Barbora Krejčíková is getting ready for the US Open
Aaron Doster, Reuters
“I’m looking forward to it. It will be my premiere again,” Twenty-five-year-old Krejčíková looked after the tournament in Cincinnati, starting in singles at the final grand slam of the season. “The first round will probably be the hardest. It’s a grand slam, everyone will want to be as ready as possible. So I’ll try to be,” said the Olympic gold medalist in doubles from Tokyo, where they succeeded with Kateřina Siniaková.
She went to New York for the tournament, but only played major competitions in doubles and mixed doubles. “In singles, I always played only the qualifier there,” the Brno native mentioned five unsuccessful attempts to pass into the main competition from the qualification in 2014, 2015 and 2017-19.
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Among the 128 players in the main singles competition could have appeared a year ago. However, she withdrew from the tournament due to fears of coronavirus. “And I was sad watching me play there. And also the fact that I couldn’t play any other tournament, because when I checked out, it is forbidden to play another tournament according to WTA rules. It was quite difficult after the mental page, “she said.
The omission of the US Open helped
However, the omission of last year’s US Open by Krejčíková probably helped. “I continued to train on clay, advanced to Roland Garros in the round of 16 and finally jumped into the top 100,” she recalled at the turn of September and October last year, when the clay grand slam was played unconventionally in Paris. A breakthrough in the top 100 of the rankings opened Krejčíková’s gates to the WTA singles tournaments and the former trustee of Jana Novotná climbed to the current ninth place.
Tennis player Barbora Krejčíková lost in the quarterfinals of the tournament in Cincinnati with the world number one Australian Ashleigh Barty.
Darron Cummings, ČTK / AP
This year, she dominated the clay Roland Garros and won two more trophies. Out of the last six events, she has a 25: 3 balance in the single, losing only twice with the world number one Australian Ashleigh Barty and at the Olympics with the later winner Belinda Bencicová from Switzerland.
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She hadn’t played a tournament in the week before the US Open. “It’s a new situation for me. I used to play tournaments before, but I didn’t play before Wimbledon. We’ll see if it works,” Krejčíková said. “I’m still learning a lot and I’m trying to figure out which path is best for me. I hope I’ve recorded quite a few quality matches, now I’m training for a few days, getting ready and trying my luck in New York.”
After the tournaments in America, Krejčík is accompanied by coach Aleš Kartus and, as in Paris and Wimbledon, by American physiotherapist Jacob Meyer. “He came to me before Paris and said he wanted to work with me. I said yes. It turned out well, so we continue,” she said.
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