The 21st century
Czech Republic · born Mladá Boleslav, 2001 · right-handed · Queen's finalist 2025
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Queen's Club final, 2025
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Best Wimbledon result, 2023 and 2026
1990
Last Czech man in a Queen's final before him
16-14
Tie-break lost to Ben Shelton, Stuttgart 2026
12
Career-high ATP ranking, May 2026
Born on 8 November 2001 in Mladá Boleslav, the son of a swimmer and a track and field athlete, Lehečka grew up in Kněžmost and admired Tomáš Berdych and Radek Štěpánek. As a qualifier on his ATP debut he reached the Rotterdam semi-finals in 2022, and a year later he made the Australian Open quarter-finals. He won ATP titles in Adelaide in 2024 and Brisbane in 2025, reached the 2025 US Open quarter-finals and became the Czech No. 1. In 2026 he reached his first Masters final in Miami and a career-high ranking of No. 12. On grass that summer he reached the Stuttgart semi-finals, lost his opening match at Queen's as second seed, and matched his best Wimbledon result with a fourth round.
| Wimbledon singles | Fourth round 2023 and 2026; second round 2025, lost to Mattia Bellucci; first round 2022 |
|---|---|
| Wimbledon 2023 | Beat the 18th seed Francisco Cerúndolo and the 16th seed Tommy Paul, the second in five sets; retired against Daniil Medvedev at 4-6, 2-6 in the fourth round |
| Wimbledon 2026 | As 13th seed beat Alexei Popyrin, Alex Molčan and Jaume Munar; lost to Alexander Zverev, the eventual runner-up, 4-6, 5-7, 6-3, 6-7 (6) in a match held over by the curfew |
| Grass finals | Queen's 2025: beat Jacob Fearnley for his 100th tour-level win and Jack Draper 6-4, 4-6, 7-5; lost the final to Carlos Alcaraz 5-7, 7-6, 2-6 |
| Other grass events | Stuttgart semi-final 2026, lost to Ben Shelton 7-6 (4), 6-7 (14), 6-7 (6) after holding two match points; Stuttgart quarter-final 2025; Queen's 2026 as second seed, lost to the qualifier Rinky Hijikata 6-4, 5-7, 6-7 (7) |
"I know your favourite didn't win today, but I really appreciate you being fair and clapping when I hit a few good [shots]."
The person behind the player.
Kněžmost, 2000s
His father was a swimmer and his mother a track and field athlete, and as a boy he skied, cycled and swam. He first held a racquet at three. His grandmother, who had played at national level, was teaching his older sister, so he wanted to play too. He grew up admiring Tomáš Berdych and Radek Štěpánek, and Roger Federer.
Source: WikipediaWimbledon 2023 · Fourth round
Against Daniil Medvedev in his first Wimbledon fourth round, he hit a shot in the eighth game that dropped straight into a spectator's drink. The crowd laughed, and the spectator held the glass up for everyone to see. The rest of the afternoon went less well: he needed a medical time-out and retired after two sets.
Source: SportskeedaQueen's 2025 · Semi-final
A day after his 100th tour-level win, he beat the home favourite Jack Draper 6-4, 4-6, 7-5 to reach his first grass final, the first by a Czech man on the tour since Tomáš Berdych at Wimbledon in 2010. On court he thanked the crowd for being fair: "You don't beat a player like Jack every day."
Source: ATP TourStuttgart 2026 · Semi-final
He won the first-set tie-break against Ben Shelton 7-4 and held two match points in the second. Shelton saved both and took the tie-break 16-14 on his eighth set point, then won the third-set tie-break 8-6 after 2 hours 54 minutes. Shelton went on to win the title the next day.
Source: beIN SportsWimbledon 2026 · Centre Court
Two sets down to Alexander Zverev at 3-3 in the third, he walked off at 10:55 p.m. when the referee Denise Parnell halted play before the 11 p.m. curfew. When they returned he won three games in eight minutes to take the set, then lost the fourth-set tie-break 8-6. It was, he said, the first time it had happened to him.
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