Kveta Peschke

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**Kveta Peschke**

Country	Czech Republic
Residence	Prague, Czech Republic
Date of birth	July 9, 1975
Place of birth	Bilovec, Czech Republic
Height	5ft 5in (1.65 m)
Weight	128 lb. (58 kg)
Turned Pro	?
Plays	Right-handed (two-handed backhand)
Career Prize Money	$1,385,508
Singles
Career record:	314-203
Career titles:	1 (10 ITF titles)
Highest ranking:	No. 26 (November 7, 2005)
Grand Slam results
Australian Open	3rd Round (2000)
French Open	3rd Round (1999, 2000)
Wimbledon	4th Round (2005)
U.S. Open	2nd Round (1998, 2000)
Doubles
Career record:	202-141
Career titles:	8 (8 ITF titles)
Highest ranking:	No. 10 (September 11, 2006)
Infobox last updated on: September 30, 2006.

Kveta Peschke (née Hrdlickova) (born July 9, 1975 in Bilovec, Czechoslovakia) is a professional female tennis player from the Czech Republic. She plays mostly on the baseline, with her best shot being the forehand. Her favourite surfaces are hard court and carpet.

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 surprisingly 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 Sucha 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 Beligum in a tough three-set match, 6-4 4-6 2-6. After a disapppointing second-round loss at the French Open to Israel's Shahar Peer 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 Martinez, 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. After this loss, she never really regained momentum throughout the whole year, and what would prove to be nearly the whole of the 2006 season. 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 quarter-final at another Tier II event in Philadelphia before losing to Elena Dementieva in three sets, 6-4 0-6 3-6.

Her 2006 season, however, is not fairing as well so far. She has yet to reach further than the second-round of any tournament, suffering a crushing 13 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, a highly surprising result for someone who hasn't won a singles match since Wimbledon in June. 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.

Kveta's doubles career, however, has been far more successful, including her top 10 debut in the doubles ranking in September of 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 US Open, her partner being Francesca Schiavone each time.