Country (sports) Czechoslovakia Prize money $241,359 Career titles 0 Role Tennis Player Turned pro 1985 | Plays Right-handed Career record 18–28 Name Josef Cihak Height 1.85 m Handed Right-handed | |
Born 19 March 1963 (age 61)
Plzen, Czechoslovakia ( 1963-03-19 ) Highest ranking No. 72 (19 October 1987) | ||
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.
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.
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.