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Barbora Krejčíková (; born 18 December 1995) is a Czech professional
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player. She has a career-high singles ranking of world No. 2, achieved on 28 February 2022, and on 22 October 2018, she became world No. 1 in doubles. Krejčíková has won one Grand Slam singles title and nine major doubles titles, including the
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in doubles. She won the 2021 French Open singles title, the women's doubles titles at the
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, 2018 Wimbledon Championships, 2021 French Open, 2022 Australian Open, 2022 Wimbledon Championships and 2022 US Open partnering Kateřina Siniaková, and the mixed doubles titles at the
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and
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s partnering
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, and in
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with Nikola Mektić. She is one of only three active female players to have won a major title in all three disciplines, after
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. Krejčíková has won five singles and fourteen doubles titles on the
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, including two at the WTA 1000-level in doubles. Alongside her major titles, Krejčíková won the
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and a gold medal at the
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in women's doubles, both partnering Siniaková, and was part of the Czech team that won the
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. The pair also finished runners-up at the 2018 WTA Finals,
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, and 2022 WTA Finals.


Personal life and background

Krejčíková started playing tennis aged 6. She later was coached and mentored by
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.


Career Summary


Junior years

Krejčíková was ranked junior world No. 3 in October 2013. In that year, she won the girls' doubles titles at the
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, at Wimbledon and the US Open with fellow Czech Kateřina Siniaková. Alongside Oleksandra Korashvili from Ukraine, she also reached the final of the
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, falling one match shy of completing the calendar-year Grand Slam. The same year, she also won the European Junior Championship U18 in Klosters, Switzerland in singles and doubles.


Professional career highlights


Singles

In October 2020, she reached the fourth round of the
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tournament, which helped her attain a new best year-end ranking of No. 65 in November. In March 2021, she made progress to her first singles final of a WTA 1000 tournament at the Dubai Championships, eventually losing to
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. As a result, she climbed to a new career-high of No. 38 in the singles rankings. In May 2021, she won her first WTA singles title at
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the day before the 2021 French Open started. Krejčíková went on to win the subsequent
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, her first Grand Slam final in singles. As a result, she climbed to a career-high of No. 15 in the singles rankings. She won her third WTA singles title at
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, and reached a career high singles ranking of world number 2 in February 2022 after reaching the final at
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and the quarterfinals of the 2022 Australian Open. After injuries, Krejčíková would win two further singles titles in 2022: at
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, and at
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. Krejčíková has also won 14 singles titles on the ITF Circuit.


Doubles

Together with compatriot Kateřina Siniaková, she won the doubles titles at the
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and 2018 Wimbledon Championships. Krejcikova also won the 2021 French Open Women’s Doubles title alongside Siniaková, and they added the Australian Open Women’s doubles 2022 title in January 2022. The pair added the 2022 Wimbledon Championships title and completed the career grand slam with the doubles title in New York at the US Open Krejcikova has won 3 Grand Slam Mixed Doubles titles, winning the Australian Open for three years in a row from 2019–2021. With American partner
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, she won the mixed-doubles competition of the 2019 Australian Open. She succeeded in defending her title the following year alongside Nikola Mektić, and in
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again, with Rajeev Ram. Additionally, Krejčíková has won six more doubles titles on the
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, one WTA 125K series doubles title, as well as 19 doubles titles on the ITF Circuit. On 22 October 2018, she reached No. 1 in the doubles rankings, jointly with Kateřina Siniaková. Together they were the fifth and sixth Czechs ranked No. 1 since 1975, and the 14th pair that attained the No. 1 together. In August 2021, Krejcikova and Siniaková won the gold medal at the Tokyo Olympics in the women’s doubles. In November 2021, she won the
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doubles title with Siniaková, their first year end championships title.


Professional career


2014–15: WTA Tour debut, first WTA title in doubles

Krejčíková made her WTA Tour debut at the
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, where she and partner Kateřina Siniaková lost in the first round. In singles, her debut was at the
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, where she qualified for the main draw and reached the second round, losing to
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. In doubles there, she reached the semifinals. At the Luxembourg Open, she reached her first WTA Tour doubles final pairing Hradecká. However, they were defeated by
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and
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. In 2015, Krejčíková only played one WTA Tour main-draw singles event, at the
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, where she was defeated in the first round. At all four Grand Slam championships, she failed to qualify for the main draw, losing in the first or second rounds of them all. In doubles, she had more success, reaching the semifinals at the
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, debuting in the main draw of the
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, and winning her first title at the
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. In November, she won her first WTA 125K title at the
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, partnering Mandy Minella.


2016: French Open semifinal and top 30 in doubles

In singles, Krejčíková mainly played on the ITF Circuit. However, she took part in a few WTA tournaments but lost in qualifying or in early rounds of the main draw. She lost in the first round of qualifying at the Qatar Open,
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, and Wimbledon. Krejčíková started the year well in doubles, reaching the semifinals at the Auckland Open. Next, she played for the first time at the
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, reaching the second round. In February, she played her first Premier final in doubles at the St. Petersburg Trophy. At the Qatar Open, she made her first appearance at a Premier 5/Premier Mandatory tournament, where she lost in the second round. Her breakthrough came at the
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, where she, with her doubles partner Siniaková, reached the semifinals, losing to
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and
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. This result ranked her in the top 50 for the first time, at No. 34. At Wimbledon, she lost in the first round. At the US Open, she reached her second Grand Slam quarterfinal alongside Siniaková, but lost there to Martina Hingis and CoCo Vandeweghe. She entered the top 30 in rankings for the first time in her career.


2017: First WTA singles final

In the first few months, Krejčíková had success in singles on the ITF Circuit, but didn't do well on the WTA Tour. She failed in qualification at Taiwan Open and Morocco Open, and failed to reached the main-draw of
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again, losing in the second round of qualification. Then suddenly, in late May, she reached her first WTA singles final at the Nurember Cup, where she played from the qualifying rounds. She lost the final to top seed
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. This result brought her back to the top 150, for the first time since September 2015. In the grass-court season, she only played in qualifying for Wimbledon, but missed the chance to play in the main-draw. In Bastad, she played in the quarterfinal, where she lost to Caroline Garcia. For the first time, she had the chance to play in the main draw of the
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, but lost in the second round of qualification. At US Open, she also didn't have success, losing in the first round of qualification. Also in doubles, the first few months were not really successful for Krejčíková, reaching only the second round at the
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, and first round of Sydney International, Taiwan Open and
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. During the clay-court season, things get better. At Morocco Open, she reached her first semifinal in 2017. At Madrid Open, she lost in the first round, but at the
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she reached her first Premier 5/Premier Mandatory quarterfinal. At the
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, partnering with Chan Hao-ching, lost to
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-Kateřina Siniaková in the third round. In the grass season, she only played at Wimbledon, where she lost in the first round. At Swedish Open, she reached the doubles final, but missed the chance to win the title. At
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, she lost in the second round of the doubles, while at the US Open, she reached the third round in doubles. In October, she played the semifinal doubles at the Kremlin Cup.


2018: Two Major titles and World No. 1 in doubles

Unlike previous seasons, Krejčíková now had the chance to play, at least, in singles qualifying rounds at more Premier 5/Premier Mandatory events than before. Unfortunately, she failed to qualify for the main draw at
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, Indian Wells,
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and
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, but finally qualified at the
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, where she lost in the first round. At the majors, she also made a little bit of progress, as she finally made it to the main draw of the
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after qualifying. In the first round of the main draw, she faced sixth seed Karolína Plíšková but lost. At the US Open, once again, she failed to qualify. This year was by far the most successful doubles season for Krejčíková to this point. She started well, reaching the final at the Shenzhen Open, where she and Siniaková lost to Romanian combination
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/ Simona Halep. At the
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, they reached the third round, Krejcikova’s best result at that tournament. In February, she reached semifinals at the Premier 5 Qatar Open, again with Siniaková. At the
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, they reached the second round. And at the Miami Open, she played her first Premier 5/Mandatory final, but missed the chance to win the title. The clay-court season didn't start so well, reaching only second round of the Madrid Open, and first round of the
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. However, after that, she won her first major doubles title at the
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. Together with Siniaková, she defeated Japanese pair Eri Hozumi/
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in the final. The grass-court season was successful for Krejčíková, reaching the semifinal at the Birmingham Classic, and winning the title at the Wimbledon. At Wimbledon, again with Siniaková, they defeated Květa Peschke and Nicole Melichar in the final, to win a rare Roland Garros/Wimbledon double. After Wimbledon, Krejčíková entered the top 5 in doubles for the first time in her career. The US Open Series was also quite successful. Things started slowly at the
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, losing in the second round, but at
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, she and Siniakova reached the quarterfinals. At the US Open, they were close to reaching a third successive Grand Slam final, but were stopped in the semifinal by
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and CoCo Vandeweghe. On 22 October, Krejčíková, together with her partner Siniaková, became world No. 1 doubles player. For the first time in her career, Krejčíková had the opportunity to play at the
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, where she had success. In the first round, Siniaková and Krejčíková defeated Peschke/Melichar, then in semifinals, they defeated
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, but unfortunately lost in the final against
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/ Kristina Mladenovic. Both, Krejčíková and Siniaková finished the year as world-number-1 doubles players. At the end of 2018, they received the award for the 2018 Doubles Team.


2019: Doubles Canadian Open champion

Krejčíková began 2019 playing singles mostly on the ITF Circuit where she had some success. On the WTA Tour, the only tournament where she played in main-draw was
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, where she reached quarterfinal. Also, she failed to qualify at
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,
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, US Open and
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. In doubles, the season started really well for Krejčíková. She played at the
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, where she reached the semifinals. After that, she finally reached the quarterfinal at the
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, and with that result she completed the set of quarterfinals or better at all four Grand Slam tournaments. At Indian Wells, she entered the final, where she and Siniaková lost to Elise Mertens/ Aryna Sabalenka. In
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, she had less success, losing in the first round. The clay-court season started well, with a quarterfinal at the Madrid Open and semifinal at the
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, but suffered a disappointing loss in the first round of the
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. Wimbledon was more successful for Krejčíková, reaching the semifinals, where she and Siniaková lost to Gabriela Dabrowski/ Xu Yifan. At the
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, she finally won her first Premier 5/Premier Mandatory doubles title. Together with Siniaková, they defeated
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in the final, in straight sets. At
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, she reached the quarterfinal. Krejčíková planned to play in doubles, but during her second-round match in qualifying against Asia Muhammad, Krejčíková was forced to retire. In October, she and Siniakova won the title at the Linz Open. For the second year in row, Krejčíková played at the
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, again with Siniaková, but they didn't pass the group stage, winning only one match. Krejčíková also played in mixed-doubles competition, winning her first grand slam mixed doubles title. At the Australian Open, she and American player
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won the title.


2020: Second Mixed doubles Australian Open title

In the COVID-affected 2020 season, Krejčíková finally made progress in singles. For the first time in her career, she qualified for the main draw of the
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, beating
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before losing to Ekaterina Alexandrova in the second round. During the COVID-19 lockdown, Krejčíková took part in Czech tennis tournaments against players like
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and Karolína Muchová. When the tour restarted in August, Krejčíková impressed in a three-set loss to Simona Halep. She returned to the ITF circuit afterwards, where she had a string of disappointing results. This proved to be a turning point, as she later said she was determined to enjoy her singles tennis more. At the
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in September, Krejčíková had a massive breakthrough, reaching the round of 16. There, she lost to qualifier
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. She followed with good performances in
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and
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, where she lost to
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in the round of 16 and Aryna Sabalenka in the semifinals, respectively. Krejčíková ended the year ranked world No. 65 in singles. Krejčíková's doubles season started well with a title in
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over home team
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and
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. After that, she played at
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, where she reached the semifinals. In the
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, she won a second consecutive title, this time with Nikola Mektić. In
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, together with Zheng Saisai, Krejčíková lost in the final to
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and Barbora Strýcová. In
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, again with Siniaková, she reached the semifinals before being defeated by Hsieh and Strýcová once again. After the COVID shutdown, Krejčíková returned to play doubles in August, and reached another semifinal at the
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. She returned with Siniaková to the
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, where they lost in the semifinals to the defending champions
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and Kristina Mladenovic. Krejčíková's 2020 season ended in
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, where she and Siniaková made it to the semifinals before Krejčíková had to withdraw.


2021: Two French Open titles, Olympic gold, WTA Finals champion

Krejčíková began the season ranked world No. 65, and lost in the second round in
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to Yulia Putintseva. She reached the quarterfinals at the Grampians Trophy, beating
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and fourth seed Elena Rybakina before losing to
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. While Krejčíková's singles run at the
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was brief, losing in the second round to Ekaterina Alexandrova for the second year in a row, she and Siniaková reached the doubles final but lost to Elise Mertens and Aryna Sabalenka. She won the mixed doubles for the third straight year, returning to partner with
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. In the Middle East swing, Krejčíková’s most notable result in doubles was making the
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semifinals with Siniaková, before losing to Jeļena Ostapenko and
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. In singles, Krejčíková progressed to the final following wins over Ostapenko, Svetlana Kuznetsova, and 16th seed
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. There, she lost to
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. This result entered Krejčíková into the top 40 in singles for the first time. At the Madrid Open, Krejčíková and Siniaková won the women's doubles title, beating
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and Gaby Dabrowski in the final for their biggest title since Wimbledon in 2018. At
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, Krejčíková won her maiden singles title, beating Sorana Cîrstea in the final. At the
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, Krejčíková defeated
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, Ekaterina Alexandrova and Elina Svitolina to reach the fourth round. She then defeated 2018 finalist
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, 6–2, 6–0 to reach her first Grand Slam singles quarterfinal. She there defeated
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in straight sets to set up a semifinal with
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, which she won in three sets, saving a match point en route. In her first ever Grand Slam final in only her fifth main draw singles appearance, Krejčíková beat
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in three sets to claim her first Grand Slam singles title. As a result, she entered the top 15 in singles for the first time in her career. In
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, Krejčíková and Siniaková beat the Plíšková sisters in an all Czech quarterfinal and Bernarda Pera and Magda Linette in the semifinals. They then defeated
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and
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in straight sets to claim their second French Open title, and the first singles/doubles sweep in Paris since Mary Pierce in
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. As a result, Krejčíková & Siniaková reclaimed the No. 1 and No. 2 doubles positions, respectively. Three weeks later, Krejčíková made her Wimbledon singles debut, where she was seeded for the first time in a Grand Slam. She beat
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, Andrea Petkovic and Anastasija Sevastova before losing to the world No. 1
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in the fourth round, ending her 15-match winning-streak. She quickly got back to her winning ways, however, claiming the
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over Tereza Martincová in the final. It was her third singles title in four tournaments played. At the
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in July, Krejčíková defeated
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and
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before losing to Belinda Bencic in the third round. With Siniaková, she won gold in the doubles event, beating Bencic and Viktorija Golubic in the final. Krejčíková then made her main draw singles debut at the 2021 US Open. She began with straight-sets wins over Astra Sharma,
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, Kamilla Rakhimova and ninth seed Muguruza to reach her maiden US Open quarterfinal. With an injury sustained in the Murguruza match, Krejčíková was beaten in the quarterfinals by Aryna Sabalenka. On 20 September, Krejčíková reached a new-career high ranking of world No. 5., which was surpassed on 1 November when she reached world No. 3. Krejčíková represented the Czech Republic in the inaugural 2020-21 Billie Jean King Cup Finals in Prague in November. However, the long season appeared to catch up with her as she lost both of her singles rubbers to Angelique Kerber of Germany and Bencic of Switzerland, and did not play the doubles. One week later, Krejčíková played in the
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in singles for the first time in her career, and was the first player to do so in both singles and doubles since Karolína Plíšková in 2016. Seeded second, she lost to Muguruza, Plíšková, and Anett Kontaveit during the round robin stage. However, she and Siniaková went unbeaten in the doubles tournament, going undefeated to take the title. With the win over Mertens and Hsieh in the final, Siniaková rose to become the world No. 1, with Krejčíková as No. 2. Krejčíková was awarded the ‘Most Improved Player’ award in the official WTA year-end awards as well as ‘Doubles Team of the Year’ with Siniaková. She ended this breakthrough year as world No. 5 in singles and No. 2 in doubles.


2022: Doubles Career Golden Slam & World No. 2, fourth and fifth singles titles

Krejčíková began the season as the third seed at the Sydney International, a
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event. She defeated Jaqueline Cristian, Caroline Garcia, and fourth seed Anett Kontaveit en route to the final; her match against Kontaveit was particularly remarkable, as she came back from being bagelled in the first set to winning a final-set tiebreak 14–12, saving 7 match points. She lost in the final via another final-set tiebreak to fifth seed
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. As the fourth seed in
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at the 2022 Australian Open, Krejčíková reached the quarterfinals, defeating Andrea Petkovic, Wang Xiyu, 26th seed Jelena Ostapenko, and 24th seed
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, before losing to Madison Keys. In
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, she reached the final alongside Siniaková, where they won their fourth major doubles title over Beatriz Haddad Maia and Anna Danilina. Krejčíková followed up her performance in Australia with two early exits, falling to Dayana Yastremska in the second round of
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and Jeļena Ostapenko in the third round of
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where she was forced to withdraw during a doubles match with Siniaková after injuring her right arm. Despite this setback she reached No. 2 in the world in the WTA singles rankings on 28 February 2022. Originally scheduled to participate in Indian Wells as the top seed, she pulled out due to the ongoing arm injury that flared up just before the start of the tournament. This injury also kept Krejčíková out of the Miami Open, and forced her to withdraw from all four clay-court tournaments she had signed up for in
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, and
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, the latter at which she was the defending champion. Having not played a match in three months due to an elbow injury, Krejčíková entered the French Open
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draw as the second seed and defending champion. She was upset in the first round by French wildcard
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; it was only the third time in the history of the event that the defending champion lost in the first round, after Anastasia Myskina in 2005 and Jeļena Ostapenko in 2018. She was later forced to withdraw from the
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draw as well after testing positive for COVID-19. Krejcikova’s grass court season did not start well with an early loss to Marta Kostyuk at the
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in singles and winning just one match in doubles where she partnered
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in three sets. At the same tournament in doubles, she reached the final with her partner Siniakova and won the title for a second time defeating top seeds Elise Mertens and Zhang Shuai in straight sets. At the US Open Krejcikova once again lost early in singles, going out in second round to Aleksandra Krunic. However, she was more successful in doubles, where she won the title with Siniaková, coming back from a set down to defeat Taylor Townsend and Caty McNally in the final. With this win Krejcikova and Siniaková completed the Career Golden Slam, and took their third women’s doubles Grand Slam title of the year, remaining undefeated in slams in 2022. Krejcikova returned to the singles court at the inaugural
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and got first ever wins against her first four opponents: Ajla Tomljanovic, Marta Kostyuk, Beatriz Haddad Maia and Belinda Bencic, four players she had never beaten before. In the final, Krejcikova defeated home favourite Anett Kontaveit in straight sets to win the title. A week later, Krejcikova won the title at the 2022 Ostrava Open, her second title in her home country and fifth career singles title. She defeated world number 1,
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in three sets, giving Swiatek her first defeat in a final in three years.
Krejcikova crashed out of the final WTA1000 of the year, the
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in the first round. She and Siniaková made the semi-finals in the doubles, before losing a match tie-break to Haddad Maia and Danilina.
The pair then played the 2022 WTA Finals - Doubles in Fort Worth, Texas. The Czechs went undefeated in the round robin stage but were defeated in the final by Veronika Kudermetova and Elise Mertens


Playing style

Krejčíkova is an aggressive player, with an all-court game. She is known for her strong serve, powerful groundstrokes, and wholly complete net game. She has been noted for her ability to play with "contained aggression", and to spontaneously inject pace into rallies without notice. As a result, she is capable of generating and redirecting power both crosscourt and down-the-line with both her groundstrokes, allowing her to hit winners, or induce unforced errors from opponents, with a high degree of accuracy. Her two-handed backhand is arguably her strongest groundstroke, with her being able to generate extreme angles with her backhand, and hit winners from any position on the court. Krejčíkova can strategically apply slice to her backhand, continually breaking up the pace of rallies, allowing her to construct points intelligently. Her forehand is also strong, being applied with heavy topspin, pushing opponents far behind the baseline, and allowing her to dictate rallies. She also frequently deploys the sliced forehand, a rare shot in modern tennis, to surprise opponents and aid point construction. Krejčíkova is an exceptional net player due to her doubles experience, and possesses a complete repertoire of shots to perform at the net. Although Krejčíkova typically plays at the baseline until the opportunity arises to attack the net, she occasionally utilises the serve-and-volley tactic to surprise opponents, and win points easily. She also possesses a highly effective
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, which typically lands close to the net, surprising opponents in long baseline rallies; if the opponent manages to retrieve the shot, her strong volleying skills allow her to end the point quickly with an aggressive volley, or a perfectly weighted lob., which was instrumental in her defeat of Sakkari in the Roland Garros 2021 semi-final and the winning shot in the 2022 Australian Open doubles final. In the post-match press conference, Krejcikova revealed this was a talent she developed as a junior when the deep lobs would bounce over her shorter opponents’ heads and over the fence! Despite her aggressive playing style, Krejčíkova possesses excellent movement, speed, stamina, footwork, and court coverage, allowing her to defend to an exceptionally high standard, and she is an effective
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, extending rallies until she creates the opportunity to hit a winner. Her first serve is strong, peaking at 110 mph (177 km/h), allowing her to serve aces and dictate play from the first stroke; she also possesses strong kick and slice second serves, preventing opponents from scoring free points off her second serve. She is quite prone to aborted ball tosses on serve. On occasion, Krejčíkova does have a tendency to take risks on her second serve, leading to a relatively high double fault count. Due to her aggressive mindset and defensive abilities, Krejčíkova is a dangerous opponent on all surfaces, although her strongest surface is clay, where the high bounce and slow pace allow her to execute her playing style perfectly.


Endorsements

Krejčíková signed an endorsement deal in 2022 with
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for clothing, footwear, and apparel. She is endorsed by
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for racquets, specifically using the Head Extreme racquet; she was previously sponsored by Head for clothing and footwear, until switching to Fila. She is also sponsored by Roko-Motor, the Czech division of Jaguar Land Rover.


Career statistics


Grand Slam tournament performance timelines


Singles


Doubles


Mixed doubles


Grand Slam finals


Singles: 1 (1 title)


Doubles: 7 (6 titles, 1 runner-up)


Mixed doubles: 3 (3 titles)


Olympic finals


Doubles: 1 (gold medal)


Year-end championships finals


Doubles: 3 (1 title, 2 runner-ups)


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* * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Krejcikova, Barbora 1995 births Living people Sportspeople from Brno Czech female tennis players French Open junior champions Wimbledon junior champions US Open (tennis) junior champions Grand Slam (tennis) champions in women's singles Grand Slam (tennis) champions in girls' doubles Grand Slam (tennis) champions in women's doubles French Open champions Wimbledon champions Australian Open (tennis) champions Grand Slam (tennis) champions in mixed doubles Olympic tennis players of the Czech Republic Tennis players at the 2020 Summer Olympics Olympic gold medalists for the Czech Republic Medalists at the 2020 Summer Olympics Olympic medalists in tennis WTA number 1 ranked doubles tennis players ITF World Champions