BEJLEK
Sara

• 1. Professional career
• 1.1. 2021: First ITF Circuit title & top 500
• 1.2. 2022: Grand Slam & top 200 debuts
• 1.3. 2023: Australian Open debut, toggle between ITF Circuit & WTA Tour, top 150
• 1.4. 2024: WTA 1000 debut and first wins, top 110

Sára Bejlek is a Czech tennis player.

Bejlek has career-high WTA rankings of No. 128 in singles, achieved on 27 November 2023, and 671 in doubles, set on 1 August 2022. Up to date, she has won one singles title on the WTA Challenger Tour along with six singles titles and one doubles title on the ITF Circuit.

Professional career

2021: First ITF Circuit title & top 500

In July, she won her first and up to date biggest title at the $60k ITS Cup in Olomouc, Czech Republic, by double bagelling Paula Ormaechea in the final. As a result, after making her WTA rankings debut, she improved her rank by 557 positions to No. 447 in just one month.

2022: Grand Slam & top 200 debuts

In June, at the Česká Lípa, she won the $60k Macha Lake Open, defeating fellow Czech Jesika Malečková in the final. The following week, Bejlek made her WTA Tour-level debut at Wimbledon Championships in qualifying, but she was beaten in the first round by Emina Bektas. A month later, she was able to defend her title at the ITS Cup, this time defeating Lina Gjorcheska in the final. She continued with making progress at the US Open with her major main-draw debut after three wins in the qualifying. She was the youngest player in the 2022 US Open main draw, having been the youngest direct entrant to qualifying.

2023: Australian Open debut, toggle between ITF Circuit & WTA Tour, top 150

At 16, as the second-youngest player in the top 200, she made her debut at the Australian Open. She lost to her compatriot Barbora Krejčíková in the first round. In early April, she reached her first final of the year, the $60k Split tournament, but lost to Tara Würth.

A month later, she made her qualifying debut at the WTA 1000 tournament at the Italian Open. In the first round of qualifying, she triumphed with losing only three games. Still, she failed to qualify after losing in the following round of qualifying. Next destination was the French Open where she passed qualifying without losing a set, to reach the main draw at Roland Garros for the first time. Similar to the previous two Grand Slams main-draw appearances, she lost in the first round.

After failing in Wimbledon in qualifying, she reached another $60k final in the Hague but lost it to Arantxa Rus. Two weeks later, she finally won her first title of the year, at the $25k tournament in Pärnu, Estonia. In early September, she reached her third $60k final of the year in the Czech Republic, at the Kuchyně Gorenje Prague Open, but again finished runner-up.

Sara won her first WTA 125 title at the Copa Santiago in Chile on 19 November 2023 defeating Diane Parry in the final.

2024: WTA 1000 debut and first wins, top 110

At the Australian Open, she was the first to qualify into the main draw for a second consecutive year.

She also qualified for the Madrid Open making her WTA 1000 debut, and reached the third round for the first time at this level, recording her first wins (and also top-50 wins), over Russians Anna Blinkova, 24th seed Anna Kalinskaya and Ashlyn Krueger to reach the fourth round. As a result, she reached a new career-high ranking in the top 110.