Josef Čihák (born 19 March 1963) is a former professional

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player from the

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who competed for

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. He now works as a tennis coach at

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Career

Čihák was most successful as a doubles player, reaching two doubles finals in the 1989 Grand Prix, at

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and Saint-Vincent, winning the latter. He had previously made doubles semi-finals at Prague and Palermo in 1987 and also Prague and Munich in 1988. As well reaching those two finals in 1989, Čihák was also a semi-finalist at the Athens Open, in the singles. At

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level he lost all of his four singles matches. The toughest opponent he came up against was

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in the

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, the number three seed who went on to win the tournament. He lost two five setters in 1989, at Roland Garros and

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. In doubles he won four of his 10 matches, but never made it past the second round, which he reached on four occasions, three times with countryman

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Grand Prix career finals

Doubles: 2 (1–1)

Challenger titles

Singles: (3)

Doubles: (11)

References

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