Mikhail Youzhny

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**Mikhail Youzhny**
Youzhny at the 2006 Australian Open.
Country	Russia
Residence	Moscow, Russia
Date of birth	June 25, 1982
Place of birth	Moscow, Russia
Height	182 cm (6 ft 0 in)
Weight	72 kg (160 lb)
Turned Pro	1999
Plays	Right; Two-handed backhand
Career Prize Money	$3,733,452
Singles
Career record:	194-157
Career titles:	3
Highest ranking:	15 (10 January 2005)
Grand Slam results
Australian Open	4th (2003)
French Open	3rd (2004)
Wimbledon	4th (2001, 2005)
U.S. Open	SF (2006)
Doubles
Career record:	52-82
Career titles:	2
Highest ranking:	43 (11 September 2006)
Infobox last updated on: April 1, 2007.

Mikhail Youzhny (Russian: Михаил Южный (listen (help·info)); b. June 25, 1982, Moscow, USSR (now Russia) is a professional tennis player from Russia.

1 Career
2 Trivia
3 External links
4 References

[edit] Career

In 1999, the year in which he turned professional, Youzhny captured four Futures titles.

[edit] 2000-2006

In 2000, he reached his first ATP tour quarterfinal in Moscow.

In 2001, he reached the third round of the Australian Open, made his first ATP tour semifinal at Copenhagen, and reached the fourth round of Wimbledon, losing to eventual finalist Patrick Rafter. Youzhny also reached the third round at the US Open, losing to eventual finalist Pete Sampras.

The following year in 2002, Youzhny captured his first ATP title and led Russia to its first Davis Cup title, but he did not play for six weeks due to a back injury.

During 2004, he won a career-high 42 matches, finishing 2004 in the top 20.

In the fourth round of the 2006 U.S. Open he defeated Tommy Robredo 6-2, 6-0, 6-1 and defeated No. 2 Rafael Nadal 6-3, 5-7, 7-6(5), 6-1 in the quarterfinal, only to lose in the semifinals to Andy Roddick 6-7(5) 6-0 7-6(3) 6-3.

[edit] 2007

Youzhny began the year as the second highest ranked Russian male tennis player behind Nikolay Davydenko.

At the start of the year he lost in the Australian Open to eventual champion Roger Federer, made the semifinals of Zagreb, and won his third career ATP title in Rotterdam. Later in March Mikhail reached the final of Dubai Championship after defeating second-seeded Rafael Nadal in quarterfinal, only to fall to top-seeded Roger Federer 6-4, 6-3.

[edit] Singles Titles (3)

Grand Slam (0)
Tennis Masters Cup (0)
ATP Masters Series (0)
ATP Tour (3)

No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Opponent in the final	Score
1.	15 July 2002	Stuttgart, Germany	Clay	Guillermo Cañas	6-3 3-6 3-6 6-4 6-4
2.	25 October 2004	St. Petersburg, Russia	Carpet	Karol Beck	6-2 6-2
3.	19 February 2007	Rotterdam, Netherlands	Hard (I)	Ivan Ljubicic	6-2 6-4

[edit] Trivia

Mikhail Youzhny at the Sony Ericson Open.

Mikhail Youzhny gives military style salute to the spectators after each win. He does it by holding tennis racquet above his head with his left hand and saluting with his right hand ^[1]. The racquet imitates a hat since according to Russian military tradition one must wear a hat to give proper salute ^[2].