Vaidisova biography

Nicole Vaidišová

TENNIS PLAYER

1989 - Today

Nicole Vaidišová

Nicole Vaidišová Štěpánková (Czech pronunciation: [ˈnɪkol ˈvajɟɪʃovaː]; born 23 April 1989) is a Czech former professional tennis player. Vaidišová is an Australian Open and French Open semifinalist as well as a two-time quarterfinalist at Wimbledon. She started playing tennis when she was six years old, enrolling to train at Nick Bollettieri's tennis academy in Bradenton, Florida. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Nicole Vaidišová has received more than 310,462 page views. Her biography is available in 37 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 35 in 2019). Nicole Vaidišová is the 686th most popular tennis player (down from 541st in 2019), the 6,071st most popular biography from Germany (down from 5,236th in 2019) and the 28th most popular German Tennis Player.

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Personal

Coached by stepfather, Alex Kodat; working with physios Pavel Kovac and David Hogarth ... Introduced to tennis by mother, Riana, at age 6; has two younger brothers, Oliver and Toby ... Lived in Germany until age 6 ... Trained at Nick Bollettieri Academy ... Has an all-court game; biggest weapon is serve ... Follows NHL (ice hockey) ... Likes reading, watching movies, yoga, bike riding ... Enjoys pop music, especially by Madonna ... Speaks Czech, German, English; studying French ... Favorite city is New York because of its constant activity.

Career Highlights

SINGLES
Winner (6): 2006 - Strasbourg; 2005 - Seoul, Tokyo [Japan Open], Bangkok; 2004 - Vancouver, Tashkent, ITF/Columbus-USA; 2003 - ITF/Plzen-CZE.
Finalist (1): 2005 - Istanbul.
Semifinalist (13): 2008 - Sydney; 2007 - Sydney, Australian Open, Zürich, Linz; 2006 - Sydney, Roland Garros, Stanford, San Diego, Moscow, Linz; 2005 - Memphis, Philadelphia.

ADDITIONAL
Czech Fed Cup Team, 2004-08; Czech Olympic Team, 2008.

NameNicole Vaidisova
Height5' 11"
NaionalityGermon
Date of Birth23 April 1989,
Place of BirthNurnberg, Germany
Famous for

In 2004, she finished the season as a top 100 player. As a qualifier at only her third Tour main draw at inaugural Vancouver, Vaidišová became the sixth-youngest singles champion in Tour history at 15 years, three months, 23 days of age, and the lowest-ranked player (No. 180) and second qualifier (of three) to win a title in 2004. She won her second title of the year at Tashkent, defeating Virginie Razzano in the final. On October 18, she made her Top 100 début at No. 74, becoming the youngest player in the top 100 at the time.
Later in the season, she reached the quarterfinals at the Japanese Open in Tokyo, defeating No. 29 Tatiana Golovin in three sets en route for her career-best win, before losing to Klara Koukalova. Vaidišová made her Grand Slam début at the US Open losing to defending champion and world No.1 Justine Henin-Hardenne 6-1 6-4 in the first round after leading 4-1 second set. She won ITF/Columbus, OH-U

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