Aleksandar Vukic

Aleksandar Vukic (Serbo-Croatian: Aleksandar Vukić, pronounced [aleksǎːndar ʋǔːkitɕ, alěksaːn-]; born 6 April 1996) is an Australian tennis player.

This article is about Australian tennis player. For the Serbian politician, see Aleksandar Vučić.

Aleksandar Vukic
Country (sports) Australia
ResidenceSydney, Australia
Born (1996-04-06) 6 April 1996
Sydney, Australia
Height1.88 m (6 ft 2 in)
PlaysRight-handed (two-handed backhand)
CollegeUniversity of Illinois
Prize money$142,462
Singles
Career record1–3 (at ATP Tour level, Grand Slam level, and in Davis Cup)
Career titles1 ITF
Highest rankingNo. 190 (14 September 2020)
Current rankingNo. 196 (7 December 2020)
Grand Slam Singles results
Australian Open1R (2021)
French Open1R (2020)
Doubles
Career record0–0 (at ATP Tour level, Grand Slam level, and in Davis Cup)
Career titles0
Highest rankingNo. 422 (29 July 2019)
Current rankingNo. 825 (16 March 2020)
Last updated on: 7 December 2020.

Vukic has a career high ATP singles ranking of 196 achieved in March 2020. He also has a career high ATP doubles ranking of 422 achieved in July 2019. Vukic has won one ITF Futures singles title. Vukic made his main draw ATP singles debut at the 2018 Sydney International and his grand slam debut at the 2020 French Open, after qualifying for both.

Professional career

2014-2019: ITF and ATP debut

Vukic made his ITF Tour debut in Spain in May 2014.

Vukic made his main draw ATP singles debut at the 2018 Sydney International, where he qualified for the main draw by defeating Dušan Lajović and Ričardas Berankis. He came within two points of defeating Feliciano Lopez, ranked 36 in the world. He lost the match 6–4, 6-7(5), 3–6.

In May 2019, Vukic reached the semi-final of the 2019 Savannah Challenger, his best performance at the ATP Challenger Tour level. Following a quarter-final appearance at 2019 Internazionali di Tennis Città dell'Aquila, Vukic reached a career high singles ranking of 258.

2020: Grand Slam singles debut

In January 2020, Vukic reached the final round of 2020 Australian Open – Men's Singles Qualifying. In March 2020, Vukic reached his first ATP Challenger Tour final in Monterrey Challenger. In September, Vukic qualified for the 2020 French Open main draw, where he made his grand slam singles debut. He lost in round one to Pedro Martínez. Vukic ended 2020 with a singles rank of 196.

2021: First ATP Tour win

Vukic commenced the 2021 season at the 2021 Great Ocean Road Open, where he defeated Yen-Hsun Lu for his first ATP main draw win.[1] Vukic was defeated by Jannik Sinner in the second round.[2]

Professional career finals

Singles: 6 (1–5)
Legend (Singles)
Grand Slam (0–0)
ATP World Tour Finals (0–0)
ATP World Tour Masters 1000 (0–0)
ATP World Tour 500 Series (0–0)
ATP World Tour 250 Series (0–0)
ATP Challenger Tour (0–1)
ITF Futures Tour (1–4)
Outcome No. Date Tournament Surface Opponent Score
Runner-up 1. 2 August 2015 Saskatoon, Canada (F6) Hard Matt Reid 6–7(12–14), 1–6
Winner 2. 30 July 2017 Champaign, USA (F25) Hard Deiton Baughman 7–5, 4–6, 6–2
Runner-up 3. 20 August 2017 Bydgoscz, Poland (F9) Clay Mats Moraing 2–6, 5–7
Runner-up 4. 8 July 2018 Wichita, USA (F19) Hard Evgeny Karlovskiy 4–6, 4–6
Runner-up 5. 17 March 2019 Bakersfield, USA (M25) Hard Jenson Brooksby 3–6, 1–6
Runner-up 6. 8 March 2020 Monterrey Challenger, Mexico Hard Adrian Mannarino 1–6, 3–6

Performance timelines
Key
W  F  SF QF #R RR Q# A P Z# PO G F-S SF-B NMS NH
(W) Won; (F) finalist; (SF) semifinalist; (QF) quarterfinalist; (#R) rounds 4, 3, 2, 1; (RR) round-robin stage; (Q#) qualification round; (A) absent; (P) postponed; (Z#) Davis/Fed Cup Zonal Group (with number indication) or (PO) play-off; (G) gold, (F-S) silver or (SF-B) bronze Olympic medal; a (NMS) downgraded Masters Series/1000 tournament; (NH) not held. SR=strike rate (events won/competed)
To avoid confusion and double counting, these charts are updated at the conclusion of a tournament or when the player's participation has ended.

Singles

Current through the 2020 US Open.

Tournament201920202021SRW–L
Grand Slam tournaments
Australian Open Q1 Q3 0 / 0 0-0
French Open A 1R 0 / 1 0-1
Wimbledon A NH 0 / 0 0-0
US Open A A 0 / 0 0-0
Win–Loss 0–0 0–1 0–0 0 / 1 0–1
Year-end ranking 273 196


  1. "Australians Chris O'Connell, Aleksander Vukic and Max Purcell achieved new milestones". Tennis Australia. 1 February 2021. Retrieved 2 February 2021.
  2. "Thompson Advances at Great Ocean Road". Tennis Australia. 3 February 2021. Retrieved 3 February 2021.
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