Former number 64: Tobias Kamke ends his career in Hamburg
Tobias Kamke has won eight titles on the Challenger Tour in his career and has made it to 64th place in the world rankings. Next week the German will end his career at Hamburg's Rothenbaum.
by Michael Rothschädl
last edit: Jul 16, 2022, 11:47 am
A few weeks after his 36th birthday it's over: Tobias Kamke, the former number 64 in the ATP world rankings, will end his active career next week. The German was given a wild card at the ATP 500 event in Hamburg and will be in the doubles competition alongside Dustin Brown for the last time in the big circus of tennis.
Tobias Kamke, born in Lübeck in 1986, was primarily successful on the ATP Challenger Tour during his career. The 36-year-old won a total of eight titles there. On the ATP tour, reaching the semifinals was the highest of feelings for Kamke. The German still has good memories of Hamburg: In 2014, Kamke, who was among the top 100 in the tennis world at the time, made it to the quarter-finals. In which he should finally lose out against a certain Alexander Zverev.
Kamke beats Berdych and del Potro
Tobias Kamke should also remember the start of the 2014 season. At that time, the German appeared at the ATP 250 event in Doha at the turn of the year: And there he stole a sentence from none other than the great Rafael Nadal. Almost exactly 11 years ago, in 2011 in Newport, the Lübecker last reached the semi-finals of an event on the ATP tour. Kamke's greatest individual successes are likely to have been triumphs over Tomas Berdych and Juan Martin del Potro - both top 10 players at the time. The 36-year-old also started for the German Davis Cup team.
About 15 years after his first appearance on the ATP tour, Tobias Kamke closed the chapter of tennis pros in his home country, the Lübecker had already opened it in 2004. So there is one last big hurray for the 36-year-old at Hamburg's Rothenbaum. After Philipp Kohlschreiber, it is a second German perennial favorite who says goodbye to active tennis this year.