Christopher Kas

Christopher Kas
Kas 2011 at the French Open
Nation:	Germany
Birthday:	June 13, 1980
Size:	188 cm
Weight:	85 kg
1st professional season:	2001
Resignation:	2014
Playing hand:	Right, two-handed backhand
Trainer:	Jan de Witt
Prize money:	$ 1,350,322
singles
Career record:	0: 2
Highest ranking:	224 (November 4, 2002)
Double
Career record:	191: 202
Career title:	5
Highest ranking:	17 (February 6, 2012)
Grand Slam record
Mixed
Grand Slam record
Sources: official player profiles at the ATP / WTA and ITF (see web links )

Christopher Kas (born June 13, 1980 in Trostberg ) is a former German tennis player who is now active as a trainer and TV expert.

Career

As a single player, Kas, son of journalist Karlheinz Kas , achieved his highest ranking in professional tennis on November 4, 2002 as number 224 in the world rankings; however, there were no major successes. From 2005 he therefore concentrated on doubles and won several Challenger tournaments together with his regular partner Philipp Petzschner . In their first appearance at an ATP tournament , Kas and Petzschner reached the semi-finals straight away in February 2006 in Marseille . In September 2008, Kas and Philipp Kohlschreiber won the double tournament in Stuttgart by beating Mischa Zverev and Michael Berrer in the final . In 2009 he won the Halle lawn tournament with Kohlschreiber and the Bangkok tournament with Viktor Troicki in 2010 . He was in a final 15 times, so u. a. 2006 in Båstad (with Oliver Marach ) and Amersfoort (with Lucas Arnold Ker ), 2007 in Kitzbühel and Vienna (each with Tomas Behrend ), 2008 in Zagreb (with Rogier Wassen ) and in Basel (with Philipp Kohlschreiber), again in Zagreb in 2009 (again with Rogier Wassen), 2010 in Stuttgart (with Philipp Petzschner) and 2011 in Delray Beach (with Alexander Peya ) and in Munich (with Andreas Beck ). In 2011 he was also part of the German team when Germany won the World Team Cup , and was used twice in the preliminary round . In 2013 he was able to achieve two more tournament victories. In Doha and Kitzbühel he won with Kohlschreiber and with Martin Emmrich .

He achieved his best result at a Grand Slam tournament in 2011 at Wimbledon alongside Peya. He was also in the quarterfinals of the Australian Open 2012 and the US Open 2008 . He achieved his best placement in doubles at the beginning of 2012 when he was 17th in the world rankings .

In 2012 he took part in the Olympic Games . In the men's doubles with Philipp Petzschner, he lost in the first round to Nikolai Dawydenko and Michail Juschny , who competed for Russia, 5: 7, 5: 7. In mixed he competed with Sabine Lisicki ; they had never played together before and reached the semi-finals, in which they were defeated by the British Laura Robson and Andy Murray with 1: 6, 7: 6, [7:10]. In the match for bronze they had to admit defeat, against the Americans Lisa Raymond and Mike Bryan they lost 3: 6, 6: 4, [4:10]. In 2014 Christopher Kas ended his professional career in Vienna .

Kas also played in five games for the German Davis Cup team , for which he has a score of 2: 5. In the German 1st Bundesliga he played for TC Piding from 2005 and competed for TC Blau-Weiss Halle from 2006 to 2014 . With Halle he was German team champion in 2006 and 2014 and runner- up in 2009 to 2013 . In 2015 he played for TC Großhesselohe in the 2nd tennis Bundesliga and since 2016 in the men's 30 Bundesliga . Since 2016 he has also been the team manager of the club with which he was promoted to the Bundesliga in 2018 .

For the 2015 season he was hired by Sabine Lisicki as a trainer, who he was in charge of until May 2016. From June 2016 to May 2019 he trained Mona Barthel . He has been Peter Gojowczyk's coach since October 2019 . Kas is also active as a TV expert.

successes

Legend (number of victories) Grand Slam Tennis Masters Cup ATP World Tour Finals ATP Masters Series ATP World Tour Masters 1000 ATP International Series Gold ATP World Tour 500 Series (1) ATP International Series ATP World Tour 250 Series (4) ATP Challenger Tour (22)

Title after covering Hard Court (2) Sand (2) Grass (1)

Double

Tournament victories

ATP World Tour

No.	date	competition	Topping	partner	Final opponent	Result
1.	July 12, 2008	Stuttgart	sand	Philipp Kohlschreiber	Michael Berrer Mischa Zverev	6: 3, 6: 4
2.	June 14, 2009	Hall	race	Philipp Kohlschreiber	Andreas Beck Marco Chiudinelli	6: 3, 6: 4
3.	October 3, 2010	Bangkok	Hard court	Viktor Troicki	Jürgen Melzer Jonathan Erlich	6: 4, 6: 4
4th	4th January 2013	Doha	Hard court	Philipp Kohlschreiber	Julian Knowle Filip Polášek	7: 5, 6: 4
5.	3rd August 2013	Kitzbühel	sand	Martin Emmrich	František Čermák Lukáš Dlouhý	6: 4, 6: 3

ATP Challenger Tour

No.	date	competition	Topping	partner	Final opponent	Result
1.	September 7, 2002	Brașov	sand	Herbert Wiltschnig	Rubén Ramírez Hidalgo Santiago Ventura	5: 7, 6: 4, 7: 5
2.	September 14, 2002	Sofia	sand	Oliver Marach	Ilya Kuschew Luben Pampoulov	7: 6 4 , 6: 7 7 , 6: 2
3.	August 21, 2004	Mönchengladbach	sand	Philipp Petzschner	Karsten Braasch Franz Stauder	3: 6, 6: 2, 7: 6 4
4th	November 20, 2004	Eckental (1)	Carpet (i)	Philipp Petzschner	Daniele Bracciali Petr Luxa	6: 4, 7: 6 5
5.	December 11, 2004	Ischgl	Carpet (i)	Leonardo Azzaro	Gianluca Bazzica Massimo Dell'Acqua	7: 5, 6: 3
6th	May 21, 2005	Dresden	sand	Philipp Petzschner	Bart Beks Martijn van Haasteren	6: 7 2 , 6: 2, 6: 4
7th	October 8, 2005	Mons	Hard court (i)	Philipp Petzschner	Tomáš Cibulec Tom Vanhoudt	7: 6 4 , 6: 2
8th.	November 12, 2005	Eckental (2)	Carpet (i)	Philipp Petzschner	Torsten Popp Jasper Smit	6: 3, 7: 5
9.	January 28, 2006	Heilbronn	Carpet (i)	Philipp Petzschner	Lukáš Dlouhý David Škoch	6: 7 2 , 6: 3, [10: 4]
10.	February 25, 2006	Besancon (1)	Hard court (i)	Philipp Petzschner	Jean-Claude Scherrer Lovro Zovko	6: 2, 6: 2
11.	June 24, 2006	Brunswick (1)	sand	Tomas Behrend	Máximo González Sergio Roitman	7: 6 5 , 6: 4
12.	September 23, 2006	Szczecin (1)	sand	Tomas Behrend	Tomasz Bednarek Marcin Matkowski	6: 1, 3: 6, [10: 4]
13.	February 24, 2007	Besancon (2)	Hard court (i)	Alexander Peya	Grégory Carraz Gilles Müller	6: 4, 6: 4
14th	May 12, 2007	Dresden	sand	Tomas Behrend	Jean-Baptiste Perlant Xavier Pujo	6: 3, 6: 4
15th	June 23, 2007	Brunswick (2)	sand	Tomas Behrend	Óscar Hernández Carlos Poch-Gradin	6-0, 6-2
16.	September 22, 2007	Szczecin (2)	sand	Tomas Behrend	Juan Pablo Brzezicki Juan Pablo Guzmán	6: 0, 5: 7, [10: 8]
17th	September 29, 2007	Naples	sand	Tomas Behrend	Leonardo Azzaro Alessandro Motti	7: 6 5 , 6: 2
18th	November 17, 2007	Dnipro	Hard court (i)	Lovro Zovko	Rohan Bopanna Chris Haggard	7: 6 5 , 6: 2
19th	April 25, 2009	Rome	sand	Simon Greul	Johan Brunström Jean-Julien Rojer	4: 6, 7: 6 2 , [10: 2]
20th	September 14, 2012	Pétange	Hard court (i)	Dick Norman	Jamie Murray André Sá	2: 6, 6: 2, [10: 8]
21st	May 18, 2013	Bordeaux	sand	Oliver Marach	Nicholas Monroe Simon Stadler	2: 6, 6: 4, [10: 1]
22nd	November 9, 2013	Ortisei in Val Gardena	Hard court (i)	Tim Puetz	Benjamin Becker Daniele Bracciali	6: 2, 7: 5

Final participation

No.	date	competition	Topping	partner	Final opponent	Result
1.	July 16, 2006	Båstad	sand	Oliver Marach	Jonas Björkman Thomas Johansson	3: 6, 6: 4, [4:10]
2.	July 23, 2006	Amersfoort	sand	Lucas Arnold Ker	Alberto Martín Fernando Vicente	4: 6, 3: 6
3.	July 29, 2007	Kitzbühel	sand	Tomas Behrend	Potito Starace Luis Horna	6: 7 4 , 6: 7 5
4th	October 14, 2007	Vienna	Hard court (i)	Tomas Behrend	Mariusz Fyrstenberg Marcin Matkowski	4: 6, 2: 6
5.	March 2, 2008	Zagreb	Hard court (i)	Rogier Wassen	Paul Hanley Jordan Kerr	3: 6, 6: 3, [8:10]
6th	October 26, 2008	Basel	Hard court (i)	Philipp Kohlschreiber	Mahesh Bhupathi Mark Knowles	3: 6, 3: 6
7th	March 8, 2009	Zagreb	Hard court	Rogier Wassen	Martin Damm Robert Lindstedt	4: 6, 3: 6
8th.	July 18, 2010	Stuttgart	sand	Philipp Petzschner	Carlos Berlocq Eduardo Schwank	6: 7 5 , 6: 7 6
9.	February 27, 2011	Delray Beach	Hard court	Alexander Peya	Scott Lipsky Rajeev Ram	6: 4, 4: 6, [3:10]
10.	May 1, 2011	Munich	sand	Andreas Beck	Horacio Zeballos Simone Bolelli	6: 7 3 , 4: 6
11.	July 31, 2011	Gstaad	sand	Alexander Peya	Filip Polášek František Čermák	3: 6, 6: 7 7
12.	August 28, 2011	Winston-Salem	Hard court	Alexander Peya	Jonathan Erlich Andy Ram	6: 7 2 , 4: 6
13.	January 6, 2012	Doha	Hard court	Philipp Kohlschreiber	Lukáš Rosol Filip Polášek	3: 6, 4: 6
14th	April 14, 2013	Casablanca	sand	Dustin Brown	Julian Knowle Filip Polášek	3: 6, 2: 6
15th	May 24, 2014	Dusseldorf	sand	Martin Emmrich	Santiago González Scott Lipsky	5: 7, 6: 4, [3:10]

Balance at Grand Slam tournaments

Tournament 1	2014	2013	2012	2011	2010	2009	2008	2007	2006	2005	2004	2003	2002	2001	2000	total
Australian Open	2R	1R	VF	1R	1R	2R	AF	1R	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	VF
French Open	1R	AF	2R	AF	1R	AF	2R	1R	1R	-	-	-	-	-	-	AF
Wimbledon	1R	-	2R	HF	1R	AF	AF	AF	1R	-	-	-	-	-	-	HF
US Open	-	2R	1R	1R	AF	1R	VF	1R	2R	-	-	-	-	-	-	VF
Double titles won	0	2	0	0	1	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	5
Overall wins / defeats 2	8:19	19:20	20:26	38:27	27:27	32:26	24:24	10:18	13:15	0-0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0-0	191: 202
Year-end position	132	50	50	23	49	33	27	42	50	132	243	506	239	647	697	N / A

Explanation of symbols: S = tournament victory; F, HF, VF, AF = entry into the final / semi-finals / quarter-finals / round of 16; 1R, 2R = elimination in the 1st / 2nd main round or Q1, Q2 = elimination in the 1st / 2nd qualifying round

¹ tournament result in brackets means that the player has not yet finished the tournament; it shows its current tournament status. After the player finishes the tournament, the bracket is removed.
² Status: end of career

Personal

Kas has been married since 2007 and has a daughter (* 2007) and a son (* 2011) with his wife.

Web links

Commons : Christopher Kas  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• ATP profile of Christopher Kas (English)
• ITF Profile of Christopher Kas (English)
• Davis Cup stats by Christopher Kas (English)
• Christopher Kas in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Ralf Tögel: "I don't believe in shadow reports". In: sueddeutsche.de. Süddeutsche Zeitung , July 10, 2015, accessed on May 14, 2020 . 
2. ↑ WTA Tour: Sabine Lisicki and trainer Christopher Kas go their separate ways. In: insideout-tennis.de. June 8, 2016, accessed December 7, 2017 . 
3. ↑ Fix: Kas new coach from Barthel. In: eurosport.de. Eurosport , June 15, 2016, accessed May 14, 2020 . 
4. ↑ Nikolaus Fink: Kas in an interview: "Left and right there is one or the other chance". In: kicker.de. Kicker , March 24, 2020, accessed on May 14, 2020 . 
5. ↑ Australian Open: Dominic Thiem vs. Adrian Mannarino on free TV and live stream. In: servustv.com. ServusTV , January 20, 2020, accessed on May 14, 2020 . 
6. ↑ Final of the Australian Open: Dominic Thiem vs. Novak Djokovic on free TV and live stream. In: servustv.com. ServusTV , February 1, 2020, accessed on May 14, 2020 . 
7. ↑ Stressful days for Christopher Kas. In: rosenheim24.de. February 28, 2011, accessed May 14, 2020 .