Karen Khachanov

Karen Khachanov
	Khachanov at the 2015 Wimbledon Championships
Country (sports)	Russia
Residence	Moscow, Russia
Born	May 21, 1996 (age 28); Moscow, Russia
Height	1.98 m (6 ft 6 in)
Plays	Right-handed (two-handed backhand)
Coach	Galo Blanco
Prize money	$200,487
Singles
Career record	6–8
Career titles	0
Highest ranking	No. 128 (25 April 2016)
Current ranking	No. 128 (25 April 2016)
Grand Slam singles results
Australian Open	Q3 (2016)
Wimbledon	Q1 (2015)
US Open	Q2 (2015)
Doubles
Career record	2–2
Career titles	0
Highest ranking	No. 380 (3 November 2014)
Current ranking	No. 600 (25 April 2016)
	Last updated on: 25 April 2016.

Karen Abgarovich Khachanov (Template:Lang-ru; born 21 May 1996) is a Russian tennis player of Armenian descent, who competes predominantly on the Challenger and Futures circuits.

Career

Early life

Karen Khachanov, nicknamed "Djan" speaks Russian and English. He started playing tennis aged three at kindergarten when his parents put him into the tennis group. His father, Abgar, played volleyball to a very high level before studying medicine, while his Mother, Natalia, also studied medicine. He has one sister, Margarita, as well as a brother, Georgiy. His idols growing up were Marat Safin and Juan Martin del Potro and favourite sports teams are Real Madrid and the Miami Heat.^[1]

Tournament	2012	2013	2014	W–L
Junior Grand Slam Tournaments
Australian Open	A	1R	A	0–1
French Open	A	3R	3R	4–2
Wimbledon	A	2R	A	1–1
US Open	2R	2R	A	2–2
Win–Loss	1–1	4–4	2–1	7–6

2013: Davis Cup debut

Khachanov won the Under-18 European Championship title in July 2013 in Switzerland.^[2] At age 17 and 157 days, he became the youngest Russian tennis player in the pro series, surpassing Mikhail Youzhny.^[3] Khachanov upset former world No. 8 Janko Tipsarević as a junior at the 2013 Kremlin Cup in Russia. In October, Khachanov defeated Dean O'Brien of South Africa to help Russia advance in the 2013 Davis Cup Europe/Africa Zone Group I.

2014: First Future

Khachanov lost to Jerzy Janowicz of Poland in the first round of the 2014 Davis Cup Europe/Africa Zone Group I. Khachanov received a wild card entry to the 2014 Sony Open, but lost in the first round to Daniel Gimeno-Traver.^[4] Together with Andrey Rublev he won a silver medal in doubles at the 2014 Summer Youth Olympics. They lost to Brazilian players Orlando Luz and Marcelo Zormann in the final.

He currently trains in Moscow, Russia and Split, Croatia.

2015: First Challenger

2016

In 2016 He qualified for the the Barcelona open beating Ramkumar Ramanathan and Marco Trungelliti. He then played his first round match beating Aljaz Bedene from being a set down 3-6 6-3 7-6(2). Then he proceeded to the second round beating fifth seed Roberto Bautista Agut also in three sets 6-2 6-7(4) 6-3. He eventually lost in the third round to the eleventh seed Alexandr Dolgopolov 4-6 5-7. He got a wildcard for the Istanbul open. In his first match he played Aljaz Bedene for the second time in the month. He beat him for the second time 6-4 6-7(4) 6-4. In his second match he lost to Albert Ramos Vinolas desspite winning the first set 6-4 1-6 0-6.

Awards

2014

The Russian Cup in the nomination Junior of the Year^[5]

Futures and Challenger titles

Singles 7 (6–1)

Legend
Challengers (1–1)
Futures (5–0)

Outcome	No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Opponent	Score
Winner	1.	25 August 2014	Kaohsiung, Chinese Taipei	Hard	Sriram Balaji	6–7^(4–7), 6–4, 6–3
Winner	2.	8 September 2014	Mulhouse, France	Hard(i)	David Guez	6–2, 6–0
Winner	3.	2 March 2015	Lille, France	Hard(i)	Rudy Coco	6–1, 6–4
Winner	4.	9 March 2015	Balma, France	Hard(i)	Fabien Reboul	6–4, 6–1
Winner	5.	19 April 2015	Bukhara, Uzbekistan	Hard	Dzmitry Zhyrmont	7–5, 4–6, 6–3
Winner	6.	20 September 2015	Istanbul, Turkey	Hard	Sergiy Stakhovsky	4–6, 6–4, 6–3
Runner-up	7.	13 March 2016	Jönköping, Sweden	Hard (i)	Andrey Golubev	6–7^(9–11), 7–6^(7–5), 7–6^(7–4)

Davis Cup

Participations: (1–3)

Group membership
World Group (–)
WG Play-off (–)
Group I (1–3)
Group II (–)
Group III (–)
Group IV (–)

Matches by Surface
Hard (1–3)
Clay (–)
Grass (–)
Carpet (–)

Matches by Type
Singles (1–2)
Doubles (0–1)

indicates the outcome of the Davis Cup match followed by the score, date, place of event, the zonal classification and its phase, and the court surface.

Rubber outcome	No.	Rubber	Match type (partner if any)	Opponent nation	Opponent player(s)	Score
5–0; 25–7 October 2013; Olympic Stadium, Moscow, Russia; Europe/Africa Second round play-off; Hard(i) surface
Victory	1	I	Singles	South Africa	Dean O'Brien	7–5, 6–1, 6–3
2–3; 31 January – 2 February 2014; Olympic Stadium, Moscow, Russia; Europe/Africa First round; Hard(i) surface
Defeat	2	I	Singles	Poland	Jerzy Janowicz	2–6, 4–6, 4–6
Defeat	3	III	Doubles (with Konstantin Kravchuk)	Poland	Mariusz Fyrstenberg / Marcin Matkowski	6–2, 4–6, 1–6, 0–6
3–2; 17–9 July 2015; Fetisov Arena, Vladivostok, Russia; Europe/Africa Second round; Hard(i) surface
Defeat	4	II	Singles	Spain	Pablo Andújar	3–6, 3–6, 2–6