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Lukáš Klein
Klein at the 2023 Wimbledon Championships
Country (sports) Slovakia
ResidenceSpišská Nová Ves, Slovakia
Born (1998-03-22) 22 March 1998 (age 26)
Spišská Nová Ves, Slovakia[1]
Height1.93 m (6 ft 4 in)
PlaysRight-handed
CoachKarol Kučera
Prize money$788,536
Singles
Career record11–19
Career titles0
Highest rankingNo. 109 (5 August 2024)
Current rankingNo. 119 (7 October 2024)
Grand Slam singles results
Australian Open2R (2024)
French OpenQ2 (2023)
Wimbledon1R (2022)
US OpenQ3 (2023)
Other tournaments
Olympic Games1R (2021)
Doubles
Career record4–2
Career titles0
Highest rankingNo. 240 (5 April 2021)
Other doubles tournaments
Olympic Games2R (2021)
Last updated on: 9 October 2024.

Lukáš Klein (born 22 March 1998) is a Slovak professional tennis player. Klein has a career-high ATP singles ranking of world No. 109, achieved on 5 August 2024. He also has a career-high doubles ranking of No. 240, achieved on 5 April 2021.[2] He is currently the No. 2 Slovak tennis player in singles.[3]

Klein has reached 15 career singles finals, with a record of 9 wins and 6 losses, including 3 ATP Challenger titles. Additionally, he has reached 11 career doubles finals, with a record of 5 wins and 6 losses, including a 1–3 result in Challenger finals.

Career

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2021: ATP & top 250 & Olympics debut

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Klein won the doubles title at the 2021 Challenger La Manche with compatriot Alex Molčan 1–6, 7–5, [10–6].

Klein made his ATP main draw singles debut in March at the 2021 Argentina Open, where he defeated Andrea Collarini, Thiago Seyboth Wild and Ernesto Escobedo to qualify for the main draw. Klein then went on to upset compatriot Andrej Martin in straight sets. He would go on to lose in the second round to top seed, local favourite and eventual champion Diego Schwartzman in straight sets.[4]

He reached the top 250 at World No. 248 in singles on 28 June 2021 after reaching the second round also as a qualifier at the 2021 Mallorca Championships by defeating 8th seed Dušan Lajović, for his second ATP win for the season and in his career.

At the Olympics, Klein was entered as an alternate for Matteo Berrettini, who had withdrawn due to a thigh injury.[5][6] He also participated in the doubles event partnering Filip Polášek and reaching the second round.

2022: First Challenger title, top 150 debut

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In May, he won his first Challenger at the 2022 Saturn Oil Open in Troisdorf, Germany as a qualifier without dropping a set.[7]

He qualified for the 2022 Wimbledon Championships making his Grand Slam debut.[8] He lost to wildcard Liam Broady in five sets.

He reached his second Challenger final in Alicante and won the title. As a result, he moved more than 40 positions up to a new career-high in the top 180 on 10 October 2022. Following his third final in Ortisei, Italy he moved 17 positions up into the top 150 at No. 146 on 31 October 2022.

2023-24: first Major and Masters wins, Slovak No. 1

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He qualified for and reached back-to-back finals at the 2023 Sparkassen ATP Challenger in Ortisei, Italy. He won his third Challenger title defeating Maks Kaśnikowski.

In January 2024, he qualified for the 2024 Brisbane International and defeated sixth seed Sebastián Báez for his first ATP win of the season and only third in his career. Ranked No. 163, he qualified for the 2024 Australian Open making his debut at this tournament and recorded his first Major win over Kwon Soon-woo. In the next round, he took sixth seed Alexander Zverev to five sets before losing the match in a fifth set tiebreak.[9]

He qualified for the 2024 BNP Paribas Open making his Masters debut and recorded his first win at this level over Nicolas Moreno de Alboran. As a result he moved to a new career high in the top 130 and became the Slovak No. 1 player.[10] Next he qualified for another Masters, the 2024 Miami Open defeating Benoit Paire and Jakub Menšík. He lost to Alex Michelsen in the first round. As a result he reached the top 120 in the rankings at world No. 116 on 1 April 2024.

He qualified for his third Masters of the season at the 2024 Mutua Madrid Open and recorded his first win at the tournament and only second at this level, over fellow qualifier Pablo Llamas Ruiz before losing to 15th seed Tommy Paul.[11]

Performance timelines

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Key
W  F  SF QF #R RR Q# P# DNQ A Z# PO G S B NMS NTI P NH
(W) winner; (F) finalist; (SF) semifinalist; (QF) quarterfinalist; (#R) rounds 4, 3, 2, 1; (RR) round-robin stage; (Q#) qualification round; (P#) preliminary round; (DNQ) did not qualify; (A) absent; (Z#) Davis/Fed Cup Zonal Group (with number indication) or (PO) play-off; (G) gold, (S) silver or (B) bronze Olympic/Paralympic medal; (NMS) not a Masters tournament; (NTI) not a Tier I tournament; (P) postponed; (NH) not held; (SR) strike rate (events won / competed); (W–L) win–loss record.
To avoid confusion and double counting, these charts are updated at the conclusion of a tournament or when the player's participation has ended.

Singles

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Tournament 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024 W–L Win %
Grand Slam tournaments
Australian Open A A A Q1 2R 1–1 50%
French Open A A A Q2 Q1 0–0  – 
Wimbledon NH A 1R Q2 Q2 0–1 0%
US Open A A A Q3 Q1 0–0  – 
Win–loss 0–0 0–0 0–1 0–0 1–1 1–2 33%
ATP Masters 1000 tournaments
Indian Wells Masters NH A A A 2R 1–1 50%
Miami Open NH A A Q2 1R 0–1 0%
Monte-Carlo Masters NH A A A A 0–0  – 
Madrid Open NH A A Q1 2R 1–1 50%
Italian Open A A A A A 0–0  – 
Canadian Open NH A A A 0–0  – 
Cincinnati Masters A A A A 0–0  – 
Shanghai Masters NH A 0–0  – 
Paris Masters A A A A 0–0  – 
Win–loss 0–0 0–0 0–0 0–0 2–3 2–3 40%
Career statistics
2020 2021 2022 2023 2024 Career
Tournaments 0 3
Titles / Finals 0 / 0 0 / 0 0 / 0 0 / 0 0 / 0 0 / 0
Overall win–loss 0–0 2–4 0–1 0–3 5–5 7–13 35%
Year-end ranking

ATP Challenger and ITF Tour finals

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Singles: 15 (9–6)

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Legend
ATP Challenger (3–2)
ITF Futures (6–4)
Finals by surface
Hard (6–2)
Clay (3–3)
Grass (0–0)
Carpet (0–1)
Result W–L    Date    Tournament Tier Surface Opponent Score
Loss 0–1 Aug 2017 Slovakia F2, Piešťany Futures Clay France Grégoire Jacq 4–6, 6–3, 3–6
Loss 0–2 Aug 2017 Slovakia F3, Bratislava Futures Clay Slovakia Filip Horansky 4–6, 4–6
Loss 0–3 Oct 2017 Czech Republic F7, Jablonec nad Nisou Futures Carpet Czech Republic Patrik Rikl 4–6, 2–6
Win 1–3 Mar 2018 Egypt F9, Sharm El Sheikh Futures Hard Slovakia Patrik Nema 2–6, 6–3, 6–3
Win 2–3 Mar 2019 M15 Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt World Tennis Tour Hard Italy Jacopo Berrettini 6–4, 6–4
Win 3–3 Apr 2019 M15 Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt World Tennis Tour Hard Poland Daniel Michalski 6–2, 6–3
Win 4–3 Apr 2019 M15 Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt World Tennis Tour Hard Switzerland Jakub Paul 6–4, 6–3
Loss 4–4 Jun 2019 M25 Pardubice, Czech Republic World Tennis Tour Clay France Manuel Guinard 4–6, 7–5, 6–7(6–8)
Win 5–4 Jul 2019 M15 Piešťany, Slovakia World Tennis Tour Clay Hungary Fabian Marozsan 6–1, 4–6, 6–1
Win 6–4 Sep 2019 M15 Bratislava, Slovakia World Tennis Tour Clay Russia Kirill Kivattsev 7–6(7–3), 6–3
Win 7–4 May 2022 Troisdorf, Germany Challenger Clay Belgium Zizou Bergs 6–1, 6–4
Win 8–4 Oct 2022 Alicante, Spain Challenger Hard Dominican Republic Nick Hardt 6–3, 6–4
Loss 8–5 Oct 2022 Ortisei, Italy Challenger Hard (i) Croatia Borna Gojo 6–7(4–7), 3–6
Loss 8–6 Sep 2023 Istanbul, Turkey Challenger Hard Bosnia and Herzegovina Damir Džumhur 6–7(5–7), 3–6
Win 9–6 Oct 2023 Ortisei, Italy Challenger Hard (i) Poland Maks Kaśnikowski 6–7(4–7), 7–6(7–4), 7–6(8–6)

Doubles: 11 (5–6)

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Legend
ATP Challenger (1–3)
ITF Futures (4–3)
Finals by surface
Hard (3–2)
Clay (1–3)
Grass (0–0)
Carpet (1–1)
Result W–L    Date    Tournament Tier Surface Partner Opponents Score
Win 1–0 Feb 2016 Turkey F6, Antalya Futures Hard Slovakia Alex Molčan Ukraine V. Alekseenko
Portugal F. Ferreira Silva 		7–6(9–7), 7–6(7–5)
Win 2–0 Oct 2016 Czech Republic F8, Jablonec nad Nisou Futures Carpet Slovakia Patrik Nema Czech Republic Matej Vocel
Czech Republic Pavel Motl 		6–1, 6–3
Loss 2–1 Oct 2016 Czech Republic F9, Opava Futures Carpet Slovakia Patrik Nema Poland P. Matuszewski
Poland Grzegorz Panfil 		1–6, 3–6
Win 3–1 Apr 2017 Greece F4, Heraklion Futures Hard Slovakia Patrik Nema United States H. Callahan
United States Nicholas S.Hu 		6–4, 6–2
Loss 3–2 Jul 2017 Slovakia F1, Trnava Futures Clay Slovakia Patrik Nema Ukraine P. Kekercheni
Ukraine D. Kalenichenko 		2–6, 7–5, [8–10]
Loss 3–3 Apr 2019 M15 Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt World Tennis Tour Hard Czech Republic Marek Jaloviec Poland Michal Dembek
Poland Daniel Michalski 		2–6, 6–3, [8–10]
Loss 3–4 Jun 2019 Bratislava, Slovakia Challenger Clay Slovakia Alex Molčan Belgium Joran Vliegen
Belgium Sander Gillé 		2–6, 5–7
Win 4–4 Sep 2020 M15 Jablonec, Czech Republic World Tennis Tour Clay Belarus Uladzimir Ignatik Czech Republic Filip Duda
Czech Republic Petr Nouza 		6–3, 7–6(7–4)
Loss 4–5 Nov 2020 Bratislava, Slovakia Challenger Hard Slovakia Alex Molčan Finland Harri Heliövaara
Finland Emil Ruusuvuori 		4–6, 3–6
Win 5–5 Feb 2021 Cherbourg, France Challenger Hard Slovakia Alex Molčan France Albano Olivetti
France Antoine Hoang 		1–6, 7–5, [10–6]
Loss 5–6 Mar 2021 Zadar, Croatia Challenger Clay Slovakia Alex Molčan Slovenia Blaž Kavčič
Slovenia Blaž Rola 		6–2, 3–6, [3–10]

Junior Grand Slam finals

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Doubles: 1 (1 runner-up)

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Result Year To Surface Partner Opponent Score
Runner-up 2016 Australian Open Hard Czech Republic Patrik Rikl Australia Alex de Minaur
Australia Blake Ellis 		6–3, 5–7, [10–12]

References

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  1. ^ "Tennis – Lukas Klein (Slovakia)". Archived from the original on 11 May 2022. Retrieved 4 March 2021.
  2. ^ "Lukas Klein | Overview". Archived from the original on 11 May 2022. Retrieved 13 February 2021.
  3. ^ "Rankings | Singles". ATP Tour. Archived from the original on 22 July 2024. Retrieved 17 February 2024.
  4. ^ "Nad jednotkou turnaja viedol 4:2. Klein si však štvrťfinále nezahrá". Pravda (in Slovak). 5 March 2021. Retrieved 5 March 2021.
  5. ^ "OH: Klein v Tokiu aj v dvojhre! | tenisové turnaje". Archived from the original on 19 July 2021. Retrieved 26 July 2021.
  6. ^ "Italy's Berrettini out of Games due to thigh injury". 18 July 2021. Archived from the original on 18 July 2021. Retrieved 26 July 2021.
  7. ^ "Challenger Tour Weekly Recap: Lukas Klein Gets his Maiden Title". 30 May 2022. Archived from the original on 28 November 2022. Retrieved 28 November 2022.
  8. ^ "Kubler, Sock, 2012 Nadal Conqueror Rosol Among Wimbledon Qualifiers | ATP Tour | Tennis". Archived from the original on 2 October 2022. Retrieved 24 June 2022.
  9. ^ "Zverev avoids shock Australian Open upset by qualifier Klein". Reuters. Archived from the original on 18 January 2024. Retrieved 5 March 2024.
  10. ^ "ATP Rankings". Archived from the original on 22 July 2024. Retrieved 19 March 2024.
  11. ^ "Ready (in) '24: Tommy Paul turns injury break into clay-court training bloc, aims to peak at Roland Garros". 26 April 2024. Archived from the original on 22 July 2024. Retrieved 21 May 2024.
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