Veronika Kulhava

Veronika Kulhava versus Cincinnati at Mike Goss Tennis Stadium on March 28

Photo by: @Lexi Doherty/K-State Sports

Veronika Kulhava versus Iowa State on March 1 at Mike Goss Tennis Stadium

Photo by: © Lexi Doherty/K-State Sports

K-State Women's Tennis

(Photo: Avery Reed/K-State Sports)

Class:
Senior
Hometown:
Letohrad, Czech Republic

HONORS

2025 Dr. Gerald Lage Academic Achievement Award
2024-25 Academic All-Big 12 Team
2025 ITA Scholar Athlete
2025 CSC Academic All-District Team
2024 ITA Scholar Athlete
2024 CSC Academic All-District Team

Kulhava's Career Records (updated April 23, 2025)
Overall Career Singles Record: 33-23
Career Singles Record in Tournaments: 18-6
Career Singles Record in Dual Matches: 16-17
Career Singles Record in Big 12 Matches: 10-11

Career Singles Record in Two-Set Matches: 25-16 (8-9 Big 12)
Career Singles Record in Three-Set Matches: 6-7 (1-2 Big 12)
*won one retired set

Career Record vs. ITA Ranked Opponents: 1-3

Overall Career Doubles Record: 31-28
Career Doubles Record in Tournaments: 14-20
Career Doubles Record in Dual Matches: 17-18
Career Doubles Record in Big 12 Matches: 12-13

Career Positional Record
Singles
No. 1: -
No. 2: 3-5
No. 3: 3-6
No. 4: 3-1
No. 5: 4-4
No. 6: 3-0

Doubles
No. 1: 8-11
No. 2: 1-4
No. 3: 7-3

AS A SENIOR (2024-25)

During the Big 12 Championship she won consecutive doubles matches with partner Tereza Polakova over West Virginia's (4/16) Lyla Byers and Tatiana Lipatova 6-3 and over Iowa State's Grace Levelston and Elizabeth Tullis 6-1. In singles play over the Mountaineers she was successfu lover Byers 6-0, 6-4.
Won her first two matches in the no. 4 spot, due to retirement from BYU (4/3) and over Utah's (4/5) Emma Valletta in straight sets 6-0, 6-4. With partner Maria Santos they helped the Wildcats earn the doubles point over the Utes' Sam Horwood and Dylan Lolofie 7-5.
Won consecutive singles matches against Arizona (3/21) and Arizona State (3/23). Won in three sets against the Wildcats' Tanvi Narendran, 2-6, 6-2, 6-2 and swept the Sun Devils' Evans 6-4, 6-4. Helped clinch the doubles point with partner Maria Santos against Arizona over Zoya Chulak and Martyna Ostrzygalo 6-1.
Has won three singles matches in a row after back-to-back wins against Cincinnati (3/7) and West Virginia (3/9). She defeated the Bearcats' Callie Flanagan 6-0, 6-1 and the Mountaineers' Laura Morillo 6-2, 6-2. With partner Maria Santos they defeated WVU's Byers and Dodik 6-4.
Won consecutive doubles matches with partner Maria Santos against #44 UCF (2/28) Olivia Bergler and Jade Psonka, 6-1, and Gabriela Cortes and Sophie Schouten against Houston (3/1) 6-2.
Against Iowa (2/22) she faced Sally Xu and clinched the match for the Wildcats with a 6-1 7-6 (7-4) score. With doubles partner Maria Santos against Rice (2/23) they defeated Divna Ratkovic and Nithesa Selvaraj 6-4.
With doubles partner Maria Santos against #51 Angella Okutoyi and Merna Refaat of Auburn (2/15) they had the match tied up at 4-4 before it went unfinished.
During the doubleheader against Drake (1/25) she won one match due to forfeit before competing unfinished against Tess Caldicott 7-6 (7-1). With partner Maria Santos they were successful in doubles play at 6-2.
Went undefeated in singles play at the Duel in the Desert (1/16-18) to start the spring, two of the wins in three set matches. Competing in doubles with partner Maria Santos, the duo went 1-2.

FALL TOURNAMENTS

Was selected to represent the Big 12 Conference women's doubles with partner Tereza Polakova at the ITA Conference Masters (11/7-10). In the first round they were victorious over Sophia Baranov and Denise Torrealba from Austin Peay State, 6-1, 6-1. They ultimately lost in the round of 16 in three set tiebreaker, 4-6, 6-2, 8-10 against Parvathi Shanker and Emily Tannenbaum from the U.S. Naval Academy.
Defeated the ITA preseason no. 1 doubles team at the ITA Central Regional (10/9-13) with partner Tereza Polakova. The duo were victorious over OSU's Ange Oby Kajuru and Anastasiya Komar 8-7 (8-6) in the round of 32, going 2-1 in the competition. She also competed in five singles matches with just one loss.
At the SMU Invitational (10/4-5) she went 1-1 in singles play, losing a high scoring three set match against Utah's Kaila Barksdale, 7-5, 4-6, 1-6.
Hosted the first tournament of the fall in the K-State Invitational (9/20-22) where she was a perfect 3-0 in doubles competition and 1-2 in singles play. She won two matches with partner Maralgoo Chogsomjav and also claimed a win with Sana Garakani.

AS A JUNIOR (2023-24)

During the Big 12 Tournament on April 18 against Texas, she went unfinished against Vivian Ovrootsky in three sets, 4-6, 7-5, 3-2.
Competed in an unfinished three-set match against Houston on April 7, 3-6, 7-6 (7-4), 1-2 against Sophie Schouten. With doubles partner Tereza Polakova they won 6-2.
Defeated Cincinnati's Gabrielle Guenther on March 28, 6-3, 7-5.
Was defeated by a second ranked opponent from TCU, #112 Destinee Martins on March 17, 6-4, 6-4.
Won the only doubles match against Baylor on March 15 with partner Tereza Polakova, defeating Sierra Berry/Zuzanna Kubacha 6-1.
With doubles partner Tereza Polakova they won the first two Big 12 matches of the spring against Iowa State (March 1) 6-2 and Kansas (March 3) 6-4.
Won her first singles match since Feb. 2 versus Fordham (Feb. 17) with a 6-4, 6-0 win over Xintong Zhou in the no. 2 spot.
In doubles matches, her and partner Tereza Polakova defeated Indiana (Feb. 10), their first since Jan. 26.
Went 1-1 against Denver (Feb. 2) and Iowa (Feb. 3), both doubles matches with partner Tereza Polakova going unfinished.
Against Wichita State (Jan. 26) she suffered a three-set loss to Kristi Kudryavtseva 6-1, 3-6, 5-7 but won her first spring doubles match with partner Tereza Polakova 6-2. Was victorious against South Dakota (Jan. 28) in two sets.
During the first match as a Wildcat against Drake (Jan. 20) she defeated Elizabete Klavinska 6-2, 6-4 in the no. 3 spot.

FALL TOURNAMENTS

Won back-to-back doubles matches with partner Tereza Polakova at the Big 12 Fall Invite.
Was named doubles champion with partner Tereza Polakova during the TCU Invitational, going undefeated, 4-0, including a tiebreaker against Notre Dame's Yashna Yellayi and Maria Castedo, 8-7 (8-6).
Won three straight singles matches during the ITA Central Regional, including against #120 preseason ranked Anna Supapitch Kuearum from Iowa State, 7-5, 7-6 (7-4). She also defeated Wichita State's Theodora Chantava in a long three set match, 6-1, 6-7 (4-7), 7-6 (7-5).
In the first fall invitational in Charlotte, she went 3-0 in singles matches, including two matches that went into three sets, defeating Ares Teixido Garcia of Charlotte, 4-6, 6-4, 6-4, and Barbora Pokorna of Iowa, 6-3, 3-6, 11-9.

PRIOR TO K-STATE

Transferred from Temple University.
Last season she had a 20-10 singles record, with five or more wins in the No. 2,3 and 4 spots.
During her two years at Temple she accumulated a 38-15 singles record, 35-16 in doubles action.