Pavel Vízner
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$ 2,337,009 | |
Singles | |
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Career record | 0–4 |
Career titles | 0 |
Highest ranking | No. 435 (23 August 1993) |
Doubles | |
Career record | 394–359 |
Career titles | 16 |
Highest ranking | No. 5 (5 November 2007) |
Pavel Vízner (born 15 July 1970) is a retired professional
Career
While Vízner had played tournaments in 1988 and 1989 before professionalism in 1990, he won his first title in Prague in 1993 on the
Pavel broke through in 1996, winning a total of five titles; three of them being major titles. His first major title that he won was at
1997 was title dry for Vízner; however he did make the semifinals of the Wimbledon men's doubles tournament with Martin Damm, who yet again thrived as a doubles player. He participated in the Australian Open for the first time, but remained title dry for several years until 2003, and did not reach a final until 1998.
While the years of 1998, 1999 and 2000 were somewhat dull for Vízner title-wise, he did win minor titles in each of these years. He made the finals of tournaments in these three years as well, and lost a close match at the 1999 Wimbledon Championships to 6th-ranked Olivier Delaître and 12th-ranked Fabrice Santoro in the second round of doubles competition along with Peter Tramacchi, in five sets, 4–6, 6–3, 3–6, 6–1, 3–6.
His equalled-best Grand Slam performance to date came in 2001 where he and Petr Pála lost in the final of the 2001 French Open to Indians Mahesh Bhupathi and Leander Paes. Vízner and Pála also made the quarterfinals of the 2001 Wimbledon Championships, but lost to Belarus's Max Mirnyi, ranked 5th, and Belarusian compatriot Vladimir Voltchkov, ranked 406th, despite being up 2–1 in set score. In 2001, he also reached number 13, his highest rank to date.
He dropped out of the top 20 for doubles in 2002, having not won a title and losing early in many events.
2003, however, broke his title drought. He won an
In 2004, Pavel won three titles, making them his 6th, 7th and 8th titles of his career. He then went on to lose in the third round of Wimbledon and the quarterfinals of the U.S. Open in 2005 alongside Cyril Suk. He won Costa do Sauípe and Estoril with youngster partner Lukáš Dlouhý in 2006, and the team lost in the semifinals of the French Open.
2007 was a successful year for Vizner, as for the veteran aged 37 teamed with the young Dlouhý. The team defended their Costa do Sauípe title and continued their success to make the finals of Acapulco right after, but lost to Potito Starace and Martín Vassallo Argüello 0–6, 2–6.
He went on to equal his best Grand Slam performance by making the finals of the 2007 French Open men's doubles tournament with Lukáš Dlouhý, notching a win over co-ranked number ones and twin brothers Bob and Mike Bryan, and then beat 2006 Wimbledon runners-up Fabrice Santoro and Nenad Zimonjić. They were to play Mark Knowles and Daniel Nestor in the final. Vízner and Dlouhý easily took the first set 6–2, but then lost the next two and therefore lost to Knowles and Nestor.
Vízner went on to win an
Vízner returned to partnering with Dlouhý, and made a comeback as a team; as for they beat the Knowles / Nestor team avenging them for their French Open victory at the
Pavel came to make the finals of the
Grand Slam finals
Doubles: 1 runner-up
Result | Year | Championship | Surface | Partner | Opponents | Score |
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Loss | 2001 |
French Open | Clay | Petr Pála | Mahesh Bhupathi Leander Paes |
6–7, 3–6 |
Career finals
Legend |
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Grand Slam (0) |
Tennis Masters Cup (0) |
ATP Masters Series (1) |
ATP International Series Gold (3) |
ATP Tour (12) |
Doubles (16 titles)
No. | Date | Tournament | Surface | Partnering | Opponents | Score |
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1. | 20 May 1996 | Sankt Pölten | Clay | Sláva Doseděl
|
David Adams Menno Oosting |
6–7, 6–4, 6–3 |
2. | 10 June 1996 | Rosmalen
|
Grass | Paul Kilderry | Anders Järryd Mark Knowles |
7–5, 6–3 |
3. | 8 July 1996 | Gstaad
|
Clay | Jiří Novák | David Macpherson
|
4–6, 7–6, 7–6 |
4. | 24 February 2003 | Copenhagen | Hard | Tomáš Cibulec | Julian Knowle Michael Kohlmann |
7–5, 5–7, 6–2 |
5. | 14 July 2003 | Stuttgart
|
Clay | Tomáš Cibulec | Yevgeny Kafelnikov Kevin Ullyett |
3–6, 6–3, 6–4 |
6. | 9 February 2004 | Milan
|
Carpet (i) | Jared Palmer | Daniele Bracciali Giorgio Galimberti |
6–4, 6–4 |
7. | 27 September 2004 | Shanghai
|
Hard | Jared Palmer | Rick Leach Brian MacPhie |
4–6, 7–6(7–4), 7–6(13–11) |
8. | 4 October 2004 | Tokyo
|
Hard | Jared Palmer | Jiří Novák Petr Pála |
5–1, retired |
9. | 13 June 2005 | s’Hertogenbosch
|
Grass | Cyril Suk | Leoš Friedl Petr Pála |
6–3, 6–4 |
10. | 20 February 2006 | Costa do Sauípe | Clay | Lukáš Dlouhý | Mariusz Fyrstenberg Marcin Matkowski |
6–1, 4–6, [10–3] |
11. | 1 May 2006 | Estoril | Clay | Lukáš Dlouhý | Leoš Friedl Lucas Arnold Ker |
6–3, 6–1 |
12. | 9 October 2006 | Vienna
|
Hard | Petr Pála | Julian Knowle Jürgen Melzer |
6–4, 3–6, [12–10] |
13. | 12 February 2007 | Costa do Sauípe | Clay | Lukáš Dlouhý | Albert Montañés Rubén Ramírez Hidalgo |
6–2, 7–6(7–4) |
14. | 9 July 2007 | Gstaad | Clay | František Čermák | Marc Gicquel Florent Serra |
7–5, 5–7, [10–7] |
15. | 5 August 2007 | Montréal
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Hard | Mahesh Bhupathi | Paul Hanley Kevin Ullyett |
6–4, 6–4 |
16. | 17 February 2008 | Marseille
|
Hard | Martin Damm | Yves Allegro Jeff Coetzee |
7–6(7–0), 7–5 |
Doubles performance timeline
W | F | SF | QF | #R | RR | Q# | DNQ | A | NH |
Tournament | 1990 | 1991 | 1992 | 1993 | 1994 | 1995 | 1996 | 1997 | 1998 | 1999 | 2000 | 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | Career SR |
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Australian Open | A | A | A | A | A | A | A | 1R | A | 3R | 1R | 2R | 3R | 1R | 1R | 2R | 2R | 2R | 0 / 10 |
French Open | A | A | A | A | A | A | 2R | 1R | 1R | 1R | 2R | F | 1R | 3R | 2R | 2R | SF | F | 0 / 11 |
Wimbledon
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A | A | A | A | A | A | 3R | SF | 2R | 2R | 2R | QF | 1R | 1R | 3R | 3R | QF | QF | 0 / 11 |
U.S. Open | A | A | A | A | A | A | 1R | A | 1R | 1R | 1R | 3R | 2R | 2R | 3R | QF | 2R | F | 0 / 11 |
Year-end ranking | 408 | 426 | 643 | 247 | 208 | 141 | 28 | 50 | 60 | 76 | 59 | 17 | 34 | 27 | 20 | 27 | 15 | 5 | N / A |