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WATCH: ZipRecruiter Player Resume—Marketa Vondrousova

Runner-up on the slow clay at Roland Garros. Silver medalist at a hard-court Olympic tournament in Tokyo. Champion on the hallowed lawns of Wimbledon.

If you think the Czech's fortnight was a fluke, think again.

At just 24, Vondrousova has proven to be a serious threat on any surface. And on a WTA tour that features an excellent but not unbeatable top tier, she will remain a weekly contender for top prizes. The former junior No. 1 may have taken her time to earn her signature win in the pros, but even if Wimbledon turns out to be her peak, Vondrousova's valleys are still going to be difficult for most players to handle.

"She's just tricky," said Jessica Pegula, one of just two players to take a set off Vondrousova at the All England Club. "She doesn't give you a lot of rhythm. Obviously the lefty serve.

"Her composure is very much like the same all the time. You don't really know if she's bothered or fired up or negative. Yeah, it's kind of her style. I mean, I like it. I think she's pretty calm, just goes out there and tries to play her game, but very crafty."

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The southpaw will head into this summer's hard-court swing as confident as ever.

The southpaw will head into this summer's hard-court swing as confident as ever.

So, as the video atop this story asks, What's next for Vondrousova? Let's look at her history the three biggest tournaments on the horizon, all on hard courts, for some clues.

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Canada

  • She has never played the 1000-level tournament in Toronto or Montreal.

Cincinnati

  • She's 0-3 in the Queen City, taking losses to Ash Barty (2018), Laura Siegemund (2020) and Belinda Bencic (2021).
  • Her loss to Siegemund came as the No. 10 seed—where she is currently ranked—at the relocated Western & Southern Open at Flushing Meadows.

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US Open

  • She's reached the fourth round at Flushing Meadows once, in 2018.
  • Other than that, she's 2-3 at the Open, with losses to Svetlana Kuznetsova, Aliaksandra Sasnovich and Daria Kasatkina.

So, pretty...rough, I'd say. But there's only one place for Vondrousova to go: up. That bodes for match performance as well as her ranking, as she won't be defending any WTA points for the rest of the year, given her recent recovery from wrist surgery.

Vondrousova's No. 10 position is her floor, and she's just 284 ranking points behind world No. 7 Coco Gauff. A Top 8 seed for the US Open should be well within reach, if Vondrousova plays anything like she did at the last major.

Not that seeding made a difference to her at Wimbledon, when she became the tournament's first unseeded women's champion.

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Vondrousova shows off the Venus Rosewater Dish at the Wimbledon champions dinner.

Vondrousova shows off the Venus Rosewater Dish at the Wimbledon champions dinner.

"I think nobody would have told you this before when we were coming here that I even have a chance to win," Vondrousova said at her champion's press conference. "I was unseeded. I mean, it's such a crazy journey."

A journey that, we suspect, is far from over.

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