Henri Laaksonen

Henri Laaksonen
Henri Laaksonen 2019 in Paris
Nation:	Finland –2010 Switzerland 2010–
Birthday:	March 31, 1992
Size:	185 cm
Weight:	78 kg
1st professional season:	2009
Playing hand:	Right, two-handed backhand
Trainer:	Olli Leppanen
Prize money:	$ 1,044,389
singles
Career record:	33:40
Highest ranking:	93 (August 7, 2017)
Current placement:	97
Grand Slam record
Double
Career record:	3:14
Highest ranking:	191 (December 24, 2018)
Current placement:	206
Last update of the infobox: July 1st, 2019
Sources: official player profiles at the ATP / WTA and ITF (see web links )

Henri Joona Julius Laaksonen (born March 31, 1992 in Lohja , Finland ) is a Swiss - Finnish tennis player .

Junior period

Laaksonen started playing tennis when he was three. At the age of 16 he won the U-16 European Championship in Moscow . In 2009, at the age of 17, he reached the semi-finals in the singles of the Junior French Open, where he was defeated by the Swede Daniel Berta in two sets.

Career

At the beginning of November 2012, Henri Laaksonen reached a semi-final at an ATP Challenger tournament in Geneva for the second time after Tampere . This success earned him 35 world ranking points, which was his highest score to date. On the ATP World Tour he has already been in a main field several times, mostly thanks to a wildcard at the Swiss ATP tournaments in Gstaad or Basel . In Casablanca he reached the peloton via qualification in 2013 and reached the round of 16 for the first time, a success that he repeated in Båstad in July .

Laaksonen won his first title on the ATP Challenger Tour in November 2015 at the tournament in Champaign (Illinois), which he won for the second time the following year.

Despite a first round defeat against Lukáš Rosol , Laaksonen achieved his highest world ranking to date in July 2017 after his first Grand Slam appearance at Wimbledon with 100th place.

Davis Cup

In 2009 he was called up by Finland for a Davis Cup match. In the game against Monaco , Laaksonen won his game against Clément Morel in five sets. In 2012 he was called up for the first time by the Swiss Davis Cup team . In the relegation game against the Netherlands , however, he was ultimately not used. In the first round game of the Davis Cup 2013 Laaksonen lost his first game against Tomáš Berdych from the defending champion Czech Republic in four sets.

In September 2016, Laaksonen made a decisive contribution to keeping the Swiss team in the world group by winning one of his two singles and the doubles alongside Adrien Bossel .

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 (7)

singles

Tournament victories

No.	date	competition	Topping	Final opponent	Result
1.	November 21, 2015	Champaign (1)	Hard court (i)	Taylor Fritz	4: 6, 6: 2, 6: 2
2.	September 12, 2016	Shanghai	Hard court	Jason Jung	6: 3, 6: 3
3.	20th November 2016	Champaign (2)	Hard court (i)	Ruben Bemelmans	7: 5, 6: 3
4th	17th February 2019	Bangkok	Hard court	Dudi Sela	6: 2, 6: 4
5.	May 12, 2019	Rome II	sand	Gian Marco Moroni	6: 7 2 , 7: 6 2 , 6: 2

Double

Tournament victories

No.	date	competition	Topping	partner	Final opponent	Result
1.	July 14, 2018	Båstad	sand	Harri Heliövaara	Zdeněk Kolář Gonçalo Oliveira	6: 4, 6: 3
2.	5th November 2018	Charlottesville	Hard court (i)	Harri Heliövaara	Toshihide Matsui Frederik Nielsen	6: 3, 6: 4

Web links

Commons : Henri Laaksonen  - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files

• ATP profile of Henri Laaksonen (English)
• ITF profile Henri Laaksonen (English)
• Davis Cup stats by Henri Laaksonen (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Philipp Rindlisbacher: Bearers of hope from the far north. In: Tages-Anzeiger. February 7, 2012, accessed November 5, 2018 . 
2. ↑ Laaksonen Defends Champaign Challenger Title. In: tennis-tourtalk.com. November 21, 2016, accessed November 5, 2018 . 
3. ↑ Laaksonen: "The Top 100 were always a dream". In: Berner Zeitung. July 27, 2017, accessed November 5, 2018 .