Kacper Żuk

Kacper Żuk (born 21 January 1999) is a Polish professional tennis player.

Kacper Żuk
Żuk at the 2022 French Open
Country (sports) Poland
ResidenceNowy Dwór Mazowiecki, Poland
Born (1999-01-21) 21 January 1999
Nowy Dwór Mazowiecki, Poland
Height1.83 m (6 ft 0 in)
Turned pro2016
PlaysRight-handed (two-handed backhand)
CoachJerzy Janowicz
Prize moneyUS $359,298
Singles
Career record3–7 (30.0% in ATP Tour and Grand Slam main draw matches, and in Davis Cup)
Career titles0
Highest rankingNo. 162 (13 September 2021)
Current rankingNo. 301 (2 October 2023)
Grand Slam singles results
Australian OpenQ1 (2022)
French OpenQ1 (2021, 2022)
WimbledonQ2 (2021)
US OpenQ2 (2021)
Doubles
Career record0–0
Career titles0
Highest rankingNo. 278 (9 May 2022)
Current rankingNo. 421 (24 April 2023)
Last updated on: 30 September 2023.

Żuk has a career high ATP singles ranking of World No. 162 achieved on 13 September 2021. He also has a career-high ATP doubles ranking of World No. 278, achieved on 9 May 2022.

Żuk has reached ten career singles finals with a record of 11 wins and 3 losses, which includes a 1–2 record in ATP Challenger Tour finals. Additionally, he has reached 21 career doubles finals, with a record of 12 wins and 9 losses all but one occurring at the ITF Futures level.

Tennis career

2020–21: First Challenger title and top 200

Żuk made his ATP debut at the 2020 ATP Cup, where he represented Poland in a singles match, losing to Marin Čilić of team Croatia.[1]

He ended the 2020 season with back-to-back ITF World Tennis Tour titles at Hamburg and Vale do Lobo.[2]

He reached his first Challenger final in March 2021 and in April won his first Challenger title at the 2021 Split Open II in Croatia. As a result, he reached the top 200 on 19 April 2021 and a career-high of No. 162 on 13 September 2021.

2022–23: United Cup debut

He played his first match at the 2023 United Cup as the Polish No. 3 male player in the semifinals against Frances Tiafoe and lost in straight sets.

Grand Slam performance timeline

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.

Current through the 2023 US Open qualifying

Singles

Tournament 2021 2022 2023 SR W–L Win %
Australian Open A Q1 A 0 / 0 0–0   
French Open Q1 Q1 A 0 / 0 0–0   
Wimbledon Q2 Q1 A 0 / 0 0–0   
US Open Q2 A A 0 / 0 0–0   
Win–loss 0–0 0 / 0 0–0   

ATP Challenger and ITF Futures Finals

Singles: 15 (12 titles, 3 runner-ups)

Legend (singles)
ATP Challenger Tour (1–2)
ITF World Tennis Tour (11–1)
Finals by surface
Hard (8–3)
Clay (3–0)
Grass (0–0)
Carpet (1–0)
Result W–L    Date    Tournament Tier Surface Opponent Score
Win 1–0 Mar 2019 M15 Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt World Tennis Tour Hard Spain Pablo Vivero Gonzalez 7–6(7–2), 6–3
Win 2–0 May 2019 M15 Troisdorf, Germany World Tennis Tour Clay Belgium Jeroen Vanneste 7–5, 6–1
Win 3–0 Sep 2019 M25 Stockholm, Sweden World Tennis Tour Hard (i) Netherlands Botic van de Zandschulp 4–6, 6–4, 6–3
Loss 3–1 Oct 2019 M15 Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt World Tennis Tour Hard Spain Pablo Vivero Gonzalez 4–6, 6–4, 5–7
Win 4–1 Feb 2020 M25 Barnstaple, Great Britain World Tennis Tour Hard (i) Belgium Christopher Heyman 7–6(7–3), 6–3
Win 5–1 Aug 2020 M25 Poznań, Poland World Tennis Tour Clay Bulgaria Dimitar Kuzmanov 7–6(8–6), 6–1
Win 6–1 Oct 2020 M25 Hamburg, Germany World Tennis Tour Hard (i) Chinese Taipei Tseng Chun-hsin 6–4, 7–6(7–4)
Win 7–1 Oct 2020 M25 Vale do Lobo, Portugal World Tennis Tour Hard Portugal Nuno Borges 6–4, 6–3
Loss 7–2 Mar 2021 Saint Petersburg, Russia Challenger Hard (i) Russia Evgenii Tiurnev 4–6, 2–6
Win 8–2 Apr 2021 Split, Croatia Challenger Clay France Mathias Bourgue 6–4, 6–2
Loss 8–3 Mar 2022 Biel/Bienne, Switzerland Challenger Hard (i) Austria Jurij Rodionov 6–7(3–7), 4–6
Win 9–3 Aug 2022 M25 Tbilisi, Georgia World Tennis Tour Hard Georgia (country) Aleksandre Metreveli 6–2, 6–4
Win 10–3 Sep 2022 M25 Falun, Sweden World Tennis Tour Hard (i) Sweden Karl Friberg 6–3, 6–3
Win 11–3 Nov 2022 M25 Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt World Tennis Tour Hard United Kingdom Alastair Gray 6–4, 6–4
Win 12–3 Mar 2023 M25 Trimbach, Switzerland World Tennis Tour Carpet (i) Kazakhstan Beibit Zhukayev 6–4, 6–4

Doubles: 21 (12 titles, 10 runner-ups)

Legend (singles)
ATP Challenger Tour (0–2)
ITF World Tennis Tour (12–8)
Finals by surface
Hard (5–9)
Clay (6–1)
Grass (0–0)
Carpet (1–0)
Result W–L    Date    Tournament Tier Surface Partner Opponents Score
Win 1–0 Jun 2016 Poland F3, Sopot Futures Clay Poland Piotr Matuszewski Poland Andriej Kapaś
Poland Adam Majchrowicz
7–6(7–5), 6–3
Win 2–0 Oct 2016 Egypt F27, Sharm El Sheikh Futures Hard Poland Piotr Matuszewski Italy Antonio Massara
Italy Andrea Vavassori
6–3, 6–2
Win 3–0 Nov 2016 Egypt F34, Sharm El Sheikh Futures Hard Poland Piotr Matuszewski Poland Szymon Walków
Poland Kamil Gajewski
3–6, 6–2, [10–7]
Loss 3–1 Apr 2017 Egypt F11, Sharm El Sheikh Futures Hard Poland Piotr Matuszewski Netherlands Gijs Brouwer
Netherlands Jelle Sels
5–7, 1–6
Win 4–1 Oct 2017 Egypt F27, Sharm El Sheikh Futures Hard Poland Piotr Matuszewski Czech Republic Tomas Papik
Czech Republic Marek Gengel
6–2, 6–2
Win 5–1 Aug 2018 Poland F6, Koszalin Futures Clay Poland Jan Zieliński Poland Pawel Cias
Poland Michal Dembek
6–2, 6–2
Win 6–1 Sep 2018 Netherlands F6, Haren Futures Clay Poland Yann Wojcik Netherlands Stephan Gerritsen
Netherlands Maikel Borg
4–6, 6–4, [10–3]
Loss 6–2 Oct 2018 Egypt F21, Sharm El Sheikh Futures Hard Switzerland Adam Moundir Italy Marco Brugnerotto
Spain David Pérez Sanz
6–3, 2–6, [7–10]
Loss 6–3 Nov 2018 Egypt F28, Sharm El Sheikh Futures Hard Egypt Adham Gaber Venezuela Jordi Muñoz Abreu
Spain David Pérez Sanz
3–6, 2–6
Loss 6–4 Jan 2019 M15 Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt World Tennis Tour Hard Czech Republic David Poljak Chinese Taipei Hsu Yu Hsiou
Japan Shintaro Imai
2–6, 0–6
Loss 6–5 Mar 2019 M15 Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt World Tennis Tour Hard Poland Daniel Michalski Ukraine Marat Deviatiarov
Switzerland Jakub Paul
3–6, 4–6
Loss 6–6 Jun 2019 M15 Tabarka, Tunisia World Tennis Tour Clay Poland Daniel Michalski United Kingdom Barnaby Smith
United Kingdom Toby Martin
7–5, 1–6, [8–10]
Win 7–6 Jul 2019 M15 Wrocław, Poland World Tennis Tour Clay Poland Jan Zieliński Poland Piotr Galus
Poland Jan Galka
6–4, 6–3
Win 8–6 Sep 2019 M15 Antalya, Turkey World Tennis Tour Clay Poland Jan Zieliński India Adil Kalyanpur
Canada Kelsey Stevenson
3–6, 6–1, [10–8]
Loss 8–7 Sep 2019 M25 Stockholm, Sweden World Tennis Tour Hard Poland Jan Zieliński Sweden Filip Bergevi
France Florian Lakat
3–6, 6–7(3–7)
Win 9–7 Nov 2019 M15 Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt World Tennis Tour Hard Poland Jan Zieliński Spain P Vivero Gonzalez
Chinese Taipei Yu Cheng-Yu
6–3, 6–1
Loss 9–8 Nov 2019 M15 Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt World Tennis Tour Hard Poland Piotr Matuszewski Kazakhstan Sagadat Ayap
Germany Kai Lemstra
1–6, 6–7(2–7)
Win 10–8 Jan 2020 M25 Nussloch, Germany World Tennis Tour Carpet Poland Jan Zieliński Germany Johannes Härteis
Germany Peter Heller
6–3, 6–4
Win 11–8 Feb 2020 M25 Barnstaple, Great Britain World Tennis Tour Hard Poland Jan Zieliński United Kingdom Evan Hoyt
United Kingdom Luke Johnson
6–3, 7–6(7–5)
Win 12–8 Aug 2020 M25 Poznań, Poland World Tennis Tour Clay Poland Jan Zieliński Poland Mikolaj Lorens
Poland Wojciech Marek
7–5, 6–2
Loss 12–9 Feb 2022 Pau, France Challenger Hard (i) Poland Karol Drzewiecki France Albano Olivetti
Spain David Vega Hernández
w/o
Loss 12–10 Feb 2023 Cherbourg, France Challenger Hard (i) Poland Karol Drzewiecki Ivan Liutarevich
Ukraine Vladyslav Manafov
6–7(10–12), 6–7(7–9)

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