Kuznetsov playing at the2016 Wimbledon Championships | |
| Country (sports) | |
|---|---|
| Born | (1991-02-22)22 February 1991 (age 34) |
| Height | 1.83 m (6 ft 0 in) |
| Turned pro | 2009 |
| Retired | July 2024 (last match played) |
| Plays | Right-handed (two-handed backhand) |
| Prize money | $ 3,055,162 |
| Singles | |
| Career record | 78–101 |
| Career titles | 0 |
| Highest ranking | No. 39 (25 April 2016) |
| Grand Slam singles results | |
| Australian Open | 4R (2016) |
| French Open | 3R (2015) |
| Wimbledon | 3R (2014,2016) |
| US Open | 3R (2014,2016) |
| Other tournaments | |
| Olympic Games | 1R (2016) |
| Doubles | |
| Career record | 21–27 |
| Career titles | 0 |
| Highest ranking | No. 137 (27 February 2017) |
| Grand Slam doubles results | |
| Australian Open | 2R (2017) |
| French Open | 1R (2016) |
| Wimbledon | 1R (2013) |
| US Open | 2R (2017) |
| Last updated on: 15 August 2024. | |
| Medal record | ||
|---|---|---|
| Representing | ||
| Tennis | ||
| Universiade | ||
| 2013 Kazan | Mixed doubles | |
Andrey Alexandrovich Kuznetsov (Russian:Андре́й Алекса́ндрович Кузнецо́в, born 22 February 1991) is a Russian coach and a former professionaltennis player. On 25 April 2016, he achieved his singles career-high of world No. 39.
Kuznetsov won theBoys' Singles title at the 2009 Wimbledon Championships.[1]
Andrey Kuznestov started playing tennis at age six, coached by his father Alexander. In 2001, his family moved toBalashikha, attending the sports club there. His father resumed coaching Andrey and his elder brother Alexey.[2]
According to somemass media reports, Andrey allegedly had problems with his back since his childhood, so he attendedmanual therapies. But Andrey's coach and father declined it, stating he had problems with hiship and the therapy could be described as tough fitness.[3][4]
Kuznetsov played his firstITF junior tournament at the 2006 Black Gold ofUdmurtia, but received a walkover in the qualifying round. His first notable achievement was at the Governor Cup inSt. Petersburg, reaching the semi-finals there. He reached his first final at the NBU Cup inUzbekistan. Most of the tournaments were on a clay court, but in 2007 he played on carpet and hard. In this season he reached three finals in singles, winning once, and three doubles finals in doubles, winning twice. His best season was in 2008, when he won three singles titles and played well in doubles. Andrey's last junior tournament became the2009 Wimbledon, winning his first Grand Slam title. For the first time in 43 years a Russian won the Wimbledon since SovietVladimir Korotkov achieved that feat in 1965 and 1966.[5]
As a junior Kuznetsov posted an 80–24 win–loss record in singles, reaching a combined ranking of No. 3 in the world in July 2009.[6]
He made his first main draw Grand Slam appearance at the2010 Wimbledon Championships where he lost in five sets to the 31st seed RomanianVictor Hănescu.
He defeated the 11th seed of the2013 Australian Open,Juan Mónaco in straight sets in the first round to reach the second round of a Grand Slam for the first time.[7][8]
AtWimbledon in 2014, Kuznetsov recorded his first win over a player ranked inside the world's top-10 by defeating seventh seedDavid Ferrer in five sets. The win also took Kuznetsov to the third round of a Grand Slam for the first time.[9]
At the2014 US Open, he defeatedFernando Verdasco in the second round, but lost toAndy Murray in the third round.[10]
At the2015 Australian Open, he got into the second round, but lost to the top seedNovak Djokovic.[11]
Andrey debuted in2016 at theQatar Open, losing in the quarterfinals toRafael Nadal in three tight sets. At the2016 Australian Open, he got his best ever result in a grand slam, beatingDudi Sela to make it to the fourth round. In the following tournaments he got beyond the first rounds. Reaching the second round of theMiami Open, Kuznetsov became Russia's new number one male tennis player, replacingTeymuraz Gabashvili, who lost in Miami in the first round.[12] Kuznetsov in the second round defeated 4th-seededStan Wawrinka, the second time he won against a top-10 player.[13] He then beatAdrian Mannarino in the third round 2–6, 7–5, 6–0. In the fourth round he lost toNick Kyrgios 6–7, 3–6.[14]
Kuznetsov debuted at theOlympic Games. Inthe first round he retired before the start of the third set of the match againstRoberto Bautista Agut because of injury.[15]
After a first round loss to fifth seedJo-Wilfried Tsonga inDoha,[16] Kuznetsov made his maidenATP semifinal appearance inSydney where he fell to fellow first time semifinalistDan Evans in another three setter.[17] In the first round of theAustralian Open, he pushed fifth seedKei Nishikori to five sets.[18] In the first round of theDavis Cup World Group, he teamed up withKonstantin Kravchuk inRussia's doubles rubber againstSerbia but they lost in four sets toViktor Troicki andNenad Zimonjić.[19] A week later, he lost to Troicki and Zimonjić again, this time in the doubles final of theGaranti Koza Sofia Open.[20] He ended a three match losing streak at theMiami Open where he reached the second round.[21]
Kuznetsov began his clay season inMonte Carlo where he qualified for the main draw following wins over established playersJulien Benneteau andMikhail Youzhny. He then lost to the ninth seedTomas Berdych after taking the first set.[22] He reached his second quarterfinal of the year at the inauguralHungarian Open[23] where he upset the third seedFabio Fognini en route.[24] After a three set first round loss to Tsonga at theMutua Madrid Open, Kuznetsov advanced to his second ATP semifinal in singles at theGeneva Open where he fell to world No. 3 and defending championStan Wawrinka in straight sets. At theFrench Open, he took a set offworld No. 1Andy Murray in the first round. In theSkiStar Swedish Open he made it to his third career semifinal, also his third semifinal this year. He first beat German tennis playerJan-Lennard Struff in only 2 sets. He then defeated no.1 seed,Pablo Carreño Busta, after Carreño Busta retired in the third set. He then beat 7th seedDiego Schwartzman in the quarterfinals in straight sets to eventually lose toAlexandr Dolgopolov in the semifinals.[25]
Kuznetsov's only tournament of 2018 was when he participated in theKoblenz Challenger, taking place in January and lost his first round match against alternate playerIlya Ivashka.
In 2019, he was announced as the coach of Russian tennis playerEvgeny Donskoy.[26]
Kuznetsov returned on court at the2020 US Open after nearly three years absence.[27] He received a protected ranking and won his first round match againstSam Querrey in straight sets but lost in the next round to 11th seedKaren Khachanov in straight sets.[28]
Kuznetsov won his first challenger title in close to six years at the2021 President's Cup II defeatingJason Kubler in the final.[29][30]
He qualified for the2022 French Open for his Grand Slam main draw participation in two years and in five years at this Major.[31]
At the2023 Winston-Salem Open he entered the singles main draw as a lucky loser directly into the second round after the withdrawal of 16thEmil Ruusuvuori.
He was coaching compatriotRoman Safiullin in 2023 and 2024.[32]
Kuznetsov is an aggressive baseliner.[33][34] He likes to hit it very hard and especially cross-court.[35] While his forehand used to be somewhat of a weakness, it has now developed into a competent shot which he can use as a weapon. On the other hand, his main weakness is his second serve.[36]
Patrick Mouratoglou in 2011 noted his flat shots, niceserve and volley play and a great forehand, but also felt his shot placement and movement should be improved.[37]
On 30 June 2018, Kuznetsov married Darya Levchenko, a TV show presenter onMatch TV.[38]
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| Outcome | No. | Date | Tournament | Surface | Partner | Opponents | Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Runner-up | 1. | 12 February 2017 | Sofia Open, Sofia, Bulgaria | Hard (i) | 4–6, 4–6 |
| Outcome | Year | Championship | Surface | Opponent | Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Winner | 2009 | Wimbledon | Grass | 4–6, 6–2, 6–2 |
| Outcome | Year | Championship | Surface | Partner | Opponents | Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gold | 2013 | Kazan Universiade | Hard | 6–4, 3–6, [12–10] |
| Legend |
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| ATP Challenger Tour (8–4) |
| ITF Futures/World Tennis Tour (7–5) |
| Outcome | W–L | Date | Tournament | Tier | Surface | Opponent | Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Runner-up | 0–1 | Mar 2009 | Egypt F4,6th of October City | Futures | Clay | 6–1, 1–6, 1–6 | |
| Winner | 1–1 | Jun 2009 | Italy F14,Mestre | Futures | Clay | 3–6, 6–1, 6–4 | |
| Winner | 2–1 | Aug 2009 | Russia F4,Moscow | Futures | Clay | 6–4, 6–4 | |
| Winner | 3–1 | Oct 2009 | Kazakhstan F5,Astana | Futures | Hard (i) | 6–2, 4–6, 6–2 | |
| Winner | 4–1 | Mar 2010 | Kazakhstan F2,Almaty | Futures | Hard (i) | 6–3, 7–6(7–1) | |
| Runner-up | 4–2 | Jul 2010 | Germany F7,Kassel | Futures | Clay | 4–6, 4–6 | |
| Runner-up | 4–3 | Jul 2010 | Poznań, Poland | Challenger | Clay | 1–6, 2–6 | |
| Winner | 5–3 | Sep 2011 | Spain F32,Oviedo | Futures | Clay | 7–5, 6–1 | |
| Runner-up | 5–4 | Oct 2011 | Croatia F10,Umag | Futures | Clay | 4–6, 6–0, 5–7 | |
| Winner | 6–4 | Jan 2012 | Egypt F1,Cairo | Futures | Clay | 6–4, 6–3 | |
| Winner | 7–4 | Feb 2012 | Egypt F2,Cairo | Futures | Clay | 6–3, 6–3 | |
| Winner | 8–4 | Apr 2012 | Naples, Italy | Challenger | Clay | 7–6(8–6), 7–6(8–6) | |
| Winner | 9–4 | Sep 2012 | Todi, Italy | Challenger | Clay | 6–3, 2–0 ret. | |
| Winner | 10–4 | Sep 2012 | Trnava, Slovakia | Challenger | Clay | 6–3, 6–3 | |
| Winner | 11–4 | Sep 2012 | Lermontov, Russia | Challenger | Clay | 6–7(7–9), 6–2, 6–2 | |
| Runner-up | 11–5 | Nov 2013 | Tyumen, Russia | Challenger | Hard (i) | 4–6, 3–6 | |
| Winner | 12–5 | May 2014 | Ostrava, Czech Republic | Challenger | Clay | 2–6, 6–3, 6–0 | |
| Runner-up | 12–6 | Aug 2014 | Meerbusch, Germany | Challenger | Clay | 1–6, 4–6 | |
| Runner-up | 12–7 | Jul 2015 | Scheveningen, Netherlands | Challenger | Clay | 7–6(7–3), 6–7(4–7), 3–6 | |
| Winner | 13–7 | Aug 2015 | Manerbio, Italy | Challenger | Clay | 6–4, 3–6, 6–1 | |
| Winner | 14–7 | Sep 2015 | Como, Italy | Challenger | Clay | 6–4, 6–3 | |
| Runner-up | 14–8 | Feb 2021 | M15St. Petersburg, Russia | World Tennis Tour | Hard (i) | 6–4, 5–7, 5–7 | |
| Winner | 15–8 | Jul 2021 | Nur-Sultan, Kazakhstan | Challenger | Hard | 6–3, 2–1 ret. | |
| Runner-up | 15–9 | Oct 2021 | M25Nur-Sultan, Kazakhstan | World Tennis Tour | Hard | 3–6, 5–7 |
| Legend |
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| ATP Challenger Tour (5–7) |
| ITF Futures/World Tennis Tour (4–3) |
| W | F | SF | QF | #R | RR | Q# | P# | DNQ | A | Z# | PO | G | S | B | NMS | NTI | P | NH |
Current through the2022 Australian Open.
| Tournament | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | SR | W–L | ||||||
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| Grand Slam tournaments | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Australian Open | A | A | Q1 | A | 2R | A | 2R | 4R | 1R | A | A | A | Q1 | Q1 | 0 / 4 | 5–4 | ||||||
| French Open | A | A | Q3 | 1R | 1R | Q3 | 3R | 2R | 1R | A | A | A | Q2 | 1R | 0 / 6 | 3–6 | ||||||
| Wimbledon | A | 1R | Q2 | 1R | 2R | 3R | Q2 | 3R | 1R | A | A | NH | Q2 | A | 0 / 6 | 5–6 | ||||||
| US Open | A | A | A | A | 1R | 3R | A | 3R | 1R | A | A | 2R | A | A | 0 / 5 | 5–5 | ||||||
| Win–loss | 0–0 | 0–1 | 0–0 | 0–2 | 2–4 | 4–2 | 3–2 | 8–4 | 0–4 | 0–0 | 0–0 | 1–1 | 0–0 | 0–1 | 0 / 21 | 18–21 | ||||||
| ATP World Tour Masters 1000 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Indian Wells Masters | A | A | A | A | 1R | Q1 | A | 3R | 1R | A | A | NH | A | A | 0 / 3 | 2–3 | ||||||
| Miami Open | A | A | A | A | 1R | A | A | 4R | 2R | A | A | NH | A | A | 0 / 3 | 4–3 | ||||||
| Monte-Carlo Masters | A | A | A | A | A | A | 1R | 1R | 1R | A | A | NH | A | A | 0 / 3 | 0–3 | ||||||
| Madrid Open | A | A | A | A | A | A | A | 2R | 1R | A | A | NH | A | A | 0 / 2 | 1–2 | ||||||
| Italian Open | A | A | A | A | 2R | A | Q1 | A | A | A | A | A | A | A | 0 / 1 | 1–1 | ||||||
| Canadian Open | A | A | A | A | A | A | A | 1R | A | A | A | NH | A | A | 0 / 1 | 0–1 | ||||||
| Cincinnati Masters | A | A | A | A | A | A | A | A | A | A | A | A | A | A | 0 / 0 | 0–0 | ||||||
| Shanghai Masters | A | A | A | A | A | A | 1R | A | A | A | A | NH | 0 / 1 | 0–1 | ||||||||
| Paris Masters | A | A | A | Q1 | A | A | A | A | A | A | A | A | A | A | 0 / 0 | 0–0 | ||||||
| Win–loss | 0–0 | 0–0 | 0–0 | 0–0 | 1–3 | 0–0 | 0–2 | 6–5 | 1–4 | 0–0 | 0–0 | 0–0 | 0–0 | 0–0 | 0 / 14 | 8–14 | ||||||
| National representation | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Summer Olympics | NH | A | NH | 1R | NH | A | NH | 0 / 1 | 0–1 | |||||||||||||
| Davis Cup | A | A | A | A | Z1 | Z1 | PO | PO | 1R | A | A | A | A | 0 / 5 | 7–0 | |||||||
| Career statistics | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | SR | W–L | |||||||
| Tournaments | 2 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 19 | 8 | 12 | 21 | 22 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 100 | |||||||
| Titles | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||||
| Finals reached | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||||
| Hard win–loss | 1–2 | 0–2 | 0–1 | 0–2 | 2–6 | 5–3 | 6–5 | 21–14 | 5–12 | 0–0 | 0–0 | 1–1 | 0–0 | 0–1 | 0 / 49 | 41–49 | ||||||
| Grass win–loss | 0–0 | 1–2 | 0–0 | 0–1 | 2–3 | 2–3 | 0–0 | 2–2 | 0–2 | 0–0 | 0–0 | 0–0 | 0–0 | 0–0 | 0 / 13 | 7–13 | ||||||
| Clay win–loss | 0–0 | 0–0 | 2–3 | 2–2 | 5–10 | 2–2 | 4–7 | 6–5 | 9–8 | 0–0 | 0–0 | 0–0 | 0–1 | 0–0 | 0 / 38 | 30–38 | ||||||
| Overall win–loss | 1–2 | 1–4 | 2–4 | 2–5 | 9–19 | 9–8 | 10–12 | 29–21 | 14–22 | 0–0 | 0–0 | 1–1 | 0–1 | 0–1 | 0 / 100 | 78–100 | ||||||
| Win % | 33% | 20% | 33% | 29% | 32% | 53% | 45% | 58% | 39% | – | – | 50% | 0% | 44% | ||||||||
| Year-end ranking | 301 | 231 | 222 | 78 | 134 | 92 | 79 | 46 | 107 | – | – | 517 | 264 | $3,042,950 | ||||||||
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| Rubber outcome | No. | Rubber | Match type (partner if any) | Opponent nation | Opponent player(s) | Score |
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| Victory | 1 | III | Doubles (withKonstantin Kravchuk) | Raven Klaasen /Tucker Vorster | 2–6, 6–3, 7–6(7–4), 6–2 | |
| Victory | 2 | IV | Singles(Dead rubber) | Dennis O'Brien | 6–2, 6–3 | |
| Victory | 3 | I | Singles | Gastão Elias | 6–2, 6–4, 6–4 | |
| Victory | 4 | II | Singles | Martin Pedersen | 6–1, 6–4, 7–5 | |
| Victory | 5 | IV | Frederik Nielsen | 7–5, 6–3, 6–2 | ||
| Victory | 6 | I | Singles | Isak Arvidsson | 4–6, 6–1, 6–1, 6–4 | |
| Victory | 7 | I | Singles | Aleksandr Nedovyesov | 6–3, 6–4, 5–7, 7–5 | |
| Victory | 8 | IV | Mikhail Kukushkin | 6–1, 6–2, 6–2 | ||
| Defeat | 9 | III | Doubles (withKonstantin Kravchuk) | Viktor Troicki /Nenad Zimonjić | 3–6, 6–7(3–7), 7–6(7–5), 4–6 | |
| # | Player | Rank | Event | Surface | Rd | Score | AK Rank |
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| 2014 | |||||||
| 1. | 7 | Wimbledon, London, Great Britain | Grass | 2R | 6–7(5–7), 6–0, 3–6, 6–3, 6–2 | 118 | |
| 2016 | |||||||
| 2. | 4 | Miami, United States | Hard | 3R | 6–4, 6–3 | 51 | |