Liam Draxl

Liam Draxl

Draxl celebrating a score in 2023
Country (sports)	Canada
Born	(2001-12-05) December 5, 2001 (age 23) Newmarket, Canada [1]
Height	1.85 m (6 ft 1 in)
Turned pro	2023
Plays	Right-handed (two-handed backhand)
College	University of Kentucky
Prize money	US $194,600
Singles
Career record	0–0
Career titles	1 Challenger
Highest ranking	No. 171 (March 3, 2025)
Current ranking	No. 178 (March 31, 2025)
Doubles
Career record	1–2
Career titles	7 Challengers
Highest ranking	No. 112 (February 3, 2025)
Current ranking	No. 115 (February 10, 2025)
Last updated on: 31 March 2025.

Liam Draxl (born December 5, 2001) is a Canadian tennis player. He has a career-high ATP singles ranking of world No. 171 achieved on 3 March 2025 and a doubles ranking of No. 112 achieved on 3 February 2025. ^[2]

Personal life

Originally from Canada, ^[3] Draxl's father is Brian Draxl who serves as the head tennis pro at the Newmarket Community Tennis Club ^[4] and played collegiate tennis for the University of Toledo on a tennis scholarship.^{[ citation needed ]}

College career

Draxl played college tennis at the University of Kentucky. ^[5] He compiled a 14–8 record in singles as a freshman and 25–3 as a sophomore. ^[6] He was named the National Player of the Year by the International Tennis Federation following his sophomore year in 2021 and was the first Wildcat to earn this award. ^[7]

Professional career

2021: Maiden Challenger title

Draxl won his first Challenger title at the 2021 Kentucky Bank Tennis Championships in Lexington with Stefan Kozlov. ^[8]

2023: Turned Pro, first Challenger singles title, top 300

He turned pro in June 2023 and in November won his first singles title at the 2023 Calgary National Bank Challenger, ^{[9] [10] [11]} in just the second tournament at this level in the season. As a result he rose 100 positions, and on 13 November 2023 he reached the top 300 at world No. 297. ^[12]

2024-2025: Doubles Six Challengers & top 125, Singles top 175

He reached the top 250 in the rankings on 10 June 2024, following a semifinal showing at the 2024 Tyler Tennis Championships where he lost to Brandon Holt. In doubles he won five Challenger titles during the season, his last two tournaments being in Puerto Vallarta and Manzanillo, and reached a new career-high ranking of No. 132 on 2 December 2024. ^{[12] [13] [14]}

He reached his third Challenger singles title at the 2025 Oeiras Indoors. ^[12] He lost to Hamad Medjedovic in the final in straight sets. ^[15] Following another final at the Oeiras Indoors III he moved into the top 200 at world No. 183 in the singles rankings on 27 January 2025. ^{[12] [16] [17]}

ATP Challenger and ITF Tour finals

Singles: 17 (8 titles, 9 runner-ups)

Legend ATP Challenger Tour (1–3) ITF WTT (7–6)

Finals by surface Hard (8–8) Clay (0–1) Grass (0–0)

Result	W–L	Date	Tournament	Tier	Surface	Opponent	Score
Cancelled	0–0	Jul 2021	M15 Weston, USA	WTT	Clay	Stefan Kozlov	6–7(5–7), 6–3, canc.
Win	1–0	Dec 2021	M15 Cancún, Mexico	WTT	Hard	Christian Langmo	6–7(4–7), 7–6(7–5), 7–6(8–6)
Win	2–0	Dec 2021	M15 Cancún, Mexico	WTT	Hard	Isaiah Strode	6–0, 6–1
Loss	2–1	Jun 2022	M25 Wichita, USA	WTT	Hard	Clément Chidekh	2–6, 2–6
Loss	2–2	Dec 2022	M15 Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic	WTT	Hard	Nick Hardt	4–6, 3–6
Loss	2–3	Jun 2023	M15 Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic	WTT	Hard	Tauheed Browning	6–7(5–7), 7–5, 6–7(8–10)
Loss	2–4	Jul 2023	M25 Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic	WTT	Hard	Martin Damm Jr.	6–7(5–7), 4–6
Win	3–4	Sep 2023	M15 Champaign, USA	WTT	Hard	William Grant	6–1, 6–3
Win	4–4	Oct 2023	M15 Albuquerque, USA	WTT	Hard	William Grant	6–0, 6–2
Loss	4–5	Oct 2023	M15 Ithaca, USA	WTT	Hard	Radu Mihai Papoe	6–3, 1–6, 2–6
Win	1–0	Nov 2023	Calgary, Canada	Challenger	Hard	Dominik Koepfer	6–4, 6–3
Loss	4–6	Sep 2024	M15 Constanta, Romania	WTT	Clay	Nicholas David Ionel	3–6, 4–6
Win	5–6	Oct 2024	M25 Edmonton, Canada	WTT	Hard	Patrick Maloney	6–4, 6–1
Win	6–6	Nov 2024	M25 Saint-Augustin-de-Desmaures, Canada	WTT	Hard	Alexis Galarneau	6–1, 6–3
Loss	1–1	Nov 2024	Puerto Vallarta, Mexico	Challenger	Hard	Nishesh Basavareddy	3–6, 6–7(4–7)
Win	7–6	Dec 2024	M15 Huamantla, Mexico	WTT	Hard	Aleksandr Braynin	6–4, 6–1
Loss	1–2	Jan 2025	Oeiras, Portugal	Challenger	Hard (i)	Hamad Medjedovic	1–6, 3–6
Loss	1–3	Jan 2025	Oeiras III, Portugal	Challenger	Hard (i)	Alexander Blockx	5–7, 1–6

Doubles: 21 (12 titles, 9 runner-ups)

Legend ATP Challenger Tour (7–4) ITF WTT (5–5)

Finals by surface Hard (11–6) Clay (1–3) Grass (0–0) Carpet (0–0)

Result	W–L	Date	Tournament	Tier	Surface	Partner	Opponents	Score
Loss	0–1	Nov 2020	M15 Fayetteville, USA	WTT	Hard	Aleksandar Kovacevic	Charles Broom Matías Soto	6–2, 2–6, [5–10]
Win	1–0	Aug 2021	Lexington, USA	Challenger	Hard	Stefan Kozlov	Alex Rybakov Reese Stalder	6–2, 6–7(5–7), [10–7]
Loss	0–2	Oct 2021	M15 Vero Beach, USA	WTT	Clay	Ben Shelton	Johannes Ingildsen Duarte Vale	3–6, 4–6
Win	1–2	Oct 2021	M15 Tallahassee, USA	WTT	Hard (i)	John McNally	Thomas Fancutt Colin Sinclair	6–2, 6–3
Win	2–2	Dec 2021	M15 Cancún, Mexico	WTT	Hard	Cleeve Harper	Luís Britto Marcelo Zormann	7–5, 7–6(7–4)
Loss	2–3	Dec 2021	M15 Cancún, Mexico	WTT	Hard	Cleeve Harper	Yannik Steinegger Tim Handel	6–7(5–7), 3–6
Loss	2–4	May 2022	M15 Vero Beach, USA	WTT	Clay	Millen Hurrion	Nishesh Basavareddy Ricardo Rodríguez-Pace	4–6, 3–6
Win	3–4	Nov 2022	M15 Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic	WTT	Hard	Jesse Flores	Peter Bertran Joshua Sheehy	6–0, 6–3
Win	4–4	Jun 2023	M15 Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic	WTT	Hard	Joshua Lapadat	Keshav Chopra Andres Martin	4–6, 6–3, [10–4]
Loss	4–5	Jul 2023	M25 Laval, Canada	WTT	Hard	Jonathan Sorbo	Joshua Lapadat J.J. Mercer	1–4 ret.
Loss	1–1	Nov 2023	Drummondville, Canada	Challenger	Hard (i)	Giles Hussey	Andre Goransson Toby Samuel	7–6(7–2), 3–6, [8–10]
Loss	1–2	Mar 2024	São Leopoldo, Brazil	Challenger	Clay	Alexander Weis	Marcelo Demoliner Orlando Luz	5–7, 6–3, [8–10]
Win	2–2	Jun 2024	Little Rock, USA	Challenger	Hard	Benjamin Sigouin	Rithvik Choudary Bollipalli Hans Hach Verdugo	6–4, 3–6, [10–7]
Win	3–2	Sep 2024	Dobrich II, Bulgaria	Challenger	Clay	Cleeve Harper	Filippo Romano Francesco Maestrelli	6–1, 3–6, [12–10]
Loss	3–3	Sep 2024	Sibiu, Romania	Challenger	Clay	Cleeve Harper	Alexander Merino Christoph Negritu	2–6, 6–7(2–7)
Win	5–5	Oct 2024	M25 Edmonton, Canada	WTT	Hard	Cleeve Harper	Benjamin Thomas George Alvin Nicholas Tudorica	6–4, 6–4
Win	4–3	Oct 2024	Sioux Falls, USA	Challenger	Hard (i)	Cleeve Harper	Ryan Seggerman Patrik Trhac	7–5, 6–3
Loss	4–4	Nov 2024	Drummondville, Canada	Challenger	Hard (i)	Cleeve Harper	Robert Cash J.J. Tracy	2–6, 4–6
Win	5–4	Nov 2024	Puerto Vallarta, Mexico	Challenger	Hard	Benjamin Sigouin	Ryan Seggerman Karl Poling	7–6(7–5), 6–2
Win	6–4	Dec 2024	Manzanillo, Mexico	Challenger	Hard	Cleeve Harper	Benjamin Sigouin Finn Reynolds	6–7(4–7), 7–5, [12–10]
Win	7–4	Jan 2025	Oeiras III, Portugal	Challenger	Hard (i)	Cleeve Harper	Matwé Middelkoop Denys Molchanov	1–6, 7–5, [10–6]

Junior Grand Slam finals

Doubles: 1 (1 runner-up)

Result	Year	Tournament	Surface	Partner	Opponents	Score
Loss	2019	Wimbledon	Grass	Govind Nanda	Jonáš Forejtek Jiří Lehečka	5–7, 4–6

References

1. "ATP Tour". Association of Tennis Professional. Retrieved November 19, 2021.
2. "Liam Draxl | Overview | ATP Tour | Tennis". ATP Tour.
3. "The best player in NCAA tennis right now is Canadian". Tennis Canada. 2021-02-25. Retrieved 2024-03-20.
4. "Newmarket hometown tennis star continues run of success". NewmarketToday.ca. 2022-10-14. Retrieved 2024-03-20.
5. "Liam Draxl – Men's Tennis". University of Kentucky Athletics. 31 August 2019.
6. "UK Athletics". 31 August 2019. Retrieved November 19, 2021.
7. Shelton, Jack Weaver (June 3, 2021). "Liam Draxl named ITA Player of the Year". Proquest. University Wire. Retrieved 19 November 2021.
8. Shelton, Hunter. "Liam Draxl wins Lexington Challenger doubles championship". Kentucky Kernel. Retrieved 11 June 2021.
9. "ATP Tour - The Dream Liam Draxl Is Fulfilling". ITA #WeAreCollegeTennis. 2023-11-08. Retrieved 2024-03-20.
10. "The Dream Liam Draxl Is Fulfilling | ATP Tour | Tennis". ATP Tour. 8 November 2023. Retrieved 2024-03-20.
11. "Quarters winners Liam Draxl, Gabriel Diallo dreaming of all-Canadian Challenger final". 10 November 2023.
12. "Liam Draxl | Rankings | ATP Tour | Tennis". ATP Tour.
13. "Liam Draxl looks to follow in Diallo's footsteps". Tennis Canada. 5 December 2024.
14. "'Incredible breakthrough': Local tennis star named doubles player of the year". 17 December 2024.
15. "Medjedovic makes Top 100 debut with Oeiras Challenger triumph". ATPTour. 12 January 2025. Retrieved 21 January 2025.
16. @TennisBelgium (January 26, 2025). "Second challenger title for Alexander Blockx in Oeiras! He beats Liam Draxl 7-5, 6-1 in the final without facing a break point. Into the top 150 on Monday! 💪👏⬆️" (Tweet) – via Twitter.
17. "#NextGenATP Blockx banks Belgian history with Challenger title". 27 January 2025.

External links

• Liam Draxl at the Association of Tennis Professionals
• Liam Draxl at the International Tennis Federation