Andrei Chesnokov

Andrei Eduardovich Chesnokov (Template:Langx; born 2 February 1966) is a former professional tennis player from Russia.

Career

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 by eliminating Pablo Arraya, Jonas Svensson, Carl-Uwe Steeb, Jim Courier and the defending champion Mats Wilander in straight sets in the quarterfinals. He was eliminated by the eventual champion Michael Chang in four sets.

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, even if the last full year on tour was 1995 and from 1996 on he played only a few tournaments.

On 20 November 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.

In 2013, Chesnokov, whose mother was Jewish, who carried the last name Litvinova, celebrated his bar mitzvah in France.

Chesnokov was coaching Elena Vesnina.

Legacy

Chesnokov has always been outspoken about the Soviet system as a crucial reason for his less triumphant career. In February 2021, considering the fact of a higher level of availability of tennis to the general audience of citizens in the USSR, if compared to modern Russia, he stated: "Formally it was more available. But we had nothing. No balls, no racquets, no tennis shoes. You could count indoor courts on one hand. As a teenager, I could train on the court only 3 hours a week, and in winter I played mostly hockey. I think, if I was not born in the USSR I would have achieved more in tennis." In September 2021, he continued by declaring there was absolutely nothing good in the Soviet rule.

Career finals

Singles (7 titles, 8 runners-up)

Legend
Grand Slam (0-0)
Tennis Masters Cup (0-0)
ATP Masters Series (2-3)
ATP Tour (5-7)

Result	W/L	Date	Tournament	Surface	Opponent	Score
Win	1–0	May 1987	Florence, Italy	Clay	Template:Flagicon Alessandro de Minicis	6–1, 6–3
Loss	1–1	Jan 1988	Wellington, New Zealand	Hard	Template:Flagicon Ramesh Krishnan	7–6(9–7), 0–6, 4–6, 3–6
Loss	1–2	Jan 1988	Sydney, Australia	Grass	Template:Flagicon John Fitzgerald	3–6, 4–6
Win	2–2	Mar 1988	Orlando, U.S.	Hard	Template:Flagicon Miloslav Mečíř	7–6(8–6), 6–1
Loss	2–3	Oct 1988	Toulouse, France	Hard (i)	Template:Flagicon Jimmy Connors	2–6, 0–6
Win	3–3	Apr 1989	Nice, France	Clay	Template:Flagicon Jérôme Potier	6–4, 6–4
Win	4–3	May 1989	Munich, West Germany	Clay	Template:Flagicon Martin Střelba	5–7, 7–6(8–6), 6–2
Loss	4–4	Jan 1990	Auckland, New Zealand	Hard	Template:Flagicon Scott Davis	6–4, 3–6, 3–6
Win	5–4	Apr 1990	Monte Carlo, Monaco	Clay	Template:Flagicon Thomas Muster	7–5, 6–3, 6–3
Loss	5–5	May 1990	Rome, Italy	Clay	Template:Flagicon Thomas Muster	1–6, 3–6, 1–6
Win	6–5	Oct 1990	Tel Aviv, Israel	Hard	Template:Flagicon Amos Mansdorf	6–4, 6–3
Win	7–5	Jul 1991	Montreal, Canada	Hard	Template:Flagicon Petr Korda	3–6, 6–4, 6–3
Loss	7–6	Mar 1992	Indian Wells, U.S.	Hard	Template:Flagicon Michael Chang	3–6, 4–6, 5–7
Loss	7–7	May 1993	Hamburg, Germany	Clay	Template:Flagicon Michael Stich	3–6, 7–6(7–1), 6–7(7–9), 4–6
Loss	7–8	Aug 1993	Prague, Czech republic	Clay	Template:Flagicon Sergi Bruguera	5–7, 4–6

Performance timelines

Singles

Tournament	1984	1985	1986	1987	1988	1989	1990	1991	1992	1993	1994	1995	1996	1997	1998	1999	2000	SR	W–L
Grand Slam tournaments
Australian Open	A	1R	A	A	QF	A	2R	1R	4R	2R	1R	A	1R	1R	A	A	A	0 / 9	9–9
French Open	A	3R	QF	3R	QF	SF	4R	3R	1R	2R	1R	4R	1R	A	1R	A	A	0 / 13	26–13
Wimbledon	A	A	1R	A	1R	1R	A	A	1R	1R	A	1R	1R	A	A	A	A	0 / 7	0–7
US Open	A	A	4R	4R	A	4R	3R	2R	2R	1R	2R	2R	1R	A	A	A	A	0 / 10	15–10
Win–loss	0–0	2–2	7–3	5–2	8–3	8–3	6–3	3–3	4–4	2–4	1–3	4–3	0–4	0–1	0–1	0–0	0–0	0 / 39	50–39
ATP Masters Series
Indian Wells	A	A	A	1R	A	3R	1R	A	F	1R	2R	1R	A	A	A	A	A	0 / 7	8–7
Miami	A	A	A	2R	QF	2R	2R	A	2R	3R	3R	A	A	A	A	A	A	0 / 7	8–7
Monte Carlo	A	A	A	QF	3R	2R	W	QF	QF	2R	2R	1R	A	A	A	A	A	1 / 9	17–8
Rome	A	A	3R	1R	A	A	F	A	A	QF	3R	2R	A	A	A	A	A	0 / 6	13–6
Hamburg	A	A	A	2R	A	1R	A	1R	A	F	3R	1R	A	A	A	A	A	0 / 6	8–6
Canada	A	A	A	A	A	A	A	W	A	A	A	A	A	A	A	A	A	1 / 1	6–0
Cincinnati	A	A	A	A	2R	2R	2R	1R	A	A	A	1R	1R	A	A	A	A	0 / 6	3–6
Stockholm/Essen/Stuttgart	A	A	A	A	A	A	3R	A	2R	1R	3R	A	A	A	A	A	A	0 / 4	5–4
Paris	A	A	A	1R	QF	1R	2R	1R	2R	2R	1R	A	A	A	A	A	A	0 / 8	4–8
Win–loss	0–0	0–0	2–1	5–6	8–4	4–6	13–6	8–4	10–5	12–7	8–7	1–5	0–1	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	2 / 53	70–51
Year-end ranking	289	137	36	52	14	22	12	31	30	27	32	89	85	209	494	871	715

1986 Goodwill Games singles matches

1986 Goodwill Games
Round	Opponent	Result	Score
1R	Bye	—	—
2R	Template:Flagicon Konstantinos Glavas	Win	6–0, 6–0
3R	Template:Flagicon Bobby Blair	Win	6–4, 6–2
QF	Template:Flagicon Sergey Leonyuk	Win	6–1, 6–1
SF	Template:Flagicon Brad Pearce	Win	6–1, 7–5
F	Template:Flagicon Alexander Zverev Sr.	Win	4–6, 7–5, 6–2

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