Sylvia Štefková (born 9 March 1970) is a Czech 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 c ...
player. She is the mother of WTA Tour player
Barbora Štefková
Barbora Štefková (born 4 April 1995) is a retired Czech tennis player.
Štefková had a career-high singles ranking of world No. 154, achieved on 27 February 2017. On 14 January 2019, she peaked at No. 100 in the doubles rankings. She won nin ...
.
Štefková competed on the professional tour from the late 1980s to early 1990s. All of her WTA Tour main draw appearances came in doubles, across 1993 and 1994. Her best performance came at
Kitzbühel in 1993, where she and
Eva Martincová
Eva Martincová (born 4 March 1975, in Brno
Brno ( , ; german: Brünn ) is a city in the South Moravian Region of the Czech Republic. Located at the confluence of the Svitava and Svratka rivers, Brno has about 380,000 inhabitants, making it ...
upset second seeds
Florencia Labat
María Florencia Labat (born 12 June 1971) is an Argentinian former professional female tennis player. She joined the WTA Tour
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and
Virginia Ruano Pascual
Virginia Ruano Pascual (; born 21 September 1973) is a Spanish former professional tennis player. She had moderate success in singles, winning three career Women's Tennis Association (WTA) titles as well as reaching two Grand Slam quarterfina ...
to make the quarter-finals.
ITF finals
Singles: 3 (2–1)
Doubles: 7 (4–3)
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1970 births
Living people
Czechoslovak female tennis players
Czech female tennis players