Anastasia Oleksiyivna Polách ( uk, Анастасія Олексіївна Полах; born 8 January 1998, maiden name Zarycká) is an inactive Ukrainian-Czech tennis player. Since April 2017, she has been playing for the
Czech Republic
The Czech Republic, or simply Czechia, is a landlocked country in Central Europe. Historically known as Bohemia, it is bordered by Austria to the south, Germany to the west, Poland to the northeast, and Slovakia to the southeast. The ...
. She is married to Josef Polách.
Career
On the junior tour, Zarycká had a career-high ranking of No. 21, achieved in March 2016. She reached the final of the
2016 Australian Open girls' doubles competition alongside
Dayana Yastremska
Dayana Oleksandrivna Yastremska ( uk, Даяна Олександрівна Ястремська; born 15 May 2000) is a Ukrainian professional tennis player. She has a career-high ranking of world No. 21 by the Women's Tennis Association (WTA). ...
.
On the senior tour, she has career-high
WTA rankings
The WTA rankings are the ratings defined by the Women's Tennis Association, introduced in November 1975.
Iga Świątek is the current world No. 1.
Ranking method
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of world No. 206 in singles, achieved on 1 July 2019, and 189 in doubles, set on 25 February 2019. Zarycká has won four singles titles and nine doubles titles on the
ITF Circuit.
She made her main-draw debut on the
WTA Tour
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at the
2017 J&T Banka Prague Open where she received a wildcard, partnering
Tereza Smitková
Tereza Smitková (born 10 October 1994) is a Czech tennis player.
Smitková has won one singles WTA 125 title as well as eight singles and seven doubles titles on the ITF Circuit. On 6 April 2015, she reached her best singles ranking of world ...
.
Private life
She was born in
Prague
Prague ( ; cs, Praha ; german: Prag, ; la, Praga) is the capital and largest city in the Czech Republic, and the historical capital of Bohemia. On the Vltava river, Prague is home to about 1.3 million people. The city has a temperate ...
to a Ukrainian father and a Russian mother, in April 2017 she received Czech citizenship. She started playing tennis at the age of nine, since then she has been a member of the Club Sparta Praha.
In 2022 she married Josef Polách, her fitness sparing partner.
Grand Slam singles performance timeline
ITF Circuit finals
Singles: 8 (4 titles, 4 runner–ups)
Doubles: 12 (9 titles, 3 runner–ups)
Notes
References
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1998 births
Living people
Ukrainian female tennis players
Czech female tennis players
Tennis players from Prague
Ukrainian emigrants to the Czech Republic
Naturalized citizens of the Czech Republic
Universiade medalists in tennis
Universiade silver medalists for the Czech Republic
Medalists at the 2019 Summer Universiade
Czech people of Russian descent
Ukrainian people of Russian descent
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