Jan Kodeš

For his son, also a professional tennis player, see Jan Kodeš Jr.
Jan Kodeš
Country (sports) Czechoslovakia
ResidencePrague, Czech Republic
Born (1946-03-01) 1 March 1946
Prague, Czechoslovakia
(now Czech Republic)
Height1.75 m (5 ft 9 in)
Turned pro1968 (amateur from 1966)
Retired1983
PlaysRight-handed (one-handed backhand)
Prize money$693,197
Int. Tennis HoF1990 (member page)
Singles
Career record630–341 in pre Open-Era & Open Era
Career titles9
Highest rankingNo. 5 (13 September 1973)
Grand Slam singles results
French OpenW (1970, 1971)
WimbledonW (1973)
US OpenF (1971, 1973)
Other tournaments
Tour FinalsRR (1970, 1971, 1972, 1973)
WCT FinalsSF (1974)
Doubles
Career record313-183
Career titles17
Highest rankingNo. 12 (21 May 1979)
Grand Slam doubles results
French OpenF (1977)

Jan Kodeš (born 1 March 1946) is a Czech former professional tennis player. A three-time major singles champion, Kodeš was one of the premier players in the early 1970s.

Kodeš's greatest success was achieved on the clay courts of the French Open, where he won the singles title in 1970 and 1971. However, he also won Wimbledon on grass courts in 1973, although the tournament was largely boycotted by top players that year in a show of solidarity over the ban of Nikola Pilić by the International Lawn Tennis Federation (ILTF).[1][2][3]

Kodeš never played at the Australian Open, but was twice the runner-up at the US Open, in 1971 and 1973.[4][3] Kodeš reached his highest ATP ranking of world No. 5 in September 1973.[3] During the Open Era, he won nine top-level singles titles and 17 doubles titles.

Kodeš was inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame in 1990. In 2013, he received the Czech Fair Play Award from the Czech Olympic Committee. He is an economics graduate of the Prague University.[3]

Career statistics

The tables do not include victories and final participation in tournaments from 1966 to 1969, such as victories in international championships and tournaments in Santiago, Viña del Mar, Sao Paulo, Lyon, Cannes, Luxembourg, St. Petersburg (USA), Beirut, Zaragoza, Split, Varna, Plovdiv, Paris (Racing Club) and three times in the MM CSSR in Bratislava. In doubles with Javorsky in Bratislava, then with Jan Kukal, he won tournaments in Lyon, Hilversum, Macon (USA), Pittsburgh, Caracas, Istanbul, Bratislava, Beirut and Split. With Pala in Luxembourg and Zaragoza. With Rodriguez in Viña del Mar, Chile. In all these tournaments or championships, the starting field was always at least 32 players, like today's ATP tour tournaments, but they are not listed in the ATP Tour yearbooks because the ATP Tour did not exist at that time and did not publish publications.

In the book written by Petr Kolar and Jan Kodes, "A Journey to Glory from behind the Iron Curtain", there are 25 singles wins, 27 appearances in finals, 32 doubles wins and 29 appearances in doubles finals. He participated in the final Grand Prix "Masters" tournaments (now ATP Finals) from 1970-1974 (Tokyo 1970, Paris 1971, Barcelona 1972, Boston 1973 and Dallas 1974).

Grand Slam finals: 5 (3 titles, 2 runner-ups)

Result Year Championship Surface Opponent Score
Win 1970 French Open Clay Željko Franulović 6–2, 6–4, 6–0
Win 1971 French Open (2) Clay Ilie Năstase 8–6, 6–2, 2–6, 7–5
Loss 1971 US Open Grass Stan Smith 6–3, 3–6, 2–6, 6–7(3–5)
Win 1973 Wimbledon Grass Alex Metreveli 6–1, 9–8(7–5), 6–3
Loss 1973 US Open (2) Grass John Newcombe 4–6, 6–1, 6–4, 2–6, 3–6

Grand Slam singles performance timeline

Key
W  F  SF QF #R RR Q# DNQ A NH
(W) winner; (F) finalist; (SF) semifinalist; (QF) quarterfinalist; (#R) rounds 4, 3, 2, 1; (RR) round-robin stage; (Q#) qualification round; (DNQ) did not qualify; (A) absent; (NH) not held; (SR) strike rate (events won / competed); (W–L) win–loss record.
Tournament 1966 1967 1968 1969 1970 1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979 1980 1981 SR W–L Win %
Australian Open Absent 0 / 0 0–0 –
French Open 2R 4R 1R[a] 4R W W QF QF 4R 4R 3R 4R 3R 2R 2R 1R 2 / 16 43–13 76.79
Wimbledon 1R 1R 1R 2R 1R 1R SF W QF 2R A 1R 1R 1R 2R 1R 1 / 15 19–14 57.58
US Open A A A 2R A F 2R F 4R 4R QF 3R A 2R A A 0 / 9 27–9 75.00
Win–loss 1–2 3–2 0–1 5–3 7–1 13–2 9–3 17–2 10–3 7–3 6–2 5–3 2–2 2–3 2–2 0–2 3 / 40 89–36 71.20

a 1968 French Open counts as 0 wins, 0 losses. Fernando Gentil received a walkover in the first round, after Kodeš withdrew, does not count as a Kodeš loss (nor a Gentil win).

Open era finals

Singles (9 titles, 19 runner-ups)

Result W/L Date Tournament Surface Opponent Score
Win 1. 1970 St. Petersburg, U.S. Clay Joaquín Loyo-Mayo 6–3, 6–3, 6–3
Win 2. 1970 French Open, Paris Clay Željko Franulović 6–2, 6–4, 6–0
Loss 1. 1970 Rome, Italy Clay Ilie Năstase 3–6, 6–1, 3–6, 6–8
Loss 2. 1971 Nice, France Clay Ilie Năstase 8–10, 9–11, 1–6
Win 3. 1971 Catania, Italy Clay Georges Goven 6–3, 6–0, 6–2
Loss 3. 1971 Rome WCT, Italy Clay Rod Laver 5–7, 3–6, 3–6
Win 4. 1971 French Open, Paris Clay Ilie Năstase 8–6, 6–2, 2–6, 7–5
Loss 4. 1971 US Open, New York Grass Stan Smith 6–3, 3–6, 2–6, 6–7
Loss 5. 1971 Stockholm WCT, Sweden Hard (i) Arthur Ashe 1–6, 6–3, 2–6, 6–1, 4–6
Loss 6. 1972 Nice, France Clay Ilie Năstase 0–6, 4–6, 3–6
Loss 7. 1972 Rome, Italy Clay Manuel Orantes 6–4, 1–6, 5–7, 2–6
Win 5. 1972 Barcelona, Spain Clay Manuel Orantes 6–3, 6–2, 6–3
Win 6. 1973 Cologne, West Germany Carpet (i) Brian Fairlie 6–1, 6–3, 6–1
Loss 8. 1973 Vancouver, Canada Carpet (i) Tom Gorman 6–3, 2–6, 5–7
Win 7. 1973 Wimbledon, London Grass Alex Metreveli 6–1, 9–8, 6–3
Loss 9. 1973 US Open, New York Grass John Newcombe 4–6, 6–1, 6–4, 2–6, 3–6
Loss 10. 1973 Prague, Czechoslovakia Carpet (i) Jiří Hřebec 6–4, 1–6, 6–3, 0–6, 5–7
Loss 11. 1974 Acapulco, Mexico Carpet (i) Tom Okker 2–6, 6–7
Loss 12. 1975 Hampton, U.S. Carpet (i) Jimmy Connors 6–3, 3–6, 0–6
Loss 13. 1975 Hamburg, West Germany Clay Manuel Orantes 6–3, 2–6, 2–6, 6–4, 1–6
Loss 14. 1975 Düsseldorf, West Germany Clay Jaime Fillol 4–6, 6–1, 0–6, 5–7
Loss 15. 1975 Kitzbühel, Austria Clay Adriano Panatta 6–2, 2–6, 5–7, 4–6
Win 8. 1975 Madrid, Spain Clay Adriano Panatta 6–2, 3–6, 7–6, 6–2
Win 9. 1976 Basel, Switzerland Carpet (i) Jiří Hřebec 6–4, 6–2, 6–3
Loss 16. 1976 Nice, France Clay Corrado Barazzutti 2–6, 6–2, 7–5, 6–7, 6–8
Loss 17. 1976 Kitzbühel, Austria Clay Manuel Orantes 6–7, 2–6, 6–7
Loss 18. 1976 Aviles, Spain Clay Željko Franulović 6–7, 1–6, 7–5, 6–7
Loss 19. 1977 Kitzbühel, Austria Clay Guillermo Vilas 7–5, 2–6, 6–4, 3–6, 2–6

Doubles (17 titles, 24 runner-ups)

Result W/L Date Tournament Surface Partner Opponents Score
Loss 1. 1970 Båstad, Sweden Clay Željko Franulović Dick Crealy
Allan Stone 		2–6, 6–2, 12–12 ret.
Loss 2. 1970 Kitzbühel, Austria Clay Željko Franulović John Alexander
Phil Dent 		8–10, 2–6, 4–6
Loss 3. 1970 Phoenix, U.S. Hard Charlie Pasarell Dick Crealy
Ray Ruffels 		6–7, 3–6
Loss 4. 1970 Buenos Aires, Argentina Clay Željko Franulović Bob Carmichael
Ray Ruffels 		5–7, 2–6, 7–5, 7–6, 3–6
Loss 5. 1971 Macon, U.S. Carpet Željko Franulović Clark Graebner
Thomaz Koch 		3–6, 6–7
Loss 6. 1971 Catania, Italy Clay Jan Kukal Pierre Barthès
François Jauffret 		6–7, 6–2, 3–6
Win 1. 1971 Indianapolis, U.S. Clay Željko Franulović Clark Graebner
Erik van Dillen 		7–6, 5–7, 6–3
Win 2. 1972 Nice, France Clay Stan Smith Frew McMillan
Ilie Năstase 		6–3, 3–6, 7–5
Win 3. 1972 Hamburg, West Germany Clay Ilie Năstase Bob Hewitt
Ion Țiriac 		4–6, 6–0, 3–6, 6–2, 6–2
Loss 7. 1972 Montreal, Canada Clay Jan Kukal Ilie Năstase
Ion Țiriac 		6–7, 3–6
Win 4. 1973 Los Angeles, U.S. Hard Vladimír Zedník Jimmy Connors
Ilie Năstase 		6–2, 6–4
Win 5. 1973 Prague, Czechoslovakia Mateflex Vladimír Zedník Róbert Machán
Balázs Taróczy 		7–6, 7–6
Win 6. 1974 Palm Desert, U.S. Hard Vladimír Zedník Raymond Moore
Onny Parun 		6–4, 6–4
Win 7. 1974 Düsseldorf, West Germany Clay Jiří Hřebec Kenichi Hirai
Toshiro Sakai 		6–1, 6–4
Loss 8. 1975 Salisbury, U.S. Carpet Roger Taylor Jimmy Connors
Ilie Năstase 		6–7, 2–6
Win 8. 1975 Munich, West Germany Clay Wojciech Fibak Milan Holeček
Karl Meiler 		7–5, 6–3
Loss 9. 1975 Hamburg, West Germany Clay Wojciech Fibak Juan Gisbert Sr.
Manuel Orantes 		3–6, 6–7
Win 9. 1975 Düsseldorf, West Germany Clay François Jauffret Harald Elschenbroich
Hans Kary 		6–2, 6–3
Loss 10. 1975 Montreal, Canada Hard Ilie Năstase Cliff Drysdale
Raymond Moore 		4–6, 7–5, 6–7
Win 10. 1975 Madrid, Spain Clay Ilie Năstase Juan Gisbert Sr.
Manuel Orantes 		6–4, 3–6, 9–7
Win 11. 1976 Kitzbühel, Austria Clay Jiří Hřebec Jürgen Fassbender
Hans-Jürgen Pohmann 		6–7, 6–2, 6–4
Loss 12. 1977 Baltimore, U.S. Carpet Ross Case Ion Țiriac
Guillermo Vilas 		3–6, 7–6, 4–6
Win 12. 1977 Monte Carlo, Monaco Clay François Jauffret Wojciech Fibak
Tom Okker 		2–6, 6–3, 6–2
Loss 13. 1977 French Open, Paris Clay Wojciech Fibak Brian Gottfried
Raúl Ramírez 		6–7, 6–4, 3–6, 4–6
Win 13. 1977 Barcelona, Spain Clay Wojciech Fibak Bob Hewitt
Frew McMillan 		6–0, 6–4
Loss 14. 1977 Vienna, Austria Carpet Wojciech Fibak Bob Hewitt
Frew McMillan 		4–6, 3–6
Loss 15. 1977 Oviedo, Spain Carpet Raúl Ramírez Fred McNair
Sherwood Stewart 		3–6, 1–6
Loss 16. 1978 Springfield, U.S. Carpet Marty Riessen Robert Lutz
Stan Smith 		3–6, 3–6
Loss 17. 1978 Nice, France Clay Tomáš Šmíd Patrice Dominguez
François Jauffret 		4–6, 0–6
Loss 18. 1978 Rome, Italy Clay Tomáš Šmíd Víctor Pecci
Belus Prajoux 		7–6, 6–7, 1–6
Win 14. 1978 Stuttgart, West Germany Clay Tomáš Šmíd Carlos Kirmayr
Belus Prajoux 		6–3, 7–6
Loss 19. 1978 Aix-en-Provence, France Clay Tomáš Šmíd Ion Țiriac
Guillermo Vilas 		6–7, 1–6
Win 15. 1978 Madrid, Spain Clay Wojciech Fibak Pavel Složil
Tomáš Šmíd 		6–7, 6–1, 6–2
Win 16. 1979 Hamburg, West Germany Clay Tomáš Šmíd Mark Edmondson
John Marks 		6–3, 6–1, 7–6
Loss 20. 1979 Hilversum, Netherlands Clay Tomáš Šmíd Tom Okker
Balázs Taróczy 		1–6, 3–6
Loss 21. 1979 Indianapolis, U.S. Clay Tomáš Šmíd Gene Mayer
John McEnroe 		4–6, 6–7
Loss 22. 1980 Barcelona, Spain Clay Balázs Taróczy Steve Denton
Ivan Lendl 		2–6, 7–6, 3–6
Loss 23. 1980 Cologne, West Germany Carpet Tomáš Šmíd Bernard Mitton
Andrew Pattison 		4–6, 1–6
Win 17. 1982 Hilversum, Netherlands Clay Tomáš Šmíd Balázs Taróczy
Heinz Günthardt 		7–6, 6–4
Loss 24. 1983 Hilversum, Netherlands Clay Tomáš Šmíd Heinz Günthardt
Balázs Taróczy 		6–3, 2–6, 3–6

At results above are not shown wins and runner-ups from 1965 to 1969, such as tournaments in Santiago, Viňa del Mar, São Paulo, Lyon, Cannes, Luxembourg, Split, Varna, Plovdiv, Paris (Racing Club) or International championships of Czechoslovakia in Bratislava. The draws of players were always minimum 32 players, same as at contemporary ATP Tour events, but they are not listed in ATP Annuals, since ATP was founded at 1972.

References

  1. ^ Wimbledon: The Official History of the Championships. Barrett, John. Collins Willow 2011 ISBN 0-00-711707-8
  2. ^ "Wimbledon Singles Titles Captured by King, Kodeš". No. The Spokesman-Review. AP. 8 July 1973.
  3. ^ a b c d John Barrett, ed. (1974). World of Tennis '74 : a BP and Commercial Union yearbook. London: Queen Anne Press. pp. 268–269. ISBN 9780362001686.
  4. ^ "Newcombe cops U.S. net Open". No. Star–News. UPI. 10 September 1973. p. Fifteen.

Further reading

Jan Kodeš, with Petr Kolar, A Journey to Glory from behind the Iron Curtain, New Chapter Press, Chicago, 2010, ISBN 978-0942257687

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