Peter Luczak

Peter Luczak
Luczak at the US Open
Nation:	Australia
Birthday:	August 31, 1979
Size:	183 cm
Weight:	77 kg
1st professional season:	2000
Resignation:	2012
Playing hand:	Right, two-handed backhand
Trainer:	Joshua Eagle Todd Woodbridge
Prize money:	$ 1,348,936
singles
Career record:	41:89
Highest ranking:	64 (October 12, 2009)
Grand Slam record
Double
Career record:	23:42
Highest ranking:	98 (March 1, 2010)
Grand Slam record
Mixed
Grand Slam record
Sources: official player profiles at the ATP / WTA and ITF (see web links )

Peter Kris Luczak (born August 31, 1979 in Warsaw ) is a Polish- Australian former tennis player .

Career

Luczak was born in Warsaw and moved to Melbourne with his family when he was 9 months old . When he was 5 years old, his father made him play tennis. He had little success on the Junior Tour, and he didn't get any support from Tennis Australia or sponsors. Eventually he received a scholarship to California State University , where he studied finance and holds the college's record for the most winning series of tennis matches in college tennis . Between 1998 and 2001 he was unbeaten 27 games in a row.

Luczak won four future tournaments in 2001 after turning pro the previous year. In July 2002 he won his first Challenger tournament in Granby, Canada . Peter Luczak won 19 Challengers in his career, 12 of them in singles. Of these titles, he won 14 on clay and 5 on hard court.

He played his first Grand Slam tournament in 2003 at the Australian Open , where he immediately reached the third round and lost to Mario Ančić there . At the tournament in Costa do Sauípe in 2005 he reached a semi-finals in singles for the only time in his career. There he lost to Alberto Martín . Luczak celebrated his greatest success on the ATP World Tour in 2008 when he reached the finals of the tournament in Buenos Aires , where he and his partner Werner Eschauer lost to Agustín Calleri and Luis Horna . In 2007 he was in the top 100 of the world rankings for the first time, in 2008 he had to pause for a few months due to an injury and fell back. In 2009, in his best season in October, he finally achieved his highest ranking with a 64th place.

At the Commonwealth Games 2010 , Luczak won the gold medal together with Paul Hanley in the double competition. They defeated the Englishmen Ross Hutchins and Ken Skupski in the final .

After losing the first round in doubles at the Australian Open 2012 , Luczak ended his career. In 2015 he played another tournament in the future category in Lecco , Italy , which he won, and the Challenger tournament in Tallahassee in 2016 , where he reached the final - both in doubles. There he played with his student Marc Polmans , whom he trained just like Blake Mott .

In 2005 Luczak gave his premiere for the Australian Davis Cup team . For them he has a score of 4: 6 in 7 matches.

Personal

Luczak is married to the noblewoman Anna Catarina Ericsdotter Queckfeldt, a granddaughter of the Olympic third party Maud von Rosen . They have a son and live on the Mornington Peninsula , Australia.

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

ATP Challenger Tour (19)

singles

Tournament victories

No.	date	competition	Topping	Final opponent	Result
1.	July 14, 2002	Granby	Hard court	Alex Bogomolov junior	6: 3, 7: 6 6
2.	April 4, 2004	Canberra	sand	Juan Pablo Brzezicki	6: 2, 6: 1
3.	May 16, 2004	Košice	sand	Janko Tipsarevic	7: 5, 7: 5
4th	November 6, 2005	Caloundra	Hard court	Alun Jones (tennis player)	7: 5, 7: 6 1
5.	March 31, 2007	Fez	sand	Yuri Shchukin	6: 2, 6: 7 3 , 7: 6 1
6th	May 12, 2007	Maspalomas	sand	Santiago Ventura	6: 7 6 , 6: 3, 7: 5
7th	June 10, 2007	Fuerth (1)	sand	Fabio Fognini	4: 6, 6: 2, 6: 2
8th.	June 17, 2007	Bytom	sand	Simone Vagnozzi	6: 3, 6: 3
9.	October 19, 2008	Montevideo	sand	Nicolás Massú	without a fight
10.	June 7, 2009	Fuerth (2)	sand	Juan Pablo Brzezicki	6: 2, 6: 0
11.	July 26, 2009	Poses	sand	Yuri Shchukin	3: 6, 7: 6 4 , 7: 6 6
12.	August 16, 2009	Cordenons	sand	Olivier Rochus	6: 3, 3: 6, 6: 1

Double

Tournament victories

No.	date	competition	Topping	partner	Final opponent	Result
1.	March 23, 2002	Hamilton	Hard court	Jaymon Crabb	Yves Allegro Justin Bower	7: 5, 6: 4
2.	November 2, 2002	Tyler	Hard court	Dmitri Tursunov	Jason Marshall Anthony Ross	6: 1, 6: 4
3.	May 15, 2004	Košice	sand	Devin Bowen	Jan Hernych Petr Kralert	6: 2, 7: 6 6
4th	November 5, 2005	Caloundra	Hard court	Shannon Nettle	Robert Smeets Aleksandar Vlaski	6: 7 4 , 6: 4, 6: 2
5.	May 16, 2009	Zagreb	sand	Alessandro Motti	Brendan Evans Ryan Sweeting	6: 4, 6: 4
6th	August 2, 2009	Tampere	sand	Yuri Shchukin	Simone Vagnozzi Uros Vico	6: 1, 6: 7 6 , [10: 4]
7th	March 21, 2011	Marrakech	sand	Alessandro Motti	James Cerretani Adil Shamasdin	7: 6 5 , 7: 6 3

Final participation

No.	date	competition	Topping	partner	Final opponent	Result
1.	February 24, 2008	Buenos Aires (1)	sand	Werner Eschauer	Agustín Calleri Luis Horna	0: 6, 7: 6 5 , [2:10]
2.	February 21, 2010	Buenos Aires (2)	sand	Simon Greul	Sebastián Prieto Horacio Zeballos	6: 7 4 , 3: 6

Web links

Commons : Peter Luczak  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• ATP profile of Peter Luczak (English)
• ITF profile of Peter Luczak (English)
• Davis Cup statistics Peter Luczak (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ McCarton Ackerman: Coach And Pupil Make Dream Run in Tallahassee. In: atpworldtour.com. April 30, 2016, accessed November 27, 2017 .