Muchová enters the WTA top 10 for the first time, four Czechs are ranked in the top 12

If the Czechs are good at any sport, it is undoubtedly tennis. Especially in women’s tennis, our small country really excels and every year several tennis players show it. In the updated WTA rankings we can find four Czech women in the elite twelve.

On Sunday evening, Karolína Muchová fought for the triumph at the tournament in Cincinnati, but she was not able to beat the nineteen-year-old American Coco Gauff, who defeated her in two sets.

Even so, the Czech tennis player helped herself in the WTA rankings and broke into the elite ten for the first time in her life, right at the bottom of it. She improved by seven places, she was seventeenth in the last edition.

One place ahead of her is Markéta Vondroušová, who fell in the quarterfinals of the same tournament. She improved by one place, she was tenth.

The Czech tennis players are nicely lined up behind each other, with Petra Kvitova in 11th place, two places down. She pushed Barbora Krejcikova, who is now 12th, to 11th.

In the top 100 we can also find Karolina Pliskova (25), Maria Bouzkova (31), Linda Noskova (42), Katerina Siniakova (47) and Linda Fruhvirt (55).

The women are dominated by Poland’s Iga Swiatek, followed by Aryna Sabalenka and Jessica Pegula. Looking at the doubles, Siniakova is the world number one, followed by her teammate Krejcikova.

The Czech Republic is not doing so well in the men’s competition, with only Jiri Lehecka in the elite 100, who is ranked 21st. The world number one is Carlos Alcaraz, followed by Novak Djokovic and Daniil Medvedev.

Source: WTA, ATP