Lukáš Rosol

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Lukáš Rosol
Singles

Country	Czech Republic
Residence	Přerov, Czech Republic
Born	(1985-07-24) 24 July 1985 Brno, Czechoslovakia
Height	1.96 m (6 ft 5 in)
Turned pro	2004
Plays	Right-handed (two-handed backhand)
Prize money	$1,552,948
Career record	43–59 (at ATP Tour level, Grand Slam level, and in Davis Cup)
Career titles	1
Highest ranking	No. 33 (13 May 2013)
Current ranking	No. 44 (28 October 2013)
Grand Slam Singles results
Australian Open	2R (2013)
French Open	3R (2011)
Wimbledon	3R (2012)
US Open	1R (2010, 2011, 2013)
Doubles
Career record	21–30 (at ATP Tour level, Grand Slam level, and in Davis Cup)
Career titles	2
Highest ranking	No. 92 (23 September 2012)
Current ranking	No. 92 (23 September 2012)
Grand Slam Doubles results
Australian Open	1R (2012, 2013)
French Open	1R (2013)
Wimbledon	2R (2012, 2013)
US Open	1R (2011, 2013)
Team competitions
Davis Cup	W (2012)
Last updated on: 20 August 2013.

Lukáš Rosol (born 24 July 1985) is a Czech professional tennis player. Rosol competes on the ATP Challenger Tour and the ATP World Tour, both in singles and doubles. Rosol was coached by former Czech player, 1999 US Open quarterfinalist Ctislav Doseděl.^[1]^[2] His career-high singles ranking is World No. 33, achieved in 29 April 2013.

His first notable victory was against World No. 8 Jürgen Melzer at the 2011 French Open, whom he defeated in five sets in the second round a year after Melzer had reached the semi-final. A year later, Rosol rose to fame after defeating World No. 2 Rafael Nadal in the second round of Wimbledon to achieve one of the biggest upsets in the history of Grand Slam tennis.^[3]^[4]^[5] Rosol has had sustained success since then having played an integral part in the Czech Republic's Davis Cup winning team in 2012, and winning his first tour-level title in April 2013.

Rosol is also noteworthy for having played in the longest ATP doubles match ever, alongside Tomáš Berdych, defeating Marco Chiudinelli and Stanislas Wawrinka in the 1st round of the 2013 Davis Cup. The match was played on 2 February 2013, lasting 7 hours, 2 minutes. It was the second longest ATP match ever (singles and doubles combined).

Personal life

Rosol was born in Brno, Czechoslovakia. In November 2008, he married Czech athlete Denisa Rosolová (née Ščerbová). In 2011, they divorced. In 2013, Rosol became engaged to Michaela Ochotska.^[6]

Tennis career

Rosol has won 6 Challenger and 7 Futures tournaments. In April 2013, he won his first tour-level tournament: the BRD Nastase Tiriac Trophy ATP World Tour 250.

2012

Rosol rose to prominence in 2012 at the Wimbledon Championships. He had participated in the Wimbledon qualifying draw multiple times, not reaching main draw until 2012. In the first round, he defeated Ivan Dodig, then he was drawn against the two time champion and World No. 2, Rafael Nadal. After losing the first set in a very close tiebreak, Rosol regrouped and broke in the first game of the second. A dominant serving performance allowed him to take the second set 6-4. Rosol's service game held up in the third set, where he capitalized on a sloppy game by Nadal and took the set 6-4. Down two sets to one, Nadal raised his level in the fourth, taking the set 6-2 and sending the match into a deciding fifth set. At this point the match was delayed by 35 minutes in order to close the Centre Court roof. Rosol returned from the break revitalized, taking the fifth set 6-4 by striking 20 winners to only 2 unforced errors.^[7] His groundstroke speed averaged 85 mph and peaked at an incredible 114 mph.^[8] In the final game of the match, Rosol delivered 3 aces and a forehand winner to close out one of the greatest upsets in Grand Slam history by a score of 6–7^(9–11), 6–4, 6–4, 2–6, 6–4. He went on to lose his third round match against Philipp Kohlschreiber in straight sets.

In the doubles draw, Rosol and partner Mikhail Kukushkin defeated the British duo of Colin Fleming and Ross Hutchins in 5 sets in the first round. They lost in the second round to James Cerretani and Édouard Roger-Vasselin.

2013

At the 2013 Australian Open, Rosol defeated Jamie Baker of Great Britain in the first round.^[9] He subsequently lost to 13th seed Milos Raonic in the second round.

In April, he won his first ATP Tour singles tournament with a victory in Bucharest. He was unseeded in the tournament and beat three seeded players en route to the final: 3rd seed Andreas Seppi, 8th seed Viktor Troicki and 2nd seed Gilles Simon. In the final, he defeated Guillermo García-López, only dropping one set throughout the entire tournament and tearfully dedicating the triumph to his father, who introduced him to tennis and deceased two weeks prior.

At the French Open, Rosol lost in the second round to Fabio Fognini in four sets.^[10]^[11]

2014

Rosol began his 2014 season at the Qatar ExxonMobil Open in Doha, losing in straight sets to eventual champion Rafael Nadal.^[12]

Rosol then travelled down under to play in the 2014 Apia International Sydney. He beat his first round opponent João Sousa in three sets 7-6, 4-6, 7-6. This win would set up a match with the Tournament's fourth seed Dmitry Tursunov.

ATP career finals

Singles: 1 (1–0)

Legend
Grand Slam Tournaments (0–0)
ATP World Tour Finals (0–0)
ATP World Tour Masters 1000 (0–0)
ATP World Tour 500 Series (0–0)
ATP World Tour 250 Series (1–0)

Titles by surface
Hard (0–0)
Clay (1–0)
Grass (0–0)
Carpet (0–0)

Outcome	No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Opponent	Score
Winner	1.	28 April 2013	BRD Năstase Țiriac Trophy, Bucharest, Romania	Clay	Guillermo García-López	6–3, 6–2

Doubles: 2 (2–0)

Legend
Grand Slam Tournaments (0–0)
ATP World Tour Finals (0–0)
ATP World Tour Masters 1000 (0–0)
ATP World Tour 500 Series (0–0)
ATP World Tour 250 Series (2–0)

Finals by Surface
Hard (2–0)
Clay (0–0)
Grass (0–0)
Carpet (0–0)

Outcome	No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Partner	Opponents	Score
Winner	1.	6 January 2012	Qatar ExxonMobil Open, Doha, Qatar	Hard	Filip Polášek	Christopher Kas Philipp Kohlschreiber	6–3, 6–4
Winner	2.	20 October 2013	Erste Bank Open, Vienna, Austria	Hard (i)	Florin Mergea	Daniel Nestor Julian Knowle	7-5, 6-4

Singles performance timeline

Current as far as the US Open 2013.

Tournament	2007	2008	2009	2010	2011	2012	2013	SR	W–L	Win %
Grand Slam tournaments
Australian Open	Q1	Q2	A	A	Q1	1R	2R	0 / 2	1–2	33.33
French Open	A	Q2	Q3	Q2	3R	2R	2R	0 / 3	4–3	57.14
Wimbledon	Q1	Q1	Q1	Q1	Q1	3R	1R	0 / 1	2–2	50.00
US Open	Q2	A	Q3	1R	1R	Q3	1R	0 / 3	0–3	00.00
Win–Loss	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–1	2–2	3–3	2–4	0 / 10	7–10	41.18
ATP World Tour Masters 1000
Indian Wells Masters	A	A	A	A	A	1R	1R	0 / 2	0–2	00.00
Miami Masters	A	A	A	Q1	Q2	3R	2R	0 / 2	3–2	60.00
Monte Carlo Masters	A	A	A	A	A	Q1	A	0 / 0	0–0
Madrid Masters	A	A	A	A	A	A	A	0 / 0	0–0
Rome Masters	A	A	A	A	A	A	1R	0 / 1	0–1	0.00
Canada Masters	A	A	A	A	A	A	1R	0 / 1	0–1	0.00
Cincinnati Masters	A	A	A	A	A	A	1R	0 / 1	0–1	0.00
Shanghai Masters	A	A	A	A	A	A	2R	0 / 1	1-1
Paris Masters	A	A	A	A	Q1	A	2R	0 / 1	1-1
Win–Loss	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	2–2	3-7	0 / 7	3–7	30.00
Career statistics
Titles–Finals	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	1–1	1 / 1	1–0	100.00
Year End Ranking	271	182	148	164	70	73	47	$1,301,821

Top 10 wins per season

Season	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008	2009	2010	2011	2012	2013
Wins	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	0

Wins over top 10 players per season

#	Player	Rank	Event	Surface	Rd	Score
2011
1.	Jurgen Melzer	8	French Open, Paris, France	Clay	2R	6–7^(4–7), 6–4, 4–6, 7–6^(7–3), 6–4
2012
2.	Rafael Nadal	2	Wimbledon Championships, London, England	Grass	2R	6–7^(9–11), 6–4, 6–4, 2–6, 6–4

Doubles Performance Timeline

Current as far as the US Open 2013.

Tournament	2011	2012	2013	W–L
Grand Slam Tournaments
Australian Open		1R	1R	0–2
French Open				0–0
Wimbledon	1R	2R	2R	2–3
US Open	1R		1R	0–2
Win–Loss	0–2	1–2	1–3	2–7

Futures and Challenger finals: 56 (34–22)

Singles: 21 (13–8)

Legend
Challengers (6–2)
Futures (7–6)

Outcome	No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Opponent	Score
Runner-up	1.	02005-08-2929 August 2005	Szolnok, Hungary	Clay (Red)	Kornél Bardóczky	6–2, 6–1
Runner-up	2.	02006-02-2727 February 2006	Wrocław, Poland	Hard (i)	Thomas Oger	6–3, 2–6, 7–6^(7–4)
Winner	1.	02005-08-2929 August 2005	Zabrze, Poland	Hard (i)	Alexandre Krasnoroutsky	6–3, 6–3
Runner-up	3.	02006-07-1010 July 2006	Trier, Germany	Clay (Red)	Niels Desein	2–6, 7–6^(7–1), 6–4
Runner-up	4.	02006-07-1717 July 2006	Waterloo, Belgium	Clay (Red)	Pavol Červenák	6–4, 6–4
Runner-up	5.	02006-08-2121 August 2006	Poznań, Poland	Clay (Red)	Jan Minář	6–4, 6–3
Winner	2.	02006-10-1616 October 2006	La Roche-sur-Yon, France	Hard (i)	Julien Jeanpierre	7–5, 6–3
Winner	3.	02006-12-044 December 2006	Opava, Czech Republic	Carpet (i)	Joshua Goodall	6–7^(5–7), 6–4, 7–6^(10–8)
Winner	4.	02007-05-077 May 2007	Teplice, Czech Republic	Clay (Red)	Martin Vacek	6–7^(4–7), 6–4, 6–4
Winner	5.	02007-05-1414 May 2007	Namangan, Uzbekistan	Hard	Yeu-tzuoo Wang	7–6^(7–2), 6–4
Winner	6.	02007-10-1515 October 2007	La Roche-sur-Yon, France	Hard (i)	Adrian Mannarino	6–4, 3–6, 6–4
Runner-up	6.	02007-12-1010 December 2007	Opava, Czech Republic	Carpet (i)	Karol Beck	2–6, 7–5, 7–5
Winner	7.	02008-06-099 June 2008	Košice, Slovakia	Clay (Red)	Miguel Ángel López Jaén	7–5, 6–1
Winner	8.	02009-01-2626 January 2009	Mettmann, Germany	Carpet (i)	Stéphane Robert	7–6^(8–6), 6–4
Winner	9.	02009-03-022 March 2009	Bergamo, Italy	Hard (i)	Benedikt Dorsch	6–1, 4–6, 7–6^(7–3)
Winner	10.	02010-05-022 May 2010	Ostrava, Czech Republic	Clay	Ivan Dodig	7–5, 4–6, 7–6^(7–4)
Runner-up	7.	02011-01-3131 January 2011	Singapore, Singapore	Hard	Dmitry Tursunov	6–4, 6–2
Winner	11.	8 May 2011	Prague, Czech Republic	Clay	Alex Bogomolov, Jr.	7–6^(7–1), 5–2 ret.
Winner	12.	13 July 2011	Braunschweig, Germany	Clay	Evgeny Donskoy	7–5, 7–6^(7–2)
Winner	13.	11 November 2012	Bratislava, Slovakia	Hard (i)	Björn Phau	6–7^(3–7), 7–6^(7–5), 7–6^(8–6)
Runner-up	14./8.	10 November 2013	Bratislava, Slovakia	Hard (i)	Lukáš Lacko	6–4, 3–6, 6–4

Doubles: 35 (21–14)

Legend
Challengers (7–8)
Futures (14–6)

Outcome	No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Partner	Opponents	Score
Runner-up	1.	02005-01-2424 January 2005	Anif, Austria	Carpet (i)	Martin Fafl	Markus Krenn Wolfgang Schranz	6–4, 6–2
Winner	1.	02005-08-011 August 2005	Novi Sad, Serbia and Montenegro	Clay (Red)	Peter Miklusicak	Aleksander Slović Viktor Troicki	6–4, 6–4
Runner-up	2.	02005-08-1515 August 2005	Žilina, Slovakia	Clay (Red)	Daniel Lustig	Jaroslav Pospíšil Adrian Sikora	6–2, 3–6, 6–0
Winner	2.	02005-08-2222 August 2005	Kaposvár, Hungary	Clay (Red)	Alessandro da Col	José-Carlos García-Sánchez Miguel Pérez Puigdomenech	7–5, 4–6, 6–4
Runner-up	3.	02005-08-2929 August 2005	Szolnok, Hungary	Clay (Red)	Alessandro da Col	Kornél Bardóczky Gergely Kisgyörgy	6–2, 6–1
Winner	3.	02006-03-066 March 2006	Zabrze, Poland	Hard	Michail Filima	Mateusz Kowalczyk Dawid Piatkowski	6–1, 3–6, 6–3
Winner	4.	02006-05-1515 May 2006	Most, Czech Republic	Clay (Red)	Roman Vogeli	Daniel Brands Johan Brunström	6–2, 5–7, 7–6^(7–5)
Runner-up	4.	02006-06-2626 June 2006	Szolnok, Hungary	Clay (Red)	David Klier	Jakub Hašek David Novak	7–6^(7–4), 2–6, 6–3
Winner	5.	02006-07-1717 July 2006	Waterloo, Belgium	Clay (Red)	Nikita Kryvonos	Jordane Doble Julien Jeanpierre	6–2, 6–3
Winner	6.	02006-07-2424 July 2006	Sint-Katelijne-Waver, Belgium	Clay (Red)	Nikita Kryvonos	Stephan Fransen Romano Frantzen	6–2, 6–7^(5–7), 7–5
Winner	7.	02006-10-2323 October 2006	Rodez, France	Hard (i)	Denis Istomin	Stefan Wauters Reginald Willems	4–6, 7–6^(7–4), 7–6^(7–4)
Winner	8.	02006-11-2727 November 2006	Vendryně, Czech Republic	Hard (i)	Igor Zelenay	Daniel Lustig Filip Polášek	6–1, 6–1
Winner	9.	02006-12-044 December 2006	Opava, Czech Republic	Carpet (i)	Igor Zelenay	Roman Vogeli Jaroslav Pospíšil	4–6, 6–2, 6–1
Winner	10.	02007-02-055 February 2007	Wrocław, Poland	Hard (i)	Jan Vacek	Michal Mertiňák Jean-Claude Scherrer	7–5, 7–6^(7–4)
Winner	11.	02006-12-044 December 2006	Zagreb, Croatia	Hard (i)	Ivan Dodig	Petar Jelenić Slimane Saoudi	6–7^(1–7), 6–4, 6–4
Runner-up	5.	02007-03-1212 March 2007	Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina	Hard (i)	Jan Mertl	Ernests Gulbis Deniss Pavlovs	6–4, 6–3
Winner	12.	02007-04-3030 April 2007	Ostrava, Czech Republic	Clay (Red)	Bastian Knittel	Alexander Krasnorutskiy Alexandre Kudryavtsev	2–6, 7–5, [11–9]
Winner	13.	02007-05-1414 May 2007	Namangan, Uzbekistan	Hard	Martin Slanar	Ti Chen Yeu-tzuoo Wang	6–2, 3–6, 6–1
Runner-up	6.	02007-05-2121 May 2007	Fergana, Uzbekistan	Hard (i)	Martin Slanar	Daniel Brands John Paul Fruttero	7–6^(7–1), 7–5
Winner	14.	02007-06-1111 June 2007	Košice, Slovakia	Clay (Red)	Filip Polášek	Leonardo Azzaro Flavio Cipolla	6–1, 7–6^(7–5)
Runner-up	7.	02007-10-088 October 2007	Saint-Dizier, France	Hard (i)	Florin Mergea	Martin Slanar Pavel Šnobel	6–2, 6–3
Winner	15.	02007-10-1515 October 2007	La Roche-sur-Yon, France	Hard (i)	Raphael Durek	Vladimir Obradović Igor Sijsling	6–3, 6–1
Winner	16.	02007-12-033 December 2007	Frýdlant nad Ostravicí, Czech Republic	Carpet (i)	Igor Zelenay	Jiří Krkoška Ján Stančík	6–4, 6–2
Runner-up	8.	02007-12-1010 December 2007	Opava, Czech Republic	Carpet (i)	Igor Zelenay	Nikola Martinović Joško Topić	6–4, 7–5
Winner	17.	02008-01-2828 January 2008	Wrocław, Poland	Hard (i)	James Cerretani	Werner Eschauer Jürgen Melzer	6–7^(7–9), 6–3, [10–7]
Runner-up	9.	02008-09-011 September 2008	Düsseldorf, Germany	Clay (Red)	Igor Zelenay	Jan Hájek Tomáš Zíb	1–6, 6–2, [10–7]
Winner	18.	02009-01-055 January 2009	Schwieberdingen, Germany	Carpet (i)	Andis Juška	David Klier Philipp Marx	6–1, 6–4
Runner-up	10.	02009-03-3030 March 2009	Naples, Italy	Clay (Red)	Frank Moser	Pablo Cuevas David Marrero	6–4, 6–3
Runner-up	11.	02009-09-2121 September 2009	Trnava, Slovakia	Clay (Red)	Jan Minář	Grigor Dimitrov Teymuraz Gabashvili	6–4, 2–6, [10–8]
Runner-up	12.	02009-09-2828 September 2009	Naples, Italy	Clay (Red)	Thiago Alves	Ivan Dodig Frederico Gil	6–1, 6–3
Runner-up	13.	02010-03-088 March 2010	Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina	Hard (i)	Ivan Dodig	Nicolas Mahut Édouard Roger-Vasselin	7–6^(8–6), 6–7^(7–9), [10–5]
Winner	19.	02010-07-055 July 2010	Oberstaufen, Germany	Clay (Red)	Frank Moser	Hans Podlipnik-Castillo Max Raditschnigg	6–0, 7–5
Winner	20.	02010-09-2626 September 2010	Trnava, Slovakia	Clay (Red)	Karol Beck	Alexander Peya Martin Slanar	4–6, 7–6^(7–3), [10–8]
Runner-up	21.	02011-11-1919 November 2011	Bratislava, Slovakia	Hard	David Škoch	Jan Hájek Lukáš Lacko	7–5, 7–5
Winner	21.	02011-05-1313 May 2011	Prague, Czech Republic	Clay (Red)	Horacio Zeballos	Martin Kližan Igor Zelenay	7–5, 2–6, [12–10]

References

↑ "atpworldtour.com Profile". atpworldtour.com. ATP Tour, Inc. Retrieved 7 December 2009.
↑ "itftennis.com Men's Circuit record". itftennis.com. ITF Licensing (UK) Ltd. Retrieved 7 December 2009.
↑ Rafael Nadal vs. Lukas Rosol and the Greatest Upsets in Wimbledon History. Bleacher Report (29 June 2012). Retrieved on 3 July 2012.
↑ Nadal crashes and burns at Wimbledon in huge upset to unsung Rosol. Vancouversun.com (28 June 2012). Retrieved on 3 July 2012.
↑ Rafael Nadal humbled as Lukas Rosol serves up huge upset|Manchester Evening News. menmedia.co.uk (29 June 2012). Retrieved on 3 July 2012.
↑ ČAS profile (Czech) atletika.cz
↑ , BBC Article
↑ , BBC Article
↑ "Australian Open 2013: Jamie Baker loses to Lukas Rosol in first round", Mail Online.
↑ "Rosol tops Garcia-Lopez in Bucharest for first title", Fox News, 28 April 2013.
↑ "Rosol Turns Grief To Glory For First Title", ATP official site, 28 April 2013.
↑ Rafael Nadal beats Czech Republic player Lukas Rosol to advance to second round of Qatar Open, ABC Grandstand Sport (Australian Broadcasting Corporation), 1 January 2014

External links

Lukáš Rosol at the Association of Tennis Professionals
Lukáš Rosol at the International Tennis Federation
Lukas Rosol fan site

v t e Association of Tennis Professionals: Top ten Czech male singles tennis players as of December 9, 2013.

1. Tomáš Berdych (7 ) 2. Radek Štěpánek (44 ) 3. Lukáš Rosol (47 ) 4. Jiří Veselý (85 ) 5. Jan Hájek (106 )

6. Jan Mertl (202 ) 7. Jaroslav Pospíšil (213 ) 8. Jan Hernych (218 ) 9. Michal Konečný (301 1) 10. Roman Jebavy (373 9)

v t e Association of Tennis Professionals: Top ten Czech male doubles tennis players as of 2 December 2013.

1. Radek Štěpánek (9 ) 2. Lukáš Dlouhý (45 ) 3. František Čermák (69 ) 4. Lukáš Rosol (72 ) 5. Tomáš Berdych (174 )

6. Jaroslav Pospíšil (191 ) 7. Roman Jebavý (235 1) 8. Jaroslav Levinský (279 2) 9. Jiří Veselý (305 ) 10.Marek Michalicka (377 )

Persondata
Name	Rosol, Lukas
Alternative names
Short description	Czech tennis player
Date of birth	1985-07-24
Place of birth	Brno, Czechoslovakia
Date of death
Place of death

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