Rebecca Šramková (; born 19 October 1996) is a Slovak
tennis
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player. She has career-high
WTA rankings
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Iga Świątek is the current world No. 1.
Ranking method
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of 111 in singles, achieved on 8 May 2017, and 364 in doubles, reached on 24 May 2021. On the
ITF Women's Circuit
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History
It serves as a developmenta ...
, she has won ten singles titles and three doubles titles. Šramková won her biggest title to date at the
2016 Open de Biarritz, a $100k tournament, where she defeated
Martina Trevisan
Martina Trevisan (; born 3 November 1993) is an Italian professional tennis player. Trevisan is the current Italian No. 1, has a career-high singles ranking of world No. 24 by the Women's Tennis Association (WTA), and in 2021 had a peak doubles r ...
in the final.
Junior career
On the
ITF Junior Circuit
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, Šramková achieved her highest ranking of 200 on 14 July 2014. She did not win any titles in singles, but won one title in doubles.
Career highlights
Her debut in the main competitions of the ITF Circuit was in May 2012, when she advanced from qualifying at the $10k tournament in Velenje, Slovenia. In the second round, she lost to Slovenian Anja Prislanová. She won the premier single in this level of tennis in
Vrnjačka Banja
Vrnjačka Banja ( sr-cyr, Врњачка Бања) is a town and municipality located in the Raška District of central Serbia. The population of the town is 10,065 inhabitants, while the population of the municipality is 27,527 inhabitants.
Vrnj ...
, Serbia. At the $10k event which took place in September 2013, she defeated Dunja Stamenković from Serbia in the final. She took the premiere trophy from the
2016 Open de Biarritz tournament with a maximum subsidy of $100,000. In the final, she defeated
Martina Trevisan
Martina Trevisan (; born 3 November 1993) is an Italian professional tennis player. Trevisan is the current Italian No. 1, has a career-high singles ranking of world No. 24 by the Women's Tennis Association (WTA), and in 2021 had a peak doubles r ...
in three sets. This was her fifth title on the ITF Circuit.
She made her
WTA Tour
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singles debut at the
2015 Nottingham Open. At the beginning of the grass-court qualifying competition, she was eliminated by the second seeded
Zhu Lin.
She made her Grand Slam main-draw singles debut at the
2017 Australian Open
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by mastering the three-round qualifying rounds, where she dealt with
Virginie Razzano
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in the decisive match. However, in the opening round of the singles tournament, she lost to Chinese player
Duan Yingying
Duan Yingying (; born 3 July 1989) is a Chinese former professional tennis player.
In her career, she won one singles title and three doubles titles on the WTA Tour, and two WTA Challenger doubles titles, as well as eleven singles and three d ...
.
At the
2022 French Open
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on her debut at this major, she entered the main draw as a lucky loser after the withdrawal of
Rebecca Peterson.
National representation
Šramková made her debut on the
Slovak Fed Cup team in 2017, in
Forlì
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The city is situated along the Via Em ...
, Italy, in a match of the World Group II against
Italy
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, in which she won both singles against
Sara Errani
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and
Francesca Schiavone
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as a player outside the top 100. With the decision set, they were dying alongside
Anna Karolína Schmiedlová during the opening set of doubles. The Slovak team won 3–2. By April 2020, she competed in five interstate matches with a record of 2–4 in singles and 1–2 in doubles (in total 3–6).
Performance timelines
Singles
ITF Circuit finals
Singles: 15 (10 titles, 5 runner–ups)
Doubles: 6 (4 titles, 2 runner–ups)
Notes
References
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1996 births
Living people
Tennis players from Bratislava
Slovak female tennis players
21st-century Slovak women