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Nicole Vaidisova

Czech Born 1989 181 cm Right handed
Head to heads vs Jelena Jankovic (9)vs Samantha Stosur (6)vs Daniela Hantuchova (6)

Match log

2015

TianjinHard, October
R32LYing Ying Duan3-6 3-6
Q3WHiroko Kuwata6-1 5-7 6-4
Q2WShuai Zhang6-4 6-1
Q1WChantal Skamlova3-6 6-2 6-0
Seoul, qualifyingHard, September
Q1LMiki Miyamura2-6 3-6
Bucharest, qualifyingClay, July
Q1LRisa Ozaki5-7 1-6
MiamiHard, March
R64LSimona Halep4-6 6-2 1-6
R128WTimea Babos6-1 7-6(4)
MonterreyHard, March
R32LAna Ivanovic1-6 6-7(4)
Q3WArina Rodionova6-3 6-2
Q2WLucie Hradecka2-6 6-2 6-3
Q1WMakoto Ninomiya0-6 6-2 6-1

2010

MemphisHard, February
R16LKaia Kanepi6-4 1-6 3-6
R32WLaura Granville6-4 6-2

2009

US Open, qualifyingHard, August
Q1LYung Jan Chan6-7(1) 6-2 2-6
Los AngelesHard, August
R64LYanina Wickmayer1-6 1-6
Stanford, qualifyingHard, July
Q1LStacey Tan2-6 1-6
PragueClay, July
R32LAlla Kudryavtseva5-7 2-6
WimbledonGrass, June
R128LRossana De Los Rios4-6 7-6(5) 4-6
Eastbourne, qualifyingGrass, June
Q2LMelanie South3-6 3-6
Q1WEdina Gallovits Hall7-5 6-3
Roland GarrosClay, May
R128LVirginia Ruano Pascual4-6 3-6
Rome, qualifyingClay, May
Q2LYaroslava Shvedova2-6 5-7
Q1WEloisa Maria Compostizo De Andres6-1 6-1
BarcelonaClay, April
R16LFrancesca Schiavone2-6 3-6
R32WYevheniia Savranska6-2 6-4
MarbellaClay, April
R16LRoberta Vinci3-6 3-6
R32WAngelique Kerber3-6 6-4 6-4
MiamiHard, March
R32LSvetlana Kuznetsova1-6 4-6
R64WAlona Bondarenko6-1 6-0
R128WPatricia Mayr Achleitner6-4 6-2
Indian WellsHard, March
R32LJill Craybas4-6 3-6
R64WAlona Bondarenko6-3 6-1
R128WMichaella Krajicek6-3 6-4
ParisCarpet, February
R32LEmilie Loit1-6 4-6
Australian OpenHard, January
R128LSeverine Beltrame2-6 1-6
HobartHard, January
R32LMara Santangelo1-6 1-6
AucklandHard, January
R16LElena Vesnina4-6 3-6
R32WAlla Kudryavtseva7-6(3) 4-6 7-5

2008

MoscowHard, October
R32LVera Dushevina1-6 6-3 3-6
StuttgartHard, September
R32LNa Li1-6 2-6
US OpenHard, August
R64LSeverine Beltrame5-7 3-6
R128WPetra Cetkovska6-1 6-2
New HavenHard, August
R32LAlize Cornet3-6 6-7(8)
OlympicsHard, August
R64LAlize Cornet6-4 1-6 4-6
MontrealHard, July
R64LAi Sugiyama3-6 6-3 2-6
Los AngelesHard, July
R32LBethanie Mattek Sands4-6 0-6
R64WAyumi Morita6-7(5) 6-3 6-1
WimbledonGrass, June
QFLJie Zheng2-6 7-5 1-6
R16WAnna Chakvetadze4-6 7-6(0) 6-3
R32WCasey Dellacqua6-2 6-4
R64WSamantha Stosur6-2 0-6 6-4
R128WZuzana Ondraskova6-2 6-2

Nicole Vaidisova

Nicole Vaidisova broke through fast and left just as fast. At seventeen she was already inside the top ten; in 2006 she beat Amelie Mauresmo, then world No. 1, and Venus Williams to reach the Roland Garros semi-final, where Svetlana Kuznetsova stopped her two points short of the final. Seven months later she pushed Serena Williams to a first-set tiebreak at the Australian Open. By May 2007, at eighteen, she was world No. 7, a career high built on a heavy forehand and a game built for majors.

It never did. The ranking slid through 2008 and 2009, and in March 2010, at twenty, she walked away, plain fatigue with the tour ending a career of 6 titles. Four months later she married Radek Stepanek, a fellow Czech pro eleven years older; they divorced in 2013. A 2014 comeback went nowhere against injuries and form, and she retired for good in 2016. She and Stepanek later reconciled and remarried in 2018, a quieter second act after the loudest possible start.