Yury Rodionov

Yury Rodionov
Jurij Rodionov at the French Open 2019
Nation:	Austria
Birthday:	May 16, 1999
Size:	191 cm
Weight:	86 kg
1st professional season:	2017
Playing hand:	Left, two-handed backhand
Trainer:	Wolfgang Thiem Riccardo Belotti Javier Frana
Prize money:	$ 154,975
singles
Career record:	0: 6
Highest ranking:	166 (March 16, 2020)
Current placement:	166
Double
Career record:	0: 1
Highest ranking:	268 (July 15, 2019)
Current placement:	313
Last update of the infobox: June 03, 2020
Sources: official player profiles at the ATP / WTA and ITF (see web links )

Jurij Robert Rodionov (born May 16, 1999 in Nuremberg ) is an Austrian tennis player .

Career

Rodionov competed in the junior competitions of the Grand Slam tournaments in Paris and Wimbledon in 2017. At the French Open 2017 he reached the round of 16 in junior singles , as well as the semi-finals in junior doubles with his partner Michael Vrbenský . In Wimbledon he reached the Junior Singles quarter-finals, the Junior Doubles again Vrbenský the final. In August of the same year he was ranked 8th in the junior world rankings.

Rodionov has been on the tennis world ranking of professionals since November 2015 . In July 2017, Rodionov reached the main round for the first time as a qualifier for a challenger , the second highest tournament group. At the Advantage Cars Prague Open 2017 in Prague he was in the quarter-finals with victories against Jan Šátral and Enrique López-Pérez , but was eliminated there by João Domingues . For the Generali Open , an ATP World Tour 250 tournament , Rodionov received a wildcard for qualification , where he lost his opening match against Maximilian Marterer . At the end of his first year as a professional, he was ranked 497 for the first time in the top 500 of the world rankings.

He won his first title at Challenger level in June 2018 in Almaty . As a qualifier, he was able to defeat the Serb Peđa Krstin in two sets in the final . With this success he made it into the top 300 of the world rankings for the first time.

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 (4)

singles

Tournament victories

No.	date	competition	Topping	Final opponent	Result
1.	June 16, 2018	Almaty II	sand	Peđa Krstin	7: 5, 6: 2
2.	February 9, 2020	Dallas	Hard court (i)	Denis Kudla	7: 5, 7: 6 10
3.	February 23, 2020	Morelos	Hard court	Juan Pablo Ficovich	4: 6, 6: 2, 6: 3

Double

Tournament victories

No.	date	competition	Topping	partner	Final opponent	Result
1.	May 11, 2019	Schymkent	sand	Emil Ruusuvuori	Gonçalo Oliveira Andrej Wassileuski	6: 4, 3: 6, [10: 8]

Private

Jurij is the son of Belarusian parents and has lived in Matzen, Lower Austria, since he was two years old . He has also officially had Austrian citizenship since 2015.

Others

Rodionov caused a stir at the 2017 Wimbledon Championships when he had to change his dark underpants during an encounter, as they shimmered through the white trousers. The strict rules at Wimbledon require all players to only play in white tennis clothing.

Web links

Commons : Jurij Rodionov  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• official homepage
• ATP profile of Yuri Rodionov (English)
• ITF profile of Jurij Rodionov (English)
• ITF junior profile Yuri Rodionov (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Tournament schedule - single tableau. (PDF; (111 kB)) In: protennislive.com. Retrieved February 7, 2018 . 
2. ↑ Harald Schume: A hope called Jurij. In: tennistirol.at. May 17, 2017. Retrieved February 7, 2018 . 
3. ↑ Tennis player has to lower his pants. In: focus.de. July 14, 2017, accessed February 7, 2018 . 
4. ↑ Matthew Lambert: Jurij Rodionov becomes the latest player to fall foul of Wimbledon dress code rules as Austrian junior is asked to change out of black underwear. In: dailymail.co.uk. July 13, 2017, accessed February 7, 2018 .