The 21st century
Czech Republic · born Prague, 1998 · right-handed · Nottingham champion 2026
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Grass singles title, Nottingham 2026
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Best Wimbledon singles result, 2022
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Grass doubles titles, Birmingham 2021, Eastbourne 2025
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Nottingham final, longest WTA match of 2026 then
Born in Prague on 21 July 1998, Bouzková moved to Florida at the age of ten and won the US Open girls' title in 2014. She first broke through on the senior tour as a qualifier at the 2019 Canadian Open, beating Sloane Stephens, Jeļena Ostapenko and Simona Halep on the way to the semi-finals. She has won four WTA singles titles, Prague in 2022 and 2025, Bogotá in 2026 and Nottingham in 2026, and six in doubles, and reached career highs of No. 22 in singles in June 2026 and No. 15 in doubles in May 2024. She took a business degree from Indiana University East in 2022 while playing the tour. Her 2026 grass season was her best: the Nottingham title and a run to the Wimbledon fourth round as the 21st seed.
| Wimbledon singles | Quarter-final 2022; fourth round 2023 and 2026; second round 2019, 2024 and 2025; first round 2021 |
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| Wimbledon 2022 | Beat the seventh seed Danielle Collins 5-7, 6-4, 6-4, Ann Li 6-0, 6-3, Alison Riske 6-2, 6-3 and Caroline Garcia 7-5, 6-2; lost to Ons Jabeur 3-6, 6-1, 6-1 in the quarter-final |
| Wimbledon 2026 | Seeded 21st. Beat Talia Gibson, Tyra Caterina Grant and Liudmila Samsonova 4-6, 7-6 (3), 6-4; lost to Elise Mertens 6-4, 6-4 in the fourth round |
| Grass singles title | Nottingham 2026: beat Emma Navarro 7-6 (5), 4-6, 6-2 in the final, her first grass title and the first set she dropped all week |
| Grass doubles titles | Birmingham 2021 with Lucie Hradecká, beating Ons Jabeur and Ellen Perez 6-4, 2-6, 10-8, her first WTA doubles title. Eastbourne 2025 with Anna Danilina, beating Hsieh Su-wei and Maya Joint 6-4, 7-5 |
| Wimbledon doubles | Semi-final 2023 with Sara Sorribes Tormo; quarter-final 2021. Girls' doubles final 2014 with Dalma Gálfi |
| Birmingham | ||
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| 2021 | Women's doubles | with Lucie Hradecká |
| Eastbourne | ||
| 2025 | Women's doubles | with Anna Danilina |
| Nottingham | ||
| 2026 | Women's singles | |
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
"You actually never know if you're going to make it one day, but that's why we play tennis, for these moments."
The person behind the player.
Wimbledon 2022
Ranked 66th and with three Grand Slam match wins from 12 appearances, she reached her first major quarter-final. Asked about her routine, she admitted to being superstitious: she and her team had eaten strawberries and cream after every win of the fortnight. "I don't know what to say right now," she said after beating Caroline Garcia. "I'm just soaking in this moment."
Source: Tennis MajorsRoland Garros 2023
In a doubles match, a ball struck in frustration by Miyu Kato hit a ball girl. Bouzková and Sara Sorribes Tormo pointed out that the girl was crying, the referee defaulted Kato and Aldila Sutjiadi, and the pair were criticised online. The 2019 sportsmanship award winner said: "I've never been in such a situation where I feel like I'm the bad person."
Source: Tennis.comWimbledon 2024
Days after captaining the Florida Panthers to the Stanley Cup, her partner Aleksander Barkov was at the All England Club to watch her play. A regular at Wimbledon, he told Tennis Channel he kept the channel on all the time and liked "literally everyone". Martina Navratilova, a Panthers supporter, got to drink from the Cup.
Source: ATP TourNottingham 2026 · Final
Late in the first set against Emma Navarro she hurt her ankle and called a medical timeout. She returned to take the tie-break 7-5 and won 7-6 (5), 4-6, 6-2 after two hours and 57 minutes, the longest WTA match of the season to that point. "Just a pure fight," she called it. She was only the second Czech to win Nottingham, after Karolína Plíšková in 2016.
Source: beIN SportsBradenton and Indiana
She left Prague for Florida at ten and is fluent in Czech and English, with Spanish she uses mostly with Sorribes Tormo, her best friend on tour and doubles partner. Alongside the tour she completed a business administration degree at Indiana University East, graduating in 2022 with a minor in sports marketing and management.
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