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Who Is Tereza Valentova? Meet The Czech Teenager Who's Not Backing Down

At first glance, Tereza Valentova’s transition from a standout junior career to the Hologic WTA Tour appears seamless. The 2024 Roland Garros girls’ champion just 14 months ago, Valentova scored a milestone win on home soil at the Livesport Prague Open on Wednesday, upsetting No. 2 seed Rebecca Sramkova 7-6(1), 7-5 after saving two set points in the opener. Prague: Scores | Draws | Order of play The result is her first Top 50 win and it puts her…
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The day of the Livesport Prague Open (WTA 250, cement), dedicated entirely to the quarterfinals, opened with the victory of the first of the five Czech tennis players engaged in the decisive phases of the tournament \"home": the teen Tereza Valentova (18 years, number 106 of the WTA ranking) dominated the French lucky loser Jessika Pochet (28 years, number 162) with the score of 6-2 6-0 in just 1 hour and 6 minutes of play, qualifying for the fi…

Prague - Eighteen-year-old tennis player Tereza Valentová surprised herself with her performance at the Livesport Prague Open. While she did not play at the home tournament last year due to injury and only watched the matches from the stands, today she fought her way into her first semi-final on the WTA circuit after defeating Frenchwoman Jessica Ponchet 6:2, 6:0. She told reporters that she still has enough strength after her eighth win in ten …

The good start of the week for Jessika Ponchet in the Czech Republic is confirmed. Indeed, in Prague, the Frenchman qualified this Thursday for the quarter finals of the tournament, which had only happened to her once on the main circuit. Opposed to local Barbora Palicova, the 162nd world won the match in two sets (6-1, 7-5) and 1h38 of the game. Initially, the native of Bayonne made a solo rider in the first round against the 179th world, which…

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Sports.fr broke the news in on Wednesday, July 23, 2025.
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