Injury, injury and more injury. Barbora Krejčíková is experiencing a very difficult season interspersed with minor health problems and repeated comebacks. This is also reflected in the performances of the Brno native. He can still look at the leaderboard with utmost satisfaction. She holds the twelfth place in singles, and in doubles she is second behind her partner Kateřina Siniaková.
However, she does not do well on the courts. She scored only one win in the last five duels. Since the grass-court tournament in Birmingham, where she fell to Ostapenko in the final battle, Krejcikova has scored her only win in the first round of Wimbledon over the player of the second hundred, home Watson. She subsequently dropped her second round match against Ruska Andrejeva, in Cincinnati, and most recently in Cleveland, she finished in the first round without winning a single set.
Her doubles partner and current world number one Kateřina Siniaková is even worse off. Since the triumph on grass in Bad Homburg, which brought her the fourth singles title in her career, the native of Hradec Králové has been in a difficult crisis. At Wimbledon, she still managed to get past the first round, but five defeats in a row followed with a win of just one set.
The seven-time Grand Slam champions and the best couple in the world, Krejčíková and Siniaková, are not doing particularly well in doubles either. In Cincinnati, they were eliminated with the Taiwanese-Mexican couple Chan Chao-ching and Olmos, in Cleveland they struggled in the first round to win over the Ukrainian Kichenok sisters.
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Czech tennis player Kateřina Siniaková at a tournament in Montreal, Canada.
Karolína Plíšková is also looking for a way back among the narrow world elite. She won two of the last eleven matches, the poor performance of the former world number one was taken away by her coach Sasha Bajin for the second time.
“The key is the results, which were not good after a good start to the season. But we also lacked a more active professional approach with Saschi, especially recently,” Hrdlička told iDNES Premium. Whether the new Czech-Colombian coaching duo Michal Franěk and Carlos Martínez will be more successful will be shown at the next US Open, which starts on August 28.
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Karolína Plíšková in Montreal during the match against Chu Lin from China.
Linda Fruhvirtová, a huge talent of Czech tennis, is getting used to life among the world’s elite. The 18-year-old girl is the 55th player in the world, there is no one younger than her in the world rankings. Second place in this respect belongs to another Czech gem, Linda Nosková (42nd on the list), who will only celebrate her nineteenth birthday in November.
The elder of the Fruhvirt sisters suffered her sixth defeat in a row at the ongoing tournament in Cleveland, but due to her age, she definitely does not need to get nervous. To top it off, her younger sister Brenda, who is two years younger, is ranked 129th in the world and the second best under-18 tennis player on the planet.
NAMEAGEFINGERFINGER. MAX. Barbora Krejčíková27 years12.2. Karolína Plíšková31 years25.1. Kateřina Siniaková27 years47.31. Linda Fruhvirtová18 years55.49.
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