Pavel Sergeyevich Chekhov

Pavel Chekhov
Nation:	Russia
Birthday:	July 27, 1988
Weight:	72 kg
Resignation:	2012
Playing hand:	Right, two-handed backhand
Prize money:	$ 78,101
singles
Career record:	0: 1
Highest ranking:	231 (April 28, 2008)
Double
Career record:	0: 1
Highest ranking:	187 (July 20, 2009)
Sources: official player profiles at the ATP / WTA and ITF (see web links )

Pawel Sergeyevich Chekhov ( Russian Па́вел Серге́евич Че́хов ; English Pavel Sergeyevich Chekhov ; born July 27, 1988 in Moscow ) is a former Russian tennis player .

Career

As a junior, Chekhov took part in the junior edition of the Davis Cup in 2004. He played in all four Grand Slam tournaments and was in the semi-finals in doubles at the 2005 French Open . A year later he succeeded in doing this in singles at the Australian Open and Wimbledon Championships . He achieved his best ranking in December 2006 with 10th place.

Chekhov played his first professional tournaments in 2005, and from 2007 he regularly competed on the ITF Future Tour and ATP Challenger Tour . This year he won his first two future titles in singles and three in doubles. At the Summer Universiade in Bangkok he won the silver medal in doubles with Alexander Krasnoruzki . In October he made his debut on the ATP Tour . In St. Petersburg he received a wildcard for the individual field from the tournament officials . He lost his opening match against the Czech qualifier Lukáš Dlouhý in straight sets. On the Challenger Tour he reached his first double final with Mikhail Jelgin in New Delhi . He finished the year in the top 300 singles, and in doubles he was 365th in the world rankings .

In 2008 he won his third individual title on the Future Tour and reached his career record in April with 231st place. In doubles he reached the semi-finals in three Challenger tournaments, only in Buxoro he moved back into the final. There he and Michail Jelgin beat the top seeded duo Łukasz Kubot / Oliver Marach in two sets and won his first challenger title. A year later he followed up with his second title. With Alexei Kedrjuk he won in Fargʻona against Pierre-Ludovic Duclos and Aisam-ul-Haq Qureshi . He improved as a result in the world rankings and achieved his best placement with the 187th place. In October, Chekhov also made his debut in doubles on the ATP Tour. He received a wildcard again in St. Petersburg . At the side of Valery Rudnew he lost his first round game in three sets. After that, he was unable to build on his successes, so that from 2010 he was no longer in the world rankings. After a few isolated tournament appearances in 2011 and 2012, he ended his active professional career in July 2012.

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 (2)

Double

Tournament victories

No.	date	competition	Topping	partner	Final opponent	Result
1.	August 15, 2008	Buxoro	Hard court	Mikhail Jelgin	Łukasz Kubot Oliver Marach	7: 6 2 , 6: 1
2.	May 22, 2009	Fargʻona	Hard court	Alexei Kedrjuk	Pierre-Ludovic Duclos Aisam-ul-Haq Qureshi	4: 6, 6: 3, [10: 5]

Web links

• ATP profile Pavel Chekhov (English)
• ITF profile of Pavel Chekhov (English)
• ITF junior profile Pavel Chekhov (English)