Dmitry Tursunov

Full name is Dmitry Igorevich Tursunov...Moved to U.S. from Moscow when he was 12 1/2 and now based in California out of Gorin Tennis Academy in Sacramento area... Introduced to tennis by his Father, Igor, a former engineer for an Institute of Nuclear Reseach, who now coaches and has a tennis inventory buisness...Mother, Svetlana is an accountant and his older brother Dennis (seven years older) helps his father out...A big fan of actors; Jackie Chan, Will Ferrell and Owen Wilson...Considers groundstrokes as best part of his game and fast surfaces as favorite...Blogs for ATPWorldTour.com and had one of the most popular blogs from Estoril in April 2006...Has a 7-8 career Davis Cup record (5-3 in singles) in nine ties and member of winning team in 2006...Works with fitness trainer is Jason Stacy.

2000 -- Broke left leg and missed five months...Won three Futures titles in five finals...

2001 -- Played first ATP event in Memphis and reached QF (l. to Philippoussis)...Won a Futures and Challenger title...

2002 -- Missed six months with back injury...Claimed a Futures title...

2003 -- Won two Challengers...

2004 -- Reached 3rd RD at Wimbledon, defeating No. 15 Safin in 1st RD and Sargsian 15-13 in fifth set before losing to Moya...Reached first ATP SF in Washington (l. to Hewitt)...Won Waikoloa Challenger... Sidelined for final three months with back injury...

2005-- Withdrew prior to 2nd RD at Roland Garros with a knee injury... Reached Wimbledon 4th RD (l. to Grosjean)... Reached Moscow SF...Won Kolding Challenger..

2006 -- Finished in Top 25 with a personal-best 45 match wins...Won his first ATP title in September at Mumbai (d. No. 7 Robredo in SF, Berdych in F) and runner-up in Los Angeles (l. to Haas) and SF in Washington...Also reached four other QF...Achieved best AMS showing with 4th RD in Miami...On clay, reached 3rd RD at Roland Garros (l. to Nalbandian in five sets)...Also reached Wimbledon-best 4th RD (d. No. 4 Ljubicic, l. to Nieminen)...Led Russia into Davis Cup final with 4-0 singles record in three ties...Posted wins in both singles rubbers vs. The Netherlands...Clinched win over France in QF by defeating Gasquet and clinched SF tie with a win over Roddick in fourth rubber, prevailing 17-15 in fifth set (4 hrs., 48 mins.)...Won Challengers at Sunrise (d. Martin) and Dnepropetrovsk (d. Becker)...

2007-- Russian No. 3 compiled his best results from June-on...After starting out 5-9 through May, finished with a 23-14 record highlighted by two ATP titles -- Indianapolis (d. Dancevic) and Bangkok (d. Becker)...Member of Russian Davis Cup team which reached final vs. U.S. in Portland (lost 4-1)...Fell to No. 6 Roddick and Blake in dead rubber...On grass, reached back-to-back SF at Queen's (d. No. 6 Gonzalez, l. to Roddick) and Nottingham and 3rd RD at Wimbledon...Finished with QF in St. Petersburg...In doubles, captured first ATP title in Moscow (w/Safin) and advanced to QF at Roland Garros (w/Kunitsyn).

2008 -- The Russian won two ATP titles for second year in a row and finished in Top 30...Began season with QF in Doha (l. to Davydenko) and followed with title in Sydney (d. Guccione)... In March, reached 4th RD at AMS Miami (d. No. 8 Gasquet, l. to Berdych)...Best showing on clay was 3rd RD in Barcelona and Roland Garros (l. to Chardy)...Reached 3rd RD (or better) at Wimbledon for fifth straight year (l. to Tipsarevic)...During summer hard court circuit, reached final at Indianapolis (d. Blake in SF, l. to Simon) and advanced to 3rd RD at AMS Toronto (l. to Blake), AMS Cincinnati (l. to Murray) and US Open (l. to Davydenko)... In October, won Metz title (d. Mathieu) and went 1-3 in last three weeks...Had a 3-9 mark vs. Top 10 opponents and compiled marks of 26-15 on hard, 5-5 on clay and 3-2 on grass...Earned a career-high $856,069.

2009

The Russian struggled in the early part of the season and failed to win back-to-back ATP main draw matches until June when he hit form to clinch his first ATP World Tour grass-court title at Eastbourne with victory over Frank Dancevic.