Jurij Rodionov

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Jurij Rodionov
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Country (sports)Flag of Austria.svg  Austria
Residence Matzen, Austria
Born (1999-05-16) 16 May 1999 (age 26)
Nuremberg, Germany
Height1.91 m (6 ft 3 in)
Turned pro2017
PlaysLeft-handed (two-handed backhand)
Coach Gary Muller, Florian Pernhaupt
Prize moneyUS$1,414,407
Singles
Career record18–27
Career titles0
Highest rankingNo. 87 (19 February 2024)
Current rankingNo. 185 (4 August 2025)
Grand Slam singles results
Australian Open Q2 (2019, 2022, 2023)
French Open 2R (2020)
Wimbledon Q2 (2022, 2023)
US Open Q3 (2021, 2024)
Doubles
Career record2–5
Career titles0
Highest rankingNo. 199 (14 July 2025)
Current rankingNo. 308 (4 August 2025)
Team competitions
Davis Cup QR (2019, 2020)
Last updated on: 11 August 2025.

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. 199 achieved on 14 July 2025. He is the current No. 4 Austrian player. [1]

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Personal life

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Key
W F SFQF#RRRQ#P#DNQAZ#POGSBNMSNTIPNH
(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 SRW–L
Grand Slam tournaments
Australian Open AA Q2 A Q1 Q2 Q2 A0 / 00–0
French Open AA Q1 2R Q1 Q2 1R Q1 0 / 21–2
Wimbledon AA Q1 NHA Q2 Q2 Q1 0 / 00–0
US Open AAAA Q3 A Q1 Q3 0 / 00–0
Win–loss0–00–00–01–10–00–00–10–00 / 21–2
National representation
Davis Cup AA QR RR G1 G1 G1 0 / 14–5
ATP Masters 1000
Indian Wells Open AAANHAAA 1R 0 / 10–1
Miami Open AAANHAAA Q1 0 / 00–0
Madrid Open AAANHAA 1R Q1 0 / 10–1
Italian Open AAAAAA Q1 Q1 0 / 00–0
Career statistics
Tournaments0122446322
Overall win–loss0–00–10–42–34–44–55–72–317–27
Year-end ranking50321729914413612211039%

ATP Challenger finals

Singles: 12 (8 titles, 4 runners-up)

Finals by surface
Hard (5–3)
Clay (3–0)
Grass (0–1)
ResultW–L   Date   TournamentSurfaceOpponentScore
Win1–0 Jun 2018 Almaty, KazakhstanClay Flag of Serbia.svg Peđa Krstin 7–5, 6–2
Win2–0 Feb 2020 Dallas, USAHard (i) Flag of the United States.svg Denis Kudla 7–5, 7–6(12–10)
Win3–0 Feb 2020 Cuernavaca, MexicoHard Flag of Argentina.svg Juan Pablo Ficovich 4–6, 6–2, 6–3
Loss3–1 Feb 2021 Nur-Sultan, KazakhstanHard (i) Flag of the United States.svg Mackenzie McDonald 1–6, 2–6
Win4–1 Mar 2022 Biel/Bienne, SwitzerlandHard (i) Flag of Poland.svg Kacper Żuk 7-6(7–3), 6-4
Win5–1 May 2022 Mauthausen, AustriaClay Flag of the Czech Republic.svg Jiří Lehečka 6–4, 6–4
Win6–1 Mar 2023 Biel/Bienne(2), SwitzerlandHard (i) Flag of the United Kingdom.svg Liam Broady 6–3, 0–0 ret.
Loss6–2 Jun 2023 Surbiton, United KingdomGrass Flag of the United Kingdom.svg Andy Murray 3–6, 2–6
Win7–2 Jan 2024 Koblenz, GermanyHard (i) Flag of the United States.svg Brandon Nakashima 6–7(7–9), 6–1, 6–2
Loss7–3 Sep 2024 Cassis, FranceHard Flag of France.svg Richard Gasquet 6–3, 1–6, 2–6
Loss7–4 Nov 2024 Kobe, JapanHard Flag of Belgium (civil).svg Alexander Blockx 3–6, 1–6
Win8–4 Aug 2025 Bonn, GermanyClay Flag of Kazakhstan.svg Timofey Skatov 3–6, 6–2, 6–4

Doubles: 3 (3 titles)

Finals by surface
Hard (1–0)
Clay (2–0)
ResultW–L   Date   TournamentSurfacePartnerOpponentsScore
Win1–0 May 2019 Shymkent,
Kazakhstan
Clay Flag of Finland.svg Emil Ruusuvuori Flag of Portugal (official).svg Gonçalo Oliveira
Flag of Belarus.svg Andrei Vasilevski
6–4, 3–6, [10–8]
Win2–0 Jul 2024 Zug,
Switzerland
Clay Flag of Ukraine.svg Volodymyr Uzhylovskyi Flag of Japan.svg Seita Watanabe
Flag of Japan.svg Takeru Yuzuki
7–6(7–5), 7–6(7–5)
Win3–0 Aug 2024 Manacor,
Spain
Hard Flag of Austria.svg David Pichler Flag of India.svg Anirudh Chandrasekar
Flag of Spain.svg David Vega Hernández
1–6, 6–3, [10–7]

Junior Grand Slam finals

Doubles: 1 (1 runner-up)

ResultYearTournamentSurfacePartnerOpponentsScore
Loss 2017 Wimbledon Grass Flag of the Czech Republic.svg Michael Vrbenský Flag of Chinese Taipei for Olympic games.svg Hsu Yu-hsiou
Flag of Argentina.svg Axel Geller
4–6, 4–6

References

  1. "Austria | ATP Rankings (Singles) | ATP Tour | Tennis".
  2. "Jurij Rodionov | Bio | ATP Tour | Tennis".
  3. The Charlotte Observer
  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. Archived from the original on 14 December 2019. Retrieved 5 February 2019.