Oliver Ojakäär (born 10 February 2005) is an Estonian

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player. He has a career high ATP singles ranking of 869 achieved on 18 March 2024. He also has a career high ATP doubles ranking of 1448 achieved on that same date. Ojakäär won the US Open boys' doubles title in 2023, playing alongside Max Dahlin.

Career

From

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, where he plays for Club MK Tennis, Ojakäär won his first junior ITF tournament in 2021 in

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, Latvia. He started 2023 with a junior ranking of world number 55. Coached by former junior grand slam champion

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, he made his junior grand slam debut at the

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. He reached the last-16 of the boys' singles and the quarter finals of the boys' doubles in Melbourne. He won the boys' doubles at the 2023 US Open alongside Max Dahlin, defeating

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of Italy and Joel Schwärzler of Austria) in the final by a score of 3-6, 6-3, 11-9 at Flushing Mesdow, New York. In doing so, Ojakääru became the fourth Estonian to triumph in a grand slam tournament after

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at the 1959 Wimbledon junior tournament,

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at the 2001 French Open, and Ojakääru's coach Kenneth Raisma who won junior Wimbledon with

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in 2016. By the conclusion of the 2023 season he had lowered his junior world ranking to tenth in the world. He played alongside his coach Kenneth Raisma at the Alexela Team Cup in

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, Estonia in November 2023. After making the step-up to the professional ranks, he was a finalist on the ITF Tennis Tour in Sharm-el-Sheikh, Egypt in February 2024, where he faced local player

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, world ranked 361st, in the semi-finals, before losing in straight sets to Czech player Marek Gengel in the final.

Personal life

In November 2024, he agreed to attend the

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in the United States, on a scholarship from the spring of 2025.

ITF World Tennis Tour finals

Singles: 1 (1 runner-up)

Doubles: 1 (1 runner-up)

Junior Grand Slam finals

Doubles: 1 (1 title)

References

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Ojakaar, Oliver 2005 births Living people Estonian male tennis players US Open (tennis) junior champions Grand Slam (tennis) champions in boys' doubles Tennis players from Tartu 21st-century Estonian sportsmen