David Škoch

David Škoch
Škoch (left) 2009 with Oliver Marach
Nation:	Czech Republic
Birthday:	November 6, 1976
Size:	183 cm
Weight:	70 kg
1st professional season:	1994
Playing hand:	Right
Trainer:	Tomáš Hlásek
Prize money:	$ 948,422
singles
Career record:	5:12
Highest ranking:	133 (March 31, 1997)
Grand Slam record
Double
Career record:	133: 173
Career title:	5
Highest ranking:	30 (January 7, 2008)
Current placement:	838
Grand Slam record
Mixed
Grand Slam record
Last update of the infobox: March 25, 2019
Sources: official player profiles at the ATP / WTA and ITF (see web links )

David Škoch (born November 6, 1976 in Brandýs nad Labem-Stará Boleslav , then Czechoslovakia ) is a Czech tennis player . He can show successes especially in doubles.

Career

In his junior career, he won the individual at Wimbledon in 1992 . After moving to the pros in 1994, he quickly decided to mainly compete in doubles. The right-hander achieved his highest single placement in the tennis world rankings with rank 133 at the end of March 1997. In doubles, he cracked the top 100 for the first time in 2002, and in the same year he played for the first time in all four Grand Slam tournaments . He reached the round of 16 four times at this level. On the ATP World Tour he was able to reach a final ten times in doubles, first in 1997 in Prague . With Petr Luxa he lost there in the final to Mahesh Bhupathi and Leander Paes . In the other finals he was able to win the title five times. In 2007 he won two titles and also reached two finals, whereby in January 2008 he climbed his best placement with rank 30 in the world rankings. Afterwards he continuously fell in the ranking.

From 2012 to 2019 he only played a few futures , where he competed with the 26-year-old Petr Nouza (most recently in May 2019).

successes

Legend (number of victories) Grand Slam Tennis Masters Cup ATP World Tour Finals ATP Masters Series ATP World Tour Masters 1000 ATP International Series Gold ATP World Tour 500 Series ATP International Series ATP World Tour 250 Series (5) ATP Challenger Tour (22)

Title after covering Hard Court (1) Sand (4) Lawn (0)

singles

Tournament victories

ATP Challenger Tour

No.	date	competition	Topping	Final opponent	Result
1.	May 12, 1996	Bratislava	sand	Gustavo Kuerten	6: 2, 6: 4

Double

Tournament victories

ATP World Tour

No.	date	competition	Topping	partner	Final opponent	Result
1.	July 12, 2004	Amersfoort	sand	Jaroslav Levinsky	José Acasuso Luis Horna	6: 0, 2: 6, 7: 5
2.	April 10, 2006	Valencia	sand	Tomáš Zíb	Lukáš Dlouhý Pavel Vízner	6: 4, 6: 3
3.	July 24, 2006	Umag	sand	Jaroslav Levinsky	Guillermo García-López Albert Portas	6: 4, 6: 4
4th	April 23, 2007	Casablanca	sand	Jordan Kerr	Łukasz Kubot Oliver Marach	7: 6 4 , 1: 6, [10: 4]
5.	January 5, 2008	Doha	Hard court	Philipp Kohlschreiber	Jeff Coetzee Wesley Moodie	6: 4, 4: 6, [11: 9]

ATP Challenger Tour

No.	date	competition	Topping	partner	Final opponent	Result
1.	July 13, 1996	East End	sand	Lucas Arnold Ker	Wim Neefs Yuri Soberon	7: 6, 6: 1
2.	July 19, 1997	Contrexéville	sand	Petr Luxa	Brent Haygarth Greg Van Emburgh	6: 4, 6: 2
3.	September 9, 2000	Aschaffenburg	sand	Petr Luxa	Marcus Hilpert Vaughan Snyman	6: 2, 6: 3
4th	July 7, 2001	Ulm (1)	sand	František Čermák	Brandon Coupe Tim Crichton	6: 2, 6: 4
5.	August 4, 2001	San Marino (1)	sand	František Čermák	Devin Bowen Aleksandar Kitinov	7: 5, 6: 4
6th	July 6, 2002	Ulm (2)	sand	Leoš Friedl	Tim Crichton Todd Perry	6: 3, 4: 6, 7: 5
7th	August 3, 2002	San Marino (2)	sand	Leoš Friedl	Massimo Bertolini Cristian Brandi	6: 2, 6: 4
8th.	February 8, 2003	Wroclaw	Hard court (i)	Petr Luxa	Petr Pála Pavel Vízner	6: 4, 6: 4
9.	February 22, 2003	Andrézieux-Bouthéon	Hard court (i)	Lovro Zovko	Stephen Huss Jeff Tarango	7: 6 4 , 0: 6, 6: 3
10.	June 7, 2003	Prostějov (1)	sand	Jaroslav Levinsky	Rubén Ramírez Hidalgo Sergio Roitman	6: 2, 6: 2
11.	2004	Geneva	sand	Tomáš Cibulec	Werner Eschauer Herbert Wiltschnig	6: 2, 6: 4
12.	June 4, 2005	Prostějov (2)	sand	Lukáš Dlouhý	Jan Hájek Jan Mašík	5: 7, 6: 3, 7: 6 5
13.	July 16, 2005	Rimini	sand	Martin Štěpánek	Christopher Kas Philipp Petzschner	6: 3, 6: 7 1 , 6: 1
14th	August 13, 2005	San Marino (3)	sand	Lukáš Dlouhý	Jeff Coetzee Chris Haggard	3: 6, 6: 4, 6: 3
15th	November 19, 2005	Dnipro	Hard court (i)	Lukáš Dlouhý	Tomáš Cibulec Lovro Zovko	7: 5, 6: 4
16.	May 13, 2006	Prague	sand	Petr Pála	Ramón Delgado Sergio Roitman	6-0, 6-0
17th	2008	Trnava	sand	Igor Zelenay	Daniel Köllerer Michal Mertiňák	6: 3, 6: 1
18th	September 27, 2009	Sofia	sand	Dominik Hrbatý	James Auckland Peter Luczak	6: 2, 6: 4
19th	September 4, 2010	Como	sand	Frank Moser	Martin Emmrich Mateusz Kowalczyk	5: 7, 7: 6 2 , [10: 5]
20th	September 18, 2010	Banja Luka	sand	James Cerretani	Adil Shamasdin Lovro Zovko	6: 1, 6: 4
21st	June 30, 2012	Marburg	sand	Mateusz Kowalczyk	Denis Mazukewitsch Mischa Zverev	6: 2, 6: 1

Final participation

No.	date	competition	Topping	partner	Final opponent	Result
1.	April 28, 1997	Prague	sand	Petr Luxa	Mahesh Bhupathi Leander Paes	1: 6, 1: 6
2.	July 19, 2004	Umag	sand	Jaroslav Levinsky	José Acasuso Flávio Saretta	6: 4, 2: 6, 4: 6
3.	July 25, 2005	Umag	sand	Michal Mertiňák	Jiří Novák Petr Pála	3: 6, 3: 6
4th	May 20, 2007	Pörtschach	sand	Leoš Friedl	Simon Aspelin Julian Knowle	6: 7 6 , 7: 5, [5:10]
5.	July 23, 2007	Umag	sand	Jaroslav Levinsky	Lukáš Dlouhý Michal Mertiňák	1: 6, 1: 6
6th	June 13, 2010	Queen's Club	race	Karol Beck	Novak Đoković Jonathan Erlich	7: 6 6 , 2: 6, [10: 3]

References and comments

Web links

Commons : David Škoch  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• ATP profile of David Škoch (English)
• ITF Profile of David Škoch (English)