Alexei Popyrin

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 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.[13] 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,[14] becoming the third youngest teenager in 2018 to win a professional Challenger title.[15] 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.[16] Popyrin ended 2018 with a singles rank of World No. 147.

Popyrin commenced 2019 with wildcards into the Brisbane International and Sydney International, losing in the first round in both. He also received a wildcard in the Australian Open, and achieved his first Grand Slam win by defeating Mischa Zverev in straight sets. Popyrin followed this up by beating Dominic Thiem and lost in the third round to Lucas Pouille in closely contested five sets.

During the first half of 2019 Popyrin qualified for the main draws of the ATP 250 tournaments in New York and Estoril, ATP 500 in Acapulco and Masters 1000 in Indian Wells and Monte Carlo. Following his success on the ATP tour, Popyrin was awarded a main draw wildcard into French Open. In the first round Popyrin defeated France's Ugo Humbert in four sets winning his first Roland Garros men's main draw match. He lost to Laslo Djere in the second round. He broke into ATP top 100 for the first time at World No. 99 on 24 June 2019.

In July 2019 Popyrin qualified for the main draw of the 2019 Wimbledon Championships Popyrin lost to Daniil Medvedev in the second round. In the same month, Popyrin received his first direct acceptance into ATP 250 tournament in Atlanta, where he lost in the quarterfinals.

2019 was a breakout year for Popyrin. He played at least second round in all four Grand Slams - 3rd round of Australia Open, 2nd Round of Roland Garros, 2nd Round of Wimbledon and 3rd Round in US Open losing in 4 closely contested sets to Matteo Berrettini 4–6, 4–6, 7–6⁽³⁾, 6–7⁽²⁾. In 2019 Popyrin qualified for 10 Professional tournaments tying the record set by Mischa Zverev in 2016.[17]

He ended 2019 with an ATP singles rank of World No. 97.

Popyrin ended 2020 with an ATP singles rank of World No. 113.

Popyrin received a third wildcard into the main draw of the 2021 Australian Open similar to every year since 2018, with the exception of the 2020 Australian Open where he entered the main draw as direct entry. In the first round he defeated 13 seed David Goffin after saving four match points 3–6, 6–4, 6–7^(4–7), 7–6^(8–6), 6–3 in 3 hours 43 minutes. He then lost in the second round to Lloyd Harris.

In February, Popyrin entered the Singapore Open and defeated Marin Čilić in the semifinal and Alexander Bublik in the final to win his first ATP title and achieved a career high singles ranking of 82.[18]

At the 2021 French Open, Popyrin lost to Rafael Nadal in the first round.

At the US Open, Popyrin matched his career-best result, progressing through to the third round, which included a win over Grigor Dimitrov, Popyrin's fourth career top-20 win and third achieved in 2021.[19]

Popyrin ended 2021 with an ATP singles ranking of World No. 61.

Ranked No. 127 on 9 May 2022, after several exits from early rounds at the start of the year at the 2022 Australian Open (first round), 2022 BNP Paribas Open (first round), and 2022 Miami (second round), Popyrin gained back his form and clinched the Challenger title at the 2022 BNP Paribas Primrose Bordeaux over Quentin Halys in three sets. Despite this, he fell out of the top 100 again at the end of October.

Popyrin started his season at the Adelaide International 1. After making it past qualifying, he upset second seed and world No. 6, Félix Auger-Aliassime, in the first round in straight sets.[20] He went on to reach the quarterfinals, where he lost to Yoshihito Nishioka in a tight three-set match.[21] At the Adelaide International 2, he lost in the first round to compatriot and defending champion, Thanasi Kokkinakis.[22] Playing as a wildcard at his home slam, the Australian Open, he stunned eighth seed and world No. 9, Taylor Fritz, in the second round to advance to the third round for the third time at this event.[23] He ended up losing in the third round to American rising star Ben Shelton.[24] As a result, his ranking moved back into the top 100 from No. 113 to No. 90.

In February, Popyrin competed at the Bahrain Ministry of Interior Challenger in Manama, Bahrain. Seeded second, he made it to the quarterfinals where he lost to eighth seed and eventual champion, Thanasi Kokkinakis.[25] In Dubai, he was defeated in the first round by qualifier Pavel Kotov.[26]

In March at the 2023 BNP Paribas Open he lost in the second round to Hubert Hurkacz after he entered the tournament as lucky loser and won against another qualifier Zhizhen Zhang in the first round.[27]

Popyrin made his Davis Cup debut for Australia in February 2019, at the age of 19, winning his first rubber against Bosnia and Herzegovina in Adelaide.[28]

Current through the 2023 Miami Open.

Current through the 2023 Australian Open.

Active players are in boldface.

*As of 15 August 2022