Jiri Lehecka is the son of a swimmer and a track athlete from Mlada Boleslav, and the genes show in a game built on clean, flat power: a heavy first serve and a baseline strike that takes the ball early and gives it back faster. A Wimbledon boys' doubles champion in 2019, he broke through at 21 by beating Felix Auger-Aliassime on the way to the 2023 Australian Open quarter-finals, and by May 2026 he had climbed to a career-high No. 12.
His 2 career titles came in successive Januaries, Adelaide in 2024 and Brisbane in 2025, either side of a back injury that forced him out of a Madrid semi-final and swallowed months of his season. He came back sharper: a US Open quarter-final and the Czech No. 1 spot in 2025, then a run to his first Masters 1000 final in Miami in 2026 without losing serve once, before Jannik Sinner stopped him. This summer he is back in the second week of a major at Wimbledon.
Thirty-three. That is how many places Nikoloz Basilashvili climbed in the new ATP rankings, from No. 128 to No. 95, a 34-year-old who began the week in qualifying and ends it back inside the top 100. Tallon Griekspoor and Jan Lennard Struff both moved into the top 50 on the same indoor swing.
Ranking taleThree. That is how many consecutive matches Tallon Griekspoor won from a set down to take the European Open title. The world number 60 beat Jan Lennard Struff 4-6, 6-3, 6-4 on Sunday in Brussels for his fourth tour title and his first since Mallorca in 2025.
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