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Czechoslovakia · born Prague, 1972 · Wimbledon girls' champion 1989 and 1990 · WTA Newcomer of the Year 1991
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2
Wimbledon girls' singles titles in a row
4
Wimbledon junior finals in 1989 and 1990
No. 33
Career-high singles ranking, September 1991
No. 14
Career-high doubles ranking, April 1993
Born in Prague in 1972, Strnadová played right-handed with a two-handed backhand and turned professional in 1988. In 1989 she won the Australian Open girls' doubles with Eva Švíglerová and was the ITF junior world champion in doubles, and she won the Wimbledon girls' singles in 1989 and 1990. The WTA named her Newcomer of the Year in 1991, the season she reached a career-high singles ranking of No. 33. She played five WTA singles finals, at Auckland, Wellington, Pattaya and the Malaysia Open, without winning one, but took three doubles titles: Zurich in 1991 and Paris in 1993 with Jana Novotná, and Strasbourg in 1992 with Patty Fendick. She reached No. 14 in doubles in April 1993 and the third round at all four majors, and retired in 1995. She married the Australian player Jason Stoltenberg.
| Major singles titles | 2: Wimbledon (1989, 1990) |
|---|---|
| Major doubles titles | 1: Wimbledon (1990) |
| Girls' singles finals | 1989: beat Meredith McGrath 6-2, 6-3, unseeded. 1990: beat Kirrily Sharpe 6-2, 6-4, seeded seventh |
| Girls' doubles | 1990 with Karina Habšudová, beat Nicole Pratt and Kirrily Sharpe 6-3, 6-2. Final lost 1989 with Eva Švíglerová to Jennifer Capriati and Meredith McGrath 6-4, 6-2 |
| Wimbledon as a senior | Singles third round 1991, lost to the second seed Gabriela Sabatini 6-1, 6-3 |
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Wimbledon 1989
Strnadová came into the girls' singles without a seeding. She beat the 16th seed Naoko Sawamatsu 6-2, 6-2 in the semi-final and the sixth seed Meredith McGrath 6-2, 6-3 in the final. McGrath had the last word in the doubles, where she and Jennifer Capriati beat Strnadová and Eva Švíglerová 6-4, 6-2.
Source: WikipediaWimbledon 1990
Seeded seventh, she beat the fourth seed Anke Huber 6-2, 6-4 in the semi-final and Kirrily Sharpe of Australia 6-2, 6-4 in the final. In the doubles final she and Karina Habšudová met Sharpe again, with Nicole Pratt, and won 6-3, 6-2.
Source: WikipediaWimbledon 1991
In 1991 she won two rounds at Wimbledon in straight sets and met the second seed Gabriela Sabatini in the third round. Sabatini won 6-1, 6-3 and went on to the final, where Steffi Graf beat her 8-6 in the third set.
Source: WikipediaWTA Awards 1991
The WTA named her its Newcomer of the Year for 1991, succeeding Jennifer Capriati, the American who had beaten her in the 1989 Wimbledon girls' doubles final. In September that year she reached her highest singles ranking, No. 33.
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