Filip Polášek

Filip Polášek

Country (sports)	Slovakia
Residence	Bratislava, Slovak Republic
Born	(1985-07-21) 21 July 1985 (age 39) Zvolen, Czechoslovakia (now Slovak Republic)
Height	1.93 m (6 ft 4 in)
Turned pro	2005
Retired	July 2022 (last match played)
Plays	Right-handed (two-handed backhand)
Coach	Leoš Friedl
Prize money	$2,638,647
Singles
Career record	1–0
Career titles	0
Highest ranking	No. 555 (26 November 2007)
Doubles
Career record	283–191
Career titles	17
Highest ranking	No. 7 (3 February 2020)
Grand Slam doubles results
Australian Open	W (2021)
French Open	3R (2011, 2020)
Wimbledon	SF (2019)
US Open	SF (2021)
Other doubles tournaments
Tour Finals	RR (2019, 2021)
Olympic Games	2R (2021)
Mixed doubles
Career record	10–17
Grand Slam mixed doubles results
Australian Open	QF (2010)
French Open	QF (2013, 2021)
Wimbledon	2R (2013, 2022)
US Open	2R (2013, 2021)
Last updated on: 8 July 2023.

Filip Polášek (Slovak pronunciation: [ˈfilip ˈpɔlaːʂek]; born 21 July 1985) is an inactive Slovak professional tennis player who specialises in doubles. He reached his highest doubles ranking of world No. 7 in February 2020, and has won 17 titles on the ATP Tour. He was forced to retire in 2013 due to health issues, but returned in 2018 and began the most successful phase of his career. Polášek won his first Grand Slam title at the 2021 Australian Open alongside Ivan Dodig, and also won the 2019 Cincinnati Masters and 2021 Indian Wells Masters, with Dodig and John Peers respectively.^[1][2] Polášek was the first Slovak man to reach, or win a major doubles final. He also reached the semifinals at the 2019 Wimbledon Championships, 2020 Australian Open and 2021 US Open.^[3][4] He qualified for the ATP Finals in both 2019 and 2021.^[5] Polášek has represented Slovakia in the Davis Cup since 2008, and also competed at the 2020 Summer Olympics partnering Lukáš Klein.

Polášek reached his first ATP final at the 2008 Valencia Open with partner Travis Parrott, they fell to Máximo González and Juan Mónaco in two tight sets 5–7, 5–7. Later that year at the Swiss Open Gsaad he won his first title with partner Jaroslav Levinský in three sets. In October Polášek won his second title of the year at the St. Petersburg Open with Travis Parrott.^[6]

In 2013 Polášek reached three ATP finals with partner Julian Knowle, winning the later two the Zagreb Indoors and the Grand Prix Hassan II.^[6]

In November 2013 Polášek retired from professional tennis at the age of 28 due to nerve issues and loose discs in his back.^[7]

Several years after retirement and allowing his body to heal through less strenuous activities such as coaching tennis and ski touring, Polášek hit with Mike Bryan and started playing some club matches again, and the pain of his previous injuries didn't seem to be reoccurring. He asked to take some time off from the coaching academy he taught at and started playing some futures and then challengers. By the end of September 2019 Polášek's doubles ranking had risen to within the top 200 for the first time in five years.^[7][8]

Polášek claimed his first ATP title in 6 years in Kizbühel, partnering with Philipp Oswald.^[9] At Wimbledon he reached his first Grand Slam semifinal partnering with Ivan Dodig in just their second tournament together.^[10] They then went on to capture their first Masters 1000 title as a team, and Polášek's first career masters title at the Western & Southern Open in Cincinnati defeating Juan Sebastian Cabal and Robert Farah in the final 4–6, 6–4, 10–6.^[11]

Polášek and Dodig then went on to take their second title as a team defeating defending champions Lukasz Kubot and Marcelo Melo to take the China Open title in Beijing.^[12]

Dodig and Polášek began their 2020 season at the Adelaide International, where they reached the final, losing to Maximo Gonzalez and Fabrice Martin.^[13]

They then reached the semifinals of the 2020 Australian Open before being defeated by Max Purcell and Luke Saville.^[14] As a result, he reached a new career-high doubles ranking of World No. 7 on 3 February 2020.

After this the ATP Tour was suspended due to the COVID-19 pandemic.^[15] On the tour's resumption in August at the Cincinnati Masters in New York and at the US Open they fell in the first round.^[16]

Polášek and his partner Dodig reached the final of their first tournament in 2021 at the Antalya Open, where they lost to Nikola Mektic and Mate Pavic.^[17] After two weeks quarantine in Australia, they reached the semifinals of the Great Ocean Road Open, where they lost out to Jamie Murray and Bruno Soares.^[18] Continuing to partner with Dodig, Polášek won his first Grand Slam tournament at the Australian Open defeating Rajeev Ram and Joe Salisbury in the final.^[1] With the title he became the first Slovak male Grand Slam champion.^[4] As a result, he returned to the top 10 on 22 February 2021.

Outcome	Year	Championship	Surface	Partner	Opponents	Score
Win	2021	Australian Open	Hard	Ivan Dodig	Rajeev Ram Joe Salisbury	6–3, 6–4

Result	Year	Tournament	Surface	Partner	Opponents	Score
Win	2019	Cincinnati Masters	Hard	Ivan Dodig	Juan Sebastián Cabal Robert Farah	4–6, 6–4, [10–6]
Win	2021	Indian Wells Masters	Hard	John Peers	Aslan Karatsev Andrey Rublev	6–3, 7–6(7–5)

Result	W–L	Date	Tournament	Tier	Surface	Partner	Opponents	Score
Loss	0–1	Apr 2008	Valencia Open, Spain	International	Clay	Travis Parrott	Máximo González Juan Mónaco	5–7, 5–7
Win	1–1	Jul 2008	Swiss Open Gstaad, Switzerland	International	Clay	Jaroslav Levinský	Stéphane Bohli Stanislas Wawrinka	3–6, 6–2, [11–9]
Win	2–1	Oct 2008	St. Petersburg Open, Russia	International	Hard (i)	Travis Parrott	Rohan Bopanna Max Mirnyi	3–6, 7–6(7–4), [10–8]
Loss	2–2	Feb 2009	U.S. National Indoor, United States	500 Series	Hard (i)	Travis Parrott	Mardy Fish Mark Knowles	6–7(7–9), 1–6
Loss	2–3	Jun 2009	Eastbourne International, United Kingdom	250 Series	Grass	Travis Parrott	Mariusz Fyrstenberg Marcin Matkowski	4–6, 4–6
Win	3–3	Jul 2009	Swedish Open, Sweden	250 Series	Clay	Jaroslav Levinský	Robert Lindstedt Robin Söderling	1–6, 6–3, [10–7]
Loss	3–4	Jul 2009	German Open, Germany	500 Series	Clay	Marcelo Melo	Simon Aspelin Paul Hanley	3–6, 3–6
Loss	3–5	Jul 2009	Swiss Open Gstaad, Switzerland	250 Series	Clay	Jaroslav Levinský	Marco Chiudinelli Michael Lammer	5–7, 3–6
Loss	3–6	Jun 2010	Halle Open, Germany	250 Series	Grass	Martin Damm	Sergiy Stakhovsky Mikhail Youzhny	6–4, 5–7, [7–10]
Win	4–6	Aug 2010	Croatia Open, Croatia	250 Series	Clay	Leoš Friedl	František Čermák Michal Mertiňák	6–3, 7–6(9–7)
Win	5–6	May 2011	Serbia Open, Serbia	250 Series	Clay	František Čermák	Oliver Marach Alexander Peya	7–5, 6–2
Loss	5–7	Jul 2011	German Open, Germany	500 Series	Clay	František Čermák	Oliver Marach Alexander Peya	4–6, 1–6
Win	6–7	Jul 2011	Swiss Open Gstaad, Switzerland (2)	250 Series	Clay	František Čermák	Christopher Kas Alexander Peya	6–3, 7–6(9–7)
Loss	6–8	Oct 2011	Malaysian Open, Malaysia	250 Series	Hard (i)	František Čermák	Eric Butorac Jean-Julien Rojer	1–6, 3–6
Loss	6–9	Oct 2011	Japan Open, Japan	500 Series	Hard	František Čermák	Andy Murray Jamie Murray	1–6, 4–6
Win	7–9	Oct 2011	Kremlin Cup, Russia	250 Series	Hard (i)	František Čermák	Carlos Berlocq David Marrero	6–3, 6–1
Win	8–9	Jan 2012	Qatar Open, Qatar	250 Series	Hard	Lukáš Rosol	Christopher Kas Philipp Kohlschreiber	6–3, 6–4
Loss	8–10	Jan 2012	Auckland Open, New Zealand	250 Series	Hard	František Čermák	Oliver Marach Alexander Peya	3–6, 2–6
Win	9–10	May 2012	Bavarian Championships, Germany	250 Series	Clay	František Čermák	Xavier Malisse Dick Norman	6–4, 7–5
Loss	9–11	May 2012	Open de Nice Côte d'Azur, France	250 Series	Clay	Oliver Marach	Bob Bryan Mike Bryan	6–7(5–7), 3–6
Loss	9–12	Oct 2012	Vienna Open, Austria	250 Series	Hard (i)	Julian Knowle	Andre Begemann Martin Emmrich	4–6, 6–3, [4–10]
Loss	9–13	Jan 2013	Qatar Open, Qatar	250 Series	Hard	Julian Knowle	Christopher Kas Philipp Kohlschreiber	5–7, 4–6
Win	10–13	Feb 2013	Zagreb Indoors, Croatia	250 Series	Hard (i)	Julian Knowle	Ivan Dodig Mate Pavić	3–6, 3–6
Win	11–13	Apr 2013	Grand Prix Hassan II, Morocco	250 Series	Clay	Julian Knowle	Dustin Brown Christopher Kas	6–3, 6–2
Loss	11–14	Jun 2019	Antalya Open, Turkey	250 Series	Grass	Ivan Dodig	Jonathan Erlich Artem Sitak	3–6, 4–6
Loss	11–15	Jul 2019	Swiss Open Gstaad, Switzerland	250 Series	Clay	Philipp Oswald	Sander Gillé Joran Vliegen	4–6, 3–6
Win	12–15	Aug 2019	Austrian Open Kitzbühel, Austria	250 Series	Clay	Philipp Oswald	Sander Gillé Joran Vliegen	6–4, 6–4
Win	13–15	Aug 2019	Cincinnati Masters, United States	Masters 1000	Hard	Ivan Dodig	Juan Sebastián Cabal Robert Farah	4–6, 6–4, [10–6]
Win	14–15	Oct 2019	China Open, China	500 Series	Hard	Ivan Dodig	Łukasz Kubot Marcelo Melo	6–3, 7–6(7–4)
Loss	14–16	Jan 2020	Adelaide International, Australia	250 Series	Hard	Ivan Dodig	Máximo González Fabrice Martin	6–7(12–14), 3–6
Loss	14–17	Jan 2021	Antalya Open, Turkey	250 Series	Hard	Ivan Dodig	Nikola Mektić Mate Pavić	2–6, 4–6
Win	15–17	Feb 2021	Australian Open, Australia	Grand Slam	Hard	Ivan Dodig	Rajeev Ram Joe Salisbury	6–3, 6–4
Loss	15–18	Oct 2021	San Diego Open, United States	250 Series	Hard	John Peers	Joe Salisbury Neal Skupski	6–7(2–7), 6–3, [5–10]
Win	16–18	Oct 2021	Indian Wells Masters, United States	Masters 1000	Hard	John Peers	Aslan Karatsev Andrey Rublev	6–3, 7–6(7–5)
Win	17–18	Jan 2022	Sydney International, Australia	250 Series	Hard	John Peers	Simone Bolelli Fabio Fognini	7–5, 7–5

Result	W–L	Date	Tournament	Tier	Surface	Opponent	Score
Loss	0–1	Sep 2005	Algeria F1, Algiers	Futures	Clay	Lamine Ouahab	3–6, 0–6
Loss	0–2	Aug 2006	Iran F3, Tehran	Futures	Clay	Bastian Knittel	3–6, 5–7
Win	1–2	Aug 2007	Slovak Rep. F3, Bratislava	Futures	Clay	Ján Krošlák	6–4, 6–1

Result	W–L	Date	Tournament	Tier	Surface	Partner	Opponents	Score
Win	1–0	May 2004	Hungary F3, Miskolc	Futures	Clay	Ladislav Švarc	Xavier Audouy Nicolas Tourte	6–3, 6–3
Loss	1–1	Jun 2004	Slovenia F1, Koper	Futures	Clay	Jiří Vencl	Antonio Baldellou-Esteva Germán Puentes Alcañiz	2–6, 5–7
Win	2–1	Jul 2004	Germany F1, Kassel	Futures	Clay	Ladislav Švarc	Lucas Engel Markus Schiller	6–4, 6–2
Loss	2–2	Sep 2004	Hungary F4, Sopron	Futures	Clay	František Polyak	Nikola Ćirić Goran Tošić	1–6, 2–6
Loss	2–3	Oct 2004	Hungary F5, Budapest	Futures	Clay	Daniel Lustig	Antonio Baldellou-Esteva Germán Puentes Alcañiz	5–7, 6–3, 3–6
Loss	2–4	Oct 2004	Hungary F6, Kaposvár	Futures	Clay	Daniel Lustig	Tomáš Banczi Peter Miklušičák	7–5, 4–6, 6–7(5–7)
Win	3–4	Sep 2005	Algeria F1, Algiers	Futures	Clay	Dušan Karol	Walid Jallali Alexander Satschko	4–6, 6–2, 6–4
Loss	3–5	Sep 2005	Algeria F2, Algiers	Futures	Clay	Filip Zeman	Abdelhak Hameurlaine Slimane Saoudi	4–6, 4–6
Win	4–5	Oct 2005	Czech Rep. F4, Průhonice	Futures	Hard (i)	Daniel Lustig	Michal Navrátil Mirko Zapletal	6–4, 6–2
Win	5–5	Oct 2005	Czech Rep. F5, Opava	Futures	Hard (i)	Daniel Lustig	Evgeny Kirillov Alexander Krasnorutskiy	6–4, 6–1
Win	6–5	Nov 2005	Czech Rep. F6, Frýdlant nad Ostravicí	Futures	Hard (i)	Daniel Lustig	Roman Kutáč Karel Tříska	6–3, 6–4
Win	7–5	Nov 2005	Prague, Czech Republic	Challenger	Carpet (i)	Sergiy Stakhovsky	James Auckland Jasper Smit	6–3, 3–6, 7–6(7–5)
Win	8–5	May 2006	Czech Rep. F2, Jablonec nad Nisou	Futures	Clay	Daniel Lustig	Marek Semjan Filip Zeman	6–2, 6–0
Win	9–5	Jun 2006	Czech Rep. F3, Karlovy Vary	Futures	Clay	Daniel Lustig	Kamil Čapkovič Pavol Červenák	6–3, 1–6, 6–1
Loss	9–6	Jul 2006	Iran F1, Tehran	Futures	Clay	Viktor Bruthans	Daniel Köllerer Alexander Satschko	6–2, 2–6, 6–7(5–7)
Loss	9–7	Jul 2006	Iran F2, Tehran	Futures	Clay	Viktor Bruthans	Daniel Köllerer Alexander Satschko	5–7, 6–7(5–7)
Win	10–7	Aug 2006	Slovak Rep. F1, Žilina	Futures	Clay	Daniel Lustig	Peter Miklušičák František Polyak	6–4, 6–1
Win	11–7	Aug 2006	Slovak Rep. F2, Piešťany	Futures	Clay	Daniel Lustig	Marek Semjan Ján Stančík	6–0, 7–5
Win	12–7	Sep 2006	Iran F4, Tehran	Futures	Clay	Alexander Satschko	Bastian Knittel Nils Muschiol	6–3, 6–3
Loss	12–8	Sep 2006	Poland F12, Gliwice	Futures	Clay	Robert Godlewski	Denis Matsukevitch Deniss Pavlovs	7–6(7–5), 3–6, 4–6
Win	13–8	Nov 2006	Russia F1, Sergiev Posad	Futures	Hard (i)	David Klier	Alexander Krasnorutskiy Alexander Kudryavtsev	7–6(8–6), 7–6(7–5)
Loss	13–9	Dec 2006	Czech Rep. F4, Vendryně	Futures	Hard (i)	Daniel Lustig	Lukáš Rosol Igor Zelenay	1–6, 1–6
Win	14–9	Mar 2007	France F5, Poitiers	Futures	Hard (i)	Igor Zelenay	Victor Ioniță Brian Wilson	6–4, 6–4
Win	15–9	Jun 2007	Košice, Slovakia	Challenger	Clay	Lukáš Rosol	Leonardo Azzaro Flavio Cipolla	6–1, 7–6(7–5)
Win	16–9	Jul 2007	Oberstaufen, Germany	Challenger	Clay	Igor Zelenay	Peter Gojowczyk Marc Sieber	7–5, 7–5
Win	17–9	Aug 2007	Slovak Rep. F3, Bratislava	Futures	Clay	Igor Zelenay	Viktor Bruthans Ján Stančík	Walkover
Loss	17–10	Sep 2007	Düsseldorf, Germany	Challenger	Clay	Igor Zelenay	Fabio Colangelo Philipp Marx	6–3, 3–6, [7–10]
Win	18–10	Sep 2007	Trnava, Slovakia	Challenger	Clay	Igor Zelenay	Diego Junqueira Rubén Ramírez Hidalgo	6–1, 6–4
Win	19–10	Oct 2007	Mons, Belgium	Challenger	Hard (i)	Tomasz Bednarek	Philipp Petzschner Alexander Peya	6–2, 5–7, [10–8]
Loss	19–11	Oct 2007	Rennes, France	Challenger	Carpet (i)	Igor Zelenay	Philipp Petzschner Björn Phau	2–6, 2–6
Loss	19–12	Feb 2008	Belgrade, Serbia	Challenger	Carpet (i)	Alessandro Motti	Flavio Cipolla Konstantinos Economidis	6–4, 2–6, [8–10]
Win	20–12	Mar 2008	San Luis Potosí, Mexico	Challenger	Clay	Travis Parrott	Jean-Julien Rojer Márcio Torres	6–2, 6–1
Win	21–12	Mar 2008	León, Mexico	Challenger	Hard	Travis Parrott	Brendan Evans Alex Kuznetsov	6–4, 6–1
Loss	21–13	Aug 2008	Segovia, Spain	Challenger	Hard	Jaroslav Levinský	Ross Hutchins Jim Thomas	6–7(3–7), 6–3, [8–10]
Loss	21–14	Nov 2008	Aachen, Germany	Challenger	Carpet (i)	Travis Parrott	Michael Kohlmann Alexander Waske	4–6, 4–6
Win	22–14	Mar 2010	Sunrise, USA	Challenger	Hard	Martin Damm	Lukáš Dlouhý Leander Paes	4–6, 6–1, [13–11]
Win	23–14	Oct 2010	Mons, Belgium	Challenger	Hard (i)	Igor Zelenay	Ruben Bemelmans Yannick Mertens	3–6, 6–4, [10–5]
Loss	23–15	Oct 2010	Tashkent, Uzbekistan	Challenger	Hard	Karol Beck	Ross Hutchins Jamie Murray	6–2, 4–6, [8–10]
Loss	23–16	Nov 2010	Bratislava, Slovakia	Challenger	Hard (i)	Travis Parrott	Colin Fleming Jamie Murray	2–6, 6–3, [6–10]
Win	24–16	Jul 2018	Czech Republic F5, Ústí nad Orlicí	Futures	Clay	Patrik Rikl	Antonín Bolardt Tomáš Macháč	7–6(7–2), 7–6(7–5)
Loss	24–17	Jul 2018	Czech Republic F6, Brno	Futures	Clay	Patrik Rikl	Petr Nouza David Škoch	3–6, 6–2, [12–14]
Loss	24–18	Aug 2018	Liberec, Czech Republic	Challenger	Clay	Patrik Rikl	Sander Gillé Joran Vliegen	3–6, 4–6
Win	25–18	Aug 2018	Slovakia F3, Bratislava	Futures	Clay	Danylo Kalenichenko	Petr Michnev Antonín Štěpánek	6–3, 6–2
Win	26–18	Aug 2018	Hungary F6, Győr	Futures	Clay	Danylo Kalenichenko	Sadio Doumbia Fabien Reboul	6–4, 3–6, [19–17]
Loss	26–19	Sep 2018	Como, Italy	Challenger	Clay	Martin Kližan	Andre Begemann Dustin Brown	6–3, 4–6, [5–10]
Loss	26–20	Sep 2018	Genova, Italy	Challenger	Clay	Martin Kližan	Kevin Krawietz Andreas Mies	2–6, 6–3, [2–10]
Win	27–20	Sep 2018	Szczecin, Poland	Challenger	Clay	Karol Drzewiecki	Guido Andreozzi Guillermo Durán	6–3, 6–4
Loss	27–21	Jan 2019	Koblenz, Germany	Challenger	Hard (i)	Jürgen Melzer	Zdeněk Kolář Adam Pavlásek	3–6, 4–6
Win	28–21	Feb 2019	Budapest, Hungary	Challenger	Hard (i)	Kevin Krawietz	Filippo Baldi Luca Margaroli	7–5, 7–6(7–5)
Win	29–21	May 2019	Ostrava, Czech Republic	Challenger	Clay	Luca Margaroli	Thiemo de Bakker Tallon Griekspoor	6–4, 2–6, [10–8]
Win	30–21	May 2019	Rome, Italy	Challenger	Clay	Philipp Oswald	Nikola Čačić Adam Pavlásek	Walkover
Win	31–21	May 2019	Lisbon, Portugal	Challenger	Clay	Philipp Oswald	Guido Andreozzi Guillermo Durán	7–5, 6–2
Win	32–21	Jun 2019	Prostějov, Czech Republic	Challenger	Clay	Philipp Oswald	Jiří Lehečka Jiří Veselý	6–4, 7–6(7–4)
Win	33–21	Jun 2019	Lyon, France	Challenger	Clay	Philipp Oswald	Simone Bolelli Andrea Pellegrino	6–4, 7–6(7–2)

Current through the 2022 Davis Cup.

• Filip Polášek at the Association of Tennis Professionals
• Filip Polášek at the International Tennis Federation
• Filip Polášek at the Davis Cup
• Filip Polášek at Olympedia
• Filip Polášek at Olympics.com
• Filip Polášek at Olympic.sk (in Slovak)