Jaromir Becka

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Jaromir Becka
Full nameJaromir Becka
Country (sports)Flag of Germany.svg  West Germany
Born (1963-07-06) 6 July 1963 (age 59)
Prague, Czechoslovakia
PlaysRight-handed
Prize money$48,013
Singles
Career record13–18
Career titles0
Highest rankingNo. 137 (21 May 1984)
Doubles
Career record9–11
Career titles0
Highest rankingNo. 147 (13 June 1988)

Jaromir Becka (born 6 July 1963) is a Czechoslovak born former professional tennis player from Germany.

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Biography

Originally from Prague in what was then Czechoslovakia, Becka emigrated to West Germany and was based in Pullach, Munich. [1] He was the Munich Junior Champion in 1980, then in 1981 was the National Indoor Junior Champion and a member of the Valeria Cup team. [2]

Becka made the quarter-finals of two Grand Prix tournaments in 1983, the Tel Aviv Open and Grand Prix de Tennis de Toulouse. [3] [4] Also that year he came close to beating Vitas Gerulaitis at the Munich WCT tournament. [1] After winning the first set comfortably, he lost the next two in tiebreaks. [1]

In 1984 he reached the quarter-finals of the Bavarian International Tennis Championships and had a win over Roscoe Tanner in Cleveland. [5] [6]

He won two titles on the Challenger circuit, both in doubles, at Thessaloniki in 1986 and Heilbronn in 1988.

Formerly a coach of Carsten Arriens, Becka now runs a tennis school in Munich. [7]

Challenger titles

Doubles: (2)

No.YearTournamentSurfacePartnerOpponentsScore
1.1986 Thessaloniki, GreeceHard Flag of Germany.svg Christian Saceanu Flag of Austria.svg Alex Antonitsch
Flag of South Africa (1928-1994).svg Brian Levine
3–6, 6–1, 7–6
2.1988 Heilbronn, West GermanyCarpet Flag of Germany.svg Udo Riglewski Flag of Germany.svg Axel Hornung
Flag of Germany.svg Andreas Lesch
7–6, 4–6, 6–2

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