Andrei Chesnokov

Andrei Chesnokov
Андрей Чесноков

Country	Soviet Union  Russia
Residence	Moscow, Russia
Born	(1966-02-02) February 2, 1966 (age 46) Moscow, Soviet Union
Height	1.87 m (6 ft 2 in)
Weight	75.7 kg (167 lb; 11.92 st)
Turned pro	1985
Retired	1999
Plays	Right-handed (two-handed backhand)
Career prize money	$3,084,188
Singles
Career record	344–259
Career titles	7
Highest ranking	No. 9 (April 8, 1991)
Grand Slam Singles results
Australian Open	QF (1988)
French Open	SF (1989)
Wimbledon	1R (1986, 1988, 1989, 1992, 1993, 1995, 1996)
US Open	4R (1986, 1987, 1989)
Doubles
Career record	7–21
Career titles	0
Highest ranking	No. 342 (October 12, 1992)
Last updated on: April 27, 2012.

Andrei Eduardovich Chesnokov (Russian: Андрей Эдуардович Чесноков; born February 2, 1966) is a former professional tennis player from Russia.

Chesnokov's highest singles ranking was World No. 9 in 1991. The biggest tournament victories of his career came at the Monte Carlo Open in 1990, and at the Canadian Open in 1991 (both Tennis Masters Series events).

Chesnokov's best performance at a Grand Slam event came at the French Open in 1989, where he reached the semi-finals before being eliminated by the eventual champion Michael Chang.

The most famous match in Chesnokov's career took place on 24 September 1995 in the semi-final of the 1995 Davis Cup against Germany. In the fifth set of the final deciding match of the semi-final, playing against Michael Stich, Chesnokov saved nine match points before emerging the winner, the final score being: 6-4, 1-6, 1-6, 6-3, 14-12. The next day President of Russia Boris Yeltsin awarded Chesnokov with Order of Courage.

During his career, Chesnokov won seven top-level singles titles and earned prize-money totalling US$3,084,188. He retired from the professional tour in 1999.

On November 20, 2005, during a visit to Dnipropetrovsk (Ukraine), he was shot twice with rubber bullets after a quarrel in a restaurant with two unidentified men.

As a sixteen-year-old Chesnokov was one of those present at the UEFA Cup match between FC Spartak Moscow and HFC Haarlem during which the Luzhniki disaster happened. He was an honorary member of the committee that organized a benefit match for the victims between Spartak Moscow and Haarlem, that took place on October 20, 2007.

Chesnokov is currently coaching Elena Vesnina.

Career finals

Singles (7 titles - 8 runner-ups)

Outcome	No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Opponent	Score
Winner	1.	25 May 1987	Florence	Clay	Alessandro de Minicis	6–1, 6–3
Runner-up	1.	3 January 1988	Wellington	Hardcourt	Ramesh Krishnan	7-6, 0-6, 4-6, 3-6
Runner-up	2.	10 January 1988	Sydney	Grass	John Fitzgerald	3-6, 4-6
Winner	2.	14 March 1988	Orlando	Hardcourt	Miloslav Mecir	7–6(8-6), 6–1
Runner-up	3.	16 October 1988	Toulouse	Hardcourt	Jimmy Connors	2-6, 0-6
Winner	3.	24 April 1989	Nice	Clay	Jerome Potier	6–4, 6–4
Winner	4.	8 May 1989	Munich	Clay	Martin Strelba	5–7, 7–6(8-6), 6–2
Runner-up	4.	14 January 1990	Auckland	Hardcourt	Scott Davis	6-4, 3-6, 3-6
Winner	5.	30 April 1990	Monte Carlo	Clay	Thomas Muster	7–5, 6–3, 6–3
Runner-up	5.	20 May 1990	Rome	Clay	Thomas Muster	1-6, 3-6, 1-6
Winner	6.	15 October 1990	Tel Aviv	Hardcourt	Amos Mansdorf	6–4, 6–3
Winner	7.	29 July 1991	Montreal	Hardcourt	Petr Korda	3–6, 6–4, 6–3
Runner-up	6.	8 March 1992	Indian Wells	Hardcourt	Michael Chang	3-6, 4-6, 5-7
Runner-up	7.	9 May 1993	Hamburg	Clay	Michael Stich	3-6, 7-6(7-1), 6-7(7-9), 4-6
Runner-up	8.	8 August 1993	Prague	Clay	Sergi Bruguera	5-7, 4-6

Performance timelines

Singles

External links

• Andrei Chesnokov at the Association of Tennis Professionals