Iveta Benešová

2005–2008

Benešová was the first player to be beaten by Ana Ivanovic in the main draw of a Grand Slam tournament, at the 2005 Australian Open.^[1]

At the 2006 Australian Open, for the first time, she reached the third round of a Grand Slam by beating fifth seed Mary Pierce. She lost in the next round to former world No. 1 Martina Hingis.^[2]

Entering as a qualifier in the 2008 French Open, she reached the third round, beating 15th seed and compatriate Nicole Vaidišová in the first round, but lost to Petra Cetkovská.

2009

Benešová at the 2009 French Open

Benešová started the year by playing the first edition of the Brisbane International. She lost in the first round to qualifier Sesil Karatantcheva. A week later, Benešová lost in the final of the tournament in Hobart to fellow-Czech Petra Kvitová. At the Australian Open, she lost in the second round to eventual semifinalist and 4th-seeded Elena Dementieva.

Immediately after Australian, Benešová played in front of her home crowd in the Fed Cup tie against Spain. Despite losing her singles rubber to Nuria Llagostera Vives, the Czech team advanced to the semifinals after winning the tie 4–1.

At the Open GdF Suez in Paris, she lost in the first round to world No. 1 Serena Williams. Benešová then reached the semifinals of the tournament in Acapulco, a clay-court event. In the quarterfinals, she beat Mathilde Johansson before losing in the semifinals to defending champion Flavia Pennetta.

On 6 April 2009, Benešová achieved her career-high singles ranking of world No. 25.

Seeded 6th at the first edition of the Monterrey Open, she beat fellow Czech Barbora Záhlavová-Strýcová in the quarterfinals before losing in the semifinals to unseeded Li Na.

Benešová fell to Ana Ivanovic in the third round of the French Open.

At Wimbledon, she beat Britain's Katie O'Brien, before falling to Jelena Janković in the second round.

2010

In singles, she defeated Romanian Simona Halep in the final of Grand Prix SAR La Princesse Lalla Meryem to win her first WTA Tour trophy since 2004.

In doubles, she has won three titles. Along with Barbora Záhlavová-Strýcová, she grabbed the titles in Paris as their opponents Cara Black and Liezel Huber withdrew and Monterrey defeating Anna-Lena Grönefeld and Vania King. Partnering with Anabel Medina Garrigues, Benešová won Fes, making her winning both singles and doubles in the tournament.

Benešová at the 2008 French Open

2011

Benešová reached the fourth round of the Australian Open, but was defeated by 2nd seed Vera Zvonareva.^[3]

Along with Záhlavová-Strýcová she won four titles in doubles.

At the Wimbledon Championships, she won the mixed doubles title with partner and later husband Jürgen Melzer.^[4][5]

2012

Benešová once again reached the fourth round of the Australian Open, being defeated by eventual champion Victoria Azarenka in straight sets. On 29 April 2012 she won her last title at the Stuttgart doubles, again with Záhlavová-Strýcová.

She paused from playing tournaments until February 2014, mainly due to shoulder problems.

2014

In her first tournament as Iveta Melzer, she and her partner Petra Cetkovska reached the final of the Acapulco doubles which they lost in the third set.

At the French Open she played the mixed doubles with her husband Jürgen, they lost in the first round against top seeded Alexander Peya and Abigail Spears. It was their last Grand Slam mixed appearance together, at the Wimbledon mixed doubles Jürgen Melzer partnered Anabel Medina Garrigues.

Iveta Melzer ended her career on 15 August 2014, as her shoulder problems prevented her from playing her best tennis.

Mixed Doubles (1–0)

Outcome	Year	Championship	Surface	Partner	Opponents	Score
Winner	2011	Wimbledon Championships	Grass	Jürgen Melzer	Mahesh Bhupathi Elena Vesnina	6–3, 6–2

Singles: 8 (2 titles, 6 runner-ups)

Outcome	No.	Date	Championship	Surface	Opponent	Score
Runner-up	1.	18 October 2002	WTA Bratislava	Hard (i)	Maja Matevžič	0–6, 1–6
Winner	1.	7 March 2004	Abierto Mexicano TELCEL, Acapulco	Clay	Flavia Pennetta	7–6(7–5), 6–4
Runner-up	2.	20 April 2004	Portugal Open, Estoril	Clay	Émilie Loit	5–7, 6–7(1–7)
Runner-up	3.	28 August 2004	Forest Hills, Queens	Hard	Elena Likhovtseva	3–6, 2–6
Runner-up	4.	16 January 2006	Moorilla Hobart International	Hard	Michaëlla Krajicek	1–6, 2–6
Runner-up	5.	20 May 2008	Portugal Open, Estoril	Clay	Maria Kirilenko	4–6, 2–6
Runner-up	6.	16 January 2009	Moorilla Hobart International	Hard	Petra Kvitová	5–7, 1–6
Winner	2.	1 May 2010	Grand Prix SAR La Princesse Lalla Meryem, Fes	Clay	Simona Halep	6–4, 6–2

Doubles: 26 (14 titles, 12 runners-up)

Outcome	No.	Date	Championship	Surface	Partner	Opponent	Score
Runner-up	1.	18 July 2004	Bank of the West Classic, Stanford	Hard	Claudine Schaul	Eleni Daniilidou Nicole Pratt	2–6, 4–6
Winner	1.	13 February 2005	Open Gaz de France, Paris	Carpet	Květa Peschke	Anabel Medina Garrigues Dinara Safina	6–2, 2–6, 6–2
Runner-up	2.	24 April 2005	Family Circle Cup, Charleston	Clay (green)	Kveta Peschke	Conchita Martínez Virginia Ruano Pascual	1–6, 4–6
Runner-up	3.	18 June 2005	Ordina Open, 's-Hertogenbosch	Grass	Nuria Llagostera Vives	Anabel Medina Garrigues Dinara Safina	6–4, 2–6, 7–6(11-9)
Runner-up	4.	15 October 2006	Kremlin Cup, Moscow	Carpet	Galina Voskoboeva	Francesca Schiavone Květa Peschke	4–6, 7–6(7-4), 1–6
Runner-up	5.	6 January 2007	Gold Coast, Queensland	Hard	Galina Voskoboeva	Dinara Safina Katarina Srebotnik	3–6, 4–6
Winner	2.	30 September 2007	Fortis Championships Luxembourg, Luxembourg City	Hard	Janette Husárová	Victoria Azarenka Shahar Pe'er	6–4, 6–2
Winner	3.	23 February 2008	Copa Colsanitas, Bogotá	Clay	Bethanie Mattek	Jelena Kostanić Tošić Martina Müller	6–3, 6–3
Runner-up	6.	1 March 2008	Abierto Mexicano Telcel, Acapulco	Clay	Petra Cetkovská	Nuria Llagostera Vives María José Martínez Sánchez	2–6, 4–6
Runner-up	7.	18 May 2008	Internazionali BNL d'Italia, Rome	Clay	Janette Husárová	Chuang Chia-jung Chan Yung-jan	6–7(5–7), 3–6
Winner	4.	3 August 2008	Nordea Nordic Light Open, Stockholm	Hard	Barbora Záhlavová-Strýcová	Petra Cetkovská Lucie Šafářová	7–5, 6–4
Runner-up	8.	2 March 2009	Monterrey Open	Hard	Barbora Záhlavová-Strýcová	Mara Santangelo Nathalie Dechy	3–6, 4–6
Runner-up	9.	13 July 2009	ECM Prague Open	Clay	Barbora Záhlavová-Strýcová	Kateryna Bondarenko Alona Bondarenko	1–6, 2–6
Runner-up	10.	29 August 2009	Pilot Pen Tennis, New Haven	Hard	Lucie Hradecká	Nuria Llagostera Vives María José Martínez Sánchez	2–6, 6–7
Winner	5.	25 October 2009	BGL Luxembourg Open, Luxembourg City	Hard (i)	Barbora Záhlavová-Strýcová	Vladimíra Uhlířová Renata Voráčová	6–1, 0–6, [10–7]
Winner	6.	14 February 2010	Open Gaz de France, Paris	Hard (i)	Barbora Záhlavová-Strýcová	Cara Black Liezel Huber	w/o
Winner	7.	7 March 2010	Monterrey Open	Hard	Barbora Záhlavová-Strýcová	Anna-Lena Grönefeld Vania King	3–6, 6–4, [10–8]
Winner	8.	1 May 2010	Grand Prix SAR La Princesse Lalla Meryem, Fes	Clay	Anabel Medina Garrigues	Lucie Hradecká Renata Voráčová	6–3, 6–1
Winner	9.	2 October 2010	Toray Pan Pacific Open, Tokyo	Hard	Barbora Záhlavová-Strýcová	Shahar Pe'er Peng Shuai	6–4, 4–6, [10–8]
Runner-up	11.	24 October 2010	BGL Luxembourg Open, Luxembourg City	Hard (i)	Barbora Záhlavová-Strýcová	Timea Bacsinszky Tathiana Garbin	4–6, 4–6
Winner	10.	14 January 2011	Medibank International Sydney	Hard	Barbora Záhlavová-Strýcová	Květa Peschke Katarina Srebotnik	4–6, 6–4, [10–7]
Winner	11.	6 March 2011	Monterrey Open	Hard	Barbora Záhlavová-Strýcová	Anna-Lena Grönefeld Vania King	6–7(8–10), 6–2, [10–6]
Winner	12.	1 May 2011	Barcelona Ladies Open	Clay	Barbora Záhlavová-Strýcová	Natalie Grandin Vladimíra Uhlířová	5–7, 6–4, [11–9]
Winner	13.	25 October 2011	BGL Luxembourg Open, Luxembourg City	Hard (i)	Barbora Záhlavová-Strýcová	Lucie Hradecká Ekaterina Makarova	7–5, 6–3
Winner	14.	29 April 2012	Porsche Tennis Grand Prix, Stuttgart	Clay	Barbora Záhlavová-Strýcová	Julia Görges Anna-Lena Grönefeld	6–4, 7–5
Runner-up	12.	2 March 2014	Abierto Mexicano Telcel, Acapulco	Hard	Petra Cetkovská	Kristina Mladenovic Galina Voskoboeva	3-6, 6-2, [5-10]