Kristína Kučová
Kristína Kučová at the 2016 US Open | |
Country (sports) |
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Residence | Bratislava, Slovakia |
Born |
Bratislava, Czechoslovakia | 23 May 1990
Height | 1.63 m (5 ft 4 in) |
Turned pro | 2007 |
Plays | Right-handed (two-handed both sides) |
Prize money | $ 761,512 |
Singles | |
Career record | 316–242 |
Career titles | 0 WTA, 10 ITF |
Highest ranking | No. 71 (12 September 2016) |
Current ranking | No. 209 (14 August 2017) |
Grand Slam Singles results | |
Australian Open | 2R (2017) |
French Open | 1R (2017, 2018) |
Wimbledon | 2R (2009, 2017) |
US Open | 1R (2016) |
Doubles | |
Career record | 58–62 |
Career titles | 0 WTA, 5 ITF |
Highest ranking | No. 168 (5 October 2009) |
Grand Slam Doubles results | |
Wimbledon | Q1 (2017) |
Team competitions | |
Fed Cup | 1–5 |
Last updated on: 2 July 2017. |
Kristína Kučová (Slovak pronunciation: [ˈkristiːna ˈkutʃɔʋaː]; born 23 May 1990) is a Slovak tennis player.
Kučová has won ten singles and five doubles on the ITF tour in her career. In September 2016, she reached her best singles ranking of world number 71. 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 1-5.[1]
Kučová was born in Bratislava. Her elder sister Zuzana is also a tennis player, who retired from the professional tour in 2013.
Tennis career
Juniors
At the 2007 US Open – Girls' Singles, the unseeded Kučová took the title, defeating the thirteenth seed Julia Glushko in the third round, top seed and defending champion Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova in the quarter-finals, and number two seed Urszula Radwańska in the final. Kučová also reached the 2007 Wimbledon Championships and 2007 French Open girls' doubles quarter-finals. She reached the French Open quarter-finals with her compatriot Klaudia Boczová, losing to the eventual champions and third seeds Ksenia Milevskaya and Urszula Radwańska. With her compatriot, Lenka Juríková, she reached the Wimbledon quarter-finals and lost to the eventual runners-up Misaki Doi and Kurumi Nara.
2014
Kučová started the year in the qualifying for Sydney where she lost to Misaki Doi 4–6 3–6, then she lost in the first round of qualifying for the Australian Open to Paula Kania 6–4 5–7 2–6. She lost in qualifying for Doha to Mirjana Lucic-Baroni 5–7 4–6 and also in Dubai where she lost to Flavia Pennetta 6–3 1–6 4–6. She managed to qualify for Katowice and then beat Monica Niculescu 6-1 6-1 in the first round before losing to Alizé Cornet 3–6 6–4 3–6. She lost in qualifying for the French Open to the wildcard Irina Ramialison 1–6 0–6 and in qualifying for Wimbledon to Maryna Zanevska 4–6 6–4 3–6.
She reached her first WTA semi-final 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 before losing to Roberta Vinci 1–6 3–6 in the semi-finals. She won $50,000 in the ITF event in Sobota in Poland by beating Sesil Karatantcheva 1-6 7–5 6–3 in the final. 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 5–7 0–6 and in the first round of qualifying for Limoges to Katarzyna Piter 2–6 4–6.
2016: Breakthrough and into the Top 100
Kučová failed to qualify for 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 quarter-finals 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 before. 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 the Canadian Eugenie Bouchard. Kučová won the match in three sets to reach her first WTA Premier level quarter-final, where she beat the 15th seed Johanna Konta in straight sets. She was eventually eliminated in the semi-finals by the 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: 22 (10–12)
$100,000 tournaments |
$75,000 tournaments |
$50,000 tournaments |
$25,000 tournaments |
$15,000 tournaments |
$10,000 tournaments |
Outcome | No. | Date | Tournament | Surface | Opponent | Score |
Runner–up | 1. | 20 April 2007 | Hvar, Croatia | Clay | 1–6 4–6 | |
Winner | 2. | 14 May 2007 | Michalovce, Slovakia | Clay | 2–6 6–3 6–4 | |
Runner–up | 3. | 25 May 2008 | Galați, Romania | Clay | 2–6 6–7(2) | |
Runner–up | 4. | 10 August 2008 | Hechingen, Germany | Clay | 6–3 6–7(1) 3–6 | |
Runner–up | 5. | 7 September 2008 | Maribor, Slovenia | Clay | 2–6 6–7(6) | |
Runner–up | 6. | 29 March 2009 | La Palma, Spain | Hard | 6–4 1–6 1–6 | |
Runner–up | 7. | 5 June 2009 | Pozoblanco, Spain | Hard | 3–6 4–6 | |
Runner–up | 8. | 6 June 2010 | Brno, Czech Republic | Clay | 3–6 6–4 2–6 | |
Runner–up | 9. | 26 September 2010 | Bucharest, Romania | Clay | 4–6 4–6 | |
Winner | 10. | 18 June 2012 | Alkmaar, Netherlands | Clay | 6–3 6–4 | |
Winner | 11. | 8 July 2012 | Denain, France | Clay | 6–2 1–6 6–2 | |
Runner–up | 12. | 30 June 2013 | Zlín, Czech Republic | Clay | 3–6 2–6 | |
Winner | 13. | 28 July 2013 | Les Contamines, France | Hard | 7–5 6–7(3) 6–3 | |
Winner | 14. | 18 August 2013 | Craiova, Romania | Clay | 7–5 3–6 6–4 | |
Runner–up | 15. | 15 September 2013 | Sofia, Bulgaria | Clay | 2–6 6–1 3–6 | |
Runner–up | 16. | 26 October 2013 | Herzliya, Israel | Hard | 3–6 6–4 2–5 ret. | |
Winner | 17. | 27 July 2014 | Sobota, Poland | Clay | 1–6, 7–5, 6–3 | |
Winner | 18. | 31 August 2014 | Fleurus, Belgium | Clay | 6–3, 6–4 | |
Winner | 19. | 28 February 2015 | Beinasco, Italy | Clay (i) | 6–4, 7–6(7–3) | |
Winner | 20. | 5 July 2015 | Toruń, Poland | Clay | 4–6, 6–1, 6–4 | |
Winner | 21. | 26 September 2015 | Bucha, Ukraine | Clay | 4–6, 7–6(7–5), 6–0 | |
Runner–up | 22. | 18 March 2018 | Irapuato, Mexico | Hard | 4–6 0–6 |
Doubles (5–2)
$100,000 tournaments |
$75,000 tournaments |
$50,000 tournaments |
$25,000 tournaments |
$15,000 tournaments |
$10,000 tournaments |
Outcome | No | Date | Tournament | Surface | Partner | Opponents in the final | Score |
Winner | 1. | 17 March 2007 | Cairo, Egypt | Clay | 6–7 (3) 6–4 6–3 | ||
Winner | 2. | 20 May 2007 | Michalovce, Slovakia | Clay | 7–5 4–6 6–3 | ||
Runner-up | 3. | 11 May 2008 | Jounieh, Lebanon | Clay | 5–7, 6–3, [6–10] | ||
Winner | 4. | 25 May 2008 | Galați, Romania | Clay | 6–0 6–2 | ||
Runner-up | 5. | 3 May 2009 | Johannesburg, South Africa | Hard | 2–6 6–2 [9–11] | ||
Winner | 6. | 14 June 2009 | Zlín, Czech Republic | Clay | 6–3 6–4 | ||
Winner | 7. | 20 September 2015 | Saint-Malo, France | Clay | 6–7(1–7), 6–3, [10–5] |
Fed Cup participation
Singles (1–3)
Edition | Stage | Date | Location | Against | Surface | Opponent | W/L | Score |
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2008 Fed Cup | World Group II Play-offs | 27 April 2008 | Bratislava, Slovakia | Clay (i) | W | 6-1, 2-6, 6-4 | ||
2010 Fed Cup | World Group II | 7 April 2010 | Bratislava, Slovakia | Hard (i) | L | 1-6, 1-6 | ||
2014 Fed Cup | World Group Play-offs | 19 April 2014 | Quebec City, Canada | Hard (i) | L | 6-7(0-7), 6-2, 1-6 | ||
2017 Fed Cup | World Group Play-offs | 23 April 2017 | Bratislava, Slovakia | Clay (i) | L | 5-7, 4-6 |
Doubles (0–2)
Edition | Stage | Date | Location | Against | Surface | Partner | Opponents | W/L | Score |
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2010 Fed Cup | World Group Play-offs | 28 April 2006 | Bratislava, Slovakia | Hard (i) | L | 3-2, ret. | |||
2015 Fed Cup | World Group II | 8 February 2015 | Apeldoorn, Netherlands | Clay (i) | L | 5-7, 1-6 |
Junior Grand Slam finals
Girls' Singles
Outcome | Year | Championship | Surface | Opponent | Score |
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Winner | 2007 | US Open | Hard | 6–3, 1–6, 7–6(7–4) |
Performance timelines
Singles
Tournament | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | W–L |
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Australian Open | A | A | 1R | A | Q1 | A | Q1 | Q2 | Q3 | 2R | 1R | 1–3 |
French Open | A | Q1 | Q1 | Q1 | A | A | Q1 | Q1 | Q3 | 1R | 1R | 0–2 |
Wimbledon | A | 2R | Q1 | Q1 | A | A | Q1 | Q1 | Q2 | 2R | A | 2–2 |
US Open | Q2 | Q1 | Q1 | Q2 | A | A | Q1 | Q1 | 1R | A | 0–1 | |
Total | 0–0 | 1–1 | 0–1 | 0–0 | 0–0 | 0–0 | 0–0 | 0–0 | 0–1 | 2–3 | 0–2 | 3–8 |
Top 10 wins
# | Player | Rank | Event | Surface | Round | Score |
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2016 | ||||||
1. | No. 9 | Rogers Cup, Canada | Hard | 2nd Round | 3–6, 6–4, 6–4 |
References
- ↑ "Kristina Kucova". Retrieved 2 July 2017.
- ↑ "Kučová nevyužila mečbal, v hlavnej súťaži grandslamu si po šiestich rokoch nezahrá" (in Slovak). 16 January 2016. Retrieved 4 March 2016.