Anastasia Zarycká

Anastasia Zarycká Polách
Анастасія Зарицька
	Zarycká at the 2019 Wimbledon Championships
Country (sports)	Czech Republic (2017–present) ; Ukraine (2012–2017)
Residence	Prague, Czech Republic
Born	8 January 1998 (age 26); Prague
Plays	Right (two-handed backhand)
Prize money	US$ 105,784
Singles
Career record	159–86 (64.9%)
Career titles	4 ITF
Highest ranking	No. 206 (1 July 2019)
Grand Slam singles results
Australian Open	Q1 (2019)
Wimbledon	Q1 (2019)
US Open	Q1 (2019)
Doubles
Career record	68–46 (59.6%)
Career titles	9 ITF
Highest ranking	No. 189 (25 February 2019)

Anastasia Zarycká Polách (born 8 January 1998 in Prague) is a Ukrainian-Czech former tennis player. Since April 2017, she has been playing for the Czech Republic.^[1] Her father is Ukrainian, her mother is Czech.

Career[edit]

On the junior tour, Zarycká had a career-high ranking of No. 21, achieved in March 2016. Anastasia reached the final of the 2016 Australian Open girls' doubles competition, alongside Dayana Yastremska.

On the senior tour, she achieved career-high WTA rankings of world No. 206 in singles and 189 in doubles.^[2] Zarycká won four singles titles and nine doubles titles on the ITF Circuit.^[3]

She made her main-draw debut on the WTA Tour at the 2017 Prague Open where she was handed a wildcard, partnering Tereza Smitková.

Zarycká has played her latest professional match on the ITF Circuit in August 2021.

Personal background[edit]

She was born in Prague to a Ukrainian father and a Russian mother. In April 2017, she received Czech citizenship. She started playing tennis at the age of nine, since then she has been a member of the Club Sparta Praha.^[4]

In 2022, she married Josef Polách, her fitness sparring partner.^[5]

Grand Slam singles performance timeline[edit]

**Key**
W	F	SF	QF	#R	RR	Q#	DNQ	A	NH

(W) winner; (F) finalist; (SF) semifinalist; (QF) quarterfinalist; (#R) rounds 4, 3, 2, 1; (RR) round-robin stage; (Q#) qualification round; (DNQ) did not qualify; (A) absent; (NH) not held; (SR) strike rate (events won / competed); (W–L) win–loss record.

To avoid confusion and double counting, these charts are updated at the conclusion of a tournament or when the player's participation has ended.

Tournament	2019	W–L
Australian Open	Q1	0–0
French Open	A	0–0
Wimbledon	Q1	0–0
US Open	Q1	0–0
Win–loss	0–0	0–0

ITF Circuit finals[edit]

Singles: 8 (4 titles, 4 runner–ups)[edit]

Legend
$50,000 tournaments
$25,000 tournaments
$10/15,000 tournaments

Finals by surface
Hard (0–1)
Clay (3–3)
Carpet (1–0)

Result	W–L	Date	Tournament	Tier	Surface	Opponent	Score
Loss	0–1	Jun 2016	ITF Přerov, Czech Republic	10,000	Clay	Lenka Juríková	2–6, 4–6
Win	1–1	Jul 2016	ITF Pärnu, Estonia	10,000	Clay	Ganna Poznikhirenko	6–4, 4–6, 6–3
Win	2–1	Oct 2016	Ismaning Open, Germany	10,000	Carpet (i)	Tess Sugnaux	6–2, 7–6^(8–6)
Loss	2–2	Feb 2017	ITF Manacor, Spain	15,000	Clay	María Teresa Torró Flor	4–6, 2–6
Loss	2–3	Apr 2017	ITF Dijon, France	15,000	Hard (i)	Audrey Albié	4–6, 6–0, 6–7^(5–7)
Win	3–3	Aug 2018	ITF Braunschweig, Germany	25,000	Clay	Jule Niemeier	6–1, 6–3
Loss	3–4	Sep 2018	ITF Pula, Italy	25,000	Clay	Tereza Mrdeža	6–2, 5–7, 4–6
Win	4–4	Sep 2018	ITF Pula, Italy	25,000	Clay	Martina Caregaro	6–3, 7–6^(7–4)

Doubles: 12 (9 titles, 3 runner–ups)[edit]

Legend
$50,000 tournaments
$25,000 tournaments
$10/15,000 tournaments

Finals by surface
Hard (1–1)
Clay (7–2)
Carpet (1–0)

Result	W–L	Date	Tournament	Tier	Surface	Partnering	Opponents	Score
Win	1–0	Jul 2016	ITF Pärnu, Estonia	10,000	Clay	Emily Arbuthnott	Ekaterina Kazionova Denīza Marcinkēviča	6–4, 7–5
Win	2–0	Dec 2016	ITF Cordenons, Italy	10,000	Carpet (i)	Laura-Ioana Andrei	Nina Stadler Caroline Werner	6–0, 7–6^(7–3)
Loss	2–1	Apr 2017	ITF Dijon, France	15,000	Hard (I)	Victoria Muntean	Diāna Marcinkēviča Rebeka Masarova	4–6, 3–6
Win	3–1	Jun 2017	Macha Lake Open, Czech Republic	25,000	Clay	Laura-Ioana Andrei	Tayisiya Morderger Yana Morderger	6–3, 6–4
Win	4–1	Jul 2017	ITF Darmstadt, Germany	25,000	Clay	Laura-Ioana Andrei	Sandra Samir Kathinka von Deichmann	4–6, 7–6^(7–5), [10–3]
Loss	4–2	Mar 2018	ITF Pula, Italy	25,000	Clay	Anastasia Grymalska	Valentina Ivakhnenko Valeriya Solovyeva	3–6, 6–3, [5–10]
Win	5–2	Jun 2018	Macha Lake Open, Czech Republic (2)	25,000	Clay	Maria Marfutina	Johana Marková Sarah-Rebecca Sekulic	5–7, 6–1, [10–8]
Win	6–2	Jun 2018	ITF Padua, Italy	25,000	Clay	İpek Soylu	Dea Herdželaš Tereza Mrdeža	6–4, 6–1
Win	7–2	Aug 2018	ITF Braunschweig, Germany	25,000	Clay	Julia Wachaczyk	Cornelia Lister Diāna Marcinkēviča	6–4, 3–6, [11–9]
Win	8–2	Oct 2018	ITF Pula, Italy	25,000	Clay	Valentina Ivakhnenko	Cristina Dinu Camilla Rosatello	6–2, 6–4
Win	9–2	Feb 2019	Trnava Indoor, Slovakia	25,000	Hard (i)	Laura Ioana Paar	Maja Chwalińska Miriam Kolodziejová	6–4, 6–3
Loss	9–3	Jun 2019	Bredeney Ladies Open, Germany	25,000	Clay	Alena Fomina	Lina Gjorcheska Anastasiya Komardina	3–6, 3–6