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2020 TK Sparta Prague Open – Singles
The 2020 TK Sparta Prague Open was a women's tennis tournament played on Clay in Prague, Czech Republic, and was part of the 2020 WTA 125K series. This was the first edition and was held from 29 August to 6 September 2020. Kristína Kučová won the title, defeating Elisabetta Cocciaretto Elisabetta Cocciaretto (; born 25 January 2001) is an Italian professional tennis player. She has been WTA rankings, ranked by the Women's Tennis Association, WTA as high as No. 29 in singles, achieved on 21 August 2023, and No. 141 in doubles, ... in the final, 6–4, 6–3. Seeds Draw Finals Top half Section 1 Section 2 Section 3 Section 4 Bottom half Section 5 Section 6 Section 7 Section 8 References External linksMain Draw {{DEFAULTSORT:2020 Advantage Cars Prague Open - Women's Singles Advantage Cars Prague Open - Singles ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kristína Kučová
Kristína Kučová (; born 23 May 1990) is a Slovak tennis player. On 12 September 2016, she reached her best singles ranking of world No. 71. On 5 October 2009, she peaked at No. 168 in the WTA doubles rankings. She has won one singles title on the WTA Challenger Tour with eleven singles titles and five doubles titles on the ITF Women's Circuit. Kučová was an accomplished junior player, having won the girls' singles title at the 2007 US Open and reaching a combined career-high junior ranking of world No. 3, on 10 September 2009. Playing for Slovakia Fed Cup team, she has a win–loss record of 1–5. Personal life Kučová's elder sister Zuzana retired from the professional tour in 2013. Tennis career Junior years At the 2007 US Open, the unseeded Kučová took the girls' singles title, defeating the 13th seed Julia Glushko in the third round, top seed and defending champion Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova in the quarterfinals, and number two seed Urszula Radwańska in the fi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nadia Podoroska
Nadia Natacha Podoroska (; born 10 February 1997) is an Argentine professional tennis player. On 12 July 2021, she reached her best singles ranking of world No. 36, and on 18 October 2021, she peaked at No. 62 in the WTA doubles rankings. Podoroska has won one doubles title on the WTA Tour and three singles titles on the WTA Challenger Tour along with 14 singles titles and seven doubles titles on the ITF Circuit. Podoroska competed for Argentina at the 2020 Summer Olympics. Early life Podoroska was born on 10 February 1997, in Rosario, Santa Fe Province, and grew up in a middle-class family in Fisherton, a neighborhood founded in the late 1880s by railroad workers. She is one of three children born to father Marcelo and mother Irene; she is of Ukrainian descent as her grandparents were Ukrainian, but she does not speak the language at all. Her father was a watchmaker by profession who over the years became a pharmacist, and her mother is also a pharmacist. Nadia was the f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mariam Bolkvadze
Mariam Bolkvadze ( ka, მარიამ ბოლქვაძე, tr, ; born 1 January 1998) is a tennis player from Georgia. On 7 March 2022, she achieved a career-high singles ranking of world No. 151, and on 21 March 2022, she peaked at No. 204 in the WTA doubles rankings. Playing for Georgia Fed Cup team, Bolkvadze has a win–loss record of 7–11 in Fed Cup competitions, as of April 2024. Personal life Bolkvadze was born in Batumi and at the age of 13 moved to the United Kingdom to further her tennis development. She stayed initially with her godmother before finding a host family two years later. Maria Sharapova was her favourite player growing up. She is fluent in Georgian, Russian, and English. Junior career Bolkvadze began playing tennis at the age of nine and spent much of her teenage years training in London, where she was coached by Otto Buchholdt. As a junior she played in very few ITF events, instead concentrating on domestic competitions organised by the LT ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Indy De Vroome
Indy de Vroome (born 21 May 1996) is a Dutch tennis player. De Vroome has won seven singles and six doubles titles on the ITF Women's Circuit. On 14 July 2014, she reached her best singles ranking of world No. 177. On 1 August 2016, she peaked at No. 218 in the doubles rankings. Career De Vroome was awarded a wildcard to compete in the qualifying draw of the 2012 Miami Open, but she lost in the first round to Sloane Stephens. She made her WTA Tour main-draw debut at the 2012 Rosmalen Open. De Vroome made her debut at a Grand Slam qualifying event in May 2014 at the French Open, defeating former top-30 player Kateryna Bondarenko in straight sets in the first round, but was defeated in round two by third seed Tímea Babos. At the Diamond Games in February 2015, she achieved her first WTA Tour main-draw match-win by defeating Tsvetana Pironkova in the first round. It was also her first win against a top-50 player. De Vroome did not play competitive tennis from the summer o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anna Karolína Schmiedlová
Anna Karolína Schmiedlová (; born 13 September 1994) is a Slovak inactive professional tennis player. On 12 October 2015, she reached her best WTA singles ranking of world No. 26. She has won three singles titles on the WTA Tour, two singles titles on the WTA Challenger Tour as well as 12 singles titles on the ITF Circuit. Early and personal life Schmiedlová was born in Košice to father Juraj and mother Martina. Her father played hockey for HC Košice, while her mother was a Czechoslovak national champion in water skiing. Her younger sister, Kristína Schmiedlová, was also a tennis player, but ended her career at the age of 21 to study medicine. Schmiedlová is in a relationship with fellow professional tennis player Lukáš Klein and in May 2025 the couple announced she was pregnant with their first child. Career 2013: Grand Slam and top 100 debuts Schmiedlová qualified for her first Grand Slam tournament at the French Open. After Wimbledon, she reached the final o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Samantha Murray Sharan
Samantha Dawn Murray Sharan (née Murray; born 9 October 1987) is a British tennis player who specializes in doubles. On 22 August 2022, she reached her best doubles ranking of world No. 76. Murray has won four singles titles and 28 doubles titles on the ITF Women's Circuit. On 23 September 2013, she peaked at No. 165 in the singles rankings. Career Murray made her WTA Tour debut at the 2011 Eastbourne Classic, losing to Anna Tatishvili in the first round. Partnering Laura Pigossi, she won the biggest title of her career to date by taking the doubles at the 2024 W1000 Wiesbaden Open, defeating Himeno Sakatsume and Anita Wagner in the final. Personal life Murray married Indian tennis doubles specialist Divij Sharan Divij Sharan (born 2 March 1986) is an Indian professional tennis player. He specialises in doubles and competes on the ATP World Tour. He has won five ATP doubles titles and represents India in the Davis Cup. He won a gold medal in the men' ... in July ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Varvara Lepchenko
Varvara Petrivna Lepchenko (born May 21, 1986) is an Uzbekistani-born American professional tennis player. She is of Ukrainian descent and played for Uzbekistan before relocating to the United States. Lepchenko won a singles title on the WTA Challenger Tour and 13 singles titles and one doubles title on the ITF Women's Circuit. She won all her 14 ITF titles in the United States. Lepchenko has a career-high WTA singles ranking of 19, achieved October 2012. She was provisionally suspended from the WTA Tour in 2016 after testing positive for the heart medication meldonium, although she was found to "bear no fault or negligence" by the International Tennis Federation. In 2022, Lepchenko was suspended from tennis for four years (backdated to August 2021), after testing positive for the stimulant adrafinil, and its metabolite, modafinil. In February 2023, her suspension was reduced to 21 months, and she started playing again in May of that year. Early life and junior career ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cristina Bucșa
Cristina Bucsa Bucsa (; born 1 January 1998) is a Moldovan-born Spanish professional tennis player. She has career-high WTA rankings, rankings of world No. 56 in singles, achieved on 15 January 2024, and No. 19 in doubles, achieved on 10 June 2024. She won a bronze medal in Tennis at the 2024 Summer Olympics – Women's doubles, women's doubles at the 2024 Summer Olympics. Early life Bucșa was born in Chișinău, Moldova. Her father, Ion Bucșa, is a former Olympic biathlete who was List of flag bearers for Moldova at the Olympics, Moldova's flag bearer at the Moldova at the 1998 Winter Olympics, 1998 and Moldova at the 2002 Winter Olympics, 2002 Winter Olympics. When she was three years old, her family moved to Cantabria in northern Spain; they originally moved to Las Fraguas before settling in Torrelavega. Bucșa attended the Instituto Marqués De Santillana in Torrelavega, where she was awarded the title of Illustrious Alumna in December 2022. She speaks Spanish, Romanian, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chloé Paquet
Chloé Paquet (; born 1 July 1994) is a French professional tennis player. She has achieved career-high WTA rankings of No. 96 in singles on 5 August 2024, and 247 in doubles on 12 June 2017. Career 2010–2013: Early career Paquet made her debut on the ITF Women's Circuit in March 2010 at the $10k tournament held in Gonesse, France; she only played the tournament's singles event, losing in the second qualifying round. She played five tournaments on the 2010 ITF Women's Circuit. She made her WTA Tour singles debut at the WTA Premier 2011 Open GdF Suez; as a wildcard, she lost in the first qualifying round to Michaela Pochabová. 2014: Grand Slam doubles debut Paquet made her Grand Slam debut at the 2014 French Open in women's doubles; she and her partner Alix Collombon had received a wildcard for the main draw and they lost in the first round to the third-seeded Russian pair of Ekaterina Makarova and Elena Vesnina. 2015: Grand Slam qualifying debut Her Grand Slam singl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Olga Danilović
Olga Danilović ( sr-Cyrl, Олга Даниловић, ; born 23 January 2001) is a Serbian professional tennis player. On 5 May 2025, she reached her best singles ranking of world No. 33. On 24 April 2023, she peaked at No. 104 in the WTA doubles rankings. Danilović is the current No. 1 Serbian female singles player. She has won two singles titles and two doubles titles on the WTA Tour. On the WTA Challenger Tour, she has won two singles titles and one doubles title. Additionally, she has won seven singles titles and one doubles title on the ITF Circuit. Playing for Serbia, Danilović holds a win–loss record of 12–8 in Billie Jean King Cup competition, as of June 2025. Early life and background Danilović's father is Serbian former basketball player Predrag Danilović, while her mother, Svetlana (née Radošević), is a sports reporter for Radio Television of Serbia. Her parents met at a basketball game in their teens. She has a younger sister, Sonja, and a younger brot ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mayar Sherif
Mayar Sherif Ahmed Abdel-Aziz (; born 5 May 1996) is an Egyptian professional tennis player. She has a career-high WTA ranking of No. 31 in singles, making her the highest ranked Egyptian singles player, male or female, in the Open Era. She also has a career-high of No. 65 in doubles. Sherif has won two singles titles on the WTA Tour and one title in doubles. She has also won a record eight WTA 125 tournaments, WTA 125 singles titles and two doubles titles on the WTA Challenger Tour along with nine singles and six doubles titles on the ITF Women's World Tennis Tour, ITF Women's Circuit. She is the younger sister of Rana Sherif Ahmed. Sherif spent her final two years of college at Pepperdine University in Malibu, California, graduating in 2018 with a bachelor of science in sports medicine. She was part of the university's tennis team and was an All-American in both 2017 and 2018, and the West Coast Conference Player of the Year in 2018. She made the semifinals of the 2018 NCAA sing ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elena-Gabriela Ruse
Elena-Gabriela Ruse (born 6 November 1997) is a Romanian professional tennis player. She has a career-high WTA singles ranking of world No. 51 and a doubles ranking of No. 32 achieved in May 2022 and 2023 respectively. She is currently the No. 2 Romanian player. Ruse won her maiden WTA Tour singles title at the 2021 Hamburg Open. She has also won six singles and eleven doubles titles on the ITF Circuit. Junior career 2012–2015 Ruse won two junior singles titles and eight junior doubles titles. The biggest title of her junior career was the Grade-1 Canadian Open Junior Championships, where she beat Katie Swan in the final. Ruse also reached the semifinals of the 2014 Wimbledon girls' singles event in 2014 and the final of Eddie Herr. On the ITF Junior Circuit, she had a career-high combined ranking of 7, achieved on 18 May 2015. Professional career 2015–2016: WTA Tour debut When Ruse finished her junior career, she still did not have a professional ranking. In July 2 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
