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Kristína Schmiedlová Kristína Schmiedlová (; born 6 August 1997) is a Slovak former tennis player. Her older sister Anna Karolína Schmiedlová is an active tennis player. Schmiedlová won two singles titles on the ITF Circuit. On 13 July 2015, she reached her b ...

, ended her professional tennis career at the age of 21.

Career

2013: Grand Slam and top-100 debut

Schmiedlová qualified for her first Grand Slam tournament at the

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. After Wimbledon, she reached the final of the $100,000 tournament in

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, and lost to

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in three sets. She reached the top 100 for the first time with a ranking of world No. 97.

2014: French Open third round

In May, Schmiedlová won the Empire Slovak Open in Trnava. She defeated the defending champion

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in the final. The following week, she reached the final of the

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, losing to Britain's

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in straight sets. At the

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, Schmiedlová defeated

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in the first round and surprised the former world No. 1,

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, with a victory in three sets in round two. In the third round, she lost to

Garbiñe Muguruza Garbiñe Muguruza Blanco (; born 8 October 1993) is a Spanish-Venezuelan professional tennis player. She has a career-high singles ranking of world No. 1 by the Women's Tennis Association (WTA), and a career-high doubles ranking of world No. ...

in straight sets.

2015: Breakthrough and first WTA Tour title

In February, she reached her first WTA final at the

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, losing to

Sara Errani Sara Errani (; born 29 April 1987) is an Italian professional tennis player. She is a former top five player in singles and former world No. 1 in doubles. With 9 singles titles and 27 doubles titles (including 5 Grand Slam doubles championship ...

in straight sets. In April, she won her first WTA title at the Katowice Open, where she defeated

Camila Giorgi Camila Giorgi (; born 30 December 1991) is an Italian professional tennis player. She has a career-high singles ranking of world No. 26, achieved on 22 October 2018. She is the current Italian No. 2, after Martina Trevisan. After winning her fi ...

in the final. She won her second WTA title at the Bucharest Open, where she defeated Errani in the final. At the

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, Schmiedlová scored her first top-10 victory, and hence the biggest win of her career, by coming upsetting former world No. 1,

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, in three sets in the second round.

2016: Major slump, out of the top 100

Schmiedlová commenced season at the

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where she lost in the first round to Varvara Lepchenko. Schmiedlová won her first match of the season at the

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by beating sixth seed Timea Bacsinszky in the first round. She was heavily defeated in the second round by qualifier

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. Seeded 27th at the

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, Schmiedlová lost in the first round to

Daria Kasatkina Daria Sergeyevna Kasatkina (born 7 May 1997) is a Russian professional tennis player. She is currently the Russian No. 1 player in singles. She made her top-ten debut in the WTA rankings towards the end of the 2018 season and has been ranked ...

.

2018: Third WTA title, return to top 100

The Slovakian, ranked 132 in the world before this win in

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, beat

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in the final. It was her first title since 2015 and resulted in her return to the top 100.

2020: First third-round appearance at the French Open in six years

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Schmiedlová kicked off her season at the

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where she lost to

Marta Kostyuk Marta Olehivna Kostyuk ( uk, Марта Олегівна Костюк; born 28 June 2002) is a Ukrainian tennis player. She has career-high rankings of 49 in singles, achieved on 14 February 2022, and world No. 39 in doubles, reached on 19 Septem ...

in the second round of qualifying. At

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, she was defeated in the first round of qualifying by

Nina Stojanović Nina Stojanović ( sr-cyr, Нина Стојановић, ; born 30 July 1996) is a Serbian professional tennis player. On 2 March 2020, Stojanović reached a career-high singles ranking of world No. 81. On 17 January 2022, she peaked at No. 37 in ...

. At the

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, she lost her first-round match to sixth seed

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. Playing in the

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tie versus Great Britain, Schmiedlová helped Slovakia win 3–1 by beating

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and

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. Playing at the Mexican Open, Schmiedlová was defeated in the first round by

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. Coming through qualifying at the

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, Schmiedlová beat

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in the first round. She then lost in the second round to ninth seed and eventual finalist,

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. A week later, competing at a $25k tournament in

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, she was defeated in the first round by eighth seed

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. In August, Schmiedlová played at the TK Sparta Prague Open. Seeded 24th, she reached the quarterfinal round where she lost to second seed and eventual finalist

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. In the leadup to the French Open, Schmiedlová played the

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and made it to the second round where she was defeated by

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. At the

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, Schmiedlová beat 2002 finalist and former world No. 1, Venus Williams, in straight sets in the first round. In the second round, she upset 10th seed and former world No. 1,

Victoria Azarenka Victória Fyódarauna Azárenka ( be, Вікторыя Фёдараўна Азаранка; Russian: Виктория Фёдоровна Азаренко; born 31 July 1989) is a Belarusian professional tennis player. Azarenka is a former wo ...

, to reach the third round for the first time since 2014. Her run ended in the third round with a straight-sets loss to qualifier and eventual semifinalist

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.

Performance timelines

''Only main-draw results in WTA Tour, Grand Slam tournaments, Fed Cup/Billie Jean King Cup and Olympic Games are included in win–loss records.''

Singles

''Current through the 2022 Emilia Romagna Open.''

Doubles

WTA career finals

Singles: 5 (3 titles, 2 runner-ups)

WTA 125 tournament finals

Singles: 1 (title)

ITF Circuit finals

Singles: 18 (12 titles, 6 runner–ups)

Doubles: 4 (4 runner–ups)

Junior Grand Slam tournament finals

Girls' singles: 1 (1 runner–up)

Wins over top-10 players

Notes

References

External links

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