Tobias Kamke

Tobias Kamke
Kamke at Wimbledon in 2016
Nickname:	Tobi, Toppi, Klaus
Nation:	Germany
Birthday:	May 21, 1986
Size:	178 cm
Weight:	76 kg
1st professional season:	2004
Playing hand:	Right, two-handed backhand
Trainer:	Julian Reister Ralph Grambow
Prize money:	$ 2,403,248
singles
Career record:	63: 103
Highest ranking:	64 (January 31, 2011)
Current placement:	235
Grand Slam record
Double
Career record:	7:24
Highest ranking:	144 (September 21, 2015)
Grand Slam record
Last update of the infobox: February 11, 2020
Sources: official player profiles at the ATP / WTA and ITF (see web links )

Tobias Kamke (born May 21, 1986 in Lübeck ) is a German tennis player .

life and career

The path to becoming a professional tennis player

Tobias Kamke started playing tennis at the age of five. After he had reached the final as a qualifier at his first Future tournament at the age of 18 while on vacation in Leun , he decided to pursue a professional career. On the advice of his parents and his mentor Michael Stich , however, he first completed his high school diploma before devoting himself entirely to his tennis career in 2006.

2005–2006: First successes at the German championships and at future tournaments

As early as December 2005, Tobias Kamke reached the final of the German tennis championships in Isernhagen as an unseeded player, where he lost to Torsten Popp . In 2006, Kamke won two titles in singles at future tournaments, and another in doubles alongside Julian Reister . He also reached the final again at the German Tennis Championships in Berlin ; this time he lost to Tobias Summerer . This year he was included in the top 500 of the world rankings for the first time .

2007–2009: Establishment on the Challenger Tour and Grand Slam debut

In 2007 Kamke played after another title at a future tournament, now increasingly Challenger tournaments, and in November 2007 reached a final in Helsinki for the first time, which he lost to Steve Darcis . This brought him to number 208 in the world rankings. From 2008 he took part in the qualifications for Grand Slam tournaments. At Wimbledon he made it to the third qualifying round, where he lost to Jan Hernych , but moved up into the main draw as Lucky Loser . There he lost in the first round in four sets against Andreas Seppi, who was 29th . In addition, Kamke reached a Challenger final for the second time in Karlsruhe in May 2008 , but lost to Teimuras Gabashvili . Nevertheless, he then rose to the top 200 in the world rankings for the first time, even if only for a short time. The year 2009 passed without any major highlights for Tobias Kamke. He reached the semi-finals of a Challenger tournament twice, in Grand Slam tournaments he never got beyond the second qualifying round and could not qualify for any other ATP tournament.

2010: Challenger title and breakthrough on the ATP World Tour

In April 2010, Kamke reached the final of a Challenger tournament for the third time in Baton Rouge , but lost to Kevin Anderson . A month later he qualified for the main draw at the French Open on his 24th birthday. There he won his first Grand Slam match in three sets against the top 100 player Stéphane Robert in the first round , before losing to Albert Montañés, who was 29th, in the second round . In the following week he was able to build on the good performances from Paris at the Challenger tournament in Fürth and reached the final, which he lost to Robin Haase . In June 2010 Kamke qualified again for the main draw at Wimbledon , where he met the top 50 player Guillermo García-López in the first round . After he had already lost the first two sets and was behind with a break in the third set, Kamke was able to turn the tide and won the match in five sets after three and a half hours. In the second round he prevailed in four sets against Andreas Seppi , against whom he had lost two years ago in the same place. Kamke had no chance in three sets against Jo-Wilfried Tsonga, who was placed in 10th position . Nevertheless, the points collected over the last few months were enough for a first-time entry into the top 100 of the world rankings. Tobias Kamke received a wild card for the ATP tournament in Hamburg , near his place of birth and residence Lübeck, but he lost to Eduardo Schwank in the first round . A week later, Kamke reached the final of a Challenger tournament for the fifth time in Granby , and was able to win his first title against the young Canadian Milos Raonic . In his US Open debut in September 2010, Tobias Kamke was eliminated in the first round in four sets against Philipp Kohlschreiber . Three weeks later, he was able to prevail in the first round of the ATP tournament in Bucharest against Fabio Fognini , but then lost in the second round, as in Roland Garros, to defending champion Albert Montañés. In October 2010 Kamke reached another Challenger final in Tiburon when he fought off two match points in the semifinals against Marinko Matosevic and made up a 2: 5 deficit in the third set. In the final he met with Ryan Harrison as in Granby on a local young talent, and he won again sovereign and thus won his second title. At the ATP tournaments in Stockholm and Vienna , Tobias Kamke was eliminated in the second round. As in the US Open, he lost to Philipp Kohlschreiber in Vienna. At the ATP tournament in Basel , Kamke was eliminated in the second qualifying round, but he moved into the main field as a lucky loser . There he sensationally defeated the top ten player Tomáš Berdych in the first round , but then lost to Richard Gasquet in the second round . In November 2010 Tobias Kamke was voted “Newcomer of the Year 2010” by the players on the ATP Tour. This recognized his enormous improvement within one year from 254th to 66th place in the world rankings.

2011: First ATP semifinals and another Challenger title

2011 in Halle

The year 2011 began for Tobias Kamke in Brisbane with a narrow first round defeat against the later semi-finalist Radek Štěpánek . A week later he reached the second round in Auckland , where he won the first set against David Ferrer , who was in first place, but was ultimately defeated in three sets. On his Australian Open debut, Tobias Kamke met Philipp Kohlschreiber for the third time within a few months . Although Kamke had already led 2-0 sets, the winner was Kohlschreiber again after almost four hours of play. In February 2011, he retired in Marseille in the second round against the defending champion Michaël Llodra, who was in eighth place . This was followed by a lean period of seven tournaments for Tobias Kamke, in which he was eliminated either in the first main round or in qualifying beforehand. It was not until the French Open in May 2011 that he was able to win another match at ATP level against Olivier Rochus . In the second round, however, he was eliminated by Viktor Troicki, who was in 15th position . The second round of the lawn tournament in Halle against Milos Raonic was also the end of the line. At Wimbledon , Tobias Kamke was unable to repeat the success of the previous year, as he met Andy Murray , who was fourth, in the second round . Kamke played well, but ultimately lost in three sets against the later semi-finalist. At the subsequent lawn tournament in Newport in July 2011, Kamke reached the semi-finals of an ATP tournament for the first time; However, he did not have to defeat a single player from the top 100 of the world rankings on the way there. In the semifinals he then lost in two tight sets against the later tournament winner John Isner, who was in first position . Two weeks later, Tobias Kamke received a wildcard for his "home tournament" in Hamburg, as in the previous year. After a straight two-set win against Pere Riba , he defeated the seventh-placed Juan Ignacio Chela in the second round, also in two sets. In the last sixteen he met Marin Čilić , who was seeded in twelfth position , against whom he lost in three sets after leading the set 1-0. The following months passed without any major highlights for Kamke. At the ATP tournaments in Washington , Winston-Salem and Bangkok he reached the second round, at the US Open, however, he had no chance in the first round against Mardy Fish, who was ranked 8th . In October 2011, Tobias Kamke reached the quarter-finals in Stockholm by beating top 50 player Tommy Robredo , where he lost to the eventual finalist Jarkko Nieminen after leading the set 1-0 . At the end of the season, Kamke then went back to a Challenger tournament in Loughborough and won the title with a two-set win over Flavio Cipolla . As a result, he secured a year-end placement in the top 100 of the world rankings for the second time in a row.

Since 2012

The 2012 season was only moderately successful. In three Grand Slam tournaments Kamke was eliminated in the first round, only at the Australian Open he moved into the second round. His only tournament victory was the Challenger tournament in Pétange . In the world rankings, he finished the year in 98th place after falling out of the top 100 for two weeks. The following year he stayed in the top 100 throughout and this time ended the year in 74th place. Although he was eliminated again in the first round at Wimbledon , he won his opening game at the other three Grand Slam tournaments. In Pétange he again achieved his only title win of the year with his title defense . In doubles he had also reached the final with Benjamin Becker .

In 2014 Kamke fell back slightly in the world rankings and ended the year in 97th place. His Grand Slam record was weaker than the year before, with three defeats in the beginning, he was only able to win a game at the French Open . On the Challenger Tour he secured one title in both singles and doubles: in singles he won the Franken Challenge in Fürth in June , in doubles he won his first career title with Philipp Marx in Rennes . In the following season he repeated his success from 2014 with a single and double title. In August Kamke won the Challenger tournament in Liberec with a final victory over Andrej Martin , before winning the title in Alphen aan den Rijn a month later with Jan-Lennard Struff . The rest of the season was unsuccessful, however, from February to June Kamke did not achieve a single victory on the World Tour or the Challenger Tour. In the world rankings he therefore fell far behind, so that his participation in the Australian Open was his last for the time being in Grand Slam tournaments. He finished the season in 277th place.

By the end of the 2016 season, Kamke improved to 118th place in the world rankings. In March he won his eighth individual title on the Challenger Tour in Kazan and qualified for the main draw at the French Open after three wins, in which he was defeated in four sets by Pablo Cuevas in the first round . In 2017, Kamke remained without a tournament win for the first time since his first title win in 2010 and, without participating in the Grand Slam, slipped to 233rd in the world rankings at the end of the year. In the following season, he also failed to qualify at the Grand Slam level, but he secured his third double title with Tim Pütz at the Challenger in Yokohama . In the world rankings, he remained outside the top 200, as in 2019, which, like 2017, went without a title. Only at the US Open did he qualify, but Kamke lost in the first main round in four sets against Fernando Verdasco .

Success as a club player

Tobias Kamke played in the 2nd tennis Bundesliga for TC Logopak Hartenholm until 2008 , but in 2009 it had to stop playing due to financial problems. Even the players' suggestion to forego any salary could not save the club from collapse. In the 2010 season he joined the first division club TC Blau-Weiss Neuss and achieved a positive match record there in his first season in both singles and doubles. Since 2013 he has been playing for TK Grün-Weiss Mannheim in the first tennis league .

Davis Cup

In the 2013 season Tobias Kamke was nominated for the first time for the German Davis Cup team . In the game against Argentina he played doubles with Christopher Kas and competed in the fourth singles match against Juan Mónaco . He lost both games.

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 (11)

singles

Tournament victories

No.	date	competition	Topping	Final opponent	Result
1.	August 1, 2010	Granby	Hard court	Milos Raonic	6: 3, 7: 6 4
2.	17th October 2010	Tiburon	Hard court	Ryan Harrison	6: 1, 6: 1
3.	November 13, 2011	Loughborough	Hard court (i)	Flavio Cipolla	6: 2, 7: 5
4th	17th September 2012	Pétange (1)	Hard court (i)	Paul-Henri Mathieu	7: 6 7 , 6: 4
5.	15th September 2013	Pétange (2)	Hard court (i)	Paul-Henri Mathieu	1: 6, 6: 3, 7: 5
6th	June 8, 2014	Fuerth	sand	Íñigo Cervantes	6: 3, 6: 2
7th	August 9, 2015	Liberec	sand	Andrei Martin	7: 6 6 , 6: 4
8th.	March 20, 2016	Kazan	Hard court (i)	Aslan Karazew	6: 4, 6: 2

Double

Tournament victories

No.	date	competition	Topping	partner	Final opponent	Result
1.	October 12, 2014	Rennes	Hard court (i)	Philipp Marx	František Čermák Jonathan Erlich	3: 6, 6: 2, [10: 3]
2.	13th September 2015	Alphen aan den Rijn	sand	Jan-Lennard Struff	Victor Hănescu Adrian Ungur	7: 6 1 , 3: 6, [10: 7]
3.	March 3, 2018	Yokohama	Hard court	Tim Puetz	Sanchai Ratiwatana Sonchat Ratiwatana	3: 6, 7: 5, [12:10]

Web links

Commons : Tobias Kamke  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• ATP profile Tobias Kamke (English)
• ITF profile of Tobias Kamke (English)
• Davis Cup Stats Tobias Kamke (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ On The Rise ... Tobias Kamke. In: atpworldtour.com. January 11, 2011, archived from the original on March 18, 2012 ; accessed on December 12, 2016 . 
2. ^ German tennis championships 2005: main field men. (PDF) In: dtb-tennis.de. German Tennis Federation , accessed on February 18, 2016 . 
3. ^ German tennis championships 2006: main field men. (PDF) In: dtb-tennis.de. German Tennis Federation , accessed on February 18, 2016 . 
4. ↑ Kamke turns a match believed to be lost. In: tennisnet.com. October 17, 2010, accessed December 12, 2016 . 
5. ↑ Kamke voted Newcomer of the Year. In: rp-online.de. November 22, 2010, accessed December 12, 2016 . 
6. ↑ Romain Schenck: Kamke secures success in Petingen. In: wort.lu. Luxemburger Wort , September 17, 2017, accessed on April 11, 2020 . 
7. ↑ Stebe and Kamke show off at Challenger level. In: tennisnet.com. September 13, 2015, accessed April 11, 2020 . 
8. ↑ Tobias Kamke wins sixth title. In: tennisnet.com. June 8, 2014, accessed April 11, 2020 . 
9. ↑ Kamke Cruises Past Stakhovsky At Open Rennes. In: tennis-tourtalk.com. January 23, 2020, accessed April 11, 2020 . 
10. ↑ Is the horror season over? Tobias Kamke wins the tournament. In: tennisnet.com. August 9, 2015, accessed April 11, 2020 . 
11. ^ Christian Albrecht Barschel: Title in Russia - Tobias Kamke on the rise again. In: tennisnet.com. March 20, 2016, accessed April 11, 2020 . 
12. ↑ Simone Zettier: ATP Challenger in Yokohama: Pütz / Kamke get the title. In: wtv.de. Westphalian Tennis Association, March 3, 2018, accessed on April 11, 2020 . 
13. ↑ Logopak player de-registration scandal. In: Abendblatt.de (fee required). April 18, 2009, accessed December 12, 2016 . 
14. ↑ Logopak workplaces in Hartenholm are safe. In: kn-online.de. April 17, 2009, accessed December 12, 2016 .