Petr Pála

Petr Pála (born 2 October 1975) is a tennis coach and former professional tennis player from the Czech Republic. Together with Pavel Vízner he reached the men's doubles final of the 2001 French Open but lost to Indians Mahesh Bhupathi and Leander Paes (6–7, 3–6).

Petr Pála

Petr Pála after the 2016 Fed Cup final
Country (sports)	Czech Republic
Residence	Prague, Czech Republic
Born	(1975-10-02) 2 October 1975 (age 49) Prague, Czechoslovakia
Height	1.93 m (6 ft 4 in)
Turned pro	1993
Plays	Right-handed (two-handed backhand)
Prize money	$1,106,011
Singles
Career record	0–1
Career titles	0 0 Challenger, 0 Futures
Highest ranking	286 (24 June 1996)
Grand Slam singles results
US Open	Q1 (1996)
Doubles
Career record	206–235
Career titles	7 9 Challenger, 1 Futures
Highest ranking	10 (6 August 2001)
Grand Slam doubles results
Australian Open	3R (2002, 2004)
French Open	F (2001)
Wimbledon	QF (2001)
US Open	3R (2001)
Grand Slam mixed doubles results
Australian Open	QF (2002)
French Open	SF (2001)
Wimbledon	2R (2000, 2002, 2003)
US Open	1R (2001)
Coaching career (2008–present)
Czech Republic Fed Cup team

Pála was coached by his father František, who was a professional tennis player on the ATP tour.

Pála never had the opportunity to do his singles ability justice on the ATP Tour due to injury. When he recovered from these injuries he returned immediately to the doubles tour, but could not gain entry to official ATP matches.

Pála became the non-playing captain of the Czech Republic Fed Cup team in December 2007.^[1] Since then, he has led the Fed Cup team to world titles in 2011, 2012, 2014, 2015, 2016 and 2018, becoming the most successful Fed Cup team captain of all time.^[2]

Grand Slam finals

Doubles: 1 runner-up

Result	Year	Championship	Surface	Partner	Opponents	Score
Loss	2001	French Open	Clay	Pavel Vízner	Mahesh Bhupathi Leander Paes	6–7, 3–6

Performance timelines

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.

Doubles

Tournament	1996	1997	1998	1999	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008	SR	W–L	Win%
Grand Slam tournaments
Australian Open	A	A	A	A	1R	2R	3R	1R	3R	1R	1R	2R	1R	0 / 9	6–9	40%
French Open	A	A	A	A	2R	F	1R	1R	2R	1R	2R	2R	1R	0 / 9	9–9	50%
Wimbledon	3R	A	A	A	2R	QF	1R	1R	1R	1R	2R	3R	3R	0 / 10	11–10	52%
US Open	1R	A	A	1R	1R	3R	2R	2R	1R	1R	1R	2R	A	0 / 10	5–10	33%
Win–loss	2–2	0–0	0–0	0–1	2–4	11–4	3–4	1–4	3–4	0–4	2–4	5–4	2–3	0 / 38	31–38	45%
ATP World Tour Masters 1000
Indian Wells	A	A	A	A	A	2R	1R	1R	2R	1R	A	1R	A	0 / 6	2–6	25%
Miami	A	A	A	A	Q1	2R	2R	1R	1R	1R	A	1R	A	0 / 6	1–6	14%
Monte Carlo	A	A	A	A	A	QF	A	A	2R	A	A	A	A	0 / 2	3–2	60%
Rome	A	A	A	A	A	SF	2R	A	A	A	A	A	A	0 / 2	4–2	67%
Madrid	Not Held						1R	A	A	A	A	A	A	0 / 1	0–1	0%
Canada	A	A	A	A	A	1R	A	A	2R	A	A	A	A	0 / 2	1–2	33%
Cincinnati	A	A	A	A	A	1R	2R	A	1R	A	A	A	A	0 / 3	1–3	25%
Hamburg	Q1	A	A	A	Q1	SF	1R	A	1R	1R	A	A	A	0 / 4	3–4	43%
Paris	A	A	A	A	A	2R	1R	A	A	A	A	A	A	0 / 2	0–2	0%
Stuttgart	A	A	A	A	A	2R	Not Masters Series							0 / 1	0–1	0%
Win–loss	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	10–9	2–7	0–2	3–6	0–3	0–0	0–2	0–0	0 / 29	15–29	34%

Mixed doubles

Tournament	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006	SR	W–L	Win%
Grand Slam tournaments
Australian Open	A	A	QF	A	A	1R	A	0 / 2	2–2	50%
French Open	A	SF	1R	A	1R	A	A	0 / 3	3–3	50%
Wimbledon	2R	1R	2R	2R	1R	1R	1R	0 / 7	3–7	30%
US Open	A	1R	A	A	A	A	A	0 / 1	0–1	0%
Win–loss	1–1	3–3	3–3	1–1	0–2	0–2	0–1	0 / 13	8–13	38%

ATP career finals

Doubles: 16 (7 titles, 9 runner-ups)

Legend Grand Slam Tournaments (0–1) ATP World Tour Finals (0–0) ATP Masters Series (0–0) ATP Championship Series (1–2) ATP World Series (6–6)

Finals by surface Hard (2–5) Clay (5–3) Grass (0–1) Carpet (0–0)

Finals by setting Outdoors (6–6) Indoors (1–3)

Result	W–L	Date	Tournament	Tier	Surface	Partner	Opponents	Score
Loss	0–1	Aug 1999	San Marino, San Marino	World Series	Clay	Pavel Vízner	Lucas Arnold Ker Mariano Hood	3–6, 2–6
Loss	0–2	Oct 2000	Shanghai, China	World Series	Hard	Pavel Vízner	Paul Haarhuis Sjeng Schalken	2–6, 6–3, 4–6
Loss	0–3	Nov 2000	Stockholm, Sweden	World Series	Hard	Pavel Vízner	Mark Knowles Daniel Nestor	3–6, 2–6
Loss	0–4	Feb 2001	Rotterdam, Netherlands	Championship Series	Hard	Pavel Vízner	Jonas Björkman Roger Federer	3–6, 0–6
Win	1–4	May 2001	St Pölten, Austria	World Series	Clay	David Rikl	Jaime Oncins Daniel Orsanic	6–3, 5–7, 7–5
Loss	1–5	Jun 2001	Paris, France	Grand Slam	Clay	Pavel Vízner	Mahesh Bhupathi Leander Paes	6–7(5–7), 3–6
Loss	1–6	May 2002	Munich, Germany	World Series	Clay	Pavel Vízner	Radek Štěpánek Petr Luxa	0–6, 7–6(7–4), [9–11]
Win	2–6	May 2002	St Pölten, Austria	World Series	Clay	David Rikl	Mike Bryan Michael Hill	7–5, 6–4
Loss	2–7	Aug 2002	Long Island, United States	World Series	Hard	Pavel Vízner	Mahesh Bhupathi Mike Bryan	3–6, 4–6
Win	3–7	May 2004	St Pölten, Austria	International Series	Clay	Mariano Hood	Tomáš Cibulec Leoš Friedl	3–6, 7–5, 6–4
Loss	3–8	Jun 2004	Halle, Germany	International Series	Grass	Tomáš Cibulec	Leander Paes David Rikl	2–6, 5–7
Loss	3–9	Oct 2004	Tokyo, Japan	Championship Series	Hard	Jiří Novák	Jared Palmer Pavel Vízner	1–5 ret.
Win	4–9	Jul 2005	Umag, Croatia	International Series	Clay	Jiří Novák	David Škoch Michal Mertiňák	6–3, 6–3
Win	5–9	Jan 2006	Chennai, India	International Series	Hard	Michal Mertiňák	Prakash Amritraj Rohan Bopanna	6–2, 7–5
Win	6–9	Oct 2006	Vienna, Austria	Championship Series	Hard	Pavel Vízner	Julian Knowle Jürgen Melzer	6–4, 3–6, [12–10]
Win	7–9	Jul 2008	Umag, Croatia	International Series	Clay	Michal Mertiňák	Carlos Berlocq Fabio Fognini	2–6, 6–3, [10–5]

ATP Challenger and ITF Futures Finals

Doubles: 20 (10–10)

Legend ATP Challenger (9–10) ITF Futures (1–0)

Finals by surface Hard (1–2) Clay (5–6) Grass (1–0) Carpet (3–2)

Result	W–L	Date	Tournament	Tier	Surface	Partner	Opponents	Score
Loss	0–1	Jul 1995	Prague, Czech Republic	Challenger	Clay	David Škoch	Filip Dewulf Vojtěch Flégl	7–6, 5–7, 2–6
Loss	0–2	Jun 1996	Košice, Slovakia	Challenger	Clay	Jan Kodeš	Olivier Delaître Jeff Tarango	6–7, 3–6
Win	1–2	Jul 1996	Bristol, United Kingdom	Challenger	Grass	Andrew Richardson	Lionel Barthez Patrick Baur	6–2, 6–4
Loss	1–3	Jul 1997	Ulm, Germany	Challenger	Clay	Petr Luxa	Kris Goossens Tom Vanhoudt	3–6, 0–6
Win	2–3	Aug 1997	Plzeň, Czech Republic	Challenger	Clay	Borut Urh	Radek Štěpánek Radomír Vašek	2–4 ret.
Win	3–3	Feb 1998	Austria F3, Mondseeland	Futures	Carpet	Borut Urh	Ivaylo Traykov Milen Velev	6–4, 7–6
Loss	3–4	Jun 1998	Příbram, Czech Republic	Challenger	Clay	Radek Štěpánek	Ota Fukárek Udo Plamberger	6–2, 3–6, 4–6
Loss	3–5	Nov 1998	Aachen, Germany	Challenger	Hard	Tuomas Ketola	Menno Oosting Pavel Vízner	6–7, 3–6
Loss	3–6	Jun 1999	Prague, Czech Republic	Challenger	Clay	Tomáš Cibulec	Michal Tabara Radomír Vašek	2–6, 0–6
Win	4–6	Oct 1999	Eckental, Germany	Challenger	Carpet	Pavel Vízner	Steven Randjelovic Lovro Zovko	6–4, 6–3
Loss	4–7	Apr 2000	Maia, Portugal	Challenger	Clay	Pavel Vízner	Tomáš Cibulec Leoš Friedl	3–6, 6–4, 4–6
Win	5–7	Aug 2000	Poznań, Poland	Challenger	Clay	Pavel Vízner	Tomáš Cibulec Leoš Friedl	6–3, 6–0
Win	6–7	Nov 2000	Charleroi, Belgium	Challenger	Carpet	Pavel Vízner	Aleksandar Kitinov Lovro Zovko	6–7, 7–5, 6–1
Loss	6–8	Jan 2003	Heilbronn, Germany	Challenger	Carpet	Pavel Vízner	Johan Landsberg Simon Aspelin	4–6, 4–6
Loss	6–9	Feb 2003	Wrocław, Poland	Challenger	Hard	Pavel Vízner	Petr Luxa David Škoch	4–6, 4–6
Win	7–9	May 2004	Ostrava, Czech Republic	Challenger	Clay	Tuomas Ketola	Łukasz Kubot Tomáš Zíb	6–4, 6–4
Loss	7–10	Nov 2004	Aachen, Germany	Challenger	Carpet	Petr Luxa	Simon Aspelin Todd Perry	3–6, 3–6
Win	8–10	Mar 2006	Sunrise, United States	Challenger	Hard	Robin Vik	Goran Dragicevic Dmitry Tursunov	6–4, 6–2
Win	9–10	May 2006	Prague, Czech Republic	Challenger	Clay	David Škoch	Ramón Delgado Sergio Roitman	6–0, 6–0
Win	10–10	May 2008	Prague, Czech Republic	Challenger	Clay	Lukáš Dlouhý	Dušan Karol Jaroslav Pospíšil	6–7(2–7), 6–4, [10–6]