Karel Nováček (born 30 March 1965) is a retired
Czech former top ten
tennis
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player born in
Prostějov,
Czechoslovakia
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(Czech Republic). In his career, Nováček won 13 singles titles and six doubles titles. His highest singles ranking was World No. 8, which he achieved on 18 November 1991.
His best performance at a Grand Slam came at the
1994 US Open where he defeated
Alexander Vladimirovich Volkov,
Andriy Medvedev,
Todd Woodbridge,
Javier Frana and
Jaime Yzaga before losing to
Michael Stich in the semifinal. In 1997, Novacek was suspended for three months for failing a drug test at the 1995 French Open; he forfeited $185,765, but denied taking
cocaine
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knowingly.
Nováček lived in
Boca Raton, Florida
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, United States for 20 years, and then moved back to Czech Republic. Karel and Maya Nováček married in 1990; as of 2002, they had three children.
In 2002, the ''
Boca Raton News'' reported that their ten-year-old daughter Anika was a promising tennis player, winning several tournaments.
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Career finals
Singles (13 titles, 7 runners-up)
Doubles (6 titles, 10 runners-up)
Singles performance timeline
Records
See also
* List of sportspeople sanctioned for doping offences
References
External links
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1965 births
Czech male tennis players
Czechoslovak male tennis players
Doping cases in tennis
Hopman Cup competitors
Living people
Sportspeople from Prostějov
Tennis players from the Olomouc Region
Czech sportspeople in doping cases
Goodwill Games medalists in tennis
Competitors at the 1986 Goodwill Games