Country (sports) | Australia |
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Residence | Adelaide, Australia |
Born | 27 May 1996 |
Height | 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in) |
Turned pro | 2014 |
Plays | Right-handed (one-handed backhand) |
Prize money | $330,994 |
Singles | |
Career record | 1–6 (at ATP Tour level, Grand Slam level, and in Davis Cup) |
Career titles | 0 |
Highest ranking | No. 186 (18 March 2024) |
Current ranking | No. 193 (15 April 2024) |
Grand Slam singles results | |
Australian Open | 1R (2021) |
French Open | Q1 (2023) |
Doubles | |
Career record | 2–2 (at ATP Tour level, Grand Slam level, and in Davis Cup) |
Career titles | 0 |
Highest ranking | No. 197 (9 January 2023) |
Current ranking | No. 458 (15 January 2024) |
Grand Slam doubles results | |
Australian Open | 3R (2022) |
Last updated on: 20 January 2024. |
Li Tu (born 27 May 1996) is an Australian tennis player who mainly competes on the ATP Challenger Tour.
Tu has career-high rankings by the ATP of 186 in singles, reached on 18 April 2024, and 197 in doubles, achieved on 9 January 2023. [1]
Tu made his ITF Futures debut in February 2011 at the Australia F2. He played four other tournaments, losing in the first round in all.
Tu competed in the 2012 Junior Davis Cup alongside Thanasi Kokkinakis, later working as a tennis coach prior to his debut on the senior tour. [2]
In February 2014, he won his first match on ITF-level. In April 2014, Tu reached the quarterfinal of the Australia F5, his best result this level, but retired in June 2014. [3]
In 2020, Tu was inspired to return to playing tennis and enjoyed success on the Australian UTR Pro Tennis Series. [3]
He made his ATP Tour debut at the 2021 Murray River Open, where he received a wildcard into the singles main draw. [4]
Tu also made his Grand Slam debut at the 2021 Australian Open, after receiving a wildcard. He lost in the first round to Feliciano López. [5]
In August 2021, Tu won his first ITF title as an unranked qualifier at a M15 tournament in Tunisia. He was competing in his first international event since June 2014. [3]
In September 2021, Tu won the singles and doubles titles at a tournament in Monastir, Tunisia. [6]
Tu ended the season with an ATP ranking of No. 521.
Tu lost in the first round of the 2022 Australian Open – Men's singles qualifying. [7] He made his Grand Slam debut in doubles and reached the third round after receiving a wildcard with Dane Sweeny.
In May, he scooped an ITF title in Cairo and finished runner-up at another ITF event at Monastir, [8] winning 11 of his past 12 matches. He raised 55 places to a new career-high of world No. 342 on 9 May 2022. [9]
In July, Tu made his debut on the ATP Challenger Tour in Rome, Georgia, USA, where he lost to Yasutaka Uchiyama. The following week in Indianapolis, as an alternate, he won his first Challenger match against Michail Pervolarakis, but lost to Dominik Koepfer in the second round. He then made his first Challenger quarterfinal in Winnipeg, defeating seventh seed Gijs Brouwer in the second round, before losing to Enzo Couacaud. [ citation needed ] As a result he reached world No. 252 on 1 August 2022.
In October, Tu made his first Challenger semifinal in Seoul after qualifying by beating Cho Se-hyuk and Mukund Sasikumar. In the main draw, he beat Kaichi Uchida, fellow qualifier Naoki Nakagawa and the fifth seed, compatriot Christopher O'Connell. He defeated the sixth seed, compatriot James Duckworth in the semifinals to reach his first Challenger final. He defeated Wu Yibing in straight sets in the final. [10] As a result, he moved more than 100 positions up inside the top 200 in the rankings at world No. 190 on 17 October 2022.
In Newport, after qualifying for the main draw, Tu won his first match at ATP Tour level by beating Aleksandar Vukic in straight sets. This was also his first match win against a top 100 player. [11]
He entered the 2023 Mallorca Championships also as qualifier but lost his first round match against lucky loser Pavel Kotov.
He also entered the main draw at the 2023 Chengdu Open as a lucky loser and lost in the first round.
He qualified for his home tournament, the 2024 Brisbane International.
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Result | W–L | Date | Tournament | Tier | Surface | Opponent | Score |
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Win | 1–0 | Aug 2021 | M15 Monastir, Tunisia | World Tennis Tour | Hard | Mateo Nicolás Martínez | 6–1, 6–1 |
Win | 2–0 | Sep 2021 | M15 Monastir, Tunisia | World Tennis Tour | Hard | Gabriel Décamps | 6–2, 6–1 |
Win | 3–0 | Sep 2021 | M15 Monastir, Tunisia | World Tennis Tour | Hard | Ryota Tanuma | 3–6, 6–1, 6–2 |
Win | 4–0 | Nov 2021 | M25 Saint-Dizier, France | World Tennis Tour | Hard (i) | Dane Sweeny | 1–6, 6–1, 6–4 |
Win | 5–0 | Feb 2022 | M25 Bendigo, Australia | World Tennis Tour | Hard | Andrew Harris | 6–3, 6–1 |
Win | 6–0 | May 2022 | M25 Cairo, Egypt | World Tennis Tour | Clay | Colin Sinclair | 6–4, 3–6, 6–4 |
Loss | 6–1 | May 2022 | M15 Monastir, Tunisia | World Tennis Tour | Hard | Skander Mansouri | 4–6, 2–6 |
Win | 7–1 | May 2022 | M25 Monastir, Tunisia | World Tennis Tour | Hard | Skander Mansouri | 6–7(3–7), 6–4, 7–6(7–4) |
Loss | 7–2 | Jul 2022 | M15 Waco, Texas, USA | World Tennis Tour | Hard | Adam Walton | 5–7, 6–0, 1–6 |
Win | 8–2 | Oct 2022 | Seoul, South Korea | Challenger | Hard | Wu Yibing | 7–6(7–5), 6–4 |
Win | 9–2 | Apr 2023 | M15 Monastir, Tunisia | World Tennis Tour | Hard | Daniel Rodrigues | 3–6, 6–4, 6–4 |
Loss | 9–3 | Apr 2023 | M15 Monastir, Tunisia | World Tennis Tour | Hard | Duarte Vale | 3–6, 0–3, ret. |
Loss | 9–4 | Feb 2024 | M25 Traralgon, Australia | World Tennis Tour | Hard | Omar Jasika | 6–7(1–7), 2–6 |
Win | 10–4 | Mar 2024 | M25 Traralgon, Australia | World Tennis Tour | Hard | Alex Bolt | 6–4, 6–2 |
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Result | W–L | Date | Level | Tournament | Surface | Partner | Opponents | Score |
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Winner | 1–0 | Aug 2021 | M15 | Monastir, Tunisia | Hard | Jeremy Beale | August Holmgren Johannes Ingildsen | 6–4, 6–2 |
Winner | 2–0 | Sep 2021 | M15 | Monastir, Tunisia | Hard | Ajeet Rai | Martin Breysach Lilian Marmousez | 6–0, 6–4 |
Winner | 3–0 | Feb 2022 | M25 | Canberra, Australia | Hard | Dane Sweeny | Jayden Court David Hough | 6–3, 7–5 |
Loss | 3–1 | Mar 2022 | M25 | Bendigo, Australia | Hard | Dane Sweeny | Akira Santillan Philip Sekulic | 5–7, 7–6, [7–10] |
Win | 4–1 | Mar 2022 | M25 | Canberra, Australia | Clay | Dane Sweeny | Matthew Romios Eric Vanshelboim | 7–6, 3–6, [10–7] |
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