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Patrik Rikl

Czech tennis player (born 1999)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 16, 2026
Entity authorityQ22691101 ↗
Source-derived summary

Patrik Rikl (born 6 January 1999) is a Czech tennis player who specializes in doubles. He has a career-high doubles ranking of No. 29 achieved on 20 July 2026 and a singles ranking of No. 392 achieved on 1 October 2018. Rikl has won two ATP Tour and five ATP Challenger doubles titles. He is the current No. 1 Czech ATP doubles player.

Personal life

Rikl is the son of Czech former tennis player David Rikl.

Career

Juniors

Rikl won the 2016 French Open boys' doubles title alongside Israeli Yshai Oliel. The pair defeated Chung Yun-seong and Orlando Luz in the final.

Editorial summary

The public source identifies “Patrik Rikl” as czech tennis player (born 1999). This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Patrik, Rikl and Czech.

Editorial reviewStrongest as a route into the people, institutions and dated events that shaped the subject’s public record. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1999, 2026, 2018, 2016—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1999-01-06. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Patrik, Rikl and Czech providing the first useful test.
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Evidence profile

Biographical claims are most persuasive when dates, appointments and relationships can be traced to records created close to the events described. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 16, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q22691101. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1999, 2026, 2018 and 2016.

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This entry incorporates text from “Patrik Rikl” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.