Andrey Golubev
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Andrey Golubev is a Kazakhstani
professional tennis player
currently living in Italy. His career high rank is #33, achieved on October 4, 2010. He has participated in all Grand Slam
tournaments, the first being the 2008 US Open, as well in the main draw of ATP Masters Series
and ATP International Series
events. He has won three Challenger tournaments and reached the final of the 2008 St Petersburg Open
. He won the 2010 International German Open
, an ATP World Tour 500 series event.
and ATP
events. He has made twelve finals in these events, winning five and losing seven. His strongest surface is carpet, where he is 8–2 (80%), along with hard courts, where he is 65–41 (61.3%)
experience came primarily on the satellite tour in 2003. The first ranking point(s) earned by Golubev were from a four-week satellite tour in Serbia
, and he gained another from a satellite event in Italy. In 2004, he turned his focus to attempting to qualify for futures and challenger
events. His first appearance in the main draw of one of these events was from a wild card
in the Arpa Ceramic Cup in Reggio Emilia
, Italy, where he lost to world #219 Salvador Navarro, but did manage to win a set.
This performance earned him enough ranking points to qualify for a futures event in Helsingør, Denmark, where he had a strong run to the semifinals. He would get to at least the quarterfinals of three other events, all in Italy, including making his first final in L'Aquila
, losing to Mathieu Montcourt
. By the end of 2004, he was ranked as the 561st player in the world, with 25 ATP Entry Ranking
points.
, the other in Teramo
. The Grottaglie event was the first time that Golubev had ever been seeded in the main draw of a futures event, and as the #7 seed he survived losing the first set in the semifinals before beating #1 seed Malek Jaziri
of Tunisia
in the finals. Because of this win, he earned a special exemption for the Teramo event, where he continued his good form by beating #5 seed Alessandro Accardo in the final, having already taken out the tournament's #1 seed in the semis.
The schedule of rankings changes meant that both these events were added to the points count on the week of June 6, 2005, lifting Golubev up into the top 500 for the first time in his career.
In late July, Golubev earned his first direct acceptance into a challenger event, a clay court tournament in Valladolid
, Spain. He was the lowest ranked player to receive direct acceptance, and managed to win his first match against a Spanish wildcard ranked outside the top 1000 in the world, before losing to an Australian qualifier.
In August, he won three straight qualifying matches to make the field for a challenger in Pamplona
, where he would again make the second round. However, unable to consistently achieve strong results in the challengers, Golubev resumed playing futures events in September, making the finals in a November event in Sint-Genesius-Rode
, Belgium. The ranking points from this event would be enough to move Golubev into the top 400 for the first time on November 21, 2005, and he finished the year ranked 393rd. Later in June, he earned a second wild card in Reggio Emilia
, but lost his first round match.
Golubev also moved into the top 1000 in doubles in 2005, after making the semifinals of a futures event with Marco Gualdi. He would also move up by making the quarterfinals at three straight challengers, with three different partners. In September, at a futures event in Porto Torres
, Italy, he teamed with Adriano Biasella and won the tournament, losing only a single set. He finished the year ranked #552 in doubles.
, rising to a new career-high ranking, but in this tournament he benefited from drawing a wild card in his first match, and getting both a withdrawal and a retirement from other opponents.
He returned to the challenger circuit for the start of June, qualifying for an event in Turin
, where he lost in the first round, but his ranking suffered a major blow when his two wins from the previous season dropped off, sending him down to #448. Despite this setback, Golubev had a major breakthrough in Milan
, where, as a wild card, he won back-to-back challenger matches for the first time, progressing to the quarterfinals before losing to Sydney Olympic bronze medalist Arnaud di Pasquale
.
His next three attempts at qualifying for challengers, though, all failed, so he again returned to the futures circuit, but with more success than his early season appearances, making finals at both Modena
and Piombino
, and returning him to the top 400. He briefly dropped back below this line, but came back up after a good challenger performance in Grenoble
, where he won five straight matches, four in three sets, to qualify and make the quarterfinals.
Golubev again focused on futures play to end the season, and had some significant success. He defeated Adrian Mannarino
in the final of an event in Rodez
to set a new career-high ranking of #336, then made back to back finals in November, losing in Redbridge
, England, and winning over Jeroen Masson in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria
, further boosting his ranking to #303, and ending the year ranked #305 in the world.
Golubev's ranking also improved in doubles, though not by as wide a margin. After making two tournament finals in June, he moved into the top 500, and nearly ended up in the top 400 before inactivity at the end of the season cost him points and dorpped him back below #500. He finished the year ranked 510th in doubles.
event, the Qatar ExxonMobil Open
in Doha
. He lost his first match in straight sets, but continued his attempts to qualify for large events when he entered qualifying for the Australian Open. In Melbourne, he won his first qualifying match against Ernests Gulbis
, but lost the second and failed to advance. Still, the ranking points that this attempt garnered moved Golubev into the top 300 for the first time in his career.
Through the early months of the year, Golubev continued to attempt to qualify for both ATP and challenger events, with no success. He made the final round of qualifying on several occasions, including losing to Radek Štěpánek
at the Open 13
in Marseille
.
He was able to gain direct acceptance to a challenger event in Rome in May, his first appearance in a main draw since September 2006, making the quarterfinals. His first challenger semifinal appearance came in Sassuolo
a month later, as he won six straight matches to move into the top 250 for the first time. This made it easier to earn direct acceptance to challengers, and also helped him enter Wimbledon
qualifying. In his first major event on grass, Golubev defeated #1 seed Olivier Patience
, but fell short in the final round, losing his first five-set match to Wang Yeu-Tzuoo, and failing to qualify.
Wang would serve as Golubev's nemesis again, later in July at Recanati
, where Golubev beat Rainer Schüttler
and Gilles Müller
to make his first challenger-level final, where he again lost to Wang, this time managing to take a set from him. This performance lifted him into the top 200 for the first time in his career.
He would continue to play challengers for the remainder of the season, with his best result coming in Grenoble
, where he made the semifinals. In late October, Golubev again attempted to qualify for an ATP tour event, this time the Davidoff Swiss Indoors
in Basel
. This time, he was successful, not dropping a set in qualifying, and so made his first career ATP International Series main draw. He would actually improve on this, winning his first ATP match over American Amer Delic
, and winning a set from #8 seed Paul-Henri Mathieu
before losing the next two to go out. He would finish his season ranked #177.
Golubev played fairly few doubles matches in 2007, but did record his first career challenger victory at Mantova with Francesco Piccari, and again team with Piccari to make the semis in Cordenons. He reached a new career high doubles ranking of #350 after these results, and finished the year at #389.
, in the first round. In Australian Open qualifying, Golubev again fell short at the second round, but this time he quickly moved on to a challenger event in Heilbronn
, Germany, where he reeled off eight straight wins, including beating #1 seed Florian Mayer
and Philipp Petzschner
in the final, winning his first career challenger event, and putting him to a new career-high ranking of 135. Despite being inactive, shifts from other players moved Golubev to his current career-high of #132 on February 11.
Golubev again attempted to qualify for the Open 13 in Marseille, but fell just one set short, losing to Ivan Dodig
. He then went on a long losing streak, failing to win a singles match between mid-February and mid-April. This included a failure in his first attempt to qualify for a ATP Masters Series
event, losing in the first qualifying round at Monte Carlo
.
He won a match in qualifying for the Open Sabadell Atlántico in Barcelona
to end a seven-game losing streak, but did not win consecutive matches until a quarterfinal in a challenger in Sanremo
. He attmpted to qualify for both Wimbledon, and, for the first time, the French Open
, but failed in both attempts, losing in the second round of Wimbledon qualifying.
Golubev reached another new milestone at the Canada Masters
in Toronto, beating Phillip King and Rohan Bopanna
to qualify for his first career ATP Masters series event main draw. He lost his first round match, though, to veteran Thomas Johansson
of Sweden.
Golubev continued his attempts to qualify for ATP level events, succeeding at the Countrywide Classic in Los Angeles, but losing in the first round to Florent Serra
. and falling one match short in Washington, D.C., at the Legg Mason Tennis Classic
.
Golubev entered qualifying for the US Open for the first time in 2008, losing in the final round to Switzerland's Stéphane Bohli
. However, when Juan Carlos Ferrero
pulled out of the tournament, Golubev was chosen as the lucky loser
to replace him, and made his Grand Slam
debut against an American wildcard, Brendan Evans
. Golubev defeated Evans in three sets, but then lost to seventh seed David Nalbandian
in the second round.
Golubev has had another year of only light doubles play, with his best result a semifinal with Francesco Piccari in Córdoba
.
He reached the final of the 2008 St. Petersburg Open
. His first win came against Olivier Rochus
, where he prevailed 6–1, 6–4. He then surprised home hero Marat Safin
in the second round, beating the Russian 6–4, 6–2 to progress to the quarterfinals. His next opponent was Mischa Zverev
, whom he beat 6–7, 6–4, 7–6. He then went on to beat Victor Hănescu
6–3, 6–0 in the semifinals, but lost to Andy Murray 1–6, 1–6 in the final.
2nd round by upsetting Ivan Ljubičić
3–6, 6–3, 2–6, 3–6 but losing to Mardy Fish
in the following round 6–2, 1–6, 6–3, 6–3. He then rech the final of the 2010 Intersport Heilbronn Open
challenger losing to Michael Berrer
3–6, 6–7. he then suffered first round losts in the 2010 ABN AMRO World Tennis Tournament
and 2010 PBZ Zagreb Indoors
. He then came back to the challengers of the 2010 GEMAX Open
, where he retired in the quarterfinals against Ilija Bozoljac
, 4–6, 3–5 ret. Representing Kazakhstan
against South Korea
, he was able to win both of his matches in straight sets. At the challengers of the 2010 BMW Tennis Championship
, he fell in the second round to Michael Berrer
.
He was able to qualify in the 2010 BNP Paribas Open
, but lost to Daniel Gimeno-Traver 6–3, 6–4 in the first round. At the 2010 Tennis Napoli Cup
challengers, he fell to Rui Machado
, 6–3 6–3 in the semifinals. He then reached the second round of the 2010 Grand Prix Hassan II
and as a qualifier in the 2010 Monte-Carlo Rolex Masters
, falling to Richard Gasquet
and David Ferrer
, respectively. Andrey fell in the qualifier of the 2010 Internazionali BNL d'Italia
. In a Davis Cup tie against China, he again won both his matches to give Kazakhstan a play-off spot.
He then suffered first-round loses in the 2010 French Open
, 2010 AEGON Championships
, AEGON International, and 2010 Wimbledon Championships
. However, he reach the semifinals of the challenger 2010 UniCredit Czech Open
, losing to Radek Štěpánek
, 6–3, 6–2. At the 2010 Swedish Open
, he lost in the second round to Tommy Robredo
, 3–6, 6–3, 6–2. Golubev played world no.6 and defending champion Nikolay Davydenko
in the 2010 International German Open
to earn a spot in the quarterfinals, and then defeated Denis Istomin
, 6–4, 6–1 to earn a semifinal berth. He then defeated Jürgen Melzer
in the final, 6–3, 7–5, earning his first ATP World Tour title and becoming the first man from Kazakhstan to win an ATP World Tour title. Golubev followed this up by reaching the final of the 2010 Malaysian Open, losing to US Open semifinalist Mikhail Youzhny
, having won the first set.
in the first round of the US Open
in straight sets, but he led early in each of the sets 3–1 in the first, 3–0 in the second, and 3–1 in the third, and was able to hold to force the second set into a tiebreak. The final score was 4–6, 6–71–7, 5–7.
, he changed his affiliation, appearing on the draw as an athlete from Kazakhstan
, and his ATP profile now reflects this.
Kazakhs
The Kazakhs are a Turkic people of the northern parts of Central Asia ....
professional tennis player
currently living in Italy. His career high rank is #33, achieved on October 4, 2010. He has participated in all Grand Slam
Grand Slam (tennis)
The four Major tennis tournaments, also called the Slams, are the most important tennis events of the year in terms of world tour ranking points, tradition, prize-money awarded, strength and size of player field, and public attention. They are the Australian Open, the French Open, Wimbledon, and...
tournaments, the first being the 2008 US Open, as well in the main draw of ATP Masters Series
ATP Masters Series
The ATP Masters Series was a series of nine tennis tournaments that formed part of the Association of Tennis Professionals tour, held annually throughout the year in Europe, North America...
and ATP International Series
ATP International Series
The International Series was a series of professional tennis tournaments held internationally as part of the ATP Tour until 2008....
events. He has won three Challenger tournaments and reached the final of the 2008 St Petersburg Open
2008 St. Petersburg Open - Singles
Andy Murray was the defending champion, and won in the final 6–1, 6–1, against Andrey Golubev.-Seeds:# Andy Murray # Nikolay Davydenko # Fernando Verdasco ...
. He won the 2010 International German Open
2010 International German Open
The 2010 International German Open was a tennis tournament to played on outdoor red clay courts. It was the 103rd edition of the event known that year as the International German Open and was part of the ATP World Tour 500 series of the 2010 ATP World Tour...
, an ATP World Tour 500 series event.
Tennis career
Golubev has amassed a career record of 135–91 (59.7%) in the main draw of senior ITFInternational Tennis Federation
The International Tennis Federation is the governing body of world tennis, made up of 205 national tennis associations.It was established as the International Lawn Tennis Federation by 12 national associations meeting at a conference in Paris, France on 1 March 1913...
and ATP
Association of Tennis Professionals
The Association of Tennis Professionals or ATP was formed in 1972 by Donald Dell, Jack Kramer, and Cliff Drysdale to protect the interests of male professional tennis players. Since 1990, the association has organized the worldwide tennis tour for men and linked the title of the tour with the...
events. He has made twelve finals in these events, winning five and losing seven. His strongest surface is carpet, where he is 8–2 (80%), along with hard courts, where he is 65–41 (61.3%)
Early career
Golubev's first senior ITFInternational Tennis Federation
The International Tennis Federation is the governing body of world tennis, made up of 205 national tennis associations.It was established as the International Lawn Tennis Federation by 12 national associations meeting at a conference in Paris, France on 1 March 1913...
experience came primarily on the satellite tour in 2003. The first ranking point(s) earned by Golubev were from a four-week satellite tour in Serbia
Serbia
Serbia , officially the Republic of Serbia , is a landlocked country located at the crossroads of Central and Southeast Europe, covering the southern part of the Carpathian basin and the central part of the Balkans...
, and he gained another from a satellite event in Italy. In 2004, he turned his focus to attempting to qualify for futures and challenger
ATP Challenger Series
The ATP Challenger Tour, known until the end of 2008 as the ATP Challenger Series, is a series of international men's professional tennis tournaments...
events. His first appearance in the main draw of one of these events was from a wild card
Wild card (sports)
The term wild card refers broadly to a tournament or playoff berth awarded to an individual or team that has not qualified through normal play.-International sports:...
in the Arpa Ceramic Cup in Reggio Emilia
Reggio Emilia
Reggio Emilia is an affluent city in northern Italy, in the Emilia-Romagna region. It has about 170,000 inhabitants and is the main comune of the Province of Reggio Emilia....
, Italy, where he lost to world #219 Salvador Navarro, but did manage to win a set.
This performance earned him enough ranking points to qualify for a futures event in Helsingør, Denmark, where he had a strong run to the semifinals. He would get to at least the quarterfinals of three other events, all in Italy, including making his first final in L'Aquila
L'Aquila
L'Aquila is a city and comune in central Italy, both the capital city of the Abruzzo region and of the Province of L'Aquila. , it has a population of 73,150 inhabitants, but has a daily presence in the territory of 100,000 people for study, tertiary activities, jobs and tourism...
, losing to Mathieu Montcourt
Mathieu Montcourt
Mathieu Montcourt was a professional French tennis player. At the 2006, 2007, and 2009 French Opens, he lost in the second round, to Lleyton Hewitt, Jarkko Nieminen, and Radek Štěpánek respectively.- Career :...
. By the end of 2004, he was ranked as the 561st player in the world, with 25 ATP Entry Ranking
ATP Entry Ranking
The 'Tennis men', as defined by the Association of Tennis Professionals , are the "objective merit-based method used for determining qualification for entry and seeding in all tournaments for both singles and doubles, except as modified for the ARAG ATP World Tour Team Championship and Barclays ATP...
points.
2005
Golubev continued to enter futures events in 2005, with his best performances a semifinal and a quarterfinal, until Mid-May, when he won events on back-to-back weeks, the first in GrottaglieGrottaglie
Grottaglie is a town and comune in the province of Taranto, Puglia, southern Italy.-Geography:Grottaglie is located in the Salento peninsula, a whole rock of limestone dividing Adriatic sea from Ionian sea. The countryside around the city is scattered with vast and deep ravines that open the ground...
, the other in Teramo
Teramo
Teramo is a city and comune in the central Italian region of Abruzzo, the capital of the province of Teramo.The city, from Rome, is situated between the highest mountains of the Apennines and the Adriatic coast...
. The Grottaglie event was the first time that Golubev had ever been seeded in the main draw of a futures event, and as the #7 seed he survived losing the first set in the semifinals before beating #1 seed Malek Jaziri
Malek Jaziri
Malek Jaziri is a professional Tunisian tennis player.Jaziri reached his highest individual ranking on the ATP Tour on November 28, 2011, when he became World number 117. He appeared in the qualifying draw at the 2010 Australian Open, losing in the first round to Michał Przysiężny of Poland...
of Tunisia
Tunisia
Tunisia , officially the Tunisian RepublicThe long name of Tunisia in other languages used in the country is: , is the northernmost country in Africa. It is a Maghreb country and is bordered by Algeria to the west, Libya to the southeast, and the Mediterranean Sea to the north and east. Its area...
in the finals. Because of this win, he earned a special exemption for the Teramo event, where he continued his good form by beating #5 seed Alessandro Accardo in the final, having already taken out the tournament's #1 seed in the semis.
The schedule of rankings changes meant that both these events were added to the points count on the week of June 6, 2005, lifting Golubev up into the top 500 for the first time in his career.
In late July, Golubev earned his first direct acceptance into a challenger event, a clay court tournament in Valladolid
Valladolid
Valladolid is a historic city and municipality in north-central Spain, situated at the confluence of the Pisuerga and Esgueva rivers, and located within three wine-making regions: Ribera del Duero, Rueda and Cigales...
, Spain. He was the lowest ranked player to receive direct acceptance, and managed to win his first match against a Spanish wildcard ranked outside the top 1000 in the world, before losing to an Australian qualifier.
In August, he won three straight qualifying matches to make the field for a challenger in Pamplona
Pamplona
Pamplona is the historial capital city of Navarre, in Spain, and of the former kingdom of Navarre.The city is famous worldwide for the San Fermín festival, from July 6 to 14, in which the running of the bulls is one of the main attractions...
, where he would again make the second round. However, unable to consistently achieve strong results in the challengers, Golubev resumed playing futures events in September, making the finals in a November event in Sint-Genesius-Rode
Sint-Genesius-Rode
Sint-Genesius-Rode is a municipality located in Flanders, one of three regions of Belgium, in the province of Flemish Brabant. The municipality comprises the town of Sint-Genesius-Rode only. On January 1, 2008, the town had a total population of 18,021...
, Belgium. The ranking points from this event would be enough to move Golubev into the top 400 for the first time on November 21, 2005, and he finished the year ranked 393rd. Later in June, he earned a second wild card in Reggio Emilia
Reggio Emilia
Reggio Emilia is an affluent city in northern Italy, in the Emilia-Romagna region. It has about 170,000 inhabitants and is the main comune of the Province of Reggio Emilia....
, but lost his first round match.
Golubev also moved into the top 1000 in doubles in 2005, after making the semifinals of a futures event with Marco Gualdi. He would also move up by making the quarterfinals at three straight challengers, with three different partners. In September, at a futures event in Porto Torres
Porto Torres
Porto Torres is a comune and city in northern Sardinia, in the Province of Sassari.It is situated on the north coast about 25 km east of the Gorditanian promontory , and on the spacious bay of the Gulf of Asinara.-History:...
, Italy, he teamed with Adriano Biasella and won the tournament, losing only a single set. He finished the year ranked #552 in doubles.
2006
Despite finishing the 2005 season with a career-high ranking, Golubev struggled to start the 2006 season, not making it beyond the quarterfinals of a futures event until mid-May and dropping back below the 400th ranking place in mid-March. He returned to the top 400 after making the finals in VicenzaVicenza
Vicenza , a city in north-eastern Italy, is the capital of the eponymous province in the Veneto region, at the northern base of the Monte Berico, straddling the Bacchiglione...
, rising to a new career-high ranking, but in this tournament he benefited from drawing a wild card in his first match, and getting both a withdrawal and a retirement from other opponents.
He returned to the challenger circuit for the start of June, qualifying for an event in Turin
Turin
Turin is a city and major business and cultural centre in northern Italy, capital of the Piedmont region, located mainly on the left bank of the Po River and surrounded by the Alpine arch. The population of the city proper is 909,193 while the population of the urban area is estimated by Eurostat...
, where he lost in the first round, but his ranking suffered a major blow when his two wins from the previous season dropped off, sending him down to #448. Despite this setback, Golubev had a major breakthrough in Milan
Milan
Milan is the second-largest city in Italy and the capital city of the region of Lombardy and of the province of Milan. The city proper has a population of about 1.3 million, while its urban area, roughly coinciding with its administrative province and the bordering Province of Monza and Brianza ,...
, where, as a wild card, he won back-to-back challenger matches for the first time, progressing to the quarterfinals before losing to Sydney Olympic bronze medalist Arnaud di Pasquale
Arnaud Di Pasquale
Arnaud Di Pasquale is a former professional male tennis player from France.Di Pasquale is best remembered for his bronze medal at the 2000 Summer Olympics in the men's singles event...
.
His next three attempts at qualifying for challengers, though, all failed, so he again returned to the futures circuit, but with more success than his early season appearances, making finals at both Modena
Modena
Modena is a city and comune on the south side of the Po Valley, in the Province of Modena in the Emilia-Romagna region of Italy....
and Piombino
Piombino
Piombino is an Italian town and comune of circa 35,000 inhabitants in the province of Livorno . It lies on the border between the Ligurian Sea and the Tyrrhenian Sea, in front of Elba Island and at the northern side of Maremma.-Overview:...
, and returning him to the top 400. He briefly dropped back below this line, but came back up after a good challenger performance in Grenoble
Grenoble
Grenoble is a city in southeastern France, at the foot of the French Alps where the river Drac joins the Isère. Located in the Rhône-Alpes region, Grenoble is the capital of the department of Isère...
, where he won five straight matches, four in three sets, to qualify and make the quarterfinals.
Golubev again focused on futures play to end the season, and had some significant success. He defeated Adrian Mannarino
Adrian Mannarino
Adrian Mannarino is a professional tennis player from France. Mannarino competes predominantly on the ATP Challenger Series and Futures circuit. His career high rank is #53, achieved on 16 May 2011....
in the final of an event in Rodez
Rodez
Rodez is a town and commune in southern France, in the Aveyron department, of which it is the capital. Its inhabitants are called Ruthénois.-History:Existing from at least the 5th century BC, Rodez was founded by the Celts...
to set a new career-high ranking of #336, then made back to back finals in November, losing in Redbridge
Redbridge
-Places:*London Borough of Redbridge**Redbridge, London, a place in that borough**Redbridge tube station*Redbridge, Kansas City, a neighborhood in South Kansas City, Missouri*Redbridge, Hampshire...
, England, and winning over Jeroen Masson in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria
Las Palmas de Gran Canaria
Las Palmas de Gran Canaria commonly known as Las Palmas is the political capital, jointly with Santa Cruz, the most populous city in the Autonomous Community of the Canary Islands and the ninth largest city in Spain, with a population of 383,308 in 2010. Nearly half of the people of the island...
, further boosting his ranking to #303, and ending the year ranked #305 in the world.
Golubev's ranking also improved in doubles, though not by as wide a margin. After making two tournament finals in June, he moved into the top 500, and nearly ended up in the top 400 before inactivity at the end of the season cost him points and dorpped him back below #500. He finished the year ranked 510th in doubles.
2007
Golubev's first tournament of 2007 was a first for him, as he attempted to qualify for his first ATP International SeriesATP International Series
The International Series was a series of professional tennis tournaments held internationally as part of the ATP Tour until 2008....
event, the Qatar ExxonMobil Open
Qatar ExxonMobil Open
The Qatar Open, currently known as the Qatar ExxonMobil Open for sponsorship reasons, is a professional tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts. It is currently part of the ATP World Tour 250 series of the Association of Tennis Professionals World Tour...
in Doha
Doha
Doha is the capital city of the state of Qatar. Located on the Persian Gulf, it had a population of 998,651 in 2008, and is also one of the municipalities of Qatar...
. He lost his first match in straight sets, but continued his attempts to qualify for large events when he entered qualifying for the Australian Open. In Melbourne, he won his first qualifying match against Ernests Gulbis
Ernests Gulbis
Ernests Gulbis is a Latvian professional tennis player. In 2008, Gulbis won his first ATP Tour doubles title at the U.S. Men's Clay Court Championships, teaming with Rainer Schüttler, and in 2010 won his first ATP Tour singles title in the Delray Beach, defeating Ivo Karlović in the final...
, but lost the second and failed to advance. Still, the ranking points that this attempt garnered moved Golubev into the top 300 for the first time in his career.
Through the early months of the year, Golubev continued to attempt to qualify for both ATP and challenger events, with no success. He made the final round of qualifying on several occasions, including losing to Radek Štěpánek
Radek Štepánek
Radek Štěpánek is a professional tennis player from the Czech Republic.-Career:Štěpánek turned professional in 1997. He started on tour as a doubles specialist, winning 12 ATP titles. Since 2002, Štěpánek has focused on being a better singles player while still playing top-level doubles...
at the Open 13
Open 13
The Open 13 is an annual men's tennis tournament played in Marseille, France. The tournament is an ATP World Tour 250 series event on the Association of Tennis Professionals tour. It is held for one week in February...
in Marseille
Marseille
Marseille , known in antiquity as Massalia , is the second largest city in France, after Paris, with a population of 852,395 within its administrative limits on a land area of . The urban area of Marseille extends beyond the city limits with a population of over 1,420,000 on an area of...
.
He was able to gain direct acceptance to a challenger event in Rome in May, his first appearance in a main draw since September 2006, making the quarterfinals. His first challenger semifinal appearance came in Sassuolo
Sassuolo
Sassuolo is an important industrial centre of the Emilia-Romagna region of Italy. The town stands on the right bank of the river Secchia some 17 km south-west of Modena.-History :...
a month later, as he won six straight matches to move into the top 250 for the first time. This made it easier to earn direct acceptance to challengers, and also helped him enter Wimbledon
The Championships, Wimbledon
The Championships, Wimbledon, or simply Wimbledon , is the oldest tennis tournament in the world, considered by many to be the most prestigious. It has been held at the All England Club in Wimbledon, London since 1877. It is one of the four Grand Slam tennis tournaments, the other three Majors...
qualifying. In his first major event on grass, Golubev defeated #1 seed Olivier Patience
Olivier Patience
Olivier Patience is a French professional tennis player. His career-high ATP singles ranking was No. 87, on 19 July 2004. During 2006, Patience won 3 ATP Challenger Series tournaments. He registered his best performance in a Grand Slam event to date, when he reached the 3rd round at Roland Garros...
, but fell short in the final round, losing his first five-set match to Wang Yeu-Tzuoo, and failing to qualify.
Wang would serve as Golubev's nemesis again, later in July at Recanati
Recanati
Recanati is a town and comune in the Province of Macerata, Marche region of Italy. Recanati was founded around 1150 AD from three pre-existing castles. In 1290 it proclaimed itself an independent republic and, in the 15th century, was famous for its international fair...
, where Golubev beat Rainer Schüttler
Rainer Schüttler
Rainer Schüttler is a German professional tennis player, ranked World No. 113 in the ATP rankings. He is the last German player who reached a final in a grand slam tournament....
and Gilles Müller
Gilles Müller
Gilles Müller is a Luxembourgish professional tennis player. He was a US Open junior champion and is the most successful male tennis player in the history of his country...
to make his first challenger-level final, where he again lost to Wang, this time managing to take a set from him. This performance lifted him into the top 200 for the first time in his career.
He would continue to play challengers for the remainder of the season, with his best result coming in Grenoble
Grenoble
Grenoble is a city in southeastern France, at the foot of the French Alps where the river Drac joins the Isère. Located in the Rhône-Alpes region, Grenoble is the capital of the department of Isère...
, where he made the semifinals. In late October, Golubev again attempted to qualify for an ATP tour event, this time the Davidoff Swiss Indoors
Davidoff Swiss Indoors
The Swiss Indoors is a professional tennis tournament played on indoor hard courts. Originally an event of the Grand Prix tennis circuit between 1970 and 1989. It is currently part of the World Tour 500 Series of the ATP Tour. It is held annually at the St...
in Basel
Basel
Basel or Basle In the national languages of Switzerland the city is also known as Bâle , Basilea and Basilea is Switzerland's third most populous city with about 166,000 inhabitants. Located where the Swiss, French and German borders meet, Basel also has suburbs in France and Germany...
. This time, he was successful, not dropping a set in qualifying, and so made his first career ATP International Series main draw. He would actually improve on this, winning his first ATP match over American Amer Delic
Amer Delic
Amer Delić is a Bosnian tennis player. Representing the United States as a tour player until 2009, he now represents the country of his birth, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and is a member of its Davis Cup team....
, and winning a set from #8 seed Paul-Henri Mathieu
Paul-Henri Mathieu
Paul-Henri Mathieu is a French tennis player.-Tennis career:Mathieu was born in Strasbourg, France. He first began playing tennis at age 3, with his older brother Pierre-Yves. Between 1997 and 2000 he trained at the Nick Bollettieri Tennis Academy in Bradenton, Florida...
before losing the next two to go out. He would finish his season ranked #177.
Golubev played fairly few doubles matches in 2007, but did record his first career challenger victory at Mantova with Francesco Piccari, and again team with Piccari to make the semis in Cordenons. He reached a new career high doubles ranking of #350 after these results, and finished the year at #389.
2008
Golubev began the season by qualifying for his second ATP event, the Next Generation Adelaide International, but lost to a man he had beaten in Australia the year before, Ernests GulbisErnests Gulbis
Ernests Gulbis is a Latvian professional tennis player. In 2008, Gulbis won his first ATP Tour doubles title at the U.S. Men's Clay Court Championships, teaming with Rainer Schüttler, and in 2010 won his first ATP Tour singles title in the Delray Beach, defeating Ivo Karlović in the final...
, in the first round. In Australian Open qualifying, Golubev again fell short at the second round, but this time he quickly moved on to a challenger event in Heilbronn
Heilbronn
Heilbronn is a city in northern Baden-Württemberg, Germany. It is completely surrounded by Heilbronn County and with approximately 123.000 residents, it is the sixth-largest city in the state....
, Germany, where he reeled off eight straight wins, including beating #1 seed Florian Mayer
Florian Mayer
Florian Mayer is a German professional tennis player. He plays on both the ATP Tour and the Challenger Tour. He has won nine Challenger events, which has helped him stay in the top 50 on the rankings....
and Philipp Petzschner
Philipp Petzschner
Philipp Petzschner is a professional German tennis player. He is known for his hard-hitting and incredible bursts of speed around the court, and now for controversy in the US Open Men's Doubles Final which he won partnered with Jurgen Melzer against the Polish team of Fystenberg/Matkowski...
in the final, winning his first career challenger event, and putting him to a new career-high ranking of 135. Despite being inactive, shifts from other players moved Golubev to his current career-high of #132 on February 11.
Golubev again attempted to qualify for the Open 13 in Marseille, but fell just one set short, losing to Ivan Dodig
Ivan Dodig
Ivan Dodig is a Croatian tennis player. His career-high rank ATP singles ranking is No. 32 and his best doubles rank is No. 129.-2010:...
. He then went on a long losing streak, failing to win a singles match between mid-February and mid-April. This included a failure in his first attempt to qualify for a ATP Masters Series
ATP Masters Series
The ATP Masters Series was a series of nine tennis tournaments that formed part of the Association of Tennis Professionals tour, held annually throughout the year in Europe, North America...
event, losing in the first qualifying round at Monte Carlo
Monte Carlo
Monte Carlo is an administrative area of the Principality of Monaco....
.
He won a match in qualifying for the Open Sabadell Atlántico in Barcelona
Barcelona
Barcelona is the second largest city in Spain after Madrid, and the capital of Catalonia, with a population of 1,621,537 within its administrative limits on a land area of...
to end a seven-game losing streak, but did not win consecutive matches until a quarterfinal in a challenger in Sanremo
Sanremo
Sanremo or San Remo is a city with about 57,000 inhabitants on the Mediterranean coast of western Liguria in north-western Italy. Founded in Roman times, the city is best known as a tourist destination on the Italian Riviera. It hosts numerous cultural events, such as the Sanremo Music Festival...
. He attmpted to qualify for both Wimbledon, and, for the first time, the French Open
French Open (tennis)
The French Open |Roland Garros]]) is a major tennis tournament held over two weeks between late May and early June in Paris, France, at the Stade Roland Garros. It is the premier clay court tennis tournament in the world and the second of the four annual Grand Slam tournaments – the other three are...
, but failed in both attempts, losing in the second round of Wimbledon qualifying.
Golubev reached another new milestone at the Canada Masters
Canada Masters
The Canada Masters , currently sponsored as the Rogers Cup, is an annual tennis tournament held in Canada. The men's competition is a Masters 1000 event on the Association of Tennis Professionals tour. The women's competition is a Premier 5 tournament on the Women's Tennis Association tour...
in Toronto, beating Phillip King and Rohan Bopanna
Rohan Bopanna
Rohan Bopanna is an Indian professional tennis player. His singles career high ranking was 213th in 2007. Recently, most of his appearances in professional tournaments has been in doubles matches. He is a member of the Indian Davis Cup team since 2002...
to qualify for his first career ATP Masters series event main draw. He lost his first round match, though, to veteran Thomas Johansson
Thomas Johansson
Karl Thomas Conny Johansson , commonly known as Thomas Johansson, is a former Swedish professional tennis player. He is a former Australian Open singles champion and Olympic silver medalist in doubles.-Junior career:...
of Sweden.
Golubev continued his attempts to qualify for ATP level events, succeeding at the Countrywide Classic in Los Angeles, but losing in the first round to Florent Serra
Florent Serra
Florent Lucien Serra is a French male tennis player. A right-hander, he has won two ATP titles during his career and is coached by Pierre Cherret.-Early life and junior career:...
. and falling one match short in Washington, D.C., at the Legg Mason Tennis Classic
Legg Mason Tennis Classic
The Legg Mason Tennis Classic is an annual late-summer men's tennis tournament played in Washington, D.C. as part of the ATP Tour. It was first held in 1969. It was later known as the Sovran Bank Classic. . Originally an event of the Grand Prix Tennis Tour and part of the Grand Prix Championship...
.
Golubev entered qualifying for the US Open for the first time in 2008, losing in the final round to Switzerland's Stéphane Bohli
Stéphane Bohli
Stéphane Bohli is a professional tennis player from Switzerland.-Doubles: 1 :-Challengers Wins:-External links:* Official Website of Stéphane Bohli...
. However, when Juan Carlos Ferrero
Juan Carlos Ferrero
Juan Carlos Ferrero Donat is a professional tennis player, and a former world no. 1 player, from Spain. He captured the men's singles title at the 2003 French Open, and in September of that year, he became the 21st player to hold the world no. 1 ranking. He was also the runner-up at the 2002...
pulled out of the tournament, Golubev was chosen as the lucky loser
Lucky Loser
Lucky Loser is a 2006 Thai sports-comedy about a small, fictional Southeast Asian country's bid to play in the World Cup...
to replace him, and made his Grand Slam
Grand Slam (tennis)
The four Major tennis tournaments, also called the Slams, are the most important tennis events of the year in terms of world tour ranking points, tradition, prize-money awarded, strength and size of player field, and public attention. They are the Australian Open, the French Open, Wimbledon, and...
debut against an American wildcard, Brendan Evans
Brendan Evans
Brendan Evans is an American professional tennis player. On the junior circuit, Evans reached a career-high combined ranking of No. 2 in 2004, when he won the Australian Open, Wimbledon and US Open doubles titles alongside Scott Oudesma. Evans competes today on the ATP Challenger Tour and the ATP...
. Golubev defeated Evans in three sets, but then lost to seventh seed David Nalbandian
David Nalbandian
David Pablo Nalbandian is an Argentine professional tennis player and former world no. 3. He was runner-up at the 2002 Wimbledon Championships and the winner of the Tennis Masters Cup in 2005.-Biography:...
in the second round.
Golubev has had another year of only light doubles play, with his best result a semifinal with Francesco Piccari in Córdoba
Córdoba, Spain
-History:The first trace of human presence in the area are remains of a Neanderthal Man, dating to c. 32,000 BC. In the 8th century BC, during the ancient Tartessos period, a pre-urban settlement existed. The population gradually learned copper and silver metallurgy...
.
He reached the final of the 2008 St. Petersburg Open
2008 St. Petersburg Open
The 2008 St. Petersburg Open was a tennis tournament played on indoor hard courts. It was the 14th edition of the St. Petersburg Open, and was part of the International Series of the 2008 ATP Tour. It took place at the Petersburg Sports and Concert Complex in Saint Petersburg, Russia, from October...
. His first win came against Olivier Rochus
Olivier Rochus
Olivier Rochus is a Belgian tennis player. He was born in Namur, Belgium, and currently resides in Auvelais, Belgium.-Career:...
, where he prevailed 6–1, 6–4. He then surprised home hero Marat Safin
Marat Safin
Marat Mikhailovich Safin is a retired Russian tennis player of Tatar descent. Safin won two grand slams and reached the world number 1 ranking during his career. He was also famous for his emotional outbursts and sometimes fiery temper on court. Safin also holds the record for most broken...
in the second round, beating the Russian 6–4, 6–2 to progress to the quarterfinals. His next opponent was Mischa Zverev
Mischa Zverev
Mikhail "Mischa" Zverev is a German professional tennis player. He is the son of former Russian tennis player Alexander Zverev, who is also his coach. He now resides in Monte-Carlo, Monaco and represents Germany internationally...
, whom he beat 6–7, 6–4, 7–6. He then went on to beat Victor Hănescu
Victor Hanescu
Victor Hănescu is a Romanian tennis player. He achieved his career high rank of no. 26 on July 6, 2009.- Professional career :...
6–3, 6–0 in the semifinals, but lost to Andy Murray 1–6, 1–6 in the final.
2010
Golubev began the year by reaching his first Australian OpenAustralian Open
The Australian Open is the only Grand Slam tennis tournament held in the southern hemisphere. The tournament was held for the first time in 1905 and was last contested on grass in 1987. Since 1972 the Australian Open has been held in Melbourne, Victoria. In 1988, the tournament became a hard court...
2nd round by upsetting Ivan Ljubičić
Ivan Ljubicic
----Ivan Ljubičić is a Croatian tennis player born in Bosnia and Herzegovina . His career-high ATP ranking to date has been no. 3, and he stands at no. 37....
3–6, 6–3, 2–6, 3–6 but losing to Mardy Fish
Mardy Fish
Mardy Simpson Fish is an American professional tennis player, and Olympic silver medalist. He is a hardcourt specialist...
in the following round 6–2, 1–6, 6–3, 6–3. He then rech the final of the 2010 Intersport Heilbronn Open
2010 Intersport Heilbronn Open
The 2010 Intersport Heilbronn Open was a professional tennis tournament played on indoor hard courts. It was part of the 2010 ATP Challenger Tour...
challenger losing to Michael Berrer
Michael Berrer
Michael Berrer is a German professional tennis player. He reached his career high in singles with No. 42 on May 2010 and his high in doubles in March 2009 with No...
3–6, 6–7. he then suffered first round losts in the 2010 ABN AMRO World Tennis Tournament
2010 ABN AMRO World Tennis Tournament
The 2010 ABN AMRO World Tennis Tournament was a tennis tournament played on indoor hard courts. It was the 38th edition of the event known as the ABN AMRO World Tennis Tournament, and was part of the ATP World Tour 500 series of the 2010 ATP World Tour...
and 2010 PBZ Zagreb Indoors
2010 PBZ Zagreb Indoors
The 2010 PBZ Zagreb Indoors was an ATP tennis tournament played on hard courts indoors. It was the 7th edition of the PBZ Zagreb Indoors, and was part of the ATP World Tour 250 series of the 2010 ATP World Tour...
. He then came back to the challengers of the 2010 GEMAX Open
2010 GEMAX Open
The 2010 GEMAX Open was a professional tennis tournament played on carpet courts. It was part of the Tretorn SERIE+ of the 2010 ATP Challenger Tour...
, where he retired in the quarterfinals against Ilija Bozoljac
Ilija Bozoljac
Ilija Bozoljac or Ilia Bozoljac is a professional male tennis player from Serbia....
, 4–6, 3–5 ret. Representing Kazakhstan
Kazakhstan
Kazakhstan , officially the Republic of Kazakhstan, is a transcontinental country in Central Asia and Eastern Europe. Ranked as the ninth largest country in the world, it is also the world's largest landlocked country; its territory of is greater than Western Europe...
against South Korea
South Korea
The Republic of Korea , , is a sovereign state in East Asia, located on the southern portion of the Korean Peninsula. It is neighbored by the People's Republic of China to the west, Japan to the east, North Korea to the north, and the East China Sea and Republic of China to the south...
, he was able to win both of his matches in straight sets. At the challengers of the 2010 BMW Tennis Championship
2010 BMW Tennis Championship
The 2010 BMW Tennis Championship was a professional tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts. It was part of the 2010 ATP Challenger Tour...
, he fell in the second round to Michael Berrer
Michael Berrer
Michael Berrer is a German professional tennis player. He reached his career high in singles with No. 42 on May 2010 and his high in doubles in March 2009 with No...
.
He was able to qualify in the 2010 BNP Paribas Open
2010 BNP Paribas Open
The 2010 BNP Paribas Open was a tennis tournament played at Indian Wells, California in March 2010. It was the 36th edition of the event, known this year as the BNP Paribas Open, and is classified as an ATP World Tour Masters 1000 event on the 2010 ATP World Tour and a Premier Mandatory event on...
, but lost to Daniel Gimeno-Traver 6–3, 6–4 in the first round. At the 2010 Tennis Napoli Cup
2010 Tennis Napoli Cup
The 2010 Tennis Napoli Cup was a professional tennis tournament played on outdoor red clay courts. It was part of the 2010 ATP Challenger Tour...
challengers, he fell to Rui Machado
Rui Machado
Rui Machado is a Portuguese professional tennis player that competes in the ATP World Tour. In October 2011, he achieved he achieved a career-high singles world ranking no. 59, the highest ranking a Portuguese player has ever held.- Early life :At the age of six, Machado was first introduced to...
, 6–3 6–3 in the semifinals. He then reached the second round of the 2010 Grand Prix Hassan II
2010 Grand Prix Hassan II
The 2010 Grand Prix Hassan II was a tennis tournament played on outdoor clay courts. It was the 26th edition of the Grand Prix Hassan II, and an ATP Tour World 250 event on the 2010 ATP World Tour...
and as a qualifier in the 2010 Monte-Carlo Rolex Masters
2010 Monte-Carlo Rolex Masters
The 2010 Monte-Carlo Rolex Masters, a tennis tournament for male professional players, was played from April 10 through April 18, 2010, on outdoor clay courts. It was the 104th edition of the annual Monte Carlo Masters tournament, which is sponsored by Rolex for the second time...
, falling to Richard Gasquet
Richard Gasquet
Richard Gasquet is a French professional tennis player. He won the mixed doubles Grand Slam title at the 2004 French Open, partnering Tatiana Golovin. His highest ranking in singles is #7. His best achievements in tennis are reaching the semi-finals of Wimbledon in 2007 and later that year...
and David Ferrer
David Ferrer
David Ferrer Ern is a Spanish professional tennis player who lives in Valencia, Spain who is currently no. 5 in the ATP Rankings and the second-highest ranked Spaniard behind world no. 2 Rafael Nadal. He turned professional in 2000...
, respectively. Andrey fell in the qualifier of the 2010 Internazionali BNL d'Italia
2010 Internazionali BNL d'Italia
The 2010 Internazionali BNL d'Italia was a tennis tournament, being played on outdoor clay courts at the Foro Italico in Rome, Italy. It was the 67th edition of the event and was classified as an ATP World Tour Masters 1000 event on the 2010 ATP World Tour and a Premier 5 event on the 2010 WTA Tour...
. In a Davis Cup tie against China, he again won both his matches to give Kazakhstan a play-off spot.
He then suffered first-round loses in the 2010 French Open
2010 French Open
The 2010 French Open was a tennis tournament played on outdoor clay courts. It was the 109th edition of the French Open, and the second Grand Slam event of the year...
, 2010 AEGON Championships
2010 AEGON Championships
The 2010 AEGON Championships was a tennis tournament played on outdoor grass courts. It was the 39th edition of the AEGON Championships and was part of the ATP World Tour 250 series of the 2010 ATP World Tour. It took place at the Queen's Club in London, United Kingdom, from June 7 through June 13,...
, AEGON International, and 2010 Wimbledon Championships
2010 Wimbledon Championships
The 2010 Wimbledon Championships took place on the outdoor grass courts at the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club in Wimbledon, London, United Kingdom. The tournament ran from Monday 21 June until Sunday 4 July 2010. It was the 124th staging of the Wimbledon Championships, and the third Grand...
. However, he reach the semifinals of the challenger 2010 UniCredit Czech Open
2010 UniCredit Czech Open
The 2010 UniCredit Czech Open was a professional tennis tournament played on outdoor red clay courts. It was part of the 2010 ATP Challenger Tour...
, losing to Radek Štěpánek
Radek Štepánek
Radek Štěpánek is a professional tennis player from the Czech Republic.-Career:Štěpánek turned professional in 1997. He started on tour as a doubles specialist, winning 12 ATP titles. Since 2002, Štěpánek has focused on being a better singles player while still playing top-level doubles...
, 6–3, 6–2. At the 2010 Swedish Open
2010 Swedish Open
The 2010 Swedish Open was a tennis tournament played on outdoor clay courts part of the ATP World Tour 250 Series of the 2010 ATP World Tour and 2010 WTA Tour. It took place in Båstad, Sweden, from July 5 through July 11, 2010 for Women's and from July 12 through July 18, 2010 for Men's...
, he lost in the second round to Tommy Robredo
Tommy Robredo
Tommy Robredo Garcés is a Spanish professional tennis player. On 8 May 2006, he broke into the world's top ten for the first time. His highest singles ranking to date is No...
, 3–6, 6–3, 6–2. Golubev played world no.6 and defending champion Nikolay Davydenko
Nikolay Davydenko
Nikolay Vladimirovich Davydenko is a Ukrainian-Russian tennis player. Davydenko's best result in a Grand Slam tournament has been reaching the semifinals, which he has done on four occasions: twice each at the French Open and the U.S. Open. His biggest achievement to date was winning the 2009 ATP...
in the 2010 International German Open
2010 International German Open
The 2010 International German Open was a tennis tournament to played on outdoor red clay courts. It was the 103rd edition of the event known that year as the International German Open and was part of the ATP World Tour 500 series of the 2010 ATP World Tour...
to earn a spot in the quarterfinals, and then defeated Denis Istomin
Denis Istomin
Denis Istomin is a professional Uzbek tennis player. His career high rank is #39, achieved on August 30, 2010. He is coached by his mother.- 2006 :...
, 6–4, 6–1 to earn a semifinal berth. He then defeated Jürgen Melzer
Jürgen Melzer
Jürgen Melzer is an Austrian tennis player. He reached a career-high ranking of no. 8 on 18 April 2011, and a doubles ranking of no. 6 on 13 September 2010. He is the only current player on the ATP Tour to be ranked in the top 10 in both singles and doubles. He is a left-handed tennis player, but...
in the final, 6–3, 7–5, earning his first ATP World Tour title and becoming the first man from Kazakhstan to win an ATP World Tour title. Golubev followed this up by reaching the final of the 2010 Malaysian Open, losing to US Open semifinalist Mikhail Youzhny
Mikhail Youzhny
Mikhail Mikhailovich Youzhny , is a professional Russian tennis player, noted for his consistency and all-court play style. He has been coached by Boris Sobkin for 17 years....
, having won the first set.
2011
Golubev lost to Rafael NadalRafael Nadal
Rafael "Rafa" Nadal Parera is a Spanish professional tennis player and a former World No. 1. , he is ranked No. 2 by the Association of Tennis Professionals...
in the first round of the US Open
2011 US Open (tennis)
The 2011 US Open was a tennis tournament played on the outdoor hard courts at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center in Flushing Meadows Park, of Queens, New York City, United States...
in straight sets, but he led early in each of the sets 3–1 in the first, 3–0 in the second, and 3–1 in the third, and was able to hold to force the second set into a tiebreak. The final score was 4–6, 6–71–7, 5–7.
Change in nationality
For the first years of his career, up to and including 2008 Wimbledon, Golubev competed as an athlete from Russia. However, before the 2008 Canada Masters2008 Canada Masters
The 2008 Canada Masters was a tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts. It was the 119th edition of the Canada Masters, and was part of the ATP Masters Series of the 2008 ATP Tour, and of the Tier I Series of the 2008 WTA Tour...
, he changed his affiliation, appearing on the draw as an athlete from Kazakhstan
Kazakhstan
Kazakhstan , officially the Republic of Kazakhstan, is a transcontinental country in Central Asia and Eastern Europe. Ranked as the ninth largest country in the world, it is also the world's largest landlocked country; its territory of is greater than Western Europe...
, and his ATP profile now reflects this.
Singles: 3 (1–2)
| Legend |
|---|
| Grand Slam (0) |
| Tennis Masters Cup / ATP World Tour Finals (0) |
| ATP Masters Series / ATP World Tour Masters 1000 (0) |
| ATP International Series Gold / ATP World Tour 500 Series (1–0) |
| ATP International Series / ATP World Tour 250 Series (0–2) |
| Outcome | No. | Date | Tournament | Surface | Opponent in the final | Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Runner-up | 1. | 20 October 2008 |  St. PetersburgSt. Petersburg Open The St. Petersburg Open is a professional tennis tournament played on indoor hard courts. It is currently part of the ATP World Tour 250 series of the Association of Tennis Professionals World Tour. It has been held annually at the Petersburg Sports and Concert Complex in St. Petersburg, Russia,... , Russia |
Hard (i) |  Andy Murray |
1–6, 1–6 |
| Winner | 1. | 25 July 2010 |  Hamburg, Germany |
Clay |  Jürgen MelzerJürgen Melzer Jürgen Melzer is an Austrian tennis player. He reached a career-high ranking of no. 8 on 18 April 2011, and a doubles ranking of no. 6 on 13 September 2010. He is the only current player on the ATP Tour to be ranked in the top 10 in both singles and doubles. He is a left-handed tennis player, but... |
6–3, 7–5 |
| Runner-up | 2. | 27 September 2010 |  Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia |
Hard (I) | Mikhail Youzhny Mikhail Youzhny Mikhail Mikhailovich Youzhny , is a professional Russian tennis player, noted for his consistency and all-court play style. He has been coached by Boris Sobkin for 17 years.... |
7–6(9–7), 2–6, 6–7(3–7) |
External links
- Andrey Golubev at the Association of Tennis ProfessionalsAssociation of Tennis ProfessionalsThe Association of Tennis Professionals or ATP was formed in 1972 by Donald Dell, Jack Kramer, and Cliff Drysdale to protect the interests of male professional tennis players. Since 1990, the association has organized the worldwide tennis tour for men and linked the title of the tour with the...