Lukasz Kubot

Began playing at age nine...Father, Janusz, is a soccer coach; mother, Dorota...Has a younger sister, Paulina, who is studying physiotherapy...Strengths of game are serve, return and forehand and favorite surfaces are clay and slow hard courts...His best junior Grand Slam result was QF at Wimbledon in singles and doubles in 2000...Players he admired growing up were Yevgeny Kafelnikov, Stefan Edberg and Jonas Bjorkman...Future goals are to rank in Top 50 in singles and Top 10 in doubles...Considers some of best moments of his career so far: reaching singles final in Belgrade in 2009, 3rd round at US Open in 2006, beating No. 6 Andy Roddick in Beijing in 2009 and winning doubles titles in Casablanca, Belgrade and Vienna in 2009...Member of Polish Davis Cup team and has a 19-5 career record (15-5 in singles) in 15 ties...Coached by Tomas Hlasek and fitness trainer is Ivan Machytka.

2000 -- Advanced to QF at Sopot Challenger.

2001 -- Reached first Challenger final in Sopot (l. to Ferrer)…

2003 -- Advanced to SF at Togliatti Challenger and QFs at Hamburg and Donetsk Challengers…In doubles, won first title at Valladolid Challenger (w Kato) and reached Final in Mordovia (w Tereskchuk)…

2004 -- Won four Futures titles…Reached two SFs and two QFs in Challengers…In doubles, won title Canberra and reached final at three Challengers…

2005 -- Won title at Donetsk Challenger, reached final at Joplin Challenger and four SFs and four QFs…In doubles won two Challenger titles (both w/Marach) and reached final in Mexico City, Seoul (both w/De Voest) and Poznan (w Urban)…

2006 -- Reached final at Dharwad Challenger and advanced to three SFs…Turned in Grand Slam-best 3rd RD showing at US Open (l. to Davydenko)…In doubles, won title at Napoli Challenger(w/Cibulec) and reached SFs in Doha and Sopot (both w/Marach)…

2007 -- Reached SF at Poznan and Andrezieux Challengers…In doubles, reached finals at Casablanca (w/ Marach) and Lyon (w/Zovko) and advanced to SF at Delray Beach (w/Pavel) and Sopot (w/Marach)…In Challengers, won title at Casablanca and Tunis (both w/Marach) and runner-up at Cherbourg Challenger (w/Norman)…

2008 -- Captured Oberstaufen Challenger and reached SFs at Szczecin…In doubles won Challengers at Busan, Prostejov and Lanzarote (w/De Voest), Karshi, Helsinki, Cancun and Seoul (all w/Marach), Bratislava (w/Cermak) and Fergana (w/Kravchuk)…Runner-up in Bukhara, Dnepropetrovsk and Szczecin (all w/Marach)…

2009 -- The top Pole narrowly missed becoming first player from his country to finish in Top 100 in singles since Wojtek Fibak was No. 62 in 1985…Reached his first ATP World Tour final in Belgrade as a lucky loser in May (l. to Djokovic)…First Polish finalist since Fibak in Basel in 1983…Qualified seven times…Reached QF in Stuttgart (l. to Kiefer) two months later…In October, posted first Top 10 win over No. 6 Roddick in 1st RD in Beijing (l. to Ljubicic)…Also qualified at ATP World Tour Masters 1000 events in Shanghai and Paris…Afterwards broke into Top 100 from No. 111 to No. 89…In doubles, teamed with Marach to capture three titles — Casablanca, Belgrade and Vienna — and qualify for Barclays ATP World Tour Finals in London where they went 2-1 in round-robin play…Finished No. 7 in ATP Team Rankings and No. 12 individually…Earned a career-high $495,195.

2010

In singles, began year by reaching the Doha quarter-finals (l. to Troicki)…At the Australian Open, where he was playing at a career-high No. 86, he reached first ever Grand Slam 4th RD in only his third major championship appearance…Beat Zverev, Giraldo and got W/O vs Youzhny in 3rd RD…Became the first Polish man into a Grand Slam 4th RD since Wotjek Fibak at 1982 Roland Garros...Fell to No. 3 seed Djokovic 6-1, 6-2, 7-5…Made a 2nd RD exit at Santiago (l. to Granollers)…On 8 February, rose to a career-high No. 56 in South African Airways 2010 ATP Rankings.

In doubles play, reached quarter-finals (or better) at three of first four tournaments…Advanced to Doha QFs (w/Darcis), Sydney QFs (w/Marach) and Australian Open 3rd RD (w/Marach)…In February, as top seeds (w/Marach), lifted his fourth ATP World Tour doubles title (4-3 overall) after a 64 60 win over Starace-Zeballos in 66-minute final…Is now 4-2 lifetime in finals with Marach.