Luksika Kumkhum
Luksika Kumkhum ( Thai: ลัก ษิ กา คำ ขำ, born July 21, 1993 Chanthaburi ) is a Thai tennis player.
- 2.1 Single
- 2.2 double
Career
Luksika Kumkhum began at the age of four years with the sport of tennis. My favorite surface is hard court. So far, they could ten singles and won eight doubles titles on the ITF Women's Circuit. Since 2012 it also competes on the WTA Tour.
Singles
As of 2010, she played on smaller ITF tournaments in Asia, and in October they celebrated as qualifier her first tournament victory in Pattaya. Even with more tournaments she reached the finals more often. In May 2011, she then won tournaments in Bangkok two titles in a row. In early June they played at the 25,000 - dollar tournament in Bangkok, the final, but lost Marta Sirotkina. Two weeks later, another tournament victory in Pattaya. Until the end of 2011 Kumkhum could still win the tournaments in Kuching and Manila. In February 2012, she first took part in the qualification of a WTA tournament, but in the final round of Kuala Lumpur, she lost in straight sets against Kristyna Pliskova. In July, she won a minor tournament in Pattaya, two weeks later her first single title followed the ITF tournament in Astana. Their first match in the main round of a WTA tournament she completed on September 18, 2012 in Guangzhou, where they clearly lost to be beaten with a wildcard Duan Yingying. On 9 October, she was again in the main draw of a WTA tournament, she lost against Mirjana Lucic just there in three sets.
At the Australian Open 2014 Lumkhum made for a big surprise. She beat in their opening game, the top- ten player and former Wimbledon champion Petra Kvitová in a tight three- set match and pulled so like last year in the second round.
Doubles
In the doubles competition Lumkhum been won eight ITF titles. On the WTA tour, she reached the quarter-finals, but which clearly won the seeded 1 pair Raquel Kops-Jones/Abigail Spears 6:3 and 6:1 on the side of Miki Miyamura in Osaka.