Alexei Popyrin

Alexei Popyrin (born 5 August 1999) is an Australian professional tennis player.

Popyrin has a career-high ATP singles ranking of No. 38 achieved on 26 February 2024.

He also has a career-high ATP doubles ranking of No. 235 achieved in June 2022.

He began playing tennis at the Kim Warwick Tennis Academy in Hornsby at the age of four and was in attendance for the historic 2008 Australian Open third round match between Lleyton Hewitt and Marcos Baghdatis.

At the age of 8, Popyrin relocated to Dubai for two years due to his father's work commitments before moving to Alicante, Spain where fellow Australian Alex de Minaur was his neighbour.

Popyrin also spent time training in Nice, France, Marbella, Spain and Dubai.

In 2011, Popyrin won the Australian u12s Grasscourt Championships and, with Chase Ferguson, won the u12s National Claycourt Doubles Championships.

In the same year he competed in the Tennis Europe u12 circuit, winning the Stork International 12 & Under in Oetwil Am See (SUI), Torneo U12 - Porto San Giorgio in Porto San Giorgio (ITA), Torneo Citta Di Padova in Padova (ITA).

Popyrin lost in Semifinal at Eddie Herr International Junior Tennis Championships - IMG / Bollettieri Sports Academy Bradenton, FL (USA), Passagespoirs Le Passage (FRA), as well as Final of Campionati Internazionali BNL d'Italia U12 - Circolo Canottieri in Roma (ITA).

Popyrin started competing in ITF Junior circuit in 2013 and, in 2017, reached the semifinals at the 2017 Australian Open in the junior doubles tournament.

He then followed that up by winning 22 consecutive matches winning 4 consecutive tournaments : the Mediterranee Avenir - Club Olympic Casablancais

Popyrin entered his first ITF Futures professional tournament in October 2013 at 14 years of age where he lost a first round qualifying match to Slovakian Martin Beran in Madrid.

He secured his first professional qualifying win a year later in another Spanish ITF Futures tournament but failed to qualify for the main draw when he lost in the second round qualifying match.

At the beginning of 2016, at the age of 15, Popyrin contested his first ATP Challenger Tour tournament after receiving a wildcard from Tennis Australia to compete in the 2016 Canberra Challenger.

He was defeated in the first round by future top 10 player Diego Schwartzman.

In July 2016, he secured his first professional main draw win in an Italian ITF Futures tournament by defeating local talent Tommaso Roggero in straight sets before retiring hurt in the second round.

Popyrin continued to play ITF Futures tournaments for the remainder of 2016 and ended the year with a world ranking of No.1155.

He turned professional in 2017 and has won two singles titles on the ATP Tour.

He is currently the No. 3 Australian singles player.

Popyrin was born in Sydney, Australia to Russian parents.

He has trained at the Mouratoglou Academy since April 2017.

Popyrin is multilingual in English, Russian and Spanish.

Popyrin is a supporter of Everton F.C.

His father, Alex Popyrin, co-founded the Ultimate Tennis Showdown with Patrick Mouratoglou.

Casablanca (MAR), Trofeo Bonfiglio - Tennis Club Milano Milan (ITA), the 2017 French Open junior singles title in May 2017 and his first ITF Professional tournament in Poland F4 Futures Mragowo (POL).

While ranked number 2 in the juniors single rankings, Popyrin decided to focus on the professional circuit.

He won his first professional ITF title in July 2017 at the Poland F4 in Mragowo, Poland.

This victory broke Popyrin into the top 1000 for the first time.

He played several more ITF and Challenger tournaments for the remainder of 2017 and ended the year with a ranking of 622.

Popyrin started the 2018 season ranked No.622, achieving a career-high ranking 25 times over the course of the season peaking at No.147 in November.

In January 2018, he qualified for an ATP World Tour tournament for the first time at the Sydney International beating Nicolas Mahut and Federico Delbonis.

He lost in round 1 to John Millman.

Later in January, Popyrin made his Grand Slam debut at the 2018 Australian Open after being awarded a wildcard.

He lost in round 1 to Tim Smyczek.

Popyrin spent the next six months in Europe playing in challenger tournaments, increasing his ranking.

In August 2018, Popyrin qualified for and won hist first Challenger title at the Jinan Challenger in China beating James Ward in the final, becoming the third youngest teenager in 2018 to win a professional Challenger title.

Popyrin continued to perform well and broke into the world's top 200 in late August.

In October, Popyrin qualified for his second ATP World Tour main draw at the Stockholm Open, where he again lost to fellow Australian John Millman in round 1.

The following week, Popyrin again qualified for a main draw, this time at Swiss Indoors beating Benoit Paire and Mackenzie McDonald.

He defeated compatriot Matthew Ebden in round 1 for his first ATP World Tour win.