Karol Beck

Karol Beck

Country	Slovakia
Residence	Zvolen, Slovakia
Born	April 3, 1982 (1982-04-03) Zvolen, Czechoslovakia
Turned pro	2001
Plays	Right-handed (two-handed backhand)
Career prize money	US$1,861,005
Singles
Career record	63–106
Career titles	0
Highest ranking	No. 36 (August 22, 2005)
Current ranking	No. 95 (February 27, 2012)
Grand Slam results
Australian Open	3R (2005)
French Open	1R (2003, 2004, 2005, 2010)
Wimbledon	3R (2004, 2011)
US Open	4R (2004)
Doubles
Career titles	0
Highest ranking	62 (October 17, 2010)
Last updated on: June 6, 2011.

Karol Beck (born April 3, 1982 in Zvolen) is a male tennis player from Slovakia, who turned professional in 2001. He has been ranked as high as 36th in the world (August 22, 2005).

Career

On October 25, 2004, Beck lost in the final of the St. Petersburg Open to Mikhail Youzhny 6–2, 6–2.

On February 13, 2006 the International Tennis Federation (ITF) announced Beck had tested positive for the beta agonist clenbuterol during the 2005 Davis Cup semifinal for Slovakia against Argentina, which Slovakia won 4–1. As a consequence, the ITF suspended him from the game for two years until October 31, 2007.[1]

2007

Beck finished serving his suspension and began playing again in November as an unranked player. He had to go through qualifying rounds in every tournament.

Without a ranking, he chose Tunis challenger as his first tournament to qualify in. He qualified and won his first round match to get his first ranking points. The next week, he had a wild card entry into qualifying for the Dnepropetrovsk challenger, and qualified to pick up some more points.

He qualified a couple more times at challengers and futures tournaments before winning his final tournament of 2007, the Czech F6 Futures, to finish up the year at #581, after playing in just 5 tournaments.

2008

He began 2008 from where he left off in 2007, qualifying into and winning his first tournament, Germany's F1 Futures, to get into the top-500.

2009

Beck took part in the 2009 Wimbledon Championships ranked as 143rd in the world. He was a lucky loser due to the withdrawal of then-World No. 1, Rafael Nadal. He was drawn against 21st seed Feliciano López in the first round and won a thrilling five set encounter 1–6, 7–5, 6–3, 4–6, 10–8 to reach the second round of a grand slam tournament for the first time since the 2005 Australian Open. In the second round, he would meet another Spaniard, this being Nicolás Almagro. He played another 5-setter, but, this time, he lost 4–6, 6–7, 6–3, 6–3, 5–7.

ATP Career Finals

Singles: 0 (0–1)

Legend
Grand Slam (0–0)
ATP World Tour Finals (0–0)
ATP World Tour Masters 1000 (0–0)
ATP World Tour 500 Series (0–0)
ATP World Tour 250 Series (0-1)

Outcome	No.	Date	Championship	Surface	Opponent in the final	Score in the final
Runner-up	1.	25 October 2004	St. Petersburg, Russia	Carpet (i)	Mikhail Youzhny	2–6, 2–6

Challenger Career Finals

Outcome	No.	Date (Final)	Tournament	Surface	Opponent in the final	Score
Runner-up	1.	6 August 2001	Togliatti, Russia	Hard	Alexander Peya	2–6, 2–6
Winner	1.	8 July 2002	Bristol, England	Grass	Alexander Peya	6–0, 6–3
Runner-up	2.	15 July 2002	Manchester, England	Grass	Vladimir Voltchkov	4–6, 6–7(2–7)
Runner-up	3.	4 November 2002	Bratislava, Slovakia	Carpet (I)	Antony Dupuis	6–4, 4–6, 6–7(1–7)
Winner	2.	20 January 2003	Heilbronn, Germany	Carpet (I)	Jürgen Melzer	6–2, 5–7, 7–6(7–5)
Runner-up	4.	17 February 2003	Andrezieux, France	Hard (I)	Thierry Ascione	4–6, 2–6
Winner	3.	2 February 2004	Wrocław, Poland	Hard (I)	Jan Hernych	6–7(4–7), 6–2, 6–2
Winner	4.	31 May 2004	Surbiton, England	Grass	Wesley Moodie	6–4, 6–4
Winner	5.	14 March 2005	Sunrise, United States	Hard	Davide Sanguinetti	6–2, 6–2
Runner-up	5.	13 October 2008	Kolding, Denmark	Hard (I)	Roko Karanušić	4–6, 4–6
Runner-up	6.	17 November 2008	Helsinki, Finland	Hard (I)	Dmitry Tursunov	4–6, 3–6
Runner-up	7.	26 January 2009	Heilbronn, Germany	Carpet (I)	Benjamin Becker	4–6, 4–6
Winner	6.	6 July 2009	Pozoblanco, Spain	Hard	Thiago Alves	6–4, 6–3
Winner	7.	8 February 2010	Bergamo, Italy	Hard (I)	Gilles Müller	6–4, 6–4
Winner	8.	15 February 2010	Belgrade, Serbia	Carpet (I)	Ilija Bozoljac	7–5, 7–6(7–4)
Runner-up	8.	8 March 2010	Sarajevo, Bosnia & Herzegovina	Hard (I)	Édouard Roger-Vasselin	7–6(7–5), 3–6, 0–1 ret.
Winner	9.	11 October 2010	Tashkent, Uzbekistan	Hard	Gilles Müller	6–7(4–7), 6–4, 7–5
Runner-up	9.	13 March 2011	Sarajevo, Bosnia & Herzegovina	Hard (I)	Amer Delić	W/O
Winner	10.	7 August 2011	Segovia, Spain	Hard	Grégoire Burquier	6–4, 7–6(7–4)
Runner-up	10.	6 November 2011	Eckental, Germany	Carpet (I)	Rajeev Ram	4–6, 2–6

Singles performance timeline

Tournament	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008	2009	2010	2011	2012	W–L
Australian Open	A	1R	2R	3R	A	A	A	LQ	LQ	1R	1R	3–5
French Open	A	1R	1R	1R	A	A	A	LQ	1R	A		0–4
Wimbledon	2R	1R	3R	1R	A	A	LQ	2R	2R	3R		7–7
US Open	A	1R	4R	1R	A	A	LQ	1R	LQ	1R		3–5
Win–Loss	1–1	0–4	6–4	2–4	0–0	0–0	0–0	1–2	1–2	2–3	0–1	13–21

See also

• List of sportspeople sanctioned for doping offences

External links

• Karol Beck at the Association of Tennis Professionals
• Beck Recent Match Results
• Beck World Ranking History