Cyril Suk III (born 29 January 1967) is a former professional
tennis
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player. A doubles specialist, Suk won five
Grand Slam
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titles, one men's doubles and four Grand Slam mixed doubles titles and 32
ATP Tour
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doubles titles during his career.
Early life
Suk was born in
Prague
Prague ( ; cs, Praha ; german: Prag, ; la, Praga) is the capital and largest city in the Czech Republic, and the historical capital of Bohemia. On the Vltava river, Prague is home to about 1.3 million people. The city has a temperate ...
,
Czechoslovakia
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, a member of a prominent Czech tennis family. His mother,
Věra Suková
Věra Suková (née Pužejová) (13 June 1931 – 13 May 1982) was a tennis player from Czechoslovakia. She was the women's singles runner-up at Wimbledon in 1962, losing to Karen Hantze Susman 6–4, 6–4.
Suková was a women's singles semif ...
, was a women's singles finalist at
Wimbledon
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in 1962. His father, Cyril Suk II, was President of the
Czechoslovak Tennis Federation. His sister,
Helena Suková, was an even more successful professional player on the women's tour who teamed-up with Suk to win three Grand Slam mixed doubles titles in the 1990s.
Juniors
In 1985, Suk partnered fellow-Czech
Petr Korda
Petr Korda (born 23 January 1968) is a Czech former professional tennis player. He won the 1998 Australian Open and was runner-up at the 1992 French Open, reaching a career-high ranking of No. 2 in February 1998. Korda tested positive for dopin ...
to win the boys' doubles title at the
French Open
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. Suk and Korda were ranked the joint-World No. 1 junior doubles players that year.
Career
Suk claimed his first Grand Slam mixed doubles title in 1991 at the French Open, partnering sister Helena. In 1992, he teamed up with
Larisa Neiland to win the Wimbledon mixed doubles title. He went on to win the Wimbledon mixed doubles crown on two further occasions partnering Helena – in 1996 and 1997. In 1998, Suk teamed up with
Sandon Stolle
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to win the
US Open men's doubles title.
Suk's career-high doubles ranking was World No. 7 in 1994. (In singles, his career-high ranking was World No. 180 in 1988. He has largely focused on doubles play during his career.)
Suk was selected as captain of the Czech Republic's
Davis Cup
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team for the 2003 season.
Suk married his wife Lenka in 1991. They have a son, Cyril IV (born 1992), who is a
PGA Tour
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professional and a daughter, Natalie Mia (born 1996), who is also playing tennis, mostly on
ITF Tour.
Career finals
Doubles (32 titles – 27 runners-up)
Doubles performance timeline
References
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1967 births
Living people
Czech male tennis players
Czechoslovak male tennis players
French Open champions
French Open junior champions
Olympic tennis players of the Czech Republic
Tennis players from Prague
Tennis players at the 2004 Summer Olympics
US Open (tennis) champions
Wimbledon champions
Grand Slam (tennis) champions in mixed doubles
Grand Slam (tennis) champions in men's doubles
Sportspeople from Bradenton, Florida
Grand Slam (tennis) champions in boys' doubles