Rebecca Šramková

Rebecca Šramková (born 19 October 1996) is a Slovak tennis player. She has career-high WTA rankings of world No. 89 in singles, achieved on 20 May 2024, and No. 364 in doubles, reached on 24 May 2021. On the ITF Women's Circuit, she has won 13 singles titles and four doubles titles.

Juniors
On the ITF Junior Circuit, Šramková achieved her highest ranking of 200 on 14 July 2014. She did not win any titles in singles, but won one title in doubles.

2012-2014: Professional debut
Her debut in the main competitions of the ITF Circuit was in May 2012, when she advanced from qualifying at the $10k tournament in Velenje, Slovenia. In the second round, she lost to Slovenian Anja Prislanová. She won the premier single in this level of tennis in Vrnjačka Banja, Serbia. At the $10k event which took place in September 2013, she defeated Dunja Stamenković from Serbia in the final.

2015-2016
She made her WTA Tour singles qualifying debut at the grass courts of the 2015 Nottingham Open. At the beginning of the qualifying competition, she was eliminated by the second seeded Zhu Lin.

Šramková won her biggest title to date at the 2016 Open de Biarritz, a $100k tournament, where she defeated Martina Trevisan in the final in three sets. This was her fifth title on the ITF Circuit.

2017-2022: Grand Slam and WTA debuts
She made her Grand Slam main-draw singles debut at the 2017 Australian Open by mastering the three-round qualifying rounds, where she dealt with Virginie Razzano in the decisive match. However, in the opening round of the singles tournament, she lost to Chinese player Duan Yingying.

She made her WTA debut at the 2017 Ladies Championship Gstaad where she defeated Nina Stojanovic in the first round.

At the 2021 Prague Open she defeated top seed and world No. 12 Petra Kvitova for the biggest win of her career.

At the 2022 French Open, on her debut at this Major, she entered the main draw as a lucky loser after the withdrawal of Rebecca Peterson.

2023-2024: First WTA 125 final, WTA 1000 debut & fourth round, top 100
At the 2023 BNP Paribas Warsaw Open she qualified for the main draw and defeated second seed and world No. 18 Karolina Muchova to reach her first WTA quarterfinal, from 5-1 down in the third set, saving four match points.

In September 2023, Šramková reached the final of the WTA 125 tournament in Bari where she lost to Tamara Zidanšek, despite having four match points in the second set.

She made her WTA 1000 debut at the 2024 BNP Paribas Open in Indian Wells, after qualifying for the main draw, and won her first match at this level over Wang Yafan. Ranked No. 120, she also qualified for the main draw at the 2024 Italian Open and defeated wildcard Georgia Pedone, 26th seed Katie Boulter and Sofia Kenin to reach the fourth round before losing to Jelena Ostapenko. As a result, she reached the top 100 in the WTA rankings for the first time in her career. She also qualified for the 2024 French Open but lost to Amanda Anisimova.

National representation
Šramková made her debut on the Slovak Fed Cup team in 2017, in Forlì, Italy, in a match of the World Group II against Italy, in which she won both singles against Sara Errani and Francesca Schiavone as a player outside the top 100. With the decision set, they were dying alongside Anna Karolína Schmiedlová during the opening set of doubles. The Slovak team won 3–2. By April 2020, she competed in five interstate matches with a record of 2–4 in singles and 1–2 in doubles (in total 3–6).

Performance timelines
Only WTA Tour and Grand Slam main-draw and Billie Jean King Cup results are considered in the career statistics.

Singles
Current through the 2024 Italian Open.