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Daniel Vacek

Czech tennis player (born 1971)

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Daniel Vacek (born 1 April 1971) is a former tennis player from Czechoslovakia and the Czech Republic who turned professional in 1990. He reached the quarterfinals of the 1995 Paris Masters, the 1998 Canada Masters and the 1998 Cincinnati Masters, and achieved a career-high singles ranking of world No. 26 in January 1996.

Vacek represented his native country at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta where he was defeated in the second round. The right-hander won 25 career titles in doubles with various partners, including the French Open in 1996 and 1997, and the US Open in 1997 with Yevgeny Kafelnikov.

01ATP career finals

Singles: 5 (5 runner-ups)

Result	W-L	Date	Tournament	Surface	Opponent	Score
Loss	0-1	Mar 1994	Copenhagen, Denmark	Carpet (i)	Yevgeny Kafelnikov	3-6, 5-7
Loss	0-2	Feb 1995	Marseille, France	Carpet (i)	Boris Becker	7-6^(7-2), 4-6, 5-7
Loss	0-3	Nov 1995	Moscow, Russia	Carpet (i)	Carl-Uwe Steeb	6-7^(5-7), 6-3, 6-7^(6-8)
Loss	0-4	Mar 1997	Rotterdam, Netherlands	Carpet (i)	Richard Krajicek	6-7^(4-7), 6-7^(5-7)
Loss	0-5	Sep 1999	Toulouse, France	Hard (i)	Nicolas Escudé	5-7, 1-6

Doubles: 40 (25 titles / 15 runner-ups)

Result	W-L	Date	Tournament	Surface	Partner	Opponents	Score
Win	1-0	May 1990	Umag, Yugoslavia	Clay	Vojtěch Flégl	Andrei Cherkasov Andrei Olhovskiy	6-4, 6-4
Win	2-0	Aug 1990	Prague, Czechoslovakia	Clay	Vojtěch Flégl	George Cosac Florin Segărceanu	5-7, 6-4, 6-3
Win	3-0	Aug 1990	San Marino	Clay	Vojtěch Flégl	Jordi Burillo Marcos Aurelio Górriz	6-1, 4-6, 7-6
Loss	3-1	Aug 1991	Prague, Czechoslovakia	Clay	Libor Pimek	Vojtěch Flégl Cyril Suk	4-6, 2-6
Loss	3-2	Oct 1991	Berlin, Germany	Carpet (i)	Jan Siemerink	Petr Korda Karel Nováček	6-3, 5-7, 5-7
Loss	3-3	Jan 1992	Wellington, New Zealand	Hard	Michiel Schapers	Jared Palmer Jonathan Stark	3-6, 3-6
Loss	3-4	Mar 1993	Copenhagen, Denmark	Carpet (i)	Martin Damm	David Adams Andrei Olhovskiy	3-6, 6-3, 3-6
Win	4-4	Aug 1993	New Haven, United States	Hard	Cyril Suk	Steve DeVries David Macpherson	7-5, 6-4
Win	5-4	Feb 1994	Marseille, France	Carpet (i)	Jan Siemerink	Martin Damm Yevgeny Kafelnikov	6-7, 6-4, 6-1
Loss	5-5	Apr 1994	Monte Carlo, Monaco	Clay	Yevgeny Kafelnikov	Nicklas Kulti Magnus Larsson	6-3, 6-7, 4-6
Loss	5-6	Jul 1994	Gstaad, Switzerland	Clay	Menno Oosting	Sergio Casal Emilio Sánchez	6-7, 4-6
Win	6-6	Oct 1994	Toulouse, France	Hard (i)	Menno Oosting	Patrick McEnroe Jared Palmer	7-6, 6-7, 6-3
Loss	6-7	Feb 1995	Stuttgart Indoor, Germany	Carpet (i)	Cyril Suk	Grant Connell Patrick Galbraith	2-6, 2-6
Win	7-7	Apr 1995	Nice, France	Clay	Cyril Suk	Luke Jensen David Wheaton	3-6, 7-6, 7-6
Win	8-7	May 1995	Rome, Italy	Clay	Cyril Suk	Jan Apell Jonas Björkman	6-3, 6-4
Win	9-7	Aug 1995	Long Island, United States	Hard	Cyril Suk	Rick Leach Scott Melville	5-7, 7-6, 7-6
Loss	9-8	Sep 1995	Bucharest, Romania	Clay	Cyril Suk	Mark Keil Jeff Tarango	4-6, 6-7
Win	10-8	Oct 1995	Basel, Switzerland	Hard (i)	Cyril Suk	Mark Keil Peter Nyborg	3-6, 6-3, 6-3
Loss	10-9	Oct 1995	Essen, Germany	Carpet (i)	Cyril Suk	Jacco Eltingh Paul Haarhuis	5-7, 4-6
Win	11-9	May 1996	Prague, Czech Republic	Clay	Yevgeny Kafelnikov	Luis Lobo Javier Sánchez	6-3, 6-7, 6-3
Win	12-9	Jun 1996	French Open, Paris	Clay	Yevgeny Kafelnikov	Jakob Hlasek Guy Forget	6-2, 6-3
Loss	12-10	Jun 1996	Halle, Germany	Grass	Yevgeny Kafelnikov	Byron Black Grant Connell	1-6, 5-7
Win	13-10	Sep 1996	Basel, Switzerland	Hard (i)	Yevgeny Kafelnikov	David Adams Menno Oosting	6-3, 6-4
Win	14-10	Oct 1996	Vienna, Austria	Carpet (i)	Yevgeny Kafelnikov	Pavel Vízner Menno Oosting	7-6, 6-4
Loss	14-11	Nov 1996	Paris Masters, France	Carpet (i)	Yevgeny Kafelnikov	Jacco Eltingh Paul Haarhuis	4-6, 6-4, 6-7
Loss	14-12	Mar 1997	St. Petersburg, Russia	Carpet (i)	David Prinosil	Andrei Olhovskiy Brett Steven	4-6, 3-6
Win	15-12	Apr 1997	Hong Kong	Hard	Martin Damm	Karsten Braasch Jeff Tarango	6-3, 6-4
Win	16-12	Apr 1997	Tokyo, Japan	Hard	Martin Damm	Justin Gimelstob Patrick Rafter	2-6, 6-2, 7-6
Win	17-12	Jun 1997	French Open, Paris	Clay	Yevgeny Kafelnikov	Todd Woodbridge Mark Woodforde	7-6^(14-12), 4-6, 6-3
Win	18-12	Jul 1997	Gstaad, Switzerland	Clay	Yevgeny Kafelnikov	Trevor Kronemann David Macpherson	4-6, 7-6, 6-3
Win	19-12	Sep 1997	US Open, New York	Hard	Yevgeny Kafelnikov	Jonas Björkman Nicklas Kulti	7-6, 6-3
Loss	19-13	Mar 1998	London, England	Carpet (i)	Yevgeny Kafelnikov	Martin Damm Jim Grabb	4-6, 5-7
Loss	19-14	Aug 1998	Los Angeles, United States	Hard	Jeff Tarango	Patrick Rafter Sandon Stolle	4-6, 4-6
Win	20-14	Oct 1998	Vienna, Austria	Carpet (i)	Yevgeny Kafelnikov	David Adams John-Laffnie de Jager	7-5, 6-3
Loss	20-15	Nov 1998	Moscow, Russia	Carpet (i)	Yevgeny Kafelnikov	Jared Palmer Jeff Tarango	4-6, 7-6, 2-6
Win	21-15	Jan 1999	Auckland, New Zealand	Hard	Jeff Tarango	Jiří Novák David Rikl	7-5, 7-5
Win	22-15	Feb 1999	St. Petersburg, Russia	Carpet (i)	Jeff Tarango	Menno Oosting Andrei Pavel	3-6, 6-3, 7-5
Win	23-15	Apr 1999	Tokyo, Japan	Hard	Jeff Tarango	Wayne Black Brian MacPhie	4-3 ret.
Win	24-15	Nov 1999	Moscow, Russia	Carpet (i)	Justin Gimelstob	Andriy Medvedev Marat Safin	6-2, 6-1
Win	25-15	Apr 2002	Barcelona, Spain	Clay	Michael Hill	Lucas Arnold Ker Gastón Etlis	6-4, 6-4

02Doubles performance timeline

Key
W	F	SF	QF	#R	RR	Q#	DNQ	A	NH

Tournament	1989	1990	1991	1992	1993	1994	1995	1996	1997	1998	1999	2000	2001	2002	2003	Career SR	Career win-loss
Grand Slam tournaments
Australian Open	A	A	1R	2R	1R	2R	2R	3R	A	1R	QF	1R	A	3R	A	0 / 10	10-10
French Open	A	A	2R	1R	A	A	2R	W	W	2R	QF	A	A	1R	1R	2 / 9	18-7
Wimbledon	A	A	2R	2R	2R	1R	1R	1R	1R	3R	1R	A	A	1R	1R	0 / 11	5-11
US Open	A	A	1R	1R	1R	1R	2R	1R	W	2R	1R	A	1R	A	A	1 / 10	8-9
Grand Slam SR	0 / 0	0 / 0	0 / 4	0 / 4	0 / 3	0 / 3	0 / 4	1 / 4	2 / 3	0 / 4	0 / 4	0 / 1	0 / 1	0 / 3	0 / 2	3 / 40	N/A
Annual win-loss	0-0	0-0	2-4	2-4	1-3	1-3	3-4	8-3	12-1	4-4	6-4	0-1	0-1	2-3	0-2	N/A	41-37
Masters Series
Indian Wells	NME	A	A	A	A	A	A	A	A	QF	1R	2R	A	A	A	0 / 3	2-3
Miami	NME	A	A	A	A	SF	2R	A	A	QF	2R	3R	A	1R	A	0 / 6	7-6
Monte Carlo	NME	A	A	A	A	F	1R	1R	SF	2R	QF	1R	A	A	A	0 / 7	8-7
Rome	NME	A	A	A	A	2R	W	1R	2R	QF	2R	1R	A	2R	A	1 / 8	11-7
Hamburg	NME	A	A	A	A	2R	1R	QF	A	A	QF	1R	A	2R	A	0 / 6	6-6
Canada	NME	A	A	A	A	A	2R	1R	QF	2R	1R	A	QF	1R	A	0 / 7	4-7
Cincinnati	NME	A	A	A	A	QF	1R	2R	2R	SF	2R	A	A	1R	A	0 / 7	5-7
Madrid (Stuttgart)	NME	A	A	A	A	2R	F	2R	2R	QF	2R	A	A	A	A	0 / 6	5-6
Paris	NME	A	A	A	A	QF	2R	F	2R	2R	QF	A	A	A	A	0 / 6	8-6
Masters Series SR	N/A	0 / 0	0 / 0	0 / 0	0 / 0	0 / 7	1 / 8	0 / 7	0 / 6	0 / 8	0 / 9	0 / 5	0 / 1	0 / 5	0 / 0	1 / 56	N/A
Annual win-loss	N/A	0-0	0-0	0-0	0-0	13-7	7-7	5-7	4-6	10-8	9-9	3-5	2-1	2-5	0-0	N/A	56-55
Year-end ranking	325	103	54	160	58	21	11	8	5	26	20	143	113	65	1204	N/A

03Best Grand Slam results details

Singles

	Australian Open
1994 Australian Open
Round	Opponent	Rank	Score	DVR
1R	Christian Bergström	No. 85	6-3, 1-1 ret.	No. 104
2R	Andrea Gaudenzi	No. 66	6-3, 6-2, 6-2
3R	Wayne Ferreira (13)	No. 18	6-4, 2-6, 6-7^(4-7), 4-6

	French Open
1994 French Open
Round	Opponent	Rank	Score	DVR
1R	Javier Sánchez	No. 24	7-6^(7-3), 0-6, 6-2, 6-4	No. 61
2R	Magnus Gustafsson (13)	No. 13	0-6, 6-4, 7-6^(7-4), 6-4
3R	Jacco Eltingh	No. 62	6-7^(6-8), 6-7^(4-7), 6-3, 3-6

1998 French Open
Round	Opponent	Rank	Score	DVR
1R	Sjeng Schalken	No. 54	1-6, 6-2, 6-4, 7-5	No. 77
2R	Jan-Michael Gambill	No. 66	6-4, 2-6, 7-5, 7-6^(7-0)
3R	Marat Safin (Q)	No. 116	3-6, 6-3, 3-6, 5-7

	Wimbledon Championships
1994 Wimbledon
Round	Opponent	Rank	Score	DVR
1R	Gérard Solvès	No. 118	6-4, 6-2, 4-6, 2-6, 6-2	No. 51
2R	Mark Woodforde	No. 54	6-3, 7-6^(7-2), 6-4
3R	Yevgeny Kafelnikov (15)	No. 16	4-6, 7-5, 6-4, 3-6, 6-4
4R	Pete Sampras (1)	No. 1	4-6, 1-6, 6-7^(5-7)

	US Open
1995 US Open
Round	Opponent	Rank	Score	DVR
1R	Martin Sinner	No. 52	6-4, 6-7^(6-8), 6-3, 2-6, 7-6^(7-4)	No. 67
2R	Sergi Bruguera (11)	No. 11	6-2, 6-3, 6-4
3R	Nicolás Pereira (Q)	No. 105	4-6, 7-6^(7-5), 6-2, 7-6^(7-3)
4R	Patrick McEnroe	No. 42	6-7^(8-10), 3-6, 4-6

1997 US Open
Round	Opponent	Rank	Score	DVR
1R	Laurence Tieleman (Q)	No. 339	4-6, 6-4, 1-6, 6-3, 6-2	No. 83
2R	Michael Sell (Q)	No. 239	4-6, 7-6^(7-5), 6-1, 6-2
3R	Mark Philippoussis (14)	No. 19	7-6^(7-4), 7-5, 6-2
4R	Greg Rusedski	No. 20	6-7^(2-7), 2-6, 2-6

Doubles

	Australian Open
1999 Australian Open
with Yevgeny Kafelnikov (10th seed)
Round	Opponents	Rank	Score	DVR
1R	Jeff Coetzee Sander Groen	No. 129 No. 116	6-4, 2-6, 6-3	No. 23
2R	Jiří Novák David Rikl	No. 30 No. 38	6-3, 6-7^(0-7), 9-7
3R	Lucas Arnold Ker Pavel Vízner	No. 107 No. 62	6-3, 3-6, 6-4
QF	Todd Woodbridge (2) Mark Woodforde (2)	No. 6 No. 6	6-7^(3-7), 3-6, 1-6

	French Open
1996 French Open
with Yevgeny Kafelnikov (7th seed)
Round	Opponents	Rank	Score	DVR
1R	Jérôme Golmard Lionel Roux	No. 330 No. 249	6-0, 6-3	No. 22
2R	Kelly Jones Chris Woodruff	No. 87 No. 155	6-3, 6-3
3R	Luis Lobo (10) Javier Sánchez (10)	No. 26 No. 25	7-6^(10-8), 7-5
QF	Donald Johnson Francisco Montana	No. 98 No. 68	6-2, 7-6^(10-8)
SF	Jared Palmer Jonathan Stark	No. 74 No. 48	6-4, 7-6^(7-4)
F	Guy Forget (5) Jakob Hlasek (5)	No. 19 No. 9	6-2, 6-3

1997 French Open
with Yevgeny Kafelnikov (4th seed)
Round	Opponents	Rank	Score	DVR
1R	Rikard Bergh David Ekerot	No. 125 No. 61	6-1, 5-7, 6-3	No. 5
2R	Tom Nijssen Stephen Noteboom	No. 74 No. 94	6-1, 6-4
3R	Wayne Black Jim Grabb	No. 141 No. 38	6-4, 7-6^(7-4)
QF	Karsten Braasch Jens Knippschild	No. 72 No. 83	4-6, 7-6^(7-2), 6-3
SF	Jacco Eltingh (2) Paul Haarhuis (2)	No. 4 No. 3	7-6^(7-4), 7-6^(7-3)
F	Todd Woodbridge (1) Mark Woodforde (1)	No. 1 No. 1	7-6^(14-12), 4-6, 6-3

	Wimbledon Championships
1998 Wimbledon
with Yevgeny Kafelnikov (7th seed)
Round	Opponents	Rank	Score	DVR
1R	Nick Gould (WC) Mark Petchey (WC)	No. 328 No. 255	6-3, 6-0	No. 17
2R	Brandon Coupe David DiLucia	No. 74 No. 125	6-1, 6-4
3R	Nicklas Kulti (10) David Macpherson (10)	No. 20 No. 19	6-7^(3-7), 3-6

	US Open
1997 US Open
with Yevgeny Kafelnikov (4th seed)
Round	Opponents	Rank	Score	DVR
1R	Óscar Ortiz (Q) André Sá (Q)	No. 142 No. 172	6-3, 6-2	No. 6
2R	Patrik Fredriksson Tom Vanhoudt	No. 113 No. 90	4-6, 6-2, 6-1
3R	Donald Johnson (13) Francisco Montana (13)	No. 27 No. 30	1-6, 6-3, 6-4
QF	John-Laffnie de Jager (Q) Robbie Koenig (Q)	No. 163 No. 222	7-5, 7-5
SF	Mahesh Bhupathi (10) Leander Paes (10)	No. 19 No. 23	7-6, 7-6
F	Jonas Björkman (11) Nicklas Kulti (11)	No. 26 No. 29	7-6, 6-3

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