Lukáš Rosol

His career-high singles ranking is world No. 26, achieved on 22 September 2014.

Lukáš Rosol

Rosol at the 2017 Wimbledon
Country (sports)	Czech Republic
Residence	Prague, Czech Republic
Born	(1985-07-24) 24 July 1985 (age 38) Brno, Czechoslovakia
Height	1.93 m (6 ft 4 in)
Turned pro	2004
Retired	2024
Plays	Right-handed (two-handed backhand)
Prize money	US$4,717,412
Singles
Career record	123–160 (43.5%)
Career titles	2
Highest ranking	No. 26 (22 September 2014)
Current ranking	No. 878 (12 February 2024)
Grand Slam singles results
Australian Open	3R (2016)
French Open	3R (2011, 2015)
Wimbledon	3R (2012)
US Open	2R (2015)
Doubles
Career record	75–90 (45.5%) (at ATP Tour level, Grand Slam level, and in Davis Cup)
Career titles	3
Highest ranking	No. 37 (13 October 2014)
Current ranking	No. 1369 (12 February 2024)
Grand Slam doubles results
Australian Open	1R (2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016)
French Open	QF (2015)
Wimbledon	2R (2012, 2013, 2014, 2016)
US Open	2R (2014)
Grand Slam mixed doubles results
Wimbledon	1R (2014)
Team competitions
Davis Cup	W (2012, 2013)
Last updated on: 12 February 2024.

His first notable victory was against world No. 8, Jürgen Melzer, at the 2011 French Open, whom he defeated in five sets in the second round a year after Melzer had reached the semifinal. A year later, Rosol defeated world No. 2, Rafael Nadal, in the second round of Wimbledon to achieve one of the biggest wins in his career. Rosol has had sustained success since then having played an integral part in the Czech Republic's Davis Cup winning team in 2012, and winning his first tour-level title in April 2013.

Rosol also played in the longest ever ATP doubles match, alongside Tomáš Berdych, defeating Marco Chiudinelli and Stanislas Wawrinka in the first round of the 2013 Davis Cup. The match was played on 2 February 2013, lasting 7 hours, 1 minute. It was the second longest ATP match of any kind, after the Isner–Mahut match at the 2010 Wimbledon Championships.

Rosol announced his retirement in April 2024.

Rosol was coached by former Czech player, 1999 US Open quarterfinalist Ctislav Doseděl.

Rosol was born in Brno, Czechoslovakia. In November 2008, he married Czech athlete Denisa Rosolová (née Ščerbová). In 2011, they divorced. In 2013, Rosol became engaged to news presenter Michaela Ochotská. Their son André was born in January 2015. The pair married in July 2015 and were divorced in July 2017. In 2018 Rosol entered into his third marriage with Petra Kubinová. His surname means jelly in Czech.

Rosol has won eight Challenger and seven Futures tournaments. In April 2013, he won his first tour-level tournament, the BRD Nastase Tiriac Trophy ATP World Tour 250, and in August 2014, he won his first tour-level tournament on hard courts, the Winston-Salem Open.

2012

Rosol rose to prominence in 2012 at the Wimbledon Championships, after having participated in the Wimbledon qualifying draw multiple times, not reaching the main draw until then. In the first round, he defeated Ivan Dodig, then he was drawn against the two-time champion and world No. 2, Rafael Nadal. After losing the first set in a very close tiebreak, Rosol regrouped and broke in the first game of the second. A dominant serving performance allowed him to take the second set 6–4. Rosol's service game held up in the third set, where he capitalized on a sloppy game by Nadal and took the set 6–4. Down two sets to one, Nadal raised his level in the fourth, taking the set 6–2 and sending the match into a deciding fifth set. At this point the match was delayed by 35 minutes in order to close the Centre Court roof. Rosol returned from the break revitalized, taking the fifth set 6–4 by striking 20 winners to two unforced errors. His groundstroke speed averaged 85 mph and peaked at 114 mph.^{[citation needed]} In the final game of the match, Rosol delivered three aces and a forehand winner to close out one of the greatest upsets in Grand Slam history by a score of 6–7^(9–11), 6–4, 6–4, 2–6, 6–4. He went on to lose his third-round match against Philipp Kohlschreiber in straight sets.

In the doubles draw, Rosol and partner Mikhail Kukushkin defeated the British duo of Colin Fleming and Ross Hutchins in five sets in the first round. They lost in the second round to James Cerretani and Édouard Roger-Vasselin.

2013

 

At the Australian Open, Rosol defeated Jamie Baker in the first round before he lost to 13th seed Milos Raonic in the second.

In April, he won his first ATP Tour singles tournament with a victory in Bucharest. He was unseeded in the tournament and beat three seeded players en route to the final: third seed Andreas Seppi, eighth seed Viktor Troicki and second seed Gilles Simon. In the final, he defeated Guillermo García López, only dropping one set throughout the entire tournament and tearfully dedicating the triumph to his father Emil, who introduced him to tennis and had died two weeks before the tournament.

At the French Open, Rosol lost in the second round to Fabio Fognini in four sets.

2014: Career-high ranking

Rosol began his 2014 season at the Qatar Open in Doha, losing in straight sets to eventual champion Rafael Nadal. He reached the second round in the Apia International Sydney, and the quarterfinals of the Dubai Tennis Championships, where he lost to eventual champion Roger Federer.

At Indian Wells, Rosol faced reigning Wimbledon champion Andy Murray in the second round and was defeated in three sets after leading by a set and a break.

At Wimbledon, he was one point from a two-set lead against Rafael Nadal in the second round, but Nadal came back to win in four sets.

At the Mercedes Cup in Stuttgart, Rosol reached the final beating Mikhail Youzhny along the way, in the final he lost in three sets to Roberto Bautista Agut.

In August, Rosol won his second ATP title at the Winston-Salem Open, defeating Jerzy Janowicz in three sets. Lukas moved up to a career-high ranking of No. 26 in the world, a career high, in the ATP rankings released 22 September 2014.

2015

In 2015, he was the 28th seed but lost in second round of the Australian Open in five sets to Dudi Sela. At Indian Wells, he was the 27th seed and thus received a bye into the second round and defeated Martin Kližan and Robin Haase to reach the fourth round, his best showing at a Masters 1000 level in his career, where he lost to Tomáš Berdych. At Miami, he was the 26th seed and once again received a bye into the second round, where he beat qualifier and future top ten Alexander Zverev. In the third round, he lost to David Ferrer in straight sets.

At the French Open, Rosol defeated seeded player Bautista Agut to reach the third round. He also reached his first Grand Slam quarterfinal in doubles with Radu Albot.

At Wimbledon, Rosol defeated former No. 10 player Ernests Gulbis to reach the second round, where he fell to Pablo Andújar in five sets.

2016

At the 2016 Australian Open he reached the third round, his best showing in this Grand Slam in his career where he lost to Stan Wawrinka.

In February he participated in the inaugural edition of the Sofia Open netting the first win of the event against Robin Haase. He was defeated by 7th seed Martin Kližan in the second round.

In May ranked No. 68, he reached the quarterfinals of the 2016 Geneva Open defeating John Isner. He defeated Andrey Kuznetsov (tennis) to reach the semifinals before losing again to top seed and eventual champion Stan Wawrinka.

2022: First Wimbledon main draw participation in 5 years

He qualified for the main draw at the 2022 Wimbledon Championships after five years of absence. It was his first main draw participation at Wimbledon since 2017.

He reached the final at the 2022 Istanbul Challenger where he lost to Radu Albot. As a result, he moved back into the top 250 at No. 239 on 19 September 2022.

He has had several confrontations with top-ten players including Andy Murray and Rafael Nadal. He deliberately knocked over one of Nadal's water bottles at the changeover – Nadal being known to be particularly superstitious about his water bottle placement. He also shouldered Andy Murray at a changeover. Murray said later in the match, loud enough to be heard by the audience and television microphones "No-one likes you on the tour. Everybody hates you."

Singles

Current through the 2022 ATP Tour

Doubles

Singles: 4 (2 titles, 2 runner-ups)

Result	W–L	Date	Tournament	Surface	Opponent	Score
Win	1–0	Apr 2013	Romanian Open, Romania	Clay	Guillermo García López	6–3, 6–2
Loss	1–1	Apr 2014	Romanian Open, Romania	Clay	Grigor Dimitrov	6–7(2–7), 1–6
Loss	1–2	Jul 2014	Stuttgart Open, Germany	Clay	Roberto Bautista Agut	3–6, 6–4, 2–6
Win	2–2	Aug 2014	Winston-Salem Open, United States	Hard	Jerzy Janowicz	3–6, 7–6(7–3), 7–5

Doubles: 3 (3 titles)

Result	W–L	Date	Tournament	Surface	Partner	Opponents	Score
Win	1–0	Jan 2012	Qatar Open, Qatar	Hard	Filip Polášek	Christopher Kas   Philipp Kohlschreiber	6–3, 6–4
Win	2–0	Oct 2013	Vienna Open, Austria	Hard (i)	Florin Mergea	Daniel Nestor   Julian Knowle	7–5, 6–4
Win	3–0	Jul 2014	Croatia Open, Croatia	Clay	František Čermák	Dušan Lajović   Franko Škugor	6–4, 7–6(7–5)

• He has a 4–26 (13.3%) record against players who were, at the time the match was played, ranked in the top 10.

Wins over top-ten players per season

No.	Player	Rank	Event	Surface	Rd	Score
2011
1.	Jürgen Melzer	8	French Open, France	Clay	2R	6–7(4–7), 6–4, 4–6, 7–6(7–3), 6–4
2012
2.	Rafael Nadal	2	Wimbledon, UK	Grass	2R	6–7(9–11), 6–4, 6–4, 2–6, 6–4
2015
3.	Jo-Wilfried Tsonga	10	Vienna Open, Austria	Hard	2R	6–4, 3–6, 6–1
2016
4.	Jo-Wilfried Tsonga	10	Davis Cup, Třinec, Czech Republic	Hard (i)	QF	6–4, 3–6, 4–6, 7–6(10–8), 6–4

Singles: 30 (18–12)

Result	W–L	Date	Tournament	Tier	Surface	Opponent	Score
Loss	0-1	Aug 2005	Hungary F5, Szolnok	Futures	Clay	Kornél Bardóczky	2-6, 1-6
Loss	0-2	Mar 2006	Poland F2, Wrocław	Futures	Hard (i)	Thomas Oger	3–6, 6–2, 6–7(4–7)
Win	1-2	Mar 2006	Poland F3, Zabrze	Futures	Hard (i)	Alexandre Krasnoroutskiy	6–3, 6–3
Loss	1-3	Jul 2006	Germany F8, Trier	Futures	Clay	Niels Desein	6–2, 6–7(1–7), 4–6
Loss	1-4	Jul 2006	Belgium F1, Waterloo	Futures	Clay	Pavol Červenák	4-6, 4-6
Loss	1-5	Aug 2006	Poland F10, Poznań	Futures	Clay	Jan Minář	4-6, 3-6
Win	2-5	Oct 2006	France F18, La Roche-sur-Yon	Futures	Hard (i)	Julien Jeanpierre	7–5, 6–3
Win	3-5	Dec 2006	Czech Republic F5, Opava	Futures	Carpet (i)	Joshua Goodall	6–7(5–7), 6–4, 7–6(10–8)
Win	4-5	May 2007	Czech Republic F1, Teplice	Futures	Clay	Martin Vacek	6–7(4–7), 6–4, 6–4
Win	5-5	May 2007	Uzbekistan F2, Namangan,	Futures	Hard	Wang Yeu-tzuoo	7–6(7–2), 6–4
Win	6-5	Oct 2007	France F18, La Roche-sur-Yon	Futures	Hard (i)	Adrian Mannarino	6–4, 3–6, 6–4
Loss	6-6	Dec 2007	Czech Republic F6, Opava	Futures	Carpet (i)	Karol Beck	6–2, 5–7, 5–7
Win	7-6	Jun 2008	Košice, Slovakia	Challenger	Clay	Miguel Ángel López Jaén	7–5, 6–1
Win	8-6	Feb 2009	Germany F4, Mettmann	Futures	Carpet (i)	Stéphane Robert	7–6(8–6), 6–4
Win	9-6	Mar 2009	Bergamo, Italy	Challenger	Hard (i)	Benedikt Dorsch	6–1, 4–6, 7–6(7–3)
Win	10-6	May 2010	Ostrava, Czech Republic	Challenger	Clay	Ivan Dodig	7–5, 4–6, 7–6(7–4)
Loss	10-7	Jan 2011	Singapore, Singapore	Challenger	Hard	Dmitry Tursunov	4-6, 2-6
Win	11-7	May 2011	Prague, Czech Republic	Challenger	Clay	Alex Bogomolov Jr.	7–6(7–1), 5–2 ret.
Win	12-7	Jul 2011	Braunschweig, Germany	Challenger	Clay	Evgeny Donskoy	7–5, 7–6(7–2)
Win	13-7	Nov 2012	Bratislava, Slovakia	Challenger	Hard (i)	Björn Phau	6–7(3–7), 7–6(7–5), 7–6(8–6)
Loss	13-8	Nov 2013	Bratislava, Slovakia	Challenger	Hard (i)	Lukáš Lacko	4–6, 6–3, 4–6
Win	14-8	Mar 2014	Irving, United States	Challenger	Hard	Steve Johnson	6–0, 6–3
Win	15-8	Jun 2014	Prague, Czech Republic	Challenger	Clay	Jiří Veselý	3–6, 6–4, 6–4
Win	16-8	Jul 2018	Czech Republic F4, Pardubice	Futures	Clay	Peter Torebko	6–4, 6–0
Win	17-8	Jul 2018	Prague, Czech Republic	Challenger	Clay	Aleksandr Nedovyesov	4–6, 6–3, 6–4
Loss	17-9	Nov 2018	Bratislava, Slovakia	Challenger	Hard (i)	Alexander Bublik	4-6, 4-6
Loss	17-10	Feb 2021	Cherbourg, France	Challenger	Hard (i)	Ruben Bemelmans	4-6, 4-6
Loss	17-11	Feb 2022	M25, Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt	World Tennis Tour	Hard	Hady Habib	4-6, 4-6
Win	18-11	Aug 2022	M25, Muttenz, Switzerland	World Tennis Tour	Clay	Maxime Mora	6–3, 6–4
Loss	18-12	Sep 2022	Istanbul, Turkey	Challenger	Hard	Radu Albot	2–6, 0–6

Doubles: 50 (25–25)

Outcome	No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Partner	Opponents	Score
Runner-up	1.	24 January 2005	Anif, Austria	Carpet (i)	Martin Fafl	Markus Krenn   Wolfgang Schranz	6–4, 6–2
Winner	1.	1 August 2005	Novi Sad, Serbia and Montenegro	Clay	Peter Miklusicak	Aleksander Slović   Viktor Troicki	6–4, 6–4
Runner-up	2.	15 August 2005	Žilina, Slovakia	Clay	Daniel Lustig	Jaroslav Pospíšil   Adrian Sikora	6–2, 3–6, 6–0
Winner	2.	22 August 2005	Kaposvár, Hungary	Clay	Alessandro da Col	José-Carlos García-Sánchez   Miguel Pérez Puigdomenech	7–5, 4–6, 6–4
Runner-up	3.	29 August 2005	Szolnok, Hungary	Clay	Alessandro da Col	Kornél Bardóczky   Gergely Kisgyörgy	6–2, 6–1
Winner	3.	6 March 2006	Zabrze, Poland	Hard	Michail Filima	Mateusz Kowalczyk   Dawid Piatkowski	6–1, 3–6, 6–3
Winner	4.	15 May 2006	Most, Czech Republic	Clay	Roman Vögeli	Daniel Brands   Johan Brunström	6–2, 5–7, 7–6(7–5)
Runner-up	4.	26 June 2006	Szolnok, Hungary	Clay	David Klier	Jakub Hašek   David Novak	7–6(7–4), 2–6, 6–3
Winner	5.	17 July 2006	Waterloo, Belgium	Clay	Nikita Kryvonos	Jordane Doble   Julien Jeanpierre	6–2, 6–3
Winner	6.	24 July 2006	Sint-Katelijne-Waver, Belgium	Clay	Nikita Kryvonos	Stephan Fransen   Romano Frantzen	6–2, 6–7(5–7), 7–5
Winner	7.	23 October 2006	Rodez, France	Hard (i)	Denis Istomin	Stefan Wauters   Réginald Willems	4–6, 7–6(7–4), 7–6(7–4)
Winner	8.	27 November 2006	Vendryně, Czech Republic	Hard (i)	Igor Zelenay	Daniel Lustig   Filip Polášek	6–1, 6–1
Winner	9.	4 December 2006	Opava, Czech Republic	Carpet (i)	Igor Zelenay	Roman Vögeli   Jaroslav Pospíšil	4–6, 6–2, 6–1
Winner	10.	5 February 2007	Wrocław, Poland	Hard (i)	Jan Vacek	Michal Mertiňák   Jean-Claude Scherrer	7–5, 7–6(7–4)
Winner	11.	4 December 2006	Zagreb, Croatia	Hard (i)	Ivan Dodig	Petar Jelenić   Slimane Saoudi	6–7(1–7), 6–4, 6–4
Runner-up	5.	12 March 2007	Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina	Hard (i)	Jan Mertl	Ernests Gulbis   Deniss Pavlovs	6–4, 6–3
Winner	12.	30 April 2007	Ostrava, Czech Republic	Clay	Bastian Knittel	Alexandre Krasnoroutskiy   Alexander Kudryavtsev	2–6, 7–5, [11–9]
Winner	13.	14 May 2007	Namangan, Uzbekistan	Hard	Martin Slanar	Chen Ti   Wang Yeu-tzuoo	6–2, 3–6, 6–1
Runner-up	6.	21 May 2007	Fergana, Uzbekistan	Hard (i)	Martin Slanar	Daniel Brands   John Paul Fruttero	7–6(7–1), 7–5
Winner	14.	11 June 2007	Košice, Slovakia	Clay	Filip Polášek	Leonardo Azzaro   Flavio Cipolla	6–1, 7–6(7–5)
Runner-up	7.	8 October 2007	Saint-Dizier, France	Hard (i)	Florin Mergea	Martin Slanar   Pavel Šnobel	6–2, 6–3
Winner	15.	15 October 2007	La Roche-sur-Yon, France	Hard (i)	Raphael Durek	Vladimir Obradović   Igor Sijsling	6–3, 6–1
Winner	16.	3 December 2007	Frýdlant nad Ostravicí, Czech Republic	Carpet (i)	Igor Zelenay	Jiří Krkoška   Ján Stančík	6–4, 6–2
Runner-up	8.	10 December 2007	Opava, Czech Republic	Carpet (i)	Igor Zelenay	Nikola Martinović   Joško Topić	6–4, 7–5
Winner	17.	28 January 2008	Wrocław, Poland	Hard (i)	James Cerretani	Werner Eschauer   Jürgen Melzer	6–7(7–9), 6–3, [10–7]
Runner-up	9.	1 September 2008	Düsseldorf, Germany	Clay	Igor Zelenay	Jan Hájek   Tomáš Zíb	1–6, 6–2, [10–7]
Winner	18.	5 January 2009	Schwieberdingen, Germany	Carpet (i)	Andis Juška	David Klier   Philipp Marx	6–1, 6–4
Runner-up	10.	30 March 2009	Naples, Italy	Clay	Frank Moser	Pablo Cuevas   David Marrero	6–4, 6–3
Runner-up	11.	21 September 2009	Trnava, Slovakia	Clay	Jan Minář	Grigor Dimitrov   Teymuraz Gabashvili	6–4, 2–6, [10–8]
Runner-up	12.	28 September 2009	Naples, Italy	Clay	Thiago Alves	Ivan Dodig   Frederico Gil	6–1, 6–3
Runner-up	13.	8 March 2010	Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina	Hard (i)	Ivan Dodig	Nicolas Mahut   Édouard Roger-Vasselin	7–6(8–6), 6–7(7–9), [10–5]
Winner	19.	5 July 2010	Oberstaufen, Germany	Clay	Frank Moser	Hans Podlipnik Castillo   Max Raditschnigg	6–0, 7–5
Winner	20.	26 September 2010	Trnava, Slovakia	Clay	Karol Beck	Alexander Peya   Martin Slanar	4–6, 7–6(7–3), [10–8]
Runner-up	14.	19 November 2011	Bratislava, Slovakia	Hard	David Škoch	Jan Hájek   Lukáš Lacko	7–5, 7–5
Winner	21.	7 May 2012	Prague, Czech Republic	Clay	Horacio Zeballos	Martin Kližan   Igor Zelenay	7–5, 2–6, [12–10]
Runner-up	15.	3 June 2013	Prostějov, Czech Republic	Clay	Mateusz Kowalczyk	Nicholas Monroe   Simon Stadler	6–4, 6–4
Winner	22.	3 June 2014	Prostějov, Czech Republic	Clay	Andre Begemann	Peter Polansky   Adil Shamasdin	6–1, 6–2
Runner-up	16.	22 January 2017	Koblenz, Germany	Hard (i)	Roman Jebavý	Hans Podlipnik Castillo   Andrei Vasilevski	7–5, 3–6, [16–14]
Runner-up	17.	6 May 2017	Ostrava, Czech Republic	Clay	Rameez Junaid	Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan   Franko Škugor	6–3, 6–2
Runner-up	18.	11 August 2017	Portorož, Slovenia	Hard	Franko Škugor	Hans Podlipnik Castillo   Andrei Vasilevski	6–3, 7–6(7–4)
Runner-up	19.	5 May 2018	Ostrava, Czech Republic	Clay	Sergiy Stakhovsky	Attila Balázs   Gonçalo Oliveira	6–0, 7–5
Winner	23.	10 August 2018	Portorož, Slovenia	Hard	Gerard Granollers	Nikola Ćaćić   Lucas Miedler	7–5, 6–3
Winner	24.	5 October 2018	Almaty, Kazakhstan	Hard	Zdeněk Kolář	Evgeny Karlovskiy   Timur Khabibulin	6–3, 6–1
Runner-up	20.	14 September 2019	Istanbul, Turkey	Hard	Marek Gengel	Andrey Golubev   Aleksandr Nedovyesov	Walkover
Runner-up	21.	22 August 2020	Prague, Czech Republic	Clay	Zdeněk Kolář	Pierre-Hugues Herbert   Arthur Rinderknech	3-6, 4-6
Winner	25.	11 September 2020	Prostějov, Czech Republic	Clay	Zdeněk Kolář	Sriram Balaji   Divij Sharan	6–2, 2–6, [10–6]
Runner-up	22.	25 September 2021	Bucharest, Romania	Clay	Maximilian Marterer	Ruben Gonzales   Hunter Johnson	6–1, 2–6, [3–10]
Runner-up	23.	4 December 2021	Forli, Italy	Hard (i)	Vitaliy Sachko	Antonio Šančić   Tristan-Samuel Weissborn	6–7(4–7), 6–4, [7–10]
Runner-up	24.	30 July 2022	San Benedetto del Tronto, Italy	Clay	Fábián Marozsán	Vladyslav Manafov   Oleg Prihodko	6–4, 3–6, [10–12]
Runner-up	25.	3 September 2022	Mallorca, Spain	Hard	Marek Gengel	Yuki Bhambri   Saketh Myneni	2–6, 2–6