Alexei Popyrin

CAREER

Titles, year by year.

His move to the professional tour was as quick as it was successful. He won his first Futures title in Mrągowo, Poland, in 2017, aged 17, and his first Challenger in Jinan, China, in 2018. The public discovered him at the 2019 Australian Open, where he beat his first top-10 player, Dominic Thiem, before losing a hard-fought five-setter in the third round to Lucas Pouille, the eventual semi-finalist; he entered the top 100 a few months later. His first ATP title came in Singapore in February 2021, on hard court, aged 21, beating Marin Čilić in the semi-finals and Alexander Bublik in the final. He added Umag on clay in 2023, against Stan Wawrinka, then in August 2024, on his first appearance in the main draw in Montreal, beat five top-20 players, including three from the top 10 (Grigor Dimitrov, Hubert Hurkacz and Andrey Rublev in the final). He became the fourth Australian to win a Masters 1000, after Pat Rafter, Mark Philippoussis and Lleyton Hewitt, and, at No. 62, the fourth-lowest-ranked Masters 1000 champion. A few weeks later he reached the second week of a Grand Slam for the first time at the US Open, beating world No. 2 Novak Djokovic in the third round, the greatest win of his career. He ended that season with a win over Daniil Medvedev at the Rolex Paris Masters.