Jaromir Becka
Full name | Jaromir Becka |
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Country (sports) | West Germany |
Born | Prague, Czechoslovakia | 6 July 1963
Plays | Right-handed |
Prize money | $48,013 |
Singles | |
Career record | 13–18 |
Career titles | 0 |
Highest ranking | No. 137 (21 May 1984) |
Doubles | |
Career record | 9–11 |
Career titles | 0 |
Highest ranking | No. 147 (13 June 1988) |
Jaromir Becka (born 6 July 1963) is a Czechoslovak born former professional tennis player from Germany.
Biography
[edit]Originally from Prague in what was then Czechoslovakia, Becka emigrated to West Germany and was based in Pullach, Munich.[1] He was the Munich Junior Champion in 1980, then in 1981 was the National Indoor Junior Champion and a member of the Valeria Cup team.[2]
Becka made the quarter-finals of two Grand Prix tournaments in 1983, the Tel Aviv Open and Grand Prix de Tennis de Toulouse.[3][4] Also that year he came close to beating Vitas Gerulaitis at the Munich WCT tournament.[1] After winning the first set comfortably, he lost the next two in tiebreaks.[1]
In 1984 he reached the quarter-finals of the Bavarian International Tennis Championships and had a win over Roscoe Tanner in Cleveland.[5][6]
He won two titles on the Challenger circuit, both in doubles, at Thessaloniki in 1986 and Heilbronn in 1988.
Formerly a coach of Carsten Arriens, Becka now runs a tennis school in Munich.[7]
Challenger titles
[edit]Doubles: (2)
[edit]No. | Year | Tournament | Surface | Partner | Opponents | Score |
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1. | 1986 | Thessaloniki, Greece | Hard | Christian Saceanu | Alex Antonitsch Brian Levine |
3–6, 6–1, 7–6 |
2. | 1988 | Heilbronn, West Germany | Carpet | Udo Riglewski | Axel Hornung Andreas Lesch |
7–6, 4–6, 6–2 |
References
[edit]- ^ a b c "Munich, West Germany". United Press International. 15 March 1983. Retrieved 2 April 2016.
- ^ "Jaromir Becka - Player Bio - Personal". Association of Tennis Professionals. Retrieved 2 April 2016.
- ^ "ITF Tennis - Pro Circuit - Tel Aviv - 10 October - 15 October 1983". International Tennis Federation. Retrieved 2 April 2016.
- ^ "ITF Tennis - Pro Circuit - Toulouse - 21 November - 27 November 1983". International Tennis Federation. Retrieved 2 April 2016.
- ^ "Tennis". Sydney Morning Herald. 20 May 1984. p. 42. Retrieved 2 April 2016.
- ^ "Cleveland (AP)". The Tennessean. 8 August 1984. p. 9. Retrieved 2 April 2016.
- ^ "Koordi" (in German). Tennisschule Jaromir Becka Tennistraining in Großhesselohe bei München. Retrieved 2 April 2016.