Jiří Lehečka (born 8 November 2001) is a Czech tennis player. Lehečka has a career high ATP singles ranking of World No. 59 achieved on 8 August 2022. He also has a career high ATP doubles ranking of World No. 214 achieved on 7 March 2022. Lehečka has a career high ITF junior combined ranking of No. 10 achieved on 11 March 2019. He is currently the No. 1 Czech tennis player in singles.[1]

Jiří Lehečka

Lehečka at the 2022 Monte-Carlo Masters
Country (sports)	Czech Republic
Residence	Kněžmost, Czech Republic
Born	(2001-11-08) 8 November 2001 (age 21) Mladá Boleslav, Czech Republic
Height	1.85 m (6 ft 1 in)
Turned pro	2020
Plays	Right-handed
Coach	Michal Navrátil
Prize money	$620,764
Singles
Career record	10–19 (at ATP Tour level, Grand Slam level, and in Davis Cup)
Career titles	0
Highest ranking	No. 59 (8 August 2022)
Current ranking	No. 74 (26 September 2022)
Grand Slam singles results
Australian Open	1R (2022)
French Open	1R (2022)
Wimbledon	1R (2022)
US Open	1R (2022)
Doubles
Career record	0–5 (at ATP Tour level, Grand Slam level, and in Davis Cup)
Career titles	0
Highest ranking	No. 214 (7 March 2022)
Current ranking	No. 419 (26 September 2022)
Grand Slam doubles results
US Open	1R (2022)
Team competitions
Davis Cup	0–2
Last updated on: 26 September 2022.

Early life

Jiří Lehečka is the son of two athletes. His father was a swimmer, and his mother was a track and field star. He has long enjoyed skiing, cycling and swimming and remembers first touching a tennis racquet at three. His grandmother, who competed on a national level, taught his older sister the game, so naturally he wanted to play. When Lehečka was young, he admired Tomáš Berdych and Radek Štěpánek.[2]

Professional career

2021: Challenger 2 singles & 3 doubles titles, Singles top 150, Doubles top 250

Lehečka won two ATP Challenger singles titles, one ATP Challenger doubles title with Vít Kopřiva and two with Zdeněk Kolář.

2022: Major debut, first match win & semifinal on ATP debut, Top 60

Lehečka qualified for the main draw of the 2022 Australian Open, defeating Michael Mmoh, Max Purcell, and Dmitry Popko.[3] He lost in the first round to the 26th seed Grigor Dimitrov in four sets.

At the 2022 ABN AMRO World Tennis Tournament in Rotterdam , he reached the second round as a qualifier, with a stunning upset over fifth seed Denis Shapovalov in straight sets in his first ATP Tour main-draw match.[4] He went on to defeat Botic van de Zandschulp and Lorenzo Musetti to reach the semifinals on his ATP debut, where he was defeated in three sets by top seed Stefanos Tsitsipas. He became the lowest-ranked Rotterdam semifinalist since then-World No. 225 Omar Camporese in 1995. As a result he moved 42 positions up into the top 100 in the rankings at World No. 95 on 14 February 2022.[5]

At the 2022 Serbia Open he qualified into the main draw but lost in the second round to second seed, World No. 8 and eventual champion Andrey Rublev. At the 2022 BMW Open he qualified into the main draw again defeating Alejandro Tabilo 6–4, 7–6^(7–3) in the final round of qualifying.[6] He lost to wildcard and eventual champion Holger Rune in the first round.

He made his debut at the 2022 French Open and the 2022 Wimbledon Championships where he lost in the first round in both.

At the 2022 Generali Open Kitzbühel he reached the quarterfinals defeating Thiago Monteiro[7] and eight seed João Sousa[8] before losing to third seed Roberto Bautista Agut in a tight three sets match.

He made his debut at 2022 US Open (tennis), completing all Major debuts in one season, where he lost to Cristian Garín.[9]

He qualified for the 2022 Next Generation ATP Finals[10] and reached the final defeating Matteo Arnaldi[11] and then Dominic Stricker in the semifinal. He lost to Brandon Nakashima in the final in straight sets.

National representation

Lehečka represents the Czech Republic at the Davis Cup, where he has a W/L record of 0–2.[12] He made his debut at the 2019 Davis Cup Qualifying Round against Robin Haase of the Netherlands.

Performance Timeline

Current through the 2022 US Open

ATP Next Generation finals

Singles: 1 (1 runner-up)

Result	Date	Tournament	Surface	Opponent	Score
Loss	Nov 2022	Next Generation ATP Finals, Italy	Hard (i)	Brandon Nakashima	3–4(5–7), 3–4(6–8), 2–4

ATP Challenger and ITF Futures/World Tennis Tour Finals

Singles: 13 (6–7)

Result	W–L	Date	Tournament	Tier	Surface	Opponent	Score
Loss	0–1	Nov 2018	Czech Republic F11, Říčany	Futures	Hard	Tomáš Macháč	walkover
Loss	0–2	May 2019	M25+H Jablonec nad Nisou, Czech Republic	World Tennis Tour	Clay	Patrik Rikl	6–7(3–7), 3–6
Win	1–2	Sep 2020	M25 Prague, Czech Republic	World Tennis Tour	Clay	Sebastián Báez	3–6, 6–3, 6–4
Loss	1–3	Nov 2020	M15 Heraklion, Greece	World Tennis Tour	Hard	Adrian Andreev	3–6, 4–6
Win	2–3	Feb 2021	M15 Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt	World Tennis Tour	Hard	Paweł Ciaś	6–1, 6–3
Loss	2–4	Apr 2021	M25 Biel, Switzerland	World Tennis Tour	Hard	Tim van Rijthoven	2–6, 2–6
Win	3–4	May 2021	M25 Jablonec nad Nisou, Czech Republic	World Tennis Tour	Clay	Vitaliy Sachko	6–2, 6–2
Win	4–4	Jul 2021	Tampere, Finland	Challenger	Clay	Nicolás Kicker	5–7, 6–4, 6–3
Loss	4–5	Jul 2021	Poznań, Poland	Challenger	Clay	Bernabé Zapata Miralles	3–6, 2–6
Win	5–5	Sep 2021	Bucharest, Romania	Challenger	Clay	Filip Horanský	6–3, 6–2
Loss	5–6	Nov 2021	Pau, France	Challenger	Hard (i)	Radu Albot	2–6, 6–7(5–7)
Loss	5–7	May 2022	Mauthausen, Austria	Challenger	Clay	Jurij Rodionov	4–6, 4–6
Win	6–7	Aug 2022	Liberec, Czech Republic	Challenger	Clay	Nicolás Álvarez Varona	6–4, 6–4

Doubles: 6 (4–2)

Result	W–L	Date	Tournament	Tier	Surface	Partner	Opponents	Score
Loss	0–1	Nov 2018	Czech Republic F11, Říčany	Futures	Hard	Jiří Barnat	Jiří Jeníček Vojtěch Vlkovský	4–6, 5–7
Loss	0–2	Jun 2019	Prostějov, Czech Republic	Challenger	Clay	Jiří Veselý	Philipp Oswald Filip Polášek	4–6, 6–7(4–7)
Win	1–2	Apr 2021	M25 Meerbusch, Germany	World Tennis Tour	Clay	Michael Vrbenský	Viktor Durasovic Markus Eriksson	6–3, 6–3
Win	2–2	Jun 2021	Milan, Italy	Challenger	Clay	Vít Kopřiva	Dustin Brown Tristan-Samuel Weissborn	6–4, 6–0
Win	3–2	Jul 2021	Poznań, Poland	Challenger	Clay	Zdeněk Kolář	Karol Drzewiecki Aleksandar Vukic	6–4, 3–6, [10–5]
Win	4–2	Nov 2021	Bergamo, Italy	Challenger	Hard (i)	Zdeněk Kolář	Lloyd Glasspool Harri Heliövaara	6–4, 6–4

Junior Grand Slam finals

Doubles: 1 (1 title)

Result	Year	Tournament	Surface	Partner	Opponent	Score
Win	2019	Wimbledon	Grass	Jonáš Forejtek	Liam Draxl Govind Nanda	7–5, 6–4

Davis Cup

Participations: (0–2)

• indicates the outcome of the Davis Cup match followed by the score, date, place of event, the zonal classification and its phase, and the court surface.

Rubber outcome	No.	Rubber	Match type (partner if any)	Opponent nation	Opponent player(s)	Score
1–3; 1-2 February 2019; Ostravar Aréna, Ostrava, Czech Republic; Davis Cup Qualifying Round; Hard (i) surface
Defeat	1	IV	Singles	Netherlands	Robin Haase	4–6, 6–2, 3–6
3–2; 14–15 September 2019; Arena Zenica, Zenica, Bosnia and Herzegovina; Europe/Africa Zone Group I First round; Hard (i) surface
Defeat	2	III	Doubles (with Jiří Veselý)	Bosnia and Herzegovina	Mirza Bašić / Tomislav Brkić	6–7(2–7), 3–6

References

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