The 21st century

Nicole Melichar-Martinez

United States · born Brno, 1993 · Wimbledon mixed doubles champion 2018 with Alexander Peya

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2018

Wimbledon mixed doubles title with Alexander Peya, her first major title

2

Wimbledon finals in the same weekend of 2018: mixed won, women's doubles lost

0

Times broken on serve in the 2018 mixed final

6

Career-high doubles ranking, July 2023

20

WTA Tour doubles titles

Playing career

Nicole Melichar was born in Brno, in what is now the Czech Republic, on 29 July 1993, and has lived in the United States since shortly after her birth. She followed her older sister, Jane, into tennis. Her singles career peaked at No. 400 in 2012, and she made her name in doubles.

Her breakthrough came at Wimbledon in 2018, where she reached two finals: she won the mixed doubles with Alexander Peya and lost the women's doubles final with Květa Peschke. She reached a second Grand Slam women's doubles final at the 2020 US Open with Xu Yifan.

With the Australian Ellen Perez she became one of the leading pairs on the tour, reaching the final of the WTA Finals in 2023 and several WTA 1000 finals, and she reached No. 6 in the doubles rankings in July 2023. In 2024 the pair won the grass-court title at Bad Homburg as top seeds. She is married to her coach, Carlos Martinez, and has played as Melichar-Martinez since.

On grass

Wimbledon mixed 2018Seeded 11th with Alexander Peya, beat Jamie Murray and Victoria Azarenka 7-6 (7-1), 6-3 on Centre Court in 88 minutes, winning 83 per cent of their service points and never being broken
Wimbledon doubles 2018Seeded 12th with Květa Peschke, lost the final on No. 1 Court to Barbora Krejčíková and Kateřina Siniaková 6-4, 4-6, 6-0
Bad Homburg 2024Top seeds with Ellen Perez, won the final against Chan Hao-ching and Veronika Kudermetova 4-6, 6-3, 10-8 in the match tie-break

Every grass title: 2

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Wimbledon
2018 Mixed doubles with Alexander Peya
Bad Homburg
2024 Women's doubles with Ellen Perez

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

"I joked with him before the tournament that mixed doubles is my happy place, so I call us Team Happy Place."

Melichar on her partnership with Alexander Peya, after the 2018 Wimbledon mixed doubles final, WTA, 2018

Anecdotes

The person behind the player.

Wimbledon 2018

Team Happy Place

She and Peya had played only seven mixed matches together before the final. She explained the mood of the partnership: "I think we're both just very positive."

Source: WTA, 15 July 2018

Wimbledon 2018

A childhood dream

"You dream about winning Wimbledon as a kid, then realize how difficult tennis actually is," she said after the final. Asked to sum it up, she said: "Can't really describe it."

Source: WTA, 15 July 2018

Brno to the United States

A racquet at one

Born in Brno, she moved to the United States as a baby. Her older sister Jane played tennis, and Melichar says she took up the sport when she was just one year old.

Source: Nicole Melichar-Martinez, Wikipedia

World TeamTennis, 2020

Traded and champion

In 2020 she started the World TeamTennis season with the San Diego Aviators, partnering CoCo Vandeweghe, was traded with her to the New York Empires halfway through, and won the title with the Empires.

Source: Nicole Melichar-Martinez, Wikipedia

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