Luca Van Assche

In January, Van Assche made his ATP main draw debut at the 2022 Open Sud de France after receiving a wildcard into the doubles main draw with Sascha Gueymard Wayenburg.

He made his Grand Slam debut in doubles at the 2022 French Open as a wildcard pair partnering also Gueymard Wayenburg.

In October, Van Assche reached his first singles final on the ATP Challenger Tour in Lisbon, Portugal, entering the main draw as a qualifier and losing to Marco Cecchinato in the finals.[2] As a result he climbed close to 60 positions in the rankings into the top 250 at world No. 231 on 3 October 2022.

In November, he entered the top 200 at world No. 198 after reaching the final of the Brest Challenger losing to Gregoire Barrere[3] and the quarterfinals in Roanne. Later in the same month, he reached his third Challenger final of the season and his career defeating Pablo Llamas Ruiz in the semis.[4] He lost in the final in straight sets to Oleksii Krutykh.[5][6] He moved to No. 176 on 28 November 2022. A week later he reached another final at the 2022 Maia Challenger defeating third seed Elias Ymer,[7] Alexander Lazarov, Ivan Gakhov and fifth seed Aleksandar Vukic and moved another 25 positions up to No. 151 in the rankings.[8] He won his maiden Challenger title defeating qualifier Maximilian Neuchrist.[9][10] As a result he moved to No. 138 in the rankings on 5 December 2022 making him the youngest player in the top 150.

Van Assche received a wildcard into the 2023 Australian Open main draw to make his Grand Slam debut in singles.[11]