Kristýna Plíšková

Plíšková was born to Radek Plíšek and Martina Plíšková in Louny, and has an identical twin sister, Karolína, who is also a tennis player, and a former WTA world number 1.She is currently coached by Martin Fassate.

Plíšková began competing professionally in 2005. She played her first ITF junior final at the Malta ITF Junior Tournament in 2006, losing to Cristina Sánchez Quintanar. Plíšková made her Grand Slam debut at the 2010 Australian Open and reached the semifinals. She defeated the first seed Tímea Babos in the quarterfinals, but then lost to Laura Robson. Robson was eventually beaten in the final by Plíšková's twin sister Karolína. At the 2010 French Open, Plíšková was defeated by Danka Kovinić in the first round. She then went on to win the 2010 Aegon International junior tournament, beating Tara Moore. Plíšková eventually won the 2010 Wimbledon Championships – Girls' Singles, defeating Sachie Ishizu.

2006

Plíšková played her first WTA Tour qualifications at the 2006 ECM Prague Open, losing to Kirsten Flipkens. She proceeded with competing on the ITF circuit.

2007

In 2007, Plíšková was awarded a wild card at the 2007 ECM Prague Open but lost to the first seed Marion Bartoli. She also competed in the doubles event with her sister Karolína, but they lost to fellow Czechs Lucie Hradecká and Renata Voráčová in the first round.

2008

In 2008, Plíšková won a wild card for the 2008 ECM Prague Open in both singles and doubles. In singles, Plíšková fell to Roberta Vinci in straight sets.

2009

In 2009, Plíšková reached her first ITF circuit singles final in Pesaro, but was defeated by Anastasia Grymalska.

2010

Plíšková won her first ITF title in May 2010 in Kurume, beating her sister in the final. At the 2010 ECM Prague Open, she lost to the fifth seed Anabel Medina Garrigues in the first round. In doubles, she and her sister lost to Klaudia Jans and Alicja Rosolska in the opening round. She then played her first senior Grand Slam at the US Open. She defeated Lauren Albanese and Arantxa Rus, but she then she lost to Lourdes Domínguez Lino in the final qualifying round.

2011

Plíšková was given a wild card into the qualifying rounds of the 2011 Wimbledon Championships. She defeated all three of her opponents to qualify for her first career senior grand slam.

2012

Plíšková at the 2012 Wimbledon Championships

Plíšková qualified for the 2012 Wimbledon Championships and won her first grand slam main draw match against Polona Hercog of Slovenia. However, in round two, she lost to 24th seed Francesca Schiavone in straight sets. She then qualified for the 2012 US Open where she upset 18th seed Julia Görges in the first round; but again, failed to make it past the second round, losing to Luxembourg's Mandy Minella.

2013

At the Generali Ladies Linz in October, Plíšková won her maiden WTA title in doubles alongside sister Karolína, becoming the first set of twins in history to win a doubles title together on the tour.

2014

Plíšková won another two titles on WTA tour with her sister Karolína in doubles.

2015

Plíšková upsets Svetlana Kuznetsova in Wimbledon to reach the third round of a grand slam for the first time in her career. She went on to lose to Monica Niculescu in the next round.

2016: First WTA Title

Plíšková defeated Samantha Stosur in the first round of the Australian Open, but lost to Monica Puig after setting a new WTA record for the most aces (31) in a match, but failed to convert five match points. In Tashkent Open later, she went on to win her maiden WTA level title defeating defending champion Nao Hibino.

2017: Second WTA Final at home

Pliskova started the season at Shenzhen where she lost to Johanna Konta in three sets in the quarterfinals. In the Australian Open, she went on to lose to World No. 1 and defending champion Angelique Kerber in the third round.

She went on to defeat Roberta Vinci in the first round of 2017 Dubai Tennis Championships before losing to Lauren Davis in the second round in three sets.

In the 2017 BNP Paribas Open, she reached the third round, where she faced Dominika Cibulkova dominated the first set 6-2 before losing the last two sets in tiebreaks and having a match point at 5-4 in the deciding set. She lost her opener at the Miami Open to Mandy Minella also in three sets. At the new WTA event 2017 Ladies Open Biel Bienne she reached the quarterfinals where she lost to her compatriot and later tournament champion Markéta Vondroušová in two sets. Pliskova then reached the final of the 2017 J&T Banka Prague Open, falling to Mona Barthel there. Pliskova won two matches in her other two WTA clay events but lost in the first round to Chloe Paquet in the 2017 French Open.

Pliskova had a decent grass court season, amassing four wins in the 2017 Ricoh Open, 2017 Mallorca Open, 2017 Aegon International and the 2017 Wimbledon Championships. She then proceeded to reach the final of an ITF 80K event back home in Prague, but then cut her finger on an electric fan at the 2017 Jiangxi International Women's Tennis Open, which resulted in her having to withdraw from her next two events. She returned to action in the 2017 Connecticut Open, losing to eventual champion Daria Gavrilova. In the 2017 US Open, she lost to Magdalena Rybarikova in the second round.

Singles: 2 (1–1)

Result	No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Opponent	Score
Winner	1.	1 October 2016	Tashkent Open, Tashkent, Uzbekistan	Hard	Nao Hibino	6–3, 2–6, 6–3
Runner-up	1.	6 May 2017	Prague Open, Prague, Czech Republic	Clay	Mona Barthel	6–2, 5–7, 2–6

Doubles (3–1)

Result	No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Partner	Opponents	Score
Runner-up	1.	14 July 2013	Internazionali Femminili di Palermo, Palermo, Italy	Clay	Karolína Plíšková	Kristina Mladenovic Katarzyna Piter	1–6, 7–5, [8–10]
Winner	1.	13 October 2013	Generali Ladies Linz, Linz, Austria	Hard (i)	Karolína Plíšková	Gabriela Dabrowski Alicja Rosolska	7–6(8–6), 6–4
Winner	2.	13 July 2014	Gastein Ladies, Bad Gastein, Austria	Clay	Karolína Plíšková	Andreja Klepač María Teresa Torró Flor	4–6, 6–3, [10–6]
Winner	3.	14 September 2014	Hong Kong Open, Hong Kong	Hard	Karolína Plíšková	Patricia Mayr-Achleitner Arina Rodionova	6–2, 2–6, [12–10]

Singles (1–0)

Outcome	No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Opponents	Score
Winner	1.	11 September 2016	Dalian, China	Hard	Misa Eguchi	7–5, 4–6, 2–5, ret.

Singles (9–8)

Result	No.	Date	Category	Tournament	Surface	Opponent	Score
Runner-up	1.	10 August 2009	$10,000	Pesaro, Italy	Clay	Anastasia Grymalska	6–2, 1–6, 2–6
Winner	1.	10 May 2010	$50,000	Kurume, Japan	Clay	Karolína Plíšková	5–7, 6–2, 6–0
Runner-up	2.	7 February 2011	$25,000	Rancho Mirage, United States	Hard	Ashley Weinhold	3–6, 6–3, 5–7
Winner	2.	23 January 2012	$25,000	Andrézieux-Bouthéon, France	Hard (i)	Anna Remondina	6–2, 6–2
Runner-up	3.	30 January 2012	$25,000	Grenoble, France	Hard (i)	Karolína Plíšková	6–7(11–13), 6–7(6–8)
Winner	3.	14 October 2013	$50,000	Limoges, France	Hard (i)	Tamira Paszek	3–6, 6–3, 6–2
Runner-up	4.	28 October 2013	$75,000	Barnstaple, United Kingdom	Hard (i)	Marta Sirotkina	7–6(7–5), 3–6, 6–7(6–8)
Winner	4.	3 March 2014	$25,000	Preston, United Kingdom	Hard (i)	Çağla Büyükakçay	6–3, 7–6(7–4)
Runner-up	5.	5 May 2014	$50,000	Fukuoka, Japan	Grass	Naomi Broady	7–5, 3–6, 4–6
Winner	5.	2 June 2014	$75,000	Nottingham, United Kingdom	Grass	Zarina Diyas	6–2, 3–6, 6–4
Winner	6.	2 February 2015	$25,000	Glasgow, United Kingdom	Hard (i)	Ana Bogdan	6–2, 6–2
Winner	7.	6 April 2015	$25,000	Barnstaple, United Kingdom	Hard (i)	Nina Zander	6–3, 6–2
Runner-up	6.	20 April 2015	$50,000	Istanbul, Turkey	Hard	Shahar Pe'er	6–1, 6–7(4–7), 5–7
Winner	8.	4 May 2015	$50,000	Fukuoka, Japan	Grass	Nao Hibino	7–5, 6–4
Runner-up	7.	19 October 2015	$50,000	Joué-lès-Tours, France	Hard (i)	Olga Fridman	2–6, 6–3, 1–6
Winner	9.	22 February 2016	$50,000	Kreuzlingen, Switzerland	Carpet (i)	Amra Sadiković	7–6(7–4), 7–6(7–3)
Runner-up	8.	17 July 2017	$80,000+H	Olomouc, Czech Republic	Clay	Bernarda Pera	5–7, 6–4, 3–6

Doubles (8–5)

Result	No.	Date	Category	Tournament	Surface	Partner	Opponents	Score
Runner-up	1.	16 May 2010	$50,000	Kurume, Japan	Clay	Karolína Plíšková	Sun Shengnan Xu Yifan	0–6, 3–6
Winner	1.	7 February 2011	$25,000	Rancho Mirage, United States	Hard	Karolína Plíšková	Nadejda Guskova Sandra Zaniewska	6–7(6–8), 6–1, 6–4
Winner	2.	1 August 2011	$100,000	Vancouver, Canada	Hard	Karolína Plíšková	Jamie Hampton Noppawan Lertcheewakarn	5–7, 6–2, 6–4
Runner-up	2.	31 October 2011	$100,000+H	Taipei, Taiwan	Hard (i)	Karolína Plíšková	Chan Yung-jan Zheng Jie	6–7(5–7), 7–5, 3–6
Runner-up	3.	14 November 2011	$25,000	Bratislava, Slovakia	Hard (i)	Karolína Plíšková	Naomi Broady Kristina Mladenovic	7–5, 4–6, [2–10]
Winner	3.	23 January 2012	$25,000	Andrézieux-Bouthéon, France	Hard (i)	Karolína Plíšková	Julie Coin Eva Hrdinová	6–4, 4–6, [10–5]
Winner	4.	30 January 2012	$25,000	Grenoble, France	Hard (i)	Karolína Plíšková	Valentyna Ivakhnenko Maryna Zanevska	6–1, 6–3
Runner-up	4.	17 September 2012	$75,000	Shrewsbury, United Kingdom	Hard (i)	Karolína Plíšková	Vesna Dolonc Stefanie Vögele	1–6, 7–6(7–3), [13–15]
Winner	5.	12 November 2012	$25,000	Zawada, Poland	Carpet (i)	Karolína Plíšková	Kristina Barrois Sandra Klemenschits	6–3, 6–1
Winner	6.	28 October 2013	$75,000	Barnstaple, United Kingdom	Hard (i)	Naomi Broady	Raluca Olaru Tamira Paszek	6–3, 3–6, [10–5]
Runner-up	5.	21 April 2014	$50,000	Seoul, South Korea	Hard	Irena Pavlovic	Chan Chin-wei Chuang Chia-jung	4–6, 3–6
Winner	7.	4 May 2015	$50,000	Fukuoka, Japan	Grass	Naomi Broady	Eri Hozumi Junri Namigata	6–3, 6–4
Winner	8.	11 July 2016	$50,000	Stockton, United States	Hard	Alison Van Uytvanck	Robin Anderson Maegan Manasse	6–2, 6–3

Girls' Singles

Outcome	Year	Championship	Surface	Opponent	Score
Winner	2010	Wimbledon	Grass	Sachie Ishizu	6–3, 4–6, 6–4