Karolína Plísková

Karolina Pliskova is a Czech professional tennis player. She is a former world No. 1 ranked by the Women's Tennis Association (WTA). Pliskova utilizes an extremely aggressive style, highlighted by her powerful, accurate serve as well as her forceful groundstrokes often in tandem with her net play, to extract errors from opponents or win points outright. She also shows accuracy and power on mid-court shots, sometimes following them to net. Pliskova has won sixteen singles and five doubles titles on the WTA tour, as well as 10 singles and six doubles titles on the ITF circuit in her career. On 31 October 2016, she peaked at world No. 11 in the doubles rankings. She reached her first and only Grand Slam final at the 2016 US Open, where she was runner-up to Angelique Kerber in three sets. As a junior, Pliskova won the girls' singles event at the 2010 Australian Open, defeating Laura Robson in the final. She has also played for the Czech Republic in Fed Cup competition (winner in 2015, 2016, 2018).