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Josef Čihák

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{{Infobox tennis biography

| name = Josef Čihák

| image =

| caption =

| country = {{flagicon|TCH}} Czechoslovakia

| residence =

| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1963|3|19|df=y}}

| birth_place = Plzeň, Czechoslovakia

| death_date =

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| height = {{height|m=1.85}}

| turnedpro = 1985

| plays = Right-handed

| careerprizemoney = $241,359

| singlesrecord = 18–28

| singlestitles = 0

| highestsinglesranking = No. 72 (19 October 1987)

| currentsinglesranking =

| FrenchOpenresult = 1R (1988, 1989)

| Wimbledonresult = 1R (1988, 1989)

| doublesrecord = 49–58

| doublestitles = 1

| highestdoublesranking = No. 57 (20 March 1989)

| FrenchOpenDoublesresult = 2R (1988, 1989, 1990)

| WimbledonDoublesresult = 2R (1989)

}}

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 Prague.[https://archive.today/20120918003524/http://www.tkspartapraha.cz/cs-zavodni_tenis-treneri Coaches of 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.[http://www.atpworldtour.com/en/players/josef-cihak/c036/overview ATP World Tour Profile]

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.[http://www.itftennis.com/procircuit/players/player/profile.aspx?playerid=10000268 ITF Tennis Profile]

Grand Prix career finals

=Doubles: 2 (1–1)=

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!Result

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style="background:#ffa07a;"|Loss

|0–1

|Aug 1989

|Båstad, Sweden

|Clay

|{{flagicon|TCH}} Karel Nováček

|{{flagicon|SWE}} Per Henricsson
{{flagicon|SWE}} Nicklas Utgren

|5–7, 2–6

style="background:#98fb98;"|Win

|1–1

|Aug 1989

|Saint-Vincent, Italy

|Clay

|{{flagicon|TCH}} Cyril Suk

|{{flagicon|ITA}} Massimo Cierro
{{flagicon|ITA}} Alessandro de Minicis

|6–4, 6–2

Challenger titles

=Singles: (3)=

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!width=20|No.

!width=50|Year

!style="width:150px"|Tournament

!style="width:50px"|Surface

!style="width:170px"|Opponent

!style="width:100px" class="unsortable"|Score

1.

|1984

|Bielefeld, West Germany

|Clay

|{{flagicon|FRG}} Peter Elter

|6–2, 7–5

2.

|1988

| Pescara, Italy

|Clay

|{{flagicon|CHI}} Gerardo Vacarezza

|6–4, 6–3

3.

|1988

|Casablanca, Morocco

|Clay

|{{flagicon|ESP}} David de Miguel

|6–4, 6–2

=Doubles: (11)=

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!width=20|No.

!width=50|Year

!style="width:150px"|Tournament

!style="width:50px"|Surface

!style="width:170px"|Partner

!style="width:170px"|Opponents

!style="width:100px" class="unsortable"|Score

1.

|1985

|Bahia, Brazil

|Hard

|{{flagicon|NED}} Tom Nijssen

|{{flagicon|ESP}} Emilio Sánchez
{{flagicon|PAR}} Víctor Pecci

|6–4, 6–3

2.

|1987

|Budapest, Hungary

|Clay

|{{flagicon|TCH}} Cyril Suk

|{{flagicon|SWE}} Christer Allgårdh
{{flagicon|SWE}} David Engel

|6–2, 7–6

3.

|1988

|Cairo, Egypt

|Clay

|{{flagicon|TCH}} Cyril Suk

|{{flagicon|ARG}} Roberto Argüello
{{flagicon|ARG}} Marcelo Ingaramo

|6–3, 6–2

4.

|1988

|Agadir, Morocco

|Clay

|{{flagicon|TCH}} Cyril Suk

|{{flagicon|ESP}} José López-Maeso
{{flagicon|ESP}} Alberto Tous

|6–2, 6–2

5.

|1988

|San Marino

|Clay

|{{flagicon|SWE}} Christer Allgårdh

|{{flagicon|POR}} João Cunha e Silva
{{flagicon|SWE}} Jörgen Windahl

|6–4, 6–2

6.

|1988

|Casablanca, Morocco

|Clay

|{{flagicon|TCH}} Cyril Suk

|{{flagicon|FRA}} Arnaud Boetsch
{{flagicon|BEL}} Denis Langaskens

|6–2, 6–0

7.

|1989

|Casablanca, Morocco

|Clay

|{{flagicon|NED}} Mark Koevermans

|{{flagicon|ARG}} Marcelo Ingaramo
{{flagicon|ARG}} Christian Miniussi

|6–4, 6–4

8.

|1989

|Agadir, Morocco

|Clay

|{{flagicon|TCH}} Cyril Suk

|{{flagicon|USA}} Brett Dickinson
{{flagicon|SWE}} Jörgen Windahl

|6–3, 6–3

9.

|1990

|Agadir, Morocco

|Clay

|{{flagicon|TCH}} Cyril Suk

|{{flagicon|ITA}} Omar Camporese
{{flagicon|ITA}} Diego Nargiso

|W/O

10.

|1991

|Porto, Portugal

|Clay

|{{flagicon|TCH}} Tomáš Anzari

|{{flagicon|ESP}} Juan Carlos Báguena
{{flagicon|ECU}} Andrés Gómez

|7–5, 6–2

11.

|1991

|Pescara, Italy

|Clay

|{{flagicon|TCH}} Tomáš Anzari

|{{flagicon|SWE}} Johan Donar
{{flagicon|USA}} John Sobel

|6–3, 6–4

References

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