Květa Peschke

Květoslava Peschkeová, (née Hrdličková; born 9 July 1975) better known as Květa Peschke, is a professional tennis player from the Czech Republic.

Peschke plays mostly on the baseline, with her best shot being the forehand. Her favourite surfaces are hard court and carpet. At 2011 Wimbledon, Peschke claimed her first grand slam doubles title alongside Slovenia's Katarina Srebotnik. Peschke became the first Czech player to win the Wimbledon women's doubles title since Jana Novotná in 1998. Peschke and Srebotnik also took over the No. 1 ranking in doubles and they won a WTA Award as 'Doubles Team of the Year' in November 2011.

Prior to 2003, Peschke was known as Květa Hrdličková.

2004–2005

After a 2004 season playing primarily on the ITF circuit, in the 2005 tennis season, as one of the older players on the WTA tour, she had a successful year in both singles and doubles. In her first event of the season, she reached the quarter-finals of a Tier V event in Hobart, defeating two top players on the way in Martina Suchá and Anabel Medina Garrigues, the fifth-seeded player of the tournament. After a first round loss at the Australian Open to the number three-seeded player from Russia, Anastasia Myskina, she failed to get very far in any tournaments until April at the Tier II event in Amelia Island, reaching the last 16 after qualifying and defeating Amy Frazier, the 16th seed, before falling to the number one in the world at that time, Lindsay Davenport. Peschke again reached the last 16 at the Tier I event in Berlin, defeating the fifth-seeded and number 10 in the world, Vera Zvonareva, before losing to Justine Henin-Hardenne of Belgium in a tough three-set match, 6–4 4–6 2–6. After a disappointing second-round loss at the French Open to Israel's Shahar Pe'er and a first-round loss at S'Hertogenbosch to Russia's Maria Kirilenko, she sprung back to prominence at Wimbledon. On the way to a fourth-round appearance at the Grand Slam grass event, she defeated three players of higher ranking than herself, Dally Randriantefy, Vera Zvonareva and Conchita Martínez, a former Wimbledon champion herself. She suffered a hard loss in the last 16 to Nadia Petrova of Russia in three sets, 7–6 6–7 3–6. Towards the end of the season she did have some success at two key tournaments; she reached her first semi-final of the year at a tier II event in Linz, defeating two number two seeded Russian, Elena Dementieva, Vera Zvonareva and Japan's Ai Sugiyama. She also reached a quarterfinal at another Tier II event in Philadelphia before losing to Elena Dementieva in three sets, 6–4, 0–6, 3–6.

2006

Her 2006 season, however, was not as successful. She reached the second round of only five tournaments, suffering a crushing 14 first-round losses at WTA Tour events. However, she did manage to reach the semi-finals of a Tier II event at Luxembourg in late September. In this tournament she picked up a straight-set victory over Dinara Safina of Russia and lost in a tight three-set match to Ukraine's Alyona Bondarenko 3–6, 7–5, 5–7.

Peschke's doubles career has been more successful, including her top 10 debut in the doubles ranking in September 2006. In 2005, she won 2 WTA tour doubles titles in Paris (Tier II) and in Linz (Tier II), reached the finals of 4 WTA tour doubles events and various other hugely successful achievements. 2006 saw an even greater rise to her doubles career, winning a further 2 WTA tour doubles titles, defending her 2005 title at Paris and winning in Dubai (Tier II). Her main successes in doubles have come at three of the four grand slams, reaching the quarter-finals of the French Open, the quarter-finals of Wimbledon and, more recently, the semi-finals of the 2006 U.S. Open, her partner being Francesca Schiavone each time, and lost in the 2006 U.S. Open mixed doubles final aside Martin Damm to Bob Bryan and Martina Navratilova.

2007

In 2007, Peschke did not play in the Australian Open. Upon her return at the 2007 French Open, she qualified for the singles main draw and upset two-time Roland Garros semifinalist Nadia Petrova in the first round, 7–5, 5–7, 6–0, and played in doubles with Rennae Stubbs as for Schiavone returned to her Australian Open doubles partner Emmanuelle Gagliardi. At the 2007 U.S. Open, Peschke and Stubbs reached the doubles semifinals, before losing to Nathalie Dechy and Dinara Safina. The Peschke-Stubbs team won their first title in Stuttgart, Germany. In the final, the team defeated Chan Yung-jan and Dinara Safina in three sets. Their second title at Los Angeles over French Open champions Alicia Molik and Mara Santangelo 6–0, 6–1, and won their first Tier I tournament at the 2007 Zürich Open, defeating former partner Francesca Schiavone and Lisa Raymond 7–5, 7–6 (1) in the final, winning their third title on the 2007 WTA Tour.

2010

Peschke partnered with Aisam-ul-Haq Qureshi of Pakistan in the mixed doubles draw of the 2010 United States Open, where they defeated the fifth-seeded team of American Vania King and Romanian Horia Tecău in the first round, then beat Kazakhstani Yaroslava Shvedova and Austrian Julian Knowle to advance to the quarterfinals, dropping the first set of both matches before winning the second set and match tiebreak. In the quarterfinal round, they ousted the South American team of Argentine Gisela Dulko and Uruguayan Pablo Cuevas, again losing the first set before coming back to win the second set and match tiebreak by a wide margin. Peschke and Qureshi cruised into the final after defeating Anna-Lena Grönefeld of Germany and Mark Knowles of the Bahamas in straight sets. In the final, Peschke and Qureshi lost to Bob Bryan and Liezel Huber in a straight 6–4, 6–4. However, doing so she has won the hearts and minds of millions of Pakistanis and has become the most favourite international female tennis personality in Pakistan as quoted by her on-court double partner Aisam-ul-Haq Qureshi at the post match winning ceremony interview.

The Czech also competed in women's doubles at the Open, where she partnered with Katarina Srebotnik from Slovenia as the fourth-seeded team. Peschke and Srebotnik sent home fellow Czech Petra Kvitová and Switzerland's Stefanie Vögele by way of a brief first-round encounter, then defeated American sisters Chelsey and Carly Gullickson, but lost in the third round to another all-American team, the 15th-seeded duo of seasoned veteran Meghann Shaughnessy and late-blooming Bethanie Mattek.

2011–2012

Peschke and Slovenia's Katarina Srebotnik were one of the most victorious doubles team in 2011. In addition to the five titles the pair won in Auckland, Doha, Carlsbad, Eastbourne and Beijing, they won their first Grand Slam title at Wimbledon, defeating Sabine Lisicki and Samantha Stosur in the final.

She won two doubles titles in 2012; Sydney with Srebotnik and Linz with Anna-Lena Grönefeld.

Grand Slam finals

Doubles: 2 (1 title, 1 runner-up)

Outcome	Year	Championship	Surface	Partner	Opponents in the final	Score in the final
Runner-up	2010	French Open	Clay	Katarina Srebotnik	Serena Williams Venus Williams	2–6, 3–6
Winner	2011	Wimbledon	Grass	Katarina Srebotnik	Sabine Lisicki Samantha Stosur	6–3, 6–1

Mixed doubles: 3 (3 runners-up)

Outcome	Year	Championship	Surface	Partner	Opponents in the final	Score in the final
Runner-up	2006	US Open	Hard	Martin Damm	Martina Navratilova Bob Bryan	2–6, 3–6
Runner-up	2010	US Open	Hard	Aisam-ul-Haq Qureshi	Liezel Huber Bob Bryan	4–6, 4–6
Runner-up	2012	US Open	Hard	Marcin Matkowski	Ekaterina Makarova Bruno Soares	7–6(10–8), 1–6, [10–12]

Singles: 2 (1 title, 1 runner-up)

Outcome	No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Opponent	Score
Winner	1.	19 April 1998	Makarska International Championships, Makarska, Croatia	Clay	Li Fang	6–3, 6–1
Runner-up	1.	1 November 1999	Sparkassen Cup, Leipzig, Germany	Carpet (i)	Nathalie Tauziat	1–6, 3–6

Doubles: 66 (28 titles, 38 runners-up)

Outcome	No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Partner	Opponent in the final	Score in the final
Runner-up	1.	12 July 1998	Prague, Czech Republic	Clay	Michaela Paštiková	Silvia Farina Elia Karina Habšudová	6–2, 1–6, 1–6
Winner	1.	2 August 1998	Sopot, Poland	Clay	Helena Vildová	Åsa Svensson Seda Noorlander	6–3, 6–2
Runner-up	2.	14 February 1998	Prague, Czech Republic	Clay	Helena Vildová	Alexandra Fusai Nathalie Tauziat	6–3, 2–6, 1–6
Winner	2.	15 April 2001	Estoril, Portugal	Clay	Barbara Rittner	Tina Križan Katarina Srebotnik	6–3, 6–2
Runner-up	3.	6 May 2001	Hamburg, Germany	Clay	Barbara Rittner	Cara Black Elena Likhovtseva	2–6, 6–4, 2–6
Runner-up	4.	30 September 2001	Leipzig, Germany	Hard (i)	Barbara Rittner	Elena Likhovtseva Nathalie Tauziat	4–6, 2–6
Runner-up	5.	6 January 2002	Auckland, New Zealand	Hard	Henrieta Nagyová	Nicole Arendt Liezel Huber	5–7, 4–6
Runner-up	6.	2 October 2002	Luxembourg, Luxembourg	Hard (i)	Barbara Rittner	Kim Clijsters Janette Husárová	6–4, 3–6, 5–7
Winner	3.	13 February 2005	Paris, France(1)	Carpet (i)	Iveta Benešová	Anabel Medina Garrigues Dinara Safina	6–2, 2–6, 6–2
Runner-up	7.	10 April 2005	Amelia Island, United States	Clay (green)	Patty Schnyder	Bryanne Stewart Samantha Stosur	4–6, 2–6
Runner-up	8.	24 April 2005	Charleston, United States	Clay (green)	Iveta Benešová	Conchita Martínez Virginia Ruano Pascual	1–6, 4–6
Runner-up	9.	24 July 2005	Cincinnati, United States	Hard	María Emilia Salerni	Laura Granville Abigail Spears	6–3, 2–6, 4–6
Runner-up	10.	9 October 2005	Filderstadt, Germany	Hard (i)	Francesca Schiavone	Daniela Hantuchová Anastasia Myskina	0–6, 6–3, 5–7
Winner	4.	30 October 2005	Linz, Austria	Hard (i)	Gisela Dulko	Conchita Martínez Virginia Ruano Pascual	6–2, 6–3
Winner	5.	12 February 2006	Paris, France(2)	Carpet (i)	Émilie Loit	Cara Black Rennae Stubbs	7–6(5), 6–4
Winner	6.	25 February 2006	Dubai, United Arab Emirates	Hard	Francesca Schiavone	Svetlana Kuznetsova Nadia Petrova	3–6, 7–6(1), 6–3
Runner-up	11.	21 May 2006	Rome, Italy	Clay	Francesca Schiavone	Daniela Hantuchová Ai Sugiyama	6–3, 3–6, 1–6
Winner	7.	1 October 2006	Luxembourg City, Luxembourg	Hard (i)	Francesca Schiavone	Anna-Lena Grönefeld Liezel Huber	2–6, 6–4, 6–1
Winner	8.	15 October 2006	Moscow, Russia	Carpet (i)	Francesca Schiavone	Iveta Benešová Galina Voskoboeva	6–4, 6–7(4), 6–1
Runner-up	12.	23 July 2007	Eastbourne, United Kingdom	Grass	Rennae Stubbs	Lisa Raymond Samantha Stosur	7–6(7–5), 4–6, 3–6
Winner	9.	19 August 2007	Los Angeles, United States	Hard	Rennae Stubbs	Alicia Molik Mara Santangelo	6–0, 6–1
Winner	10.	14 October 2007	Stuttgart, Germany	Hard (i)	Rennae Stubbs	Chan Yung-jan Dinara Safina	6–7(5), 7–6(4), [10–2]
Winner	11.	21 October 2007	Zürich, Switzerland	Hard (i)	Rennae Stubbs	Lisa Raymond Francesca Schiavone	7–5, 7–6(1)
Runner-up	13.	17 February 2008	Antwerp, Belgium	Hard (i)	Ai Sugiyama	Cara Black Liezel Huber	1–6, 3–6
Winner	12.	24 February 2008	Doha, Qatar	Hard	Rennae Stubbs	Cara Black Liezel Huber	6–1, 5–7, [10–7]
Runner-up	14.	21 July 2008	Eastbourne, United Kingdom	Grass	Rennae Stubbs	Cara Black Liezel Huber	6–2, 0–6, [8–10]
Winner	13.	23 August 2008	New Haven, United States	Hard	Lisa Raymond	Sorana Cîrstea Monica Niculescu	4–6, 7–5, [10–7]
Runner-up	15.	4 October 2008	Stuttgart, Germany	Hard (i)	Rennae Stubbs	Anna-Lena Grönefeld Patty Schnyder	2–6, 4–6
Runner-up	16.	5 November 2008	Doha, Qatar	Hard	Rennae Stubbs	Cara Black Liezel Huber	1–6, 5–7
Runner-up	17	7 February 2009	Paris, France	Hard (i)	Lisa Raymond	Cara Black Liezel Huber	4–6 6–3, [4–10]
Runner-up	18.	29 March 2009	Key Biscane, United States	Hard	Lisa Raymond	Svetlana Kuznetsova Amélie Mauresmo	6–4 3–6, [3–10]
Runner-up	19.	12 April 2009	Hobart, United States	Clay (green)	Lisa Raymond	Chuang Chia-jung Sania Mirza	3–6, 6–4, [7–10]
Runner-up	20.	16 May 2009	Madrid, Spain	Clay	Lisa Raymond	Cara Black Liezel Huber	6–4 3–6, [6–10]
Winner	14.	16 January 2010	Hobart, Australia	Hard	Chuang Chia-jung	Chan Yung-jan Monica Niculescu	3–6, 6–3, [10–7]
Runner-up	21.	21 February 2010	Dubai, United Arab Emirates	Hard	Katarina Srebotnik	Nuria Llagostera Vives María José Martínez Sánchez	6–7(5), 4–6
Winner	15.	20 March 2010	Indian Wells, United States	Hard	Katarina Srebotnik	Nadia Petrova Samantha Stosur	6–4, 2–6, [10–5]
Runner-up	22.	24 April 2010	Stuttgart, Germany	Hard	Katarina Srebotnik	Gisela Dulko Flavia Pennetta	6–3, 6–7, [5–10]
Runner-up	23.	25 May 2010	Paris, France	Clay	Katarina Srebotnik	Serena Williams Venus Williams	2–6, 3–6
Runner-up	24.	19 June 2010	Eastbourne, United Kingdom	Grass	Katarina Srebotnik	Lisa Raymond Rennae Stubbs	6–2, 2–6, [11–13]
Runner-up	25.	23 August 2010	Montreal, Canada	Hard	Katarina Srebotnik	Gisela Dulko Flavia Pennetta	5–7, 6–3, [10–12]
Winner	16.	28 August 2010	New Haven, United States	Hard	Katarina Srebotnik	Bethanie Mattek-Sands Meghann Shaughnessy	7–5, 6–0
Runner-up	26.	17 October 2010	Linz, Austria	Hard (i)	Katarina Srebotnik	Renata Voráčová Barbora Záhlavová-Strýcová	5–7, 6–7(6)
Runner-up	27.	31 October 2010	Doha, Qatar	Hard	Katarina Srebotnik	Gisela Dulko Flavia Pennetta	5–7, 4–6
Winner	17.	8 January 2011	Auckland, New Zealand	Hard	Katarina Srebotnik	Sofia Arvidsson Marina Erakovic	6–3, 6–0
Runner-up	28.	14 January 2011	Sydney, Australia	Hard	Katarina Srebotnik	Iveta Benešová Barbora Záhlavová-Strýcová	6–4, 4–6, [7–10]
Runner-up	29.	20 February 2011	Dubai, United Arab Emirates	Hard	Katarina Srebotnik	Liezel Huber María José Martínez Sánchez	6–7(5), 3–6
Winner	18.	26 February 2011	Doha, Qatar	Hard	Katarina Srebotnik	Liezel Huber Nadia Petrova	7–5, 6–7(2), [10–8]
Runner-up	30.	7 May 2011	Madrid, Spain	Clay	Katarina Srebotnik	Victoria Azarenka Maria Kirilenko	4–6, 3–6
Winner	19.	18 June 2011	Eastbourne, United Kingdom	Grass	Katarina Srebotnik	Liezel Huber Lisa Raymond	6–3, 6–0
Winner	20.	26 June 2011	Wimbledon, United Kingdom	Grass	Katarina Srebotnik	Sabine Lisicki Samantha Stosur	6–3, 6–1
Winner	21.	7 August 2011	Carlsbad, United States	Hard	Katarina Srebotnik	Raquel Kops-Jones Abigail Spears	6–0, 6–2
Winner	22.	8 October 2011	Beijing, China	Hard	Katarina Srebotnik	Gisela Dulko Flavia Pennetta	6–3, 6–4
Runner-up	31.	30 October 2011	Istanbul, Turkey	Hard (i)	Katarina Srebotnik	Liezel Huber Lisa Raymond	4–6, 4–6
Winner	23.	13 January 2012	Sydney, Australia	Hard	Katarina Srebotnik	Liezel Huber Lisa Raymond	6–1, 4–6, [13–11]
Runner-up	32.	29 September 2012	Tokyo, Japan	Hard	Anna-Lena Grönefeld	Raquel Kops-Jones Abigail Spears	1–6, 4–6
Winner	24.	14 October 2012	Linz, Austria	Hard (i)	Anna-Lena Grönefeld	Julia Görges Barbora Záhlavová-Strýcová	6–3, 6–4
Runner-up	33.	5 January 2013	Brisbane, Australia	Hard	Anna-Lena Grönefeld	Bethanie Mattek-Sands Sania Mirza	6–4, 4–6, [7–10]
Winner	25.	25 May 2013	Brussels, Belgium	Clay	Anna-Lena Grönefeld	Gabriela Dabrowski Shahar Pe'er	6–0, 6–3
Runner-up	34.	15 June 2013	Nurnberg, Germany	Clay	Anna-Lena Grönefeld	Raluca Olaru Valeria Solovyeva	6–2, 6–7(3–7), [9–11]
Runner-up	35.	11 August 2013	Rogers Cup, Toronto, Canada	Hard	Anna-Lena Grönefeld	Jelena Janković Katarina Srebotnik	7–5, 2–6, [6–10]
Runner-up	36.	18 August 2013	Western & Southern Open, Cincinnati, United States	Hard	Anna-Lena Grönefeld	Hsieh Su-wei Peng Shuai	6–2, 3–6, [10–12]
Winner	26.	2 February 2014	Open GDF Suez, Paris, France	Hard (i)	Anna-Lena Grönefeld	Tímea Babos Kristina Mladenovic	6–7(7–9), 6–4, [10–5]
Runner-up	37.	16 February 2014	Qatar Total Open, Doha, Qatar	Hard	Katarina Srebotnik	Hsieh Su-wei Peng Shuai	4–6, 0–6
Winner	27.	18 May 2014	Internazionali BNL d'Italia, Rome, Italy	Clay	Katarina Srebotnik	Sara Errani Roberta Vinci	4–0, ret.
Runner-up	38.	16 October 2016	Linz Open, Linz, Austria	Hard (i)	Anna-Lena Grönefeld	Kiki Bertens Johanna Larsson	6–4, 2–6, [7–10]
Winner	28.	5 May 2017	J&T Banka Prague Open, Prague, Czech Republic	Clay	Anna-Lena Groenefeld	Lucie Hradecka Katerina Siniakova	6–4, 7–6(7–3)