Athletistic/Tennis. Khachanov started confidently at the Paris Masters. In the first round, Karen beat Argentinian Sebastian Baez – 6:1, 6:1. The athletes spent 58 minutes on the field.
Khachanov, who is currently the 19th racket in the world, made 6 aces and committed a double fault.
Karen’s next opponent will be Swiss Marc-Andrea Husler, who unexpectedly beat Italian Yannick Sinner in the first round.
Khachanov has already won the Paris Masters. It happened in 2018. Then the Russian beat Serbian Novak Djokovic in the final.
Here is how foreign tennis fans reacted to Khachanov’s success:
@FromMyWindowwww:
– Congratulations Karin!
Sabina:
– Khachanov had no problems here.
Netsmash:
– I watched his match in Vienna last week. In the match with Evans, Karen was a mistake-making machine. However, Dan looked great there too, I have to admit. It seems that Karen has fully recovered from this fiasco. Here he showed a very impressive physical form. However, the deposit, given its growth, is still not too strong.
@moneylinechad:
– Karen Khachanov is a beast!
@Berrelovers:
– Tremendous strength!
@ESPNtenis:
– Impressive quiz!
@YoungTennisGuns:
– Walk in the park for Khachanov. Anyway, it was a good warm-up.
@Darksa0irse:
– Karen de Baez made a cutlet.
@Leonacassiani7:
– He didn’t leave any blank space.
@Tito2384940:
– Khachanov was simply too strong for Baes.
@MaximeBatt:
– Personally, such a confident performance even surprised me a little.
@Anxstennisboy:
– If Khachanov continues to play like this, nothing is impossible for him.
@Detainees:
– It is always difficult to resist Khachanov.
@Vgrigera_tns:
– The Russian was visibly inspired. After such a devastating loss, it will likely be difficult for Baes to recover now.
@Saikomod05:
– Khachanov was “visibly inspired”? Do not talk nonsense ! Baes looked terrible, period!
Khachanov – 2020 Olympics silver medalist in singles; winner of four ATP singles tournaments; 2021 Davis Cup winner with Team Russia; former world number 8 in singles. Honorary Master of Sports of Russia (2021).
He started playing tennis at the age of three in kindergarten. Her father, Abgar, played volleyball at a high level, then started medicine, her mother, Natalia, also studied medicine. He is of Armenian origin by his father and Russian by his mother. Karen has a sister, Margarita, and a brother, George. His childhood idols were Marat Safin and Juan Martin Del Potro, and his favorite sports teams are Real Madrid and Miami Heat. He decided to become a professional player at the age of 12.
After Khachanov turned 15, he moved to Split (Croatia), where he trained under Vedran Martić, the former coach of Goran Ivanisevic. He then moved to Barcelona where he was coached by Galo Blanco.
In 2013, at the European Under-18 Championships, Khachanov won the gold medal in singles. In September 2013, at the age of 17 years and 157 days, he became the youngest Russian tennis player to debut on the ATP Tour, playing at a tournament in Saint Petersburg. In October of the same year, at the Kremlin Cup in Moscow, he defeated Janko Tipsarevic, who held the 27th position in the ATP rankings, and made it to the quarter-finals, where he lost to Croatian Ivo Karlovic with a score of 4:6, 0:6. After that, he represented the national team for the first time in the Euro-African zone Davis Cup and won the match against Dean O’Brien.
In 2014, he received the annual “Russian Cup” award, presented by the Russian Tennis Federation, in the “Junior of the Year” nomination.
In September 2015, Khachanov won the Challenger Series tournament for the first time in his career, beating world No. 60 Sergei Stakhovsky in the final in Istanbul on hard court.
On October 2, 2016, Khachanov won the World Tour tournament for the first time. In the final of the Chengdu tournament, he defeated the world’s 31st racket Albert Ramos-Vignolas 6:7 (4), 7:6 (3), 6:3. For his success, he received 250 points and moved up to 55th position in the men’s rankings.
The main achievement of the season for Khachanov was the performance at the Tokyo Olympics. In singles, he managed to reach the final quite unexpectedly, being only seeded 12th. Before the decisive match, he did not meet any player in the top 10 of the ranking. In the final, Khachanov failed to force a fight against the fifth racket in the world Alexander Zverev (3:6, 1:6) and became the silver medalist of the Olympic Games. The last time a Russian played in the final of the Olympic tournament in men’s singles was in 2000, when Yevgeny Kafelnikov became the champion in Sydney.
At the 2022 US Open, Khachanov unexpectedly reached the semi-finals, where he lost in four matches to Norway’s representative Kasper Ruud.
Khachanov again disappointed his fans: the Russian ended the tournament in Vienna without glory
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