tennis
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player.
Smitková has won one singles
WTA 125
WTA 125 tournaments are an international series of professional women's tennis tournaments organized by the Women's Tennis Association since 2012.
In the past (2012–2015) sometimes called the WTA Challenger seriesITF Circuit. On 6 April 2015, she reached her best singles ranking of world No. 57. On 19 May 2014, she peaked at No. 184 in the WTA doubles rankings.
In June 2013, Smitková made her
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 debut at the
Nürnberger Versicherungscup
The Nuremberg Cup was a women's professional tennis tournament held in Nuremberg, Germany. Held from 2013 until 2019, this 250-level tournament was played on outdoor clay courts.
Tournament history
The Nuremberg Open was a defunct men's tenni ...
. After coming through all three qualifying rounds, she lost to
Julia Cohen
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in round one. A year later, she reached the third round of
qualifying
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at the
2014 French Open
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, defeating 17th seed
Victoria Duval
Victoria Duval (born 30 November 1995) is an American professional tennis player.
Duval has won one singles title and two doubles titles on the ITF Women's Circuit. In August 2014, she reached her best singles ranking of No. 87. In 2012, she won ...
in the first round and former top-20 player
Anabel Medina Garrigues
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As a player she reached a career-high ranking of world No. 16 in 2020, and won 11 singles and 28 doubles titles, including the 2008 ...
in the second. She lost in the third round of qualifying to fifth seed
Danka Kovinić
Danka Kovinić ( cnr, Данка Ковинић; born 18 November 1994) is a Montenegrin professional tennis player.
On 22 February 2016, she reached a career-high singles ranking of world No. 46, and on 20 June 2016, she peaked at No. 67 in th ...
.
In the Wimbledon qualifying in June 2014, Smitková again reached the third round, this time defeating
Madison Brengle
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in three sets to seal her maiden
Grand Slam
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main-draw appearance. In the main draw, she defeated
Hsieh Su-wei
Hsieh Su-wei ( ;''Xiè 謝淑薇Shūwēi'' in Chinese mainland. Taiwanese Mandarin: ; in Standard Mandarin of Chinese mainland. born 4 January 1986) is an inactive Taiwanese professional tennis player. She has won three singles titles and 30 ...
in the first round before upsetting grass-court specialist
CoCo Vandeweghe
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, who was ranked world No. 51 and had won the Rosmalen Open the week before, in round two. In the third round, she defeated
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** Bojana Atanasovska
** Bojana Bobusic
** Bojana Jovanovski
** Bojana Novakovic
* ...
, in a match where Jovanovski served for the match twice and had held a match point on Smitková's serve. Her run was over in round four, after losing to fellow Czech
Lucie Šafářová
Lucie Šafářová (; born 4 February 1987) is a Czech former professional tennis player who was ranked world No. 1 in doubles, and No. 5 in singles.
She is a five-time Grand Slam champion in doubles, having won the 2015 Australian Open, 2015 ...
in straight sets.
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.''