Lucie Hradecká

Infobox Tennis biography
playername = Lucie Hradecká


nickname =
country = CZE
residence = Prague, Czech Republic
datebirth = birth date and age|1985|5|21
placebirth = Prague, Czech Republic
height = height|m=1.76
weight = convert|65|kg|lb|abbr=on|lk=on
turnedpro = N/A
retired = "Active"
plays = Right; Two handed strokes
careerprizemoney = $US275,705
singlesrecord = 208–113
singlestitles = 0 WTA, 11 ITF
highestsinglesranking = 141 (August 21, 2006)
AustralianOpenresult = N/A
FrenchOpenresult = N/A
Wimbledonresult = N/A
USOpenresult = N/A
doublesrecord = 166–61
doublestitles = 5 WTA, 21 ITF
highestdoublesranking = 45 (March 19, 2007)
updated = July 21, 2008

Lucie Hradecká (born May 21, 1985 in Prague) is a professional tennis player from the Czech Republic. In her career, Hradecká has won four WTA doubles titles, including one at Bad Gastein in 2007. As of September 22, 2007, she is ranked 56 for doubles and has been World Number 45 on March 19, 2007. Also as of September 22, Hradecká is ranked 240 for singles, but her highest ranking was World Number 141, which she achieved on August 21, 2006.

Career

Hradecká has won 11 ITF singles titles, but no WTA singles titles. She has won 2 WTA and 17 ITF doubles titles.

She won her first doubles title on the WTA Tour in 2006 at Portoroz with partner Renata Voráčová, as the fourth-seeded team. In the final, the Czech team defeated Eva Birnerová and Émilie Loit, the second seeds, by walkover. They also had a victory over the top seeds Maria Elena Camerin and Emmanuelle Gagliardi in the semifinal.

She reached the third round of doubles competition with Hana Šromová as qualifiers at the 2006 Wimbledon Championships before going down to fifth seeds Meghann Shaughnessy and Anna-Lena Grönefeld. En route they defeated twelfth seeds Svetlana Kuznetsova and Amélie Mauresmo, both Grand Slam singles champions at the time and the previous year's Wimbledon doubles runner-ups by walkover.

In 2007, she made the doubles semifinals of the 2007 Indian Wells Masters tournament with Voráčová. En route, the team defeated Janette Husárová and Meghann Shaughnessy, the seventh seeds, in the first round, and legendary team and third-seeded Virginia Ruano Pascual and Paola Suárez in three sets in the quarterfinals, before losing to top seeds Lisa Raymond and Samantha Stosur.

Later that year, Hradecká and Voráčová won Bad Gastein over Ágnes Szávay and Vladimíra Uhlířová. She again won the 2007 Portoroz title with Voráčová over Elena Likhovtseva and Andreja Klepač in the final.

Hradecka reached her very first singles final at Bad Gastein in July 2008, where as a qualifier she defeated players such as Patricia Mayr of Austria to get to the final, where she lost to the fourth seed Pauline Parmentier 4-6, 4-6, after leading 4-1 in the first set.She will play in the doubles final later. As a result of the singles final, Hradecka will rise from her current ranking of 237 to about 149 in the world.

WTA Finals

ingles (0)

ingles runner-up (0)

Doubles (5)

Doubles Finalist

*2006: Budapest (with Voráčová, lost to Husárová / Krajicek)

External links

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