Blaž Rola

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Blaž Rola
Singles
Country	Slovenia
Residence	Ptuj, Slovenia
Born	(1990-10-05) 5 October 1990 Ptuj, Slovenia
Plays	Left-handed (two-handed backhand)
Prize money	$61,025
Career record	3–2
Career titles	0 0 Challenger, 9 Futures
Highest ranking	No. 152 (27 January 2014)
Current ranking	No. 152 (27 January 2014)
Grand Slam Singles results
Australian Open	2R (2014)
Doubles
Career record	1–0
Career titles	0 1 Challenger, 6 Futures
Highest ranking	No. 258 (13 January 2014)
Current ranking	No. 258 (13 January 2014)
Last updated on: 15 January 2014.

Blaž Rola
Medal record

Competitor for Slovenia
Men's Tennis
Mediterranean Games
Gold	2013 Mersin	Singles
Gold	2013 Mersin	Doubles

Blaž Rola (born 5 October 1990, in Ptuj) is a a Slovenian tennis player.

His highest ranking is No. 179 in singles and No. 258 in doubles. He is also representing Slovenia in the Slovenia Davis Cup team. He competed for The Ohio State University from 2010 to 2013, winning the NCAA Doubles Championship in 2012 and the NCAA Singles Championship in 2013. In his career he won nine singles and six doubles ITF Futures tournaments and one ATP Challenger in doubles. In 2013 Mediterranean Games in Mersin, Turkey he won all titles, gold in singles and doubles.^[1]

Career

2008-13

In 2008 he performed his first tournaments in ITF Futures and ATP Challenger Tour series. In 2010 he performed for the first time in Davis Cup representing Slovenia and repeated in 2013. In this period he moved to study in United States. In this period he won 9 Futures singles and 6 doubles titles and 1 title in doubles in Challenger series. At 2013 Mediterranean Games he won 2 gold medals and reached TOP 200 at ATP rankings for the first time.

2014

Not counting Davis Cup he performed his first ever ATP/Grand Slam tournament qualifications ever. In his first ATP qualifications he reached the main draw of 2014 Australian Open where he lost in 2nd round against Martin Kližan. With this result he became 5th Slovene male player in main draw of Grand Slams.

Davis Cup

Singles performances (2–1)

Edition	Round	Date	Against	Surface	Opponent	Result	Outcome
2010 Europe/Africa Zone Group II	QF	11 July 2010	Bulgaria	Clay	Valentin Dimov	6–0, 6–1	Win
2013 Europe/Africa Zone Group I	RPO	13 September 2013	South Africa	Clay	Rik de Voest	6-1, 6-4, 6-4	Win
2013 Europe/Africa Zone Group I	RPO	15 September 2013	South Africa	Clay	Nikala Scholtz	2-3 RET	Lose

Doubles performances (1-0)

Edition	Round	Date	Partnering	Against	Surface	Opponents	Result	Outcome
2013 Europe/Africa Zone Group I	RPO	14 September 2013	Blaž Kavčič	South Africa	Hard (I)	Raven Klaasen Nikala Scholtz	7–5, 6-1, 7–6^(7–4)	Win

Career titles (16)

Singles titles (9)

Legend
Futures

No.	Tournament	Date	City	Surface	Opponent	Score
1	Slovenia F3	13-Jun-2010	Maribor	Clay	György Balázs	2–6, 6–4, 6–4
2	Austria F3	14-Aug-2010	Bad Waltersdorf	Clay	Pascal Brunner	7–5, 6–3
3	USA F17	25-Jun-2012	Innisbrook	Clay	Luis David Martínez	6–2, 6–1
4	Austria F3	23-Jul-2012	Bad Waltersdorf	Clay	Nicolas Reissig	6–3, 6–2
5	Croatia F8	20-Aug-2012	Vinkovci	Clay	Toni Androić	6–2, 6–2
6	Austria F9	3-Sep-2012	Vogau	Clay	Mario Haider-Maurer	6–2, 7–6^(7–5)
7	Mexico F12	10-Jun-2013	Quintana Roo	Hard	Jose Pereira	7–6^(7–6), 6–4
8	Poland F5	1-Sep-2013	Bytom	Clay	Filip Krajinovic	W/O
9	Armenia F1	6-Oct-2013	Yerevan	Clay	Boy Westerhof	6–2, 6–4

Doubles titles (7)

Legend
Challenger (1)
Futures (6)

No.	Tournament	Date	City	Surface	Partner	Opponent	Score
1	Croatia F9	16-Oct-2009	Dubrovnik	Clay	Martin Rmus	Morgan Phillips Antonio Sancic	6–3, 7–6^(9–7)
2	Slovenia F3	11-Jun-2010	Maribor	Clay	Martin Rmus	Javier Marti S. Perez-Perez	6–3, 6–3
3	USA F17	1-Jul-2012	Innisbrook	Clay	Chase Buchanan	Keith-Patrick Crowley Joshua Zavala	6–4, 6–2
4	Austria F1	15-Jul-2012	Seefeld	Clay	Tomislav Ternar	Stefan Hirn Sebastian Stiefelmeyer	6–2, 7–5
5	Croatia F8	26-Aug-2012	Vinkovci	Clay	Mislav Hizak	Tomislav Brkić Aldin Setkić	6–4, 7–6^(7–3)
6	Austria F9	9-Sep-2012	Vogau	Clay	Ruben Gonzales	Lukas Jastraunig Tristan-Samuel Weissborn	6–2, 6-2
7	Dunlop World Challenge	24-Nov-2013	Toyota	Carpet (I)	Chase Buchanan	Marcus Daniell Artem Sitak	4–6, 6–3, [10–4]

Singles performance timeline

Tournament	2008	2009	2010	2011	2012	2013	2014	Career W–L
Grand Slam Tournaments
Australian Open	A	A	A	A	A	A	2R	1–1
French Open	A	A	A	A	A	A		0–0
Wimbledon	A	A	A	A	A	A		0–0
US Open	A	A	A	A	A	A		0–0
Win–Loss	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	1-1	1–1
National Representation
Davis Cup	A	A	QF	A	A	PO		2-1
Win–Loss	0–0	0–0	1–0	0–0	0–0	1-1		2–1
Statistics
Overall Win–Loss	0–0	0–0	1–0	0–0	0–0	1–1	1-1	3–2
Win %	0%	0%	100%	0%	0%	50%	50%	60%
Year End Ranking	1465	933	423	721	307	201		N/A

* Statistics correct As of 15 January 2014 (2014-01-15)

Head-to-head statistics

Full list

Rola's career win–loss record in singles matches on ATP World Tour and Davis Cup Main Draw:

* ATP statistics doesn't include Walkovers (w/o), Qualifying matches, or matches at a Challenger or Futures event, Hopman Cup, or any other fraction of the exhibition event.

3–2

From 11 July 2010 to 15 January 2014

References

↑ challengertennis.wordpress.com

External links

Blaž Rola at the Association of Tennis Professionals
Blaž Rola at the International Tennis Federation
Blaž Rola at the Davis Cup

v t e Association of Tennis Professionals: Top Slovenian male singles tennis players as of January 6, 2014

Blaž Kavčič (102 2) Aljaž Bedene (105 10) Grega Žemlja (126 5) Blaž Rola (185 1) Janez Semrajc (303 3) Nik Razboršek (526 3) Mike Urbanija (588 2) Tom Kočevar-Desman (778 1) Tomislav Ternar (842 2) Luka Gregorc (1114 2)

Persondata
Name	Rola, Blaž
Alternative names
Short description	Tennis player
Date of birth	5 October 1990
Place of birth	Ptuj, Slovenia
Date of death
Place of death

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