50 Facts About Katerina Siniakova

Katerina Siniakova is a Czech professional tennis player who is the current world No 1 in doubles.

Katerina Siniakova is a six-time Grand Slam champion in doubles, having won the 2018 and 2021 French Opens, 2018 and 2022 Wimbledon Championships, 2022 Australian Open, and 2022 US Open, thus completing the career doubles Golden Slam, all partnering compatriot Barbora Krejcikova.

Katerina Siniakova became world No 1 for the first time in October 2018, holding the top ranking for a total of 62 weeks, and has won 20 doubles titles on the WTA Tour, including the 2021 WTA Finals and two at WTA 1000 level.

In singles, Katerina Siniakova reached her career-high ranking of world No 31 in October 2018, and has won two WTA titles, at the Shenzhen Open and Swedish Open in 2017.

Katerina Siniakova was part of the Czech team which won the 2018 Fed Cup, and won doubles gold at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics alongside Krejcikova.

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Katerina Siniakova was born to a Czech mother Hana, an accountant, and Russian father Dmitry, a former boxer and her coach.

Katerina Siniakova's younger brother Daniel was born on 2003 and is a professional tennis player.

Since the COVID-19 quarantine at the 2021 Australian Open, Katerina Siniakova has been dating fellow Czech tennis player Tomas Machac.

Katerina Siniakova was ranked the world No 2 junior tennis player in December 2012.

Katerina Siniakova began playing on the ITF Women's Circuit in the Czech Republic in June 2012.

Katerina Siniakova started outside top 1000 in both singles and doubles, but finished year inside top 200 in singles and top 300 in doubles.

Two weeks later, Katerina Siniakova made her debut on the WTA Tour in the qualifying draw of Miami Open.

Katerina Siniakova passed qualifications after she defeated Mandy Minella and Alexa Glatch, but then lost a three-set encounter with Garbine Muguruza in the first round of the main draw.

Katerina Siniakova then went one step further, winning her first WTA doubles title at the Tashkent Open alongside Aleksandra Krunic.

Katerina Siniakova then made big progress in singles in October 2014, when she reached semifinal of the Premier-level Kremlin Cup.

Katerina Siniakova then finished year with title at the 2014 Open de Limoges, alongside Renata Voracova.

At the Australian Open Katerina Siniakova had her first singles Grand Slam win, defeating Elena Vesnina in the first round.

Katerina Siniakova started slowly in the 2016 season, but then shone at the French Open, where she reached the semifinal in doubles alongside Barbora Krejcikova.

Katerina Siniakova then reached the doubles quarterfinal of the US Open, alongside Krejcikova.

Katerina Siniakova followed this with another singles WTA final at the Japan Open in Tokyo, but lost to Christina McHale.

Katerina Siniakova had a strong start to the 2017 season, winning her first WTA singles title at the Shenzhen Open.

Katerina Siniakova began the tournament by defeating Peng Shuai in the first round in two sets, followed by a victory over world No 4, Simona Halep in three sets, claiming her first win over a top-10 player.

Katerina Siniakova's run continued by beating qualifier Nina Stojanovic and world No 9, Johanna Konta, in three sets.

Katerina Siniakova then struggled with results, not even reaching a quarterfinal until May 2017.

Katerina Siniakova continued this form, with good results in doubles, reaching the quarterfinals of the Premier Mandatory Madrid Open and Premier 5 Italian Open with Hradecka.

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Katerina Siniakova then reached the doubles semifinal of the French Open for the second year in a row, alongside Lucie Hradecka.

Katerina Siniakova then continued struggling with results in singles, but made did make progress in doubles.

Katerina Siniakova started year well, playing at the Shenzhen Open, where she reached the finals in both singles and doubles, but lost to Simona Halep in both.

Katerina Siniakova's run to the singles final included a win over Maria Sharapova in the semifinals.

Katerina Siniakova played in the doubles final alongside Barbora Krejcikova, but they lost to Halep and Irina-Camelia Begu.

Katerina Siniakova then lost to Elina Svitolina in the first round match at the Australian Open, and in doubles reached the third round with Krejcikova.

Katerina Siniakova followed this with another quarterfinal, but this time at the Premier Mandatory China Open, where she defeated world No 11, Kiki Bertens, but later lost to world No 2, Caroline Wozniacki.

Katerina Siniakova finished year with the same positions, in singles and in doubles.

Katerina Siniakova started year with the semifinal of the Premier-level Brisbane International, followed with title at the another Premier-level tournament, Sydney International with Krejcikova.

Katerina Siniakova did not stop there, reaching quarterfinal of the Premier 5 Dubai Championships and soon after that the final of the Premier Mandatory Indian Wells Open.

Katerina Siniakova then made progress at the French Open, reaching her first Grand Slam singles round of 16, after defeating world No 1, Naomi Osaka.

Katerina Siniakova then lost to Madison Keys in the quarterfinal-match.

Katerina Siniakova finished year as world No 58 in singles and No 7 in doubles, after spending the whole year inside the top 60 in singles and top 10 in doubles.

Katerina Siniakova's first stand out result was when she defeated former world No 1, Angelique Kerber, in the first round of the Premier 5 Italian Open, in straight sets.

Katerina Siniakova followed this with a strong performance at the Australian Open, where alongside Krejcikova, she reached the semifinal.

Katerina Siniakova then reached the semifinal of the Premier 5 Qatar Open.

Katerina Siniakova spent the whole year inside top 70 in singles, while in doubles inside top 10.

Katerina Siniakova finished the season as the world No 64 in singles, and No 8 in doubles.

Consequently, Katerina Siniakova rose to the top of the rankings and ended the year as the world No 1 doubles player.

Katerina Siniakova had a good run to the third round at French Open before losing to Tamara Zindansek.

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Katerina Siniakova then reached her first WTA singles final in several years at the 2021 Bad Homburg Open where she lost to Angelique Kerber.

Katerina Siniakova then reached the quarterfinal of the 2021 Prague Open in July, before being beaten heavily by her double partner Barbora Krejcikova who would go in to take the title.

Katerina Siniakova beat former world number 1 Garbine Muguruza at the WTA1000 tournament in Montreal in August and then in October 2021, defeated returning former number 1 Kim Clijsters at the 2021 BNP Indian Wells tournament.

Katerina Siniakova began the 2022 season by winning the doubles title at the Melbourne Summer Set 2 with Bernarda Pera.

Katerina Siniakova followed up this success in doubles a week later, with her third singles title at the 2022 Zavarovalnica Sava Portoroz in Slovakia, defeating the 2022 Wimbledon champion Elena Rybakina in the final in three sets.