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Seven years old
She started playing at seven and turned professional at 15, in 1998. Six years later she won her first WTA singles title, in Acapulco in 2004, beating Flavia Pennetta in the final.
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Iveta Benešová
Czech Republic · born Most, 1983 · left-handed · Wimbledon mixed doubles champion 2011
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2011
Wimbledon mixed doubles champion with Jürgen Melzer, her first major title
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Sets won and lost on the way to the 2011 title
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Minutes for the 2011 final against the fourth seeds
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Czech titles at Wimbledon that weekend: Kvitová's singles, Peschke's doubles and her mixed
16
WTA titles: two in singles, 14 in doubles
Playing career
Iveta Benešová was born in Most, Czechoslovakia, on 1 February 1983, began playing at seven and turned professional in 1998. A left-hander, she won her first WTA singles title in Acapulco in 2004 and her second in Fes in 2010, and reached a career-high singles ranking of No. 25 in April 2009.
Her best results came in doubles, most of them with her compatriot Barbora Záhlavová-Strýcová, and she won 14 WTA doubles titles. At Wimbledon in 2011 she and the Austrian Jürgen Melzer, seeded nine, won the mixed doubles without dropping a set, beating Mahesh Bhupathi and Elena Vesnina 6-3, 6-2 in the final on Centre Court. It was her only major title.
She married Melzer in September 2012 and played as Iveta Melzer. Shoulder trouble kept her off the tour from 2012 to early 2014; she reached the Acapulco doubles final that year with Petra Cetkovská and retired in August 2014. After the marriage ended in 2015 she went back to the name Benešová.
On grass
| Wimbledon mixed, 2011 | With Jürgen Melzer, seeded nine: won the title without losing a set, eight sets to none and 48 games to 27. Final: beat Mahesh Bhupathi and Elena Vesnina, the fourth seeds, 6-3, 6-2 in 51 minutes on Centre Court |
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| A Czech treble | Her title on the Sunday completed three Czech wins at Wimbledon in 2011, after Petra Kvitová's singles and Květa Peschke's ladies' doubles with Katarina Srebotnik the day before |
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| 2011 | Mixed doubles | with Jürgen Melzer |
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"I was lucky that he asked me if I wanted to play (with him)."
Anecdotes
The person behind the player.
Fes, 2010
A little revenge
Seeded seventh at the Moroccan Grand Prix, she beat Simona Halep 6-4, 6-2 in the final for her second WTA singles title, six years after the first. She called it a "little revenge": Halep had beaten her three weeks earlier in Marbella.
Source: Radio Prague InternationalWimbledon, 2011
He asked her
She credited her partner for the title: "He was awesome," she said of Melzer, who had won the men's doubles the year before. They beat Bhupathi and Vesnina in 51 minutes for her first major.
Source: TimesLIVEWimbledon, 2011
The third Czech title
On the Saturday Petra Kvitová won the singles and Květa Peschke the ladies' doubles. Benešová's win on the Sunday made it three Czech champions in one weekend.
Source: TimesLIVELaxenburg, 2012
Partners off court
She married Melzer at Laxenburg castles in Austria on 14 September 2012 and played her last major mixed with him at Roland Garros in 2014, losing in the first round to the top seeds. She retired that August because of her shoulder.
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Sources
- Wimbledon Compendium 2025 (AELTC)
- "Czechs celebrate Wimbledon hat-trick after mixed success", TimesLIVE, 2011
- "Benesova and Melzer win mixed doubles title", Tennis.com, 2011
- "Benešová takes second career title in Morocco", Radio Prague International, 2010
- Iveta Benešová, Wikipedia
- GTC roll of grass champions, checked against a second source where one exists
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