Marie Bouzková

Marie Bouzková (, born 21 July 1998) is a Czech professional tennis player.

She attained her career-high WTA singles ranking of No. 24 on 12 December 2022.

On 19 February 2024, she peaked at No. 19 in the doubles rankings.

Up to date, she has won one singles title (at the 2022 Prague Open) and five doubles titles on the WTA Tour.

In addition, she has won twelve singles titles and three doubles titles on the ITF Women's Circuit.

Bouzková started playing as a senior in April 2013, at the WTA Tour tournament Katowice Open where she was handed a wildcard for qualifying but lost in the first round to Katarzyna Piter.

Two months later, she made her debut on the ITF Women's Circuit at Zlín ($25k).

Her first match win came in August at Prague when she defeated fellow Czech Nikola Fraňková.

She won the 2014 US Open girls' singles title, defeating Anhelina Kalinina in the final.

She moved to Florida at age ten – initially trained at Bollietieri Academy for two years, before continuing to work with her dad and then Requeni from 2014.

Marie admires the play of Serena Williams and Rafael Nadal.

Besides Czech, she speaks some German, fluently English, and Spanish, and received her bachelor's degree in business administration with a minor in sports marketing and management through Indiana University East in 2022.

In March 2014, she recorded her first ITF Circuit semifinal at Gainesville.

For the second year in-a-row, she received a wildcard for the Katowice Open qualifying but again missed her WTA Tour main-draw debut.

In early October, she won her first title at Hilton Head by defeating Natalia Vikhlyantseva in straight sets.

Later, she reached the quarterfinals of the $50k Toronto tournament.

As a result, she was noted in the WTA top 500.

She made her WTA Tour debut at the 2015 Mexican Open, where she lost in the first round.

Thanks to a wildcard Bouzková finally made her WTA Tour main-draw debut at the 2015 Mexican Open in Acapulco, losing to Sesil Karatantcheva in the first round.

In April, she missed main draws of the Katowice Open and Prague Open.

In June, she won two back-to-back tournaments at Grand Baie La Croisette on Mauritius, and followed this up with another title at La Possession on the isle of Réunion (France).

In August, she reached finals of the Horb and Pörtschach events.

In September, she made the semifinals of the $25k event in Monterrey; it was her last significant result of the year.

In addition, she won another title at Grand Baie La Croisette, her only played tournament in doubles that year.

The following three years, Bouzková had some success on the ITF Circuit.

She started 2016 season as finalist in Fort-de-France (Martinique).

She then travelled to Guadeloupe where she recorded her first title of the year at Petit-Bourg.

In February, she won the $25k event in Cuernavaca, and then lifted the trophy in May at Monzón, Spain.

A month later, she won the title at Puszczykowo, defeating Valeria Savinykh in the final, not dropping a single set during the tournament.

In September, she played the qualifying of the Tournoi de Québec, her first appearance at any WTA tournaments of the season.

After losing to Lauren Davis in the first round, she was forced to continue with ITF Circuit events.

However, she had not reached any semifinals by the end of the year.

In January 2017, Bouzková suffered two early losses at two $25k events in the United States.

Her next destination was Australia, where she began with a semifinal at the $60k Burnie International.

After an early loss in the following week at the $60k Launceston International, she won the title at Perth ($25k) defeating compatriot Markéta Vondroušová.

In early March, she failed to qualify for the Mexican Open in Acapulco but then won another title at Orlando.

Bouzková rose to prominence following her run to the semifinals at the 2019 Rogers Cup where she defeated Sloane Stephens, Jeļena Ostapenko, and Simona Halep, before falling to Serena Williams but she pushed the former world No. 1 to three sets, winning the first one 6–1.

She won her maiden WTA Tour title in doubles, partnering fellow Czech Lucie Hradecká, at the 2021 Birmingham Classic.

Bouzková was born in Prague to father Milan and mother Květa, and has a younger brother, Benjamin Milan.

She began playing tennis at a club owned by her parents in Prague.