Karina Habšudová

Karina Habšudová

Country (sports)	Czechoslovakia (1989–92) Slovakia (1993–2003)
Residence	Bratislava, Slovakia
Born	(1973-08-02) 2 August 1973 Bojnice, Czechoslovakia
Height	1.70 m (5 ft 7 in)
Turned pro	1989
Retired	2003
Plays	Right-handed (two-handed backhand)
Prize money	US$1,878,228
Singles
Career record	304–226
Career titles	1
Highest ranking	No. 10 (10 February 1997)
Grand Slam singles results
Australian Open	4R (1991, 1995, 1997)
French Open	QF (1996)
Wimbledon	2R (1991, 1999, 2000)
US Open	4R (1996, 1997)
Other tournaments
Olympic Games	3R (1996, 2000)
Doubles
Career record	155–171
Career titles	6
Highest ranking	No. 32 (28 May 2001)
Grand Slam doubles results
Australian Open	3R (1995, 1997)
French Open	QF (1998)
Wimbledon	3R (1993, 2001)
US Open	3R (1992, 1999)
Other doubles tournaments
Olympic Games	2R (2000)
Mixed doubles
Grand Slam mixed doubles results
Australian Open	2R (2000)
French Open	QF (2001)
Wimbledon	SF (2001)
US Open	QF (2000)

Karina Habšudová (Slovak pronunciation: [ˈkarina ˈɦapʂudɔʋaː]; born 2 August 1973) is a Slovak former professional tennis player. She has been ranked as high as 10 in the world (1997). Together with Karol Kučera, she won the Hopman Cup in 1998. Her best performance at a Grand Slam tournament came when she got to the quarterfinals of the 1996 French Open, defeating Kristin Godridge, Nathalie Tauziat, Martina Hingis, and Anke Huber before losing to Arantxa Sánchez Vicario, 8–10 in the third set.

She also had a successful junior career. She won the girls' singles at the 1991 US Open, and was junior No. 1 for some time.

Biography

Born in Bojnice, Czechoslovakia, Habšudová originally trained as a gymnast but at the age of ten, she switched to tennis under the encouragement of her mother, herself a former amateur tennis player. By the age of fourteen, she had already become the top junior player in Czechoslovakia. In 1990, she was crowned ITF Junior World Champion, and the following year she won the girls' singles title at the US Open.

As a professional, she made the fourth round of the 1991 Australian Open while still a schoolgirl, but her early promise was curtailed by health problems and injuries, including a bout of pneumonia in 1993 and an ankle injury the following year. After suffering another injury just as she had made it to the top 30 in the spring of 1995, she bounced back to enjoy her most successful year in 1996, where she had results such as reaching the final of the German Open and the quarterfinals of the French Open. At the latter event, she beat Martina Hingis and Anke Huber and served for a place in the semifinals against Arantxa Sánchez Vicario, but ultimately lost 8–10 in the third set.

Habšudová eventually broke the top 10 in early 1997, after reaching the final of the Generali Ladies Linz, becoming the first woman representing Slovakia to do so. Though she continued to play on the tour until 2003, she never again matched the same success of her breakthrough season, with later highlights including winning the Hopman Cup in 1998 and her only WTA singles title at the Austrian Open in 1999. In 2001, she reached the semifinals of the Wimbledon mixed doubles tournament partnering David Rikl.

Following her retirement, she worked for several years as a sports editor. She married her husband Milan Cílek in 2003 and they have three children together.

WTA Tour finals

Singles: 5 (1 title, 4 runner-ups)

Legend Tier I (0) Tier II (0) Tier III (0) Tier IV & V (1)

Titles by surface Hard 0 Clay 1 Grass 0 Carpet 0

Result	No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Opponent	Score
Loss	1.	May 1996	German Open	Clay	Steffi Graf	6–4, 2–6, 5–7
Loss	2.	Oct 1996	Luxembourg Open	Carpet (i)	Anke Huber	3–6, 0–6
Loss	3.	Feb 1997	Linz Open, Austria	Carpet (i)	Chanda Rubin	4–6, 2–6
Win	1.	Jul 1999	Pörtschach, Austria	Clay	Silvija Talaja	2–6, 6–4, 6–4
Loss	4.	Jul 1999	Sopot Open, Poland	Clay	Conchita Martínez	1–6, 1–6

Doubles: 12 (6 titles, 6 runner-ups)

Legend Tier I (1) Tier II (0) Tier III (2) Tier IV & V (3)

Titles by surface Hard 1 Clay 5 Grass 0 Carpet 0

Result	No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Partner	Opponents	Score
Loss	1.	May 1992	European Open, Switzerland	Clay	Marianne Werdel	Amy Frazier Elna Reinach	5–7, 2–6
Loss	2.	Jul 1994	Austrian Open	Clay	Alexandra Fusai	Sandra Cecchini Patricia Tarabini	5–7, 5–7
Win	1.	Sep 1996	Czech Open	Clay	Helena Suková	Eva Martincová Elena Pampoulova	3–6, 6–3, 6–2
Loss	3.	Jun 1997	Rosmalen Open, Netherlands	Grass	Florencia Labat	Eva Melicharová Helena Vildová	3–6, 6–7(6–8)
Win	2.	Jul 1997	Prague Open, Czech Republic	Clay	Ruxandra Dragomir	Eva Martincová Helena Vildová	6–1, 5–7, 6–2
Win	3.	Jul 1998	Prague Open, Czech Republic	Clay	Silvia Farina	Květa Hrdličková Michaela Paštiková	2–6, 6–1, 6–2
Win	4.	Jul 1998	Warsaw Open, Poland	Clay	Olga Lugina	Liezel Horn Karin Kschwendt	7–6(7–2), 7–5
Win	5.	Jul 1999	Pörtschach, Austria	Clay	Silvia Farina	Olga Lugina Laura Montalvo	6–4, 6–4
Loss	4.	Feb 2000	Hanover Grand Prix, Germany	Hard (i)	Silvia Farina	Åsa Carlsson Natalia Zvereva	3–6, 4–6
Loss	5.	Jun 2000	Rosmalen Open, Netherlands	Grass	Catherine Barclay	Erika deLone Nicole Pratt	6–7(4–7), 3–4 ret.
Win	6.	Oct 2000	Bratislava Open, Slovakia	Hard (i)	Daniela Hantuchová	Petra Mandula Patricia Wartusch	w/o
Loss	6.	Feb 2001	Dubai Championships, United Arab Emirates	Hard	Åsa Carlsson	Yayuk Basuki Caroline Vis	0–6, 6–4, 2–6

ITF Circuit finals

Legend
$75,000 tournaments
$50,000 tournaments
$25,000 tournaments
$10,000 tournaments

Singles: 11 (6–5)

Result	No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Opponent	Score
Win	1.	27 November 1989	ITF Budapest, Hungary	Carpet (i)	Nóra Köves	6–4, 6–1
Loss	2.	26 March 1990	Open de Limoges, France	Carpet (i)	Pascale Paradis-Mangon	4–6, 4–6
Loss	3.	23 April 1990	ITF Sutton, United Kingdom	Clay	Radka Bobková	6–3, 5–7, 6–7
Loss	4.	7 May 1990	ITF Swansea, United Kingdom	Clay	Radka Bobková	5–7, 5–7
Win	5.	21 May 1990	ITF Katowice, Poland	Clay	Anna Földényi	6–3, 6–2
Loss	6.	13 August 1990	ITF Karlovy Vary, Czechoslovakia	Clay	Andrea Strnadová	3–6, 4–6
Win	7.	12 December 1994	ITF Přerov, Czech Republic	Hard (i)	Henrieta Nagyová	6–1, 6–4
Win	8.	27 February 1995	ITF Prostějov, Czech Republic	Hard (i)	Martina Hingis	7–5, 6–4
Win	9.	27 January 1997	ITF Prostějov, Czech Republic	Carpet (i)	Barbara Paulus	6–7(4), 6–1, 6–3
Win	10.	7 December 1998	ITF Bad Gögging, Germany	Carpet (i)	Marlene Weingärtner	7–6(3), 6–2
Loss	11.	11 June 2001	Open de Marseille, France	Clay	Klára Koukalová	4–6, 6–4, 6–7(3)

Doubles: 3 (3–0)

Result	No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Partner	Opponents	Score
Win	1.	15 July 1991	ITF Karlovy Vary, Czechoslovakia	Clay	Radka Bobková	Kateřina Šišková Markéta Štusková	6–1, 6–3
Win	2.	22 July 1991	ITF Schwarzach, Austria	Clay	Katarína Studeníková	Agnese Gustmane Heidi Sprung	6–3, 6–1
Win	3.	13 September 1993	ITF Karlovy Vary, Czech Republic	Clay	Larisa Neiland	Radka Bobková Petra Langrová	6–3, 6–4

Head-to-head record against top 10 players

Players who have been ranked world No. 1 are in boldface.

• Dominique Monami 4–1
• Nadia Petrova 0–2
• Venus Williams 0–1
• Martina Hingis 4–3
• Elena Dementieva 0–3
• Steffi Graf 0–4
• Monica Seles 0–2
• Justine Henin 0–1
• Arantxa Sánchez Vicario 1–6
• Patty Schnyder 1–3
• Ai Sugiyama 1–2
• Amélie Mauresmo 0–1
• Conchita Martínez 2–6
• Kim Clijsters 1–0

External links

• Karina Habšudová at the Women's Tennis Association
• Karina Habšudová at the International Tennis Federation
• Karina Habšudová at the Billie Jean King Cup
• Karina Habšudová at Olympedia (archive)
• Karina Habšudová at Olympics.com
• Karina Habšudová at Olympic.sk (in Slovak)