Karol Beck

Karol Beck
Karol Beck 2011 at Wimbledon
Nickname:	Bekis
Nation:	Slovakia
Birthday:	April 3, 1982
Size:	180 cm
Weight:	74 kg
1st professional season:	2001
Resignation:	2014
Playing hand:	Right, two-handed backhand
Trainer:	Ján Krošlák
Prize money:	$ 2,110,942
singles
Career record:	65: 116
Highest ranking:	36 (August 22, 2005)
Grand Slam record
Double
Career record:	33:51
Highest ranking:	62 (October 17, 2005)
Grand Slam record
Sources: official player profiles at the ATP / WTA and ITF (see web links )

Karol Beck (born April 3, 1982 in Zvolen ) is a former Slovak tennis player . He reached his highest position in the world rankings in singles on August 22, 2005 with rank 36, in doubles on October 17, 2005 with rank 62. In 2006 he was convicted of doping and banned for two years.

Career

On the junior tour, Beck made it to the quarterfinals of Wimbledon in 2000 . In doubles, he also made it to the semi-finals .

2001

In the 2001 season the Slovak turned professional. In his first season, the right-hander only played tournaments in the Futures and Challenger classes , and in August he won his first Future tournament in Russia in both singles and doubles. In addition to this success, he reached the final of the Challenger tournament in Tolyatti , in which he was left behind against Alexander Peya from Austria. Here, too, he won the doubles competition with Zelenay. In addition, the two Slovaks were in the finals of the Challenger tournaments in Prague-2 and in Zabrze . Together with his compatriot Branislav Sekáč , he also won the Challenger tournament in Oberstaufen and the Future in Most .

2002

In 2002 Beck made his Davis Cup debut for his country against the USA in February . There he lost both singles to Pete Sampras and Andy Roddick and doubles. His opening game against Sampras, which he lost in four sets, he later described as the highlight of his career.

On the tour he celebrated his next future title in February at the Greece F2 in Kalamata . In June the Slovak made his first appearance at a Grand Slam tournament at Wimbledon as a qualifier. There he won in the first round in five sets against the Brazilian Alexandre Simoni before failing in the second round against the Romanian Andrei Pavel , who was placed in 15th position . Later in the year he won the Challenger tournament in Bristol and reached the finals in Manchester and Bratislava , where he lost to Uladsimir Waltschkou and Antony Dupuis , respectively . He also reached the main round of the ATP tournament in Stockholm , where he failed in the first round.

Beck also reached the main round of Wimbledon in doubles with his partner Jaroslav Levinský , with whom he had previously won the Challenger tournament in Budapest , but failed there in the first round. With Levinský he also won the Prague 2 future at the end of the year . At Challenger tournaments he was successful in Osaka with the Frenchman Cédric Kauffmann and in Manchester with the Pakistani Aisam-ul-Haq Qureshi . He also reached the finals in Segovia and the Bronx with Sander Groen and Tomáš Zíb, respectively . In addition to the successes at the USA F2 and the Prague-2 , he also managed to reach the finals at the Greece F1 in Syros and the victory at the Greece F2 in Kalamata at the future level with Michal Mertiňák .

2003

In the 2003 season , Beck made it to higher-class tournaments more regularly and rarely played in the lower-class Challenger tournaments. He reached the main round in all four Grand Slam tournaments, but never got past the first round. His greatest successes of the year were reaching the round of 16 at the Masters tournament in Montreal and reaching the quarter - finals at the tournament in Copenhagen . There he reached the semi-finals of the doubles competition on the side of Karol Kučera . He also won his second Challenger title in Heilbronn at the beginning of the year and celebrated his first wins in the Davis Cup against Luxembourg . He finished the season in 66th place for the first time in the top 100 of the tennis world rankings .

2004

In 2004 Beck improved steadily in the world rankings and climbed into the top 50 at the end of the year. Among other things, he achieved this by reaching the finals in October at the tournament in St. Petersburg , where he lost to Mikhail Juschny . In addition, he was able to reach the round of 16 at the US Open , which is his best performance in a Grand Slam tournament to date, and win the Challenger tournaments in Wrocław and Surbiton . In Wimbledon, too, he did well by moving into the third round. At the Olympic Games in Athens he took part in both singles and doubles for his country, but lost in the first round. Together with Jaroslav Levinský he also won Challenger titles in Zagreb and Dnipro .

2005

In 2005 Beck reached the third round in singles at the beginning of the season , as well as the round of 16 in doubles at the Australian Open and the quarterfinals in Milan and Marseille , but his form stagnated as the year progressed. It was not until the summer that he was able to record another success at the Canada Masters in Montreal by reaching a quarter-finals in a Masters tournament for the first time, in the course of which he reached his highest position in the world rankings with position 36. He also won the Sunrise Challenger Tournament in Florida in March . The season in the David Cup went better for the Slovak, where he did not play a single game in doubles and only one in singles and was therefore jointly responsible for the first place in the finals for Slovakia at this tournament. However, he did not take part in the final, which Slovakia lost to Croatia.

2006

After he had not participated in a tournament since November of last year, the ITF announced that Beck tested positive for Clenbuterol in the Davis Cup semifinals against Argentina in September 2005 and banned him for two years retrospectively from November 2005.

2007

The doping ban imposed on Beck expired in November and he celebrated his comeback on the ATP tour with early defeats in three Challenger tournaments. At the end of the year he won the Czech Republic F6 Future tournament and finished the year in 581th place in the world rankings.

2008

Also in the 2008 season Beck played again exclusively in Challenger tournaments. He reached the finals of Manchester and Helsinki. Although he did not qualify for higher-class tournaments, Beck climbed over 400 places in the world rankings over the course of the season and finally ended the year in 145th place.

2009

In 2009 Beck was able to qualify for the main round of better tournaments for the first time since his doping ban. So he reached the second round at Wimbledon and failed at the US Open in the first. In addition, he won his first title after his forced break at the Challenger tournament in Pozoblanco , and he also reached the final of the Heilbronn Challenger. In doubles, the season was more successful with his partner Levinský. The two won the title of the Challenger tournaments in Heilbronn, Besançon , Bergamo , Rhodes and Pozoblanco.

In the world rankings he was back in the top 100 in the middle of the year at position 74, but fell back to 114th place at the end of the season. In doubles, he rose by over 500 places and ended the year in 111th position.

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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 (29)

singles

Tournament victories

No.	date	competition	Topping	Final opponent	result
1.	July 8, 2002	Bristol	grass	Alexander Peya	6: 0, 6: 3
2.	January 20, 2003	Heilbronn	carpet	Jürgen Melzer	6: 2, 5: 7, 7: 6 5
3.	February 2, 2004	Wroclaw	Hard court	Jan Hernych	6: 7 4 , 6: 2, 6: 2
4th	May 31, 2004	Surbiton	grass	Wesley Moodie	6: 4, 6: 4
5.	March 14, 2005	Sunrise	Hard court	Davide Sanguinetti	6: 2, 6: 2
6th	July 6, 2009	Pozoblanco	Hard court	Thiago Alves	6: 4, 6: 3
7th	February 8, 2010	Bergamo	Hard court	Gilles Muller	6: 4, 6: 4
8th.	February 15, 2010	Belgrade	Hard court	Ilija Bozoljac	7: 5, 7: 6 4
9.	October 11, 2010	Tashkent	Hard court	Gilles Muller	6: 7 4 , 6: 4, 7: 5
10.	August 1, 2011	Segovia	Hard court	Grégoire Burquier	6: 4, 7: 6 4

Final participation

No.	date	competition	Topping	Final opponent	Result
1.	October 31, 2004	St. Petersburg	Carpet (i)	Mikhail Juschny	2: 6, 2: 6

Double

Tournament victories

No.	date	competition	Topping	partner	Final opponent	result
1.	July 9, 2001	Oberstaufen	sand	Branislav Sekáč	Thomas Strengberger Clemens Trimmel	6: 3, 3: 6, 6: 2
2.	August 6, 2001	Tolyatti	Hard court	Igor Zelenay	Abdul Hamid Makhkamov Dmitri Tomashevich	7: 5, 4: 6, 6: 3
3.	March 11, 2002	Osaka	Hard court	Cédric Kauffmann	Laurence Tieleman John van Lottum	7: 5, 6: 1
4th	May 20, 2002	Budapest	sand	Jaroslav Levinsky	Mariano Hood Sebastián Prieto	3: 6, 6: 4, 6: 1
5.	July 15, 2002	Manchester	race	Aisam-ul-Haq Qureshi	John Hui Anthony Ross	6: 3, 7: 6 2
6th	November 18, 2002	Prague	carpet	Jaroslav Levinsky	Aleksandar Kitinov Lovro Zovko	7: 5, 6: 2
7th	May 10, 2004	Zagreb	sand	Jaroslav Levinsky	Jordan Kerr Tom Vanhoudt	6: 2, 7: 6 4
8th.	November 15, 2004	Dnipro	sand	Jaroslav Levinsky	Andrei Pavel Gabriel Trifu	6: 7 4 , 7: 6 4 , 7: 6 2
9.	January 26, 2009	Heilbronn	carpet	Jaroslav Levinsky	Benedikt Dorsch Philipp Petzschner	6: 3, 6: 2
10.	February 23, 2009	Besançon	Hard court	Jaroslav Levinsky	David Škoch Igor Zelenay	2: 6, 7: 5, [10: 7]
11.	March 2, 2009	Bergamo	Hard court	Jaroslav Levinsky	Chris Haggard Pavel Vízner	7: 6 6 , 6: 4
12.	April 27, 2009	Rhodes	Hard court	Jaroslav Levinsky	Rajeev Ram Bobby Reynolds	6: 3, 6: 3
13.	July 6, 2009	Pozoblanco	Hard court	Jaroslav Levinsky	Colin Fleming Ken Skupski	2: 6, 7: 6 5 , [10: 7]
14th	20th September 2010	Trnava	sand	Lukáš Rosol	Alexander Peya Martin Slanar	4: 6, 7: 6 3 , [10: 8]
15th	July 17, 2011	Granby	Hard court	Édouard Roger-Vasselin	Matthias Bachinger Frank Moser	6: 1, 6: 3
16.	September 16, 2012	Istanbul	Hard court	Lukáš Dlouhý	Adrián Menéndez John Peers	3: 6, 6: 2, [10: 6]
17th	November 11, 2012	Ortisei in Val Gardena	Carpet (i)	Rik De Voest	Rameez Junaid Michael Kohlmann	6: 3, 6: 4
18th	February 9, 2013	Bergamo (2)	Hard court (i)	Andrei Martin	Claudio Grassi Amir Weintraub	6: 3, 3: 6, [10: 8]
19th	15th February 2014	Bergamo (3)	Hard court (i)	Michal Mertiňák	Konstantin Kravchuk Denys Molchanov	4: 6, 7: 5, [10: 6]

Final participation

No.	date	competition	Topping	partner	Final opponent	Result
1.	February 7, 2010	Johannesburg	Hard court	Harel Levy	Rohan Bopanna Aisam-ul-Haq Qureshi	2: 6, 6: 3, [10: 5]
2.	June 13, 2010	Queen's Club	race	David Škoch	Novak Đoković Jonathan Erlich	6: 7 8 , 6: 2, [10: 3]

Web links

Commons : Karol Beck  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• ATP profile of Karol Beck (English)
• ITF profile of Karol Beck (English)
• Davis Cup statistics Karol Beck (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Karol Beck | Organic | ATP World Tour | Tennis. Retrieved July 9, 2016 . 
2. ^ Beck hit with two-year doping ban. In: bbc.co.uk. February 13, 2006, accessed December 30, 2017 .