1. Karen Khachanov has won one doubles Masters 1000 title at the 2023 Madrid Open partnering Andrey Rublev.
18 Facts About Karen Khachanov
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Karen Khachanov achieved his career-high singles ranking of world No 8 on 15 July 2019.
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Karen Khachanov has a career high ranking of No 53 in doubles achieved on 29 January 2024.
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Karen Khachanov's idols growing up were Marat Safin and Juan Martin del Potro, and favourite sports teams are Real Madrid and the Miami Heat.
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Karen Khachanov won the Under-18 European Championship title in Switzerland in July 2013.
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Karen Khachanov had a slow start in 2016 with only a first round at the Chennai Open and the final stage of Australian Open qualifications, as well as failing to reach the main draw at Open Sud de France and Open 13.
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Karen Khachanov's following matches were on the Challenger Tour, making it to the quarterfinal in Cherbourg and later the final of Jonkoping and the quarterfinal in Kazan.
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Karen Khachanov was the first tennis player representing Russia to win a Masters 1000 final since Nikolay Davydenko, who won the inaugural 2009 Shanghai Masters.
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At the 2020 US Open, Karen Khachanov beat Jannik Sinner, coming back from 2 sets down, then beat Andrey Kuznetsov, before losing to Alex de Minaur in the third round.
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At the 2021 Australian Open, Karen Khachanov progressed to the third round for the third year in a row.
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Karen Khachanov reached two semifinals, at the lead-up event to the AO at the 2021 Great Ocean Road Open, where he was defeated by eventual champion Jannik Sinner, and at the clay warm-up event to the French Open at the 2021 Lyon Open, where he was defeated by Cameron Norrie.
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Karen Khachanov started his 2022 season at the Adelaide International 1.
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Karen Khachanov became the first player of Armenian descent to do so, since Andre Agassi reached his first Major semifinal at the French Open in 1988, and most recently, David Nalbandian at the French Open in 2006.
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Karen Khachanov moved back to the Top 15 to No 13 in the rankings on 30 January 2023.
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Karen Khachanov missed 2023 Wimbledon because of a partial stress fracture in his sacrum S1 bone.
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Karen Khachanov won his sixth title at the 2024 Qatar ExxonMobil Open in February, defeating Jakub Mensik in the final.
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In March 2022, the Russian state-run RIA Novosti reported that, amid the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, Karen Khachanov had removed the Russian flag from his Instagram page.
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In March 2024, Karen Khachanov participated in a charity exhibition match for Artsakh refugees at the Los Angeles Tennis Center with compatriot Andrey Rublev.