Louk Sorensen

Quick Facts

Full Name	Louk Sorensen
Occupation	Tennis Player
Date Of Birth	Jan 7, 1985(1985-01-07)
Age	39
Country	Ireland
Birth City	Stuttgart
Horoscope	Capricorn

Louk Sorensen Biography

Louk Sorensen is one of the most popular and richest Tennis Player who was born on January 7, 1985 in Stuttgart, Ireland. Sean Sorensen, Sean’s father is the current captain for the Ireland Davis Cup team. He played in the first round Wimbledon 1977 losing to Rod Laver. In February 1982, Sean finished second to Mats Wilander in Buchholz, Germany at the ATP Challenger Tour event. Louk’s older brother Kevin was also a professional tennis player. He competed for Ireland in Davis Cup until 2006. He has two other sisters, Lisa (and Josephine) Sorensen was born in Germany, and although his parents live in Dublin now, he remained in Stuttgart to train with Carsten Arriens (a German coach who also coached Alexander Waske and Andreas Beck) and play for the third-division Bundesliga tennis club TC Doggenburg. He has a notable record of 10-2 singles in the Irish Davis Cup team. His debut was July 2005.

He was defeated by Victor Ionita in Albufeira’s Portugal F2 Futures tournament on 21 January 2008. He lost 6-2, 7-6, 2-6. Sorensen defeated Farrukh Dustov 7-6 4-6 6-4 in the final of his first ATP Challenger event in Wolfsburg’s Volkswagen Challenger series. On 7 April 2008, he reached 246th in the ATP rankings. In June 2008, Sorensen attempted to qualify for the Grand Slam. He defeated Edward Seator in the first round 6-2, 6-1. Injured, Sorensen had to retire in the third set against Edouard Rod-Vasselin. The match was delicately balanced at one set each.

Sorensen began 2010 by qualifying for his first ATP World Tour 250 series tournament, the first round of the 2010 Aircel Chennai Open, losing to Stéphane Robert 1–6, 2–6. He 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. He was drawn against Lu Yen-hsun of Chinese Taipei, ranked 101st in the world, in the first round. Sorensen went on to become the first ever player representing Ireland to win a Grand Slam match in the Open Era when he beat Lu in 4 sets, 6–4, 3–6, 6–2, 6–1. He faced 6′ 9″ American John Isner in the second round, falling 6–3, 7–6, 7–5. Before the start of the tournament, Sorensen was ranked at No. 284 by the ATP, however, 2 weeks later he had jumped a huge 71 places to a career-high No.213. Sorensen could not continue the good form he had shown at the Australian Open, losing in the first round of both the Heilbronn Challenger and the Kazan Challenger in consecutive weeks. He then faced a length three-month lay-off due to a hamstring injury, but made his comeback on 10 May at the Biella Challenger, defeating qualifier Andrea Arnaboldi in his first round match. Sorensen’s lengthy absence proved his undoing later in the tournament, however, as his lack of match practice showed during his defeat to Yannick Mertens in the second round. Sorensen attempted to qualify for the French Open main draw 2 weeks later, but lost out to José Acasuso at the first hurdle.

Sorensen finished off 2011 in rather disappointing form. He lost his opening match in the Brașov Challenger and then failed to qualify for the Ethias Trophy, losing to compatriot Conor Niland. He then entered qualifying for the Stockholm Open, only to lose his opening qualifying match to Iñigo Cervantes Huegun.

Sorensen was awarded his first international senior title in February 2007 at the Portugal F1 Futures competition in Faro. He defeated Pierre-Ludovic Duclos, a Canadian, in the final 6-1 6-1. The U.A.E. was his next victory. F1 Futures Tournament in Dubai in April, but winning U.A.E. F2 Futures tournament in Dubai just one week later.

Louk Sorensen Net Worth

Louk Sorensen is one of the richest Tennis Player from Ireland. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Louk Sorensen 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Sorensen was the first Irish player to win a Grand Slam main draw match in Open Era. Sean, his father, was the first Irishman who played in a Grand Slam main-draw match in the Open Era. He reached the final round of Wimbledon. Matt Doyle reached the fourth round at the US Open 1982, but he played under the American flag. He only became an Irish citizen in 1985.

Louk Sorensen, a former professional tennis player from Ireland, was born 7 January 1985.

Sorensen again attempted to qualify for a Grand Slam in January 2009 at the Australian Open, defeating Victor Crivoi of Romania in the first qualifying round 4–6, 7–6, 6–3, but he again fell at the second hurdle, this time to Peter Polansky 6–4, 1–6, 3–6. He put this disappointment behind him to reach the final of the Croatia F1 Futures tournament in Zagreb, losing out to Martin Fischer.

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2012 once again proved to be an injury-plagued year for Sorensen. He played four futures events in the first two months of the year but then only played once again in the rest of the year, in late July.

Facts & Trivia

Louk Ranked on the list of most popular Tennis Player. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Ireland. Louk Sorensen celebrates birthday on January 7 of every year.

Sorensen continued his push up the rankings in 2014 and claimed his first title in over six years, winning a futures event in Guangzhou. In early April he competed in qualifying for the U.S. Men’s Clay Court Championships and pushed top 100 player Ryan Harrison all the way in a close three set match but ultimately lost out. He quickly moved on from the loss to reach the semi- finals of the ATP Cachantún Cup, a challenger event in Santiago. Sorensen then narrowly missed out on making his first ATP Tour main draw since 2011, losing to Mirza Bašić in the final round of qualifying for the Düsseldorf Open. 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. He then played at the Challenger Team “Citta’ di Padova” but had to pull out after only two games of his opening match. Sorensen then qualified for the MercedesCup, an ATP World Tour 250 series event. He had been defeated by Philipp Davydenko in the final round of qualifying but received entry to the main draw as a lucky loser. Sorensen pulled off a shock in the first round, defeating world number 68 Igor Sijsling in straight sets to record his second tour win. In the second round, he pushed third seed Roberto Bautista Agut to three sets. However, the world number 23 was able to see off Sorensen in the end. Despite not playing the following week, Sorensen rose to a new career-high ranking of 211, overtaking his previous best from early 2010.