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Alexander Volkov
Алекса́ндр Во́лков
Алекса́ндр Влади́мирович Во́лков.jpg
Country (sports)  Soviet Union
 Russia
Born (1967-03-03)3 March 1967
Kaliningrad, Soviet Union
Died 19 October 2019(2019-10-19) (aged 52)
Kaliningrad, Russia
Height 1.88 m (6 ft 2 in)
Turned pro 1988
Retired 1998
Plays Left-handed (two-handed backhand)
Prize money $3,362,840
Singles
Career record 303–255
Career titles 3
Highest ranking No. 14 (23 August 1993)
Grand Slam singles results
Australian Open 4R (1994)
French Open 3R (1990, 1992)
Wimbledon 4R (1987, 1990, 1991, 1994)
US Open SF (1993)
Other tournaments
Grand Slam Cup 1R (1992, 1993)
Olympic Games 1R (1988)
Doubles
Career record 32–55
Career titles 0
Highest ranking No. 136 (9 October 1989)
Grand Slam doubles results
Wimbledon 2R (1988)
US Open 1R (1989)
Other doubles tournaments
Olympic Games 1R (1988)
Team competitions
Davis Cup F (1994, 1995)

Alexander Vladimirovich Volkov (Russian: Алекса́ндр Влади́мирович Во́лков ; 3 March 1967 – 19 October 2019) was a Russian professional tennis player.

Tennis career

Volkov finished runner-up in three tournaments over 1989 and 1990; in the latter year he defeated World No. 1 Stefan Edberg in straight sets in the first round of the US Open. Volkov won his first top-level professional singles title in 1991 at Milan. At Wimbledon that year, he lost a close match in the fourth round to the eventual tournament champion Michael Stich, 4–6, 6–3, 7–5, 1–6, 7–5 despite winning the same number of games as Stich overall in the match, which hinged on a lucky shot hit by the German when he was trailing 3–5 in the final set. As Volkov served for the match, with the score at 30–15 in his favour, a shot hit by Stich was heading out, but the ball made contact with the inside edge of the top of the net post, sailed over Volkov's head, and landed inside the line, sparing the German from having to face two successive match-points during Volkov's service game, and bringing the scoreline instead to 30–30. Stich went on to take the game; and subsequently Volkov would not win another.

Volkov was runner-up in three tournaments in 1992 and won his second title in 1993 in Auckland. Later in 1993, Volkov defeated Björn Borg in the first round of the Kremlin Cup in Moscow, in a match which proved to be the last of Borg's career. Volkov won the Kremlin Cup a year later in 1994 to claim his third (and final) career title. He reached one more final in 1997 in Shanghai.

His best Grand Slam singles performance was reaching the semifinals of the 1993 US Open, where he defeated Jonathan Stark, Kevin Ullyett, Amos Mansdorf, Chuck Adams and Thomas Muster before losing to Pete Sampras.

Volkov was part of the Russian team that reached the final of the Davis Cup in 1994. He won singles rubbers over Patrick Rafter of Australia in the first round and Michael Stich of Germany in the semifinals. However, he lost both his singles rubbers in the final as Russia was defeated by Sweden 4–1.

Volkov retired from the professional tour in 1998. His career-high singles ranking was world No. 14 in 1994. His career prize-money earnings totalled $3,362,786.

He was Marat Safin's coach before the duo split in July 2007.

ATP career finals

Singles: 11 (3 titles, 8 runner-ups)

Legend
Grand Slam Tournaments (0–0)
ATP World Tour Finals (0–0)
ATP Masters Series (0–0)
ATP Championship Series (0–0)
ATP World Series (3–8)
Finals by surface
Hard (1–3)
Clay (0–0)
Grass (0–1)
Carpet (2–4)
Finals by setting
Outdoors (1–4)
Indoors (2–4)
Result W–L Date Tournament Tier Surface Opponent Score
Loss 0–1 Feb 1989 Milan, Italy Grand Prix Carpet Germany Boris Becker 1–6, 2–6
Loss 0–2 Jan 1990 Rosmalen, Netherlands World Series Grass Israel Amos Mansdorf 3–6, 6–7
Loss 0–3 Oct 1990 Berlin, Germany World Series Carpet Haiti Ronald Agénor 6–4, 4–6, 6–7(8–10)
Win 1–3 Feb 1991 Milan, Italy World Series Carpet Italy Cristiano Caratti 6–1, 7–5
Loss 1–4 Jan 1992 Wellington, New Zealand World Series Hard United States Jeff Tarango 1–6, 0–6, 3–6
Loss 1–5 Mar 1992 Rotterdam, Netherlands World Series Carpet Germany Boris Becker 6–7(9–11), 6–4, 2–6
Loss 1–6 Apr 1992 Johannesburg, South Africa World Series Hard United States Aaron Krickstein 4–6, 4–6
Win 2–6 Jan 1993 Auckland, New Zealand World Series Hard United States MaliVai Washington 7–6(7–2), 6–4
Loss 2–7 Jan 1994 Adelaide, Australia World Series Hard Russia Yevgeny Kafelnikov 4–6, 3–6
Win 3–7 Nov 1994 Moscow, Russia World Series Carpet United States Chuck Adams 6–2, 6–4
Loss 3–8 Feb 1997 Shanghai, China World Series Carpet Slovakia Ján Krošlák 2–6, 6–7(2–7)

Doubles: 3 (3 runner-ups)

Legend
Grand Slam Tournaments (0–0)
ATP World Tour Finals (0–0)
ATP Masters Series (0–0)
ATP Championship Series (0–0)
ATP World Series (0–3)
Finals by surface
Hard (0–2)
Clay (0–0)
Grass (0–0)
Carpet (0–1)
Finals by setting
Outdoors (0–2)
Indoors (0–1)
Result W–L Date Tournament Tier Surface Partnet Opponents Score
Loss 0–1 Nov 1991 Moscow, Russia World Series Carpet Russia Andrey Cherkasov Germany Eric Jelen
Germany Carl-Uwe Steeb
4–6, 6–7
Loss 0–2 Jan 1993 Auckland, New Zealand World Series Hard Austria Alex Antonitsch Canada Grant Connell
United States Patrick Galbraith
3–6, 6–7
Loss 0–3 Aug 1996 Long Island, United States World Series Hard Germany Hendrik Dreekmann United States Luke Jensen
United States Murphy Jensen
3–6, 6–7

ATP Challenger and ITF Futures finals

Singles: 1 (1–0)

Legend
ATP Challenger (1–0)
ITF Futures (0–0)
Finals by surface
Hard (1–0)
Clay (0–0)
Grass (0–0)
Carpet (0–0)
Result W–L Date Tournament Tier Surface Opponent Score
Win 1–0 Nov 1996 Aachen, Germany Challenger Hard Germany David Prinosil 6–3, 7–6

Performance timeline

Key
W  F  SF QF #R RR Q# A NH
(W) Won; (F) finalist; (SF) semifinalist; (QF) quarterfinalist; (#R) rounds 4, 3, 2, 1; (RR) round-robin stage; (Q#) qualification round; (A) absent; (NH) not held. SR=strike rate (events won/competed)

Singles

Tournament 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 SR W–L Win %
Grand Slam tournaments
Australian Open NH A 1R A 2R 1R 3R 3R 4R 1R 1R A 0 / 8 8–8  – 
French Open A A 1R A 3R 1R 3R 1R 2R 1R 1R 2R 0 / 9 6–9 40%
Wimbledon Q1 4R 2R 1R 4R 4R 3R 2R 4R 3R 3R 1R 0 / 11 20–11 65%
US Open A 1R A 3R 2R 2R QF SF 1R 3R 3R 1R 0 / 10 17–10 63%
Win–loss 0–0 3–2 1–3 2–2 7–4 4–4 10–4 8–4 7–4 4–4 4–4 1–3 0 / 38 51–38 57%
National Representation
Summer Olympics NH 1R Not Held A Not Held A NH 0 / 1 0–1 0%
Year-end Championships
Grand Slam Cup Did Not Qualify 1R 1R Did Not Qualify 0 / 2 0–2 0%
ATP Masters Series
Indian Wells A A A 1R 1R 2R A SF QF A A A 0 / 5 8–5 62%
Miami A 1R 3R 3R 4R 2R A 2R 2R A A A 0 / 7 7–7 50%
Monte Carlo A A A A A 3R 2R A A A A A 0 / 2 3–2 60%
Hamburg A A A 1R 1R 3R 1R A 1R 1R 1R Q1 0 / 7 2–7 22%
Rome A A A A 2R 2R 1R A 2R 1R A A 0 / 5 3–5 38%
Canada A A A A 1R A A QF 1R 1R A A 0 / 4 2–4 33%
Cincinnati A A 1R 1R A A 2R 3R 1R A A A 0 / 5 3–5 38%
Paris A 2R A A 1R QF 3R 2R 1R 2R A A 0 / 7 6–7 46%
Win–loss 0–0 1–2 2–2 2–4 6–6 8–6 2–5 8–5 4–7 1–4 0–1 0–0 0 / 42 34–42 45%

Junior Grand Slam finals

Doubles: 1 (1 runner-up)

Result Year Tournament Surface Partner Opponents Score
Loss 1985 French Open Clay Georgia (country) Vladimer Gabrichidze Czech Republic Petr Korda
Czech Republic Cyril Suk
6–4, 0–6, 5–7

Top 10 wins

Season 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 Total
Wins 0 0 2 3 1 5 1 4 1 0 0 17
# Player Rank Event Surface Rd Score VR
1989
1. Czech Republic Miloslav Mečíř 8 Davis Cup, Prague, Czechoslovakia Carpet (i) RR 6–2, 6–7, 6–0 64
2. Switzerland Jakob Hlasek 8 Milan, Italy Carpet (i) 2R 7–6, 7–5 61
1990
3. United States Tim Mayotte 10 Miami, USA Hard 2R 6–1, 6–4 100
4. Sweden Stefan Edberg 1 US Open, New York, USA Hard 1R 6–3, 7–6, 6–2 52
5. Spain Emilio Sánchez 8 Stockholm, Sweden Carpet (i) 2R 7–5, 6–3 34
1991
6. Czech Republic Karel Nováček 9 Basel, Switzerland Hard (i) QF 6–1, 6–7, 6–3 24
1992
7. Czech Republic Karel Nováček 10 Milan, Italy Carpet (i) 1R 7–6, 7–6 25
8. United States Ivan Lendl 7 Stuttgart, Germany Carpet (i) 2R 7–6, 5–7, 6–1 28
9. France Guy Forget 6 Stuttgart, Germany Carpet (i) QF 6–4, 6–4 28
10. Croatia Goran Ivanišević 5 US Open, New York, USA Hard 3R 6–4, 6–0, 6–3 20
11. Sweden Stefan Edberg 3 Tokyo, Japan Carpet (i) QF 6–3, 3–6, 7–5 17
1993
12. United States Pete Sampras 2 Indian Wells, United States Hard 3R 7–5, 6–4 22
1994
13. United States Michael Chang 8 Indian Wells, United States Hard 3R 6–4, 1–6, 6–3 18
14. Germany Michael Stich 2 World Team Cup, Düsseldorf, Germany Clay RR 6–4, 7–6 22
15. Germany Michael Stich 2 Davis Cup, Hamburg, Germany Hard RR 7–5, 1–6, 7–6, 6–4 42
16. Spain Alberto Berasategui 8 Ostrava, Czech Republic Carpet (i) 1R 7–6, 6–4 44
1995
17. Spain Sergi Bruguera 4 Stuttgart, Germany Carpet (i) 1R 6–4, 2–3 ret. 40

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