Sylvia Štefková

Sylvia Štefková
Country (sports) Czechoslovakia
 Czech Republic
Born (1970-03-09) 9 March 1970 (age 54)
Prize money$33,729
Singles
Career titles2 ITF
Highest rankingNo. 275 (15 February 1993)
Doubles
Career titles4 ITF
Highest rankingNo. 165 (15 July 1991)

Sylvia Štefková (born 9 March 1970) is a Czech former professional tennis player. She is the mother of WTA Tour player Barbora Štefková.[1]

Štefková competed on the professional tour from the late 1980s to early 1990s. All of her WTA Tour main draw appearances came in doubles, across 1993 and 1994. Her best performance came at Kitzbühel in 1993, where she and Eva Martincová upset second seeds Florencia Labat and Virginia Ruano Pascual to make the quarter-finals.[2]

ITF finals

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$25,000 tournaments
$10,000 tournaments

Singles: 3 (2–1)

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Outcome No. Date Tournament Surface Opponent Score
Winner 1. 13 June 1988 Salerno, Italy Clay Soviet Union Eugenia Maniokova 7–5, 7–5
Winner 2. 27 May 1991 Katowice, Poland Clay Czechoslovakia Petra Raclavská 6–2, 2–6, 7–6
Runner-up 1. 6 December 1993 Vítkovice, Czech Republic Hard Czech Republic Květa Peschke 4–6, 3–6

Doubles: 7 (4–3)

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Outcome No. Date Tournament Surface Partner Opponents Score
Winner 1. 1 August 1988 Kitzbühel, Austria Clay Czechoslovakia Petra Holubová Australia Tracey Morton
Australia Lisa Weerasekera
7–6(4), 6–2
Runner-up 1. 19 March 1990 Ramat Hasharon, Israel Hard Czechoslovakia Petra Holubová South Africa Robyn Field
South Africa Michelle Anderson
3–6, 0–6
Winner 2. 30 July 1990 Rheda-Wiedenbrück, West Germany Clay Czechoslovakia Petra Holubová Soviet Union Viktoria Milvidskaia Belinsky
Soviet Union Agnese Blumberga
6–4, 6–4
Winner 3. 13 August 1990 Karlovy Vary, Czechoslovakia Clay Czechoslovakia Petra Holubová Czechoslovakia Kateřina Kroupová-Šišková
Czechoslovakia Markéta Štusková
4–6, 6–4, 7–6
Runner-up 2. 6 April 1992 Limoges, France Carpet Bulgaria Lubomira Bacheva Belgium Els Callens
Switzerland Michèle Strebel
6–4, 1–6, 4–6
Runner-up 3. 27 July 1992 Rheda-Wiedenbrück, Germany Clay Czechoslovakia Eva Martincová Czechoslovakia Klára Bláhová
Czechoslovakia Zdeňka Málková
6–7(5), 4–6
Winner 4. 28 June 1993 Vaihingen, Germany Clay Czech Republic Eva Martincová Slovakia Denisa Krajčovičová
Slovakia Katarína Studeníková
6–1 ret.

References

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  1. ^ "Mother knows best for Barbora". The Borneo Post. 28 October 2012.
  2. ^ "ITF Tennis - Pro Circuit - Player Profile - Stefkova, Sylvia (CZE)". itftennis.com.
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