# Ivo Minář

Ivo Minář (born 21 May 1984) is a former professional male tennis player from the Czech Republic. On 20 July 2009 Minář reached his career-high singles ranking of World No. 62. His brother Jan is also a professional player, who has been ranked in the top 200 in the world.
Minář was a member of the winning Czech Republic team in the 2012 Davis Cup.
Minář also worked as coach of Czech tennis player Kristýna Plíšková.

## Career

Minář won the European junior championships in Klosters when he was 16, defeating fellow Czech Tomáš Berdych.

### Professional career

In his career, he has not won an ATP singles title, but has reached one singles final – in 2005 in Sydney, where he lost to Lleyton Hewitt of Australia. On his way to that final, he dispatched three future top 10 stars in Nikolay Davydenko, Fernando Verdasco and Radek Štěpánek. Later that year, he qualified for the tournament in Dubai and pushed World No. 1 Roger Federer to final set tie-break in the first round, losing 7–6$^{(5)}$, 3–6, 6–7$^{(5)}$.
Minář tested positive for methylhexanamine on 11 July 2009 and was suspended eight months.

## ATP Tour finals
### Singles: 1 (0–1)

* Legend
* Grand Slam (0–0)
* ATP World Tour Finals (0–0)
* ATP World Tour Masters 1000 (0–0)
* ATP World Tour 500 series (0–0)
* ATP World Tour 250 series (0–1)
| Outcome | No. | Date | Tournament | Surface | Opponent | Score |
| Runner-up | 1. | Jan 2005 | Sydney, Australia | Hard | Lleyton Hewitt | 5–7, 0–6 |

### Doubles: 1 (1–0)

* Legend
* Grand Slam (0–0)
* ATP World Tour Finals (0–0)
* ATP World Tour Masters 1000 (0–0)
* ATP World Tour 500 series (0–0)
* ATP World Tour 250 series (1–0)
| Outcome | No. | Date | Tournament | Surface | Partner | Opponents | Score |
| Winner | 1. | May 2009 | Munich, Germany | Clay | Jan Hernych | Ashley Fisher Jordan Kerr | 6–4, 6–4 |

## Challenger finals
### Singles: 17 (9–8)

* Legend
* ATP Challenger Tour (9–8)
| Outcome | No. | Date | Tournament | Surface | Opponent | Score |
| Runner-up | 1. | 23 May 2004 | Prague, Czech Republic | Clay | Jan Hernych | 1–6, 4–6 |
| Runner-up | 2. | 28 November 2004 | Groningen, Netherlands | Hard | Peter Wessels | 3–6, 2–6 |
| Runner-up | 3. | 5 June 2005 | Prostějov, Czech Republic | Clay | Jarkko Nieminen | 1–6, 3–6 |
| Winner | 4. | 7 May 2006 | Ostrava, Czech Republic | Clay | Marcel Granollers | 6–1, 6–0 |
| Runner-up | 5. | 9 July 2006 | Biella, Italy | Clay | Simone Bolelli | 5–7, 6–3, 6–7$^{(0–7)}$ |
| Winner | 6. | 2 September 2007 | Freudenstadt, Germany | Clay | Éric Prodon | 7–5, 6–3 |
| Runner-up | 7. | 23 September 2007 | Szczecin, Poland | Clay | Sergio Roitman | 2–6, 5–7 |
| Winner | 8. | 4 November 2007 | Busan, South Korea | Hard | Viktor Troicki | 7–6$^{(7–2)}$, 6–7$^{(7–9)}$, 6–3 |
| Runner-up | 9. | 26 October 2008 | Seoul, South Korea | Hard | Hyung-Taik Lee | 4–6, 0–6 |
| Winner | 10. | 2 November 2008 | Busan, South Korea | Hard | Alex Bogomolov Jr. | 6–1, 2–0, ret. |
| Winner | 11. | 29 March 2009 | Barletta, Italy | Clay | Santiago Ventura | 6–4, 6–3 |
| Winner | 12. | 26 April 2009 | Sofia, Bulgaria | Clay | Florian Mayer | 6–4, 6–3 |
| Winner | 13. | 8 May 2010 | Cairo, Egypt | Clay | Simone Vagnozzi | 3–6, 6–2, 6–3 |
| Runner-up | 14. | 27 June 2010 | Marburg, Germany | Clay | Simone Vagnozzi | 6–2, 3–6, 5–7 |
| Runner-up | 15. | 5 September 2010 | Como, Italy | Clay | Robin Haase | 4–6, 3–6 |
| Winner | 16. | 20 March 2011 | Rabat, Morocco | Clay | Peter Luczak | 7–5, 6–3 |
| Winner | 17. | 22 April 2012 | Santos, Brazil | Clay | Ricardo Hocevar | 4–6, 6–1, 6–4 |

### Doubles: 1 (0–1)

* Legend
* ATP Challenger Tour (0–1)
| Outcome | No. | Date | Tournament | Surface | Partner | Opponents | Score |
| Runner-up | 1. | 13 February 2006 | Belgrade, Serbia and Montenegro | Carpet (i) | Jan Minář | Michael Kohlmann Alexander Waske | 6–7$^{(3–7)}$, 3–6 |