Jurij Rodionov (born 16 May 1999) is an Austrian professional tennis player. He has a career high ATP singles ranking of world No. 87 achieved on 19 February 2024. He also has a career high doubles ranking of No. 254 achieved on 9 September 2024. He is currently the No. 2 Austrian player.[1]

Jurij Rodionov
Country (sports) Austria
ResidenceMatzen, Austria
Born (1999-05-16) 16 May 1999 (age 25)
Nuremberg, Germany
Height1.91 m (6 ft 3 in)
Turned pro2017
PlaysLeft-handed (two-handed backhand)
CoachGary Muller, Florian Pernhaupt
Prize moneyUS$1,204,015
Singles
Career record17–27
Career titles0
Highest rankingNo. 87 (19 February 2024)
Current rankingNo. 170 (23 September 2024)
Grand Slam singles results
Australian OpenQ2 (2019, 2022, 2023)
French Open2R (2020)
WimbledonQ2 (2022, 2023)
US OpenQ3 (2021, 2024)
Doubles
Career record2–5
Career titles0
Highest rankingNo. 254 (9 September 2024)
Current rankingNo. 254 (23 September 2024)
Team competitions
Davis CupQR (2019, 2020)
Last updated on: 26 September 2024.

Personal life

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Rodionov is of Belarusian descent; his parents moved from Belarus to Nuremberg in 1996, where Rodionov was born, before later relocating to Austria.[2]

Professional career

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2018–20: Major debut, Three Challenger titles, top 150, top-15 win

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Rodionov won three ATP Challenger singles titles. The first came at the 2018 Almaty Challenger. His second title came when he won the 2020 RBC Tennis Championships of Dallas. His third title came at the 2020 Morelos Open. In 2019, he won his maiden ATP Challenger doubles title at the Shymkent Challenger.

Rodionov made his main draw Grand Slam debut at the 2020 French Open as qualifier and reached the second round with a win over Jérémy Chardy in five sets.

He reached the top 150 on 12 October 2020 at World No. 148. Also in October 2020, as a wildcard, he had the biggest win of his career in Vienna, where he beat eight seed and World No. 12 Denis Shapovalov in straight sets. He lost in the second round to Dan Evans.

2021: Maiden ATP semifinal

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Rodionov reached as a wildcard his maiden quarterfinal after the retirement of Peter Gojowczyk and then the semifinal after defeating Alex De Minaur at the 2021 MercedesCup in Stuttgart before retiring due to injury in the match with eventual champion Marin Čilić.[3] As a result of this run, he reached a career-high ranking of World No. 135 on 14 June 2021.

2022: Two more Challenger titles, top 125, Austrian No. 1

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He won two more Challenger titles in March and May. As a result became the Austrian No. 1 player on 9 May 2022 and reached a career-high ranking of World No. 124 on 23 May 2022.

2023–24: Masters debut, top 100

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In March 2023 he won his sixth Challenger overall and first of the 2023 season in Biel, Switzerland where he was the defending champion.[4] He reached a career high ranking in the top 120 of No. 118 on 17 April 2023. Ranked No. 119, he qualified for his first Masters 1000 at the 2023 Mutua Madrid Open.

Ranked No. 132, he entered the main draw of the 2023 French Open as a lucky loser where he lost for the second time to qualifier Lucas Pouille having lost to him also in the last round of qualifying. He reached the top 100 on 28 August 2023.

At the 2023 Astana Open he reached the quarterfinals as a qualifier defeating second seed Sebastián Báez before losing to eventual champion sixth seed Adrian Mannarino.

Ranked No. 96, he entered the 2024 BNP Paribas Open as a lucky loser.

Davis Cup

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Rodionov represents Austria at the Davis Cup, where he has a W/L record of 0–3.[5] He made his debut at the 2019 Davis Cup qualifying round against Nicolás Jarry of Chile.

Singles performance timeline

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Key
W  F  SF QF #R RR Q# P# DNQ A Z# PO G S B NMS NTI P NH
(W) winner; (F) finalist; (SF) semifinalist; (QF) quarterfinalist; (#R) rounds 4, 3, 2, 1; (RR) round-robin stage; (Q#) qualification round; (DNQ) did not qualify; (A) absent; (NH) not held; (SR) strike rate (events won / competed); (W–L) win–loss record.
To avoid confusion and double counting, these charts are updated at the conclusion of a tournament or when the player's participation has ended.

Current through the 2024 Davis Cup World Group I.

Tournament 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024 SR W–L
Grand Slam tournaments
Australian Open A A Q2 A Q1 Q2 Q2 A 0 / 0 0–0
French Open A A Q1 2R Q1 Q2 1R Q1 0 / 2 1–2
Wimbledon A A Q1 NH A Q2 Q2 Q1 0 / 0 0–0
US Open A A A A Q3 A Q1 Q3 0 / 0 0–0
Win–loss 0–0 0–0 0–0 1–1 0–0 0–0 0–1 0–0 0 / 2 1–2
National representation
Davis Cup A A QR RR G1 G1 G1 0 / 1 4–5
ATP Masters 1000
Indian Wells Open A A A NH A A A 1R 0 / 1 0–1
Miami Open A A A NH A A A Q1 0 / 0 0–0
Madrid Open A A A NH A A 1R Q1 0 / 1 0–1
Italian Open A A A A A A Q1 Q1 0 / 0 0–0
Career statistics
Tournaments 0 1 2 2 4 4 6 3 22
Overall win–loss 0–0 0–1 0–4 2–3 4–4 4–5 5–7 2–3 17–27
Year-end ranking 503 217 299 144 136 122 110 39%

ATP Challenger finals

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Singles: 10 (7 titles, 3 runners-up)

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Finals by surface
Hard (5–2)
Clay (2–0)
Grass (0–1)
Result W–L    Date    Tournament Surface Opponent Score
Win 1–0 Jun 2018 Almaty, Kazakhstan Clay   Peđa Krstin 7–5, 6–2
Win 2–0 Feb 2020 Dallas, USA Hard (i)   Denis Kudla 7–5, 7–6(12–10)
Win 3–0 Feb 2020 Cuernavaca, Mexico Hard   Juan Pablo Ficovich 4–6, 6–2, 6–3
Loss 3–1 Feb 2021 Nur-Sultan, Kazakhstan Hard (i)   Mackenzie McDonald 1–6, 2–6
Win 4–1 Mar 2022 Biel/Bienne, Switzerland Hard (i)   Kacper Żuk 7-6(7–3), 6-4
Win 5–1 May 2022 Mauthausen, Austria Clay   Jiří Lehečka 6–4, 6–4
Win 6–1 Mar 2023 Biel/Bienne(2), Switzerland Hard (i)   Liam Broady 6–3, 0–0 ret.
Loss 6–2 Jun 2023 Surbiton, United Kingdom Grass   Andy Murray 3–6, 2–6
Win 7–2 Jan 2024 Koblenz, Germany Hard (i)   Brandon Nakashima 6–7(7–9), 6–1, 6–2
Loss 7–3 Sep 2024 Cassis, France Hard   Richard Gasquet 6–3, 1–6, 2–6

Doubles: 3 (3 titles)

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Finals by surface
Hard (1–0)
Clay (2–0)
Result W–L    Date    Tournament Surface Partner Opponents Score
Win 1–0 May 2019 Shymkent,
Kazakhstan
Clay   Emil Ruusuvuori   Gonçalo Oliveira
  Andrei Vasilevski
6–4, 3–6, [10–8]
Win 2–0 Jul 2024 Zug,
Switzerland
Clay   Volodymyr Uzhylovskyi   Seita Watanabe
  Takeru Yuzuki
7–6(7–5), 7–6(7–5)
Win 3–0 Aug 2024 Manacor,
Spain
Hard   David Pichler   Anirudh Chandrasekar
  David Vega Hernández
1–6, 6–3, [10–7]

Junior Grand Slam finals

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Doubles: 1 (1 runner-up)

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Result Year Tournament Surface Partner Opponents Score
Loss 2017 Wimbledon Grass   Michael Vrbenský   Hsu Yu-hsiou
  Axel Geller
4–6, 4–6

References

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  1. ^ "Rankings | Pepperstone ATP Rankings (Singles) | ATP Tour | Tennis | ATP Tour | Tennis".
  2. ^ "Jurij Rodionov | Bio | ATP Tour | Tennis".
  3. ^ The Charlotte Observer [dead link]
  4. ^ "Heart-stopping Finals Aplenty In Week 12 Of ATP Challenger Tour | ATP Tour | Tennis". ATP Tour. Retrieved 25 June 2023.
  5. ^ "Teams Announced for 2019 Davis Cup Qualifiers". 22 January 2019.
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