Barbora Krejcikova

Barbora Krejčíková is a professional tennis player from the Czech Republic. She has won two Grand Slam singles titles, at the 2021 French Open and 2024 Wimbledon Championships. She has also reached a career-high singles ranking of World No. 2. Krejčíková is also a former World Number 1 in women’s doubles. She also has an Olympic Gold Medal from the 2020 Tokyo Games for women’s doubles.

Player Profile and Personal Life

Barbora Krejčíková was born in Brno, Czech Republic. She stands 178 cm tall and is right-handed with a two-handed backhand. She is coached by Pavel Motl and has earned more than US$15.8 million in prize money.

Krejčíková began playing tennis at age six and was mentored by the late Jana Novotná. She is endorsed by Fila and Head, and uses the Head Extreme racquet.

Juniors

Krejčíková was ranked junior World No. 3 in October 2013. That year, she won the girls' doubles titles at the French Open, Wimbledon, and US Open with Kateřina Siniaková, and was runner-up at the Australian Open.

She also won the European Junior Championship U18 in singles and doubles.

Career

Krejčíková turned professional in 2010 and made her WTA Tour debut in 2014.

She initially found more success in doubles, winning her first WTA doubles title at the Tournoi de Québec in 2015. In 2018, she won her first Grand Slam doubles titles at the French Open and Wimbledon with Siniaková and became World No. 1 in doubles later that year.

Her singles breakthrough came in 2021. Krejčíková won her maiden WTA singles title at Strasbourg and then claimed her first Grand Slam singles title at Roland-Garros, defeating Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova in the final.

She also won the doubles title at the same tournament and the Prague Open, and finished 2021 as a top-5 singles player. Krejčíková and Siniaková won the gold medal in doubles at the Tokyo Olympics and the WTA Finals in Guadalajara.

In 2022, Krejčíková reached the singles quarterfinals at the Australian Open and won the doubles title there. She added singles titles in Tallinn and Ostrava, and completed the Career Golden Slam in doubles by winning the US Open.

She reached a career-high singles ranking of No. 2 in February 2022.

In 2023, Krejčíková won her first WTA 1000 singles title at the Dubai Tennis Championships, defeating Iga Świątek in the final.

She also won the San Diego Open and reached the final at Birmingham and Zhengzhou. In doubles, she won the Australian Open and Indian Wells with Siniaková. She was forced to withdraw from Wimbledon due to injury but returned to win more titles later in the year.

Krejčíková began 2024 with a quarterfinal run at the Australian Open and won her second Grand Slam singles title at Wimbledon, defeating Jasmine Paolini in the final. She also reached the semifinals at the WTA Finals and the quarterfinals at the Olympic Games in Paris. A back injury forced her to withdraw from the Australian Open and kept her out until May, when she returned at the Strasbourg Open.

Career Record

Singles

• Career record: 392–223
• Career titles: 8
• Highest ranking: No. 2 (February 28, 2022)
• Current ranking: No. 15 (May 19, 2025)

Best Grand Slam Singles Performances

• Australian Open – QF (2022, 2024)
• French Open – W (2021)
• Wimbledon – W (2024)
• US Open – QF (2021)

Other tournaments

• Tour Finals – SF (2024)
• Olympic Games – QF (2024)

Doubles

• Career record: 362–141

• Career titles: 19
• Highest ranking: No. 1 (October 22, 2018)
• Current ranking: No. 48 (May 19, 2025)

Best Grand Slam Doubles Performances

• Australian Open – W (2022, 2023)
• French Open – W (2018, 2021)
• Wimbledon – W (2018, 2022)
• US Open – W (2022)

Other tournaments

• Tour Finals – W (2021)
• Olympic Games – W (2021, gold medal)

Mixed Doubles

• Career titles: 3

Best Grand Slam Mixed Doubles Performances

• Australian Open – W (2019, 2020, 2021)
• French Open – QF (2021)
• Wimbledon – 3R (2017)
• US Open – QF (2016, 2024)

Medal Record

• Gold – 2020 Tokyo Olympics, Doubles, representing Czech Republic