Josef Čihák

Josef Čihák

Country (sports)	Czechoslovakia
Born	19 March 1963 Plzeň, Czechoslovakia
Height	1.85 m (6 ft 1 in)
Turned pro	1985
Plays	Right-handed
Prize money	$241,359
Singles
Career record	18–28
Career titles	0
Highest ranking	No. 72 (19 October 1987)
Grand Slam Singles results
French Open	1R (1988, 1989)
Wimbledon	1R (1988, 1989)
Doubles
Career record	49–58
Career titles	1
Highest ranking	No. 57 (20 March 1989)
Grand Slam Doubles results
French Open	2R (1988, 1989, 1990)
Wimbledon	2R (1989)

Josef Čihák (born 19 March 1963) is a former professional tennis player from the Czech Republic who competed for Czechoslovakia. He now works as a tennis coach at TK Sparta Praha.^[1]

Career

Čihák was most successful as a doubles player, reaching two doubles finals in the 1989 Grand Prix, at Båstad and Saint-Vincent, winning the latter. He had previously made doubles semi-finals at Prague and Palermo in 1987 and also Prague and Munich in 1988. As well reaching those two finals in 1989, Čihák was also a semi-finalist at the Athens Open, in the singles.^[2]

At Grand Slam level he lost all of his four singles matches. The toughest opponent he came up against was Mats Wilander in the 1988 French Open, the number three seed who went on to win the tournament. He lost two five setters in 1989, at Roland Garros and Wimbledon. In doubles he won four of his 10 matches, but never made it past the second round, which he reached on four occasions, three times with countryman Cyril Suk as his partner.^[3]

Grand Prix career finals

Doubles: 2 (1–1)

Outcome	No.	Year	Tournament	Surface	Partner	Opponents in the final	Score in the final
Runner-up	1.	1989	Båstad, Sweden	Clay	Karel Nováček	Per Henricsson Nicklas Utgren	5–7, 2–6
Winner	1.	1989	Saint-Vincent, Italy	Clay	Cyril Suk	Massimo Cierro Alessandro de Minicis	6–4, 6–2

Challenger titles

Singles: (3)

No.	Year	Tournament	Surface	Opponent in the final	Score in the final
1.	1984	Bielefeld, West Germany	Clay	Peter Elter	6–2, 7–5
2.	1988	Pescara, Italy	Clay	Gerardo Vacarezza	6–4, 6–3
3.	1988	Casablanca, Morocco	Clay	David de Miguel	6–4, 6–2

Doubles: (11)

No.	Year	Tournament	Surface	Partner	Opponents in the final	Score in the final
1.	1985	Bahia, Brazil	Hard	Tom Nijssen	Emilio Sánchez Víctor Pecci	6–4, 6–3
2.	1987	Budapest, Hungary	Clay	Cyril Suk	Christer Allgardh David Engel	6–2, 7–6
3.	1988	Cairo, Egypt	Clay	Cyril Suk	Roberto Argüello Marcelo Ingaramo	6–3, 6–2
4.	1988	Agadir, Morocco	Clay	Cyril Suk	José López-Maeso Alberto Tous	6–2, 6–2
5.	1988	San Marino	Clay	Christer Allgardh	João Cunha e Silva Jörgen Windahl	6–4, 6–2
6.	1988	Casablanca, Morocco	Clay	Cyril Suk	Arnaud Boetsch Denis Langaskens	6–2, 6–0
7.	1989	Casablanca, Morocco	Clay	Mark Koevermans	Marcelo Ingaramo Christian Miniussi	6–4, 6–4
8.	1989	Agadir, Morocco	Clay	Cyril Suk	Brett Dickinson Jörgen Windahl	6–3, 6–3
9.	1990	Agadir, Morocco	Clay	Cyril Suk	Omar Camporese Diego Nargiso	W/O
10.	1991	Porto, Portugal	Clay	Tomáš Anzari	Juan Carlos Báguena Andrés Gómez	7–5, 6–2
11.	1991	Pescara, Italy	Clay	Tomáš Anzari	Johan Donar John Sobel	6–3, 6–4

References

1. Coaches of TK Sparta Praha
2. ATP World Tour Profile
3. ITF Tennis Profile

External links

• Josef Čihák at the Association of Tennis Professionals
• Josef Čihák at the International Tennis Federation