Andriej Kapaś

Andriej Kapaś
Nation:	Poland
Birthday:	August 11, 1989
Size:	188 cm
Weight:	83 kg
Playing hand:	Right, two-handed backhand
Trainer:	Filip Urban
Prize money:	$ 111,567
singles
Career record:	0-0
Highest ranking:	323 (April 6, 2015)
Current placement:	1115
Double
Career record:	0-0
Highest ranking:	163 (April 13, 2015)
Last update of the infobox: September 24, 2018
Sources: official player profiles at the ATP / WTA and ITF (see web links )

Andriej Kapaś (born August 11, 1989 in Kiev , Ukraine ) is a Polish tennis player .

Career

Andriej Kapaś started playing tennis when he was five. On the junior tour, his greatest success was getting into the quarter-finals of the doubles competition at the Australian Open in 2007. His best placement in the junior world rankings was a combined 105th place in January 2007.

From 2005 onwards, Kapaś competed with the pros at occasional lower-class tournaments on the ITF Future Tour , since 2007 regularly. In singles he only made it into a quarter-finals in 2008, in doubles he was more successful and won his first two of a total of 23 futures titles. He finished the year in both singles and doubles in the top 1000. In the following season, he made his first semi-finals in doubles on the ATP Challenger Tour in Poznan , making him the top 500 doubles for the first time. The final breakthrough did not succeed Kapaś, however, he was eliminated on the Challenger Tour more often in the first two rounds or did not survive the qualification.

After he was three times in the final and once in the semifinals in four consecutive futures tournaments in August 2011, the organizers of the Challenger in Szczecin gave him a wild card for the double field. Together with Marcin Gawron he played his way to the final and beat the Kazakh duo Andrei Golubew and Yuri Schtschukin in two sets, so that he jumped to 241 in the world rankings. He won his only individual title on the Future Tour in November 2011. With this success he improved by over 200 places in the world rankings and was 576th at the end of the year.

From 2012 to 2014 he was particularly successful in doubles, winning 13 futures in the three years. He started the qualification in Stuttgart , but failed in the second qualifying round to the Spaniard Daniel Muñoz de La Nava . In his career he never made it into a main draw of an ATP World Tour tournament . Since he was no longer able to build on the successes from previous years on the Challenger Tour and was often eliminated in the first round, he slipped in the world rankings. It was not until the second half of the 2014 season that Kapaś reversed the trend and fought his way up the ranking again, so that he was in the top 500 in singles and scratched in the top 200 in doubles.

In 2015 he entered the Challenger finals in Wroclaw in doubles and had to admit defeat to the German pairing Philipp Petzschner and Tim Pütz with his partner Frank Dancevic . In singles, he managed to get into the semi-finals on the Challenger Tour in Kyoto , which he lost to his compatriot and eventual winner Michał Przysiężny . In April he reached his best single place with the 323rd place and his best double place with the 163rd place. This should remain his best season at challenger level, in the following years he did not survive the second round in either singles or doubles. He won his last future title in 2016 at a home tournament in Poland. Since he has not won any world ranking points in doubles for over a year, he is currently only listed in the individual ranking.

successes

Legend (number of victories)

Grand Slam

ATP World Tour Finals

ATP World Tour Masters 1000

ATP World Tour 500

ATP World Tour 250

ATP Challenger Tour (1)

Double

Tournament victories

No.	date	competition	Topping	partner	Final opponent	Result
1.	September 18, 2011	Szczecin	sand	Marcin Gawron	Andrei Golubev Yuri Shchukin	6: 4, 6: 3

Web links

• ATP profile Andriej Kapas (English)
• ITF profile Andriej Kapas (English)
• ITF junior profile Andriej Kapas (English)