Květa Peschke

Playing career

Born Květoslava Hrdličková in Bílovec, Czechoslovakia, in 1975, she turned professional in 1993. Under her maiden name she won Makarska as a qualifier in 1998, which took her into the top 100, and in 1999 she reached the Leipzig final as a qualifier after beating Mary Pierce. Her best singles ranking was No. 26, in 2005, the year she reached the fourth round at Wimbledon. She played singles and doubles at the 2000 Olympics.

Doubles became her game. She finished in the top ten every year from 2006 to 2015 and won 36 titles. With Katarina Srebotnik she reached the 2010 French Open final, losing to Serena and Venus Williams, and won Wimbledon in 2011. They became joint No. 1 that July, held the ranking for ten weeks and were named WTA Doubles Team of the Year and ITF World Champions. She also reached three US Open mixed doubles finals and three WTA Finals doubles finals.

In 2018, at 43, she reached a second Wimbledon final, with Nicole Melichar. Her last title came in Chicago in 2021 with Andrea Petkovic, when she was 46, and she played her last WTA event at Charleston in April 2022, then the oldest player in the WTA rankings.

On grass

Every grass title: 2

Show every title, tournament by tournament

Wimbledon
2011	Women's doubles	with Katarina Srebotnik
Eastbourne
2011	Women's doubles	with Katarina Srebotnik

Leading grass titles only: the grass majors, tour-level grass events since 1968 and the leading grass championships before 1968. † single source; ‡ sources disagree. Roll of champions