Jaromir Becka | |
Fullname: | Jaromir Becka |
Birth Date: | 6 July 1963 |
Birth Place: | Prague, Czechoslovakia |
Plays: | Right-handed |
Careerprizemoney: | $48,013 |
Singlesrecord: | 13–18 |
Singlestitles: | 0 |
Highestsinglesranking: | No. 137 (21 May 1984) |
Doublesrecord: | 9–11 |
Doublestitles: | 0 |
Highestdoublesranking: | No. 147 (13 June 1988) |
Jaromir Becka (born 6 July 1963) is a Czechoslovak born former professional tennis player from Germany.
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]
width=40 | No. | width=50 | Year | width=200 | Tournament | width=60 | Surface | width=160 | Partner | width=200 | Opponents | width=160 | Score |
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1. | 1986 | Thessaloniki, Greece | Hard | Christian Saceanu | Alex Antonitsch Brian Levine | 3–6, 6–1, 7–6 | |||||||
2. | 1988 | Heilbronn, West Germany | Carpet | Udo Riglewski | Axel Hornung Andreas Lesch | 7–6, 4–6, 6–2 |