Lucas Arnold Ker

Lucas Arnold Ker
Nation:	Argentina
Birthday:	October 12, 1974
Size:	180 cm
Weight:	76 kg
1st professional season:	1994
Resignation:	2013
Playing hand:	Right
Trainer:	Fabián Blengino
Prize money:	$ 1,745,936
singles
Career record:	22:31
Highest ranking:	77 (July 20 1998)
Grand Slam record
Double
Career record:	301: 258
Career title:	15th
Highest ranking:	21 (March 8, 2004)
Grand Slam record
Mixed
Grand Slam record
Sources: official player profiles at the ATP / WTA and ITF (see web links )

Lucas Arnold Ker (born October 12, 1974 in Buenos Aires ) is a retired Argentine tennis player .

Career

The doubles specialist began his professional career on the ATP World Tour in 1996 and was able to celebrate 15 tournament victories in doubles - all on clay. The Davis Cup player failed 18 more times in the final of a doubles competition. In addition, he was successful on the ATP Challenger Tour 21 times , including two singles. He reached his highest individual placement in the tennis world rankings with number 77 in July 1998. In the same year he also took part in all Grand Slam tournaments and achieved his best result with the third round of the 1998 US Open . In doubles he was ranked 21st in March 2004. At Grand Slams he was most successful in 1997 when he made it to the semi-finals of Roland Garros , where he also reached the quarter-finals twice (2001 and 2003). Lucas Arnold Ker was the first opponent in Roger Federer's professional career . In July 1998 in Gstaad in the first round, Ker won the game 6: 4 and 6: 4 against him.

In August 2006 he was diagnosed with testicular cancer. After chemotherapy and the removal of a testicle, he recovered completely and played on the tour again from 2008.

After playing regularly tournaments on the World Tour in 2013, he has only occasionally played Challenger tournaments in his native city of Buenos Aires and in Montevideo since then .

Ker played from 1997 to 2009 in 14 matches for the Argentine Davis Cup team , where he can show a record of 13: 4.

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 ATP International Series ATP World Tour 250 Series (15) ATP Challenger Tour (21)

ATP title by topping Hard Court (0) Sand (15) Lawn (0)

singles

Tournament victories

No.	date	competition	Topping	Final opponent	Result
1.	August 3, 1997	Meran	sand	Vincenzo Santopadre	6: 1, 6: 4
2.	September 28, 1997	São Paulo	sand	Fernando Meligeni	6: 4, 1: 0 up.

Double

Tournament victories

ATP World Tour

No.	date	competition	Topping	partner	Final opponent	Bottom line
1.	August 11, 1996	San Marino (1)	sand	Pablo Albano	Mariano Hood Sebastián Prieto	6: 1, 6: 3
2.	June 13, 1999	Meran	sand	Jaime Oncins	Marc-Kevin Goellner Eric Taino	6: 4, 7: 6
3.	August 15, 1999	ATP San Marino (2)	sand	Mariano Hood	Petr Pála Pavel Vízner	6: 1, 6: 4
4th	September 19, 1999	Mallorca	sand	Tomás Carbonell	Alberto Berasategui Francisco Roig	6: 1, 6: 4
5.	October 3, 1999	Bucharest (1)	sand	Martín García	Marc-Kevin Goellner Francisco Montana	6: 3, 2: 6, 6: 3
6th	March 12, 2000	Bogotá	sand	Pablo Albano	Joan Balcells Mauricio Hadad	7: 6, 1: 6, 6: 2
7th	February 18, 2001	Viña del Mar	sand	Tomás Carbonell	Mariano Hood Sebastián Prieto	6: 4, 2: 6, 6: 3
8th.	February 25, 2001	Buenos Aires (1)	sand	Tomás Carbonell	Mariano Hood Sebastián Prieto	5: 7, 7: 5, 7: 6
9.	September 29, 2002	Palermo (1)	sand	Luis Lobo	František Čermák Leoš Friedl	6: 4, 4: 6, 6: 2
10.	May 4, 2003	Valencia	sand	Mariano Hood	Brian MacPhie Nenad Zimonjić	6: 1, 6: 7, 6: 4
11.	September 28, 2003	Palermo (2)	sand	Mariano Hood	František Čermák Leoš Friedl	7: 6, 6: 7, 6: 4
12.	February 22, 2004	Buenos Aires (2)	sand	Mariano Hood	Federico Browne Diego Veronelli	7: 5, 6: 7, 6: 4
13.	September 19, 2004	Bucharest (2)	sand	Mariano Hood	José Acasuso Óscar Hernández	7: 6, 6: 1
14th	October 3, 2004	Palermo (3)	sand	Mariano Hood	Gastón Etlis Martín Rodríguez	7: 5, 6: 2
15th	May 22, 2005	St. Polten	sand	Paul Hanley	Martin Damm Mariano Hood	6: 3, 6: 4

ATP Challenger Tour

No.	date	competition	Topping	partner	Final opponent	Result
1.	January 29, 1994	Mar del Plata	sand	Patricio Arnold	Filippo Messori Federico Mordegan	6: 4, 7: 5
2.	February 28, 1994	Bogotá	sand	Pablo Campana	Danilo Marcelino Nuno Marques	3: 6, 7: 6, 7: 6
3.	July 29, 1995	São Paulo	Hard court	Patricio Arnold	Otávio Della Marcelo Saliola	6: 2, 4: 6, 6: 1
4th	May 11, 1996	Ljubljana (1)	sand	Pablo Albano	Rikard Bergh Shelby Cannon	6: 1, 3: 6, 6: 1
5.	July 13, 1996	East End	sand	David Škoch	Wim Neefs Yuri Soberon	7: 6, 6: 1
6th	May 10, 1997	Ljubljana (2)	sand	Daniel Orsanic	David Škoch Fernon Wibier	6-0, 6-4
7th	August 16, 1997	Graz	sand	Tom Vanhoudt	Alberto Martín Albert Portas	6: 1, 6: 2
8th.	4th October 1997	Santiago de Chile	sand	Jaime Oncins	Diego del Río Mariano Puerta	6: 2, 6: 2
9.	November 15, 1997	Puerto Rico	sand	Daniel Orsanic	Mariano Hood Sebastián Prieto	7: 5, 3: 6, 6: 3
10.	February 6, 1999	Punta del Este	sand	Marcelo Filippini	Paulo Carvallo Gonzalo Rodríguez	6: 1, 6: 4
11.	November 18, 2000	Montevideo	sand	Gastón Etlis	Juan Balcells Germán Puentes	6: 4, 6: 4
12.	November 25, 2000	Buenos Aires	sand	Pablo Albano	Sergio Roitman Andrés Schneiter	6: 3, 4: 6, 6: 2
13.	May 17, 2003	Zagreb	sand	Mariano Hood	Simon Aspelin Todd Perry	6: 1, 6: 3
14th	July 5, 2003	Košice	sand	Mariano Hood	Salvador Navarro Rubén Ramírez Hidalgo	2: 1 up
15th	September 25, 2004	Szczecin	sand	Mariano Hood	Óscar Hernández Alberto Martín	6-0, 6-4
16.	November 26, 2005	Buenos Aires	sand	Sebastian Prieto	Rubén Ramírez Hidalgo Santiago Ventura	6-0, 6-4
17th	July 8, 2006	Biella	sand	Agustín Calleri	Juan Martín del Potro Martín Vassallo Argüello	7: 6 5 , 6: 2
18th	July 11, 2009	Scheveningen	sand	Máximo González	Thomas Schoorel Nick van der Meer	7: 5, 6: 2
19th	August 8, 2009	San Marino	sand	Sebastian Prieto	Johan Brunström Jean-Julien Rojer	7: 6 4 , 2: 6, [10: 7]

Final participation

No.	date	competition	Topping	partner	Final opponent	Bottom line
1.	October 6, 1996	Marbella (1)	Sannd	Pablo Albano	Andrew Kratzmann Jack Waite	7: 6, 3: 6, 4: 6
2.	February 13, 2000	San Jose	Hard court	Eric Taino	Jan-Michael Gambill Scott Humphries	1: 6, 4: 6
3.	July 23, 2000	Stuttgart	sand	Donald Johnson	Jiří Novák David Rikl	7: 5, 2: 6, 3: 6
4th	February 17, 2002	Viña del Mar	sand	Luis Lobo	Gastón Etlis Martín Rodríguez	3: 6, 4: 6
5.	April 28, 2002	Barcelona	sand	Gastón Etlis	Michael Hill Daniel Vacek	4: 6, 4: 6
6th	July 28, 2002	Kitzbuhel (1)	sand	Alex Corretja	Robbie Koenig Thomas Shimada	6: 7 3 , 4: 6
7th	February 23, 2003	Buenos Aires	sand	David Nalbandian	Mariano Hood Sebastián Prieto	2: 6, 2: 6
8th.	April 13, 2003	Estoril (1)	sand	Mariano Hood	Mahesh Bhupathi Max Mirny	1: 6, 2: 6
9.	July 13, 2003	Båstad	sand	Mariano Hood	Simon Aspelin Massimo Bertolini	7: 6 3 , 0: 6, 4: 6
10.	October 26, 2003	Basel (1)	Carpet (i)	Mariano Hood	Mark Knowles Daniel Nestor	4: 6, 2: 6
11.	July 25, 2004	Kitzbuhel (2)	sand	Martín García	František Čermák Leoš Friedl	3: 6, 5: 7
12.	October 31, 2004	Basel (2)	Carpet (i)	Mariano Hood	Bob Bryan Mike Bryan	6: 7 11 , 2: 6
13.	April 10, 2005	Valencia (2)	sand	Mariano Hood	Fernando González Martín Rodríguez	4: 6, 4: 6
14th	August 7, 2005	Sopot	sand	Sebastian Prieto	Mariusz Fyrstenberg Marcin Matkowski	6: 7 7 , 4: 6
15th	May 1, 2006	Estoril (2)	sand	Leoš Friedl	Lukáš Dlouhý Pavel Vízner	3: 6, 1: 6
16.	July 23, 2006	Amersfoort	sand	Christopher Kas	Alberto Martín Fernando Vicente	4: 6, 3: 6
17th	July 20, 2008	Kitzbuhel (3)	sand	Olivier Rochus	James Cerretani Victor Hănescu	3: 6, 5: 7
18th	February 20, 2009	Costa do Sauípe	sand	Juan Mónaco	Marcel Granollers Tommy Robredo	4: 6, 5: 7

Web links

• ATP profile of Lucas Arnold Ker (English)
• ITF profile Lucas Arnold Ker (English)
• Davis Cup stats by Lucas Arnold Ker (English)