Jason Kubler

Jason Kubler

Country (sports)	Australia
Residence	Brisbane, Australia
Born	(1993-05-19) 19 May 1993 Brisbane, Australia
Height	1.79 m (5 ft 10 1⁄2 in)
Turned pro	2010
Plays	Right-handed (two-handed backhand)
Prize money	$105,844
Singles
Career record	1–2 (33.33% in Grand Slam and ATP World Tour main draw matches, and in Davis Cup)
Career titles	0 1 Challenger, 10 Futures
Highest ranking	No. 136 (24 November 2014)
Current ranking	No. 1055 (8 November 2016)
Grand Slam Singles results
Australian Open	1R (2010)
French Open	Q1 (2015)
Wimbledon	Q2 (2015)
US Open	Q1 (2015)
Doubles
Career record	0–1 (Grand Slam, ATP Tour level, and Davis Cup)
Career titles	0
Highest ranking	No. 446 (29 September 2014)
Current ranking	No. 446 (29 September 2014)
Last updated on: 24 January 2016.

Jason Kubler (born 19 May 1993) is a professional tennis player from Australia.

Junior career

In 2009 Kubler was a part of the winning Australian junior Davis Cup team with Luke Saville and Joey Swaysland. Following his success at the junior Davis Cup, Kubler won 5 junior titles in a row which saw his junior ranking rise to No. 3 in the world.

Coming into the 2010 Australian Open junior championships Kubler was named by many as a favourite to win his home Grand Slam and make it three from the last four years to be home grown champions. Although Kubler started the tournament well he fell in the third round to fellow Aussie and eventual runner up Sean Berman. Despite being seeded second and first in Roland Garros and Wimbledon junior tournaments respectively, Kubler did not live up to his seeding, crashing in the second and third round of either tournament.

Kubler received a wildcard entry into his first and only junior tournament of 2011 in the 2011 Wimbledon Championships. Kubler reached the semifinals before falling to local Liam Broady and in doing so recorded his best ever junior result.

As a junior Kubler reached the No. 1 combined world ranking, posting a singles win/loss record of 67-17 (and 42-19 in doubles) in May 2010.

Junior Slam results:

Australian Open: 3R (2010)
French Open: 2R (2010)
Wimbledon: SF (2011)
US Open: 1R (2010)

Junior singles titles (6)

No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Opponent in the final	Score
1.	14 July 2009	Darwin	Hard	Jordan Kelly-Houston	6–3, 6–4
2.	23 August 2009	Lautoka	Hard	William Kwok	6–4, 6–1
3.	19 October 2009	Osaka	Hard	Hiroyasu Ehara	6–0, 4–6, 6–2
4.	26 October 2009	Nanthaburi	Hard	Yasutaka Uchiyama	7–6(7–3), 6–2
5.	3 November 2009	Jeju-Do	Hard	Yasutaka Uchiyama	6–2, 6–4
6.	24 May 2010	Charleroi	Clay	James Duckworth	6–7(3–7), 7–6(7–1), 6–4

Professional career

2008

Kubler played his first senior tournament in September 2008, of the five Australian future tournaments he entered he was able to qualify for one which resulted in a straight sets first round loss to Marinko Matosevic.

2009

2009 saw Kubler again enter Australian future events in which some he qualified for and some he was given a wildcard entry to. After much success on the ITF junior circuit Kubler disappointed with a first round loss in all the Australian future main draws he played.

2010

Kubler in 2010

Kubler began 2010 by entering all the Australian ATP tournaments with the help of wildcards, the events were held in Brisbane, Sydney and the Australian Open in Melbourne. Kubler lost first round in both Brisbane and Sydney qualifying and was defeated in the first round of the Australian Open by Ivan Ljubičić 6-2 6-1 6-1. After disappointment in his debut on the Grand Slam stage, Kubler entered qualifying for the Burnie Challenger where he was defeated in the final round of qualifying by the eventual champion Bernard Tomic.

Kubler then headed to Europe to play a few Spanish clay court futures event, all resulted in non-qualification. Towards the end of April Kubler successfully gained his first ever ATP points in an Australian futures event held in Ipswich and went on to reach the final of the event, losing to Brydan Klein in straight sets. Following a ranking rise due to his finals performance in an Australian future tournament Kubler received direct entry into a clay Dutch futures tournament in June where he was a surprise semifinalist, beating former top 200 player and number 1 seed Matwe Middelkoop in the quarterfinals 6-2 6-4.

In the lead up to the US open juniors tournament Kubler entered an Italian hard court futures tournament where he was seeded eighth. Kubler reached the semifinals of the tournament falling to the top seed from Italy in straight sets. Following his US Open junior efforts Kubler returned to Europe for a month and a half with the highlight being a semifinal in a Portuguese future tournament before returning to Australia to compete in more futures events.

2011

After an injury plagued start to the year Kubler won his first futures tournament in Birmingham, Alambama defeating Yoshihito Nishioka 6-3 6-2 in the final in October. Kubler continued his good form into the following week where he recorded back-to-back titles in Niceville, Florida with a 6-2 6-4 victory over Roman Vogeli in the final.

2012

At the beginning of the year Kubler opted not to enter Australian tournaments being held during January/February and instead chose to enter four consecutive American futures tournaments in Florida. The decision would prove successful for Kubler as he made the final of three out of four tournaments and came out victorious in the last tournament to win his third futures title of his career. Kubler played in Australian futures in March, winning one against John Millman before heading to Europe, where he played three challenger events. His best result being a quarter final loss to Dominik Meffert in the Todi Challenger in September. Following more success on the Futures tour, he reached his career high of #268 on 29 October 2012.

2013

In 2013, Kubler played only Future tournaments and only on clay, throughout USA, Spain, Great Britain, Australia, Italy and Egypt. He made 4 finals and won 3. He finished 2013 with a ranking of #397.

2014: Top 200

Kubler again didn't enter the Australian tournaments in January/February, opting to play Egypt and Spain Futures instead. This would prove successful as he entered 6 tournaments, making the final of 3 and winning 1. He then qualified for the main draw of the challenger events in Panama & Colombia and then competed in Savannah & Tallahassee, making the second round in both. In May, he qualified for the ATP World Tour event in Düsseldorf and lost in the second round to Denis Istomin in three sets, however, this was his first career main draw match win on the ATP World Tour level ^[1] and increased his ranking back into the top 300. in June, Kubler returned to the Futures circuit and defeated the #1 seed Kimmer Coppejans in the final of The Netherlands F3 in Breda. This was his 9th futures title. He broke into the top 200 for the first time on 25 August at #197. In September, Kubler made the quarter final of the Biella Challenger and the following week, he won the Sibiu Challenger.^[2] This was his first Challenger title.^[3] Kubler finished 2014 with an ATP ranking of #140.

2015

Kubler at the 2015 Wimbledon
qualifying tournament

Kubler skipped the Australian leg again, instead playing in the Colombia and Santo Domingo challengers and qualifying rounds of Quito Open before playing in the United States Challengers throughout April; his best result being a quarter-final in Sarasota. In May, Kubler made the second round of Heilbronner Challenger before the French Open, where he lost in round 1 of qualifying to Tim Pütz. In June, Kubler entered the qualifying rounds of Wimbledon, thus his first competitive appearance on grass in three years.^[4] He defeated Rui Machado in straight sets in round 1 but lost in round 2 to Aleksandr Nedovyesov who went on to qualify for the main draw.

Professional Career Finals

Singles: 21 (11–10)

Challenger and Futures Finals: 11 Titles, 10 Runners-up

Outcome	No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Opponent in the final	Score in the final
Runner-up	1.	000000002010-05-02-00002 May 2010	Ipswich, Australia	Clay	Brydan Klein	3–6, 4–6
Winner	2.	000000002011-10-30-000030 October 2011	Birmingham, USA	Clay	Yoshihito Nishioka	6–3, 6–2
Winner	3.	000000002011-11-06-00006 November 2011	Niceville, USA	Clay	Roman Vogeli	6–2, 6–4
Runner-up	4.	000000002012-01-15-000015 January 2012	Plantation, USA	Clay	Jack Sock	1–6, 6–7(5–7)
Runner-up	5.	000000002012-01-29-000029 January 2012	Weston, USA	Clay	Brian Baker	5–7, 3–6
Winner	6.	000000002012-02-05-00005 February 2012	Palm Coast, USA	Clay	Rhyne Williams	6–2, 6–3
Runner-up	7.	000000002012-03-25-000025 March 2012	Ipswich, Australia	Clay	Samuel Groth	7–5, 3–6, 2–6
Winner	8.	000000002012-04-01-00001 April 2012	Bundaberg, Australia	Clay	John Millman	6–4, 1–6, 6–1
Runner-up	9.	000000002012-07-01-00001 July 2012	Izmir, Turkey	Clay	Lorenzo Giustino	4–6, 6–3, 5–7
Runner-up	10.	000000002012-09-30-000030 September 2012	Sevilla, Spain	Clay	Gerard Granollers-Pujol	0–6, 6–4, 1–6
Runner-up	11.	000000002013-03-31-000031 March 2013	Bundaberg, Australia	Clay	James Duckworth	6–7(9–11), 2–6
Winner	12.	000000002013-04-20-000020 April 2013	Padova, Italy	Clay	Jordi Samper-Montaña	6–1, 6–4
Winner	13.	000000002013-11-02-00002 November 2013	Madrid, Spain	Clay	Jean-Marc Werner	7–6(7–5), 6–0
Winner	14.	000000002013-12-15-000015 December 2013	Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt	Clay	Sherif Sabri	7–5, 6–3
Runner-up	15.	000000002014-02-02-00002 February 2014	Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt	Clay	Stefano Travaglia	0–6, 0–6
Winner	16.	000000002014-02-09-00009 February 2014	Paguera, Spain	Clay	Peter Heller	6–4, 6–4
Runner-up	17.	000000002014-02-16-000016 February 2014	Paguera, Spain	Clay	Oriol Roca Batalla	6–2, 3–6, 3–6
Winner	18.	000000002014-06-29-000029 June 2014	Breda, The Netherlands	Clay	Kimmer Coppejans	6–3, 6–7(8–6), 6–3
Winner	19.	000000002014-07-27-000027 July 2014	Fano, Italy	Clay	Daniele Giorgini	6–1, 5–7, 6–3
Winner	20.	000000002014-09-28-000028 September 2014	Sibiu, Romania	Clay	Radu Albot	6–4, 6–1
Runner-up	21.	000000002014-11-23-000023 November 2014	Lima, Peru	Clay	Guido Pella	2–6, 4–6

References

External links

• Jason Kubler at the Association of Tennis Professionals
• Jason Kubler at the International Tennis Federation
• Jason Kubler at the International Tennis Federation Junior Profile
• The Age Feature on Jason Kubler