2024-25 Women's Tennis Roster
Petra Sedlackova
- Class:
- Senior
- Hometown:
- Prague, Czech Republic
- High School:
- Skoly Brezova
Accolades
- 2022 Second Team All-SEC
- 2022 SEC All-Freshman Team
- 2022 NCAA Singles Championships qualifier
- 2022 SEC First-Year Academic Honor Roll
- 2022 ITA Scholar-Athlete
- 2023 CSC Academic All-District TeamÂ
- 2024 Second Team All-SECÂ
- 2023 ITA Southern Regional Women's singles champion
2023-24
- Second Team All-SEC selection
- ITA Southern Regional Women's singles champion
- Defeated Kinaa Graham of LSU (6-0, 2-6, 6-1) to become the first Alabama player to claim the event title since 2012 and third in program history
- Competed in the ITA National Fall Championships
- Leads Alabama in singles play with a 19-10 record, including a trio of wins over ranked opponents
- Since Nov. 16, 2023, Sedlackova has remained in the ITA singles ranking - earning the highest ranking of her career at No. 50
- Defeated then-No. 3 Noel Alexa of Miami in straight sets (6-3, 6-3) to move on to the consolation quarterfinals of the ITA Fall National Championships
- Downed Iowa's then-No. 51 Chelsea Bluestein in three sets (6-3, 4-6, 6-3)
- Defeated No. 91 Aran Teixido Garcia of LSU on April 12 to claim her seventh singles victory in SEC play
- In doubles play, Sedlackova has earned 11 victories with two different teammates
- Sedlackova and doubles partner, Anna Parkhomenko, served at the No. 2 spot in the lineup for Alabama in all SEC matches, except for one
2022-23
- Recorded 14 singles wins
- Reached the semifinals in the ITA Southern Regional Championship Doubles DrawÂ
- Made second-consecutive singles semifinals appearance in ITA Southern Regional Championship
- Won eight of nine singles matches to start the seasonÂ
- Recorded wins against No. 6 Georgia, No. 29 South Carolina, No. 37 LSU, and No. 51 Kentucky
- Defeated UCLA's Ava Catanzarite in the open singles qualifying round for the ITA All-American Championship
- Defeated duo from University of San Francisco in the doubles ITA All-American Championship qualifying consolation
- Placed third in Titia Wilmink/Marouschka van Dijk Doubles Draw at the Roberta Alison Baumgardner Fall ClassicÂ
- Met in the final of the Dominique Glinzler Singles Draw with teammate Loudmilla Bencheikh
- Named CSC Academic All-District TeamÂ
2021-22
- Advanced to the NCAA Singles Championships
- Earned Second Team All-SEC and SEC All-Freshman Team honors for her performance during the season
- No. 68-ranked singles player in the country and a member of the No. 52-ranked doubles team with partner Anna Parkhomenko
- Start to her collegiate career, advancing to semifinals in singles and quarterfinals in doubles at the ITA Southern Regional Championships
- Won 12 of her first 14 dual matches as the Tide's No. 3 singles player
- Holds a team-leading 23 singles victories, including a 16-3 record in dual matches and 6-2 record in SEC play
- Captured 18 doubles victories, with 11 dual match wins and six conference wins
- Instrumental in Alabama's upset over then-No. 10 Georgia with a straight set win over UGA's then-25th-ranked and No. 1 singles player Lea Ma
- Concluded the year by winning three of four consecutive top-30 ranked doubles matches, defeating then-No. 30 Megan Davies and Sarah Hamner (South Carolina) and then-No. 15 Anna Hertel and Morgan Coppoc (Georgia) in the regular season, and then-No. 71 Rebeka Mertena and Esther Adeshina (Tennessee) at the SEC Tournament
- Capped her freshman year by earning an alternate spot for the NCAA singles draw.
- Won four matches in the main draw for singles at the ITA Southern Regionals
- Advanced to the quarterfinals with partner Anna Parkhomenko at the fall regional championship
- Went undefeated in the Wilmink-Van Dijk doubles draw at the Roberta Alison with partner Anna Parkhomenko
Prep Highlights
- Czech Republic National Tournament titles, 2010-19
- Two-time finalist in the Prague City Championships
- Played in the main draw of International Tennis Federation tournaments
- Competed for her high school in basketball, floorball, handball and track and field
Personal
- Daughter of Renata Sedlackova and Pavel Sedlacek
- Has one sister, Lenka
- Born Aug. 7, 2001
- Mom threw shot put growing up
- Father was a hammer thrower who competed at three consecutive Summer Olympics, representing the Czech Republic
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