Alex Molčan

Alex Molčan
Nation:	Slovakia
Birthday:	December 1, 1997
Size:	178 cm
Weight:	73 kg
Playing hand:	Left, two-handed backhand
Trainer:	Ladislav Simon
Prize money:	$ 60,113
singles
Career record:	0-0
Highest ranking:	282 (August 5, 2019)
Current placement:	335
Double
Career record:	0-0
Highest ranking:	427 (June 24, 2019)
Current placement:	627
Last update of the infobox: October 28, 2019
Sources: official player profiles at the ATP / WTA and ITF (see web links )

Alex Molčan (born December 1, 1997 in Prešov ) is a Slovak tennis player .

Career

Molčan played successfully on the ITF Junior Tour from 2013 to 2015. On this he achieved the best result in a Junior Grand Slam tournament in doubles, the final of the Australian Open . At the side of Poland's Hubert Hurkacz, he lost to the Australian pairing of Jake Delaney and Marc Polmans in the match tie- breaker in the final . In individual terms, his best result was reaching the round of 16 in 2015 at the French Open in the same year. He reached his career high in March with 18th place. In 2014 he took part in all competitions in the Summer Youth Olympic Games and always lost early.

In 2015 Molčan also played the first professional tournaments on the third-rate ITF Future Tour . This year he placed in the top 1000 of the world rankings for the first time . In the following year he won the first future title in individual and was able to improve further in the world rankings, at the end of the year he was in 662th place. In 2017 he won no further titles, but failed in two futures only in the final and won the for the first time a match on the higher endowed ATP Challenger Tour .

The Slovakian experienced the most successful moment of his career so far in mid-2018. He won three futures in a row and withdrew from the qualification at the next Challenger in Seville , starting the final. After 22 wins in a row, he faced the Belgian Kimmer Coppejans , to whom he lost 6: 7, 1: 6. This was the first Challenger ever to survive two laps. In the world rankings he reached a new intermediate high, so that he could regularly take part in the Challenger Tour from the beginning of 2019. At the first tournament in the new year in Budapest , he was able to reach the quarter-finals before never getting past two rounds for six months. The next success came in July in Ludwigshafen , where he was able to reach the semi-finals, which he succeeded again in Sibiu in September. In August he had meanwhile reached his career high with place 282. In doubles, his only success so far was reaching the finals in Bratislava in June 2019 .

Web links

• ATP profile of Alex Molčan (English)
• ITF profile Alex Molčan (English)
• ITF junior profile Alex Molčan (English)