Barbora Krejčíková won Wimbledon in 2024 with a game of variety and touch that few players can match on grass, built on years of success as a doubles player. She finished 10th in the women’s GTC Grass Rankings with a GTC Grass Rating of 116, up from 113 but two places below her preseason position of 8th.
Grass at a glance
- GTC Grass Rating: 116, 10th in the women’s rankings (8th before the season)
- Pillars: Lawn Form 62, Arsenal 78, Wimbledon 80, Nerve 62
- Nationality: Czech Republic
- Best Wimbledon result: Champion (2024)
- Grass titles: Wimbledon 2024 (plus the Wimbledon women’s doubles in 2018 and 2022)
- Plays: Right-handed, two-handed backhand
How Barbora plays on grass
Krejčíková plays grass the way a doubles specialist would. She serves to locations rather than for pace, follows the serve in when the score allows, and volleys with soft hands. From the back she mixes a flat backhand with a slice that stays low, changes the height of the ball, and uses the drop shot to pull baseliners forward. Her Arsenal score of 78 reflects that range rather than raw power.
The variety is most effective against opponents who want rhythm. Against the heaviest hitters she can be pushed back, and her movement, while sound, is not as quick as that of the best defenders. Her Nerve score of 62 reflects a record in three-set matches that is good but uneven, and her results can dip sharply when her fitness is compromised, as it was for part of this season.
Grass record
Her singles results on grass came later than her doubles success. She won the Wimbledon women’s doubles with Kateřina Siniaková in 2018 and 2022, while in singles she reached the fourth round in 2021, losing to Ashleigh Barty, and the third round in 2022. An ankle injury kept her out of Wimbledon in 2023.
In 2024 she won the title, beating Jasmine Paolini 6-2, 2-6, 6-4 in the final. That result carries her Wimbledon pillar of 80, her highest. In 2025 she lost in the third round to Emma Navarro in a deciding set.
The 2026 grass season
Krejčíková started the swing in ‘s-Hertogenbosch and reached the final, but she withdrew because of illness shortly before it was due to start, and Robin Montgomery took the title by walkover. She then withdrew from Nottingham with an upper respiratory illness, and the rating stayed at 113. At Eastbourne she lost in the first round to qualifier Kimberly Birrell, 6-3, 7-6(6), with no change to the rating.
At Wimbledon she was unseeded and ranked 38th. She beat 5th seed Mirra Andreeva, the new French Open champion, in three sets, along with Hannah Klugman and Nikola Bartunková, to reach the second week. Karolína Muchová then beat her 7-5, 5-7, 6-3 in the fourth round. The run lifted her rating from 113 to 116.
Looking ahead to 2027
The next step is a cleaner build-up. Illness disrupted the middle of her 2026 swing, and her Lawn Form score of 62 trails her Wimbledon pillar by a wide margin. A likely schedule is one or two events in the Netherlands or Britain before Wimbledon, where her ranking may again leave her unseeded and facing a seed early. Her game still suits the surface, as her wins this year showed. A realistic target is a quarter-final at Wimbledon and a first grass title outside the All England Club, which would return her to the top 8.
