Biography
Young Alexey Pokrin is considered the main hope of Australian tennis. At the youth level, the athlete achieved all possible heights and easily entered the top 100 adult rankings, after which a pandemic intervened in plans for progressive development. But the first victories in ATP tournaments showed - Alexey is still determined to continue the struggle for hitting the grant.Childhood and youth
Alexey Pokrin was born on August 5, 1999 in Australian Sydney in the family of emigrants from Russia. Alexey's parents and Elena considered that in the English-language country in children there will be more chances to succeed in life. Anthony's younger brother is also engaged in tennis, in addition, Alexei has two sisters.
In 3 years, the boy was the racket for the first time in his hands. Seeing that Alex copes with blows on the ball, the parents decided to record the Son to the Academy of Kim Warwick in the Australian Hornsby.
When the boy was 8 years old, the family atrine had moved to the UAE for 2 years, where he received his father's position, and in 2010 he moved to Spanish Alicante, where at that time another young Australian athlete Alex de Minor was engaged. Since April 2017, the Patrick Muratoglu in French Nice continued to study at the academy of Patrick Muratoglu.
In 2011, at home, the athletes won the Optus tournament for athletes under 12 years old. Since 2012, Alexey participated in Youth Tournaments ITF. For trips, the family rented a 7-seater car, which was accompanied by all the apricots, including grandmother, and traveled Europe for months.
Tennis
In 2015, Australian made his debut on junior "Majorah", and the next year scored the first rating points, going out in the 3rd circle of tournaments in Clermont and Foundin Vali (USA).The breakthrough to the athlete came in 2017, when at first the atrine fell into the semifinals of the youth open championship of Australia in a pair, and then took the top of 22 matches in a row, becoming the winner of 4 tournaments - in Casablanca, Milan, Youth Roland Garros and the first professional tournament in Poland . At the end of the season, Australian finished on the 2nd place in the world and continued his career already at an adult level.
Entering the top 150 world ranking, the prison received a chance to perform on the ATP world tour and invitation-Vaildard at Australian Open 2018. The remainder of the year, increasing the rating, Alexey played in the Challenger, where he won the title at the competition in Chinese Jinan.
Next year, the prison was again received invitations to professional Australian tournaments and successfully performed at the open championship of Australia, having won two victories, including the 8th issue of the world rating by Austrian Dominic Tim, and lost in 5 sets only Frenchman Luke Puyu.
In 2019, the atrine also made his way into the second rounds of Roland Garros, Wimbledon and the 3rd round of the US Open, by the results of the year in the top 100 rating. In the same year, Alexey debuted as part of the Australian national team in the Davis Cup, where he helped take the top over Bosnia and Herzegovina.
2020 For the atgrin, he was less successful - Alexey was able to put the second way to the 3rd round of Australian Open, where Daniel Medvedev gave way to Russian. According to the tennisist, the failure of the season is associated with the unsuccessful selection of the training complex during quarantine and overweight.
Personal life
Alexey Pokrine is found with a native Zimbabwe named Amy Pederik, a student of the "physiotherapy" of the Royal College of London. Photo from the private life of the couple often publishes in their instagram profiles.
The main inspiration of Alexey considers the mother who tries to attend all the matches of the Son and donated to many for his sports future.
Alexey Pokrine now
On February 28, 2021, Alexey Pokrin won the first in the sports biography of the Atp Tour title at the Singapore Tennis Open tournament, first, I first knocked out the compatriot Matthew Ebden, then - the former Winner of the US Open Croat Marina Chilic, and defeated Kazakhstan Alexander Bublik in the final. After this victory, Australian held the 82nd rating.
In mid-March, Australian spoke at the tournament in Dubai, where the Austrian Dennis Novak won and gave way to Russian Karen Khachanov.
Victory over the Spaniard Feliciano Lopez and American Riley (Rilly) Oberridge Poshurin entered the third circle of the ATP 1000 tournament in American Miami. March 29, Alexey came in the most difficult match with the first sown Daniel Medvedev. Contrary to the forecast, Australian had fierce resistance, and the Russian had flimsy with convulsions, making steps 10 cm. But I didn't have enough experience, and he lost in three sets: 6: 7, 7: 6, 4: 6 in favor of Medvedev.
Achievements
- 2017 - Winner of the Open France Championship
- 2017 - Futures winner on open ground in Mragovo
- 2018 - Challenger Winner on Solid Coating in Jinan
- 2021 - Winner of the ATP 250 tournament on a solid coating in Singapore