Filip Krajcik

Filip Krajcik
Nation:	Austria
Birthday:	July 23, 1955
Date of death:	August 30, 2001
Playing hand:	Right
singles
Career record:	1: 7
Career title:	0
Highest ranking:	227 (December 22, 1980)
Double
Career record:	1: 9
Career title:	0
Highest ranking:	760 (April 3 1989)
Sources: official player profiles at the ATP / WTA and ITF (see web links )

Filip Krajcik (born July 23, 1955 in Prague , † August 30, 2001 in Vienna ) was an Austrian tennis player and coach .

life and career

Filip Krajcik was born in Prague as the son of the ČSSR tennis player Jan Krajcik . He moved to Vienna with his family when he was 10 years old . In his tennis-loving family (his father was a tennis trainer at the Vienna AC , his brother at the Hietzinger Tennis Association) he quickly grew into a promising young talent in Austrian tennis. In 1971 Krajcik , who was strong on serve, was national champion in doubles with Gerhard Wimmer and in 1973 with Hans-Peter Kandler . From 1974 he was part of the King's Cup and Davis Cup teams . He then went to the USA for training purposes for some time. In 1977 he reached the final of the national championships in singles, in 1983 his last double title followed at the national championships (with Bernhard Pils ).

His highest ATP rank was 227th, but he switched to coaching for his active career as a tennis player. Due to hip and back problems, he gradually switched completely to the coaching business and gained his first experience in the USA in the early 1980s. He returned to Austria as a coach in 1984 and was soon hired by the ÖTV as one of four national coaches . Shortly afterwards he became the captain of the Austrian Davis Cup team , with which he played his first international match in 1989. At the beginning of the 1990s he had some of the best players in Austrian tennis history under his supervision , with players such as Thomas Muster , Horst Skoff and Alexander Antonitsch . In the Davis Cup in 1990 , he and his team failed only in the semi-finals, narrowly at the eventual winner USA with 2: 3.

After internal disputes in the Davis Cup team, Krajcik had to give up his position as a supervisor in December 1991. He finally came to Austrian women's tennis through Judith Wiesner and was captain of the Austrian Fed Cup team in 1996 . He held this position until his death in 2001.

He died on August 30, 2001 in Vienna from cancer . He left two children.

Web links

• ATP profile Filip Krajcik (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Krajcik died of cancer in News , August 31, 2001. Retrieved on May 23, 2015.