Luke Saville

Luke Saville

Country (sports)	Australia
Residence	Cobdogla, Australia
Born	(1994-02-01) 1 February 1994 Berri, Australia
Height	1.87 m (6 ft 2 in)
Turned pro	2008
Plays	Right-handed (two-handed backhand)
Prize money	$24,715
Singles
Career record	2–8
Highest ranking	591 (28 May 2012)
Current ranking	591 (28 May 2012)
Grand Slam singles results
Australian Open Junior	W (2012)
French Open Junior	QF (2012)
Wimbledon Junior	W (2011)
US Open Junior	1R (2011)
Doubles
Career record	53–76
Highest ranking	587 (27 February 2012)
Current ranking	600 (28 May 2012)
Grand Slam doubles results
Australian Open Junior	2R (2009)
French Open Junior	2R (2011, 2012)
Wimbledon Junior	QF (2012)
Last updated on: 3 June 2012.

Luke Saville (born 1 February 1994) is an Australian junior tennis player, best known for winning the boys singles at the 2011 Wimbledon Championships and the 2012 Australian Open. He is the current world number 1 in the junior rankings. He is an Australian Institute of Sport scholarship holder

Junior career

Saville began to compete in big junior events at the start of 2009 where he was given wildcards into G1 tournaments in Australia but only managed to reach the round of 16 in the both tournaments after being taken out by James Duckworth and Nikala Sholtz. Saville had no titles at the start of the Australian Open 2009 beating Greivis Valadziemer but losing to Dino Marcan in three sets. Later in 2009 Saville was a part of the victorious Australian Junior Davis Cup Team with team mates Jason Kubler and Joey Swaysland.

In the 2010 Australian Open he beat Vadik Munshaw, but lost to Arthur De Greef.

Saville had a great start to the 2011 with a run against Adam Pavlásek, Dominic Thiem, Nikola Milojevic, Lucas Pouille, Roberto Carballes to reach the final of the 2011 Australian Open losing to Jiri Vesely in straight sets: 6–0, 6–3.

At the Roland Garros (French Open) he had a loss only getting to the first round losing to Kaichi Uchida in three sets: 7–6, 5–7, 6–4.

Saville then won the junior 2011 Wimbledon title beating Lucas Vrnac, Evgyny Lovskiy, Thiago Moura Monteiro, Joris De Looreand and Kaichi Uchida on his way to the final. He then defeated home player Liam Broady in three sets.

In 2012, Saville once again made it to the finals of the junior Australian Open where he beat opponent Filip Peliwo in three sets: 6-3, 5-7, 6-4. He became the first Australian to win the Australian Open juniors title since Bernard Tomic in 2008. Later that year, Saville reached the final of 2012 Wimbledon Championships where ha faced again the Canadian Filip Peliwo. He was the defending champion, but lost in straight sets: 5-7, 4-6.

Junior singles titles (5)

Legend (Singles)
Grand Slam (3)
Grade A (0)
Grade B (1)
Grade 1–5 (2)

No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Opponent in the final	Score
1.	30 October 2010	Nonthaburi	Hard	Evgeny Karlovskiy	W 6–3, 6–2
2.	3 July 2011	Wimbledon	Grass	Liam Broady	W 2-6 6-4 6-2
3.	30 October 2011	Chuncheon	Hard	Andrew Harris	W 7-6(2), 6-4
4.	6 November 2011	Jeju-Do	Hard	Andrew Harris	W 6-3, 6-4
5.	28 January 2012	Australian Open	Hard	Filip Peliwo	W 6-3 5-7 6-4
6.	8 July 2012	Wimbledon	Grass	Filip Peliwo	L 5-7, 4-6

Professional career

2008

Saville entered his first professional event in October as a 14 year old. The event was held in his home state of South Australia. Saville was awarded a bye in the first round of qualifying but lost in the second round to Ben Mitchell 5-7 0-6.

2009

Saville competed in his first main draw of a futures tournament in February when he was awarded a wildcard into a futures tournament in Mildura, he fell in the first round to Miles Armstrong 5-7 0-6. The following week he was awarded a second wildcard into the main draw of a futures tournament held in Berri, South Australia, the birthplace of Saville. He would lose in the first round to Matt Reid 4-6 4-6. In preparation for the junior Davis Cup finals Saville was awarded a his third wildcard into a futures event held in Darwin. As a fifteen year old he won his first round against Steven Goh 7-6(3) 6-3 and in doing so earned his first ever ATP ranking points as well as becoming the youngest player on the ATP rankings. Saville would go on to lose to John Millman in the second round 2-6 0-6.

2010

Saville was awarded a wildcard into the Australian Open qualifying draw where he fell in the first round to Frenchman Alexandre Sidorenko 1-6 1-6. Following the Australian Open Saville was awarded a wildcard into his first ever challenger event in Burnie, he went down gallantly in three sets to Dayne Kelly 6-4 3-6 4-6. In March Saville traveled to Spain to train at the AIS headquarters and in doing so entered a Spanish futures tournament, he would lose in the first round of qualifying. On return to Australia Saville continued to play clay court tournaments leading up to the Roland Garros juniors by receiving wildcards into future tournaments in Ipswich and Bundaberg respectively. He would reach the second round of both tournaments. Saville entered three more Australian future tournaments later that year but failed to make it past the first round.

2011

Saville once again began his year with a wildcard into the Australian Open qualifying but failed to make it past the first round after losing to Nicolas Mahut in the first round. Following his runner up appearance at the Australian Open juniors he was once again granted a wildcard into the challenger held in Burnie but fell in the first round to Paolo Lorenzi. Throughout the rest of the year Saville competed in futures tournaments across Australia, Thailand, Italy, Netherlands, Great Britain and USA but failed to make it past the first round of the main draw in all tournaments. He would hit some form at the end of 2011 where he made his first ever professional quarterfinal in the last future tournament of the year held in Australia. Saville would finish the year ranked 1,176 in the world.

2012

Saville was awarded qualifying wildcards into the events held in Brisbane, Sydney and the Australian Open. In Brisbane Saville reached the second round of qualifying after defeating Alex Bolt 6-4 1-6 6-3 but later fell to Tatsuma Ito in the second round 2-6 2-6. In Sydney qualifying Saville was knocked out in the first round by Andre Begemann 4-6 4-6. For the third consecutive year Saville lost in the first round of Australian Open qualifying, this time going down to Ivo Minar 6-7(3) 1-6. he would later win the boys singles title at the same event.

ATP Career Finals

Singles: 0 (0–0)

Legend (Singles) Grand Slam (0–0) ATP World Tour Finals (0–0) ATP World Tour Masters 1000 (0–0) ATP World Tour 500 Series (0–0) ATP World Tour 250 Series (0–0)

Titles by Surface Hard (0–0) Clay (0–0) Grass (0–0) Carpet (0–0)

Outcome	No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Opponent	Score

Challenger and Futures Finals

Singles: 1 (1 Titles, 0 Runner-ups)

Outcome	No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Opponent	Score
Winner	1.	May 12, 2012	Bangkok, Thailand	Hard	Antoine Escoffier	2–6, 6-4, 6-0

External links

• Luke Saville at the Association of Tennis Professionals
• Template:ITF junior profile
• Luke Saville at the Australian Open
• Luke Saville at the French Open
• Luke Saville at The Championships, Wimbledon