Jurij Rodionov

Jurij Rodionov (born 16 May 1999) is an Austrian professional tennis player. He has a career high ATP singles ranking of World No. 100 achieved on 28 August 2023. He also has a career high doubles ranking of World No. 268 achieved on 15 July 2019.

Jurij Rodionov
Rodionov at the 2023 Wimbledon Championships
Country (sports) Austria
ResidenceMatzen, Austria
Born (1999-05-16) 16 May 1999
Nuremberg, Germany
Height1.91 m (6 ft 3 in)
Turned pro2017
PlaysLeft-handed (two-handed backhand)
CoachRichard Waite
Gary Müller, Günter Bresnik (2021)[1]
Prize moneyUS $940,528
Singles
Career record14–23 (37.8% in ATP Tour and Grand Slam main draw matches, and in Davis Cup)
Career titles0
Highest rankingNo. 100 (28 August 2023)
Current rankingNo. 100 (2 October 2023)
Grand Slam singles results
Australian OpenQ2 (2019, 2022, 2023)
French Open2R (2020)
WimbledonQ2 (2022, 2023)
US OpenQ3 (2021)
Doubles
Career record1–3 (25.0% in ATP Tour and Grand Slam main draw matches, and in Davis Cup)
Career titles0
Highest rankingNo. 268 (15 July 2019)
Current rankingNo. 857 (31 July 2023)
Team competitions
Davis CupQR (2019, 2020)
Last updated on: 9 October 2023.

Personal life

Rodionov is of Belarusian descent; his parents moved from Belarus to Nuremberg in 1996, where Rodionov was born, before later relocating to Austria.[2]

Professional career

2018-20: Major debut, Three Challenger titles, top 150, top-15 win

Rodionov won three ATP Challenger singles titles. The first came at the 2018 Almaty Challenger. His second title came when he won the 2020 RBC Tennis Championships of Dallas. His third title came at the 2020 Morelos Open. In 2019, he won his maiden ATP Challenger doubles title at the Shymkent Challenger.

Rodionov made his main draw Grand Slam debut at the 2020 French Open as qualifier and reached the second round with a win over Jérémy Chardy in five sets.

He reached the top 150 on 12 October 2020 at World No. 148. Also in October 2020, as a wildcard, he had the biggest win of his career in Vienna, where he beat eight seed and World No. 12 Denis Shapovalov in straight sets. He lost in the second round to Dan Evans.

2021: Maiden ATP semifinal

Rodionov reached as a wildcard his maiden quarterfinal after the retirement of Peter Gojowczyk and then the semifinal after defeating Alex De Minaur at the 2021 MercedesCup in Stuttgart before retiring due to injury in the match with eventual champion Marin Čilić.[3] As a result of this run, he reached a career-high ranking of World No. 135 on 14 June 2021.

2022: Three more Challenger titles, top 125, Austrian No. 1

He won two more Challenger titles in March and May. As a result became the Austrian No. 1 player on 9 May 2022 and reached a career-high ranking of World No. 124 on 23 May 2022.

2023: Masters debut, top 100

In March 2023 he won his sixth Challenger overall and first of the 2023 season in Biel, Switzerland where he was the defending champion.[4] He reached a career high ranking in the top 120 of No. 118 on 17 April 2023. Ranked No. 119, he qualified for his first Masters 1000 at the 2023 Mutua Madrid Open.

Ranked No. 132, he entered the main draw of the 2023 French Open as lucky loser where he lost for the second time to qualifier Lucas Pouille having lost to him also in the last round of qualifying. He reached the top 100 on 28 August 2023.

At the 2023 Astana Open he reached the quarterfinals as a qualifier defeating second seed Sebastian Baez before losing to eventual champion sixth seed Adrian Mannarino.

Davis Cup

Rodionov represents Austria at the Davis Cup, where he has a W/L record of 0–3.[5] He made his debut at the 2019 Davis Cup qualifying round against Nicolás Jarry of Chile.

Singles performance timeline
Key
W  F  SF QF #R RR Q# P# DNQ A Z# PO G S B NMS NTI P NH
(W) winner; (F) finalist; (SF) semifinalist; (QF) quarterfinalist; (#R) rounds 4, 3, 2, 1; (RR) round-robin stage; (Q#) qualification round; (DNQ) did not qualify; (A) absent; (NH) not held; (SR) strike rate (events won / competed); (W–L) win–loss record.
To avoid confusion and double counting, these charts are updated at the conclusion of a tournament or when the player's participation has ended.

Current through the 2023 French Open.

Tournament2017201820192020202120222023SRW–L
Grand Slam tournaments
Australian Open A A Q2 A Q1 Q2 Q2 0 / 0 0–0
French Open A A Q1 2R Q1 Q2 1R 0 / 2 1–2
Wimbledon A A Q1 NH A Q2 Q2 0 / 0 0–0
US Open A A A A Q3 A Q1 0 / 0 0–0
Win–loss 0–0 0–0 0–0 1–1 0–0 0–0 0–1 0 / 2 1–2
National representation
Davis Cup A A QR RR WG1 0 / 1 3–4
ATP Tour Masters 1000
Madrid Open A A A NH A A 1R 0 / 1 0–1
Italian Open A A A A A A Q1 0 / 0 0–0
Career statistics
Tournaments 0 1 2 2 4 4 2 15
Overall win–loss 0–0 0–1 0–4 2–3 4–4 4–5 1–2 11–19
Year-end ranking 503 217 299 144 136 122 37%

ATP Challenger and ITF Futures finals

Singles: 8 (6 titles, 2 runners-up)
Legend
ATP Challenger (6–2)
ITF Futures (0–0)
Finals by surface
Hard (4–1)
Clay (2–0)
Grass (0–1)
Carpet (0–0)
Result W–L    Date    Tournament Tier Surface Opponent Score
Win 1–0 Jun 2018 Almaty, Kazakhstan Challenger Clay Serbia Peđa Krstin 7–5, 6–2
Win 2–0 Feb 2020 Dallas, USA Challenger Hard (i) United States Denis Kudla 7–5, 7–6(12–10)
Win 3–0 Feb 2020 Cuernavaca, Mexico Challenger Hard Argentina Juan Pablo Ficovich 4–6, 6–2, 6–3
Loss 3–1 Feb 2021 Nur-Sultan, Kazakhstan Challenger Hard (i) United States Mackenzie McDonald 1–6, 2–6
Win 4–1 Mar 2022 Biel/Bienne, Switzerland Challenger Hard (i) Poland Kacper Żuk 7-6(7–3), 6-4
Win 5–1 May 2022 Mauthausen, Austria Challenger Clay Czech Republic Jiří Lehečka 6–4, 6–4
Win 6–1 Mar 2023 Biel/Bienne(2), Switzerland Challenger Hard (i) United Kingdom Liam Broady 6–3, 0–0 ret.
Loss 6–2 Jun 2023 Surbiton, UK Challenger Grass United Kingdom Andy Murray 3–6, 2–6

Doubles: 1 (1 title)
Legend
ATP Challenger (1–0)
ITF Futures (0–0)
Finals by surface
Hard (0–0)
Clay (1–0)
Grass (0–0)
Carpet (0–0)
Result W–L    Date    Tournament Tier Surface Partner Opponents Score
Win 1–0 May 2019 Shymkent, Kazakhstan Challenger Clay Finland Emil Ruusuvuori Portugal Gonçalo Oliveira
Belarus Andrei Vasilevski		 6–4, 3–6, [10–8]

Junior Grand Slam finals

Doubles: 1 (1 runner-up)
Result Year Tournament Surface Partner Opponents Score
Loss 2017 Wimbledon Grass Czech Republic Michael Vrbenský Chinese Taipei Hsu Yu-hsiou
Argentina Axel Geller		 4–6, 4–6

References
  1. "Dennis Novak happy to return to Bresnik: "Since I've been with Günter, a lot has changed again"". 30 November 2021.
  2. "Jurij Rodionov | Bio | ATP Tour | Tennis".
  3. The Charlotte Observer
  4. "Heart-stopping Finals Aplenty In Week 12 Of ATP Challenger Tour | ATP Tour | Tennis". ATP Tour. Retrieved 25 June 2023.
  5. "Teams Announced for 2019 Davis Cup Qualifiers". 22 January 2019.


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