Denis Kudla (tennis player)

Denis Kudla
Kudla at Wimbledon in 2016
Nation:	United States
Birthday:	17th August 1992
Size:	180 cm
Weight:	75 kg
1st professional season:	2010
Playing hand:	Right, two-handed backhand
Trainer:	Dustin Taylor
Prize money:	$ 1,795,186
singles
Career record:	32:62
Highest ranking:	53 (May 23, 2016)
Current placement:	117
Grand Slam record
Double
Career record:	7:19
Highest ranking:	148 (April 30, 2018)
Current placement:	148
Grand Slam record
Mixed
Grand Slam record
Last update of the infobox: April 30, 2018
Sources: official player profiles at the ATP / WTA and ITF (see web links )

Denis Kudla (born August 17, 1992 in Kiev ) is an American tennis player .

Career

Beginnings

Denis Kudla, son of an architect and a housewife, started playing tennis at the age of 7. He went to a tennis academy in Burke, where he was trained by the tennis coach Frank Salazar. At the age of 13 he moved to Arlington County , where he still lives and trains today. Due to his extensive tennis training, there was no more time to attend a high school. Therefore, from the ninth grade onwards, he was tutored by a private tutor at home. When he was 16, he wanted to go to the University of Southern California , but ultimately decided against it in order to concentrate fully on tennis. In 2009 he won the Orange Bowl , one of the most important junior tournaments in the world. In 2010 he was in the final of the US Junior Open , but had to admit defeat to his compatriot Jack Sock . At the end of the same year, he was third in the junior world rankings. In 2010 he was also part of the junior Davis Cup team, which was eliminated in the first round against eventual winners Serbia 2: 3.

The year 2011

In the 2011 season, Kudla took part in 12 Challenger and 7 Futures tournaments. He succeeded in winning a futures tournament in the final against Dennis Lajola. On the ATP World Tour he took part in qualifications for the US Open and the Indian Wells Masters . However, he did not make it into the main field in either tournament. He played other tournaments in Los Angeles , Atlanta , Newport , Eastbourne , London and Houston (all 250 tournaments ). This only resulted in a respectable result at the tournament in Newport , where he was able to advance to the quarter-finals and there defeated his compatriot Michael Yani 3: 6, 7: 6, ⁵ , 5: 7. At the end of the year he finished 276th in the world rankings , which was his best ranking up to that point.

The year 2012

He started the 2012 season with the ATP Auckland , where he was defeated by local hero Artem Sitak in the first qualifying round . This was followed by the Australian Open , where he was able to qualify for the main draw over three qualifying rounds. In the first round, however, the tournament was over after he lost to German Tommy Haas in four sets with 6: 7, ⁵ , 6: 3, 0: 6, 5: 7. It continued with a Challenger tournament in Honolulu , in which he was able to advance to the quarter-finals and had to admit defeat to the Japanese Tatsuma Itō . At the next Challenger tournament in Dallas he made it to the quarterfinals again, where it was over for him. With a wild card he was able to take part in the ATP tournament in San José and survived the first round. In the round of 16 he got to do with his compatriot Andy Roddick , with whom he could keep up for long stretches. In the end he did not get the sensation and he was eliminated with 7: 6 ⁵ , 6: 7 ⁵ , 4: 6. At the ATP tournament in Memphis , he was eliminated in the second qualifying round against Robert Kendrick . A week later he was eliminated in the first main round at ATP Delray Beach against Dudi Sela with 4: 6, 3: 6. At the ATP-1000 tournament in Indian Wells he survived the first round and met Roger Federer in the second round . It was the first time they met on the professional tour. Roger Federer clearly won the game 6: 4, 6: 1. For the Masters tournament in Miami , he received a wild card from the tournament management and met Antonio Veić in the first round , who was able to qualify for the tournament through the qualifying rounds. He lost to the Croatian in three sets and was eliminated from the tournament. In the four subsequent Challenger tournaments, his best result was a quarter-finals at the Sarasota Open , where he was defeated by his compatriot James Blake in three sets . He missed the qualification for the French Open after a two-set loss to Eduardo Schwank . Even at the following Challenger tournament in Nottingham , he did not make it past the first round. He was defeated by the Australian Marinko Matosevic in two sets with 4: 6 and 6: 7 ⁴ . In July he won the tournament in Lexington against Érik Chvojka , celebrating his first title on the ATP Challenger Tour . Then in October came a second tournament victory when he won the Challenger tournament in Charlottesville . At the end of the year he was in position 140 in the world rankings.

The year 2013

In January 2013 he made it into the main draw at the ATP tournament in Brisbane , but failed in the first round to Jürgen Melzer . In qualifying for the Australian Open , he failed in the first qualifying round. It was not until mid-March that he was able to celebrate another success when he reached the final at the Challenger tournament in Dallas , but lost it in three sets against Jürgen Melzer. About a month later he was in the final of the Challenger tournament in Tallahassee and won in two sets against Cedrik-Marcel Stebe . At the French Open he qualified for the peloton, where he was eliminated again in the first round. At Wimbledon he made it to the second round like last year, but lost it to Ivan Dodig . At the end of the year he was at position 115 in the world rankings, making up 25 positions last year.

Parts of this article seem out of date as of 2013 .
Please help to research and insert the missing information .

successes

Legend (number of victories)

Grand Slam

ATP World Tour Finals

ATP World Tour Masters 1000

ATP World Tour 500

ATP World Tour 250

ATP Challenger Tour (14)

singles

Tournament victories

No.	date	competition	Topping	Final opponent	Result
1.	July 29, 2012	Lexington	Hard court	Érik Chvojka	5: 7, 7: 5, 6: 1
2.	4th November 2012	Charlottesville	Hard court (i)	Alex Kuznetsov	6: 0, 6: 3
3.	4th May 2013	Tallahassee	sand	Cedrik-Marcel Stebe	6: 3, 6: 3
4th	5th July 2014	Winnetka	Hard court	Farrux Do'stov	6: 2, 6: 2
5.	20th June 2015	Ilkley	race	Matthew Ebden	6: 3, 6: 4
6th	18th March 2018	Drummondville	Hard court (i)	Benjamin Bonzi	6-0, 7-5

Double

Tournament victories

No.	date	competition	Topping	partner	Final opponent	Result
1.	January 26, 2014	Maui	Hard court	Yasutaka Uchiyama	Daniel Kosakowski Nicolas Meister	6: 3, 6: 2
2.	5th July 2014	Winnetka	Hard court	Thanasi Kokkinakis	Evan King Raymond Sarmiento	6: 2, 7: 6 4
3.	15th October 2016	Monterrey	Hard court	Evan King	Jarryd Chaplin Ben McLachlan	6: 7 4 , 6: 4, [10: 2]
4th	July 30, 2017	Binghamton	Hard court	Daniel Nguyen	Jarryd Chaplin Luke Saville	6: 3, 7: 6 5
5.	September 24, 2017	Columbus	Hard court (i)	Dominik Köpfer	Luke Bambridge David O'Hare	7: 6 6 , 7: 6 3
6th	5th November 2017	Charlottesville	Hard court (i)	Danny Thomas	Jarryd Chaplin Miķelis Lībietis	6: 7 4 , 1: 4 problem
7th	April 28, 2018	Tallahassee	sand	Robert Galloway	Enrique López-Pérez Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan	6: 3, 6: 1
8th.	March 7, 2020	Indian Wells	Hard court	Thai-Son Kwiatkowski	Sebastian Korda Mitchell Krueger	6: 3, 2: 6, [10: 6]

statistics

singles

Tournament 1	2018	2017	2016	2015	2014	2013	2012	2011	2010	2009	2008	total
Australian Open	2R	-	2R	1R	1R	-	1R	-	-	-	-	0
French Open	1R	-	1R	-	-	1R	-	-	-	-	-	0
Wimbledon	1R	-	1R	AF	2R	2R	-	-	-	-	-	0
US Open	2R	-	1R	1R	-	2R	1R	-	-	-	-	0
Individual titles won	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Overall wins / defeats 2	11:14	1: 1	8:20	8:14	3: 5	5:11	2: 6	2: 2	1: 1	0-0	0-0	31:62
Year-end position	63	174	132	69	121	114	137	276	496	1051	1208	N / A

Explanation of symbols: S = tournament victory; F, HF, VF, AF = entry into the final / semi-finals / quarter-finals / round of 16; 1R, 2R, 3R = elimination in the 1st / 2nd / 3rd main round

¹ tournament result in brackets means that the player has not yet finished the tournament; it shows its current tournament status. After the player finishes the tournament, the bracket is removed.
² As of the end of the 2017 season

Web links

Commons : Denis Kudla  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• ATP profile of Denis Kudla (English)
• ITF profile Denis Kudla (English)
• Denis Kudla's Facebook profile

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Brett Haber: Denis Kudla: From Kiev to Arlington to Wimbledon. In: Washingtonian.com. March 21, 2012, accessed November 3, 2016 .