Ken Skupski

Ken Skupski
Ken Skupski 2017 at Eastbourne
Nation:	United Kingdom
Birthday:	April 9, 1983
Size:	183 cm
Weight:	89 kg
1st professional season:	2007
Playing hand:	Left, two-handed backhand
Trainer:	Louis Cayer Sean Dunstan Anthony Hardman
Prize money:	$ 843,860
singles
Career record:	0-0
Highest ranking:	527 (June 23, 2008)
Double
Career record:	117: 126
Career title:	5
Highest ranking:	44 (July 12, 2010)
Current placement:	51
Grand Slam record
Mixed
Grand Slam record
Last update of the infobox: November 4th, 2019
Sources: official player profiles at the ATP / WTA and ITF (see web links )

Ken Skupski (born April 9, 1983 in Liverpool ) is a British tennis player .

Career

As a younger athlete, he mainly played college tennis in the United States , where he played for Louisiana State University . In 2005 he was a double finalist in the national college tennis eliminations, as well as a two-time winner of the Southeastern Conference Coaches Indoor Championships . In 2007 he finally turned professional and since then has primarily been known as a dual specialist, especially the collaboration with compatriot Colin Fleming was very successful. In the 2007 and 2008 seasons, he won a total of ten double competitions in future tournaments.

Skupski experienced his breakthrough in the 2009 season: he not only won five tournaments on the ATP Challenger Tour , he was also able to make a name for himself on the ATP World Tour . At the tournament at the Queen's Club in London , he and Fleming defeated world number one Bob and Mike Bryan . In autumn, the duo celebrated their first joint ATP title in Metz, which they repeated shortly afterwards at the tournament in St. Petersburg , where they also triumphed.

During the 2010 season Skupski did not win any ATP tournaments, but reached the final in Eastbourne , where he and Fleming lost to the Polish duo Mariusz Fyrstenberg and Marcin Matkowski . He also won two Challenger tournaments in Jersey (with Rohan Bopanna ) and Nottingham (with Fleming). In July he reached his previous career high with position 44 on the double world rankings.

The 2011 season got off to a successful start. In Bergamo he won a Challenger tournament alongside the Dane Frederik Nielsen and in March his third ATP tournament: in Marseille he and Robin Haase defeated the local heroes Julien Benneteau and Jo-Wilfried Tsonga .

successes

Legend (number of victories) Grand Slam ATP World Tour Finals ATP World Tour Masters 1000 ATP World Tour 500 ATP World Tour 250 (5) ATP Challenger Tour (31)

ATP title by topping Hard Court (4) Sand (1) Lawn (0)

Double

Tournament victories

ATP World Tour

No.	date	competition	Topping	partner	Final opponent	Result
1.	September 22, 2009	Metz	Hard court (i)	Colin Fleming	Arnaud Clément Michaël Llodra	2: 6, 6: 4, [10: 5]
2.	November 1, 2009	St. Petersburg	Hard court (i)	Colin Fleming	Jérémy Chardy Richard Gasquet	2: 6, 7: 5, [10: 4]
3.	February 20, 2011	Marseille	Hard court (i)	Robin Haase	Julien Benneteau Jo-Wilfried Tsonga	6: 3, 6: 7 4 , [13:11]
4th	February 11, 2018	Montpellier	Hard court (i)	Neal Skupski	Ben McLachlan Hugo Nys	7: 6 2 , 6: 4
5.	April 28, 2019	Budapest	sand	Neal Skupski	Marcus Daniell Wesley Koolhof	6: 3, 6: 4

ATP Challenger Tour

No.	date	competition	Topping	partner	Final opponent	Result
1.	November 10, 2008	jersey	Hard court (i)	Colin Fleming	Chris Guccione Márcio Torres	6: 3, 6: 2
2.	February 23, 2009	Wolfsburg	Carpet (i)	Travis Rettenmaier	Serhiy Bubka Alexander Kudryavtsev	6: 3, 6: 4
3.	May 18, 2009	Cremona	Hard court	Colin Fleming	Daniele Bracciali Alessandro Motti	6: 2, 6: 1
4th	July 27, 2009	Granby	Hard court	Colin Fleming	Amir Hadad Harel Levy	6: 3, 7: 6 6
5.	October 19, 2009	Orleans	Hard court (i)	Colin Fleming	Sébastien Grosjean Olivier Patience	6: 1, 6: 1
6th	March 22, 2010	Jersey (2)	Hard court (i)	Rohan Bopanna	Jonathan Marray Jamie Murray	6: 2, 1: 6, [10: 6]
7th	June 6, 2010	Nottingham (1)	race	Colin Fleming	Eric Butorac Scott Lipsky	7: 6 3 , 6: 4
8th.	February 13, 2011	Bergamo (1)	Hard court (i)	Frederik Nielsen	Mikhail Yelgin Alexander Kudryavzew	without a fight
9.	July 31, 2011	Recanati (1)	Hard court (i)	Frederik Nielsen	Federico Gaio Purav Raja	6: 4, 7: 5
10.	October 9, 2011	Mons	Hard court (i)	Johan Brunström	Kenny de Schepper Edouard Roger-Vasselin	7: 6 4 , 6: 3
11.	19th February 2012	Bergamo (2)	Hard court (i)	Jamie Delgado	Martin Fischer Philipp Oswald	7: 5, 7: 5
12.	May 13, 2012	Rome	sand	Jamie Delgado	Adrián Menéndez Walter Trusendi	6: 1, 6: 4
13.	20th July 2013	Recanati (2)	Hard court	Neal Skupski	Gianluigi Quinzi Adelchi Virgili	6: 4, 6: 2
14th	3rd August 2013	Segovia	Hard court	Neal Skupski	Mikhail Jelgin Uladsimir Ihnazik	6: 3, 6: 7 4 , [10: 6]
15th	15th September 2013	Pétange	Hard court (i)	Neal Skupski	Benjamin Becker Tobias Kamke	6: 3, 6: 7 5 , [10: 7]
16.	21st September 2013	Szczecin	sand	Neal Skupski	Andrea Arnaboldi Alessandro Giannessi	6: 4, 1: 6, [10: 7]
17th	20th September 2014	Izmir	Hard court	Neal Skupski	Malek Jaziri Alexander Kudryavzew	6: 1, 6: 4
18th	November 8, 2014	Bratislava (1)	Hard court (i)	Neal Skupski	Norbert Gombos Adam Pavlásek	6: 3, 7: 6 3
19th	June 12, 2015	Surbiton	race	Neal Skupski	Marcus Daniell Marcelo Demoliner	6: 3, 6: 4
20th	July 25, 2015	Recanati (3)	Hard court	Divij Sharan	Ilija Bozoljac Flavio Cipolla	4: 6, 7: 6 3 , [10: 6]
21st	September 11, 2015	Saint-Remy-de-Provence (1)	Hard court	Neal Skupski	Andrej Martin Igor Zelenay	6: 4, 6: 1
22nd	February 13, 2016	Bergamo (3)	Hard court (i)	Neal Skupski	Nikola Mektić Antonio Šančić	6: 3, 7: 5
23.	February 28, 2016	Cherbourg-Octeville	Hard court (i)	Neal Skupski	Yoshihito Nishioka Aldin Šetkić	4: 6, 6: 3, [10: 6]
24.	September 10, 2016	Saint-Remy-de-Provence (2)	Hard court	Neal Skupski	David O'Hare Joe Salisbury	6: 7, 6: 4, [10: 5]
25th	November 12, 2016	Bratislava (2)	Hard court (i)	Neal Skupski	Purav Raja Divij Sharan	4: 6, 6: 3, [10: 5]
26th	May 27, 2017	Mestre	sand	Neal Skupski	Julian Knowle Igor Zelenay	5: 7, 6: 4, [10: 5]
27.	17th June 2017	Nottingham (2)	race	Neal Skupski	Matt Reid John-Patrick Smith	7: 6 1 , 2: 6, [10: 7]
28.	November 11, 2017	Bratislava (3)	Hard court (i)	Neal Skupski	Sander Arends Antonio Šančić	5: 7, 6: 3, [10: 8]
29	4th February 2018	Quimper	Hard court (i)	Neal Skupski	Sander Gillé Joran Viegen	6: 3, 3: 6, [10: 7]
30th	October 13, 2019	Mouilleron-le-Captif	Hard court (i)	Jonny O'Mara	Sander Arends David Pel	6: 1, 6: 4
31.	3rd November 2019	Eckental	Carpet (i)	John-Patrick Smith	Sander Arend's novel Jebavý	7: 6 2 , 6: 4

Final participation

No.	date	competition	Topping	partner	Final opponent	Result
1.	June 19, 2010	Eastbourne (1)	race	Colin Fleming	Mariusz Fyrstenberg Marcin Matkowski	3: 6, 7: 5, [8:10]
2.	June 23, 2012	Eastbourne (2)	race	Jamie Delgado	Colin Fleming Ross Hutchins	4: 6, 3: 6
3.	July 29, 2012	los Angeles	Hard court	Jamie Delgado	Xavier Malisse Ruben Bemelmans	6: 7 5 , 6: 4, [7:10]
4th	20th October 2013	Moscow	Hard court (i)	Neal Skupski	Mikhail Jelgin Denis Istomin	2: 6, 6: 1, [12:14]
5.	August 13, 2016	Los Cabos	Hard court	Jonathan Erlich	Purav Raja Divij Sharan	6: 7 4 , 6: 7 3
6th	June 29, 2018	Eastbourne (3)	race	Neal Skupski	Luke Bambridge Jonny O'Mara	5: 7, 4: 6
7th	23rd September 2018	Metz	Hard court (i)	Neal Skupski	Nicolas Mahut Édouard Roger-Vasselin	1: 6, 5: 7
8th.	February 24, 2019	Delray Beach	Hard court	Neal Skupski	Bob Bryan Mike Bryan	6: 7 5 , 4: 6
9.	April 14, 2019	Houston	sand	Neal Skupski	Santiago González Aisam-ul-Haq Qureshi	6: 3, 4: 6, [6:10]
10.	May 25, 2019	Lyon	sand	Neal Skupski	Ivan Dodig Édouard Roger-Vasselin	4: 6, 3: 6

Web links

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• ATP profile of Ken Skupski (English)
• ITF profile Ken Skupski (English)
• Davis Cup stats by Ken Skupski (English)