Luksika Kumkhum

Luksika Kumkhum
Luksika Kumkhum at Wimbledon 2014
Nation:	Thailand
Birthday:	21st July 1993 (age 27)
Size:	167 cm
Weight:	67 kg
Playing hand:	Right, forehand and backhand with both hands
Trainer:	Lersak Kumkhum (father)
Prize money:	$ 1,138,199
singles
Career record:	317: 162
Career title:	0 WTA , 2 WTA Challenger, 15 ITF
Highest ranking:	66 (November 19, 2018)
Current placement:	707
Grand Slam record
Double
Career record:	140: 93
Career title:	0 WTA, 12 ITF
Highest ranking:	86 (July 16, 2018)
Current placement:	763
Grand Slam record
Last update of the infobox: February 10, 2020
Sources: official player profiles at the ATP / WTA and ITF (see web links )

Luksika Kumkhum ( Thai ลัก ษิ กา คำ ขำ , RTGS Laksika Khamkham , nickname Lak , born July 21, 1993 in Chanthaburi ) is a Thai tennis player .

Career

Luksika Kumkhum, who according to the ITF profile prefers the hard court , began playing tennis at the age of four. So far, she has won 15 singles and 12 doubles titles at tournaments on the ITF Women's Circuit . In 2013 Kumkhum first played for the Thai Fed Cup team ; their Fed Cup record shows so far 18 wins and 8 losses.

singles

From 2010 she played at smaller ITF tournaments in Asia and in October she was able to celebrate her first tournament victory in Pattaya as a qualifier. She also reached the finals in other tournaments. In May 2011 she won two titles in a row at tournaments in Bangkok. In early June, she played the final in a $ 25,000 tournament in Bangkok, but lost to Marta Sirotkina . Another tournament victory in Pattaya followed two weeks later. By the end of 2011 Luksika also won the tournaments in Kuching and Manila.

In February 2012 she took part in the qualification of a WTA tournament for the first time, but in the final round of Kuala Lumpur she lost in straight sets against Kristýna Plíšková . In July she won a smaller tournament in Pattaya, followed two weeks later by her first individual title at the ITF tournament in Astana. Her first match in the main round of a WTA tournament she completed on September 18, 2012 in Guangzhou , where she clearly lost to Duan Yingying, who had played with a wildcard . On October 9, Luksika was again in the main draw of a WTA tournament, where she lost to Mirjana Lučić in just three sets.

At the Australian Open in 2014, she caused a surprise. In her opening game, she defeated the top ten player and former Wimbledon winner Petra Kvitová in three sets, making it into the second round like last year. In Wimbledon and the US Open, she failed in the second round of qualification.

Double

So far, Luksika has won 12 ITF titles in the doubles competition. On the WTA Tour in 2014 she reached the semi-finals alongside Erika Sema in Kuala Lumpur .

Tournament victories

singles

No.	date	competition	category	Topping	Final opponent	Result
1.	October 16, 2010	Pattaya	ITF $ 10,000	Hard court	Emma Flood	6: 4, 6: 3
2.	May 7, 2011	Bangkok	ITF $ 10,000	Hard court	Ayu-Fani Damayanti	6: 2, 6: 2
3.	May 14, 2011	Bangkok	ITF $ 10,000	Hard court	Peangtarn Plipuech	6: 1, 6: 0
4th	June 18, 2011	Pattaya	ITF $ 10,000	Hard court	Liang Chen	6: 3, 6: 4
5.	November 6, 2011	Kuching	ITF $ 10,000	Hard court	Nungnadda Wannasuk	7: 6 3 , 6: 3
6th	November 20, 2011	Manila	ITF $ 10,000	Hard court	Zhai Yijing	4: 6, 6: 4, 6: 2
7th	July 7, 2012	Pattaya	ITF $ 10,000	Hard court	Nungnadda Wannasuk	6: 2, 6: 2
8th.	July 21, 2012	Astana	ITF $ 25,000	Hard court	Nudnida Luangnam	3: 6, 6: 3, 6: 3
9.	April 27, 2013	Phuket	ITF $ 25,000	Hard court (hall)	Lisa Whybourn	6-0, 7-5
10.	November 24, 2013	Toyota	ITF $ 75,000 + H	Carpet (hall)	Hiroko Kuwata	3: 6, 6: 1, 6: 3
11.	May 31, 2015	Xuzhou	ITF $ 50,000	Hard court	Chang Kai-chen	1: 6, 7: 5, 6: 1
12.	29th July 2017	Hua Hin	ITF $ 25,000	Hard court	Alissa Kleibanova	7: 5, 6: 7 4 , 6: 3
13.	19th August 2017	Nonthaburi	ITF $ 25,000	Hard court	Yuan Yue	7: 5, 6: 2
14th	April 1, 2018	Kofu	ITF $ 25,000	Hard court	Bianca Andreescu	6: 3, 6: 3
15th	April 8, 2018	Kashiwa	ITF $ 25,000	Hard court	Bianca Andreescu	6: 3, 7: 6 4
16.	4th November 2018	Mumbai	WTA Challenger	Hard court	Irina Chromatschowa	1: 6, 6: 2, 6: 3
17th	18th November 2018	Taipei	WTA Challenger	Carpet (hall)	Sabine Lisicki	6: 1, 6: 3

Double

No.	date	competition	category	Topping	Partner	Final opponents	Result
1.	October 22, 2010	Khon Kaen	ITF $ 10,000	Hard court	Varatchaya Wongteanchai	Trang Hyunh Phuong Dai Maya Kato	6: 4, 7: 5
2.	November 12, 2010	Manila	ITF $ 10,000	Hard court	Peangtarn Plipuech	Ivana King Yasmin Schnack	6: 4, 7: 5
3.	December 9, 2010	Bangalore	ITF $ 25,000	Hard court	Nungnadda Wannasuk	Chen Yi Kumiko Ilyima	7: 6 5 , 5: 7, [10: 8]
4th	November 5, 2011	Kuching	ITF $ 10,000	Hard court	Nungnadda Wannasuk	Lu Jia-xiang Lu Jiajing	6: 4, 6: 3
5.	November 13, 2011	Manila	ITF $ 10,000	Hard court	Peangtarn Plipuech	Zhao Yijing Zheng Jun-yi	6: 3, 6: 0
6th	20th July 2012	Astana	ITF $ 25,000	Hard court	Varatchaya Wongteanchai	Weronika Kapschaj Jekaterina Jaschina	6: 2, 6: 4
7th	September 1, 2012	Tsukuba	ITF $ 25,000	Hard court	Varatchaya Wongteanchai	Yurina Koshino Mari Tanaka	6: 2, 6: 2
8th.	May 5, 2013	Gifu	ITF $ 50,000	Hard court	Erika Sema	Nao Hibino Riko Sawayanagi	6: 4, 6: 3
9.	2nd April 2017	Kofu	ITF $ 25,000	Hard court	Han Na-lae	Erina Hayashi Robu Kajitani	6: 3, 2: 6, [14:12]
10.	28th July 2017	Hua Hin	ITF $ 25,000	Hard court	Ksenia Palkina	Naiktha Bains Karin Kennel	6: 1, 6: 4
11.	March 31, 2018	Kofu	ITF $ 25,000	Hard court	Gao Xinyou	Erina Hayashi Momoko Kobori	6: 0, 2: 6, [10: 4]
12.	17th June 2018	Manchester	ITF $ 100,000	race	Prarthana Thombare	Naomi Broady Asia Muhammad	7: 6 5 , 6: 3

Web links

Commons : Luksika Kumkhum  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• WTA profile of Luksika Kumkhum (English)
• ITF profile of Luksika Kumkhum (English)
• Fed Cup statistics from Luksika Kumkhum (English)

Note on Thai names : This article addresses people by their first name.