I could have stayed in the USA. But I’m as Czech as they come.
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Vlasta Vopičková, née Kodešová, was born March 26, 1944. Her two years younger brother, tennis player Jan Kodeš, is a two-time winner of the Roland Garros grand slam tournament and a Wimbledon winner. Vlasta Vopičková became a junior national tennis champion in 1960, a national tennis champion in the years 1969 and 1970 and a national doubles champion in 1964, 1968 and 1969. Between 1965 and 1970 she was in the top ten best European female tennis players. In 1969 she won the European Amateur Championship. At Roland Garros tournament she got to the quarter finals twice (1968, 1970). At the Italian Championship in Rome she made it to the semifinals. Altogether, she won 19 international tournaments, among them the Monte Carlo tournament. She represented Czechoslovakia in the Federation Cup. After the end of her playing career, she worked as a tennis couch for children and adolescents since the late 1970s. In 1964 she married Sparta Praha hockey player and tennis player Milan Vopička. Together they have daughter Vlasta and son Milan.
