She was fifteen when Ashleigh Barty first played in the main competition at the Australian Open. She became the world’s number two junior and the tennis experts were clear: A new tennis superstar is born! This was confirmed immediately when, at the age of sixteen, she first appeared in the Fed-Australia nomination in 2013. – … Read more
Only Barbora Krejčíková remained in the singles from the Czech representatives. The fourth seed will face two-time tournament winner Belarusian Victoria Azarenkova in Sunday’s round of 16. – Silver Olympic medalist Vondroušová benefited from her opponent’s mistakes in the first set. Although she has not yet maintained the 3: 1 lead, she has already delivered … Read more
Czech tennis player Markéta Vondroušová defeated home team Anastasia Pavljučenková 6: 4 and 6: 2 in the quarterfinals of the indoor tournament in Moscow after a turnaround. In the semifinals, the silver Olympic medalist will face Anett Kontaveitová from Estonia, who managed 6: 1, 6: 1 with the former world number one and the winner … Read more
Markéta Vondroušová in the archive picture. Vlastimil Vacek, Right – In the quarterfinals, Vondroušová will face the sixteenth player in the world, Anastasia Pavljučenková from Russia. So far, she has competed with the winner of the 2014 tournament once and beat her in two sets three weeks ago in Chicago. It was in Chicago that … Read more
Camila Giorgio from Italy strikes back in the 1st round of the US Open against Simona Halepová. John Minchillo, ČTK / AP – Garbina Muguruza from Spain is fighting in the 1st round of the US Open. Seth Little, ČTK / AP – Diego Schwartzman from Argentina in the match of the 1st round of … Read more
Czech tennis player Kateřina Siniaková. Eric Bolte, Reuters – The silver Olympic medalist from Tokyo Vondroušová won the first set smoothly 6: 1, in the following then the exhausted Belgian woman gave up the match played in the heat during the second game. She spent less than an hour on the court, and the Belgians … Read more
Today, four Czech tennis players are waiting for a fight to advance to the third round of the Olympic tournament. From 4:00, Barbora Krejčíková was the first to challenge Canadian Leylah Fernandezová and won 6: 2, 6: 4, after which Markéta Vondroušová won 6: 1, 6: 2 over Romanian Mihaela Buzarnescuová, Karolína Plíšková and Petra … Read more
The Olympic Games in Tokyo continue with Monday’s competition program, in which sports shooters Barbora Šumová and Jakub Tomeček, who can attack the medal, will be the first Czechs to skeet. In fencing, a big day awaits flereticist Alexander Choupenitch. Czech tennis players Barbora Krejčíková, Markéta Vondroušová, Karolína Plíšková and Petra Kvitová are fighting for … Read more
Tennis player Marie Bouzková said goodbye to the tournament in Charleston in the second round after defeating 6: 4, 5: 7 and 5: 7 with the Australian Ajla Tomljanovicová. In the end, the twentieth player in the world rankings and the ninth-placed Markéta Vondroušová, who withdrew due to illness shortly before her first match against … Read more