Peđa Krstin ( sr-Cyrl, Пеђа Крстин; born 3 September 1994) is a
Serbian
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professional
tennis
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player and coach.
[4] Krstin has a career high
ATP singles ranking of No. 159, which he achieved on 9 May 2016. He also achieved a career high ATP doubles ranking of No. 554 on 17 October 2015. He has won one Challenger and 14 Futures singles titles in his career.
Career
Krstin made his
ATP main draw debut at
2014 PBZ Zagreb Indoors after defeating
Marcos Baghdatis
Marcos Baghdatis (Greek language, Greek: Μάρκος Παγδατής, Arabic language, Arabic: ماركوس بغداتيس); born 17 June 1985 is a Greek Cypriot former professional tennis player and coach. He was the runner-up at the 2006 Aus ...
,
Gianluigi Quinzi
Gianluigi Quinzi (; born 1 February 1996), is an Italian tennis coach and former tennis player. On 15 April 2019 he reached his career-high singles ranking of world No. 142 on the ATP World Tour rankings. He reached his career high ranking of No ...
and
Martin Fischer in the qualifying rounds before losing to compatriot
Dušan Lajović
Dušan Lajović ( sr-Cyrl, Душан Лајовић; born 30 June 1990) is a Serbian professional tennis player. On 29 April 2019, he reached his career-high singles ranking of world No. 23. On 21 September 2020, he peaked at No. 82 in the doubl ...
in the first round of the main draw.
Krstin was a fifth player on a
Serbian Davis Cup team in the first round tie against Croatia in the
2015 Davis Cup
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, but didn't play in any match. He finally played his first match for the Davis Cup team against United States in the first round of
2018 Davis Cup
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, defeating world No. 50
Steve Johnson in two sets in a dead rubber.
He received a wildcard for
2021 Serbia Open and won his first round match against Korean
Kwon Soon-woo
Kwon Soon-woo (; born 2 December 1997) is a South Korean professional tennis player. He has been ranked as high as world No. 52 ranking by the ATP, achieved in November 2021 and a doubles ranking of world No. 224, attained in December 2022. ...
, who was ranked No. 89, almost 200 places higher than Krstin was at that moment. This was his first ATP tour-level victory in four main-draw appearances.
Grand Slam singles performance timeline
ATP Challenger Tour and ITF Futures finals
Singles: 27 (15 titles, 12 runner-ups)
Doubles: 3 (1 title, 2 runner-ups)
References
External links
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1994 births
Living people
Serbian male tennis players
21st-century Serbian sportsmen