Andy Roddick names ‘amazing’ WTA player who could win maiden Grand Slam title in 2025
Andy Roddick has described Karolina Muchova as an “amazing player” and assessed that health is the only thing stopping the Czech from reaching the top five in the rankings.
The former world No 1 declared that Muchova would be “on my top five list of people who could win a Slam next year.”
Muchova ended the 2024 season as the world No 22 despite playing only seven ranking events — the first of which came in June.
The 28-year-old did not play for nine months after her run to the semi-finals of the 2023 US Open due to a wrist injury, an issue for which she underwent surgery in February 2024.
The Czech reached the quarter-finals at her comeback event in Eastbourne and reached the final in Palermo in just her third tournament.
Muchova then reached her second consecutive US Open semi-final in September after earning impressive wins over Naomi Osaka, Jasmine Paolini and Beatriz Haddad
In an impressive end to her campaign, Muchova was a runner-up at the WTA 1000 event in Beijing and a semi-finalist at the WTA 500 tournament in Ningbo. Maia.
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Speaking on the Served with Andy Roddick podcast, Roddick talked up Muchova’s chances of making her major breakthrough in 2025.
“Muchova, currently ranked 22, she is an amazing player,” the 2003 US Open winner said.
“The only thing separating her from the top five is health and she can bother everyone.
“She would be on my top five list of people who could win a Slam next year, she could win a major.”
Muchova won her only WTA title at the 2019 Korea Open, while she has reached a further five finals, including at the 2023 French Open. She was also a semi-finalist at the 2021 Australian Open, while she has twice reached the quarter-finals at Wimbledon.
Roddick’s co-host Jon Wertheim went a step further with his praise for Muchova’s talent.
“You want a hot take? Best player to have never won a major: Karolina Muchova,” Wertheim said.
“That is much more about her potential than any kind of squandered opportunity or anything like that.
“She is an athlete, she has played deep into majors, remember this is someone who was injured for most of this year and finished the year by getting to her second straight US Open semi.
“She has been to a Roland Garros final and gave Iga Swiatek her toughest match in a final that she’s had in Paris.”
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