Klára Zakopalová

Klára Zakopalová

Country	Czech Republic
Residence	Prague, Czech Republic
Date of birth	24 February, 1982
Place of birth	Prague, Czech Republic
Height	5' 5 1/4" (1.66 m)
Weight	110 lbs. (50 kg)
Turned Pro	1999
Plays	Right; Two-handed backhand
Career Prize Money	$834,690
Singles
Career record:	230-189
Career titles:	2 WTA 5 ITF
Highest ranking:	No. 27 (March 6, 2006)
Grand Slam results
Australian Open	3r (2003)
French Open	2r (2004, 2005)
Wimbledon	2r (2004)
U.S. Open	1r (2003-06)
Doubles
Career record:	6-31
Career titles:	0
Highest ranking:	No. 193 (February 4, 2002)
Infobox last updated on: February 4, 2007.

Klára Zakopalová (née Koukalová) (born on February 24, 1982 in Prague), Czech Republic is a Czech professional female tennis player. She was born and still lives in Prague, the capital.

Career

In her career Zakopalová has reached eight singles finals and won two, in 2005 on the grass of Rosmalen (Netherlands) and in September of that year on the hard courts of Portorož (Slovenia).

In January 2006 she played a comeback player Martina Hingis, at the WTA Tournament in Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia, whom she lost to in the second round of the tournament.

Zakopalová was seeded No.29 at the 2006 Australian Open tennis tournament but lost in the first round to Ekaterina Bychkova of Russia. Klara has not had a successful year in singles or doubles, with over ten first-round losses in singles and not a single victory in doubles. Many people are confused as to why she has yet to regain the form that took her to no. 27 in the world in March of 2006.

She is married to Jan Zakopal, a Czech football player and they are a happily married couple.

WTA Titles

Singles

No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Opponent in the final	Score
1.	July 4, 1999	Alkmaar	Clay	Janet Bergman	6-2 6-1
2.	June 25, 2000	Sopot	Clay	Syna Schmidle	7-6 6-3
3.	August 27, 2000	Maribor	Clay	Angelika Roesch	7-5 6-4
4.	June 17, 2001	Marseille	Clay	Karina Habsudova	6-4 4-6 7-6
5.	June 9, 2002	Caserta	Clay	Mariana Díaz-Oliva	7-6 5-7 7-5
6.	June 18, 2005	's-Hertogenbosch	Grass	Lucie Šafářová	3-6 6-2 6-2
7.	September 25, 2005	Portoroz	Hard	Katarina Srebotnik	6-2 4-6 6-3

Singles finalist (6)

• 2001: Antwerp (lost to Barbara Rittner) 3-6 2-6
• 2002: Casablanca (lost to Patricia Wartusch) 7-5 3-6 3-6
• 2003: Sopot (lost to Anna Smashnova) 2-6 0-6
• 2004: 's-Hertogenbosch (lost to Mary Pierce) 6-7⁶ 2-6
• 2004: Sopot (Lost to Flavia Pennetta) 5-7 6-3 3-6
• 2005: Palermo (lost to Anabel Medina Garrigues) 4-6 0-6

Singles performance timeline

To prevent confusion and double counting, information in this table is updated only once a tournament or the player's participation in the tournament has concluded. This table is current through the 2007 US Open, which ended on September 9, 2007.

External links

• Klára Zakopalová profile on the WTA Tour's official website

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