Karen Khachanov

Early life

Karen started playing tennis aged three at kindergarten when his parents put him into the tennis group. His father, Abgar, played volleyball at a very high level before studying medicine, while his mother, Natalia, also studied medicine. He has a sister, Margarita, and a brother, Georgiy. His idols growing up were Marat Safin and Juan Martín del Potro and favourite sports teams are Real Madrid and the Miami Heat.^[6]

2013: Davis Cup debut

Khachanov won the Under-18 European Championship title in July 2013 in Switzerland.^[7] At age 17 and 157 days, he became the youngest Russian tennis player in the pro series, surpassing Mikhail Youzhny.^[8] Khachanov upset former world No. 8 Janko Tipsarević as a junior at the 2013 Kremlin Cup in Russia. In October, Khachanov defeated Dean O'Brien of South Africa to help Russia advance in the 2013 Davis Cup Europe/Africa Zone Group I.

2014: First Future

Khachanov lost to Jerzy Janowicz of Poland in the first round of the 2014 Davis Cup Europe/Africa Zone Group I. Khachanov received a wild card entry to the 2014 Sony Open, but lost in the first round to Daniel Gimeno-Traver. Together with Andrey Rublev he won a silver medal in doubles at the 2014 Summer Youth Olympics. They lost to Brazilian players Orlando Luz and Marcelo Zormann in the final.

2015: First Challenger

In September 2015 Khachanov won his first ATP Challenger Tour title in Istanbul, where he was unseeded. In the final he defeated top seed Sergiy Stakhovsky.

2016: First ATP title

Karen Khachanov at 2016 Erste Bank Open

In 2016 he qualified for the Barcelona Open beating Ramkumar Ramanathan and Marco Trungelliti. He then played his first round match beating Aljaz Bedene from being a set down. Then he proceeded to the second round beating fifth seed Roberto Bautista Agut also in three sets. He eventually lost in the third round to the eleventh seed Alexandr Dolgopolov. He got a wildcard for the Istanbul Open. In his first match he beat Aljaz Bedene for the second time in the month. In his second match he lost to Albert Ramos Vinolas despite winning the first set.

By entering an ATP singles final at the 2016 Chengdu Open, Khachanov became the first Russian since Mikhail Youzhny, who beat David Ferrer in the final at the 2013 Valencia Open 500, to do so.^[9] Khachanov won his first ATP tournament there, beating Albert Ramos-Vinolas in three sets.

2017: First Top 10 win, Grand Slam 4th Round

Khachanov, 2016

Karen reached the second round of the 2017 Australian Open, his best AO result to date. He lost to 20th-ranked Jack Sock. Then he lost five first rounds in a row, interrupting that streak in Indian Wells. In the clay court season Karen showed better results. He went on reaching the quarterfinals of the Barcelona Open and the Lyon Open. At the French Open he got into the 4th Round, his best Grand Slam result to date. On the way he beat 14th-ranked Tomáš Berdych and 22nd-ranked John Isner, but lost to number-one Andy Murray. Karen then got into the semifinals of the Halle Open, ensuring him a seed place in a Grand Slam for the first time. On that tournament he also won his very first grass match on professional level.^[10] In the 2017 Wimbledon Championships he was the 30th seed and he reached the 3rd round before losing to 10 time French Open champion Rafael Nadal in straight sets.^[11]

2018: Second ATP title & first Masters 1000 semifinal

Kachanov entered 2018 Australian Open where he lost in second round to Juan Martin Del Potro matching his previous best result at the tournament. In February, he won his second ATP title at Open 13 in Marseille, France. He defeated Frenchman Lucas Pouille in the finals.^[12]

In August, Khachanov reached the semifinals of a Masters 1000 tournament for the first time in his career, at the Canadian Open.

Masters tournaments

Doubles: 1 (1 runner-up)

Result	Year	Tournament	Surface	Partner	Opponents	Score
Loss	2018	Miami Open	Hard	Andrey Rublev	Bob Bryan Mike Bryan	6–4, 6–7(5–7), [4–10]

Singles: 2 (2 titles)

Result	W–L	Date	Tournament	Tier	Surface	Opponent	Score
Win	1–0	Oct 2016	Chengdu Open, China	250 Series	Hard	Albert Ramos Viñolas	6–7(4–7), 7–6(7–3), 6–3
Win	2–0	Feb 2018	Open 13, France	250 Series	Hard (i)	Lucas Pouille	7–5, 3–6, 7–5

Doubles: 1 (1 runner-up)

Result	W–L	Date	Tournament	Tier	Surface	Partner	Opponents	Score
Loss	0–1	Mar 2018	Miami Open, United States	Masters 1000	Hard	Andrey Rublev	Bob Bryan Mike Bryan	6–4, 6–7(5–7), [4–10]

Youth Olympic medal matches

Doubles: 1 (1 silver medal)

Result	Year	Tournament	Surface	Partner	Opponents	Score
Silver	2014	Nanjing Youth Olympics	Hard	Andrey Rublev	Orlando Luz Marcelo Zormann	5–7, 6–3, [3–10]

Futures and Challenger finals

Singles: 8 (7 titles, 1 runner-up)

Legend
Challengers (2–1)
Futures (5–0)

Outcome	No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Opponent	Score
Winner	1.	31 August 2014	Kaohsiung, Chinese Taipei	Hard	Sriram Balaji	6–7(4–7), 6–4, 6–3
Winner	2.	14 September 2014	Mulhouse, France	Hard (i)	David Guez	6–2, 6–0
Winner	3.	8 March 2015	Lille, France	Hard (i)	Rudy Coco	6–1, 6–4
Winner	4.	15 March 2015	Balma, France	Hard (i)	Fabien Reboul	6–4, 6–1
Winner	5.	18 April 2015	Bukhara, Uzbekistan	Hard	Dzmitry Zhyrmont	7–5, 4–6, 6–3
Winner	6.	20 September 2015	Istanbul, Turkey	Hard	Sergiy Stakhovsky	4–6, 6–4, 6–3
Runner-up	7.	13 March 2016	Jönköping, Sweden	Hard (i)	Andrey Golubev	6–7(9–11), 7–6(7–5), 7–6(7–4)
Winner	8.	14 May 2016	Samarkand, Uzbekistan	Clay	Rubén Ramírez Hidalgo	6–1, 6–7(6–8), 6–1

Doubles: 3 (1 title, 2 runners-up)

Legend
Futures (1–2)

Outcome	No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Partner	Opponents	Score
Runner-up	1.	18 January 2014	Stuttgart-Stammheim, Germany	Hard (i)	Denis Matsukevich	Kevin Krawietz Hannes Wagner	4–6, 6–3, [7–10]
Winner	2.	12 September 2014	Mulhouse, France	Hard (i)	Daniil Medvedev	Olivier Charroin Élie Rousset	7–6(7–5), 4–6, [10–7]
Runner-up	3.	23 January 2015	Astana, Kazakhstan	Hard (i)	Mikhail Elgin	Yaraslau Shyla Andrei Vasilevski	6–3, 6–7(2–7), [4–10]

Wins over top 10 players

#	Player	Rank	Event	Surface	Rd	Score	KK Rank
2017
1.	David Goffin	10	Barcelona Open, Spain	Clay	3R	6–7(7–9), 6–3, 6–4	56
2.	Kei Nishikori	9	Halle Open, Germany	Grass	2R	3–2, ret.	38
2018
3.	John Isner	9	Rogers Cup, Toronto	Hard	3R	7–6(7–5), 7–6(7–1)	38

Participations: (4–7)

• indicates the outcome of the Davis Cup match followed by the score, date, place of event, the zonal classification and its phase, and the court surface.

Rubber outcome	No.	Rubber	Match type (partner if any)	Opponent nation	Opponent player(s)	Score
5–0; 25–27 October 2013; Olympic Stadium, Moscow, Russia; Europe/Africa Second round play-off; Hard(i) surface
Victory	1	I	Singles	South Africa	Dean O'Brien	7–5, 6–1, 6–3
2–3; 31 January – 2 February 2014; Olympic Stadium, Moscow, Russia; Europe/Africa First round; Hard(i) surface
Defeat	2	I	Singles	Poland	Jerzy Janowicz	2–6, 4–6, 4–6
Defeat	3	III	Doubles (with Konstantin Kravchuk)	Mariusz Fyrstenberg / Marcin Matkowski	6–2, 4–6, 1–6, 0–6
3–2; 17–19 July 2015; Fetisov Arena, Vladivostok, Russia; Europe/Africa Second round; Hard(i) surface
Defeat	4	II	Singles	Spain	Pablo Andújar	3–6, 3–6, 2–6
1–4; 3–5 February 2017; Čair Sports Center, Niš, Serbia; World Group; Hard(i) surface
Defeat	5	I	Singles	Serbia	Viktor Troicki	4–6, 7–6(7–3), 3–6, 6–1, 6–7(6–8)
1–3; 15–17 September 2017; Kopaszi Dam, Budapest, Hungary; World Group play-off; Clay surface
Victory	6	II	Singles	Hungary	Attila Balázs	3–6, 6–2, 7–6(14–12), 6–1
Defeat	7	IV	Singles		Márton Fucsovics	5–7, 4–6, 4–6
1–3; 6–7 April 2018; Luzhniki Small Sports Arena, Moscow, Russia; Europe/Africa second round; Hard(i) surface
Defeat	8	III	Doubles (with Andrey Rublev)	Austria	Jürgen Melzer / Philipp Oswald	3–6, 6–7(3–7)
3–2; 14–15 September 2018; Luzhniki Small Sports Arena, Moscow, Russia; Europe/Africa first round play-off; Hard(i) surface
Victory	9	I	Singles	Belarus	Egor Gerasimov	7–6(7–4), 6–3
Defeat	10	III	Doubles (with Andrey Rublev)		Max Mirnyi / Andrei Vasilevski	5–7, 3–6
Victory	11	IV	Singles		Ilya Ivashka	6–2, 6–4