Lucie Hradecká

Country	Czech Republic
Residence	Prague, Czech Republic
Date of birth	May 21, 1985 (1985-05-21) (age 24)
Place of birth	Prague, Czech Republic
Height	1.76 m (5 ft 9+1⁄2 in)
Weight	65 kg (140 lb)
Turned pro	N/A
Retired	Active
Plays	Right; Two handed strokes
Career prize money	$US500,346
Singles
Career record	256-142
Career titles	0 WTA, 14 ITF
Highest ranking	No. 56 (July 6, 2009)
Current ranking	No. 64 (December 14, 2009)
Grand Slam results
French Open	2R (2009)
Wimbledon	1R (2009)
US Open	1R (2009)
Doubles
Career record	204-81
Career titles	7 WTA, 24 ITF
Highest ranking	No. 40 (August 31, 2009)
Last updated on: August 31, 2009.

Lucie Hradecká (born May 21, 1985 in Prague) is a professional tennis player from the Czech Republic. In her career, Hradecká has won four WTA doubles titles, including one at Bad Gastein in 2007. As of September 22, 2007, she is ranked 56 for doubles and has been World Number 45 on March 19, 2007. Her highest singles ranking was World Number 56, which she achieved on July 6, 2009.

Contents 1 Career 2 WTA Finals 2.1 Singles (3) 2.1.1 Singles runner-ups (3) 2.2 Doubles (6) 2.2.1 Doubles wins (7) 2.2.2 Doubles runner-ups (2) 3 External links

[edit] Career

Hradecká has won 11 ITF singles titles, but no WTA singles titles. She has won 2 WTA and 17 ITF doubles titles.

She won her first doubles title on the WTA Tour in 2006 at Portorož with partner Renata Voráčová, as the fourth-seeded team. In the final, the Czech team defeated Eva Birnerová and Émilie Loit, the second seeds, by walkover. They also had a victory over the top seeds Maria Elena Camerin and Emmanuelle Gagliardi in the semifinal.

She reached the third round of doubles competition with Hana Šromová as qualifiers at the 2006 Wimbledon Championships before going down to fifth seeds Meghann Shaughnessy and Anna-Lena Grönefeld. En route they defeated twelfth seeds Svetlana Kuznetsova and Amélie Mauresmo, both Grand Slam singles champions at the time and the previous year's Wimbledon doubles runner-ups by walkover.

In 2007, she made the doubles semifinals of the 2007 Indian Wells Masters tournament with Voráčová. En route, the team defeated Janette Husárová and Meghann Shaughnessy, the seventh seeds, in the first round, and legendary team and third-seeded Virginia Ruano Pascual and Paola Suárez in three sets in the quarterfinals, before losing to top seeds Lisa Raymond and Samantha Stosur.

Later that year, Hradecká and Voráčová won Bad Gastein over Ágnes Szávay and Vladimíra Uhlířová. She again won the 2007 Portorož title with Voráčová over Elena Likhovtseva and Andreja Klepač in the final.

Hradecká reached her very first singles final at Bad Gastein in July 2008, where, as a qualifier, she defeated players such as Patricia Mayr of Austria to get to the final, where she lost to the fourth seed Pauline Parmentier 4-6, 4-6, after leading 4-1 in the first set. She will play in the doubles final later. As a result of the singles final, Hradecká will rise from her current ranking of 237 to about 149 in the world.

At the 2009 Wimbledon Championships, Hradecka held two match points over 13th seeded Ana Ivanovic in the first round. However, she was unable to close it out, losing 5-7, 6-2, 8-6.

[edit] WTA Finals

[edit] Singles (3)

[edit] Singles runner-ups (3)

Legend (Singles)

WTA Tour Championship (0)

Grand Slam Title (0)

WTA Tour (pre-2009)

Tier I (0)

Tier II (0)

Tier III (1)

Tier IV (0)

WTA Tour (post-2009)

Premier (0)

International (2)

No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Opponent in the final	Score
1.	July 20, 2008	Bad Gastein, Austria	Clay	Pauline Parmentier	6–4, 6–4
2.	May 18, 2009	Strasbourg, France	Clay	Aravane Rezaï	7–6(2), 6–1
3.	August 2, 2009	Istanbul, Turkey	Hard	Vera Dushevina	6–0, 6–1

[edit] Doubles (6)

[edit] Doubles wins (7)

No.	Date	Tournament	Tier	Partner	Opponents in the final	Score
1.	September 24, 2006	Portorož, Slovenia	Hard	Renata Voráčová	Eva Birnerová Émilie Loit	Walkover
2.	July 29, 2007	Bad Gastein, Austria	Clay	Renata Voráčová	Ágnes Szávay Vladimíra Uhlířová	6–3, 7–5
3.	September 23, 2007	Portorož, Slovenia	Hard	Renata Voráčová	Andreja Klepač Elena Likhovtseva	5–7, 6–4, [10-7]
4.	May 3, 2008	Prague, Czech Republic	Red Clay	Andrea Hlaváčková	Jill Craybas Michaella Krajicek	1–6, 6–3, [10-6]
5.	July 20, 2008	Bad Gastein, Austria	Red Clay	Andrea Hlaváčková	Sesil Karatantcheva Natasa Zoric	6–3, 6–3
6.	July 26, 2009	Bad Gastein, Austria	Hard	Andrea Hlaváčková	Tatjana Malek Andrea Petkovic	6–2, 6–4
7.	August 1, 2009	Istanbul, Turkey	Hard	Renata Voráčová	Julia Goerges Patty Schnyder	2–6, 6–3, [12-10]

[edit] Doubles runner-ups (2)

No.	Date	Tournament	Tier	Partner	Opponents in the final	Score
1.	July 18, 2006	Budapest, Hungry	Hard	Renata Voráčová	Janette Husárová Michaella Krajicek	4–6, 6–4, 6–4
2.	29 August 2009	New Haven, USA	Hard	Iveta Benešová	Nuria Llagostera Vives Maria Jose Martinez Sanchez	6–2, 7-5

[edit] External links

• Lucie Hradecká profile on the WTA Tour's official website
• Lucie Hradecká at the International Tennis Federation