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Tomasz Bednarek

Tomasz Bednarek playing at Roland Garros 2013
Country (sports)	Poland
Residence	Wrocław, Poland
Born	(1981-11-12) 12 November 1981 (age 43) Pabianice, Poland
Turned pro	2000
Plays	Right-Handed
Prize money	US$442,317
Singles
Career record	0–0
Career titles	0
Highest ranking	No. 724 (8 September 2003)
Doubles
Career record	33-64
Career titles	0
Highest ranking	No. 44 (14 April 2014)
Current ranking	-
Grand Slam doubles results
Australian Open	2R (2013)
French Open	QF (2013)
Wimbledon	2R (2013)
US Open	1R (2013, 2014, 2015)
Last updated on: 11 May 2020.

Tomasz Bednarek (Polish pronunciation: [ˈtɔmaʐ bɛˈdnarɛk]; born 12 November 1981) is a professional tennis player from Poland.

Career

He is a doubles' specialist. He reached his career-high doubles ranking of No. 44 on 14 April 2014. His current partner is Mateusz Kowalczyk, but Bednarek partnered among others with his compatriots Maciej Diłaj, Michał Przysiężny and Slovakian Filip Polášek and Igor Zelenay. Bednarek partnered with Benoit Paire at the 2014 Wimbledon Championships, where they lost in the first round.

When the former footballer Paolo Maldini and his coach Stefano Landonio made a professional tennis debut, Bednarek and partner David Pel recorded a victory over them in 42 minutes dropping two games during the match.

ATP career finals

Doubles: 4 (4 runner-ups)

Result	W–L	Date	Tournament	Tier	Surface	Partner	Opponents	Score
Loss	0–1	May 2010	Serbia Open, Serbia	250 Series	Clay	Mateusz Kowalczyk	Santiago González Travis Rettenmaier	6–7, 1–6
Loss	0–2	Jul 2013	Stuttgart Open, Germany	250 Series	Clay	Mateusz Kowalczyk	Facundo Bagnis Thomaz Bellucci	6–2, 4–6,
Loss	0–3	Sep 2013	Thailand Open, Thailand	250 Series	Hard (i)	Johan Brunström	Jamie Murray John Peers	3–6, 6–3,
Loss	0–4	Apr 2014	Grand Prix Hassan II, Morocco	250 Series	Clay	Lukáš Dlouhý	Jean-Julien Rojer Horia Tecău	2–6, 2–6

Challengers and futures titles (20)

No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Partner	Opponents in the final	Score
1.	12 August 2002	Lithuania F1	Clay	Michał Gawłowski	Dmitriy Koch Thomas Oger	6–3, 7–6
2.	10 November 2003	Czech F6	Clay	Petr Dezort	Jan Říha Pavel Říha	4–6, 7–5, 6–3
3.	9 August 2004	Lithuania F1	Clay	Javier García-Sintes	Mait Künnap Janne Ojala	6–1, 6–4
4.	30 August 2004	Poland F5	Clay	Javier García-Sintes	Filip Anioła Filip Urban	6–4, 6–2
5.	15 August 2005	Poland F5	Clay	Felipe Parada	Maciej Diłaj Dawid Olejniczak	6–2, 6–4
6.	20 February 2006	Poland F1	Hard	Maciej Diłaj	Martin Fischer Philipp Oswald	6–2, 4–6, 6–3
7.	10 July 2006	Poznań	Clay	Michał Przysiężny	Vasilis Mazarakis Jan Mertl	6–3, 3–6,
8.	7 August 2006	Lithuania F1	Clay	Deniss Pavlovs	Egor Puntus Sergei Tarasevitch	6–0, 6–1
9.	1 October 2007	Mons	Hard	Filip Polášek	Philipp Petzschner Alexander Peya	6–2, 5–7,
10.	9 June 2008	Košice	Clay	Igor Zelenay	Miguel Ángel López Jaén Carles Poch-Gradin	6–1, 4–6,
11.	14 September 2009	Szczecin	Clay	Mateusz Kowalczyk	Oleksandr Dolgopolov Jr. Artem Smirnov	6–3, 6–4
12.	5 October 2009	Tarragona	Clay	Mateusz Kowalczyk	Flavio Cipolla Alessandro Motti	6–1, 6–1
13.	19 October 2009	Florianópolis	Clay	Mateusz Kowalczyk	Daniel Gimeno-Traver Pere Riba	6–1, 6–4
14.	12 April 2010	Rome	Clay	Mateusz Kowalczyk	Jeff Coetzee Jesse Witten	6–4, 7–6
15.	8 October 2011	Palermo	Clay	Mateusz Kowalczyk	Alexander Bury Andrei Vasilevski	6–2, 6–4
16.	24 March 2012	Rimouski	Hard	Olivier Charroin	Jaan-Frederik Brunken Stefan Seifert	6–3, 6–2
17.	17 June 2012	Košice	Clay	Mateusz Kowalczyk	Uladzimir Ignatik Andrei Vasilevski	2–6, 7–5,
18.	7 July 2012	Braunschweig	Clay	Mateusz Kowalczyk	Harri Heliövaara Denys Molchanov	7–5, 6–7,
19.	7 October 2012	Mons	Hard	Jerzy Janowicz	Michaël Llodra Édouard Roger-Vasselin	7–5, 4–6,
20.	6 July 2013	Braunschweig	Clay	Mateusz Kowalczyk	Andreas Siljeström Igor Zelenay	6–2, 7–6

Doubles performance timeline

Notes

1. In isolation, Tomasz is pronounced [ˈtɔmaʂ].

References

1. Walton, Gregory (25 June 2014). "I hate Wimbledon, says racquet smasher Benoit Paire". ISSN 0307-1235. Retrieved 11 May 2020.
2. Sport, Telegraph (27 June 2017). "Paolo Maldini beaten in 42 minutes on professional tennis debut". The Telegraph. ISSN 0307-1235. Retrieved 11 May 2020.
3. "Paolo Maldini: Former Italy defender beaten on pro tennis debut". BBC Sport. 27 June 2017. Retrieved 11 May 2020.

External links

• Tomasz Bednarek at the Association of Tennis Professionals
• Tomasz Bednarek at the International Tennis Federation
• Official site of Bednarek/Kowalczyk team

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