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Mikhail Youzhny
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Russian tennis coach and tennis player (born 1982)
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Mikhail Youzhny is a Russian male tennis player born in Moscow on June 25, 1982. He represents Russia in international competition and resides in his birth city. Youzhny is right-handed and speaks Russian. He attended the Russian State University of Physical Education, Sport, Youth and Tourism. His professional career spanned from 1999 to 2018.
Youzhny competed in the 2004, 2008, and 2012 Summer Olympics. He supported the PFC CSKA Moscow sports team. His professional record includes 499 wins and 416 losses in singles, alongside 154 doubles wins and 193 losses. Throughout his career, he accumulated prize money totaling 14,264,450.
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Key facts
- Country sports
- Russia
- Residence
- Moscow, Russia
- Born
- ( 1982-06-25 ) 25 June 1982 (age 43) , Moscow, Russian SFSR , Soviet Union
- Height
- 1.83 m (6 ft 0 in)
- Plays
- Right-handed (one-handed backhand)
- Coach
- Boris Sobkin (2000–2018)
- Prize money
- $14,264,450
- Career record
- 499–416 (54.5%)
- Highest ranking
- No. 8 (28 January 2008)
- Australian open
- QF ( 2008 )
- French open
- QF ( 2010 )
- Wimbledon
- QF ( 2012 )
- Us open
- SF ( 2006 , 2010 )
- Tour finals
- Alt ( 2010 )
- Olympic games
- QF ( 2004 )
- Davis cup
- W ( 2002 , 2006 )
via Wikipedia infobox
Sports profile
- Sport
- Tennis
- Position
- Tennis Player
- Nationality
- Russia
via TheSportsDB
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Mikhail
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Russia
- Place of birth
- Moscow
- Occupation
- tennis player
- Languages spoken
- Russian
- Participant in
- 2004 Summer Olympics
- Sport
- tennis
- Country for sport
- Russia
- Mass
- 73
- Image
- Mikhail Youzhny (14359785610).jpg
- Height
- 1.83
- Residence
- Moscow
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- Mikhail Youzhny
- date of birth
- 1982-06-25
- playing hand
- right-handedness
- singles record
- 499–416
- doubles record
- 154–193
- handedness
- right-handedness
- prize money
- 14264450
- supported sports team
- PFC CSKA Moscow
- end of work period
- 2018-00-00
- start of work period
- 1999-00-00
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Encyclopedic overview
Mikhail Mikhailovich Youzhny (born 25 June 1982), nicknamed "Misha" and "Colonel" by his fans, is a Russian former professional tennis player who was ranked inside the top 10 and was the Russian No. 1. He achieved a top-10 ranking by the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) for the first time on 13 August 2007, and reached a career peak of world No. 8 in January 2008, and again in October 2010.
Youzhny reached the quarterfinals of all majors, reaching the semifinals at the US Open in 2006 and 2010. The closest he came to a major final was at the 2006 US Open semifinals when he took the first set from world No. 9 Andy Roddick, after upsetting world No. 2 Rafael Nadal in the quarterfinals. At the other semifinal he lost in straight sets to the eventual champion, Nadal. Youzhny reached the finals of 21 ATP Tour-level titles, winning ten of them. He reached ATP Tour finals on all surfaces, but never won a singles title on grass. In 2010—his best season—Youzhny reached five ATP finals, winning two and ending the year as a top-10 player.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Mikhail Youzhny” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.