Kenneth Raisma

Kenneth Raisma

Country (sports)	Estonia
Residence	Tallinn, Estonia
Born	(1998-04-03) 3 April 1998 (age 27) Tartu, Estonia
Plays	Left-handed (two handed-backhand)
Prize money	$29,148
Singles
Career record	1–2 (at ATP Tour level and Grand Slam level)
Career titles	0
Highest ranking	No. 676 (8 May 2017)
Grand Slam singles results
Australian Open  Junior	QF (2016)
French Open  Junior	1R (2015)
Wimbledon  Junior	1R (2015, 2016)
US Open  Junior	QF (2016)
Doubles
Career record	3–2 (at ATP Tour level and Grand Slam level)
Career titles	0
Highest ranking	No. 720 (28 January 2019)
Grand Slam doubles results
Australian Open  Junior	QF (2016)
French Open  Junior	1R (2015)
Wimbledon  Junior	W (2016)
US Open  Junior	2R (2016)
Team competitions
Davis Cup	14–5
Last updated on: 11 July 2022.

Kenneth Raisma (born 3 April 1998) is an Estonian tennis player. Raisma has a career high ATP singles ranking of 676, achieved on 8 May 2017. He also has a career high ATP doubles ranking of 720, achieved on 28 January 2019. Raisma has won 1 ITF singles and 5 doubles titles. Playing for Estonia in Davis Cup, Raisma has a win–loss record of 14–5. ^[1]

Playing career

He made his Davis Cup debut for Estonia in 2014, winning the only rubber he played that year. In 2015, Raisma again played the one rubber, this time in doubles, but again he was victorious. ^[2] He gained his first ATP Point in 2015 at the Estonian Open, where Raisma defeated Italian Giorgio Ricca 6-3, 7-5. ^[3]

By 2016, he was established as Estonia’s No. 2 player behind Jurgen Zopp and played in three of Estonia’s four ties in Europe Zone Group III of the Davis Cup. He won all three singles rubbers he played, without dropping a set as Estonia sealed promotion into Europe/Africa Zone Group II for 2017. ^[2]

Raisma won the 2016 Wimbledon Championships – Boys' doubles title alongside Greek player Stefanos Tsitsipas. In doing so, he became the third Estonian to triumph in a grand slam tournament after Toomas Leius at the 1959 Wimbledon junior tournament, Kaia Kanepi at the 2001 French Open. ^[4]

In 2017, his coaching staff was joined by the Italian head coach of the Jarkko Nieminen Academy, Frederico Ricci. ^[5]

Coaching career

In 2023, he coached Oliver Ojakäär as he made his junior grand slam debut at the 2023 Australian Open, and later that year when he won the boys' doubles at the 2023 US Open alongside Max Dahlin of Sweden, at Flushing Mesdow, New York. ^{[6] [7] [8]}

Junior Grand Slam finals

Boys' doubles

Result	Year	Tournament	Surface	Partner	Opponents	Score
Win	2016	Wimbledon Championships	Grass	Stefanos Tsitsipas	Félix Auger-Aliassime Denis Shapovalov	4–6, 6–4, 6–2

Future and Challenger finals

Singles: 3 (1–2)

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

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

Result	W–L	Date	Tournament	Tier	Surface	Opponent	Score
Win	1–0	Oct 2016	Estonia F2, Tartu	Futures	Carpet (i)	Vladimir Ivanov	6–4, 6–3
Loss	1–1	May 2018	Hungary F2, Zalaegerszeg	Futures	Clay	Máté Valkusz	2–6, 1–6
Loss	1–2	Nov 2020	M15 Tunisia, Monastir	World Tennis Tour	Hard	Ergi Kırkın	6–1, 4–6, 1–6

Doubles 11 (5–6)

Legend (doubles) ATP Challenger Tour (0–0) ITF Futures Tour (5–6)

Titles by surface Hard (3–4) Clay (2–1) Grass (0–0) Carpet (0–1)

Result	W–L	Date	Tournament	Tier	Surface	Partner	Opponents	Score
Win	1–0	Nov 2015	Estonia F3, Tallinn	Futures	Hard (i)	Niels Lootsma	Alexander Vasilenko Anton Zaitcev	4–6, 6–4, [10–8]
Win	2–0	Nov 2015	Estonia F4, Pärnu	Futures	Hard (i)	Niels Lootsma	Anton Pavlov Martin Valdo Randpere	6–4, 6–3
Loss	2–1	Oct 2016	Estonia F2, Tartu	Futures	Carpet (i)	Vladimir Ivanov	Alexander Vasilenko Dzmitry Zhyrmont	5–7, 2–6
Loss	2–2	Nov 2016	Estonia F4, Pärnu	Futures	Hard (i)	Vladimir Ivanov	Marat Deviatiarov Alexander Vasilenko	WO
Loss	2–3	Mar 2017	France F6, Poitiers	Futures	Hard (i)	Vladimir Ivanov	Antoine Hoang Grégoire Jacq	4–6, 4–6
Win	3–3	Mar 2018	Portugal F6, Lisbon	Futures	Hard	Emil Ruusuvuori	Steven Diez Bruno Mardones	7–6(7–2), 6–2
Win	4–3	May 2018	Hungary F1, Zalaegerszeg	Futures	Clay	Emil Ruusuvuori	Adam Taylor Jason Taylor	6–4, 6–4
Win	5–3	May 2019	M15 Bosnia and Herzegovina, Brčko	World Tennis Tour	Clay	Daniil Glinka	Pierre Faivre Maxime Tchoutakian	6–4, 5–7, [10–3]
Loss	5–4	Jul 2019	M15 Estonia, Pärnu	World Tennis Tour	Clay	Jürgen Zopp	Vladimir Ivanov Maxim Ratniuk	6–3, 4–6, [5–10]
Loss	5–5	Nov 2020	M15 Tunisia, Monastir	World Tennis Tour	Hard	Kristjan Tamm	Anis Ghorbel Aziz Ouakaa	w/o
Loss	5–6	Oct 2021	M15 Estonia, Pärnu	World Tennis Tour	Hard (i)	Vladimir Ivanov	Filip Bergevi Patrik Niklas-Salminen	6–4, 6–7(4–7), [8–10]

Davis Cup

Participations: (14–5)

Group membership World Group (0–0) WG play-off (0–0) Group I (0–0) Group II (4–4) Group III (10–1) Group IV (0–0)

Matches by surface Hard (8–4) Clay (6–1) Grass (0–0) Carpet (0–0)

Matches by type Singles (6–3) Doubles (8–2)

• 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
3–0; 9 May 2014; Gellért Szabadidőközpont Szeged, Hungary; Europe Zone Group III round robin; clay surface
Victory	1	I	Singles	San Marino	Diego Zonzini	6–3, 6–2
3–0; 17 July 2015; City of San Marino, San Marino; Europe Zone Group III round robin; clay surface
Victory	2	III	Doubles (with Mattias Siimar) (dead rubber)	Montenegro	Rrezart Cungu / Ivan Saveljić	6–1, 6–2
3–0; 2 March 2016; Tere Tennis Centre, Tallinn, Europe Zone Group III round robin; hard (indoor) surface
Victory	3	I	Singles	Liechtenstein	Gian-Carlo Besimo	6–1, 6–3
Victory	4	III	Doubles (with Jürgen Zopp) (dead rubber)	Robin Forster / Timo Kranz	6–0, 7–6(7–2)
3–0; 4 March 2016; Tere Tennis Centre, Tallinn, Estonia; Europe Zone Group III round robin; hard (indoor) surface
Victory	5	I	Singles	Greece	Christos Antonopoulos	6–1, 6–0
2–0; 5 March 2016; Tere Tennis Centre, Tallinn, Estonia; Europe Zone Group III Promotional play off; hard (indoor) surface
Victory	6	I	Singles	Moldova	Alexander Cozbinov	6–2, 6–4
1–4; 3-5 February 2017; Irene Country Club, Centurion, South Africa; Europe/Africa Zone Group II first round; hard surface
Defeat	7	III	Doubles (with Mattias Siimar)	South Africa	Raven Klaasen / Ruan Roelofse	7–6(7–4), 3–6, 4–6, 5–7
3–2; 7-9 April 2017; Tere Tennis Centre, Tallinn, Estonia; Europe/Africa Zone Group II relegation play-off; hard (indoor) surface
Victory	8	II	Singles	Monaco	Lucas Catarina	6–3, 6–0, 6–4
Victory	9	III	Doubles (with Mattias Siimar)	Romain Arneodo / Benjamin Balleret	4–6, 6–1, 6–2, 7–6(9–7)
1–3; 3-4 February 2018; Šiauliai Tennis School, Šiauliai, Lithuania; Europe/Africa Zone Group II first round; hard (indoor) surface
Defeat	10	II	Singles	Lithuania	Ričardas Berankis	5–7, 6–7(3–7)
Defeat	11	III	Doubles (with Mattias Siimar)	Ričardas Berankis / Laurynas Grigelis	6–2, 4–6, 6–7(4–7)
3–2; 7-8 April 2018; Tere Tennis Centre, Tallinn, Estonia; Europe/Africa Zone Group II relegation play-off; hard (indoor) surface
Defeat	12	II	Singles	Tunisia	Malek Jaziri	4–6, 6–7(9–11)
Victory	13	III	Doubles (with Jürgen Zopp)	Moez Echargui / Malek Jaziri	6–3, 6–4
3–0; 11 September 2019; Tatoi Club, Athens, Greece; Europe Zone Group III Pool B round robin; clay surface
Victory	14	I	Singles	North Macedonia	Dimitar Grabul	6–2, 6–4
Victory	15	III	Doubles (with Jürgen Zopp) (dead rubber)	Luka Ljuben Andonov / Berk Bugarikj	6–0, 6–2
3–0; 12 September 2019; Tatoi Club, Athens, Greece; Europe Zone Group III Pool B round robin; clay surface
Victory	16	III	Doubles (with Vladimir Ivanov) (dead rubber)	Montenegro	Mario Aleksić / Igor Saveljić	6–7(5–7), 6–2, 6–4
2–1; 13 September 2019; Tatoi Club, Athens, Greece; Europe Zone Group III Pool B round robin; clay surface
Victory	17	III	Doubles (with Jürgen Zopp)	Latvia	Jānis Podžus / Mārtiņš Podžus	7–6(10–8), 6–4
0–2; 14 September 2019; Tatoi Club, Athens, Greece; Europe Zone Group III promotional playoff; clay surface
Defeat	18	I	Singles	Poland	Kamil Majchrzak	0–6, 2–6
4–0; 4-5 March 2022; Forus Tenniscenter, Tallinn, Estonia; Europe Zone Group III Pool B round robin; clay surface
Victory	19	III	Doubles (with Jürgen Zopp)	Pacific Oceania	Brett Baudinet / Colin Sinclair	6–4, 6–2

References

1. "Kenneth Raisma | Overview | ATP Tour | Tennis". ATP Tour. Retrieved 20 May 2024.
2. Woodward, Max. "2016 DAVIS CUP AWARDS - ONES TO WATCH". Daviscup.com. Retrieved 20 April 2025.
3. "Kenneth Raisma earned his first ATP point". err.ee. 28 July 2015. Retrieved 20 April 2025.
4. "Fourth Estonian grand slam winner Ojakäär: I haven't gotten it yet". err.ee. 11 September 2023. Retrieved 20 April 2025.
5. "Kenneth Raisma collaborates with a famous Italian coach". Delfi.ee. 16 September 2017. Retrieved 20 April 2025.
6. "Estonian Ojakäär, Sweden's Dahlin crowned US Open junior doubles champs". err.ee. 10 September 2023. Retrieved 20 April 2025.
7. Seema, Kristofer (28 January 2023). "Tennisetalent elu esimesest slämmiturniiri kogemusest: kõik on korraldatud nii, et saad keskenduda ainult mängimisele". Postimees (in Estonian). Retrieved 8 September 2023.
8. "Tennis hopeful Oliver Ojakäär continues his career at a US university". Delfi.ee. 27 November 2024. Retrieved 20 April 2025.

External links

• Kenneth Raisma at the Association of Tennis Professionals
• Kenneth Raisma at the International Tennis Federation
• Kenneth Raisma at the Davis Cup
• Kenneth Raisma at ESPN.com