Lukáš Lacko

Lukáš Lacko
Lukáš Lacko 2019 in Paris
Nation:	Slovakia
Birthday:	3rd November 1987
Size:	188 cm
Weight:	87 kg
Playing hand:	Right, two-handed backhand
Trainer:	Dominik Hrbatý
Prize money:	$ 3,365,353
singles
Career record:	97: 147
Highest ranking:	44 (January 14, 2013)
Current placement:	192
Grand Slam record
Double
Career record:	6:32
Highest ranking:	170 (July 5, 2010)
Grand Slam record
Last update of the infobox: October 21, 2019
Sources: official player profiles at the ATP / WTA and ITF (see web links )

Lukáš Lacko (born November 3, 1987 in Piešťany ) is a Slovak tennis player .

life and career

Lukáš Lacko was already successful as a junior and won numerous tournaments around the world. His greatest successes in Junior Grand Slams were reaching the semi-finals at the French Open 2005 and two quarter-finals at the Australian Open 2005 and the French Open 2004 .

Lacko has been playing in the adult segment since 2004, mostly at future tournaments . In 2005 the first successes came there and he reached six finals, of which he was able to win two.

In 2006 he was able to win two more future tournaments and rose to a place in the top 300 in the tennis world rankings . From now on he played more tournaments on the ATP Challenger Tour , and was able to reach a final there for the first time in August 2006 in Binghamton . In addition, this year he was appointed to the Slovak Davis Cup team for the first time , but could not prevent the defeats against Chile and Belgium despite two individual wins. He has since played in nine Davis Cup games and has a balanced record.

At the beginning of 2007 Lacko was able to qualify for a Grand Slam tournament for the first time at the Australian Open , but lost to the Australian Robert Smeets in the first round . He could not qualify at the rest of the Grand Slam tournaments of the year, but at the ATP tournament in Stuttgart , where he was eliminated in the first round against David Ferrer . On the Challenger Tour, Lacko was able to reach two finals in Rijeka and Istanbul , before winning his first title in Kolding in October 2007 . He finished the year at number 139 in the world rankings.

The year 2008 began promisingly with the renewed qualification for the Australian Open , but as in the previous year, the end came in the first round against Denis Istomin . The rest of the year was less successful, however: He could not qualify for another ATP tournament and reached the quarterfinals only three times in 21 Challenger tournaments.

As a result, he dropped out of the top 300 in the world rankings and had to play future tournaments again from 2009. After four future titles and a successful qualification for the ATP tournament in Zagreb , however, he had again collected enough world ranking points to be allowed to start in Challenger tournaments. In May 2009, Lacko won his second Challenger title in Fargʻona . A month later he was eliminated in the final qualifying round for the ATP tournament in Halle against the Israeli Harel Levy , but moved into the main field as a lucky loser . There he had to compete against Levy again, was able to defeat him in the second attempt and thus celebrate his first individual victory at ATP level. Subsequently, Lacko successfully played the qualification for Wimbledon , but retired in the first main round against the later quarter-finalist Ivo Karlović . In October 2009 he won his third Challenger title in Seoul and was able to finish a year in the top 100 for the first time.

In January 2010 Lacko was directly qualified for the Australian Open and was able to win a Grand Slam match for the first time against the Argentinian Leonardo Mayer . In the second round, however, he had no chance against world number two Rafael Nadal . From now on Lacko played almost only ATP tournaments and was able to reach the quarter-finals in Chennai , Zagreb , Memphis and Halle . At the French Open , he won an almost five-hour match against the American Michael Yani , but then dropped out against Michail Juschny . In Wimbledon he was able to defeat a player from the top 50 for the first time with Marcos Baghdatis , but then lost again in the second round in a five-set match against the French Jérémy Chardy . In doubles he reached the round of 16 alongside Serhiy Stachowskyj . In the second round they defeated the pairing Lukáš Dlouhý and Leander Paes, who were in 3rd place . In the following American hard court season, Lacko and Stachowskyj could each reach the third round in Atlanta and New Haven . They defeated among others the top 30 players Lleyton Hewitt and Thomaz Bellucci . In his US Open debut, however, he had no chance against Andy Murray in the first round . At the end of the year Lacko was able to reach another Challenger final in Ortisei in Val Gardena , which he lost to Michał Przysiężny .

At the beginning of 2011, Lukáš Lacko was able to win the second set 6-0 in the second round of the ATP tournament in Doha against world number one Rafael Nadal , but he ultimately lost the match in three sets. At the Australian Open , he met a favorite again with Roger Federer , against whom he had no chance. Lacko won two Challenger tournaments in 2011, in Izmir in September and at home in Bratislava in November .

At the Australian Open 2012 Lacko was initially able to qualify for the main field. In the first round he defeated the favored Ivan Ljubičić in five sets despite a 2-0 deficit . This was followed by another win against Donald Young before he lost to the eventual finalist Rafael Nadal in the third round. In February 2012 he reached his first ATP final in Zagreb , which he lost to Mikhail Juschny .

Parts of this article seem out of date as of 2012 .
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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 (17)

singles

Tournament victories

No.	date	competition	Topping	Final opponent	Result
1.	October 21, 2007	Kolding	Hard court (i)	Gilles Muller	7: 6 3 , 6: 4
2.	May 23, 2009	Fargʻona	Hard court	Samuel Groth	4: 6, 7: 5, 7: 6 4
3.	November 1, 2009	Seoul	Hard court	Dušan Lojda	6: 4, 6: 2
4th	September 25, 2011	Izmir (1)	Hard court	Marsel İlhan	6: 4, 6: 3
5.	November 20, 2011	Bratislava (1)	Hard court (i)	Ričardas Berankis	7: 6 7 , 6: 2
6th	November 18, 2012	Helsinki	Hard court (i)	Jarkko Nieminen	6: 3, 6: 4
7th	November 10, 2013	Bratislava (2)	Hard court (i)	Lukáš Rosol	6: 4, 4: 6, 6: 4
8th.	October 11, 2014	Tashkent	Hard court	Serhiy Stachowskyj	6: 2, 6: 3
9.	September 27, 2015	Izmir (2)	Hard court	Marius Copil	6: 3, 7: 6 5
10.	November 12, 2017	Bratislava (3)	Hard court (i)	Marius Copil	6: 4, 7: 6 4
11.	19th November 2017	Brescia	Carpet (i)	Laurynas Grigelis	6: 1, 6: 2
12.	May 6, 2018	Glasgow	Hard court (i)	Luca Vanni	4: 6, 7: 6 3 , 6: 4
13.	20th October 2019	Ismaning	Carpet (i)	Maxime Cressy	6: 3, 6: 0

Final participation

No.	date	competition	Topping	Final opponent	Result
1.	5th February 2012	Zagreb	Hard court (i)	Mikhail Juschny	2: 6, 3: 6
2.	June 30, 2018	Eastbourne	race	Mischa Zverev	4: 6, 4: 6

Double

Tournament victories

No.	date	competition	Topping	partner	Final opponent	Result
1.	April 30, 2006	Dharwad	Hard court	Kamil Čapkovič	Sanchai Ratiwatana Sonchat Ratiwatana	6: 3, 7: 5
2.	September 13, 2009	Saint-Rémy-de-Provence	Hard court	Jiří Krkoška	Ruben Bemelman's Niels Desein	6: 1, 3: 6, [10: 3]
3.	November 20, 2011	Bratislava	Hard court (i)	Jan Hájek	Lukáš Rosol David Škoch	7: 5, 7: 5
4th	October 10, 2014	Tashkent	Hard court	Ante Pavic	Frank Moser Alexander Satschko	6: 3, 3: 6, [13:11]

Final participation

No.	date	competition	Topping	partner	Final opponent	Result
1.	23rd September 2012	St. Petersburg	Hard court (i)	Igor Zelenay	Rajeev Ram Nenad Zimonjić	2: 6, 6: 4, [6:10]

Web links

Commons : Lukáš Lacko  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• ATP profile Lukáš Lacko (English)
• ITF profile of Lukáš Lacko (English)
• Davis Cup stats by Lukáš Lacko (English)
• Official website (Slovak and English)