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Sylvia Plischke

AUT Age 49 177 cm / 5'10" Plays: Right-Handed, Two-Handed Backhand WTA Tour years active: 1994–2001

Sylvia Plischke represented Austria on the WTA Tour and reached a career high of No. 27. TennisDB's records show a singles record of 56–86 and no singles titles. Pre-2000 WTA match coverage is incomplete, so the career record may be understated.

Peak singles rank

27 (Jun 21, 1999)

Elo peak

1719 (62nd percentile)

Singles record

56–86 (39.4%)

Singles titles

Prize money

$660,386

Records cover recorded main-draw singles results in TennisDB's WTA event archive, including credited walkovers; qualifying is shown separately below.

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WTA Matches full match log →

Sylvia Plischke's recent, live, and scheduled WTA matches
Opponent	Score	Result	H2H	Match Data	Date	Round	Tournament	Category	Surface
Francesca Schiavone #37	5-7 1-6	L	H2H	Match data	Jul 12, 2001*	R32	Palermo	Tier V → modern equivalent WTA 250	Clay
Nadia Petrova #42	1-6 0-6	L	H2H	Match data	Jun 29, 2001*	R64	Wimbledon	Grand Slam	Grass
Maria Jose Martinez Sanchez #74	6-3 6-4	W	H2H	Match data	Jun 27, 2001*	R128	Wimbledon	Grand Slam	Grass
Anne Kremer #31	5-7 7-6(5) 1-6	L	H2H	Match data	Jun 14, 2001*	R32	Birmingham	Tier III → modern equivalent WTA 250	Grass
Hannah Collin #242	7-5 6-4	W	H2H	Match data	Jun 13, 2001*	R64	Birmingham	Tier III → modern equivalent WTA 250	Grass

Rivals all rivalries →

Sylvia Plischke's most-played WTA rivals
Opponent	W	L	M	Last Played	H2H
Rita Grande	1	4	5	Mar 22, 2001	H2H
Anna Kournikova	1	3	4	Jun 1, 2000	H2H
Henrieta Nagyova	0	3	3	Nov 14, 2000	H2H
Joannette Kruger	0	3	3	Nov 7, 2000	H2H
Barbara Schett	1	2	3	Oct 17, 2000	H2H

Olympic Singles Results (1)

Sylvia Plischke Olympic singles results
Edition	Event	Result	W	L	Last Match	H2H	Match Data
2000	Sydney Olympics	First Round	0	1	Rita Grande #60 def. Sylvia Plischke #59 6-2 6-2	H2H	Match data

Career Results

Sylvia Plischke career results by season
Season	Age	W	L	M	Win %	Start Rank	End Rank
1994	16	0	3	3	0.0%	179	230
1997	19	0	1	1	0.0%	199	95
1998	20	15	17	32	46.9%	91	41
1999	21	16	25	41	39.0%	41	35
2000	22	20	26	46	43.5%	35	52
2001	23	5	14	19	26.3%	52	178
Career		56	86	142	39.4%	—	—

Career Results by Surface

Sylvia Plischke career results by season and surface
Season	Age	Hard				Clay				Grass				Carpet				Total
Season	Age	W	L	M	Win %	W	L	M	Win %	W	L	M	Win %	W	L	M	Win %	W	L	M	Win %
1994	16	—	—	—	—	0	2	2	0.0%	—	—	—	—	0	1	1	0.0%	0	3	3	0.0%
1997	19	—	—	—	—	0	1	1	0.0%	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	0	1	1	0.0%
1998	20	7	8	15	46.7%	4	5	9	44.4%	2	1	3	66.7%	2	3	5	40.0%	15	17	32	46.9%
1999	21	5	11	16	31.3%	8	7	15	53.3%	2	2	4	50.0%	1	5	6	16.7%	16	25	41	39.0%
2000	22	9	13	22	40.9%	10	9	19	52.6%	0	2	2	0.0%	1	2	3	33.3%	20	26	46	43.5%
2001	23	1	5	6	16.7%	2	7	9	22.2%	2	2	4	50.0%	—	—	—	—	5	14	19	26.3%
Career	—	22	37	59	37.3%	24	31	55	43.6%	6	7	13	46.2%	4	11	15	26.7%	56	86	142	39.4%

Career Results by Opponent Rank

Sylvia Plischke career results by season and opponent rank
Season	Age	1-10				11-30				31-100				100+				Total
Season	Age	W	L	M	Win %	W	L	M	Win %	W	L	M	Win %	W	L	M	Win %	W	L	M	Win %
1994	16	0	0	—	—	0	0	—	—	0	3	3	0.0%	0	0	—	—	0	3	3	0.0%
1997	19	0	0	—	—	0	0	—	—	0	1	1	0.0%	0	0	—	—	0	1	1	0.0%
1998	20	1	3	4	25.0%	2	6	8	25.0%	8	3	11	72.7%	3	4	7	42.9%	14	16	30	46.7%
1999	21	2	5	7	28.6%	3	7	10	30.0%	6	10	16	37.5%	5	3	8	62.5%	16	25	41	39.0%
2000	22	0	3	3	0.0%	2	8	10	20.0%	11	14	25	44.0%	6	1	7	85.7%	19	26	45	42.2%
2001	23	0	1	1	0.0%	0	1	1	0.0%	3	11	14	21.4%	2	1	3	66.7%	5	14	19	26.3%
Career		3	12	15	20.0%	7	22	29	24.1%	28	42	70	40.0%	16	9	25	64.0%	54	85	139	38.8%

Opponent ranking data available for 139/142 (97.9%) of Sylvia Plischke's WTA main draw matches.

Advanced Stats

Sylvia Plischke advanced statistics by season
Season	Age	Elo	P+	Serve+	Return+	PD	TPW%	Hard Elo	Clay Elo	Grass Elo	Set Win %	Set Margin	Dec. Set	Tiebreak	Pressure+	Schedule
1994	16	1473	92.7	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	0.0%	-3.67	—	—	—	-0.22
1997	19	1465	96.1	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	0.0%	-4.00	—	—	—	+0.02
1998	20	1608	129.3	—	—	—	—	-37	-73	+59	48.7%	-0.03	5–7 (42%)	4–4 (50%)	99.0	+0.07
1999	21	1608	135.3	—	—	—	—	-71	+56	+71	40.4%	-0.66	3–4 (43%)	3–5 (38%)	101.6	+0.55
2000	22	1585	121.2	—	—	—	—	-19	+62	—	43.7%	-0.32	8–7 (53%)	2–4 (33%)	98.3	+0.48
2001	23	1516	104.0	—	—	—	—	+28	+20	+121	36.4%	-1.50	0–6 (0%)	3–0 (100%)	94.5	-0.41
Career		1719	126.2	—	—	—	—	-36	+30	+86	41.9%	-0.59	16–24 (40%)	12–13 (48%)	96.7	+0.35

Tournament Results by Category

Grand Slams

Sylvia Plischke Grand Slams results by season
Season	Age	AO	RG	W	USO	W-L Win %
1998	20	R64	R64	R32	R64	5–4 (56%)
1999	21	R32	QF	R64	R64	8–4 (67%)
2000	22	R64	R32	R128	R64	4–4 (50%)
2001	23	R128	R64	R64	—	2–3 (40%)
W-L		4–4 (50%)	8–4 (67%)	4–4 (50%)	3–3 (50%)	19–15 (56%)

WTA 1000

Sylvia Plischke WTA 1000 results by season
Season	Age	IW	MIA	ITA	BER	CAN	HIL	KEY	KRE	PAN	ZUR	W-L Win %
1997	19	—	—	—	R64	—	—	—	—	—	—	0–1 (0%)
1998	20	—	—	—	—	R32	—	R64	—	—	R32	2–3 (40%)
1999	21	R64	—	QF	R64	R64	R32	R64	R32	R32	—	5–8 (38%)
2000	22	R64	R32	—	R32	—	—	—	—	—	—	2–3 (40%)
2001	23	R64	R128	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	1–2 (33%)
W-L		1–3 (25%)	1–2 (33%)	3–1 (75%)	1–3 (25%)	1–2 (33%)	1–1 (50%)	2–2 (50%)	0–1 (0%)	0–1 (0%)	0–1 (0%)	10–17 (37%)

WTA 500

Sylvia Plischke WTA 500 results by season
Season	Age	EAS	HAM	SDG	AME	HAN	LEI	LIN	MAN	NEW	SCO	TOY	W-L Win %
1998	20	—	—	—	—	—	R16	R32	—	—	—	—	1–2 (33%)
1999	21	R16	R32	R32	R64	R32	—	R16	R32	R32	—	—	2–8 (20%)
2000	22	R32	R16	—	—	—	—	R32	—	—	R16	R32	2–5 (29%)
W-L		1–2 (33%)	1–2 (33%)	0–1 (0%)	0–1 (0%)	0–1 (0%)	1–1 (50%)	1–3 (25%)	0–1 (0%)	0–1 (0%)	1–1 (50%)	0–1 (0%)	5–15 (25%)

WTA 250

Sylvia Plischke WTA 250 results by season
Season	Age	ACO	ANT	EST	MAD	JAP	BIR	BOG	BOL	BOS	BRA	BUD	CAN	GOL	HOB	HOP	KLA	KUA	LIN	LUX	MAR	OKL	OPO	PAL	PAT	POR	SÃO	SOP	STR	STY	W-L Win %
1994	16	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	R32	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	R32	R32	0–3 (0%)
1998	20	—	—	—	—	—	—	R16	R32	R32	—	—	—	—	—	SF	—	—	—	R16	QF	—	—	R32	R32	—	—	—	—	—	7–8 (47%)
1999	21	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	R32	—	R16	—	R32	—	—	—	—	R16	R32	—	—	—	—	1–5 (17%)
2000	22	—	—	—	R32	QF	—	SF	—	—	QF	R16	—	R32	R16	—	R32	R32	—	—	—	R16	—	—	R32	—	QF	R32	—	—	12–13 (48%)
2001	23	R16	R32	R32	—	—	R32	R32	—	—	—	—	R32	R32	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	R32	R32	—	—	—	—	—	—	2–9 (18%)
W-L		1–1 (50%)	0–1 (0%)	0–1 (0%)	0–1 (0%)	2–1 (67%)	1–1 (50%)	4–3 (57%)	0–1 (0%)	0–1 (0%)	2–1 (67%)	1–1 (50%)	0–1 (0%)	0–2 (0%)	1–1 (50%)	3–2 (60%)	0–1 (0%)	0–2 (0%)	0–1 (0%)	1–2 (33%)	2–1 (67%)	1–1 (50%)	0–1 (0%)	0–2 (0%)	1–3 (25%)	0–1 (0%)	2–1 (67%)	0–1 (0%)	0–1 (0%)	0–1 (0%)	22–38 (37%)

Results show the best round reached per tournament and season.

WTA Ranking History full ranking history →

Career high

Career-high date

Jun 21, 1999

First Top 100

Dec 22, 1997

First Top 50

Nov 2, 1998

First Top 20

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First Top 10

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Ranking History Matrix

Sylvia Plischke ranking history by month and season
Season	Age	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
1992	14	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	697	696	698
1993	15	—	—	—	—	—	—	373	247	246	—	—	—
1994	16	—	—	—	174	188	187	179	211	221	221	229	230
1995	17	232	210	188	247	239	247	210	209	214	212	229	226
1996	18	226	246	230	247	243	241	244	197	195	193	193	198
1997	19	194	196	152	153	139	130	138	132	126	123	114	95
1998	20	79	77	85	89	88	66	52	59	54	51	41	41
1999	21	47	45	41	37	34	27	31	30	29	30	36	35
2000	22	39	32	29	30	35	54	59	59	58	54	53	52
2001	23	60	74	85	95	109	145	128	131	140	179	181	178
2002	24	178	169	200	189	191	224	285	304	367	366	376	381
2003	25	379	481	491	803	795	795	—	—	—	—	—	—

Data coverage: WTA match coverage from Jeff Sackmann's archive is incomplete before 2000. Career win-loss totals, surface splits, and head-to-head counts for this player's pre-2000 era may understate actual results.

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Other WTA players with comparable peak level, era, career record, and career scale.

Sylvia Plischke's most statistically similar WTA players
Player	Country	Peak ranking	Peak Elo	M	W	L	Win %	Prize money	Titles	Years	Rivalries	Match log
Maria Vento-Kabchi	VEN	#26	1,718	255	97	158	38.0%	$1,591,803	0	1992–2006	Rivalries	Match log
Meike Babel	GER	#27	1,784	157	71	86	45.2%	$546,800	0	1991–2000	Rivalries	Match log
Kristie Boogert	NED	#29	1,770	245	105	140	42.9%	$1,364,008	0	1991–2003	Rivalries	Match log
Magdalena Grzybowska	POL	#30	1,748	124	49	75	39.5%	$542,889	0	1995–2002	Rivalries	Match log
Rachel Mcquillan	AUS	#28	1,826	360	163	197	45.3%	$1,622,632	0	1988–2003	Rivalries	Match log
Cristina Torrens Valero	ESP	#27	1,786	270	117	153	43.3%	$1,000,722	2	1993–2004	Rivalries	Match log
Janette Husarova	SVK	#31	1,737	188	79	109	42.0%	$2,402,865	0	1993–2005	Rivalries	Match log
Kristina Brandi	PUR	#27	1,722	255	104	151	40.8%	$1,248,528	1	1995–2007	Rivalries	Match log
Kveta Peschke	CZE	#26	1,806	208	92	116	44.2%	$6,147,937	1	1993–2007	Rivalries	Match log
Asa Carlsson	SWE	#28	1,817	299	128	171	42.8%	$1,569,134	2	1992–2004	Rivalries	Match log
Katarina Studenikova	SVK	#31	1,746	157	64	93	40.8%	$594,039	0	1993–1999	Rivalries	Match log
Miriam Oremans	NED	#25	1,808	344	162	182	47.1%	$1,648,499	0	1990–2002	Rivalries	Match log

Frequently Asked Questions

How old is Sylvia Plischke?: Sylvia Plischke is 49 years old, born on July 20, 1977.
Which country does Sylvia Plischke represent?: Sylvia Plischke represents Austria in TennisDB's WTA records.
How tall is Sylvia Plischke?: Sylvia Plischke is 177 cm / 5'10".
Does Sylvia Plischke use a one-handed or two-handed backhand?: Sylvia Plischke uses a two-handed backhand.
Is Sylvia Plischke left-handed or right-handed?: Sylvia Plischke plays right-handed.
How many Grand Slam singles titles has Sylvia Plischke won?: Sylvia Plischke has not won a Grand Slam singles title.
How many WTA 1000 titles has Sylvia Plischke won?: TennisDB does not group any of Sylvia Plischke's titles under the modern WTA 1000 category.
What is Sylvia Plischke's highest WTA ranking?: Sylvia Plischke's career-high WTA singles ranking is world No. 27, first achieved on June 21, 1999.
What is Sylvia Plischke's career win-loss record?: Sylvia Plischke has a career WTA singles record of 56 wins and 86 losses (39.4%).
How much career prize money has Sylvia Plischke earned?: Sylvia Plischke has earned at least $660,386 in career prize money from professional tennis.
Which seasons of Sylvia Plischke's career appear in TennisDB?: Sylvia Plischke appears in TennisDB's WTA main-tour match records from 1994 through 2001.
On which surface does Sylvia Plischke have the highest recorded win rate?: Among surfaces with at least 20 recorded matches, Sylvia Plischke's highest WTA main-draw win rate is on clay: 43.6% (24–31).
Who has Sylvia Plischke faced most often?: Sylvia Plischke's most frequent opponent is Rita Grande, with a head-to-head record of 1–4 across 5 meetings.