Polona Hercog

Insights

Best Grand Slam run came at Roland Garros in 2010

Her deepest result in the dataset is R32, achieved once at the 2010 French Open. That is one round better than her 14 R64 finishes and 24 R128 exits.

Clay produced her strongest repeated results

French Open is the only Slam where she reached R32, and she also made R64 there in 2009, 2011, 2014, 2015, and 2016. Across the four majors, that makes Roland Garros her clearest outlier for depth.

2014-2016 was her most productive three-year stretch

In those three seasons she reached at least R64 in 10 of 12 Slam appearances, including six straight R64-or-better results from the 2014 Australian Open through the 2016 French Open. The only misses in that span were two R128 exits at Wimbledon and the 2016 US Open.

Her peak age window was 23-24

At ages 23 and 24, she produced all four of her R64 results in 2014-2015 and added another R64 at the 2016 French Open. By contrast, her 30-year-old results in 2021 were limited to one R32 and three R128 exits.

She finished with a sharp late-career drop in 2021

Her final season in the dataset contains four Slam appearances, but only one win-equivalent run beyond R128: the French Open R32. The other three majors in 2021 ended at R128, matching the weakest round she reached 24 times overall.