Jurij Rodionov Explained

Jurij Rodionov
Residence:Matzen, Austria
Birth Date:16 May 1999
Birth Place:Nuremberg, Germany
Height:1.91 m
Turnedpro:2017
Plays:Left-handed (two-handed backhand)
Coach:Gary Muller, Florian Pernhaupt
Careerprizemoney:US$1,204,015
Singlesrecord:17–27
Singlestitles:0
Highestsinglesranking:No. 87 (19 February 2024)
Currentsinglesranking:No. 170 (23 September 2024)
Australianopenresult:Q2 (2019, 2022, 2023)
Frenchopenresult:2R (2020)
Wimbledonresult:Q2 (2022, 2023)
Usopenresult:Q3 (2021, 2024)
Doublesrecord:2–5
Doublestitles:0
Highestdoublesranking:No. 254 (9 September 2024)
Currentdoublesranking:No. 254 (23 September 2024)
Team:yes
Daviscupresult:QR (2019, 2020)
Updated:26 September 2024

Jurij Rodionov (born 16 May 1999) is an Austrian professional tennis player.He has a career high ATP singles ranking of world No. 87 achieved on 19 February 2024. He also has a career high doubles ranking of No. 254 achieved on 9 September 2024. He is currently the No. 2 Austrian player.[1]

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: Two 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.

2023–24: 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 a 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 Sebastián Báez before losing to eventual champion sixth seed Adrian Mannarino.

Ranked No. 96, he entered the 2024 BNP Paribas Open as a lucky loser.

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

Current through the 2024 Davis Cup World Group I.

Tournament20172018201920202021202220232024SRW–L
Grand Slam tournaments
Australian OpenAAQ2AQ1Q2Q2A0 / 00–0
French OpenAAQ12RQ1Q21RQ10 / 21–2
WimbledonAAQ1style=color:#767676NHAQ2Q2Q10 / 00–0
US OpenAAAAQ3AQ1Q30 / 00–0
style=text-align:leftWin–loss0–00–00–01–10–00–00–10–00 / 21–2
National representation
Davis CupAAQRRRG1G1G10 / 14–5
ATP Masters 1000
Indian Wells OpenAAAstyle=color:#767676NHAAA1R0 / 10–1
Miami OpenAAAstyle=color:#767676NHAAAQ10 / 00–0
Madrid OpenAAAstyle=color:#767676NHAA1RQ10 / 10–1
Italian OpenAAAAAAQ1Q10 / 00–0
Career statistics
style=text-align:leftTournaments0122446322
style=text-align:leftOverall win–loss0–00–10–42–34–44–55–72–317–27
style=text-align:leftYear-end ranking503217299144136122110

ATP Challenger finals

Singles: 10 (7 titles, 3 runners-up)

Finals by surface
Hard (5–2)
Clay (2–0)
Grass (0–1)
Resultclass=unsortableW–LDateTournamentSurfaceOpponentclass=unsortableScore
Win1–0style=background:moccasinAlmaty, KazakhstanClay Peđa Krstin7–5, 6–2
Win2–0style=background:moccasinDallas, USAHard (i) Denis Kudla7–5, 7–6(12–10)
Win3–0style=background:moccasinCuernavaca, MexicoHard Juan Pablo Ficovich4–6, 6–2, 6–3
Loss3–1style=background:moccasinNur-Sultan, KazakhstanHard (i) Mackenzie McDonald1–6, 2–6
Win4–1style=background:moccasinBiel/Bienne, SwitzerlandHard (i) Kacper Żuk7-6(7–3), 6-4
Win5–1style=background:moccasinMauthausen, AustriaClay Jiří Lehečka6–4, 6–4
Win6–1style=background:moccasinBiel/Bienne(2), SwitzerlandHard (i) Liam Broady6–3, 0–0 ret.
Loss6–2Surbiton, United KingdomGrass Andy Murray3–6, 2–6
bgcolor= 98FB98 Win7–2Koblenz, GermanyHard (i) Brandon Nakashima6–7(7–9), 6–1, 6–2
Loss7–3Cassis, FranceHard Richard Gasquet6–3, 1–6, 2–6

Doubles: 3 (3 titles)

Finals by surface
Hard (1–0)
Clay (2–0)
Resultclass=unsortableW–LDateTournamentSurfacePartnerOpponentsclass=unsortableScore
Win1–0style=background:moccasinShymkent,
Kazakhstan
Clay Emil Ruusuvuori Gonçalo Oliveira
Andrei Vasilevski
6–4, 3–6, [10–8]
Win2–0style=background:moccasinZug,
Switzerland
Clay Volodymyr Uzhylovskyi Seita Watanabe
Takeru Yuzuki
7–6(7–5), 7–6(7–5)
Win3–0style=background:moccasinManacor,
Spain
Hard David Pichler Anirudh Chandrasekar
David Vega Hernández
1–6, 6–3, [10–7]

Junior Grand Slam finals

Doubles: 1 (1 runner-up)

ResultYearwidth=150TournamentSurfacewidth=150Partnerwidth=150OpponentsScore
Loss2017WimbledonGrass Michael Vrbenský Hsu Yu-hsiou
Axel Geller
4–6, 4–6

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Rankings | Pepperstone ATP Rankings (Singles) | ATP Tour | Tennis | ATP Tour | Tennis .
  2. Web site: Jurij Rodionov | Bio | ATP Tour | Tennis.
  3. https://www.charlotteobserver.com/sports/article252076023.html The Charlotte Observer
  4. Web site: Heart-stopping Finals Aplenty In Week 12 Of ATP Challenger Tour | ATP Tour | Tennis. ATP Tour. 25 June 2023.
  5. Web site: Teams Announced for 2019 Davis Cup Qualifiers. 22 January 2019.