Jan Hájek (tennis)
# Jan Hájek (tennis)

Jan Hájek (born 7 August 1983) is a retired male professional tennis player from the Czech Republic. He reached the third round of the 2007 French Open and attained a career-high ATP singles ranking of World No. 71 in November 2006.

## Career

Hájek turned professional in 2000 and won his first Futures event in Negril of the same year defeating Johan Örtegren in the final. Between 2000 and 2003 Hájek played primarily on the Futures circuit, then after that he played some Challenger events as well as the Futures tournaments. At the end of 2005 he had won 8 Futures titles all on clay, which is his best surface.

2006 was the breakthrough season for Hájek, as he started the year ranked at 352 and then finished the season ranked at 76th in the world. Hájek won his first challenger in Barletta as a qualifier easily defeating Stefano Galvani 6–2, 6–1 in the final. In May Hájek qualified for the challenger in Prague before losing to compatriot Robin Vik in the final. Hájek won three more Challengers during the year including two major ones in Prostějov where he got a retirement victory over Tomáš Berdych and Braunschweig defeated Fernando Vicente in straight sets. He won the Poznań Challenger without losing a set. In addition to the three Challenger titles, Hájek made his debut at Grand Slam level where he defeated Lukáš Dlouhý in straight sets before losing to Fernando González.

Hájek was unable to follow up the previously successful year in 2007, but he achieved his best result at Grand Slam level, where he made the third round at Roland Garros where he defeated Thomas Johansson and Bohdan Ulihrach before retiring against Marcos Baghdatis with a shoulder injury. Since then Hájek has had injury problems with the shoulder and problems with his heart.

At the beginning of 2009 Hájek started the year ranked at 474 and has been playing on the Challenger circuit and he has been playing qualifications and after qualifying for the main draw in Athens he lost in the semi-finals to Rui Machado. Hájek won the Ostrava Challenger after qualifying defeating Ivan Dodig 7–5, 6–1. He repeated his 2006 victory in Prostějov this time as a qualifier defeating Belgian Steve Darcis in the final and former top 10 player Ivan Ljubičić in the quarter-finals. Hájek won his third challenger of the year in Freudenstadt defeating Laurent Recouderc in the final. He also made his debut in the Czech Davis Cup team in the semi-final tie against Croatia where he defeated Roko Karanušić and also played in the final losing to Rafael Nadal. Hájek has a 1–2 record in Davis Cup singles with none of these matches being a live rubber.

After ending the 2009 season ranked No. 103, Hájek made a return to the Grand Slam arena at the 2010 Australian Open, defeating Robby Ginepri before losing to Mikhail Youzhny. He also reached his first quarter-final on the ATP tour at Munich losing to Youzhny again. Hájek became the first man to win the Prostějov Challenger three times after Radek Štěpánek had to retire from the final due to illness.

## ATP career finals

### Doubles: 2 (1–1)

* Legend
* Grand Slam Tournaments (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 (1–1)
* Titles by surface
* Hard (1/0)
* Clay (0/1)
* Grass (0/0)
* Carpet (0/0)

| Outcome | No. | Date | Tournament | Surface | Partnering | Opponent in the final | Score |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Runner-up | 1. | 30 April 2007 | BMW Open, Munich, Germany | Clay | Jaroslav Levinský | Philipp Kohlschreiber Mikhail Youzhny | 1–6, 4–6 |
| Winner | 1. | 3 January 2014 | Qatar ExxonMobil Open, Doha, Qatar | Hard | Tomáš Berdych | Alexander Peya Bruno Soares | 6–2, 6–4 |

## Singles titles

* Legend (singles)
* Grand Slam (0)
* Tennis Masters Cup (0)
* ATP Masters Series (0)
* ATP Tour (0)
* Challengers (9)
* Futures (9)

| No. | Date | Tournament | Surface | Opponent | Score |
| - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 1. | 23 October 2000 | Negril | Clay | Johan Örtegren | 6–3, 6–1 |
| 2. | 16 June 2001 | Spišská Nová Ves | Clay | Juraj Hasko | 6–4, $6–7^{(2–7)},$ 7–5 |
| 3. | 10 June 2002 | Sopot | Clay | Mariusz Fyrstenberg | 6–3, 1–6, 6–2 |
| 4. | 15 July 2002 | Nové Zámky | Clay | Ladislav Švarc | 6–1, 6–2 |
| 5. | 12 August 2002 | Poprad | Clay | David Novak | 6–1, 6–4 |
| 6. | 6 January 2003 | Cala Ratjada | Clay | Mariano Albert-Ferrando | 4–2, RET |
| 7. | 23 May 2005 | Jablonec nad Nisou | Clay | Tomas Jecminek | 6–4, 6–2 |
| 8. | 31 October 2005 | Frýdlant nad Ostravicí | Indoor Hard | Lukáš Lacko | 1–6, 7–5, 6–4 |
| 9. | 23 March 2006 | Barletta | Clay | Stefano Galvani | 6–2, 6–1 |
| 10. | 5 June 2006 | Prostějov | Clay | Dominik Hrbatý | 6–3, 5–7, 6–2 |
| 11. | 19 June 2006 | Braunschweig | Clay | Fernando Vicente | 6–1, 6–3 |
| 12. | 10 July 2006 | Poznań | Clay | Ilija Bozoljac | 6–4, 6–3 |
| 13. | 29 September 2008 | Porto | Clay | Dušan Lojda | 6–0, $7–6^{(7–2)}$ |
| 14. | 27 April 2009 | Ostrava | Clay | Ivan Dodig | 7–5, 6–1 |
| 15. | 1 June 2009 | Prostějov | Clay | Steve Darcis | 6–2, 1–6, 6–4 |
| 16. | 31 October 2009 | Freudenstadt | Clay | Laurent Recouderc | 2–6, 6–3, $7–6^{(7–5)}$ |
| 17. | 31 May 2010 | Prostějov | Clay | Radek Štěpánek | 6–0 RET |
| 18. | 1 July 2012 | Marburg | Clay | Andreas Haider-Maurer | 6–2, 6–2 |

## Grand Slam performance timelines

Key :

| W | F | SF | QF | #R | RR | Q# | DNQ | A | NH |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |

### Singles

| Tournament | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | SR | W–L |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Australian Open | A | 1R | A | A | 2R | 1R | Q1 | 1R | 1R | 0 / 5 | 1–5 |
| French Open | A | 3R | A | A | 1R | 1R | Q3 | 2R | | 0 / 4 | 2–4 |
| Wimbledon | A | 1R | A | A | 1R | A | A | 1R | | 0 / 3 | 0–3 |
| US Open | 2R | A | A | A | 1R | A | 1R | | | 0 / 3 | 1–3 |
| Win–loss | 1–1 | 2–3 | 0–0 | 0–0 | 1–4 | 0–2 | 0–1 | 1–3 | 0–1 | 0 / 15 | 4–15 |
| Year End Ranking | 76 | 240 | 479 | 103 | 95 | 141 | 105 | 108 | | | |

### Doubles

| Tournament | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | SR | W–L |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Australian Open | | | | | | 2R | | | 0 / 1 | 1–1 |
| French Open | | 1R | | | 1R | | | 1R | 0 / 2 | 0–2 |
| Wimbledon | | | | | 1R | | | 1R | 0 / 2 | 0–2 |
| US Open | 1R | | | | 1R | | 1R | | 0 / 3 | 0–3 |
| Win–loss | 0–1 | 0–1 | 0–0 | 0–0 | 0–3 | 1–1 | 0–1 | 0–2 | 0 / 9 | 1–9 |
