Jiri Vesely

[Sempere]

Jiri Vesely



Data urodzenia: 10 lipca 1993
Miejsce urodzenia: Pribram
Narodowość: Czechy
Gra: leworęczny

[Sempere]

Osiągnięcia:

Zwycięstwa w juniorskich Wielkich Szlemach (1):

2011 Australian Open

[Sempere]

06.08.2012

Najwyższy ranking w karierze: 348

[robpal]

Junior watch: Getting to know Jiri Vesely

Are you feeling any pressure as the No.1 seed?
Of course I feel a little bit nervous, because I'm No.1, and of course I came to Melbourne to win this tournament. So it's a little bit of pressure, but I have to play my own tennis.

Favourite city outside of tennis?
I like New York, it's a beautiful city, and Melbourne is alright I guess too!

What do you like to do in your down-time?
I watch TV, play some games, just try to relax.

What are some of your best tennis memories?
I like team competitions, a lot of those matches are very hard. Of course my tournament wins are good too!

Favourite surface?
Clay, because last year I played a lot of matches on that surface, and won the most matches on clay, but I don't care so much about what surface I play on.

How tall are you?
195 centimetres.

And have you stopped growing?
I hope so! But we'll see... I think it's ok now, this height.

http://2011.australianopen.com/en_AU/ne ... 37145.html

[DUN I LOVE]

Jiri Vesely - juniorski Mistrz Australian Open 2011



R1 Evgeny Karlovskiy 6-3 6-3
R2 Austria Dennis Novak 6-2 6-4
R3 Sean Berman 6-4 6-1
QF Mitchell Krueger 6-2 6-2
SF George Morgan 6-3 6-4
W Luke Saville 6-0 6-3

Konferencja po finale:

Spoiler:

Q. Could you just sum up the match the way you saw it? It looked very easy in the scoreline, 6 Love, 6 3. Was that the way it was for you?
JIRI VESELY: Well, in the first set I was a little bit nervous before the match, because you go the first time to the center court before the Australian crowd. Was a little bit tough for me.
But I think I start pretty well. I moved very good. Yeah, I won the first set 6 Love. But the second game I break him, but we played I think the game more than ten minutes. That was I think the big point where I start playing good and he was just a little bit, yeah, down.
Yeah, in the second set, he start better. He took a medical timeout, and then I came back and I play just unbelievable.

Q. What does it mean to you to win this championship?
JIRI VESELY: Yeah, it's unbelievable. It's something what you can't imagine before the tournament, because you go to the a Grand Slam tournament and you have to win six matches. You play against the best guys in the world.
Then if you are No. 1 seeded, then there is a little bit more pressure on you to play against the other guys.
But I think I played really well this week. I didn't drop a set, what is unbelievable. Yeah, it's just amazing.

Q. And you expect the win will give you a lot more confidence for the next year and a couple years to come?
JIRI VESELY: Yeah, of course. When you win a tournament like this, then you get a big confidence. You just feel so easy. Yeah, when you play the next tournament, then the other opponents, they have still more and more respect before you.
There are just four players in one year that can win a Grand Slam tournament, so it's just a special, special moment.

Q. Luke was unseeded, and he said before that he was able to cause some upsets during this tournament and to progress to the final because he played a lot against men recently, and that helped him lift his game. Is that something you would be doing, do you think, a bit more often?
JIRI VESELY: Yeah. Of course I think Luke is a great player, because when you are playing final of a Grand Slam and you are one year younger than the other guys, then it's something very big.
I think that when you are playing men's tournaments, then you are getting better. You get the big experience. And then when you come to the junior tournaments, especially last week, and then came to play the final, then you get respect before the guys.
Yeah, I think that Luke was playing great tennis here. He beat very good guys, what is very good for him. I think that he can win maybe next year the Australian Open.

Q. Have you got any thoughts about when you might turn professional?
JIRI VESELY: I have to work hard. It's still a very long way. You have to be fit still all the time. You have to work every day. I don't know how long I can be professional, but I will start this year with some future tournaments and we will see what will happen.
But I hope I can be a professional or playing with the top guys maybe in two, three years. That would be great.

Q. I was just checking, and it's been 12 years since a boy swept the singles and doubles. Did you know that?
JIRI VESELY: No, I didn't know.

Q. When you were coming into this was that a goal, or was it icing on the cake?
JIRI VESELY: Yeah, when I play tournament, then I always want to win the tournament. So I was going into the tournament that I want to win singles, but then we start playing doubles. Then of course you go on the court with the think that you want to win the match.
So we go match by match, and we won the tournament, what was great yesterday. Got me a little bit more confidence for the singles final.

Q. Do you look at your idols like Ivan Lendl, Jan Kodes, Radek Stepanek, Tomas Berdych? What kind of idols did you have?
JIRI VESELY: Idols, yeah, Ivan Lendl and Jan Kodes, they were playing when I wasn't even on the world, so I don't know how they are playing. I know how they are playing, but it's other tennis now than was before.
So now I think I have the idols Tomas Berdych that I'm practicing with him sometimes in my club, what's the best club in Czech Republic. There's everything what you can, massage, physio, so everything what you need to have. So think it's Tomas Berdych.
And then I like the game from Federer, because I was ten years old and he won the first Wimbledon title. So I just know the or not that I know but I was watching on the TV more and more tennis when was winning all the tournaments and all the majors , so I love his game, and I hope I can be once like him.

http://2011.australianopen.com/en_AU/ne ... 44003.html

[Jacuszyn]

[Ranger]

20.08.2012

Najwyższy ranking w karierze: 317

[DUN I LOVE]

Znakomity okres gry Veselego. Od początku lipca Czech wygrał 3 turnieje ITF, zaliczył jeden finał i półfinał tej rangi turnieju. Bardzo szybko pozwala mu to na awans w rankingu. Top-300 coraz bliżej.

Łącznie Jiry ma na koncie 5 zwycięstw w zawodach Futures, w tym aż 4 pochodzą z tego sezonu.

[robpal]

Spotlight - Jiri Vesely - July 2012

Early in January, Jiri Vesely won his first and last singles title of the year on the ITF Pro Circuit and he is our featured player for July as he looked to end a five month wait for another singles title.

Vesely did not get off to the best of starts this month losing in straights sets in the first round in Kassel, Germany. Maybe the Junior Exempt entrant was distracted by thoughts of his impending 19th birthday!

On July 10th the ITF 2011 Junior World Champion turned 19 and this date also marked the start of his second tournament of the month and first of three that he would play in July within his home nation.

Prostejov was the first of this trio of tournaments and, seeded eighth, Vesely was to put his disappointment of the previous week firmly behind him as he celebrated his birthday week with his first singles title since triumphing in China at the start of the year.

All week the newly turned 19-year-old showed no signs of losing and took the title with a 64 64 win, over Dominic Thiem from Austria, coming on the back of straight set wins in the preceding rounds.

His run to the final also saw him record two set wins of 60 in successive matches and defeat seeded opposition in each round from the quarterfinal through to, and including, the final.

Further title success also came Vesely’s way in the doubles final played the day prior to his singles triumph. With partner Adam Pavlasek, a fellow player from the Czech Republic, the pair won their first title together as third seeds winning all rounds without loss of a set.

Winning both the singles and doubles titles within the same week was a career first for Vesely and he came close to repeating this in Prague.

Seeded eighth, just as he was in Prostejov the previous week, Vesely began with a 75 60 win over a wild card entrant but then, in the second round, dropped his first set since his defeat in Germany.

Brazilian Tiago Fernandes clinched a tiebreak 7-5 but Vesely hit back, levelling the match by claiming the second set on a tie break by the same score. The Czech player then won through to the quarterfinal with a 63 win in the deciding third set.

Following that second round fright, Vesely got back to winning in straight sets, first knocking out the second seeded player in the quarterfinals for the second tournament running and then seeing off another Brazilian, Thiago Monteiro, who was seeded sixth, to reach back-to-back singles finals for the first time.

The only other time Vesely had featured in back-to-back finals on the ITF Pro Circuit was in doubles action, also in the Czech Republic, back in May 2012. He won the title both times and was now looking to do the same in singles play.

His opponent, standing in his way of him achieving another career first this month, was the top seed from Slovakia, Norbert Gombos.

The first set was close with Vesely edging it 64. The following set was more one sided, a lot more in fact as Vesely did not drop a game as he raced to the win which brought him a second singles title in as many weeks.

There was not to be a repeat title winning performance for Vesely in the doubles though. Once again teaming up with Pavlasek and seeded third, the pair lost out a semifinal clash with the number one seeds and eventual champions. Despite defeat they were the only pair all week to take a set off the top seeds when they took a first set lead before going down 36 75 [10-2].

To close the month, Vesely’s third consecutive tournament in his home nation took him to Liberec and here he found himself unseeded in the singles draw. A lack of seeding, however, had little effect on his game play and after a first round 64 60 win he was once again facing Gombos across the net.

Gombos, again the top seed, was looking to exact quick revenge for his loss to Vesely in the Prague final a few days earlier but he was only able to improve slightly on that performance with Vesely winning 64 63.

Two more straight sets wins followed as he moved into a third consecutive final, yet another career first this month. He was beginning to make a habit of making these personal histories!

Although not playing doubles this week he was, however, reunited on court with his doubles partner of the last two weeks, only this time on opposing sides of the net as they faced off for the title.

Both players were unseeded and had accounted for the top two seeds during the tournament. Coming into the match, Vesely had triumphed in all the singles finals he had previously contested during his ITF Pro Circuit career and this, along with his recent form, surely made him the favourite for the title.

Having played alongside each other in doubles action the previous two weeks would have given each player some insight into their opponent’s strengths and weaknesses and it was Vesely who drew first blood, taking the opening set 63.

The second set went all the way to a tie breaker and a 7-3 win levelled the match for Pavlasek. The title was therefore going to be decided in a third and final set. But who was going to get the vital win?

Five times already this month, including in his opening set this week, Vesely had won without loss of a set and it came as a surprise when, in this deciding set, he soon found himself on the receiving end of such a scoreline!

His loss to his compatriot in the final brought about another, if somewhat unwanted, career first. It was his first defeat in a singles final on the ITF Pro Circuit. The good news though was the release of the ATP rankings on 30 July revealed Vesely had peaked at a new career high of 376. A climb of 227 places on his opening ranking of 2012.

http://www.itftennis.com/procircuit/new ... -2012.aspx

[Ranger]

01.10.2012

Najwyższy ranking w karierze: 278

[Barty]

08.10.2012

Najwyższy ranking w karierze: 267

[DUN I LOVE]

Kolejny udany start w Portugalii (następny sukces w turnieju ITF) zapewnił Czechowi miejsce w Top-300. W tym roku będzie mu trudno wywalczyć miejsce w kwalifikacjach do AO, ale powinno być łatwiej o bezpośredni awans do MD przeciętnych challengerów.

[Sempere]

15.10.2012

Najwyższy ranking w karierze: 266

[DUN I LOVE]

Coś poważniejszego musiało się stać Czechowi, który prowadząc 5-4 w decydującym secie poddał mecz. Miało to miejsce w półfinale turnieju ITF w Maroku. Wielka szkoda, była spora szansa na kolejny finał.

[Sempere]

22.10.2012

Najwyższy ranking w karierze: 263

[Sempere]

29.10.2012

Najwyższy ranking w karierze: 254

[Sempere]

2012 w liczbach

Ranking: 261
Bilans meczów: -
Łączna liczba spotkań: -
Tytuły: -
Finały: -
Zarobki: $25,623

[Sempere]

04.02.2013

Najwyższy ranking w karierze: 251

[DUN I LOVE]

Jeszcze 1 pozycja i ponownie doczekamy się nastolatka w Top-250.

[Joao]

Jeszcze 1 pozycja i ponownie doczekamy się nastolatka w Top-250.

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