Radoslav Lukaev

Radoslav Lukaev
Радослав Лукаев

Country (sports)	Bulgaria
Born	(1982-04-24) 24 April 1982 Burgas, Bulgaria
Height	1.89 m (6 ft 2 1⁄2 in)
Turned pro	2000
Retired	2005
Plays	Right-handed
Prize money	$55,014
Singles
Career record	4–4 (at Grand Slam-level, ATP World Tour-level, and in Davis Cup)
Career titles	0 ATP, 4 ITF
Highest ranking	No. 229 (23 September 2002)
Grand Slam Singles results
Wimbledon	Q2 (2003)
US Open	1R (2002)
Doubles
Career record	3–2 (at Grand Slam-level, ATP World Tour-level, and in Davis Cup)
Career titles	0 ATP, 3 ITF
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

Futures and Challenger finals: 15 (7–8)

Singles: 5 (4–1)

Outcome	No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Opponent in the final	Score in the final
Winner	1.	12 August 2001	Jūrmala, Latvia ITF Futures $10,000	Clay	Mariusz Fyrstenberg	6–2, 0–6, 6–2
Winner	2.	19 August 2001	Vilnius, Lithuania ITF Futures $10,000	Clay	Jon Wallmark	7–6(7–3), 1–6, 6–3
Winner	3.	12 May 2002	Mannheim, Germany ITF Futures $15,000	Clay	Jan Weinzierl	6–3, 1–6, 7–6(7–2)
Runner-up	1.	30 June 2002	Toulon, France ITF Futures $15,000	Clay	Orlin Stanoytchev	2–6, 6–0, 5–7
Winner	4.	26 June 2005	Istanbul, Turkey ITF Futures $10,000	Hard	Predrag Rusevski	6–2, 6–3

Doubles: 10 (3–7)

Outcome	No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Partner	Opponents in the final	Score in the final
Runner-up	1.	10 September 2000	Sofia, Bulgaria ATP Challenger $25,000	Clay	Luben Pampoulov	Dejan Petrovic Orlin Stanoytchev	2–6, 7–6(7–5), 6–7(6–8)
Runner-up	2.	1 July 2001	Skopje, Macedonia ITF Futures $10,000	Hard	Predrag Rusevski	Todor Enev Milen Velev	2–6, 5–7
Runner-up	3.	19 August 2001	Vilnius, Lithuania ITF Futures $10,000	Clay	Mait Künnap	Lauri Kiiski Tero Vilen	2–6, 6–3, 5–7
Winner	1.	31 March 2002	Melun, France ITF Futures $15,000	Carpet (I)	Mariusz Fyrstenberg	Todor Enev Dmitry Vlasov	6–2, 6–2
Runner-up	4.	12 May 2002	Mannheim, Germany ITF Futures $15,000	Clay	Luben Pampoulov	Florian Jeschonek Ivo Klec	W/O
Runner-up	5.	16 June 2002	Trier, Germany ITF Futures $15,000	Clay	Hamid Mirzadeh	Bernardo Mota Diego Moyano	6–1, 1–6, 4–6
Runner-up	6.	30 June 2002	Toulon, France ITF Futures $15,000	Clay	Dmitri Tomashevich	Sylvain Charrier John Thivolle	W/O
Winner	2.	3 May 2003	New Delhi, India ATP Challenger $25,000	Hard	Dmitry Vlasov	Jonathan Erlich Andy Ram	7–6(8–6), 4–6, 6–2
Winner	3.	20 July 2003	Belgrade, Serbia and Montenegro ITF Futures $10,000	Clay	Todor Enev	Stéphane Robert Xavier Audouy	6–4, 6–7(7–9), 6–4
Runner-up	7.	7 August 2005	Timișoara, Romania ATP Challenger $25,000	Clay	Ilia Kushev	Ionuț Moldovan Gabriel Moraru	2–6, 0–6

• W/O = Walkover

Davis Cup

Radoslav Lukaev debuted for the Bulgaria Davis Cup team in 2000. Since then he has a 4–3 singles record and a 3–2 doubles record (7–5 overall).

Singles (4–3)

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)

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

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