Jan Kodeš
WCT Finals | SF (1974) |
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Doubles | |
Career record | 313-183 |
Career titles | 17 |
Highest ranking | No. 12 (21 May 1979) |
Grand Slam doubles results | |
French Open | F (1977) |
Jan Kodeš (born 1 March 1946) is a Czech former professional tennis player. A three-time major singles champion, Kodeš was one of the premier players in the early 1970s.
Kodeš's greatest success was achieved on the
Kodeš never played at the
Kodeš was inducted into the
Career statistics
The tables do not include victories and final participation in tournaments from 1966 to 1969, such as victories in international championships and tournaments in Santiago, Viña del Mar, Sao Paulo, Lyon, Cannes, Luxembourg, St. Petersburg (USA), Beirut, Zaragoza, Split, Varna, Plovdiv, Paris (Racing Club) and three times in the MM CSSR in Bratislava. In doubles with Javorsky in Bratislava, then with Jan Kukal, he won tournaments in Lyon, Hilversum, Macon (USA), Pittsburgh, Caracas, Istanbul, Bratislava, Beirut and Split. With Pala in Luxembourg and Zaragoza. With Rodriguez in Viña del Mar, Chile. In all these tournaments or championships, the starting field was always at least 32 players, like today's ATP tour tournaments, but they are not listed in the ATP Tour yearbooks because the ATP Tour did not exist at that time and did not publish publications.
In the book written by Petr Kolar and Jan Kodes, "A Journey to Glory from behind the Iron Curtain", there are 25 singles wins, 27 appearances in finals, 32 doubles wins and 29 appearances in doubles finals. He participated in the final Grand Prix "Masters" tournaments (now ATP Finals) from 1970-1974 (Tokyo 1970, Paris 1971, Barcelona 1972, Boston 1973 and Dallas 1974).
Grand Slam finals: 5 (3 titles, 2 runner-ups)
Result | Year | Championship | Surface | Opponent | Score |
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Win | 1970 | French Open | Clay | ![]() |
6–2, 6–4, 6–0 |
Win | 1971 | French Open (2) | Clay | ![]() |
8–6, 6–2, 2–6, 7–5 |
Loss | 1971 | US Open | Grass | ![]() |
6–3, 3–6, 2–6, 6–7(3–5) |
Win | 1973 | Wimbledon | Grass | ![]() |
6–1, 9–8(7–5), 6–3 |
Loss | 1973 | US Open (2) | Grass | ![]() |
4–6, 6–1, 6–4, 2–6, 3–6 |
Grand Slam singles performance timeline
W | F | SF | QF | #R | RR | Q# | DNQ | A | NH |
Tournament | 1966 | 1967 | 1968 | 1969 | 1970 | 1971 | 1972 | 1973 | 1974 | 1975 | 1976 | 1977 | 1978 | 1979 | 1980 | 1981 | SR | W–L | Win % |
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Australian Open | Absent | 0 / 0 | 0–0 | – | |||||||||||||||
French Open | 2R | 4R | 1R[a] | 4R | W | W | QF | QF | 4R | 4R | 3R | 4R | 3R | 2R | 2R | 1R | 2 / 16 | 43–13 | 76.79 |
Wimbledon | 1R | 1R | 1R | 2R | 1R | 1R | SF | W | QF | 2R | A | 1R | 1R | 1R | 2R | 1R | 1 / 15 | 19–14 | 57.58 |
US Open | A | A | A | 2R | A | F | 2R | F | 4R | 4R | QF | 3R | A | 2R | A | A | 0 / 9 | 27–9 | 75.00 |
Win–loss | 1–2 | 3–2 | 0–1 | 5–3 | 7–1 | 13–2 | 9–3 | 17–2 | 10–3 | 7–3 | 6–2 | 5–3 | 2–2 | 2–3 | 2–2 | 0–2 | 3 / 40 | 89–36 | 71.20 |
Open era finals
Singles (9 titles, 19 runner-ups)
Result | W/L | Date | Tournament | Surface | Opponent | Score |
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Win | 1. | 1970 | St. Petersburg, U.S. | Clay | ![]() |
6–3, 6–3, 6–3 |
Win | 2. | 1970 | French Open, Paris | Clay | ![]() |
6–2, 6–4, 6–0 |
Loss | 1. | 1970 | Rome , Italy
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Clay | ![]() |
3–6, 6–1, 3–6, 6–8 |
Loss | 2. | 1971 | Nice, France | Clay | ![]() |
8–10, 9–11, 1–6 |
Win | 3. | 1971 | Catania, Italy | Clay | ![]() |
6–3, 6–0, 6–2 |
Loss | 3. | 1971 | Rome WCT, Italy | Clay | ![]() |
5–7, 3–6, 3–6 |
Win | 4. | 1971 | French Open, Paris | Clay | ![]() |
8–6, 6–2, 2–6, 7–5 |
Loss | 4. | 1971 | US Open, New York | Grass | ![]() |
6–3, 3–6, 2–6, 6–7 |
Loss | 5. | 1971 | Stockholm WCT, Sweden | Hard (i) | ![]() |
1–6, 6–3, 2–6, 6–1, 4–6 |
Loss | 6. | 1972 | Nice, France | Clay | ![]() |
0–6, 4–6, 3–6 |
Loss | 7. | 1972 | Rome, Italy | Clay | ![]() |
6–4, 1–6, 5–7, 2–6 |
Win | 5. | 1972 | Barcelona , Spain
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Clay | ![]() |
6–3, 6–2, 6–3 |
Win | 6. | 1973 | Cologne, West Germany | Carpet (i) | ![]() |
6–1, 6–3, 6–1 |
Loss | 8. | 1973 | Vancouver, Canada | Carpet (i) | ![]() |
6–3, 2–6, 5–7 |
Win | 7. | 1973 | Wimbledon, London | Grass | ![]() |
6–1, 9–8, 6–3 |
Loss | 9. | 1973 | US Open, New York | Grass | ![]() |
4–6, 6–1, 6–4, 2–6, 3–6 |
Loss | 10. | 1973 | Prague, Czechoslovakia | Carpet (i) | ![]() |
6–4, 1–6, 6–3, 0–6, 5–7 |
Loss | 11. | 1974 | Acapulco, Mexico | Carpet (i) | ![]() |
2–6, 6–7 |
Loss | 12. | 1975 | Hampton, U.S. | Carpet (i) | ![]() |
6–3, 3–6, 0–6 |
Loss | 13. | 1975 | Hamburg, West Germany | Clay | ![]() |
6–3, 2–6, 2–6, 6–4, 1–6 |
Loss | 14. | 1975 | Düsseldorf, West Germany | Clay | ![]() |
4–6, 6–1, 0–6, 5–7 |
Loss | 15. | 1975 | Kitzbühel , Austria
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Clay | ![]() |
6–2, 2–6, 5–7, 4–6 |
Win | 8. | 1975 | Madrid, Spain | Clay | ![]() |
6–2, 3–6, 7–6, 6–2 |
Win | 9. | 1976 | Basel , Switzerland
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Carpet (i) | ![]() |
6–4, 6–2, 6–3 |
Loss | 16. | 1976 | Nice, France | Clay | ![]() |
2–6, 6–2, 7–5, 6–7, 6–8 |
Loss | 17. | 1976 | Kitzbühel, Austria | Clay | ![]() |
6–7, 2–6, 6–7 |
Loss | 18. | 1976 | Aviles, Spain | Clay | ![]() |
6–7, 1–6, 7–5, 6–7 |
Loss | 19. | 1977 | Kitzbühel, Austria | Clay | ![]() |
7–5, 2–6, 6–4, 3–6, 2–6 |
Doubles (17 titles, 24 runner-ups)
Result | W/L | Date | Tournament | Surface | Partner | Opponents | Score |
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Loss | 1. | 1970 | Båstad, Sweden | Clay | ![]() |
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2–6, 6–2, 12–12 ret. |
Loss | 2. | 1970 | Kitzbühel , Austria
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Clay | ![]() |
8–10, 2–6, 4–6 | |
Loss | 3. | 1970 | Phoenix , U.S.
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Hard | ![]() |
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6–7, 3–6 |
Loss | 4. | 1970 | Buenos Aires, Argentina | Clay | ![]() |
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5–7, 2–6, 7–5, 7–6, 3–6 |
Loss | 5. | 1971 | Macon, U.S. | Carpet | ![]() |
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3–6, 6–7 |
Loss | 6. | 1971 | Catania, Italy | Clay | ![]() |
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6–7, 6–2, 3–6 |
Win | 1. | 1971 | Indianapolis , U.S.
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Clay | ![]() |
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7–6, 5–7, 6–3 |
Win | 2. | 1972 | Nice , France
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Clay | ![]() |
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6–3, 3–6, 7–5 |
Win | 3. | 1972 | Hamburg , West Germany
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Clay | ![]() |
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4–6, 6–0, 3–6, 6–2, 6–2 |
Loss | 7. | 1972 | Montreal , Canada
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Clay | ![]() |
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6–7, 3–6 |
Win | 4. | 1973 | Los Angeles , U.S.
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Hard | ![]() |
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6–2, 6–4 |
Win | 5. | 1973 | Prague, Czechoslovakia | Mateflex | ![]() |
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7–6, 7–6 |
Win | 6. | 1974 | Palm Desert, U.S. | Hard | ![]() |
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6–4, 6–4 |
Win | 7. | 1974 | Düsseldorf, West Germany | Clay | ![]() |
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6–1, 6–4 |
Loss | 8. | 1975 | Salisbury , U.S.
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Carpet | ![]() |
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6–7, 2–6 |
Win | 8. | 1975 | Munich , West Germany
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Clay | ![]() |
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7–5, 6–3 |
Loss | 9. | 1975 | Hamburg , West Germany
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Clay | ![]() |
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3–6, 6–7 |
Win | 9. | 1975 | Düsseldorf, West Germany | Clay | ![]() |
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6–2, 6–3 |
Loss | 10. | 1975 | Montreal , Canada
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Hard | ![]() |
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4–6, 7–5, 6–7 |
Win | 10. | 1975 | Madrid, Spain | Clay | ![]() |
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6–4, 3–6, 9–7 |
Win | 11. | 1976 | Kitzbühel, Austria | Clay | ![]() |
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6–7, 6–2, 6–4 |
Loss | 12. | 1977 | Baltimore , U.S.
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Carpet | ![]() |
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3–6, 7–6, 4–6 |
Win | 12. | 1977 | Monte Carlo , Monaco
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Clay | ![]() |
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2–6, 6–3, 6–2 |
Loss | 13. | 1977 | French Open, Paris | Clay | ![]() |
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6–7, 6–4, 3–6, 4–6 |
Win | 13. | 1977 | Barcelona , Spain
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Clay | ![]() |
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6–0, 6–4 |
Loss | 14. | 1977 | Vienna , Austria
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Carpet | ![]() |
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4–6, 3–6 |
Loss | 15. | 1977 | Oviedo, Spain | Carpet | ![]() |
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3–6, 1–6 |
Loss | 16. | 1978 | Springfield, U.S. | Carpet | ![]() |
Stan Smith | 3–6, 3–6 |
Loss | 17. | 1978 | Nice , France
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Clay | ![]() |
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4–6, 0–6 |
Loss | 18. | 1978 | Rome , Italy
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Clay | ![]() |
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7–6, 6–7, 1–6 |
Win | 14. | 1978 | Stuttgart , West Germany
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Clay | ![]() |
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6–3, 7–6 |
Loss | 19. | 1978 | Aix-en-Provence, France | Clay | ![]() |
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6–7, 1–6 |
Win | 15. | 1978 | Madrid, Spain | Clay | ![]() |
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6–7, 6–1, 6–2 |
Win | 16. | 1979 | Hamburg, West Germany | Clay | ![]() |
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6–3, 6–1, 7–6 |
Loss | 20. | 1979 | Hilversum, Netherlands | Clay | ![]() |
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1–6, 3–6 |
Loss | 21. | 1979 | Indianapolis , U.S.
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Clay | ![]() |
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4–6, 6–7 |
Loss | 22. | 1980 | Barcelona , Spain
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Clay | ![]() |
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2–6, 7–6, 3–6 |
Loss | 23. | 1980 | Cologne, West Germany | Carpet | ![]() |
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4–6, 1–6 |
Win | 17. | 1982 | Hilversum, Netherlands | Clay | ![]() |
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7–6, 6–4 |
Loss | 24. | 1983 | Hilversum, Netherlands | Clay | ![]() |
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6–3, 2–6, 3–6 |
At results above are not shown wins and runner-ups from 1965 to 1969, such as tournaments in Santiago, Viňa del Mar, São Paulo, Lyon, Cannes, Luxembourg, Split, Varna, Plovdiv, Paris (Racing Club) or International championships of Czechoslovakia in Bratislava. The draws of players were always minimum 32 players, same as at contemporary ATP Tour events, but they are not listed in ATP Annuals, since ATP was founded at 1972.
References
- ISBN 0-00-711707-8
- ^ "Wimbledon Singles Titles Captured by King, Kodeš". No. The Spokesman-Review. AP. 8 July 1973.
- ^ ISBN 9780362001686.
- ^ "Newcombe cops U.S. net Open". No. Star–News. UPI. 10 September 1973. p. Fifteen.
Further reading
Jan Kodeš, with Petr Kolar, A Journey to Glory from behind the Iron Curtain, New Chapter Press, Chicago, 2010,