Anna Karolína Schmiedlová

She is back. Fed Cup player Anna Karolina Schmiedlova (23) has won EMPIRE Slovak Open in 2014 and she is still the only Slovak who was able to do it at this tournament. She is experienced more than enough since that time. She went on Top to became Slovak player of the year 2015, but then she struggled and had to fight for points in the third hundred of WTA ranking. But now she is back in Top 100 and will be one of the favorites for the title in Trnava.

How do you remember your Trnava’s triumph in 2014?

No. 1 seeded at the EMPIRE Slovak Open 2015 Anna Karolina Schmiedlova (20) has begun a great tennis season. She played two WTA tournament finals and she won the first WTA title in Katowice of Poland. Then she became the leader of Slovak Fed Cup team in a tie against Sweden in April. Position No. 46 in the WTA rankings may not be her best this year. She revealed in the tournament bulletin what she thinks about her latest successes and how she felt one year ago, when she won the tournament in Trnava.

ITF EMPIRE Slovak Open 2014 has the winner from Slovakia for the first time in its history. The title belongs to Anna Karolina Schmiedlova from Kosice, who has won the final against Barbora Zahlavova-Strycova of the Czech Republic 6-4, 6-2.

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