Alexei Popyrin

Alexei Popyrin
Full name Alexei Popyrin
Country (sports)  Australia
Residence Australia
Born (1999-08-05) 5 August 1999
Sydney, Australia
Height 1.96 m (6 ft 5 in)
Plays Right-handed (two-handed backhand)
Prize money US$116,573
Singles
Career record 0–2 (at ATP Tour level, Grand Slam level, and in Davis Cup)
Career titles 1 Challenger
1 Futures
Highest ranking No. 186 (24 September 2018)
Current ranking No. 186 (1 October 2018)
Grand Slam Singles results
Australian Open 1R (2018)
French Open Junior Winner (2017)
Doubles
Career record 0–0 (at ATP Tour level, Grand Slam level, and in Davis Cup)
Career titles 0
Highest ranking No. 1556 (19 September 2016)
Current ranking Unranked (15 January 2018)
Grand Slam Doubles results
Australian Open Junior SF (2017)
French Open Junior 1R (2016, 2017)
Wimbledon Junior 2R (2016)
US Open Junior QF (2016)
Last updated on: 15 September 2017.

Alexei Popyrin (born 5 August 1999) is an Australian tennis player of Russian descent.

Popyrin has a career-high ATP singles ranking of No. 186 achieved in September 2018. He also has a career-high ATP doubles ranking of No. 1556 achieved on 19 September 2016.

Popyrin has a career-high combined juniors ranking of No. 2 achieved on 12 June 2017. He reached the semifinals at the 2017 Australian Open in the junior doubles tournament.[1] He then followed that up by winning the 2017 French Open junior singles title. In the aftermath of his French Open triumph, Popyrin decided to focus on the pro circuit, winning his first ITF title in July 2017 at the Poland F4 in Mragowo Poland. This victory resulted in him breaking into the top 1000 for the first time. Popyrin made his Grand Slam debut at the 2018 Australian Open after being awarded a wildcard.[2] Later in August 2018 Popyrin won the 150,000 Euro ATP Challenger Tournament in Jinnan, China beating James Ward (UK) 3-6, 6-1, 7-5 in the final and breaking into the ATP top 200.

Tour finals

ATP Challengers and ITF Futures

Singles: 3 (2 titles, 1 runner-up)

Legend
ATP Challengers (1–0)
ITF Futures (1–1)
Titles by Surface
Hard (1–1)
Clay (1–0)
Grass (0–0)
Outcome W-L Date Tournament Surface Opponent Score
Win 1-0 Jul 2017 Poland F4, Mragowo Clay Lithuania Laurynas Grigelis 6-3, 3-6, 6–3
Loss 1–1 Nov 2017 Indonesia F7, Jakarta Hard Japan Renta Tokuda 7-6(7-4), 2-6, 5-7
Win 2-1 Aug 2018 Jinan Challenger, China Hard United Kingdom James Ward 3-6, 6-1, 7-5

Junior Grand Slam finals

Boys' Singles

Outcome Year Championship Surface Opponents Score
Winner 2017 French Open Clay Spain Nicola Kuhn 7-6(5) 6-3

References

  1. ↑ "ENORME. Duarte Vale está na FINAL de pares juniores do Australian Open 2017". 26 January 2017.
  2. ↑ "Alexei Popyrin and Jason Kubler secure Australian Open wildcards". Herald Sun. 6 January 2018. Retrieved 7 January 2018.


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