Viktória Hrunčáková

Viktória Hrunčáková (née Kužmová; born 11 May 1998) is a Slovak professional tennis player.

She has been ranked as high as No. 43 in singles and No. 27 in doubles in the world by the Women's Tennis Association (WTA).

Hrunčáková has won five doubles titles on the WTA Tour and 21 titles (14 in singles, 7 in doubles) on the ITF Circuit.

Kužmová was born 1998 in Košice to mother Ingrid and father Radovan.

She began playing on the ITF Junior Circuit in January 2012 at age 13, and in September of the same year won her first singles and doubles titles at the low-level Grade-5 Mostar Open.

The following year, she won the Grade-4 Nazmi Bari Cup in the singles event, and a week later she finished as runner-up in the singles and as champion in the doubles at another Grade-4, the Montenegro Open.

During her quarterfinal match at the 2013 Losinj Juniors Cup, against another Slovakian player, Nikola Dolakova, she was forced to retire in the second set due to injury.

She spent rest of the 2013 season out of tennis.

She returned in early 2014, when she reached her first Grade-2 final in the singles event at the Slovak Junior Indoor.

A month later, partnering with Kristína Schmiedlová, she won the doubles title at the Grade-1 Mediterranee Avenir in Casablanca, after being awarded a walkover victory due to the withdrawal of Ioana Ducu and Anna Bondár.

Later, again with Schmiedlová, she won another doubles title at the Grade-1 Perin Memorial in Umag.

Kužmová made her junior Grand Slam debut in 2014 at the French Open, reaching only the first round in both the singles and the doubles.

Then, she went one round further at Wimbledon, reaching the second round in both the singles and the doubles.

At the US Open, she lost in the second round in singles but partnered with Schmiedlová to make her first semifinal at a Grand Slam event.

As a junior, she won the girls' doubles event at the 2015 US Open alongside Aleksandra Pospelova, defeating Kalinskaya and Anastasia Potapova in the final.

In January 2015, in her debut at the Australian Open, she reached her first Grand Slam third round in singles, while in doubles, she failed in the first round.

Despite an early loss at the French Open in both singles and doubles, Kužmová then reached her first singles Grand Slam semifinal at Wimbledon, but lost to eventual champion Sofya Zhuk.

She also made progress in doubles, winning the 2015 US Open alongside Russian player Aleksandra Pospelova.

They defeated Potapova and Kalinskaya on their way to the title.

Next year, she failed in defending her US Open doubles title but finished runner-up in singles, losing to Kayla Day.

During her junior career, she also won two doubles titles with her younger sister Katarina at the Grade-4 Ziliona Junior Open in August 2015 and 2016.

A year later, she entered final of the 2016 US Open in the girls' singles, where she lost to Kayla Day.

Kužmová made her Grand Slam debut at the 2017 US Open.

After qualifying, she lost in the first round of the main draw to Venus Williams.

She also qualified for the Linz Open and marked her first singles win on WTA Tour, defeating Anna-Lena Friedsam before she lost to another German player, Tatjana Maria.

In 2017, Kužmová also appeared at Roland Garros and Wimbledon, but lost at both in qualifying.

On 6 March 2017, Kužmová entered the top 200 for the first time, getting to 190th place.

She finished 2017 season at world No. 132.

Being outside the top 100, Kužmová was forced to play qualifying at many tournaments.

Sister Katarina, who is three years younger, followed her into the world of professional tennis, and obtained her WTA first ranking points in 2018.

Kužmová was introduced to tennis at age four by her father, who used to run a tennis club.

Kužmová reached a career-high ranking of No. 24 as a junior.

On 16 October, she reached No. 130 – her best ranking until 2018.

Her first event in 2018 was the Auckland Open, where she reached the main draw and marked her first win in 2018, defeating Jade Lewis but lost to Julia Görges in the second round.

At her first Australian Open, she qualified but still was not ready to mark her first Grand Slam main-draw win, losing to Elise Mertens.

At the St. Petersburg Trophy, she passed qualifying but then lost to Daria Kasatkina in the first round of the main draw.

At the Hungarian Open, Kužmová made her first WTA semifinal and was then stopped by Alison Van Uytvanck.

In the clay-court season, Kužmová lost in the first round of the Prague Open.

She also ended runner-up at the Premier-level 2019 St. Petersburg Trophy and at the 2021 Yarra Valley Classic in doubles, along with Anna Kalinskaya.

She continued her success at majors as a senior, reaching the 2019 US Open semifinal in the women's doubles alongside Aliaksandra Sasnovich, where they lost to the eventual champions Ashleigh Barty and Victoria Azarenka.