Jurij Rodionov (born 16 May 1999) is an Austrian professional tennis player. He has a career high ATP singles ranking of world No. 87 achieved on 19 February 2024. He also has a career high doubles ranking of No. 254 achieved on 9 September 2024. He is currently the No. 2 Austrian player.[2]
Rodionov is of Belarusian descent; his parents moved from Belarus to Nuremberg in 1996, where Rodionov was born, before later relocating to Austria.[3]
Rodionov won three ATP Challenger singles titles. The first came at the 2018 Almaty Challenger. His second title came when he won the 2020 RBC Tennis Championships of Dallas. His third title came at the 2020 Morelos Open. In 2019, he won his maiden ATP Challenger doubles title at the Shymkent Challenger.
Rodionov made his main draw Grand Slam debut at the 2020 French Open as qualifier and reached the second round with a win over Jérémy Chardy in five sets.
He reached the top 150 on 12 October 2020 at World No. 148. Also in October 2020, as a wildcard, he had the biggest win of his career in Vienna, where he beat eight seed and World No. 12 Denis Shapovalov in straight sets. He lost in the second round to Dan Evans.
Rodionov reached as a wildcard his maiden quarterfinal after the retirement of Peter Gojowczyk and then the semifinal after defeating Alex De Minaur at the 2021 MercedesCup in Stuttgart before retiring due to injury in the match with eventual champion Marin Čilić.[4] As a result of this run, he reached a career-high ranking of World No. 135 on 14 June 2021.
He won two more Challenger titles in March and May. As a result became the Austrian No. 1 player on 9 May 2022 and reached a career-high ranking of World No. 124 on 23 May 2022.
In March 2023 he won his sixth Challenger overall and first of the 2023 season in Biel, Switzerland where he was the defending champion.[5]He reached a career high ranking in the top 120 of No. 118 on 17 April 2023. Ranked No. 119, he qualified for his first Masters 1000 at the 2023 Mutua Madrid Open.
Ranked No. 132, he entered the main draw of the 2023 French Open as a lucky loser where he lost for the second time to qualifier Lucas Pouille having lost to him also in the last round of qualifying. He reached the top 100 on 28 August 2023.
At the 2023 Astana Open he reached the quarterfinals as a qualifier defeating second seed Sebastián Báez before losing to eventual champion sixth seed Adrian Mannarino.
Ranked No. 96, he entered the 2024 BNP Paribas Open as a lucky loser.
Rodionov represents Austria at the Davis Cup, where he has a W/L record of 0–3.[6] He made his debut at the 2019 Davis Cup qualifying round against Nicolás Jarry of Chile.
Current through the 2024 Madrid Open.