Nicola Kuhn

Nicola Kuhn
Kuhn (left) with Juan Carlos Ferrero
Nation:	Germany until 2015 Spain 2016–
Birthday:	March 20, 2000
Size:	185 cm
Weight:	75 kg
1st professional season:	2015
Playing hand:	Right, two-handed backhand
Trainer:	Iván Navarro
Prize money:	$ 191,218
singles
Career record:	2: 4
Highest ranking:	188 (August 5, 2019)
Current placement:	188
Double
Career record:	0-0
Highest ranking:	287 (January 28, 2019)
Current placement:	695
Last update of the infobox: August 5th, 2019
Sources: official player profiles at the ATP / WTA and ITF (see web links )

Nicola Kuhn (born March 20, 2000 in Innsbruck ) is a German - Spanish tennis player who competed for Germany until 2015.

Career

Nicola Kuhn was born in Austria to a Russian and a German child. His parents were also successful athletes: his father was a world champion in Taekwondo , his mother a figure skater . He grew up mostly in Ludwigshafen , but from an early age spent a lot of time near Alicante in Spain, where his parents own a holiday home. He grew up speaking four languages ​​(German, English, Russian and Spanish) and from the age of 12 he lived in the Equelite Academy of ex-world number one Juan Carlos Ferrero . While Kuhn won some youth titles in Spain, the DTB also tried to win him, so that the German-Spaniard under the German flag was able to win the titles at the U14 European and World Championships. He also reached the final of the U16 Junior Davis Cup. Kuhn is now training again with his old German trainer.

Finally, Nicola Kuhn decided to run for Spain from 2016.

Junior Tour

Kuhn has been participating in ITF Junior Tour tournaments since 2014. His combined top position in the world rankings is a fifth place he was able to achieve in early 2017. One of his greatest successes on the tour is a semi-final participation at the French Open 2016 in singles, where he was defeated by Félix Auger-Aliassime, and a 2017 final against Alexei Popyrin . At the same tournament in 2017 he also won the doubles competition with Zsombor Piros .

Professional tour

On the Profi Tour, Kuhn played for the first time in 2015 on the third-class ITF Future Tour . He was able to record his first successes in 2017, when he had already declared his junior career over. In Hungary he won his first future title. After winning his first match on the higher endowed ATP Challenger Tour in Meerbusch in 2016 , he reached the final of the Challenger Tournament in Braunschweig in July 2017 as number 501 - his highest position to date - in the world rankings from qualification . There he faced the Croatian Viktor Galović , who had previously won nine matches in a row. From Kuhn's point of view, he had to give up when the score was 4: 2 in the third set, so that Kuhn won his first challenger title. This brought him a total of 131 world ranking points, which made him jump to 242th place on the table.

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 (3)

singles

Tournament victories

No.	date	competition	Topping	Final opponent	Result
1.	15th July 2017	Braunschweig	sand	Viktor Galović	2: 6, 7: 5, 4: 2 up.
2.	4th August 2019	Segovia	sand	Pavel Kotov	6: 2, 7: 6 4

Double

Tournament victories

No.	date	competition	Topping	partner	Final opponent	Result
1.	February 11, 2018	Budapest	Hard court (i)	Félix Auger-Aliassime	Marin Draganja Tomislav Draganja	2: 6, 6: 2, [11: 9]

Web links

Commons : Nicola Kuhn  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• ATP profile of Nicola Kuhn (English)
• ITF profile of Nicola Kuhn (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Challenger #NextGenATP First-Time Winner: Nicola Kuhn. In: atpworldtour.com. July 17, 2017, accessed July 17, 2017 . 
2. ^ ^{A b} Tim Böseler: Dear Spain: Talent Nicola Kuhn is leaving the DTB. In: tennismagazin.de. December 22, 2015, accessed July 15, 2017 .