Czech tennis genes in American services. Left -handed with cannon service has evoked at the US Open

Twenty -one -year -old Longan with a heavy qualification and without losing the set has already advanced to the second round of the main competition, where Frances Tiafoe awaits him. “It will be an incredible experience. I have been looking for Frances since I was 12 years old, it will be an amazing challenge for me,” said the son of the Czech doubles champion from Flushing Meadows 2006 and a former single from the TOP 50, etc.

The form does not deny. Synek, however, measures 203 cm and plays with his left hand, unlike his father. At fifteen he defeated Carlos Alcaraz and Holger Rune, but his progress was not nearly the Spaniard with Dan. Even because of the serious problem with the ankle in which DAMM torn ligaments. “I just stepped and suddenly I lay on the ground and had terrible pain. It was brutal.”

Last year he advanced to the free card from the third round of a thousand in Miami, but also due to injury came a decline. In New York he plays as 431. Player ATP, but for penetration into the second round he is waiting for nearly one hundred and sixty seats. And who knows if he will not even Tiafoe.

In the portfolio, however, it has tools that predetermine it for a much more fundamental improvement. For example, a service that is compared to Ben Shelton. “I want to have one of the best services in the world,” said Damm, who filled the American Blanche 24 aces in the first round.

“Martin has the prerequisites that give hope to get into the TOP 5 ranking,” said former fifth world player Jimmy Arias about Damm.

“Often it doesn’t happen that you come across someone over two meters, is left -handed and athletic. In addition, he grew up in a tennis environment and all the pieces of the puzzle seem to be in place. Arias.

In addition, Damm did not pay exclusively tennis in his childhood. He was crazy with his older brother Max. Indeed, the whole family living in Florida is one of the fans of Tampa Bay Lightning.

“We played hockey with Tobym Kodat and Sebastian Korda,” Damm mentions two more players who have Czech tennis roots. Kopat’s dad is a former captain of the fedcup team and the stepfather of the world’s seven Nicole Vaidišová Aleš Kodat. The ‘Sebik’ parents are the former world number two Petr Korda and Regina Rajchrtová, a former Top 30 player.

“Something neglected here. Relations between Petr Korda and Czech tennis, however, crushed during the DavisCup crisis around Radek Štěpánek in 2006, which he did not want to represent under Captain Cyril Suk. And as the head of the team, he designed Kord.

At that moment, however, Tomáš Chrenek, as Chairman of the Board of Directors of Třinecké železárny – General Partner of the Czech Tennis Association. “If the captain of the Korda team, we immediately withdraw from the contract with the union,” Chrenek described the winner of the Australian Open 1998 as an inappropriate pattern for youth due to his positive doping test on Nandrolon.

And so golfers Jessica and Nelly Kordy celebrated their successes under the flag of stars and stripes, as well as their brother Sebastian represents the overseas tennis superpower in the Davis Cup.

With the American passport, however, the daughter of the four -time Grand Slam winner Hana Mandlíková is played by 24 -year -old Elizabeth (223 in the world). The twins Kristina and Annika Penickovy, the daughters of former Czech tennis players Tomáš Pěnička and Olga Hostáková, also have a professional career.

And so it can really happen that Czech genes will continue to help American victories.

“My father told me that whatever happened, I just keep working. Hold your head down, work and know that hard times will pass once,” Damm Jr.