Dušan Karol

Dušan Karol
Nation:	Czech Republic
Birthday:	May 19, 1983
Playing hand:	Right, two-handed backhand
Trainer:	Vladimir Houdek
Prize money:	$ 90,450
singles
Career record:	0-0
Highest ranking:	435 (September 27, 2004)
Double
Career record:	0-0
Highest ranking:	128 (April 27, 2009)
Sources: official player profiles at the ATP / WTA and ITF (see web links )

Dušan Karol (born May 19, 1983 in Jihlava ) is a former Czech tennis player .

Career

Karol mainly played tournaments on the lower class ITF Future Tour and ATP Challenger Tour . While he only achieved two titles in singles on the Future Tour, he was significantly more successful in doubles with 29 titles. In the 2003 season, which he was the first to contest in full, he won seven titles and was among the top 300 in the world rankings for the first time. Once he made it into the quarterfinals of a challenger. In doubles, he reached his first final with a Challenger in Prague in 2004 , but lost it in three sets.

In the following years Karol ranked between the ranks 400 to 500 in doubles and played almost exclusively tournaments on the Future Tour. It wasn't until 2007 that he had a small breakthrough when he won eight tournaments there and scratched the top 300 again. After he failed again in the final in Prague in 2008 , he won his first double title on the Challenger Tour a week later in Rijeka with his partner Jaroslav Pospíšil without losing a set. He was able to repeat this success in Oberstaufen and Tarragona . He continued to climb in the world rankings, reaching his career high in April 2009 with 128th place. This year he secured his fourth and final title in Freudenstadt alongside Jan Hájek . After this success he appeared in three tournaments and ended his active career after a quarter-final defeat in doubles in Palermo .

After his career, Karol was temporarily the coach of the Czech player Markéta Vondroušová .

successes

Legend (number of victories)

Grand Slam

ATP World Tour Finals

ATP World Tour Masters 1000

ATP World Tour 500

ATP World Tour 250

ATP Challenger Tour (4)

Double

Tournament victories

No.	date	competition	Topping	partner	Final opponent	Result
1.	May 10, 2008	Rijeka	sand	Jaroslav Pospíšil	Alex Kuznetsov Dick Norman	6: 4, 6: 4
2.	July 19, 2008	Oberstaufen	sand	Jaroslav Pospíšil	André Ghem Boy Westerhof	6: 7 2 , 6: 1, [10: 6]
3.	October 4, 2008	Tarragona	sand	Daniel Köllerer	Marc Fornell Marc López	6: 2, 6: 2
4th	September 6, 2009	Freudenstadt	sand	Jan Hájek	Martin Kližan Adil Shamasdin	4: 6, 6: 4, [10: 5]

Web links

• ATP profile of Dušan Karol (English)
• ITF profile Dušan Karol (English)
• ITF junior profile Dušan Karol (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Skvělá Vondroušová to dokázala! V sedmnácti slaví první titul na okruhu WTA. In: sport.cz. Retrieved February 12, 2019 (Czech).