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 | ||||||||||||
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Career record: | 65: 116 | ||||||||||||
Highest ranking: | 36 (August 22, 2005) | ||||||||||||
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Career record: | 33:51 | ||||||||||||
Highest ranking: | 62 (October 17, 2005) | ||||||||||||
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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.
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 |
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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 |
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1. | October 31, 2004 | St. Petersburg | Carpet (i) | Mikhail Juschny | 2: 6, 2: 6 |
Double
Tournament victories
Final participation
No. | date | competition | Topping | partner | Final opponent | Result |
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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
- ATP profile of Karol Beck (English)
- ITF profile of Karol Beck (English)
- Davis Cup statistics Karol Beck (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Karol Beck | Organic | ATP World Tour | Tennis. Retrieved July 9, 2016 .
- ^ Beck hit with two-year doping ban. In: bbc.co.uk. February 13, 2006, accessed December 30, 2017 .
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Beck, Karol |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Slovak tennis player |
DATE OF BIRTH | April 3, 1982 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Zvolen , Czechoslovakia |