Tomas Berdych is a Czech tennis player based in Monaco. During his career, the thirty-one-year-old Czech has managed to win more than ten serious singles tournaments and two in doubles. Although his career is not outstanding.
Career
Tomasz Berdych started playing tennis from childhood. At the age of twelve, he was able to win one of the tournaments in the Czech Republic. Tomas started his professional career in 2002. In his first year at the professional level, the Czech tennis player managed to rise to the 800th position in the ATP rankings.
Tomas showed his highest result in the ranking of professional tennis players at the end of spring 2015, when he was ranked fourth in the ATP table. At the moment, the Czech takes the fourteenth place. On June 16, he crashed out of the tournament in Stuttgart, and a few weeks earlier at the French Open, Berdych lost in the second round.
Tomasz Berdych's Grand Slam performances
The Czech's debut at one of the four most important tennis events came at the 2003 American Open. At that tournament, Tomas managed to pass the first round, after which he left the competition at the second stage.round.
In 2004, Berdych showed up for the first Grand Slam of the season, the Australian Open. Again, Tomas failed to get past the second round. He lost in three sets to the famous American Andre Agassi, who at that time held the fourth position in the ATP rankings.
The most successful Grand Slam for Tomasz Berdych - Wimbledon 2010. At those competitions, the Czech was able to reach the final. The first round Tomas was easy, beating the Kazakh Golubev. In the second round of the tournament, Tomasz Berdych defeated the German Becker, giving him only one set. In the third round, the Czech tennis player was one step away from relegation, but was able to beat Denis Istomin in five games. In the quarterfinals, Tomasz Berdych defeated the top seed, Roger Federer. In the semi-finals, again a difficult opponent - the third racket of the world - Novak Djokovic. And again the victory was for the Czech. In the final match, Tomasz Berdych lost to Spaniard Rafa Nadal.