Luksika Kumkhum

Luksika "Luk" Kumkhum (Thai: ลักษิกา คำขำ; RTGS: Laksika Khamkham; born 21 July 1993) is a Thai tennis player. She turned professional in 2011, and reached her career-high singles ranking of world No. 66 on 19 November 2018. On 16 July 2018, she peaked at No. 86 of the WTA doubles rankings.

Luksika Kumkhum
ลักษิกา คำขำ
Luksika Kumkhum at the 2014 Wimbledon Championships
Country (sports) Thailand
ResidenceBangkok
Born (1993-07-21) 21 July 1993
Chanthaburi
Height1.67 m (5 ft 5 1⁄2 in)
Turned pro2011
PlaysRight-handed (two-handed both sides)
CoachLersak Kumkhum (her father)
Prize money$1,138,199
Singles
Career record317–162 (66.2%)
Career titles2 WTA 125K, 15 ITF
Highest rankingNo. 66 (19 November 2018)
Current rankingNo.634 (20 January 2020)
Grand Slam Singles results
Australian Open3R (2018)
French Open1R (2014, 2018, 2019)
Wimbledon2R (2018)
US OpenQ2 (2014)
Doubles
Career record140–93 (60.1%)
Career titles12 ITF
Highest rankingNo. 86 (16 July 2018)
Current rankingNo. 494 (20 January 2020)
Grand Slam Doubles results
Australian Open1R (2019)
Wimbledon2R (2018)
Team competitions
Fed Cup18–8
Last updated on: 27 January 2020.

Career

In 2010, Kumkhum had won one ITF event in singles but three events in doubles. The next year she won five singles ITF events, all 10Ks, and two in doubles. In 2012, she won two singles and two doubles ITF events.

2013

In 2013, she cracked the top 200 and started to play on the WTA Tour as well as the ITF Women's Circuit. Kumkhum qualified for the Australian Open where she defeated Sofia Arvidsson in the first round, she was then beaten by Jamie Hampton. She played the Malaysian Open where she qualified for the tournament and reached the quarterfinals defeating Olivia Rogowska and Eleni Daniilidou en route before falling to Ayumi Morita in the quarterfinals, she also reached the semifinals of the tournament where she partnered with Erika Sema, falling to Janette Husárová and Zhang Shuai in the semifinals. In April, she won the 25K event in Phuket, defeating Lisa Whybourn in the finals. She played the Roland Garros qualifying event where she defeated Zarina Diyas before falling to Sandra Záhlavová in the second qualifying round. She then suffered first-round losses at Nottingham, Birmingham and Wimbledon. Kumkhum's next event was the 100K event, President's Cup in Astana, where she defeated Eugeniya Pashkova, Noppawan Lertcheewakarn in the second round, and Ekaterina Bychkova in the quarterfinals before she lost to Nadiya Kichenok in the semifinals. In the doubles event she and Tamarine Tanasugarn reached the final before falling to first-seeds Nina Bratchikova and Valeria Solovyeva.

2014

At the Australian Open, Kumkhum, ranked 87 in the world, caused a major upset when she defeated former Wimbledon champion Petra Kvitová in the first round, in three sets. This was the first time ever that Kumkhum had ever faced a top-ten opponent in her career.[1] She then suffered first-round loss at the Pattaya Open from Julia Görges 4–6, 4–6.

2018

Having qualified for the Australian Open, Kumkhum has progressed to the third round of a Grand Slam tournament for the first time. In the second round, she defeated former top-ten player Belinda Bencic, 6–1, 6–3.[2]

WTA finals

Doubles: 1 (1 runner-up)
Legend
Grand Slam tournaments (0–0)
Premier Mandatory & Premier 5 (0–0)
Premier (0–0)
International (0–1)
Finals by surface
Hard (0–1)
Grass (0–0)
Clay (0–0)
Carpet (0–0)
Result W–L Date Tournament Tier Surface Partner Opponents Score
Loss 0–1 Sep 2017 Korea Open, Seoul, South Korea International Hard Peangtarn Plipuech Kiki Bertens
Johanna Larsson		 1–6, 4–6

WTA 125K series finals

Singles: 2 (2 titles)
Result W–L    Date    Tournament Surface Opponent Score
Win 1–0 Nov 2018 Mumbai, India Hard Irina Khromacheva 1–6, 6–2, 6–3
Win 2–0 Nov 2018 Taipei, Taiwan Carpet (i) Sabine Lisicki 6–1, 6–3

ITF Circuit finals

Singles (15–9)
Legend
$100,000 tournaments
$75,000 tournaments
$50,000 tournaments
$25,000 tournaments
$10,000 tournaments
Finals by surface
Hard (14–8)
Clay (0–0)
Grass (0–0)
Carpet (1–1)
Outcome No. Date Tournament Surface Opponent Score
Winner 1. 16 October 2010 Pattaya, Thailand Hard Emma Flood 6–4, 6–3
Runner-up 1. 23 October 2010 Khon Kaen, Thailand Hard Zhu Lin 3–6, 2–6
Runner-up 2. 7 November 2010 Manila, Philippines Hard Piia Suomalainen 3–6, 3–6
Runner-up 3. 4 December 2010 Mandya, India Hard Anastasiya Vasylyeva 2–6, 6–3, 2–6
Winner 2. 7 May 2011 Bangkok, Thailand Hard Ayu Fani Damayanti 6–2, 6–2
Winner 3. 14 May 2011 Bangkok, Thailand Hard Peangtarn Plipuech 6–1, 6–0
Runner-up 4. 4 June 2011 Bangkok, Thailand Hard Marta Sirotkina 4–6, 3–6
Winner 4. 18 June 2011 Pattaya, Thailand Hard Liang Chen 6–3, 6–4
Runner-up 5. 2 July 2011 Pattaya, Thailand Hard Liang Chen 6–2, 6–7(6), 5–7
Winner 5. 6 November 2011 Kuching, Malaysia Hard Nungnadda Wannasuk 7–6(3), 6–3
Winner 6. 20 November 2011 Manila, Philippines Hard Zhao Yijing 4–6, 6–4, 6–2
Winner 7. 7 July 2012 Pattaya, Thailand Hard Nungnadda Wannasuk 6–2, 6–2
Winner 8. 22 July 2012 Astana, Kazakhstan Hard Nudnida Luangnam 3–6, 6–3, 6–3
Winner 9. 28 April 2013 Phuket, Thailand Hard Lisa Whybourn 6–0, 7–5
Winner 10. 24 November 2013 Toyota, Japan Carpet Hiroko Kuwata 3–6, 6–1, 6–3
Runner-up 6. 3 August 2014 Wuhan, China Hard Wang Qiang 2–6, 2–6
Winner 11. 31 May 2015 Xuzhou, China Hard Chang Kai-chen 1–6, 7–5, 6–1
Runner-up 7. 29 November 2015 Toyota, Japan Carpet (i) Jana Fett 4–6, 6–4, 4–6
Runner-up 8. 30 July 2016 Wuhan, China Hard Wang Qiang 5–7, 2–6
Runner-up 9. 21 May 2017 Incheon, South Korea Hard Han Na-lae 6–7(2), 5–7
Winner 12. 29 July 2017 Hua Hin, Thailand Hard Alisa Kleybanova 7–5, 6–7(4), 6–3
Winner 13. 19 August 2017 Nonthaburi, Thailand Hard Yuan Yue 7–5, 6–2
Winner 14. 1 April 2018 Kōfu, Japan Hard Bianca Andreescu 6–3, 6–3
Winner 15. 8 April 2018 Kashiwa, Japan Hard Bianca Andreescu 6–3, 7–6(4)

Doubles (12–7)
Legend
$100,000 tournaments
$75,000 tournaments
$50,000 tournaments
$25,000 tournaments
$10,000 tournaments
Finals by surface
Hard (11–6)
Clay (0–0)
Grass (1–0)
Carpet (0–1)
Outcome No. Date Tournament Surface Partner Opponents Score
Winner 1. 24 October 2010 Khon Kaen, Thailand Hard Varatchaya Wongteanchai Huỳnh Phương Đài Trang
Maya Kato		 6–4, 7–5
Winner 2. 14 November 2010 Manila, Philippines Hard Peangtarn Plipuech Ivana King
Jasmin Schnack		 6–4, 7–5
Winner 3. 12 December 2010 Bangalore, India Hard Nungnadda Wannasuk Chen Yi
Kumiko Iijima		 7–6(7), 5–7, 6–4
Runner-up 1. 19 June 2011 Pattaya, Thailand Hard Napatsakorn Sankaew Liang Chen
Zhao Yijing		 6–1, 1–6, 5–7
Winner 4. 6 November 2011 Kuching, Malaysia Hard Nungnadda Wannasuk Lu Jiaxiang
Lu Jiajing		 6–4, 6–3
Winner 5. 13 November 2011 Manila, Philippines Hard Peangtarn Plipuech Zhao Yijing
Zheng Junyi		 6–3, 6–0
Runner-up 2. 20 November 2011 Manila, Philippines Hard Peangtarn Plipuech Napatsakorn Sankaew
Varunya Wongteanchai		 1–6, 6–3, 3–6
Winner 6. 22 July 2012 Astana, Kazakhstan Hard Varatchaya Wongteanchai Veronika Kapshay
Ekaterina Yashina		 6–2, 6–4
Winner 7. 2 September 2012 Tsukuba, Japan Hard Varatchaya Wongteanchai Yurina Koshino
Mari Tanaka		 6–2, 6–2
Winner 8. 5 May 2013 Gifu, Japan Hard Erika Sema Nao Hibino
Riko Sawayanagi		 6–4, 6–3
Runner-up 3. 3 November 2013 Taipei, Chinese Taipei Hard Chen Yi Lesley Kerkhove
Arantxa Rus		 4–6, 6–2, [12–14]
Runner-up 4. 11 July 2014 Bangkok, Thailand Hard Tamarine Tanasugarn Varatchaya Wongteanchai
Varunya Wongteanchai		 3–6, 6–4, [8–10]
Runner-up 5. 28 November 2015 Toyota, Japan Carpet (i) Yuuki Tanaka Akiko Omae
Peangtarn Plipuech		 6–3, 0–6, [9–11]
Winner 9. 2 April 2017 Kōfu, Japan Hard Han Na-lae Erina Hayashi
Robu Kajitani		 6–3, 6–0
Winner 10. 28 July 2017 Hua Hin, Thailand Hard Ksenia Palkina Naiktha Bains
Karin Kennel		 6–3, 2–6, [14–12]
Winner 11. 31 March 2018 Kōfu, Japan Hard Gao Xinyu Erina Hayashi
Momoko Kobori		 6–0, 2–6, [10–4]
Winner 12. 17 June 2018 Manchester, Great Britain Grass Prarthana Thombare Naomi Broady
Asia Muhammad		 7–6(5), 6–3
Runner-up 6. 20 October 2018 Suzhou, China Hard Peangtarn Plipuech Misaki Doi
Nao Hibino		 2–6, 3–6
Runner-up 7. 10 November 2018 Shenzhen, China Hard Choi Ji-hee Shuko Aoyama
Yang Zhaoxuan		 2–6, 3–6

Grand Slam singles performance timeline
Tournament2013201420152016201720182019W–L
Australian Open 2R 2R Q1 1R 1R 3R 1R 4–6
French Open Q2 1R A Q1 A 1R 1R 0–3
Wimbledon Q1 Q2 Q3 1R Q2 2R 1R 1–3
US Open Q1 Q2 Q1 Q1 A A A 0–0
Win–Loss1–11–20–00–20–13–30–35–12

Top 10 wins
Season201420152016201720182019Total
Wins1000001
# Player Rank Event Surface Round Score LKR
2014
1. Petra Kvitová No. 6 Australian Open, Melbourne Hard 1st round 6–2, 1–6, 6–4 No. 88

References
  1. Sixth seed Petra Kvitova crashes out to Luksika Kumkhum, Sky Sports, 13 January 2014
  2. Salvado, John (17 January 2018). "Belinda Bencic out of Australian Open after shock loss to Luksika Kumkhum". The Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 18 January 2018.
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