Łukasz Kubot

Łukasz Kubot

Country (sports)	Poland
Residence	Lubin, Poland
Born	May 16, 1982 Bolesławiec, Poland
Height	1.90 m (6 ft 3 in) 86 kg (190 lb)
Turned pro	2002
Plays	Right-handed (two-handed backhand)
Prize money	$5,003,104
Singles
Career record	97–130 (42.73%)
Career titles	0
Highest ranking	No. 41 (April 12, 2010)
Current ranking	No. 601 (October 10, 2016)
Grand Slam Singles results
Australian Open	4R (2010)
French Open	3R (2011, 2012)
Wimbledon	QF (2013)
US Open	3R (2006)
Other tournaments
Olympic Games	1R (2012)
Doubles
Career record	249–184 (57.51%)
Career titles	13
Highest ranking	No. 7 (September 27, 2010)
Current ranking	No. 21 (October 10, 2016)
Grand Slam Doubles results
Australian Open	W (2014)
French Open	SF (2016)
Wimbledon	QF (2009)
US Open	QF (2010, 2016)
Other doubles tournaments
Tour Finals	SF (2014)
Last updated on: October 10, 2016.

Łukasz Kubot (Polish pronunciation: [ˈwukaʂ ˈkubɔt]; born May 16, 1982) is a Polish professional tennis player. Kubot is a doubles specialist and won the 2014 Australian Open men's doubles title with Robert Lindstedt. He has also had success in singles, achieving a career-high singles ranking of World No. 41 in April 2010 and reaching the quarterfinals of the 2013 Wimbledon Championships. In 2013 he was awarded the Gold Cross of Merit by Polish President Bronisław Komorowski.^[1]

Career

2007–2009

In 2007 Kubot's two main-draw wins came in Davis Cup ties. In 2008 Kubot did not play a single main-draw match.

Kubot started 2009 by competing in the qualifying rounds of Qatar ExxonMobil Open and the Australian Open, but he fell in the final round. He then qualified for the Brasil Open, where he recorded his first main-draw win in over one and a half year against Daniel Gimeno-Traver, but lost in the following round to Thomaz Bellucci. He then continued to play in qualifying, but failed to qualify. However, in the 2009 Serbia Open, he fell in the final round of the qualifying draw, but was granted a Lucky Loser spot after Steve Darcis withdrew due a shoulder injury. He defeated Arsenije Zlatanović, Igor Andreev, Kristof Vliegen, and an upset victory over second seed Ivo Karlović. He then lost in straight sets against World No. 3 and top seed Novak Djokovic, in his first final. He became the first Pole to reach an ATP final in 26 years (since Wojciech Fibak in 1983). He also reached the doubles final at the same event partnering Oliver Marach, which he won.

At Roland Garros, he qualified, but lost to Viktor Troicki in the first round, in just around 4 hours. His next main-draw appearance came in MercedesCup in Stuttgart, where he recorded wins over Pablo Andújar and Philipp Kohlschreiber, but lost to Nicolas Kiefer in the quarterfinals. He then qualified in Cincinnati, but lost to José Acasuso, in the first round. In Beijing, he recorded the biggest win of his career by upsetting Andy Roddick in the very first round, but lost to Ivan Ljubičić the following round. He then lost in the first rounds of Shanghai and Vienna. In the 2009 BNP Paribas Masters, he defeated Andreas Beck, but lost to Marin Čilić, after qualifying.

In doubles, he won the 2009 Grand Prix Hassan II, the 2009 Serbia Open, and the 2009 Bank Austria-TennisTrophy, all with his regular doubles partner Oliver Marach. They also reached the semifinals of the 2009 Australian Open, losing to Mahesh Bhupathi and Mark Knowles. They were able to qualify in the 2009 ATP World Tour Finals, falling in the round-robin stage despite winning two matches over the teams of Max Mirnyi and Andy Ram, and Lukáš Dlouhý and Leander Paes, only losing to Bob Bryan and Mike Bryan

2010

Łukasz Kubot can-can dancing

Kubot started his 2010 campaign in Doha, where he reached the quarterfinals, losing to Viktor Troicki, after recording straight-set wins over Karim Maamoun and Sergiy Stakhovsky. He then played in the Australian Open, where he reached his first fourth round in a Grand Slam tournament. He earned this spot by defeating Mischa Zverev, and Santiago Giraldo, and through the withdrawal of 20th seed Mikhail Youzhny. He was defeated by Novak Djokovic. In the Movistar Open, he lost to Marcel Granollers, after defeating Horacio Zeballos. In the 2010 Brasil Open, he reached the final, his second of his career. He earned that by defeating Óscar Hernández, Albert Montañés, and Fabio Fognini, in straight sets. He came back against fourth seed Igor Andreev in the semifinals. In the final, he lost to top seed Juan Carlos Ferrero, failing to hold serve in the whole match.

He then suffered early losses in his next three tournaments to credible players in the 2010 Copa Telmex, losing to Juan Mónaco, in the 2010 Abierto Mexicano Telcel to Fernando Verdasco, and the 2010 BNP Paribas Open to David Nalbandian. He then regained form, reaching the quarterfinals of the 2010 Grand Prix Hassan II, losing to Potito Starace. However, he lost in the first round of the 2010 Monte-Carlo Rolex Masters to Viktor Troicki.

2011

At the 2011 French Open, Kubot was down two sets to none in his first-round match against 11th seed Nicolás Almagro. Kubot stormed back and won the match in five sets. He progressed to the third round, before he was ousted. He earned the nickname "Lukasz the Lionhearted" for his aggressive style of play.

He then qualified for the 2011 Wimbledon Championships and advanced to the fourth round, defeating Arnaud Clément in five sets, Ivo Karlović in straight sets, and Gaël Monfils in four sets. In the fourth round, he led Feliciano López by two sets to love and had two match points in the third set tiebreak, but eventually lost in five sets.

2012: Stuttgart Open Doubles Title

Kubot made the quarterfinals in Memphis, before losing to Benjamin Becker. He also made the quarterfinals in Bucharest, only to meet and lose to Gilles Simon.

He made the third round of the French Open, losing to Belgian David Goffin.

He made the quarterfinals in Gstaad, where he lost to Grigor Dimitrov. At Winston-Salem, he made the third round, only to lose again to Goffin.

In doubles, he made three finals, including the Masters 1000 event in Rome, partnering Janko Tipsarević. He won the tournament in Stuttgart, partnering Jérémy Chardy.

2013: Wimbledon Quarterfinal

Łukasz Kubot in 2013

Ranked no. 130 in the world, Kubot reached the quarterfinals of 2013 Wimbledon Championships. He beat Igor Andreev in the first round before getting a walkover after second round opponent (and conqueror of Rafael Nadal in the first round) Steve Darcis withdrew through injury. He then beat Benoît Paire and Adrian Mannarino before losing in a historic all-Polish slam quarterfinal against Jerzy Janowicz.

2014: Australian Open Doubles Title

In January Kubot and Sweden's Robert Lindstedt won the Australian Open men's doubles title. The pair had played just two tennis tournaments together, losing in the first round of both, before entering the Australian Open. In the final they defeated American Eric Butorac and South African Raven Klaasen, who had knocked out top seeds Bob Bryan and Mike Bryan. Lindstedt said he had been slated to play with Jurgen Melzer, but the Austrian withdrew with injury before the tournament. "I had to scramble up a partner in December and I'm thankful that Kubot said yes," stated Lindstedt.^[2]

2016: Third Vienna Open Doubles Title and Race to Rio

In August Kubot participated in the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Partnered with Marcin Matkowski, he defeated Indian tennis pair of Leander Paes and Rohan Bopanna. Subsequently, Kubot and Matkowski lost to the eighth seeded Spanish pair of Roberto Bautista Agut and David Ferrer in the second round.^[3] Kubot also participated in the mixed doubles, where he was partnered with the 2015 WTA Finals winner, Agnieszka Radwańska. Radwanska and Kubot lost to the Romanian pair of Irina Camelia Begu and Horia Tecau in the first round. In October, Kubot partnered with Marcelo Melo defeated Oliver Marach and Fabrice Martin to win the Vienna Open Doubles Title for the third time in his career.

Significant finals

Grand Slam finals

Doubles: 1 (1 title)

Outcome	Year	Championship	Surface	Partner	Opponents	Score
Winner	2014	Australian Open	Hard	Robert Lindstedt	Eric Butorac Raven Klaasen	6–3, 6–3

Masters 1000 finals

Doubles: 1 (0–1)

Outcome	Year	Championship	Surface	Partner	Opponents	Score
Runner-up	2012	Rome	Clay	Janko Tipsarević	Marcel Granollers Marc López	3–6, 2–6

ATP career finals

Singles: 2 (2 runners-up)

Legend
Grand Slam Tournaments (0–0)
ATP World Tour Finals (0–0)
ATP World Tour Masters 1000 (0–0)
ATP World Tour 500 Series (0–0)
ATP World Tour 250 Series (0–2)

Outcome	No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Opponent	Score
Runner-up	1.	May 4, 2009	Serbia Open, Belgrade, Serbia	Clay	Novak Djokovic	3–6, 6–7^(0–7)
Runner-up	2.	February 14, 2010	Brasil Open, Costa do Sauípe, Brasil	Clay	Juan Carlos Ferrero	1–6, 0–6

Doubles: 24 (13 titles, 10 runners-up)

Legend
Grand Slam Tournaments (1–0)
ATP World Tour Finals (0–0)
ATP World Tour Masters 1000 (0–1)
ATP World Tour 500 Series (3–3)
ATP World Tour 250 Series (9–6)

Outcome	No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Partnering	Opponents	Score
Runner-up	1.	April 23, 2007	Grand Prix Hassan II, Casablanca, Morocco	Clay	Oliver Marach	Jordan Kerr David Škoch	7–6^(7–4), 1–6, [10–4]
Runner-up	2.	October 22, 2007	Grand Prix de Tennis de Lyon, Lyon, France	Carpet (i)	Lovro Zovko	Sébastien Grosjean Jo-Wilfried Tsonga	4–6, 3–6
Runner-up	3.	February 23, 2009	Abierto Mexicano Telcel, Acapulco, Mexico	Clay	Oliver Marach	František Čermák Michal Mertiňák	6–4, 4–6, [7–10]
Winner	1.	April 6, 2009	Grand Prix Hassan II, Casablanca, Morocco	Clay	Oliver Marach	Simon Aspelin Paul Hanley	7–6^(7–4), 3–6, [10–6]
Winner	2.	May 4, 2009	Serbia Open, Belgrade, Serbia	Clay	Oliver Marach	Johan Brunström Jean-Julien Rojer	6–2, 7–6^(7–3)
Winner	3.	November 1, 2009	Bank Austria-TennisTrophy, Vienna, Austria	Hard (i)	Oliver Marach	Julian Knowle Jürgen Melzer	2–6, 6–4, [11–9]
Winner	4.	February 6, 2010	Movistar Open, Santiago, Chile	Clay	Oliver Marach	Potito Starace Horacio Zeballos	6–4, 6–0
Runner-up	4.	February 14, 2010	Brasil Open, Costa do Sauípe, Brazil	Clay	Oliver Marach	Pablo Cuevas Marcel Granollers	5–7, 4–6
Winner	5.	February 27, 2010	Abierto Mexicano Telcel, Acapulco, Mexico	Clay	Oliver Marach	Fabio Fognini Potito Starace	6–0, 6–0
Winner	6.	September 25, 2010	BRD Năstase Ţiriac Trophy, Bucharest, Romania	Clay	Juan Ignacio Chela	Marcel Granollers Santiago Ventura	6–2, 5–7, [13–11]
Runner-up	5.	February 5, 2011	Movistar Open, Santiago, Chile	Clay	Oliver Marach	Marcelo Melo Bruno Soares	3–6, 6–7^(3–7)
Runner-up	6.	April 27, 2012	BRD Năstase Ţiriac Trophy, Bucharest, Romania	Clay	Jérémy Chardy	Robert Lindstedt Horia Tecău	6–7^(2–7), 3–6
Runner-up	7.	May 20, 2012	Internazionali BNL d'Italia, Rome, Italy	Clay	Janko Tipsarević	Marcel Granollers Marc López	3–6, 2–6
Winner	7.	July 15, 2012	MercedesCup, Stuttgart, Germany	Clay	Jérémy Chardy	Michal Mertiňák André Sá	6–1, 6–3
Winner	8.	March 2, 2013	Abierto Mexicano Telcel, Acapulco, Mexico	Clay	David Marrero	Simone Bolelli Fabio Fognini	7–5, 6–2
Winner	9.	January 25, 2014	Australian Open, Melbourne, Australia	Hard	Robert Lindstedt	Eric Butorac Raven Klaasen	6–3, 6–3
Winner	10.	June 13, 2015	Topshelf Open, Rosmalen, The Netherlands	Grass	Ivo Karlović	Pierre-Hugues Herbert Nicolas Mahut	6–2, 7–6^(11–9)
Winner	11.	July 25, 2015	Swedish Open, Bastad, Sweden	Clay	Jérémy Chardy	Juan Sebastián Cabal Robert Farah	6–7^(6–8), 6–3, [10–8]
Winner	12.	27 September 2015	Moselle Open, Metz, France	Hard (i)	Edouard Roger-Vasselin	Pierre-Hugues Herbert Nicolas Mahut	2-6, 6-3, [10-7]
Winner	13.	25 October 2015	Erste Bank Open, Vienna, Austria	Hard	Marcelo Melo	Jamie Murray John Peers	4–6, 7–6^(7–3), [10–6]
Runner-up	8.	1 May 2016	Estoril Open, Cascais, Portugal	Clay	Marcin Matkowski	Eric Butorac Scott Lipsky	4–6, 6–3, [8–10]
Runner-up	9.	19 June 2016	Gerry Weber Open, Halle, Germany	Grass	Alexander Peya	Raven Klaasen Rajeev Ram	6–7^(5–7), 2–6
Runner-up	10.	24 July 2016	Washington Open, Washington, United States	Hard	Alexander Peya	Daniel Nestor Édouard Roger-Vasselin	6–7^(3–7), 6–7^(4–7)
Pending	14./11.	30 October 2016	Erste Bank Open, Vienna, Austria	Hard	Marcelo Melo	Olivier Marach Fabrice Martin	TBD

Singles performance timeline

Key

W

F

SF

QF

R#

RR

Q#

A

P

Z#

PO

G

F-S

SF-B

NMS

NH

(W) Won tournament; reached (F) final, (SF) semifinal, (QF) quarterfinal; (R#) rounds 4, 3, 2, 1; competed at a (RR) round-robin stage; reached a (Q#) qualification round; (A) absent; played in a (Z#) Davis/Fed Cup Zonal Group (with number indication) or (PO) play-off; won a (G) gold, (F-S) silver or (SF-B) bronze Olympic medal; a (NMS) downgraded Masters Series/1000 tournament; or (NH) tournament not held.

To avoid confusion and double counting, these charts are updated either at the conclusion of a tournament, or when the player's participation in the tournament has ended.

Tournament	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008	2009	2010	2011	2012	2013	2014	2015	2016	W–L
Grand Slam tournaments
Australian Open	A	A	A	A	A	A	Q3	A	Q3	4R*	2R	1R	1R	1R	Q3	A	3–5
French Open	A	A	A	A	A	A	Q1	A	1R	1R	3R	3R	2R	1R	1R	A	5–7
Wimbledon	A	A	A	A	A	A	Q1	Q1	Q1	2R	4R	2R	QF	3R	3R	A	13–6
US Open	A	A	A	A	A	3R	Q3	A	Q2	1R	A	1R	1R	A	A	A	2–4
Win–Loss	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	2–1	0–0	0–0	0–1	3–4	6–3	3–4	5–4	2–3	2–2	0–0	23–22
Career statistics
Titles–Finals	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–1	0–1	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–2
Year End Ranking	427	440	371	219	142	125	222	209	101	70	57	74	72	168	471

* At the 2010 Australian Open, Kubot's third-round match was a walkover

Doubles performance timeline

Tournament	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008	2009	2010	2011	2012	2013	2014	2015	2016	W–L
Grand Slam tournaments
Australian Open	A	A	A	3R	A	SF	3R	QF	1R	3R	W	2R	2R	15–8
French Open	A	A	A	3R	1R	2R	QF	1R	2R	1R	QF	3R	SF	16–10
Wimbledon	2R	A	2R	2R	2R	QF	1R	1R	A	3R	2R	3R	1R	12–10
US Open	A	A	1R	1R	A	1R	QF	A	2R	1R	A	2R	QF	6–7
Win–Loss	1–1	0–0	1–2	5–4	1–2	8–4	8–4	3–3	2–3	4–4	10–2	6–4	7–4	56–37
Year-End Championship
ATP World Tour Finals	Did Not Qualify					RR	RR	Did Not Qualify			SF	DNQ		6–4
ATP Masters Series 1000
Indian Wells	A	A	A	A	A	2R	A	2R	1R	QF	2R	1R	2R	6–7
Miami	A	A	A	A	A	A	1R	A	QF	2R	2R	A	1R	4–5
Monte Carlo	A	A	A	A	A	A	QF	QF	A	1R	2R	A	2R	2–5
Rome	A	A	A	A	A	A	SF	QF	F	A	2R	A	A	7–4
Madrid	A	A	A	A	A	A	QF	2R	A	SF	2R	A	2R	5–5
Canada	A	A	A	A	A	QF	A	A	A	1R	A	A	1R	1–3
Cincinnati	A	A	A	A	A	SF	SF	A	2R	2R	A	A	1R	6–5
Shanghai	NH	Not Masters Series				QF	SF	1R	A	A	2R	SF		3–4
Paris	A	A	A	A	A	A	QF	1R	1R	1R	2R	A		2–4
Win–Loss	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	4–4	9–7	3–6	7–4	7–7	4–7	2–2	2–6	36–39
Career statistics
Titles–Finals	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–2	0–0	3–4	3–4	0–1	1–3	1–1	1–1	4–4	0–3	13–23
Year End Ranking	137	135	64	45	72	12	10	53	39	37	18	29

References

1. "Sukces w kraju bez trawy. Janowicz, Kubot i Radwanska z Krzyzami Zaslugi" (in Polish). 8 July 2013. Retrieved 8 July 2013.
2. http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-01-26/kubot-linstedt-go-from-zeroes-to-heroes-to-win-aus-open/5219388
3. http://www.news18.com/news/olympics/rio-olympics-2016-paes-bopanna-crash-out-in-first-round-at-olympics-1278416.html

External links

• Official site
• Łukasz Kubot at the Association of Tennis Professionals
• bio – file interview with Lukasz Kubot