Karen Chaczanow

[Damian]

[Barty]

Karen zakończył współpracę z Galo Blanco.

Tymczasem człowiek, który wprowadził Raonicia do męskiego touru, właśnie zakończył współpracę z Karenem Chaczanowem. Galo Blanco, bo o nim mowa, prowadził Rosjanina przez cztery lata i doprowadził go do Top 50 światowego rankingu. - To była niesamowita podróż i jestem przekonany, że na długie lata pozostaniemy przyjaciółmi - poinformował 21-latek z Moskwy, który jest obecnie 45. rakietą globu. Blanco ciągle pozostaje trenerem Andrieja Rublowa. Chaczanow nie podał jeszcze nazwiska nowego szkoleniowca.

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[Mario]

Chyba dobra decyzja, Bianco do dla mnie trener, który przeprowadzi grajka z punktu A do B, ale raczej nie nadaje się do współpracy z zawodnikiem mającym poważniejsze cele, coś jak Rasheed, tylko Australijczyka mam półkę wyżej.

Ciekaw jestem kogo zatrudni, w sumie ten Rasheed nie byłby głupią opcją, ogarnąłby go fizycznie, nauczył poważnego treningu, Monf i Dimug zaczęli bardzo powtarzalnie serwować pod wodzą Rogera, a Karenowi bardzo by się stabilizacja w tym elemencie przydała, więc kto wie. Ja jestem za.

[Damian]

2017 w liczbach:

Ranking: 45
Bilans meczów: 26-31
Tytuły: 0
Finały: 0
Zarobki: $1,157,784

[Damian]

Karen Chaczanow powrócił do współpracy z byłym trenerem

Spoiler:

Karen Chaczanow do sezonu 2018 przygotowuje się pod okiem Vedrana Marticia. Chorwacki trener w przeszłości był już szkoleniowcem rosyjskiego tenisisty.

Wraz z zakończeniem sezonu 2017 dobiegła kresu współpraca Karena Chaczanowa z Galo Blanco. Pod wodzą hiszpańskiego szkoleniowca Rosjanin wygrał pierwszy w karierze tytuł w głównym cyklu (we wrześniu 2016 roku w Chengdu) oraz awansował na 29. miejsce w rankingu ATP (w sierpniu 2017).

Przygotowując się do sezonu 2018, Chaczanow powrócił do korzeni. Pracuje w Barcelonie pod okiem Vedrana Marticia. Chorwat był trenerem moskwianina w początkowym okresie jego zawodowej kariery. Doprowadził go do tytułu mistrza Europy do lat 18. oraz pierwszego w karierze ćwierćfinału turnieju głównego cyklu (w 2013 roku w Moskwie).

50-letni Martić to bardzo doświadczony fachowiec. W przeszłości pracował z Goranem Ivaniseviciem, który pod jego wodzą zdobył dziesięć tytułów, dotarł do drugiej pozycji w rankingu oraz zagrał w finale Wimbledonu, a także m.in. z Anke Huber, Younesem El Aynaouim czy świetnym deblistą Marinem Draganją.

Nowe rozgrywki 21-letni Chaczanow, aktualnie 45. gracz świata, rozpocznie w Auckland (8-13 stycznia). Następnie weźmie udział w wielkoszlemowym Australian Open (15-28 stycznia).

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[Damian]

Best of 2017: Five #NextGenATP Who Impressed

Spoiler:

ATP World Tour Season In Review: #NextGenATP
Continuing our Season In Review series, ATPWorldTour.com looks back at five #NextGenATP players who impressed in 2017.

Daniil Medvedev, 21

Medvedev was the last player to qualify directly for the inaugural Next Gen ATP Finals, but the Russian made good use of his time in Milan. The Moscow native upset second-seeded countryman Karen Khachanov and American Jared Donaldson to reach the semi-finals, where he fell in five sets to eventual champion Hyeon Chung, 1-4, 1-4, 4-3(4), 4-1, 0-4.

Earlier in the year, Medvedev earned his first Grand Slam win and his first Top 5 victory by beating Stan Wawrinka on Centre Court at The Championships, Wimbledon. Medvedev also reached his first ATP World Tour final at the Aircel Chennai Open in India (l. to Bautista Agut).


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Denis Shapovalov, 18

As far as breakout stretches go, the Canadian had one of the best in recent memory this season. Shapovalov stunned Juan Martin del Potro and No. 2 Rafael Nadal en route to reaching his first ATP World Tour Masters 1000 semi-final (l. to Zverev) at the Coupe Rogers in Montreal. Shapovalov became the youngest ATP World Tour Masters 1000 semi-finalist.

Weeks later, at his first US Open, the Canadian upset another ATP World Tour mainstay in Jo-Wilfried Tsonga before reaching the fourth round at the season's final Grand Slam. The left-hander enters 2018 at No. 51 in the Emirates ATP Rankings.


Karen Khachanov, 21

The 6'6” Russian might have the biggest game of all of his #NextGenATP peers, a key reason many pundits and fans have compared him to countryman and former World No. 1 Marat Safin. This season, Khachanov, who won his first ATP World Tour title in October 2016 (Chengdu), made four quarter-finals – Barcelona, Lyon, Bastad and Hamburg – and the semi-finals of the ATP World Tour 500 event in Halle, the Gerry Weber Open. Khachanov, who turns 22 in May, can't return to the 21-and-under Next Gen ATP Finals, but he'll go for his second tour-level title in 2018.

Andrey Rublev, 20

The top seed at the Next Gen ATP Finals, who is already No. 39 in the Emirates ATP Rankings, showed all week why he could be a Top 10 player in the very near future. After a slow start in Milan – a five-set win against Italian wild card Gianluigi Quinzi and a straight-sets loss to Chung – Rublev gained his composure, beating Shapovalov and Croatian Borna Coric to make the first Next Gen ATP Finals championship match (l. to Chung).

Rublev sat atop the Milan bracket because of his stellar second half of 2017. The Russian won his maiden ATP World Tour title in Umag and made the US Open quarter-finals (l. to Nadal).


Hyeon Chung, 21

South Korea's No. 1 entered the Next Gen ATP Finals under the radar: Chung was the second to last player to qualify directly for the tournament, and the trio of Russians, along with Shapovalov, had garnered much of the attention in the tournament preamble.

But that all changed once Chung took the court. The 21-year-old finished the week 5-0 and captured the title at the 21-and-under event. The sixth-seeded Chung had reached only a tour-level semi-final before Milan, but he beat Rublev twice – in group play and in the final – to celebrate the perfect ending to his 2017 season.

In Milan, Chung was at his best when he needed to bail himself out of trouble. The right-hander saved 77 per cent of his break points (34/44) in Italy.

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[Damian]

Karen Khachanov will train with his first coach Vedran Martic

Spoiler:

Russian Next Gen player Karen Khachanov has split with his Spanish coach Galo Blanco but continues training in Barcelona under the guidance of 50-year-old Croatian coach Vedran Martic.

Khachanov returned to his first coach, who guided him at the start of his career. Martic worked with his compatriot Goran Ivanisevic.



Khachanov started playing tennis at kindergarten at the age of three when his parents put him in the tennis group. His father Abgar played volleyball at a high level before studying medicine. His mother Natalia studied medicine. Karen’s idols were Marat Safin and Juan Martin Del Potro. He has been compared to Marat Safin.

Karen attended the Sozvedzie secondary school in Moscow and is nearing graduation from the University of Physical Education in Moscow.

Karen beat Albert Ramos Vinolas to lift the 2016 Chengdu title in October 2016 becoming the first Russian player to win a ATP World Tour tournament since Mikhail Youzhny won in Valencia in 2013. He was the third Next Gen player after Nick Kyrgios and Alexander Zverev to win an ATP title in 2016.

During the 2017 season Khachanov reached the second round at the Australian Open where he lost to Jack Soc.

He went on to reach the fourth round at Roland Garros, where he beat Tomas Berdych and John Isner before losing to Andy Murray. On clay he also qualified for the quarter finals in Barcelona, Bastad, Lyon and Hamburg.

On the grass court he got through to the semifinal in Halle where he was defeated by eventual champion Roger Federer and to the third round at Wimbledon before losing against Rafael Nadal in straight sets. He qualified for the inaugural edition of the ATP Next Gen Finals in Milan but he did not advance from the round robin group.

He also played basketball at national level at the high school. At the age of 15 he left Russia to train with Martic in the Croatian city of Split. The 21-year-old Russian player has been based in Barcelona for the past four years to train under the guidance of Galo Blanco, the former coach of Milos Raonic.

Khachanov will open his 2018 season at the Hopman Cup in Perth, where he teams up with Anastasya Pavlyuchenkova.

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[Lleyton]

[arti]

[Lleyton]

[Damian]

Russian Karen Khachanov came back from a set down against one of the toughest competitors on the ATP World Tour to advance on Tuesday at the Open Sud de France. The 21-year-old Khachanov beat Spain's David Ferrer 6-7(5), 6-3, 6-4, avoiding a single break point in the decider to reach the second round in Montpellier.

Both players were coming off of good runs in Auckland, before the Australian Open. Khachanov reached the quarter-finals at the ASB Classic, Ferrer the semi-finals. They both lost to Juan Martin del Potro. In fact, Khachanov's two losses this season have come against Del Potro (also second round Australian Open).

[DUN I LOVE]

Deklasując starszego Zvereva w Marsylii, Karen zapisał na swoim koncie 50. wygrany mecz na poziomie ATP (50-50).

[Damian]

Khachanov Sweeps Into Marseille SFs

Spoiler:

Former finalist Berdych aims for 32nd tour-level final

Karen Khachanov advanced to his first ATP World Tour semi-final for eight months on Friday when he defeated France’s Julien Benneteau, the 2010 runner-up, 6-4, 6-4 in 84 minutes at the Open 13 Provence. “It was quite a solid match,” said Khachanov. “I didn’t make many first serves in the first couple of games, getting broken in my first service game, but then I got stronger.”

The 21-year-old Russian, who struck 16 aces past Benneteau (for 35 aces overall in three matches this week), reached the Gerry Weber Open semi-finals (l. to Federer) in June 2017. The last Russian to contest the Marseille final was Yevgeny Kafelnikov, a former No. 1 in the ATP Rankings, who beat Sebastian Grosjean of France for the 2001 title.

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Khachanov will next face fourth-seeded Czech and 2013 finalist Tomas Berdych, who led seventh seed Damir Dzumhur 7-6(4) when the Bosnia & Herzegovina player retired due to illness after 56 minutes of play.

Berdych has a 13-18 record in ATP World Tour finals, with his last championship match coming in May 2017 at the Open Parc Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes Lyon (l. to Tsonga). In their only FedEx ATP Head2Head meeting, Khachanov beat Berdych 7-5, 6-4, 6-4 in the Roland Garros second round last year.

Two Frenchmen will compete during the night session in Marseille on Friday. Third seed and last year’s finalist Lucas Pouille, a recent titlist at the Open Sud de France in Montpellier, faces eighth-seeded Serbian Filip Krajinovic and Nicolas Mahut meets qualifier Ilya Ivashka of Belarus.

Daniell/Inglot Reach Doubles Final
Fourth seeds Marcus Daniell and Dominic Inglot advanced to their first ATP World Tour doubles final with a 6-1, 6-4 victory over second seeds Rohan Bopanna and Edouard Roger-Vasselin in 52 minutes on Friday. Last year, Inglot partnered Robin Haase to a runner-up finish to Julien Benneteau and Nicolas Mahut. Inglot, 31, has a 7-9 record in finals, while 28-year-old Daniell is 3-4 lifetime in title matches. The duo will next challenge top seeds Raven Klaasen and Michael Venus or defending champions Benneteau and Mahut, who will contest their semi-final on Saturday.

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[DUN I LOVE]

Po blisko 1,5 rocznej przerwie Rosjanin ponownie osiągnął finał turnieju ATP, tym razem w Marsylii.

[Lleyton]

Khachanov To Meet Pouille In Final

Spoiler:

Russian upset 2013 runner-up Tomas Berdych in straight sets

Karen Khachanov reached his second ATP World Tour final after beating Tomas Berdych 6-3, 6-2 at the Open 13 Provence on Saturday.

The World No. 47, competing in his first semi-final of 2018, looked in great form throughout the 74-minute contest, winning 90 per cent of first serve points (26/29) to reach the championship match. Khachanov improved to a 2-0 FedEx ATP Head2Head record over the Czech No. 1, after winning their only previous encounter last season at Roland Garros.
“I am happy with my performance, I did everything I should have done today,” said Khachanov. “It is the nicest feeling when you come to the tournament and play until the final… I feel great here.”

The ninth seed will face home favourite Lucas Pouille in Sunday’s final. Pouille advanced to his second final of the season after beating qualifier Ilya Ivashka 6-3, 7-6(6). The final will be Khachanov and Pouille’s first FedEx ATP Head2Head meeting.

While the two have never crossed paths in match play, they have practised together in the past. “I know him well,” said Khachanov. “We are friends, he plays great tennis and it will be a difficult final.”

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Pouille, who won the Open Sud de France two weeks ago (d. Gasquet), became just the third player to reach multiple finals in 2018 (Federer, Anderson) after 84 minutes, firing 10 aces and breaking Ivashka's serve on three occasions.

The Frenchman had served for the match at 6-5 in the second set, but was forced into a tie-break after the Belarusian saved three match points. “[It is] always difficult to end a match,” admitted Pouille. “I relaxed for a moment and he played well.”

The five-time tour-level champion shared his delight at his current level and how he has created an opportunity to lift another trophy, so early in the season. “My level is quite good. I'm happy to be in the final,” said Pouille.

The Frenchman has now reached back-to-back Marseille finals after losing last year’s championship match to compatriot Jo-Wilfried Tsonga in straight sets. The 24-year-old will be aiming to become the eighth French champion in the past 13 years of the event.

Did You Know?
Pouille and Ivashka were born just one day apart, with both men celebrating their 24th birthdays this week. Pouille turned 24 on Friday, while Ivashka celebrated his birthday by playing his first ATP World Tour semi-final, against Pouille, on Saturday.

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[Mario]

#2) Marsylia 2018


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R1 [Q] Ruben Bemelmas (BEL) 63 76(2)
R2 Mischa Zverev (GER) 62 61
QF Julien Benneteau (FRA) 64 64
SF [4] Tomas Berdych (CZE) 63 62
W [3] Lucas Pouille (FRA) 75 36 75

[Damian]

Khachanov Returns To The Winners' Circle In Marseille

Spoiler:

Russian denies Pouille a second title in three weeks
Karen Khachanov lifted his second ATP World Tour title on Sunday, beating home favourite Lucas Pouille 7-5, 3-6, 7-5 at the Open 13 Provence.

"It is the second title in my career, so I am extremely happy. I just need to keep working and keep going," said Khachanov. "I felt I was playing good here from the first day. It's nice to play on a full court in the final, and I hope to come back next year."

Between his maiden ATP World Tour title at the 2016 Chengdu Open (d. Ramos-Vinolas) and this week in Marseille, Khachanov's best result was a semi-final appearance at the 2017 Gerry Weber Open (l. to Federer) last July. But the Russian turned that around in impressive fashion, earning victories against World No. 17 Tomas Berdych in the semi-finals and Pouille (No. 16). It is the first time that Khachanov has defeated two Top 20 players in the ATP Rankings in the same week, and he did not drop a set before the championship match.

The ninth seed notched his 10th win of 2018 to earn the trophy in the port city, remaining undefeated in tour-level finals (2-0). The Russian hit 16 aces in the one-hour, 49-minute clash to win his first FedEx ATP Head2Head meeting with the recent Open Sud de France champion, who was bidding to win a second title in three weeks in southern France.



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It was Khachanov who began the final on the front foot, securing the first break of the match in the third game to take a 2-1 lead. But, after three service holds from both men, Pouille fired a backhand down the line to get back on level terms as the Russian failed to serve the set out at 5-4. Not to be deterred, the 2017 Next Gen ATP Finals qualifier went back on the offensive in the next game, re-establishing his break advantage with a strong forehand approach up the line before serving the set out at the second time of asking.

Pouille survived an early attack from Khachanov to hold serve in the second set, and secured the only break of the set in the sixth game to take a 4-2 lead. The Frenchman levelled the match at a set apiece three games later with another solid backhand up the line, much to the delight of the French crowd.

The final set proved a tight affair, with both players holding serve with reasonable comfort before Khachanov pounced at the most crucial of moments. With Pouille serving to force a final-set tie-break, the 21-year-old reached championship point. A missed overhead gave Pouille a reprieve, but Khachanov would not be denied. The Frenchman double faulted for the fourth time to hand the World No. 47 a second opportunity, which he took as Pouille dumped a forehand into the net to end the match.

Pouille fell just short of winning his second title of 2018 in front of home support, after triumphing in the nearby city of Montpellier just two weeks ago. The Frenchman was aiming to win his fifth title in 10 months.

“It was a good week. Karen is a young player who will be Top 20 soon. Congrats to him. Overall it was a great match,” Pouille said. “Another final is always positive. I hope that I can continue to play well in the next few weeks.”

Khachanov earns 250 ATP Rankings points and €115,150, while Pouille will take away 150 points and €60,645 for his runner-up finish.

Did You Know?
Khachanov is the first player who competed in last year’s inaugural Next Gen ATP Finals in Milan to win two ATP World Tour titles.

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[arti]

[arti]

[Damian]

No. 32 seed Karen Khachanov moved on to the third round after a straightforward defeat of Marius Copil, 7-5, 6-3. The 21-year-old, who earlier this season claimed his second ATP World Tour title in Marseille, overcame his big-serving opponent in just one hour, 15 minutes to register his 12th win of the season. He advances to play either Kevin Anderson or Nikoloz Basilashvili.

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