Oleksii Krutykh
Wikipedia - Oleksii Krutykh
Oleksii Krutykh (born 10 March 2000) is a Ukrainian tennis player. He has a career high ATP singles ranking of World No. 160 achieved on 27 February 2023. He also has a career high doubles ranking of World No. 275 achieved on 5 December 2022. He has won two ATP Challenger singles titles and two doubles titles. He is currently the No. 5 Ukrainian tennis player.
History
2022: Two Challenger titles, top 200 debut
In August, Krutych won his first Challenger title at the 2022 IBG Prague Open defeating German Lucas Gerch and becoming the youngest Ukrainian champion on the Challenger Tour since Alexandr Dolgpolov won the Meknes Challenger in 2010 and the first Ukrainian to win a Challenger title in the season. He rose to a career-high No. 226 on 29 August 2022.
He reached the top 200 in singles at world No. 190 climbing more than 60 positions up on 28 November 2022 after winning his second Challenger for the season and in his career in Valencia. At the same tournament he also won the doubles event climbing to a new career-high ranking of No. 276 in the top 300 in doubles.
2023: Grand Slam and ATP debuts
In January, Krutych qualified for the 2023 Australian Open to make his Grand Slam debut defeating Denis Kudla.
He made his ATP debut in Doha as a qualifier. At the 2023 Barcelona Open Banc Sabadell he qualified for his first ATP 500 tournament.