Sebastian Korda
Sebastian Korda 
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| Nation: |
 United States
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| Birthday: | July 5, 2000 |
| Size: | 193 cm |
| Weight: | 75 kg |
| Playing hand: | Right, two-handed backhand |
| Trainer: | Petr Korda |
| Prize money: | $ 103,894 |
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| Career record: | 0: 1 |
| Highest ranking: | 249 (November 25, 2019) |
| Current placement: | 249 |
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| Career record: | 0-0 |
| Highest ranking: | 423 (April 1, 2019) |
| Current placement: | 555 |
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Last update of the infobox: November 25, 2019 |
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| Sources: official player profiles at the ATP / WTA and ITF (see web links ) | |
Sebastian Korda (born July 5, 2000 in Bradenton , Florida ) is an American tennis player .
Personal
Sebastian Korda is the son of the Czech former Australian Open winner Petr Korda . His mother Regina Rajchrtová also played tennis under the Czech flag. His two sisters Jessica (* 1993) and Nelly (* 1998) are also successful athletes and play golf professionally . The family lives in Bradenton , Florida and is a US national.
Career
Sebastian Korda started playing tennis when he was 10 years old. In 2015 he played tournaments on the ITF Junior Tour for the first time. From 2017 he played there regularly with good results. At the beginning of 2018 at the Australian Open , he won his first major title by beating Taiwanese Tseng Chun-hsin in the final of the individual . After his triumph at the end of January, he was first in the junior world ranking for the first time.
Among the pros, Korda first played a handful of tournaments on the ITF Future Tour in 2016 , before being in the main draw of a challenger in Sarasota for the first time in 2017 with a wildcard , where he lost at the beginning. In October 2017 he was in the final of a future for the first time.
After his success at the Junior Grand Slam in Australia, the American played his first tournament on the ATP World Tour in New York thanks to a wildcard . There he was defeated by Frances Tiafoe in three sentences. Korda also got wild cards at the Challenger in Indian Wells and the qualification of the Masters in the same city and lost his opening match. So far, he has not yet won a match above the future category.
Web links
- ATP profile of Sebastian Korda (English)
- ITF profile of Sebastian Korda (English)
- ITF junior profile of Sebastian Korda (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Like father, like son: Junior Sebastian Korda wins in Melbourne. In: spox.com. January 27, 2018, accessed March 13, 2018 .
- ↑ Gerald Kleffmann: Papa's School. In: sueddeutsche.de. January 29, 2018, accessed March 15, 2018 .
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| SURNAME | Korda, Sebastian |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American tennis player |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 5, 2000 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Bradenton , Florida , United States |