Played with double-handed backhand both sides...Started playing tennis aged six...Father is Emil, mother is Dana; one sister, Nicole, and one brother, David...Hobbies include watching sport...Favourite surface is clay.
2011 -- The Czech Republic No. 3 (behind No. 7 Berdych, No. 28 Stepanek) finished in Top 100 for 1st time with success in Challengers (29-12 match record) winning titles in Prague (d. Bogomolov Jr.) in May and Braunschweig (d. Donskoy) in June…Also runner-up in Singapore (l. to Tursunov) in January...Reached a career-high No. 65 on Aug. 15...His best result was 3R at Roland Garros where he qualified into main draw and defeated Roger-Vasselin and No. 8-ranked Melzer in 5 sets for 1st career Top 10 win before losing to Chela in 4 sets...Compiled marks of 4-5 on clay and 2-8 on hard and earned a career-high $282,360...
2010 -- Made Grand Slam debut, as a qualifier, at US Open (l. to No. 41 Robredo)...Also qualified at Hamburg (l. to Istomin)...Failed to qualify at ATP World Tour Masters 1000 Miami, Roland Garros, Wimbledon and Vienna...Won one ATP Challenger Tour title at Ostrava (d. Dodig)...In doubles, won two Challenger titles at Oberstaufen (w/Moser) and Trnava (w/K. Beck) from three finals...Finished the year at World No. 164...
2009 -- Won one ATP Challenger Tour title at Bergamo (d. Dorsch)...Won one ITF Futures title at Germany F4 (d. S. Robert)...Failed to qualify for Roland Garros, Wimbledon and US Open...In doubles, won one Futures title at Germany F1 (w/Andis) and runner-up at three Challenger finals...Finished the year at World No. 148..
2008 -- Qualified for Auckland for second straight year, losing to World No. 70 Roitman in 1st RD...Qualified for Stuttgart in July, beating M. Fisher in 1st RD before losing to World No. 15 Gasquet...Failed to qualify for Australian Open, Roland Garros, Wimbledon and US Open, Kitzbuhel and Vienna...Playing predominantly on ATP Challenger Tour, won first singles title at Kosice (d. Lopez Jaen)...In doubles, won one Challenger title at Wroclaw (w/Cerretani) from two finals...Finished the year at World No. 182...
2007 -- Qualified for Auckland, for ATP debut, losing to World No. 9 Ancic...Failed to qualify for Australian Open, Wimbledon and US Open...Won back-to-back ITF Futures titles at Czech Republic F1 (d. Vacek) and Uzbekistan F2 (d. Wang)...In October won third Futures titles at France F18 (d. Mannarino) and finished year with runner-up finish at Czech Republic F6 (d. K. Beck)...In doubles, won four ITF Futures and three ATP Challenger Tour titles...Finished the year at World No. 271...
2006 -- Won three ITF Futures titles, at Poland F3 (d. Krasnoroutsky), at France F18 (d. Jeanpierre) and Czech Republic F5 (d. Goodall), from seven finals...Won six ITF Futures doubles titles...Finished the year at World No. 288...
2005 -- Runner-up at one ITF Futures in Hungary F5 (l. to Bardoczky)...Won two ITF Futures doubles titles at Serbia F4 (w/Miklusicak) and Hungary F4 (w/Da Col)...