Vasil Kirkov

Vasil Kirkov

Kirkov at the 2023 Cary Challenger II
Country (sports)	United States
Residence	Tampa, United States
Born	(1999-03-13) 13 March 1999 (age 26) Asenovgrad, Bulgaria
Height	1.85 m (6 ft 1 in)
Turned pro	2016
Plays	Right-handed (two-handed backhand)
Prize money	$ 196,074
Singles
Career titles	2 ITF
Highest ranking	No. 439 (22 November 2021)
Doubles
Career record	5–7 (at ATP Tour level, Grand Slam level, and in Davis Cup)
Career titles	10 Challengers, 8 ITF
Highest ranking	No. 78 (28 July 2025)
Current ranking	No. 78 (28 July 2025)
Grand Slam doubles results
Wimbledon	1R (2025)
US Open	3R (2023)
Last updated on: 30 July 2025.

Vasil Kirkov (born 13 March 1999) is a Bulgarian-born American professional tennis player. Kirkov has a career high ATP doubles ranking of world No. 78 achieved on 28 July 2025. He also has a career high singles ranking of No. 439 achieved on 22 November 2021. Kirkov has won ten doubles ATP Challenger Tour titles, including six titles in 2025, the second-most Challenger titles for that season.

Career

Kirkov was awarded a qualifying wildcard at the 2016 US Open having reached the final of the USTA National Boy's 18 Championships in Kalamazoo, Michigan. ^{[1] [2]}

Kirkov made his Grand Slam doubles main draw debut at the 2017 US Open with Danny Thomas after receiving a wildcard for winning the USTA Boy's 18 National hardcourt Championships in Kalamazoo with Thomas. ^{[3] [4] [5]}

In December 2019, Kirkov won the M15 in Cancun, Mexico, his first-ever ITF World Tennis Tour title as the No. 4 seed defeating No. 3 seed Nick Chappell in a close match with a scoreline of 6-7(3), 7-6(8), 7-6(1). ^[3]

Kirkov won his first Challenger title at the 2023 Challenger Santa Fe partnering Chilean Matias Soto, and his second title at the 2023 Salinas Challenger partnering Alfredo Perez, after defeating Ángel Díaz Jalil and Álvaro Guillén Meza in the final. ^[6] He reached the third round at the 2023 US Open after receiving a wildcard partnering Denis Kudla ^[7] but lost to Ivan Dodig and Austin Krajicek. ^[8]

He entered the ATP 500 2024 Mubadala Citi DC Open in Washington as a lucky loser partnering Evan King but they lost to Lloyd Glasspool and Santiago Gonzalez in the first round. ^[9] He also received a wildcard in doubles for the 2024 US Open partnering Christian Harrison. ^[10]

In March 2025, in Latin America, Kirkov won three back-to-back Challenger doubles titles in Santiago, Asunción, Paraguay and in Concepción, Chile partnering again with Chilean Matias Soto. ^{[11] [12] [13]} Following two challenger finals in Asia, Kirkov reached the top 100 in the doubles rankings on 5 May 2025 at world No. 98. He won his eight title at the Challenger 100, the 2025 Wuxi Open, with Bart Stevens. ^[14]

Junior Grand Slam finals

Doubles: 1 (1 final)

Result	Year	Tournament	Surface	Partner	Opponents	Score
Loss	2017	French Open	Clay	Danny Thomas	Nicola Kuhn Zsombor Piros	4–6, 4–6

ATP Challenger and ITF Tour finals

Doubles: 26 (18 titles, 8 runner-ups)

Legend ATP Challenger (10–8) ITF Futures (8–0)

ATP Challenger Finals (10–8)

Finals by surface
Hard (3–7)
Clay (7–1)

Result	W–L	Date	Tournament	Tier	Surface	Partner	Opponents	Score
Win	1–0	Jul 2023	Santa Fe, Argentina	Challenger	Clay	Matías Soto	Ignacio Carou Ignacio Monzón	7–6(7–3), 6–2
Win	2–0	Jul 2023	Salinas, Ecuador	Challenger	Clay	Alfredo Perez	Ángel Díaz Jalil Álvaro Guillén Meza	7–5, 7–5
Loss	2–1	Jul 2023	Lexington, USA	Challenger	Hard	George Goldhoff	Eliot Spizzirri Tyler Zink	6–4, 3–6, [8–10]
Loss	2–2	Oct 2023	Fairfield, US	Challenger	Hard	Denis Kudla	Evan King Reese Stalder	5–7, 3–6
Win	3–2	Jan 2024	Tenerife, Spain	Challenger	Hard	Luis David Martínez	Karol Drzewiecki Piotr Matuszewski	3–6, 6–4, [10–3]
Loss	3–3	Feb 2024	Bahrain Ministry of Interior Tennis, Bahrain	Challenger	Hard	Patrik Niklas-Salminen	Petros Tsitsipas Sergio Martos Gornes	6–3, 3–6, [8–10]
Loss	3–4	Nov 2024	Seoul Open, Korea	Challenger	Hard	Bart Stevens	Saketh Myneni Ramkumar Ramanathan	4–6, 6–4, [3–10]
Win	4–4	Nov 2024	Kobe Challenger, Japan	Challenger	Hard (i)	Bart Stevens	Kaichi Uchida Takeru Yuzuki	7-6(9-7), 7-5
Loss	4–5	Feb 2025	Glasgow, United Kingdom	Challenger	Hard	Marcus Willis	Daniel Cukierman Joshua Paris	7-5, 4-6, [10-12]
Win	5–5	Mar 2025	Santiago, Chile	Challenger	Clay	Matías Soto	Mateus Alves Luís Britto	6–4, 6–3
Win	6–5	Mar 2025	Asunción, Paraguay	Challenger	Clay	Matías Soto	Mariano Kestelboim Guillermo Durán	6–3, 6–4
Win	7–5	Mar 2025	Concepción, Chile	Challenger	Clay	Matías Soto	Takeru Yuzuki Seita Watanabe	6–2, 6–4
Loss	7–6	Apr 2025	Gwangju, South Korea	Challenger	Hard	Bart Stevens	Ray Ho Matthew Romios	3–6, 6–7(6–8)
Loss	7–7	May 2025	Guangzhou, China	Challenger	Hard	Bart Stevens	Ray Ho Matthew Romios	3–6, 4–6
Win	8–7	May 2025	Wuxi, China	Challenger	Hard	Bart Stevens	Ray Ho Matthew Romios	3–6, 7–5, [10-6]
Win	9–7	Jun 2025	Neckarcup, Germany	Challenger	Clay	Bart Stevens	Jakob Schnaitter Mark Wallner	7–6(7–5), 4-6, [10-7]
Loss	9–8	Jun 2025	Perugia, Italy	Challenger	Clay	Robin Haase	Romain Arneodo Manuel Guinard	6–3, 3–6, [5–10]
Win	10-8	Jul 2025	Braunschweig, Germany	Challenger	Clay	Bart Stevens	Alexander Merino Christoph Negritu	6–2, 6–3

References

1. "Young American Vasil Kirkov Falls In U.S. Open Qualifying". 23 August 2016.
2. "USTA PRO CIRCUIT MEN'S TENNIS RETURNS TO SUNRISE" (PDF). 12 January 2017.
3. "Florida Former 'Bobby' Winners Kirkov, Scholl Capture ITF World Tennis Tour Pro Titles". 19 December 2019.
4. "USTA Boys' 18 & 16 National Championships - Vasil Kirkov". USTABoys.com.
5. Lewis, Colette (12 August 2017). "Kypson Digs Deep For Second Kalamazoo Title".
6. "El ucraniano Marchenko corona el Challenger de Salinas; En la final de dobles, los ecuatorianos Ángel Díaz y Álvaro Guillén quedaron subcampeones" (in Spanish). 30 July 2023.
7. "Retiring John Isner and Jack Sock lead doubles wild cards at 2023 US Open". 26 August 2023.
8. "Dodig/Krajicek Advance, Top Seeds Koolhof/Skupski Fall At US Open". 4 September 2023.
9. "Korda/Michelsen cruise in Washington doubles debut". 1 August 2025.
10. "Alex Michelsen and Mackenzie McDonald lead doubles wild cards at 2024 US Open". 23 August 2024.
11. "En su mejor momento: Matías Soto vuelve a ganar en dobles y está cerca de obtener su tercer título consecutivo a nivel challenger; El chileno, junto al estadounidense Kirkov, se metieron en las semifinales del Challenger 75 de Concepción." (in Spanish). 27 March 2025.
12. "Brilla con luz propia: Matías Soto se mete en la final de dobles en el Challenger de Concepción e irá por su tercer título consecutivo" (in Spanish). 28 March 2025.
13. "Su tercer título consecutivo: Matías Soto se coronó campeón en el dobles del Challenger de Concepción" (in Spanish). 30 March 2025.
14. @GoJiangsu (May 13, 2025). "Congratulations to Sun Fajing🥳, winner of the #2025WuxiOpen men's singles final 2-0 victory at the #Wuxi International Tennis Center on May 11🎾. Vasil Kirkov and Bart Stevens took the title for the men's doubles🌟? #JiangsuSports #Tennis #ATPCH100 @asian_tennis @atptour @ATPChallenger" (Tweet) – via Twitter.

External links

• Vasil Kirkov at the Association of Tennis Professionals
• Vasil Kirkov at the International Tennis Federation