Article by Gerhard Grundhammer

Jelenas next opponent at Wimbledon is Kveta Hrdlickova from the Czech Republik.

 The rather small girl (1.65 meters / 5`5``) is currently the no96 of the world which makes her to the no2 of her country. Asked for her favourite surface she answeres carpet & hard-court, but if someone would asked her for her most hated surface it would definaltely be grass!

 Though she is already 26 years old (27 in Juli) she only started her professional career 4 years ago, and only this year she managed to win her first match on grass-court ever! That memorable match was taken last week at Hertogenbosch where she beat Elise Tamaela 6-2 and 6-2. The next day Justine Henin showed her how to play on grass properly and beat her in straight sets. Maybe she learned of those two matches, because at round one of
Wimbledon she won again! Stephanie Foretz was the name of her opponent, and Kveta won 3-6, 6-4 and 6-3.

 Beside that, the girl from Bilovec was either not very busy or not very successful in 2002. The only result at a main draw of wta tournament i found was her first round loss to Tina Pisnik at Rolland Garross. In 2001 she did slightely better, reaching the quarters of Luxembourg and Bratislava, but after reaching the third rounds of two grand slams and round two at one in
2000, she must have been rather dissapointed about the last two years.

 Kveta, who started playing tennis at the age of six has won one tournament. That was back in 1998 and took place at the Cardiff, but her biggest success took place at the French Open 2000. There she beat at round 2 the hottest, best looking and most promising talent of the WTA in straight sets! In July 2001 Jelena took revenge and beat her at Sopot 6-3 and 6-2.

 The right-handed baseliner lives with her shepherd-dog Jack in Berlin, is coached by her boyfriend Thorsten Peschke and managed by his father Aribert "Harry" Peschke. She used to have quite a good web-site, www.kveta.de, which has become her official, but as many official web-sites, the site is made without heart and passion. The tennis stats (archiv) and her biografie are not updated for about a year, and the picture gallerie as as well the link to sponsors are empty.... The only thing which is giving out informations to fans is the news section, but firstly thats only in German (????) and secondly that seems rather to be a portal for her future father-in-law to report official statements and complain about broken links to tournaments.... Like at the tennis-court the Hrdlickova team could do a better job there, but I dont see a way for her to compare with Jelena. Not at the internet, and not on court.