Let's hear it for Tereza! She's 17 years old (born in November 1990). According to her ITF file, she was born in Pula but lives in Porec.
She reached her highest rank so far in May 2007, at #738. After that she didn't play for almost a year, until April of this yar (school?) so she lost her ranking.
She's now back in action and seems to be playing well. Last month, she reached the SF at the $10K in Mostar and the final at the $10K in Budva. This week, she's playing at the $10K in Torino. She qualified easily, winning both her qualie matches 60 60. The best part is that yesterday in the main draw, she won her first-round match against the #2 seed, Maria Irigoyen (#251 in the world), very easily: 61 61. Very impressive! Given that result, her next match, against Nancy Rustignoli (#819; never heard of her), should be very winnable.
With her first-round win yesterday, she'll be able to re-enter the rankings at around 860. Hopefully she'll keep winning this week and move up even higher than that.
^ Yup, she won her match fairly easily 3 & 3, while her two potential opponents are stuck at 7:5, 5:3 and will finish their match today.
Doesn't look bad for Tere. She could qualify for her first main tour event since Strasbourg last year, but that one had just 2 quali rounds. The last time she got through 3 was at the 2015 US Open.
A great result for Tereza, really. It's only the 2nd time ever that she made it to a QF at this level, after Bol 2016, where I saw her win against Bonaventure live...