Květa Peschke
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| Full name | Květoslava Peschkeová |
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| Country (sports) |
 Czech Republic
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| Residence | Prague, Czech Republic |
| Born |
9 July 1975 Bílovec, Czechoslovakia |
| Height | 1.65 m (5 ft 5 in) |
| Turned pro | 27 April 1993 |
| Plays | Right-handed (two-handed backhand) |
| Prize money | US$ 4,000,738 |
| Singles | |
| Career record | 322–213 |
| Career titles | 1 WTA, 10 ITF |
| Highest ranking | No. 26 (7 November 2005) |
| Grand Slam Singles results | |
| Australian Open | 3R (2000) |
| French Open | 3R (1999, 2000) |
| Wimbledon | 4R (2005) |
| US Open | 2R (1998, 2000) |
| Doubles | |
| Career record | 458–250 |
| Career titles | 27 WTA, 8 ITF |
| Highest ranking | No. 1 (4 July 2011) |
| Grand Slam Doubles results | |
| Australian Open | SF (2011, 2014) |
| French Open | F (2010) |
| Wimbledon | W (2011) |
| US Open | SF (2006, 2007) |
| Other doubles tournaments | |
| Tour Finals | F (2011) |
| Grand Slam Mixed Doubles results | |
| Australian Open | SF (2013) |
| French Open | SF (2008) |
| Wimbledon | QF (2008, 2013) |
| US Open | F (2006, 2010, 2012) |
| Last updated on: 10 December 2012. | |
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.
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.
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