Ján Krošlák (born 17 October 1974) is a former

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from

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, who turned professional in 1993. He represented his native country at the

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, United States, where he was defeated in the first round by

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MaliVai Washington MaliVai "Mal" Washington ( ) (born June 20, 1969) is an American former professional tennis player. He reached the men's singles final at Wimbledon in 1996, won four ATP titles and achieved a career-high singles ranking of world No. 11 in Octo ...

. The right-hander reached his career-high ATP singles ranking of world No. 53 in September 1999. He won two singles title on the

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. In the

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he played with

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Political career

In 2020, Košlák was elected an MP of the

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representing the

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along with a fellow former tennis players

Karol Kučera Karol Kučera (born 4 March 1974) is a retired ATP professional male tennis player from Slovakia. He achieved a career-high singles ranking of World No. 6 in September 1998, reaching the semi-finals of the Australian Open the same year. In 20 ...

and

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. He departed from OĽaNO caucus in 2021, joining We Are Family parliamentary group. In December 2022, Krošlák was one of crucial MPs in a vote of no confidence to

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. He stated he will declare no confidence and in so doing go against We Are Family parliamentary caucus. He departed from the caucus along with

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on 13 December and announced that he considers a move to a different political party ahead of next parliamentary elections, naming HLAS-SD as a potential destination.

ATP career finals

Singles: 3 (2 titles, 1 runner-up)

Doubles: 1 (1 runner-up)

ATP Challenger and ITF Futures finals

Singles: 6 (2–4)

Doubles: 2 (1–1)

Performance timeline

Singles

References

External links

* * * * * * 1974 births Living people Slovak male tennis players Slovak politicians Tennis players at the 1996 Summer Olympics Olympic tennis players of Slovakia Tennis players from Bratislava Members of the National Council (Slovakia) 2020-present {{Slovakia-tennis-bio-stub