Barbora Strycova

Barbora Zahlavova-Strycova is a professional tennis player from the Czech Republic. Barbora’s top WTA singles and doubles rankings were World number 16 in singles and World number 3 in doubles, respectively, on January 16, 2017 and January 25, 2019.

Childhood and education

Barbora Strycova was born in Plzen, Czechoslovakia, now the Czech Republic, on March 28, 1986. Strycova is 33 years old and lives in Dubai at the moment. Her zodiac sign is Aries, as well. Barbora Strycova is a Czech actress.
She has not, however, revealed any information about her family or education. Barbora is also a tall woman, standing at 5 feet 5 inches (1.64 m) tall.

Personal Life of Barbora Strycova

Barbora Strycova had married Jakub Zahlava, a former tennis player and Sandra Zahlavova’s cousin. In addition, he had been her coach since 2007.David Kotyza, though, is her new coach. Since the pair split up in 2015, she has resumed using her birth name, Barbora Strycova.

Barbora Strycova’s Career Ups and Downs

Barbora was a successful junior tennis player, winning two Grand Slams in the singles category for girls: the 2002 Australian Open and then defending the title the following year. From 2001 to 2003, she also won the second titles of three Grand Slam girls. Strycova was awarded ITF Junior World Champion in 2002 and reached world number one in both singles and doubles in the junior rankings.

In her junior career, she defeated several players who went on to become well-known experts, including Maria Sharapova, Anna-Lena Grönefeld, and Maria Kirilenko. Strycova had already worked on her ranking in the top 300 when she became professional in 2003, following her impressive results in ITF Women’s Circuit events in 2002.

She continued to play largely ITF events throughout the year, qualifying for Wimbledon and losing in the first round to Tatiana Perebiynis. Strycova finished World number 186 in 2004, which proved to be the year in which she made a significant leap forward. Barbora continued to play largely ITF events throughout the year, qualifying for Wimbledon and losing in the first round to Tatiana Perebiynis. In the same year, she finished World No. 161. Strycova’s popularity skyrocketed in 2004, according to the data.

Strycova defeated Anna Smashnova for the second time at Amelia Island and went on to win her first two main-draw Grand Slam matches at the Australian Open and the French Open. After a tough period in the middle of the season, she finished strong by reaching her first WTA semifinal in Guangzhou and winning an ITF event in Saint-Raphael, France. She finished the season as World No. 56. Strycova’s career took a step backward in 2005, when she dropped out of the world’s top 100 after failing to repeat her breakthrough season, winning only 17 games. Despite this, she had some spectacular results in doubles, reaching four WTA finals and won the title on two of those occasions.

Furthermore, in singles, the year 2006 began badly for her as she struggled to string together victories and eventually fell out of the top 200 in the world rankings in April 2006, before modestly returning after some outstanding results in ITF events.

She also married her trainer between the seasons of 2006 and 2007. In 2007, Zahlavova-Strycova competed primarily on the ITF circuit, where she had some outstanding results, including reaching numerous semifinals throughout the season, although she remained outside the top 100.

She qualified for Wimbledon and, for the first time in her career, advanced to the third round of a Grand Slam, returning to the top 100, where she remained until the season’s end, her second top-100 year-end performance.

Professional Obstacles

Zahlavova Strycova did not make any progress in her first five tournaments of the season, including a loss to Stephanie Cohen-Aloro in the Australian Open. She did, however, have considerable success in two little Mexico tournaments, reaching the semifinals in Acapulco and the quarterfinals in Monterrey, and defeating top 20 player Flavia Pennetta in the latter case.

Strycova later returned to fighting methods, losing her first game in all but three tournaments from then until July. She also slid out of the top 100 after losing in the first round to Ekaterina Makarova at Wimbledon, where she protected third-round points.

Moreover, in the Australian Open, Zahlavova Strycova defeated Regina Kulikova in the first round in a game that lasted 4 hours and 19 minutes, setting the record for the longest game in women’s Grand Slam history, which was broken a year later by Francesca Schiavone and Svetlana Kuznetsova. Barbora later lost in the second round to Dinara Safina in 2011. In February and March, she won three double titles in Paris, Acapulco, and Monterrey, becoming the sixth, seventh, and eighth woman to win a double discipline competition.

Zahlavova Strycova was banned for six months in February 2013, backdated from 16 October 2012 to 15 April 2013, after testing positive for the stimulant sibutramine. Within the prohibition period, all outcomes were nullified, and all awards obtained during that time period had to be returned.

In her final professional match, she defeated reigning Australian Open champion Li Na in the third round of the Wimbledon Championships later that year. Barbora also defeated Caroline Wozniacki in straight sets in the fourth round, following a struggle in the second round in which Wozniacki defended four match points.

Strycova also had a strong start to the year, finishing in the semifinals of the ASB Classic in Auckland and the quarterfinals of the Sydney International, losing to Caroline Wozniacki and Tsvetana Pironkova, respectively. Her first clay competition was the JT Banka Prague Open, which she won at home in 2016. Strycova then advanced to the semifinals, where she was defeated by Samantha Stosur in a three-set thriller, 3-6, 7-6, 6-7. She then traveled to Madrid, where she defeated No. 3 Angelique Kerber in straight sets before losing in the second round to Madison Keys. Besides, her next competition was in Rome, where she reached the quarterfinals with victories over Karin Knapp, Heather Watson, and Eugenie Bouchard.

She also won the Linz Open in October 2017, defeating Magdalena Rybarikova 6-4, 6-1 in the final. It was also her second WTA championship. In the second round of the 2018 BNP Paribas Open, she fell to Croatia’s Petra Martic in singles. In doubles, however, she defeated Russia’s Ekaterina Makarova and Elena Vesnina alongside Chinese Taipei’s Hsieh Su-Wei to win the final.

In January 2019, Strycova and her doubles partner Marketa Vondrousova reached the Australian Open semifinals, but were defeated by Sam Stosur and Zhang Shuai. Strycova also reached the semifinals of Wimbledon in July, a career-high in a singles slam. On her journey to the final, she defeated the last four seeded players.

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