Lucas Arnold Ker
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Lucas Arnold Ker is a professional tennis player from Argentina
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Arnold Ker started playing tennis in the Olivos
Tenis Club of Buenos Aires, under coach Malcolm Campbell.
He is right-handed and turned professional in 1994. He has played several times for the Argentine Davis Cup
team, where he made his debut in 1997 against Venezuela
. He was Roger Federer
's opponent in the Swissman's first professional match in 1998 and is one of three active players to have a positive head-to-head record against Federer.
. The testicle was removed, and he successfully underwent chemotherapy
. As of 2008, he is in remission and has returned to playing professional tennis.
} Viña del Mar (with Tomás Carbonell
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} Buenos Aires (with Tomás Carbonell
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} Palermo (with Luis Lobo
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} Valencia (with Mariano Hood
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} Palermo (with Mariano Hood
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} Buenos Aires (with Mariano Hood
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} Bucharest (with Mariano Hood
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} Palermo (with Mariano Hood
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} St. Pölten (with Paul Hanley
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Argentina
Argentina , officially the Argentine Republic , is the second largest country in South America by land area, after Brazil. It is constituted as a federation of 23 provinces and an autonomous city, Buenos Aires...
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Arnold Ker started playing tennis in the Olivos
Olivos, Buenos Aires
Olivos is an Argentine city in Vicente López Partido in the Province of Buenos Aires and a suburb within the Greater Buenos Aires metro area....
Tenis Club of Buenos Aires, under coach Malcolm Campbell.
He is right-handed and turned professional in 1994. He has played several times for the Argentine Davis Cup
Davis Cup
The Davis Cup is the premier international team event in men's tennis. It is run by the International Tennis Federation and is contested between teams of players from competing countries in a knock-out format. The competition began in 1900 as a challenge between Britain and the United States. By...
team, where he made his debut in 1997 against Venezuela
Venezuela
Venezuela , officially called the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela , is a tropical country on the northern coast of South America. It borders Colombia to the west, Guyana to the east, and Brazil to the south...
. He was Roger Federer
Roger Federer
Roger Federer is a Swiss professional tennis player who held the ATP no. 1 position for a record 237 consecutive weeks, and 285 weeks overall. As of 28 November 2011, he is ranked World No. 3 by the Association of Tennis Professionals . Federer has won a men's record 16 Grand Slam singles titles...
's opponent in the Swissman's first professional match in 1998 and is one of three active players to have a positive head-to-head record against Federer.
Cancer
In August 2006, he was diagnosed with testicular cancerTesticular cancer
Testicular cancer is cancer that develops in the testicles, a part of the male reproductive system.In the United States, between 7,500 and 8,000 diagnoses of testicular cancer are made each year. In the UK, approximately 2,000 men are diagnosed each year. Over his lifetime, a man's risk of...
. The testicle was removed, and he successfully underwent chemotherapy
Chemotherapy
Chemotherapy is the treatment of cancer with an antineoplastic drug or with a combination of such drugs into a standardized treatment regimen....
. As of 2008, he is in remission and has returned to playing professional tennis.
Doubles (15)
- 1996:
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San Marino (with Pablo AlbanoPablo AlbanoPablo Albano , is a former professional tennis player from Argentina.Albano enjoyed most of his tennis success while playing doubles. During his career he won 9 doubles titles. He achieved a career-high doubles ranking of World No. 25 in 1997.-Doubles titles :-Runner-ups :-External links:...
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- 1999:
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Merano (with Jaime OncinsJaime OncinsJaime Oncins is a former tennis player from Brazil.Oncins represented his native country at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, where he reached the quarter-finals before falling to Russia's Andrei Cherkasov. The right-hander won two individual career titles...
) - San Marino (with Mariano HoodMariano HoodMariano Hood is a retire left-handed professional Argentine tennis player who specialized in doubles.In his career, Hood won 13 out of the 26 top level doubles finals he was in. He turned professional in 1993, and currently resides in his city of birth, Buenos Aires. He won $US806,888 in earnings...
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Majorca (with Tomás CarbonellTomas CarbonellTomás Carbonell Lladó is a former professional tennis player from Spain.Carbonell won 2 singles and 22 doubles titles on the ATP Tour in his career. He twice reached the semifinals of the French Open in doubles, in 1999 with Pablo Albano, and in 2000 with Martín García. Carbonell reached his...
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Bucharest (with Martín García)
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- 2000:
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Bogotá (with Pablo AlbanoPablo AlbanoPablo Albano , is a former professional tennis player from Argentina.Albano enjoyed most of his tennis success while playing doubles. During his career he won 9 doubles titles. He achieved a career-high doubles ranking of World No. 25 in 1997.-Doubles titles :-Runner-ups :-External links:...
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- 2001:
} Viña del Mar (with Tomás Carbonell
Tomas Carbonell
Tomás Carbonell Lladó is a former professional tennis player from Spain.Carbonell won 2 singles and 22 doubles titles on the ATP Tour in his career. He twice reached the semifinals of the French Open in doubles, in 1999 with Pablo Albano, and in 2000 with Martín García. Carbonell reached his...
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} Buenos Aires (with Tomás Carbonell
Tomas Carbonell
Tomás Carbonell Lladó is a former professional tennis player from Spain.Carbonell won 2 singles and 22 doubles titles on the ATP Tour in his career. He twice reached the semifinals of the French Open in doubles, in 1999 with Pablo Albano, and in 2000 with Martín García. Carbonell reached his...
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- 2002:
} Palermo (with Luis Lobo
Luis Lobo
Luis Lobo is a professional male tennis player from Argentina, who won the gold medal in the men's doubles competition at the 1995 Pan American Games....
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- 2003:
} Valencia (with Mariano Hood
Mariano Hood
Mariano Hood is a retire left-handed professional Argentine tennis player who specialized in doubles.In his career, Hood won 13 out of the 26 top level doubles finals he was in. He turned professional in 1993, and currently resides in his city of birth, Buenos Aires. He won $US806,888 in earnings...
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} Palermo (with Mariano Hood
Mariano Hood
Mariano Hood is a retire left-handed professional Argentine tennis player who specialized in doubles.In his career, Hood won 13 out of the 26 top level doubles finals he was in. He turned professional in 1993, and currently resides in his city of birth, Buenos Aires. He won $US806,888 in earnings...
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- 2004:
} Buenos Aires (with Mariano Hood
Mariano Hood
Mariano Hood is a retire left-handed professional Argentine tennis player who specialized in doubles.In his career, Hood won 13 out of the 26 top level doubles finals he was in. He turned professional in 1993, and currently resides in his city of birth, Buenos Aires. He won $US806,888 in earnings...
)
} Bucharest (with Mariano Hood
Mariano Hood
Mariano Hood is a retire left-handed professional Argentine tennis player who specialized in doubles.In his career, Hood won 13 out of the 26 top level doubles finals he was in. He turned professional in 1993, and currently resides in his city of birth, Buenos Aires. He won $US806,888 in earnings...
)
} Palermo (with Mariano Hood
Mariano Hood
Mariano Hood is a retire left-handed professional Argentine tennis player who specialized in doubles.In his career, Hood won 13 out of the 26 top level doubles finals he was in. He turned professional in 1993, and currently resides in his city of birth, Buenos Aires. He won $US806,888 in earnings...
)
- 2005:
} St. Pölten (with Paul Hanley
Paul Hanley (tennis)
Paul Jason Hanley is a professional male tennis player from Australia, specialising in doubles. His parents, Jay and Judy, co-own a tennis centre, one of the main reasons Hanley pursued a career in the sport.He lost the 2005 Wimbledon finals in mixed doubles, playing with Tatiana Perebiynis...
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