Łukasz Kubot

Łukasz Kubot
Łukasz Kubot 2018 at the French Open
Nation:	Poland
Birthday:	May 16, 1982
Size:	191 cm
Weight:	86 kg
1st professional season:	2002
Playing hand:	Right, two-handed backhand
Trainer:	Jan Stoces
Prize money:	$ 8,291,903
singles
Career record:	97: 130
Highest ranking:	41 (April 12, 2010)
Grand Slam record
Double
Career record:	401: 259
Career title:	26th
Highest ranking:	1 (January 8, 2018)
Current placement:	5
Weeks as No. 1:	19th
Grand Slam record
Mixed
Grand Slam record
Last update of the infobox: March 16, 2020
Sources: official player profiles at the ATP / WTA and ITF (see web links )

Łukasz Kubot (born May 16, 1982 in Bolesławiec , Dolnośląskie ) is a Polish tennis player .

Career

Kubot became a professional tennis player in 2002. Already this season he achieved his first successes in doubles in future and challenger tournaments . He also got into the main draw of the ATP tournament in Sopot via a wildcard , where he failed in the first round. In 2004 he again received a wildcard for Sopot, both for the single and for the double competition. In the singles he was able to defeat the four seeded Russian Igor Andrejew in the first round. In addition, he was able to qualify for the first time for a Grand Slam tournament at Wimbledon on the side of the Hungarian Gergely Kisgyörgy . He also scored there by reaching the second round, in which he failed to Bob and Mike Bryan , a respectable success. From the 2006 season Kubot took part regularly in singles and doubles in ATP tournaments, in which he mostly failed in the first rounds. At the US Open he reached the third round in singles.

In 2007 , Kubot specialized more and more in doubles, which was reflected in all four Grand Slam tournaments this year. There he was particularly successful at the French Open and the Australian Open and reached the second round in both tournaments. He also made it into the finals of an ATP tournament for the first time in April alongside the Austrian Oliver Marach in Casablanca . There they lost to Simon Aspelin and Paul Hanley just in the match tie-break . With Lovro Zovko he also made it to the finals at the Grand Prix de Tennis de Lyon , which he could not win either. In the course of the season he reached 42nd place, his best ever ranking in the double world rankings. The 2008 season turned out to be less successful. Kubot mainly had to contest Challenger tournaments again and only reached the main rounds of the French Open with Zovko and Wimbledon with the South African Rik De Voest , where he failed in the second and first round. As a result, he fell back to 92nd place in the world rankings in August.

In the 2009 season , Kubot teamed up again with Marach and was able to celebrate the greatest successes of his career with the Austrian. At the beginning of the season they made it to the finals of the ATP 500 tournament in Acapulco and reached the semifinals of the Australian Open . On the way there they eliminated the top seeded pairing Daniel Nestor and Nenad Zimonjić, among others . They also won the tournament in Casablanca , Kubot's first tournament success on the ATP Tour and the Serbia Open in Belgrade . There he also made it into the final in the individual competition, after benefiting from Steve Darcis' shoulder injury as a lucky loser and thus making it into the main draw. He was the first Pole in a single tournament final of the ATP since Wojciech Fibak 1983, but he was defeated by Novak zweioković in two sets. In November he had his first success at a hard court tournament, at the BA TennisTrophy in Vienna. After these successes, Kubot reached eleventh place on November 2nd, his highest world ranking position in doubles.

In 2010 , at the Australian Open , he made it into the round of 16 in an individual competition at a Grand Slam tournament for the first time in his career. In February he reached the finals in both doubles and singles at the Brasil Open in São Paulo. With Oliver Marach he won the double titles in Santiago de Chile and Acapulco in the same month , with which he also won his first title in the World Tour 500 category in the latter. In September, Juan Ignacio Chela won the doubles competition in Bucharest . On June 7, 2010, he was in the top ten in the world rankings for the first time and improved to seventh in September. In the following season he made it into the third round of the French Open in singles, and in Wimbledon he reached the round of 16. In doubles he remained without a title during the season, but was in the final again with Oliver Marach in Santiago de Chile . In 2012 Kubot made it into the third round of the French Open again, but there were no further successes in the individual. This is opposed to three finals in doubles: with Jérémy Chardy , he initially lost the final in Bucharest in April , but secured the title in Stuttgart three months later . With Janko Tipsarević he moved into a Masters final in Rome for the first time, the two lost this against Marcel Granollers and Marc López in two sets. The 2013 season was partly successful. He won the doubles tournament in Acapulco with David Marrero and moved into the quarterfinals of a Grand Slam tournament in Wimbledon for the first time in his career, in which he was defeated by his compatriot Jerzy Janowicz in three sets. For this success he received the Silver Cross of Merit of the Republic of Poland .

At the side of Robert Lindstedt , he achieved his first Grand Slam success in 2014 at the start of the season by winning the title at the Australian Open . In the final they defeated Eric Butorac and Raven Klaasen 6: 3 and 6: 3. Kubot had originally planned to take part in the tournament with Jürgen Melzer , but he was injured in advance and canceled. By winning the title, Kubot moved up from 41st to 14th place in the world rankings and finished the season at 18th place. He did not make any further finals during the season, in individual he fell out of the top 100 in the world rankings to 170th In 2015 , Kubot focused on the double game. He achieved a total of four tournament victories with different partners, the first of which in 's-Hertogenbosch with Ivo Karlović . With Jérémy Chardy he won the tournament in Båstad , with Édouard Roger-Vasselin the tournament in Metz and with Marcelo Melo the tournament in Vienna . In the Davis Cup , Kubot reached the play-offs for promotion to the world group with the Polish team , in which Poland won 3-2 against Slovakia . Kubot won the double game on the side of Marcin Matkowski . In the following season , Kubot and Melo defended their title in Vienna . With Marcin Matkowski Kubot had previously reached the final of Estoril and the last sixteen at the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro . In mixed he was eliminated with Agnieszka Radwańska in the first round. At the French Open , Kubot reached the semi-finals with Alexander Peya and reached the finals of the double tournaments in Halle and Washington, DC. In the Davis Cup , Poland was relegated again after a relegation defeat against Germany .

2017 was Kubot's most successful season: together with Marcelo Melo, who played the entire season with Kubot, he reached his first season finale in Indian Wells in March , in which Raven Klaasen and Rajeev Ram narrowly prevailed with 10: 8 in the match tie-break . Just two weeks later, he finally won his first Masters title in Miami and immediately followed up with the second in Madrid in May . Kubot and Melo won the title in Madrid without losing a set. In June, the duo secured tournament victories in 's-Hertogenbosch and Halle within two weeks . At the Grand Slam tournament in Wimbledon , they won their fifth joint title of the current season. After they had already prevailed in the semifinals against Henri Kontinen and John Peers in the extension of the fifth set with 9: 7, they also defeated Oliver Marach and Mate Pavić in the final with 13:11 in the extension of the decisive fifth round. In the world rankings, Kubot moved up to a new career high, fourth place. Against peers and continents, Kubot and Melo lost in the final in Washington, DC in August as well as in the Masters final in Shanghai in October . In Paris, however, they managed to win their sixth title of the season, whereupon Kubot took second place in the world rankings. Due to their numerous successes, they qualified as the best team for the ATP Finals , in which they also reached the final. In this they had to admit defeat to Henri Kontinen and John Peers again, but ended the year with a game balance of 49:17 as the best double in the world rankings.

Due to the tournament victory in Sydney with Marcelo Melo at the start of the 2018 season , Kubot, tied on points with Melo, also took the lead in the individual double world rankings. As the season progressed, Kubot and Melo won the tournaments in Halle , Beijing and Shanghai . In September, Kubot and Melo were in the final at the US Open for the first time , losing 3: 6 and 1: 6 to Mike Bryan and Jack Sock . At the ATP Finals they were eliminated in the group stage. On May 21, 2018, Kubot again lost the lead in the world rankings and ended the year in ninth place. During the 2019 season , Kubot remained consistently in the top ten and has now returned to second place. He and Marcelo Melo achieved their only tournament victory in August in Winston-Salem , after losing out at the finals in Indian Wells in March and in Halle in June . In October she also reached the finals in Shanghai and Vienna , but lost both. In the season finale in London they were eliminated in the semifinals.

In February 2020, Kubot won the Acapulco title with Melo , Kubot's third title win at the tournament.

successes

Legend (number of victories) Grand Slam (2) Tennis Masters Cup ATP World Tour Finals ATP Masters Series ATP World Tour Masters 1000 (4) ATP International Series Gold ATP World Tour 500 Series (7) ATP International Series ATP World Tour 250 Series (12) ATP Challenger Tour (20)

Title after covering Hard Court (11) Sand (9) Grass (5)

singles

Tournament victories

ATP Challenger Tour

No.	date	competition	Topping	Final opponent	Result
1.	September 11, 2005	Donetsk	Hard court	Alexander Peya	6: 4, 6: 2
2.	July 20, 2008	Oberstaufen	sand	Juan Pablo Brzezicki	6: 3, 6: 4

Final participation

No.	date	competition	Topping	Final opponent	Result
1.	May 10, 2009	Belgrade	sand	Novak Đoković	3: 6, 6: 7 0
2.	February 14, 2010	Costa do Sauípe	sand	Juan Carlos Ferrero	1: 6, 0: 6

Double

Tournament victories

ATP World Tour

No.	date	competition	Topping	partner	Final opponent	Result
1.	April 6, 2009	Casablanca	sand	Oliver Marach	Paul Hanley Simon Aspelin	7: 6 4 , 3: 6, [10: 6]
2.	May 10, 2009	Belgrade	sand	Oliver Marach	Johan Brunström Jean-Julien Rojer	6: 2, 7: 6
3.	November 1, 2009	Vienna (1)	Hard court (i)	Oliver Marach	Julian Knowle Jürgen Melzer	2: 6, 6: 4, [11: 9]
4th	February 1, 2010	Santiago de Chile	sand	Oliver Marach	Potito Starace Horacio Zeballos	6: 4, 6: 0
5.	February 28, 2010	Acapulco (1)	sand	Oliver Marach	Fabio Fognini Potito Starace	6-0, 6-0
6th	September 26, 2010	Bucharest	sand	Juan Ignacio Chela	Marcel Granollers Santiago Ventura	6: 2, 5: 7, [13:11]
7th	July 15, 2012	Stuttgart	sand	Jérémy Chardy	Michal Mertiňák André Sá	6: 1, 6: 3
8th.	March 3, 2013	Acapulco (2)	sand	David Marrero	Fabio Fognini Simone Bolelli	7: 5, 6: 2
9.	January 25, 2014	Australian Open	Hard court	Robert Lindstedt	Eric Butorac Raven Klaasen	6: 3, 6: 3
10.	June 13, 2015	's-Hertogenbosch (1)	race	Ivo Karlović	Pierre-Hugues Herbert Nicolas Mahut	6: 2, 7: 6 9
11.	July 26, 2015	Båstad	sand	Jérémy Chardy	Juan Sebastián Cabal Robert Farah	6: 7 6 , 6: 3, [10: 8]
12.	September 27, 2015	Metz	Hard court (i)	Édouard Roger-Vasselin	Pierre-Hugues Herbert Nicolas Mahut	2: 6, 6: 3, [10: 7]
13.	October 25, 2015	Vienna (2)	Hard court (i)	Marcelo Melo	Jamie Murray John Peers	4: 6, 7: 6 3 , [10: 6]
14th	October 30, 2016	Vienna (3)	Hard court (i)	Marcelo Melo	Oliver Marach Fabrice Martin	4: 6, 6: 3, [13:11]
15th	April 1, 2017	Miami	Hard court	Marcelo Melo	Nicholas Monroe Jack Sock	7: 5, 6: 3
16.	May 14, 2017	Madrid	sand	Marcelo Melo	Nicolas Mahut Édouard Roger-Vasselin	7: 5, 6: 3
17th	17th June 2017	's-Hertogenbosch (2)	race	Marcelo Melo	Raven Klaasen Rajeev Ram	6: 3, 6: 4
18th	June 25, 2017	Hall (1)	race	Marcelo Melo	Alexander Zverev Mischa Zverev	5: 7, 6: 3, [10: 8]
19th	15th July 2017	Wimbledon	race	Marcelo Melo	Oliver Marach Mate Pavic	5: 7, 7: 5, 7: 6 2 , 3: 6, 13:11
20th	5th November 2017	Paris	Hard court (i)	Marcelo Melo	Ivan Dodig Marcel Granollers	7: 6 3 , 3: 6, [10: 6]
21st	January 12, 2018	Sydney	Hard court	Marcelo Melo	Jan-Lennard Struff Viktor Troicki	6: 3, 6: 4
22nd	June 24, 2018	Hall (2)	race	Marcelo Melo	Alexander Zverev Mischa Zverev	7: 6 1 , 6: 4
23.	October 7, 2018	Beijing	Hard court	Marcelo Melo	Oliver Marach Mate Pavic	6: 1, 6: 4
24.	October 14, 2018	Shanghai	Hard court	Marcelo Melo	Jamie Murray Bruno Soares	6: 4, 6: 2
25th	23 August 2019	Winston-Salem	Hard court	Marcelo Melo	Nicholas Monroe Tennys Sandgren	6: 7 6 , 6: 1, [10: 3]
26th	February 29, 2020	Acapulco (3)	Hard court	Marcelo Melo	Juan Sebastián Cabal Robert Farah	7: 6 6 , 6: 7 4 , [11: 9]

ATP Challenger Tour

No.	date	competition	Topping	partner	Final opponent	Result
1.	July 26, 2003	Valladolid	Hard court	Jun Kato	Filipp Muchometow Tripp Phillips	4: 6, 6: 0, 6: 1
2.	April 4, 2004	Canberra	sand	Zbynek Mlynarik	Stephen Huss Peter Luczak	7: 6 3 , 6: 2
3.	February 20, 2005	Joplin	Hard court	Rik De Voest	Nicholas Monroe Jeremy Wurtzman	7: 6 4 , 6: 4
4th	March 26, 2005	San Luis Potosí	sand	Oliver Marach	Juan Pablo Brzezicki Juan Pablo Guzmán	6: 1, 3: 6, 6: 3
5.	July 30, 2005	Poses	sand	Filip Urban	Adrián García Tomas Tenconi	6: 7 5 , 6: 3, 6: 2
6th	December 31, 2005	Doha	Hard court	Oliver Marach	Alexei Kedrjuk Orest Tereshchuk	6: 4, 6: 1
7th	April 2, 2006	Naples	sand	Tomáš Cibulec	Simone Bolelli Fabio Fognini	7: 5, 4: 6, [10: 7]
8th.	April 13, 2007	Casablanca	sand	Oliver Marach	Michal Mertiňák Robin Vik	6: 3, 6: 3
9.	May 6, 2007	Tunis	sand	Oliver Marach	Marc Fornell Lamine Ouahab	6: 2, 6: 2
10.	April 20, 2008	Busan	Hard court	Rik De Voest	Adam Feeney Rameez Junaid	6: 3, 6: 3
11.	May 2, 2008	Lanzarote	Hard court	Rik De Voest	Gilles Muller Aisam-ul-Haq Qureshi	6: 2, 7: 6 2
12.	May 23, 2008	Fargʻona	Hard court	Konstantin Kravchuk	Alexander Krasnoruzki Vaja Uzoqov	6: 4, 6: 1
13.	June 6, 2008	Prostějov	sand	Rik De Voest	Chris Haggard Nicolas Tourte	6: 2, 6: 2
14th	August 22, 2008	Qarshi	Hard court	Oliver Marach	Andreas Haider-Maurer Philipp Oswald	6: 4, 6: 4
15th	October 26, 2008	Seoul	Hard court	Oliver Marach	Sanchai Ratiwatana Sonchat Ratiwatana	7: 5, 4: 6, [10: 6]
16.	November 8, 2008	Bratislava	Hard court (i)	František Čermák	Philipp Petzschner Alexander Peya	6: 4, 6: 4
17th	November 23, 2008	Helsinki	Hard court (i)	Oliver Marach	Eric Butorac Lovro Zovko	6: 7 2 , 7: 6 7 , [10: 6]
18th	November 29, 2008	Cancun	sand	Oliver Marach	Lee Hsin-han Yang Tsung-hua	7: 5, 6: 3

Final participation

No.	date	competition	Topping	partner	Final opponent	Result
1.	April 29, 2007	Casablanca	sand	Oliver Marach	Jordan Kerr David Škoch	6: 7 4 , 6: 1, [4:10]
2.	October 28, 2007	Lyon	Carpet (i)	Lovro Zovko	Sébastien Grosjean Jo-Wilfried Tsonga	4: 6, 3: 6
3.	January 3, 2009	Acapulco	sand	Oliver Marach	František Čermák Michal Mertiňák	6: 4, 4: 6, [7:10]
4th	February 14, 2010	Costa do Sauípe	sand	Oliver Marach	Pablo Cuevas Marcel Granollers	5: 7, 4: 6
5.	February 6, 2011	Santiago de Chile	sand	Oliver Marach	Marcelo Melo Bruno Soares	3: 6, 6: 7 3
6th	April 29, 2012	Bucharest	sand	Jérémy Chardy	Robert Lindstedt Horia Tecau	6: 7 2 , 3: 6
7th	May 20, 2012	Rome	sand	Janko Tipsarevic	Marcel Granollers Marc López	3: 6, 2: 6
8th.	May 1, 2016	Estoril	sand	Marcin Matkowski	Eric Butorac Scott Lipsky	4: 6, 6: 3, [8:10]
9.	19th June 2016	Hall (1)	race	Alexander Peya	Raven Klaasen Rajeev Ram	6: 7 5 , 2: 6
10.	July 24, 2016	Washington, DC (1)	Hard court	Alexander Peya	Daniel Nestor Édouard Roger-Vasselin	6: 7 3 , 6: 7 4
11.	19th March 2017	Indian Wells (1)	Hard court	Marcelo Melo	Raven Klaasen Rajeev Ram	7: 6 1 , 4: 6, [8:10]
12.	August 6, 2017	Washington, DC (2)	Hard court	Marcelo Melo	Henri Kontinen John Peers	6: 7 5 , 4: 6
13.	15th October 2017	Shanghai (1)	Hard court	Marcelo Melo	Henri Kontinen John Peers	4: 6, 2: 6
14th	19th November 2017	London	Hard court (i)	Marcelo Melo	Henri Kontinen John Peers	4: 6, 2: 6
15th	September 7, 2018	US Open	Hard court	Marcelo Melo	Mike Bryan Jack Sock	3: 6, 1: 6
16.	18th March 2019	Indian Wells (2)	Hard court	Marcelo Melo	Horacio Zeballos Nikola Mektić	6: 4, 4: 6, [3:10]
17th	June 23, 2019	Hall (2)	race	Marcelo Melo	Raven Klaasen Michael Venus	6: 4, 3: 6, [4:10]
18th	October 13, 2019	Shanghai (2)	Hard court	Marcelo Melo	Mate Pavić Bruno Soares	4: 6, 2: 6
19th	October 27, 2019	Vienna	Hard court (i)	Marcelo Melo	Rajeev Ram Joe Salisbury	4: 6, 7: 6 5 , [5:10]

Web links

Commons : Łukasz Kubot  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• ATP profile of Łukasz Kubot (English)
• ITF profile of Łukasz Kubot (English)
• Davis Cup stats by Łukasz Kubot (English)

Individual evidence

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2. ^ Wimbledon 2013: Jerzy Janowicz overpowers compatriot Lukasz Kubot in battle of the Poles. In: independent.co.uk. The Independent , July 3, 2013, accessed May 18, 2020 . 
3. ↑ Sukces w kraju bez trawy. Janowicz, Kubot i Radwańska z Krzyżami Zasługi. In: sport.pl. July 8, 2013, accessed May 18, 2020 (Polish). 
4. ↑ Australian Open: Lukasz Kubot, Robert Lindstedt from winless to grand slam doubles title in 10 days. In: abc.net.au. Australian Broadcasting Corporation , January 25, 2014, accessed May 18, 2020 . 
5. ↑ Karlovic / Kubot Win First Team Title. In: atptour.com. Association of Tennis Professionals , June 13, 2015, accessed May 18, 2020 . 
6. ↑ Bastad: zwycięstwo Kubota i Chardy'ego w deblu. In: sport.tvp.pl. Telewizja Polska , July 26, 2015, accessed May 18, 2020 (Polish). 
7. ^ Kubot / Roger-Vasselin Claim Metz Title. In: atptour.com. Association of Tennis Professionals , September 27, 2015, accessed May 18, 2020 . 
8. ↑ Marcelo Melo with Lukasz Kubot on the Vienna title and number 1 in the world. In: tennisnet.com. October 25, 2015, accessed May 18, 2020 . 
9. ↑ Poland 3: 2 Slovakia. In: daviscup.com. International Tennis Federation , accessed May 18, 2020 . 
10. ^ Kubot / Melo Repeat In Vienna. In: atptour.com. Association of Tennis Professionals , October 30, 2016, accessed May 18, 2020 . 
11. ↑ Klaasen And Birthday Boy Ram Win Indian Wells Doubles Title. In: atptour.com. Association of Tennis Professionals , March 19, 2017, accessed May 18, 2020 . 
12. ↑ Melo / Kubot Capture First Masters 1000 Team Title. In: atptour.com. Association of Tennis Professionals , April 1, 2017, accessed May 18, 2020 . 
13. ^ Kubot / Melo Notch Second Masters 1000 Crown In Madrid. In: atptour.com. Association of Tennis Professionals , May 14, 2017, accessed May 18, 2020 . 
14. ^ Melo / Kubot Take Den Bosch Doubles Title. In: atptour.com. Association of Tennis Professionals , June 17, 2017, accessed May 18, 2020 . 
15. ↑ ^{a b} Double surprise: defending champions serve. In: westfalen-blatt.de. Westfalen-Blatt , June 15, 2019, accessed on May 18, 2020 . 
16. ↑ Tim Lewis: Lucasz Kubot and Marcelo Melo clinch Wimbledon men's doubles final epic. In: theguardian.com. The Guardian , July 15, 2017, accessed May 18, 2020 . 
17. ↑ Kubot / Melo Clinch Sixth Title Of 2017. In: atptour.com. Association of Tennis Professionals , November 5, 2017, accessed May 18, 2020 . 
18. ↑ Kontinen / Peers Retain Nitto ATP Finals Title. In: atptour.com. Association of Tennis Professionals , November 19, 2017, accessed May 18, 2020 . 
19. ↑ Hard Graft Helps Kubot Rise To No. 1. In: atptour.com. Association of Tennis Professionals , January 9, 2018, accessed May 18, 2020 . 
20. ↑ Melo / Kubot Boost London Hopes; Capture Beijing Trophy. In: atptour.com. Association of Tennis Professionals , October 7, 2018, accessed May 18, 2020 . 
21. ↑ Read & Watch: Flawless Melo / Kubot Lift Shanghai Doubles Trophy. In: atptour.com. Association of Tennis Professionals , October 14, 2018, accessed May 18, 2020 . 
22. ↑ Bryan and Sock win doubles. In: faz.net. Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , September 7, 2018, accessed on May 18, 2020 . 
23. ↑ Dzevad Mesic: ATP Winston-Salem: Lukasz Kubot and Marcelo Melo win first title in 2019. In: tennisworldusa.org. August 24, 2019, accessed on May 18, 2020 . 
24. ↑ Nikola Mektic and Horacio Zeballos Triumph in the Desert; Collect 2019 BNP Paribas Open Doubles Championship. In: bnpparibasopen.com. March 16, 2019, accessed May 18, 2020 . 
25. ↑ Klaasen and Venus defeat the defending champions. In: noventi-open.de. June 23, 2019, accessed May 18, 2020 . 
26. ^ Soares / Pavic Lift Maiden Team Title In Shanghai. In: atptour.com. Association of Tennis Professionals , October 13, 2019, accessed May 18, 2020 . 
27. ↑ Ram / Salisbury win double competition in Vienna. In: laola1.at. Laola1.tv , October 27, 2019, accessed May 18, 2020 . 
28. ↑ Melo / Kubot Save 2 MP In Epic Acapulco Doubles Final. In: atptour.com. Association of Tennis Professionals , March 1, 2020, accessed May 18, 2020 .