Vít Kopřiva

Vít Kopřiva (born 15 June 1997) is a Czech professional tennis player who competes on the ATP Challenger Tour. He has a career-high ATP singles ranking of No. 82 achieved on 16 June 2025. He also has a career-high doubles ranking of No. 261 achieved on 17 October 2022. He is currently the No. 4 Czech player.
Kopřiva has won six ATP Challenger singles and two doubles titles.

Professional career

2021: ATP and Top 200 debut, first top 10 win

He won his maiden Challenger doubles title at the 2021 Aspria Tennis Cup in Milan with Jiří Lehečka.

On his ATP debut, ranked at a then career-high of World No. 249 in singles, at the 2021 Swiss Open Gstaad, Kopřiva defeated Denis Shapovalov for his career-best and first top 10 win. He was the lowest-ranked player to beat a Top 10 opponent since then World No. 698 Thanasi Kokkinakis defeated then World No. 6 Milos Raonic at The Queen's Club in 2017. Kopřiva advanced to the semifinals a with a win over Mikael Ymer in straight sets. He was the second player to reach the semifinals on his ATP Tour debut since May 2012, joining 2021 Córdoba champion, Juan Manuel Cerúndolo. His run would come to an end in the semifinals against Casper Ruud.

2022-2023: First Challenger singles titles, Top 125 debut

He won his maiden Challenger at the 2022 UniCredit Czech Open in Prostějov defeating his 19-year-old compatriot Dalibor Svrčina 6–2, 6–2. As a result, he reached the top 150 at World No. 146 on 6 June 2022 and a month later the top 125 on 18 July 2022.

He fell in the first round of qualifying at the US Open. Despite this result, he reached a career-high ranking of No. 111 on 18 September 2023 following two Challenger titles during the season, in July and August.

2024-2025: Major, Masters debut and first wins, top 100

He qualified for the 2024 Australian Open making his Grand Slam debut.
He also qualified for the 2024 Qatar ExxonMobil Open but lost in the first round to Fábián Marozsán.
He made his Masters debut at the 2024 Miami Open after qualifying into the main draw with wins over Rei Sakamoto and J. J. Wolf. He lost to Christopher O'Connell in the first round.

He also qualified for his second Grand Slam at the 2024 Wimbledon Championships and lost to Novak Djokovic.

He won the Challenger title at the 2024 Szczecin Open defeating Andrea Pellegrino.
He won his sixth Challenger lifting the 2025 Napoli Tennis Cup Trophy with a win over top seed Luciano Darderi.

At the 2025 Grand Prix Hassan II in Marrakech he reached his second ATP quarterfinal, and first since 2021 Gstaad, defeating Borna Gojo and upsetting second seed Lorenzo Sonego. As a result he made his debut in the top 100 in the singles rankings on 7 April 2025.
Ranked at a career-high of No. 92 at the 2025 Italian Open, Kopriva qualified for the main draw and defeated Quentin Halys recording his first Masters win. Next he upset 32nd seed Sebastian Baez to reach a Masters third round for the first time in his career.

Performance timeline

ATP Challenger Tour finals

Singles: 7 (6 titles, 1 runner-up)

Doubles: 2 (2 titles)

ITF Futures/World Tennis Tour finals

Singles: 14 (5 titles, 9 runner-ups)

Wins over top 10 players

Kopřiva has a record against players who were, at the time the match was played, ranked in the top 10.

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1997 births
Living people
Czech male tennis players
People from Bílovec
Tennis players from the Moravian-Silesian Region
21st-century Czech sportsmen