25 Facts About Louk Sorensen

Louk Sorensen was born on 7 January 1985 and is an Irish former professional tennis player.

Since retiring from playing, Louk Sorensen has begun coaching and currently coaches Australian player John Millman.

Louk Sorensen's older brother, Kevin, was a professional tennis player and competed for Ireland in the Davis Cup until 2006.

Louk Sorensen was raised in Germany and although his parents now live in Dublin, he remained in Stuttgart, training with German coach, Carsten Arriens, who coached Germans Andreas Beck and Alexander Waske, and playing for third division Bundesliga tennis club TC Doggenburg.

Louk Sorensen reached his career high ATP ranking of 246 on 7 April 2008.

However, Louk Sorensen was forced to retire through injury in the third set of his next match against Edouard Roger-Vasselin, with the match delicately balanced at 1 set each.

Louk Sorensen put this disappointment behind him to reach the final of the Croatia F1 Futures tournament in Zagreb, losing out to Martin Fischer.

Louk Sorensen continued this good form when he became the first Irish tennis player to qualify for a Grand Slam tournament since American-born Matt Doyle in 1985, qualifying for the first round of the Australian Open after defeating Benjamin Balleret, Michael Yani and Daniel King-Turner in the qualifying rounds.

Louk Sorensen was drawn against Lu Yen-hsun of Chinese Taipei, ranked 101st in the world, in the first round.

Louk Sorensen attempted to qualify for the French Open main draw 2 weeks later, but lost out to Jose Acasuso at the first hurdle.

In May 2011 Louk Sorensen was forced to retire from tennis after being plagued by injury since the start of 2010 and decided to call it a career after suffering a knee injury six weeks previous.

In July, Louk Sorensen competed in the Singles Qualifying of the 2011 MercedesCup.

Should Louk Sorensen have beaten Evgeny, he would have qualified for the main draw of the tournament.

Louk Sorensen played in the 2011 Concurso Internacional de Tenis held in San Sebastian, Spain.

Louk Sorensen lost his opening match in the Brasov Challenger and then failed to qualify for the Ethias Trophy, losing to compatriot Conor Niland.

Louk Sorensen then entered qualifying for the Stockholm Open, only to lose his opening qualifying match to Inigo Cervantes Huegun.

Louk Sorensen then began playing on the Futures and Challenger circuit again, and in September qualified for the 2013 Turk Telecom Izmir Cup.

Louk Sorensen reached the final without dropping a set, ultimately losing to top-seed Mikhail Kukushkin.

Louk Sorensen then followed this up the following week by reaching the final of a futures event in Marathon but was forced to withdraw due to injury before the match.

Louk Sorensen continued his push up the rankings in 2014 and claimed his first title in over six years, winning a futures event in Guangzhou.

Louk Sorensen quickly moved on from the loss to reach the semi-finals of the ATP Cachantun Cup, a challenger event in Santiago.

Louk Sorensen's form saw him enter the qualifying draw for Wimbledon, the first time he had competed in grand slam qualifiers since the 2011 US Open, however he was defeated by Malek Jaziri in his opening match.

Louk Sorensen then played at the Challenger Team "Citta' di Padova" but had to pull out after only two games of his opening match.

Louk Sorensen had been defeated by Philipp Davydenko in the final round of qualifying but received entry to the main draw as a lucky loser.

Louk Sorensen pulled off a shock in the first round, defeating world number 68 Igor Sijsling in straight sets to record his second tour win.