Radoslav Lukaev

Radoslav Lukaev
Радослав Лукаев

Country (sports)	Bulgaria
Born	(1982-04-24) 24 April 1982 (age 42) Burgas, Bulgaria
Height	1.89 m (6 ft 2 in)
Turned pro	2000
Retired	2005
Plays	Right-handed
Prize money	US$ 55,014
Singles
Career record	4–4
Career titles	0 0 Challengers, 4 Futures
Highest ranking	No. 229 (23 September 2002)
Grand Slam singles results
Wimbledon	Q2 (2003)
US Open	1R (2002)
Doubles
Career record	3–2
Career titles	0 1 Challengers, 2 Futures
Highest ranking	No. 301 (5 May 2003)

Radoslav Lukaev (Bulgarian: Радослав Лукаев) (born 24 April 1982) is a former professional tennis player from Bulgaria.^[1]

Lukaev made it into his first Grand Slam event at the 2002 US Open, with wins over Éric Prodon, Jaroslav Levinský and Peter Luczak in the qualifiers. He met Russian Nikolay Davydenko in the first round and lost in four sets.^[2]

He played five Davis Cup ties for Bulgaria, winning seven of his 12 matches, with a 4–3 record in singles and 3–2 record in doubles. In 2005 he was called upon to play the fifth and deciding rubber against Finland's Tuomas Ketola and came out on top, in straight sets.^[3]

Year-end rankings[edit]

Challenger and Futures finals[edit]

Singles: 5 (4–1)[edit]

Result	W–L	Date	Tournament	Tier	Surface	Opponent	Score
Win	1–0	Aug 2001	Latvia F1, Jūrmala	Futures	Clay	Mariusz Fyrstenberg	6–2, 0–6, 6–2
Win	2–0	Aug 2001	Lithuania F1, Vilnius	Futures	Clay	Jon Wallmark	7–6(7–3), 1–6, 6–3
Win	3–0	May 2002	Germany F3, Mannheim	Futures	Clay	Jan Weinzierl	6–3, 1–6, 7–6(7–2)
Loss	3–1	Jun 2002	France F11, Toulon	Futures	Clay	Orlin Stanoytchev	2–6, 6–0, 5–7
Win	4–1	Jun 2005	Turkey F3, Istanbul	Futures	Hard	Predrag Rusevski	6–2, 6–3

Doubles: 10 (3–7)[edit]

Result	W–L	Date	Tournament	Tier	Surface	Partner	Opponents	Score
Loss	0–1	Sep 2000	Sofia, Bulgaria	Challenger	Clay	Luben Pampoulov	Dejan Petrovic Orlin Stanoytchev	2–6, 7–6(7–5), 6–7(6–8)
Loss	0–2	Jul 2001	Macedonia F3, Skopje	Futures	Hard	Predrag Rusevski	Todor Enev Milen Velev	2–6, 5–7
Loss	0–3	Aug 2001	Lithuania F1, Vilnius	Futures	Clay	Mait Künnap	Lauri Kiiski Tero Vilen	2–6, 6–3, 5–7
Win	1–3	Mar 2002	France F8, Melun	Futures	Carpet (i)	Mariusz Fyrstenberg	Todor Enev Dmitry Vlasov	6–2, 6–2
Loss	1–4	May 2002	Germany F3, Mannheim	Futures	Clay	Luben Pampoulov	Florian Jeschonek Ivo Klec	w/o
Loss	1–5	Jun 2002	Germany F7, Trier	Futures	Clay	Hamid Mirzadeh	Bernardo Mota Diego Moyano	6–1, 1–6, 4–6
Loss	1–6	Jun 2002	France F11, Toulon	Futures	Clay	Dmitri Tomashevich	Sylvain Charrier John Thivolle	w/o
Win	2–6	May 2003	New Delhi, India	Challenger	Hard	Dmitry Vlasov	Jonathan Erlich Andy Ram	7–6(8–6), 4–6, 6–2
Win	3–6	Jul 2002	Serbia and Montenegro F4, Belgrade	Futures	Clay	Todor Enev	Stéphane Robert Xavier Audouy	6–4, 6–7(7–9), 6–4
Loss	3–7	Aug 2005	Timișoara, Romania	Challenger	Clay	Ilia Kushev	Ionuț Moldovan Gabriel Moraru	2–6, 0–6

• w/o = Walkover

Davis Cup[edit]

Radoslav Lukaev debuted for the Bulgaria Davis Cup team in 2000. Since then he has 5 nominations with 5 ties played, his singles W/L record is 4–3 and doubles W/L record is 3–2 (7–5 overall).

Singles (4–3)[edit]

Edition	Round	Date	Surface	Opponent	W/L	Result
2003 Europe/Africa Zone Group II	R1	4 April 2003	Carpet (I)	Andrei Dernovskiy	W	6–3, 6–7(6–8), 6–3, 6–2
		6 April 2003		Orest Tereshchuk	L	6–3, 3–6, 6–7(7–9), 3–6
	QF	11 July 2003	Clay	Boris Pašanski	W	3–6, 6–4, 6–7(3–7), 6–4, 6–4
		14 July 2003		Janko Tipsarević	L	3–6, 1–6, 3–6
2005 Europe/Africa Zone Group II	QF	15 July 2005	Clay	Jarkko Nieminen	L	6–7(4–7), 3–6, 2–6
		17 July 2005		Tuomas Ketola	W	7–6(7–5), 6–4, 6–1
	SF	23 September 2005	Hard	Sergei Yaroshenko	W	6–4, 6–4, 7–6(7–4)

Doubles (3–2)[edit]

Edition	Round	Date	Partner	Surface	Opponents	W/L	Result
2000 Europe/Africa Zone Group II	RPO	22 July 2000	Todor Enev	Clay	Jonathan Erlich Harel Levy	W	6–4, 7–5, 7–6(7–5)
2003 Europe/Africa Zone Group II	R1	5 April 2003	Todor Enev	Carpet (I)	Andrei Dernovskiy Orest Tereshchuk	W	6–3, 6–4, 6–4
	QF	13 July 2003	Todor Enev	Clay	Dejan Petrovic Nenad Zimonjić	L	3–6, 1–6, 2–6
2005 Europe/Africa Zone Group II	QF	16 July 2005	Ilia Kushev	Clay	Jarkko Nieminen Lauri Kiiski	W	7–5, 6–3, 6–7(5–7), 6–3
	SF	24 September 2005	Ilia Kushev	Hard	Mikhail Filima Orest Tereshchuk	L	4–6, 2–6, 6–7(3–7)

• RPO = Relegation Play-off

References[edit]

External links[edit]

• Radoslav Lukaev at the Association of Tennis Professionals
• Radoslav Lukaev at the International Tennis Federation
• Radoslav Lukaev at the Davis Cup