52 Facts About Emil Ruusuvuori

Emil Ruusuvuori reached a career high ATP singles ranking of World No 37 on 3 April 2023.

Emil Ruusuvuori is currently the No 2 Finnish singles tennis player.

Emil Ruusuvuori has a career-high doubles ranking of World No 179 achieved on 2 May 2022.

Emil Ruusuvuori was born in Toolo, Helsinki, to Jari Laakkonen and Eva Ruusuvuori.

Emil Ruusuvuori has an older sister, Aino, and a younger brother, Elias.

Emil Ruusuvuori began playing tennis at the age of five.

Emil Ruusuvuori was coached by Mika Muilu until the age of 11, and trained at the Jarkko Nieminen Tennis Academy until its closure in 2017.

At the age of 14, nine years after he first began playing tennis, Emil Ruusuvuori entered his first ITF Juniors tournament, the Nokia Junior Cup, in 2013.

Emil Ruusuvuori saw additional success in 2015, including one final in both singles and doubles as well as another doubles title.

Emil Ruusuvuori made his singles breakthrough in 2016, winning four events in total.

Emil Ruusuvuori continued his doubles success as well, winning three events and reaching the finals of two more.

Emil Ruusuvuori then entered the Australian Open, his debut grand slam event, participating in both the boys' singles and doubles.

Emil Ruusuvuori then returned to the junior tour, competing in the 33.

Emil Ruusuvuori then competed in the 58th Trofeo Bonfiglio junior event, losing in the first round of both singles and doubles.

Emil Ruusuvuori competed in both the boys' singles and doubles at the French Open.

Emil Ruusuvuori then competed in the Portugal F9 Futures, winning three rounds in singles qualifying before reaching the quarterfinals.

The next week, Emil Ruusuvuori reached his first Challenger event main draw, coming through qualifying to reach the second round of the Bangkok Challenger.

Emil Ruusuvuori drastically improved his ATP ranking in 2019 as he had risen from 385 at the beginning of the year to 123 at the end.

Emil Ruusuvuori made and won his first challenger final in April 2019 and would go on to win 3 of 4 more challenger finals.

In September 2019, Emil Ruusuvuori stunned World No 5 and 2-time French Open finalist Dominic Thiem in straight sets in a Davis Cup match against Austria for his first top-10 win.

Emil Ruusuvuori subsequently reached the second round of a Grand Slam for the first time in his career at the 2020 US Open, where he defeated Aljaz Bedene in the first round, to set up a clash with Casper Ruud in the second round.

Emil Ruusuvuori exited the tournament after retiring in the third set against Ruud.

Emil Ruusuvuori reached the semifinals in Nur-Sultan, where he lost to Adrian Mannarino.

Emil Ruusuvuori reached the fourth round where he lost to Jannik Sinner, his best career result at a Masters 1000 event.

Emil Ruusuvuori reached the semifinals of the 2021 Atlanta Open, beating Mackenzie McDonald, seventh seed Benoit Paire, and third seed Cameron Norrie before losing to Brandon Nakashima.

Emil Ruusuvuori played Prajnesh Gunneswaran in the 2021 Citi Open, winning, before bowing out to Sinner in the second round.

At the 2021 Winston-Salem Open, Emil Ruusuvuori reached his third quarterfinal of the year defeating again twelfth seeded Benoit Paire, and his third tour-level semifinal in his career defeating fourteenth seed Richard Gasquet along the way.

Emil Ruusuvuori started the year at the Melbourne Summer Set 1.

Emil Ruusuvuori reached the semifinals where he lost to top seed, world No 6, and eventual champion, Rafael Nadal, in two close sets.

Emil Ruusuvuori lost to Joao Sousa in the final in three sets.

Emil Ruusuvuori was defeated in the second round by sixth seed and world No 27, Karen Khachanov.

Emil Ruusuvuori reached a career-high of No 63 on 25 April after successful second rounds showings at the 2022 BNP Paribas Open, the 2022 Miami Open, the 2022 Monte-Carlo Masters and a third round at the 2022 Barcelona Open Banc Sabadell.

Emil Ruusuvuori reached the quarterfinals at the 2022 BMW Open and moved to the top 60 at World No 59 on 2 May 2022.

Emil Ruusuvuori won his first match at the 2022 French Open over Ugo Humbert in five sets.

Emil Ruusuvuori made his debut at the 2022 Wimbledon Championships and won his first match at this Major defeating Yoshihito Nishioka.

Emil Ruusuvuori lost in the round of 16 to Mikael Ymer.

Emil Ruusuvuori finished the year ranked No 40 in the World.

Emil Ruusuvuori lost in the second round to Jiri Lehecka.

Emil Ruusuvuori lost in the third round to 12th seed and world No 14, Alexander Zverev.

Emil Ruusuvuori defeated Taro Daniel in the third round to reach the fourth round for the second time at this Masters tournament.

Emil Ruusuvuori went one step further and defeated 26th seed, Botic van de Zandschulp, in the fourth round, to reach his first Master quarterfinal in his career.

Emil Ruusuvuori lost his quarterfinal match to 10th seed, world No 11,2021 finalist, and eventual finalist, Jannik Sinner.

Emil Ruusuvuori fell in the final round of qualifying to Jan-Lennard Struff.

However, due to Frances Tiafoe withdrawing from the tournament after winning the US Men's Clay Court Championships in Houston, Emil Ruusuvuori earned a lucky loser spot into the main draw.

Emil Ruusuvuori lost in the first round to Jiri Lehecka.

Emil Ruusuvuori was defeated in the third round by 10th seed Alejandro Davidovich Fokina.

Emil Ruusuvuori beat seventh seed, Ugo Humbert, in the second round.

Emil Ruusuvuori lost in his semifinal match to sixth seed, home crowd favorite and eventual champion, Tallon Griekspoor.

Emil Ruusuvuori skipped the US Open and the Asian swing.

Emil Ruusuvuori reached his second career final in Hong Kong defeating Benjamin Bonzi, second seed Karen Khachanov, Pavel Kotov and Sebastian Ofner.

Emil Ruusuvuori became the third Finnish player to make the third round at the All England Club, joining Pekka Saila and Jarkko Nieminen.

Emil Ruusuvuori ended his season earlier after pulling out of the 2024 US Open.