Vlasta Vopičková (born 26 March 1944) is a Czech former professional
tennis
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player.
Biography
She was born in 1944 as Vlasta Kodešová. Her younger brother is
Jan Kodeš, who won three Grand Slam titles. After her marriage to Czech ice hockey player Milan Vopička in 1964, she became Vlasta Vopičková.
Vopičková made her
Federation Cup debut for Czechoslovakia in 1964 and appeared in a total of nine ties. She had a 7-2 record in singles, which included a win over
Virginia Wade in 1968.
At
Grand Slams, she was most successful on the clay courts of Roland Garros, making the quarterfinals of the
French Open
The French Open (), also known as Roland-Garros (), is a tennis tournament organized by the French Tennis Federation annually at Stade Roland Garros in Paris, France. It is chronologically the second of the four Grand Slam (tennis), Grand Slam ...
in 1968 and 1970. She also competed at
Wimbledon on several occasions and reached the round of 16 in the 1970 tournament.
She was a semifinalist at the
1973 Italian Open.
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1944 births
Living people
Czechoslovak female tennis players
Czech female tennis players
Tennis players from Prague