Anastasia Zarycká Polách (born 8 January 1998 in Prague) is a Ukrainian-Czech former

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player. Since April 2017, she has been playing for the

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. Her father is Ukrainian, her mother is Czech.

Career

On the junior tour, Zarycká had a career-high ranking of No. 21, achieved in March 2016. Anastasia reached the final of the 2016 Australian Open girls' doubles competition, alongside

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. On the senior tour, she achieved career-high WTA rankings of world No. 206 in singles and 189 in doubles. Zarycká won four singles titles and nine doubles titles on the ITF Circuit. She made her main-draw debut on the

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at the 2017 Prague Open where she was handed a wildcard, partnering

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. Zarycká played her latest professional match on the ITF Circuit in August 2021.

Personal background

She was born in

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to a Ukrainian father and a Russian mother. In April 2017, she received Czech citizenship. She started playing tennis at the age of nine, since then she has been a member of the

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. In 2022, she married Josef Polách, who has been in her team as fitness sparring partner.

ITF Circuit finals

Singles: 8 (4 titles, 4 runner–ups)

Doubles: 12 (9 titles, 3 runner–ups)

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* * 1998 births Living people Ukrainian female tennis players Czech female tennis players Tennis players from Prague Ukrainian emigrants to the Czech Republic Naturalized citizens of the Czech Republic Summer World University Games medalists in tennis FISU World University Games silver medalists for the Czech Republic Medalists at the 2019 Summer Universiade Czech people of Russian descent Ukrainian people of Russian descent 21st-century Ukrainian sportswomen {{CzechRepublic-tennis-bio-stub