Athletistic/Tennis. Russian Andrey Rublev had serious difficulties in the match with Serbian tennis player Laszlo Djere in the first round of the US Open.

After winning the first two sets, Rublev lost the third match, after which his self-confidence was shaken. Andrei became visibly nervous, however, after losing the fourth set, by the end of the fifth he still managed to pull himself together and confirm his reputation as the favorite. The final score of the match is 7:6, 6:3, 3:6, 4:6, 6:4.

The athletes spent 3 hours and 44 minutes on the field. During the match, Andrey made fewer unforced errors (42 against 64 for the Serb), but at the same time he won fewer points from active actions (45 against 58). Currently, Rublev is ranked 11th in the ATP rankings.

In the second round, Rublev will play with Sung-Wu Kwon.

Here is how foreign tennis fans rated the Russian tennis player on social media:

Dmitri Mylone:
– Well, Rublev was supposed to win here.

Mattias hartmann Tennis framing:
– What a tense game! Especially the last set. Wow! Congratulations Rublev!

Thibaut Paris:
– Well, it was worth noting that the American public supported Rublev at this meeting! You can’t help but love this!

Lifemond International:
– The main difference between top 10 and top 50 tennis players is not in technique, but in psychology. The same can be said about the difference between the top 3 and everyone else.

Brett Neuberger:
– Come on Andrew!

Pukulu:
– Rublev clung to every point.

A A:
Andre never gives up. Just a beast!

Super tennis maniac:
– It is striking how he is baptized after each game. Rublev is a religious person and puts his fate in the hands of heaven.

Nebi:
– Yeah. And he does it even after losing. I respect Andrei, because not everyone is able to accept an unfortunate defeat.

A BC:
– With all that, Rublev’s playing is so monotonous! He needs to work hard. I don’t see any other weapons in his arsenal, except for the mundane back line rifles, with which he could threaten his opponents.

Durpen Heimer:
– So be it. But what is his only weapon!

Andrea Ho:
– And he rarely manages to counter something with opponents who hit so hard from the back line.

Rublev – Russian tennis player; 2020 Olympic Mixed Doubles Champion (paired with Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova); winner of 14 ATP tournaments (including 11 singles); winner of the Davis Cup and the ATP Cup 2021 within the Russian national team; ATP Finals Under-21 Finalist (2017); the seventh racquet in the world in singles. Honorary Master of Sports of Russia (2021).

In juniors – the winner of a Junior Grand Slam tournament in singles (French Open 2014); Junior Grand Slam doubles runner-up (Wimbledon 2014); Orange Bowl doubles runner-up (2013); Youth Olympic Games medalist (2014); former first racket in the world in the junior ranking.

Andrei Rublev was born into a sports family. Her father, Andrei Rublev Sr., is a former professional boxer. Leaving sports, he went into business and now owns a chain of restaurants in Moscow. Mother – Marina Maryenko, tennis coach, previously worked with Anna Kournikova, Daria Gavrilova and Irina Khromacheva. It was she who brought little Andrei to tennis at the age of three. Her sister Anna-Arina Maryenko, master of tennis sports, is now engaged in training.

Nicknamed “Ruble”. The childhood idol in the world of tennis was Marat Safin. In addition to Russian, he speaks English and Spanish. He loves music and plays the guitar. Among the hobbies of a tennis player can also be noted boxing and basketball.

Since 2017 he has been training under former Spanish tennis player Fernando Vicente.

Last season, Andrey played for the Russian national team at the ATP Cup along with Daniil Medvedev, Aslan Karatsev and Evgeny Donskoy. In the first match against the Argentina national team Rublev beat Guido Pella 6-1, 6-2, then in the doubles match with Aslan Karatsev they lost to Maximo Gonzalez and Horacio Ceballos 4-6, 6-7 (4) , which did not prevent the Russian team from winning 2:1. In the second game against Japan, Rublev defeated Yoshihito Nishioka 6-1, 6-3, while Russia won 2-1 and left the group first. In the semi-final against Germany, Rublev defeated Jan-Lennard Struff 3-6, 6-1, 6-2, while the Russian team won 2-1, only losing the doubles match. In the final against the Italian national team, Rublev defeated Fabio Fognini 6-1, 6-2, and the Russian team won earlier than expected 2:0. Thus, Andrei and Daniil won all the singles matches and won the national team victory in the tournament.

At the Australian Open, Andrei reached the quarterfinals, again losing to Daniil Medvedev.

Andrey then won the ATP-500 tournament in Rotterdam, which was his fourth in a row in this category.

The next tournament in Doha was unusual, because Andrey went to the semi-finals of the tournament without playing a single match: thanks to his high rating, he missed 1 round, and then Richard Gasquet and Marton Fucovich refused. In the semifinals, Andrey lost to Roberto Bautista-Agut. However, Andrey won the doubles tournament with Aslan Karatsev. It was the first joint tournament for them except for a match at the 2021 ATP Cup.

At the Olympics, Andrei initially gave an unsuccessful start, losing in the first rounds of the tournament in singles against Kei Nishikori, and in doubles with Khachanov against Rajiv Ram and Francis Tiafoe. But then, with Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova, they went through Croatian pair Dariya Jurak/Ivan Dodig, tournament host pair Ena Shibahara/Ben McLachlan, in the semi-finals they beat Ashleigh Barty and John Pierce, and in the final they met another Russian pair Elena Vesnina / Aslan Karatsev. The Russians won all 4 matches in the decisive tie-break of the third set.

In September, he took part in the Laver Cup as part of the European team, with which he won the tournament.

In 2022, Rublev won the tenth title in tournaments under the auspices of ATP. He beat Czech Jiri Vesela in the final of the PTA tournament in Dubai with a score of 6:3, 6:4. During the match, Rublev ran into the judge. Then he explained that he thought the referee made 3 mistakes, so he couldn’t stand it. But he blames himself for this episode.