Jurij Rodionov

Jurij Rodionov

Rodionov at the 2023 Wimbledon Championships
Country (sports)	Austria
Residence	Matzen, Austria
Born	(1999-05-16) 16 May 1999 (age 24) Nuremberg, Germany
Height	1.91 m (6 ft 3 in)
Turned pro	2017
Plays	Left-handed (two-handed backhand)
Coach	Richard Waite Gary Müller, Günter Bresnik (2021) [1]
Prize money	US $1,028,135
Singles
Career record	16–26 (38.1% in ATP Tour and Grand Slam main draw matches, and in Davis Cup)
Career titles	0
Highest ranking	No. 87 (19 February 2024)
Current ranking	No. 96 (4 March 2024)
Grand Slam singles results
Australian Open	Q2 (2019, 2022, 2023)
French Open	2R (2020)
Wimbledon	Q2 (2022, 2023)
US Open	Q3 (2021)
Doubles
Career record	2–5 (28.6% in ATP Tour and Grand Slam main draw matches, and in Davis Cup)
Career titles	0
Highest ranking	No. 268 (15 July 2019)
Current ranking	No. 877 (4 March 2024)
Team competitions
Davis Cup	QR (2019, 2020)
Last updated on: 6 March 2024.

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 World No. 268 achieved on 15 July 2019. He is currently the No. 3 Austrian player. ^[2]

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. ^[3]

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. ^[4] 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. ^[5] 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. ^[6] He made his debut at the 2019 Davis Cup qualifying round against Nicolás Jarry of Chile.

Singles performance timeline

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 Indian Wells Masters.

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		0 / 2	1–2
Wimbledon	A	A	Q1	NH	A	Q2	Q2		0 / 0	0–0
US Open	A	A	A	A	Q3	A	Q1		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		WG1	WG1		0 / 1	3–5
ATP Tour Masters 1000
Indian Wells Masters	A	A	A	NH	A	A	A	1R	0 / 1	0–1
Madrid Open	A	A	A	NH	A	A	1R		0 / 1	0–1
Italian Open	A	A	A	A	A	A	Q1		0 / 0	0–0
Career statistics
Tournaments	0	1	2	2	4	4	6	1	20
Overall win–loss	0–0	0–1	0–4	2–3	4–4	4–5	5–7	0–1	15–25
Year-end ranking	503	217	299	144	136	122	110		38%

ATP Challenger finals

Singles: 9 (7 titles, 2 runners-up)

Legend ATP Challenger (7–2) ITF Futures (0–0)

Finals by surface Hard (5–1) Clay (2–0) Grass (0–1) Carpet (0–0)

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

Doubles: 1 (1 title)

Legend ATP Challenger (1–0) ITF Futures (0–0)

Finals by surface Hard (0–0) Clay (1–0) Grass (0–0) Carpet (0–0)

Result	W–L	Date	Tournament	Tier	Surface	Partner	Opponents	Score
Win	1–0	May 2019	Shymkent, Kazakhstan	Challenger	Clay	Emil Ruusuvuori	Gonçalo Oliveira Andrei Vasilevski	6–4, 3–6, [10–8]

Junior Grand Slam finals

Doubles: 1 (1 runner-up)

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

References

1. "Dennis Novak happy to return to Bresnik: "Since I've been with Günter, a lot has changed again"". 30 November 2021.
2. "Rankings | Pepperstone ATP Rankings (Singles) | ATP Tour | Tennis | ATP Tour | Tennis".
3. "Jurij Rodionov | Bio | ATP Tour | Tennis".
4. The Charlotte Observer ^{[ dead link ]}
5. "Heart-stopping Finals Aplenty In Week 12 Of ATP Challenger Tour | ATP Tour | Tennis". ATP Tour. Retrieved 25 June 2023.
6. "Teams Announced for 2019 Davis Cup Qualifiers". 22 January 2019.

External links

• Jurij Rodionov at the Association of Tennis Professionals
• Jurij Rodionov at the International Tennis Federation
• Jurij Rodionov at the Davis Cup