Lech
Bieńkowski
Male
Poland
1964-08-20
Wejherowie, Poland
The last (chronologically) of the leading Polish tennis players (7 national championships, including 2 indoor doubles), who practically did not appear in the professional tour. Quite simply: most of his career fell on the declining period of the Polish People's Republic, when it was very difficult for athletes to take up international competition on equal terms. Only half of the tennis generation younger than "Bieńek" - Katarzyna Nowak and Wojciech Kowalski started it.
After putting the racket back on the shelf, he became a recognized coach - both a workshop man (e.g. our best doubles pair in history, Fyrstenberg-Matkowski) and the PZT team (juniors won the 1999 World Championship bronze under his leadership), including the Daviscup. He runs - under his own name - a tennis school in his hometown of Wejherowo.
Clubs: SKT Sopot, Lechia Gdańsk.
Coaches: Jan and Stefan Korneluków ??? , ???
Career highest position in ATP ranking - single: 606. (09/09/1991); Doubles: 909th (09/28/1987).
Davis Cup: 1983-1985 and 1986-1987; 6 matches, 5 wins / 10 defeats - single 3/6, doubles 2/4. Captain (1999 and 2001); balance sheet: 0/3.
PZT classification: 10th (1983), 3rd (1984–1986), 2nd (1987), 4th (1989), 2nd (1990), 4th (1991).
Polish champion titles (excluding MMP): 7.
National MP - single: finalist twice (1984 and 1986); doubles: winner (with Romuald Szczepanik 1984) and finalist (with Henryk Drzymalski 1983); mix: winner (with Katarzyna Teodorowicz 1990).
Halowe MP - single: winner twice (1985 and 1987); doubles: 3 times winner (with Tomasz Maliszewski 1985, Olgierd Hofman 1987 and Lech Sidor 1992) and finalist (with Wojciech Jamroz 1986).
International MP - single: finalist (1985); doubles: finalist (with Wojciech Jamroz 1985).
1982 - 1984
1
7
4
1984 - Sea Days in Gydina (Amateur)
Semifinals
Wojtek Kowalski 1 *
Lech Bieńkowski
6-1
4-6
7-5
Round 3
Lech Bieńkowski 1 *
Robert Radwanski
6-2
6-0
6-3
Quarterfinals
Lech Bieńkowski 1 *
Alfred Chrobok
6-2
6-3
6-4
Semifinals
Lech Bieńkowski 1 *
Tomasz Maliszewski
6-0
6-4
6-0
Final
Wojtek Kowalski 1 *
Lech Bieńkowski
5-7
7-5
6-3
6-1
Final
Lech Bieńkowski 1 *
Franciszek Andrzejczuk
6-1
6-3
Semifinals
Henryk Drzymalski 1 *
Lech Bieńkowski
6-3
6-1