This question made me wonder if a "lucky loser" has ever won a big tournament (ATP, WTA etc.)? If it has happened, is there some kind of overview of all the players that did so?
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1Wikipedia article has a section named Lucky losers as tennis tournament winners and finalists. However, the information given there seems a bit incomplete and lacking references.– MartinCommented May 11, 2015 at 9:42
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1Some related information can also be found here: The Luck of the Loser: Tennis’ Legendary (LL)s, Best "Lucky Losers" list– MartinCommented May 11, 2015 at 9:48
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1This post mentions 6 case where it happened in ATP events. Wikipedia claims there were seven, but does not list the names. This article mentions 5 names.– MartinCommented May 11, 2015 at 10:09
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I think that the articole you mentioned is before Ram's victory in Newport– AleCommented May 13, 2015 at 14:17
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Those players have won an ATP tournament as a lucky loser:
- Heinz Gunthardt (Springfield 1978)
- Bill Scanlon (Maui 1978)
- Francisco Clavet (Hilversum 1990)
- Christian Miniussi (Sao Paulo 1991)
- Sergiy Stakhovsky (Zagreb 2008)
- Rajeev Ram (Newport 2009)
- Andrey Rublev (Umag 2017)
- Leonardo Mayer (Hamburg 2017)
- Marco Cecchinato (Budapest 2018)
Lucky losers that won WTA tournaments:1
- Olga Danilović (Moscow 2018)
Sources
- Wikipedia article Lucky loser
- Danilovic claims first title in Moscow after all-teen tussle - WTA website (Wayback Machine)
- 38 years later Lucky Loser win again WTA tournament - Tennis Forum
1Several sources claimed that actually the first lucky loser WTA winner was Andrea Jaeger in 1980 Las Vegas. (For example, several revisions of the Wikipedia article on Lucky loser, another article on WTA website.)