Biography
Russian tennis player Karen Khachanov is a master of sports, which was a winner of the high-categories competition and the winner of ATP tournaments. In 2019, he got into the top 10 rating of professionals and demonstrated good results, going to the playoffs in Beijing and the American city of Indian-Wells.Childhood and youth
Karen Abgaarovich Khachanov was born on May 21, 1996 in the family of representatives of Armenian nationality, which Moscow chose to Moscow. His father, the descendant of a resident of Yerevan, was a professional volleyball player, and his mother chose medicine as a professional career after graduation.
Diversifying the boy, the parents gave it to the tennis section, and he began to play sports, barely reaching three years. The coaches first did not trust the kids of the balls and rackets and were engaged in physical preparation consisting of warm-up and relay.
During the years of study in high school, Karen began to comprehend the game technique and decided that his place of work would be a tennis court. But because of a quick-tempered nature, he experienced due to failures and defeats and, rudely responding to judges and rivals, almost closed his way into a big sport.
Fortunately, the professionalism of the educated mother helped cope with youth hysteries, and by the beginning of 2013, Khachanov won the European Championship. By that time, its growth reached a mark of 198 cm that with weight 87 kg made it possible to play at speed and achieve a number of youth awards.
Personal life
The athlete prefers not to talk about his personal life, but in one of the interviews he slipped the information that he was married. After that, on the Evening Urgant program, Karen said that with Veronica Shklyayeva, he met at 8 years of age during children's fun and fighting.Now the couple does not hide the relationship, although not wearing wedding rings, the photos of the tennis player are periodically laid out in his "instagram". Lovers spend a lot of time together: they go to basketball and travel, often visiting the historic homeland of Khacanova and her capital - Yerevan.
Tennis
In 2014, after participating in the Davis Cup, Karen began a professional career and went to the tournament in Istanbul. There, he first became the winner of the competition from the younger world series Challenger, and then played at the open championship of Australia and made his way to the ATP tour.
In the spring of 2016, the former newcomer was a rating qualifications in Barcelona and the Slovenian athlete won the Slovenian athlete on behalf of the alarge. During the next meeting, he surpassed Roberto Bautist Agut, who had in the asset titles and was in the world at the 17th place.
In the continuation of the 3rd adult season, Khachanov won another "Challenger", defeated such famous rivals, like Ramin Ramires Idalgo and Farruh Dustov. And after that, being in the ranking of 100 best professional tennis players, he won on Chengdu Open and for the first time in his own biography won the title of ATP World Tour.
In early 2017, becoming the 55th racket of the world, Karen came to the competition in the city of Auckland and Doha, but neither in one of these tournaments did not pass on the 2nd round, the victims of the defeat from Lu Yansyun and Croata Ivo Karlovich.
Then, on the basis of the rating, Moskvich participated in a large helmet, but the outstanding game did not show on the tight courts "Melbourne Park". And at the start of the new championships, he spoke well in New Zealand and on the open championship of Southern France managed to break through the quarterfinals.
In the fall of 2018, continuing to demonstrate beautiful tennis, Khachanov appeared at the tournament in Paris, which was held in the premises of the Palace of Sports "Beri". There he managed to defeat Alexander Zverev and Dominic Tim, and then in the match with Novak Djokovich won the 4th Title of the ATP-series.
Karen Khachanov now
In 2019, having started a speech from a number of defeats, Karen eventually managed to gather and in Indian Wells came out to the quarterfinals. And then, repeating the result at the open championship of France, he entered the top 10 world ranking and, despite the loss of Dominica Tim, got on Wimbledon, which dreamed of.The highest achievement of the year for an athlete was the tournament in Beijing, where he overcame strong rivals - the Italian named Fabio Famini, as well as the Frenchman Jeremy Shardi. But in the semifinal match, again encountered with Austrian Dominica Tim, the Russian lost in two sets and remained without the title and cash premium.
Achievements
- 2015 - Winner of the tournament Istanbul Challenger
- 2016 - Winner of the tournament Samarkand Challenger
- 2016 - Winner of the ATP CHENGDU OPEN Tournament
- 2018 - Winner of the Bush-du Ron's Open Championship
- 2018 - Winner of the VTB Tournament Cup of the Kremlin
- 2018 - Winner of the BNP Paribas Masters tournament