Height 1.83 m Prize money 106,540 USD | Career record 2–0 Turned pro 2010 | |
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Plays Right-handed (Double Handed Backhand) Career titles 02 Challenger, 9 Futures Highest ranking No. 109 (9 January 2017) Current ranking No. 109 (9 January 2017) Similar Daniil Medvedev, Gastão Elias, Dudi Sela, Marco Trungelliti, Chung Hyeon | ||
Jozef Kovalík (born 4 November 1992) is a Slovakian tennis player playing on the ATP Challenger Tour. On 11 April 2016, he reached his highest ATP singles ranking of 139 and his highest doubles ranking of 366 achieved on 9 January 2012.
Career
Kovalík together with Filip Horanský won bronze medal in doubles at 2010 Summer Youth Olympics.
He won his first title on August 17, 2014, after beating second seed Andrey Kuznetsov. He became the fourth player to win a ATP Challenger title while ranked outside the top 300.
He played his first match at ATP level on January 5, 2016 in Chennai, where he lost in the first round.
He played his first match at Grandslam on January 18, 2016 in Australian Open, where he lost to fellow qualifier Marco Trungelliti in the first round.
At 2016 BNP Paribas Open Kovalík won his first match at ATP level, defeating another qualifier Pierre-Hugues Herbert in the first round. He lost in two tight tie-breaks in the subsequent round, to fellow up-and-coming talent Dominic Thiem. Despite the loss his tennis was of an extremely high quality. Kovalík was able to win cheap points of his first serve, utilised an effective/kicking second serve, and consistently hit his groundstrokes with great accuracy, power and depth. In addition he remained mentally composed on key points and played intelligent tennis throughout. During the match he was watched by fellow Slovak and coach of Novak Djokovic Marian Vajda. In 2016 Kovalík won Capri Watch Cup. His second title on the ATP Challenger Tour.
