Martina Babáková (born 18 April 1983) is a Slovak former professional
tennis
Tennis is a racket sport that is played either individually against a single opponent ( singles) or between two teams of two players each ( doubles). Each player uses a tennis racket that is strung with cord to strike a hollow rubber ball ...
player.
Biography
A right-handed player born in
Žilina
Žilina (; hu, Zsolna, ; german: Sillein, or ; pl, Żylina , names in other languages) is a city in north-western Slovakia, around from the capital Bratislava, close to both the Czech and Polish borders. It is the fourth largest city of Sl ...
, Babáková was a top-50 junior who was most prominent on the professional tour as a doubles player.
Babáková won 18 ITF doubles titles and made her only
WTA Tour
The WTA Tour is a worldwide top-tier tennis tour for women organized by the Women's Tennis Association. The second-tier tour is the WTA 125K series, and third-tier is the ITF Women's Circuit. The men's equivalent is the ATP Tour.
WTA Tour tourna ...
main-draw appearance at the
2008 Budapest Grand Prix, with
Anna Lapushchenkova
Anna Alexandrovna Lapushchenkova (; born 24 October 1986) is a former Russian tennis player.
Career
Lapushchenkova began competing occasionally on the ITF Women's Circuit in October 2002, shortly before her 16th birthday. She started to compet ...
in the doubles.
At the
2009 Summer Universiade
The 2009 Summer Universiade, officially known as the XXV Summer Universiade, was celebrated in Belgrade, Serbia from July 1 to 12, 2009. The event has also been organised by a range of co-host cities mostly in Vojvodina (Serbian Autonomous Provin ...
in Belgrade, she partnered
Katarína Kachlíková
Katarína Kachlíková (born 2 June 1985) is a retired Slovak tennis player.
She took part in the 2006 Bangalore Open and qualified but lost in the first round to Isha Lakhani. She won three doubles titles and one singles title on the ITF Wom ...
to win a women's doubles bronze medal for Slovakia. She also won a bronze medal for the team event.
ITF Circuit finals
Singles: 2 (0–2)
Doubles: 37 (18–19)
References
External links
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1983 births
Living people
Slovak female tennis players
Sportspeople from Žilina
Universiade medalists in tennis
Universiade bronze medalists for Slovakia
Medalists at the 2009 Summer Universiade
21st-century Slovak women