148 Facts About Berdych

Tomas Berdych is a Czech former professional tennis player.

Berdych has reached the semifinals of all four Grand Slams.

Berdych is the second player to defeat Roger Federer multiple times in Grand Slam events before the semifinal stage.

Berdych has the distinction of being one of three players, the others being Jo-Wilfried Tsonga and Stan Wawrinka, to defeat all the Big Four in major events.

Berdych is considered one of the best tennis players to have never won a grand slam title.

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Berdych first reached his career-high singles ranking of No 4 in May 2015.

Berdych started playing tennis when he was five at the tennis centre in his hometown and birthplace of Valasske Mezirici.

Berdych's father, Martin, was a train engineer and a very good tennis player while his mother, Hana, is a doctor.

Berdych describes his childhood as full of joy and happiness.

Berdych soon became a top junior, winning the Czech Republic U-12 Junior Title.

Berdych then moved to the city of Prostejov, where there were more practice partners and better coaches.

Berdych traveled back home often to keep his ties to his old school.

Berdych cites this as the reason he prefers hard courts, and especially indoor conditions.

Berdych is a fan of ice hockey, and his favourite team is the Detroit Red Wings.

Berdych has met many Czech players from the National Hockey League and the 1998 Olympic gold medal team, including Martin Straka, Jaromir Jagr and Dominik Hasek.

Berdych was in a long-term relationship with tennis pro Lucie Safarova until they broke up in 2011.

Berdych became engaged to model Ester Satorova in late 2014.

Berdych is a fan of the Irish rock band U2 and would like to meet frontman Bono someday.

Berdych won the 2001 US Open Boys' Doubles Title alongside Stephane Bohli.

Berdych turned professional in 2002, winning two Futures events, both in the Czech Republic, defeating Pavel Snobel in one final and Ladislav Chramosta in the other.

In 2003, after several future and challenger wins, Berdych won his first ATP Tour match at the 2003 US Open, over Tomas Behrend in four sets, but lost in the next round to Juan Ignacio Chela.

Berdych earned victories over Galo Blanco, Bjorn Phau and Potito Starace on the ATP Tour.

Berdych made his debut in the 2004 French Open and at Wimbledon, but lost in the first round.

Berdych next beat 15th seed Tommy Robredo in the round of 16, but was defeated in the quarterfinals by Taylor Dent.

Berdych won his first ATP title at the Campionati Internazionali di Sicilia in Palermo, Italy, defeating David Ferrer in the semifinals and Filippo Volandri in the finals.

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Berdych then lost in second rounds of Marseille, Rotterdam, and Dubai.

Berdych then recorded his first back-to-back wins in Indian Wells, including a win over Mario Ancic, but lost to Ivan Ljubicic.

Berdych then lost in the first rounds of Miami, Estoril, Rome, and London.

Berdych reached the second rounds of Monte Carlo, Hamburg, the French Open, and Nottingham.

Berdych made it to the third round at Wimbledon, losing to Taylor Dent.

Berdych had a good run with a runner-up finish in the 2005 Swedish Open to Rafael Nadal, a quarterfinal loss to Nikolay Davydenko at the 2005 Stuttgart Open and a semifinals loss to James Blake at the 2005 Washington Open.

Berdych then made it to the second round of both the Canadian Open and Cincinnati Masters.

Berdych then lost early in Vienna, Madrid, Palermo, and Basel.

In 2006, Berdych started the year at the Brisbane International, where he reached the semifinals, losing to Xavier Malisse.

Berdych then made it to the fourth round of the Indian Wells Masters before losing to Marcos Baghdatis, and the third round of the 2006 NASDAQ–100 Open, losing to David Nalbandian.

Berdych then lost in the second rounds at Barcelona and Monte Carlo, and the third round at Rome.

Berdych reached his first French Open fourth round but lost to Roger Federer in three sets.

Berdych then reached his first grass-court final at the Halle Open, falling to No 1 Roger Federer in three sets.

Berdych reached the fourth round at Wimbledon, but again lost to Federer, this time in straight sets.

Berdych then made it to the semifinals at the 2006 Mercedes Cup, losing to eventual champion David Ferrer.

Berdych then played in the 2006 Rogers Cup, where he upset Rafael Nadal in three sets, before losing to Richard Gasquet in the quarterfinals.

Berdych then made it to his third straight fourth round in a Major at the 2006 US Open, losing to James Blake.

Berdych reached the finals of the 2006 Kingfisher Airlines Tennis Open, where he lost to Dmitry Tursunov.

Berdych defeated Rafael Nadal in Madrid, but lost in his semifinal match against Fernando Gonzalez in straight sets.

Berdych began the year by making it to the quarterfinals of the 2007 Medibank International and the fourth round of the 2007 Australian Open, losing to No 3 Nikolay Davydenko.

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Berdych then had early losses in Rotterdam, Dubai, Indian Wells, and Miami.

Berdych then reached the semifinals on clay in the Monte Carlo Masters event, his best result at the event, defeating Nicolas Almagro, Benjamin Becker, fifth seed Tommy Robredo, and Robin Soderling, before losing to second seed Rafael Nadal.

Berdych made it to the quarterfinals of the 2007 Rome Masters.

Berdych then made it through the fourth round at the 2007 US Open, retiring against Andy Roddick.

Berdych then reached the semifinals of the 2007 Thailand Open, losing to Benjamin Becker and the 2007 AIG Japan Open Tennis Championships, losing to Richard Gasquet.

Berdych began 2008 by competing in the Hopman Cup, but this event was affected by a stomach virus.

Berdych then entered the 2008 Medibank International, being upset by Chris Guccione in the quarterfinals.

Berdych dropped out of the top 20 due to a sprained right ankle which caused him to miss the 2008 Monte Carlo Masters and the 2008 Rome Masters.

Berdych then made it to the semifinals of the 2008 Thailand Open, losing to Novak Djokovic.

Berdych then won his only title of the year in the 2008 AIG Japan Open Tennis Championships, with wins over four top-20 players: Tommy Robredo, Fernando Gonzalez, Andy Roddick, and Juan Martin del Potro in the finals.

Berdych then competed in the Challenger in 2010 BMW Tennis Championship, where he lost to Robin Soderling in the finals.

Berdych then reached the fourth round of the 2009 Sony Ericsson Open, losing to Novak Djokovic after upsetting James Blake.

Berdych then reached the quarterfinals of the 2009 Proton Malaysian Open and the 2009 Rakuten Japan Open Tennis Championships.

Berdych then suffered back-to-back losses to Gilles Simon at the 2009 Shanghai ATP Masters 1000 and the 2009 Valencia Open 500.

Berdych then reached the second round in Paris, losing to Tommy Robredo.

Berdych then suffered second-round upsets at the 2010 Medibank International Sydney to Peter Luczak and the 2010 Australian Open to Evgeny Korolev.

Berdych then withdrew from the 2010 Mutua Madrilena Madrid Open due to a right hip injury.

Berdych then represented Czech Republic at the 2010 ARAG World Team Cup and won all his three singles matches, but failed to reach the final after losing the tie against USA.

Berdych reached his first career slam final at Wimbledon after beating Andrey Golubev and Benjamin Becker in straight sets, Denis Istomin in five, and Daniel Brands in four sets.

Berdych won his first singles rubber against Mikhail Kukushkin and in the doubles, Berdych and his partner, Lukas Dlouhy, defeated Evgeny Korolev and Yuri Schukin, both in straight sets.

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Berdych began his clay season at the 2011 Monte-Carlo Rolex Masters, losing in the round of 16 to Ivan Ljubicic in straight sets.

At the 2011 Open de Nice Cote d'Azur, Berdych reached his first semifinal of the clay season, before losing to eventual champion Nicolas Almagro in straight sets.

In preparation for Wimbledon, Berdych played in the 2011 Gerry Weber Open held in Halle, Germany.

At the 2011 Wimbledon Championships, Berdych won his first, second, and third-round matches in straight sets against Filippo Volandri, Julien Benneteau, and Alex Bogomolov Jr.

Berdych kicked off his US Open Series at the 2011 Rogers Cup.

From that match onward, Berdych changed his racket to the Head YouTek™ IG Instinct MP.

Berdych played with the Czech Republic Davis Cup team against Romania in the 2011 Davis Cup World Group Play-offs.

Berdych defeated Jurgen Melzer and Philipp Kohlschreiber in the first and second rounds, respectively, both in straight sets.

Berdych continued his good run of form by defeating compatriot Radek Stepanek, before falling to Feliciano Lopez in straight sets.

Berdych then competed at the 2011 BNP Paribas Masters held in Paris, France, the final ATP World Tour Masters 1000 tournament of the season.

Berdych came into the year-end championships as the 7th seed and was placed in Group A along with Novak Djokovic, Andy Murray, and David Ferrer.

Berdych started the 2012 season winning the 2012 Hopman Cup for the Czech Republic with compatriot Petra Kvitova.

At the 2012 AAMI Classic, Berdych lost his ties against Bernard Tomic and Andy Roddick respectively, after being a set up in each match.

The match was marred by controversy, as Berdych refused to shake Almagro's hand because he believed Almagro had intentionally aimed a shot at him during the match.

Berdych played at the 2012 BNP Paribas Open as the seventh seed, where he faced Sergiy Stakhovsky in the second round after receiving a bye.

Berdych competed at the 2012 Mutua Madrid Open as the sixth seed.

Berdych was beaten by Roger Federer in three sets in the final.

Berdych represented the Czech Republic at the 2012 Power Horse World Team Cup, where the Czechs reached the finals before being defeated by Serbia.

Berdych defeated Dudi Sela in the first round and Michael Llodra in the second round, both in straight sets.

Berdych endured a tough spell in the summer, losing in the first round at both Wimbledon and the 2012 Summer Olympics.

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Berdych became only the third man from his country to reach the quarterfinal stage at all four Grand Slams.

Berdych took his 2nd singles title of the year in Stockholm Indoor, defeating Tsonga in the finals.

Berdych ended the year participating in the 2012 Davis Cup Final playing in both singles and doubles and winning two matches as the Czech Republic won against Spain.

Berdych reached his third consecutive quarterfinal at the 2013 Australian Open before falling to eventual champion Novak Djokovic.

Berdych then participated in the 2013 Davis Cup and he teamed up with Rosol in Davis Cup doubles against Switzerland playing the second longest ever ATP match.

Berdych then made back-to-back finals at the Open 13 and at the Dubai Tennis Championships losing to Jo-Wilfried Tsonga in three sets despite having match point and to Novak Djokovic in straight sets, respectively.

Berdych then went on to play Wimbledon, where he reached the quarterfinals before losing to eventual runner-up Novak Djokovic.

At the Rogers Cup, Berdych was defeated by Canadian Vasek Pospisil in the Third Round.

Berdych reached his third final at the PTT Thailand Open falling to Canadian Milos Raonic in two tight sets.

Berdych defeated a red-hot Marin Cilic to secure the ABN-AMBRO championship in Rotterdam.

Berdych lost to Roberto Bautista-Agut in the second round of the 2014 Indian Wells Masters.

Berdych was defeated by in-form Guillermo Garcia-Lopez in the third round of the 2014 Monte-Carlo Rolex Masters.

Berdych reached the quarterfinals of the French Open, most notably beating John Isner in the fourth round before losing in straight sets to in-form Ernests Gulbis.

Berdych struggled in the grass court season; he lost to eventual finalist Feliciano Lopez in the quarterfinals of the 2014 Aegon Championships.

Berdych reaches the third round of 2014 Wimbledon Championships before falling to Marin Cilic in straight sets.

At the 2014 US Open Berdych reached the quarterfinals where he lost to eventual champion Marin Cilic in straight sets.

Berdych made two finals of the 2014 China Open losing to Novak Djokovic.

Berdych made to the quarterfinals of the 2014 Shanghai Rolex Masters.

In Melbourne, Berdych reached his second Australian Open semifinal, after defeating Rafael Nadal in the quarterfinals.

Berdych lost in four sets against Andy Murray in the semifinal.

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Berdych then participated in the Monte Carlo Masters, in which he defeated Gael Monfils and Milos Raonic to reach the final, but eventually lost to Novak Djokovic.

At the 2015 Mutua Madrid Open, Berdych lost in the semifinals to Rafael Nadal, but moved up two spots to 5th in the rankings.

Berdych followed this by defeating Radek Stepanek and Benoit Paire in the second and third rounds respectively to reach the fourth round.

Berdych next competed at the Gerry Weber Open where he reached the quarterfinals before losing to Ivo Karlovic in three sets.

Berdych reached the fourth round of the Wimbledon Championships before losing to Gilles Simon in straight sets.

Berdych lost in the second round of the Canada Masters and the quarterfinals in the Cincinnati Masters.

Berdych then went on to reach the fourth round of the US Open before losing to Richard Gasquet in four sets after taking the first set.

Berdych followed with a title win at the Shenzhen Open, his 11th ATP World Tour title, defeating Guillermo Garcia-Lopez in the final in straight sets.

Berdych then went on to win the Stockholm Open title and his 12th ATP World Tour title defeating Jack Sock in the final in straight sets while winning the Stockholm title for the second straight year in a row and third title overall there.

Berdych started 2016 ranked No 6 and competed at the Qatar Open in Doha.

Berdych lost in the semifinals to Novak Djokovic in straight sets.

Berdych next competed at the Australian Open where he was seeded 6th.

Berdych started his campaign by winning in straight sets in the first two rounds.

Berdych then defeated Nick Kyrgios in four sets in the third round and Roberto Bautista Agut in a close five setter in the fourth round.

However, Berdych's campaign ended in the quarterfinals where he lost to Roger Federer in straight sets thus failing to reach the semifinals at the Australian Open for the first time since 2013.

Berdych defeated Alexander Zverev in three sets and 6th seed David Goffin in straight sets to advance to the semifinals where he ended up losing to eventual champion Nick Kyrgios.

Berdych then played at the Dubai Tennis Championships as the 3rd seed, losing in the quarterfinals in straight sets to Nick Kyrgios.

Berdych then made the Round of 16 at Indian Wells and the quarterfinals at Miami.

Berdych did make the quarterfinals at Roland Garros, beating Pablo Cuevas and David Ferrer before losing in straight sets to eventual champion Novak Djokovic.

At Wimbledon, Berdych made it to the semifinals for the first time since his run to the finals in 2010, beating Jiri Vesely in five sets in the round of 16 and Lucas Pouille in straight sets in the quarterfinals before losing in straight sets to eventual champion Andy Murray.

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Berdych returned to action on the Asian swing, reaching the semifinals in St Petersburg and winning the title in Shenzhen over Richard Gasquet before suffering early losses in Tokyo and Shanghai.

Berdych started 2017 ranked No 10 and had a mixed year of highs and lows.

Berdych again reached the semifinals at Doha, losing again in straight sets, this time to Andy Murray.

At the Australian Open his first opponent retired after the first set and Berdych went on to reach the round of 32, ultimately losing in straight sets to Roger Federer.

Berdych reached the semifinals of the at ABN Amro World Tennis Tournament in Rotterdam where he was defeated by Jo-Wilfried Tsonga in straight sets.

At the Miami Open, Berdych reached the quarterfinals, taking Roger Federer to three sets but ultimately losing a tie-break.

Berdych reached the round of 16 at his next three tournaments in Monte Carlo, Madrid and Rome.

Berdych played excellently at the first Lyon Open to be held since 2009, beating Gilles Simon and Milos Raonic on his way to the final, only to be beaten by Tsonga, all matches being straight sets.

Conversely, Berdych was able to reach only the round of 64 at the 2017 French Open, where he lost to Russian Karen Khachanov.

Berdych finished the year ranked 19th, his first year-end ranking outside the top ten since 2009.

Berdych began his Australian swing playing at the Tie Break Tens exhibition tournament in Melbourne on the Wednesday before the Australian Open.

Berdych beat Maximilian Marterer in the second round at the BNP Paribas Open in Indian Wells, but was defeated in straight sets by Hyeon Chung in the third round.

Berdych then withdrew from Wimbledon due to a back injury and missed the rest of the season, finishing the year ranked 71.

Berdych returned from his injury hiatus at the Qatar ExxonMobil Open.

Berdych reached the final where he lost to seventh seed Roberto Bautista Agut in three sets.

In Montpellier, Berdych made it to the semifinals where he fell to seventh seed Pierre-Hugues Herbert.

Berdych was eliminated from the tournament in the second round by eighth seed Filip Krajinovic.

On Saturday, November 16,2019, Berdych announced his retirement from tennis at the Nitto ATP Finals.

Berdych was sponsored by Head for his rackets and endorsed the Head Graphene Touch Instinct MP paintjob with a Pro Stock TGK260.

Berdych used both the Graphene XT Instinct MP and the Graphene Instinct MP paintjob from the 2013 season on.

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Berdych acted as a spokesperson and co-designer for tennis wear for the brand.

In 2016, Berdych moved to Adidas and launched his first watch from Felio Siby.

In 2018, Berdych was announced as a brand ambassador for the Italian clothing company Hydrogen.