tier II event in Philadelphia before losing to Elena Dementieva in three sets, 6–4, 0–6, 3–6.

Her 2006 season, however, is not faring as well so far. She has yet to reach further than the second round of any tournament, suffering a crushing 13 first-round losses at WTA tour events. However, she did manage to reach the semi-finals of a Tier II event at Luxembourg in late September, a highly surprising result for someone who hasn't won a singles match since Wimbledon in June. In this tournament she picked up a straight-set victory over Dinara Safina of Russia and lost in a tight three-set match to Ukraine's Alyona Bondarenko 3–6, 7–5, 5–7.update after|2006|12|31

Květa's doubles career, however, has been far more successful, including her top 10 debut in the doubles ranking in September 2006. In 2005 she won 2 WTA tour doubles titles in Paris (Tier II) and in Linz (Tier II), reached the finals of 4 WTA tour doubles events and various other hugely successful achievements. 2006 saw an even greater rise to her doubles career, winning a further 2 WTA tour doubles titles, defending her 2005 title at Paris and winning in Dubai (Tier II). Her main successes in doubles have come at three of the four grand slams, reaching the quarter-finals of the French Open, the quarter-finals of Wimbledon and, more recently, the semi-finals of the 2006 U.S. Open, her partner being Francesca Schiavone each time, and lost in the 2006 U.S. Open mixed doubles final aside Martin Damm to Bob Bryan and Martina Navratilova.

2007

In 2007, Květa did not play in the Australian Open. Upon her return at the 2007 French Open, she qualified for the singles main draw and upset two-time Roland Garros semifinalist Nadia Petrova in the first round, 7–5, 5–7, 6–0, and played in doubles with Rennae Stubbs as for Schiavone returned to her Australian Open doubles partner Emmanuelle Gagliardi. At the 2007 U.S. Open, Květa and Stubbs reached the doubles semifinals, before losing to Nathalie Dechy and Dinara Safina. The Peschke-Stubbs team won their first title in Stuttgart, Germany. In the final, the team defeated Chan Yung-jan and Dinara Safina in three sets. Their second title at Los Angeles over French Open champions Alicia Molik and Mara Santangelo 6–0, 6–1, and won their first Tier I tournament at the 2007 Zürich Open, defeating former partner Francesca Schiavone and Lisa Raymond 7–5, 7–6 (1) in the final, winning their third title on the 2007 WTA Tour.

WTA Tour titles (13)

ingles (1)

External links

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