# Alexey Zakharov

Alexey Alexeyevich Zakharov (Russian: Алексей Алексеевич Захаров; born 21 April 2000) is a Russian professional tennis player.

## Early life

Alexey Zakharov is from Moscow. He briefly trained at the Mouratoglou Tennis Academy in France.

## Junior career

Zakharov represented Russia in the 2016 Junior Davis Cup, in which he and teammates Alen Avidzba and Timofey Skatov won the title. Partnering Avidzba, he won the deciding doubles match in the final against Canada, defeating Felix Auger-Aliassime and Chih Chi Huang in straight sets.
He was a quarterfinalist of junior Grand Slam tournaments four times and won 10 ITF junior tournaments (two in singles), reaching 12th place in the ITF World Junior ranking in 2018.

## Professional career

In November 2023, he won the $15k event in Ipoh, his first title since his hiatus. In July 2024, he reached the final of the Dutch Open as a qualifier, losing to wildcard entrant Tomás Barrios Vera in the final.

## Personal life

He dated fellow tennis player Marta Kostyuk from 2019 to 2020.

## ATP Challenger and ITF Futures/World Tennis Tour finals
### Singles: 11 (4 titles, 7 runner-ups)

* Legend
* ATP Challenger Tour (0–1)
* ITF Futures/World Tennis Tour (4–6)
* Finals by surface
* Hard (3–6)
* Clay (1–1)
* Grass (0–0)
* Carpet (0–0)
| Result | W–L | Date | Tournament | Tier | Surface | Opponent | Score |
| Loss | 0–1 | Oct 2018 | F35 Monastir, Tunisia | Futures | Hard | Robert Strombachs | 4–6, 0–6 |
| Win | 1–1 | Aug 2019 | M15 Moscow, Russia | World Tennis Tour | Clay | Alen Avidzba | 4–6, 7–5, 6–1 |
| Loss | 1–2 | Sep 2019 | M15 Shymkent, Kazakhstan | World Tennis Tour | Hard | Sergey Fomin | 6–2, 2–6, 4–6 |
| Loss | 1–3 | Nov 2019 | M15 Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt | World Tennis Tour | Hard | Karim-Mohamed Maamoun | 7–6$^{(7–2)}$, 3–6, 4–6 |
| Win | 2–3 | Nov 2019 | M15 Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt | World Tennis Tour | Hard | Lucas Hellfritsch | 6–4, 6–1 |
| Win | 3–3 | Feb 2020 | M25 Aktobe, Kazakhstan | World Tennis Tour | Hard | Evgenii Tiurnev | 7–6$^{(7–5)}$, 3–6, 6–3 |
| Loss | 3–4 | Feb 2021 | M15 Saint Petersburg, Russia | World Tennis Tour | Hard | Alibek Kachmazov | 4–6, 7–5, 4–6 |
| Loss | 3–5 | Mar 2021 | M15 Kazan, Russia | World Tennis Tour | Hard | Yankı Erel | 3–6, 0–3 ret. |
| Win | 4–5 | Nov 2023 | M15 Ipoh, Malaysia | World Tennis Tour | Hard | Takuya Kumasaka | 6–0, 6–3 |
| Loss | 4–6 | Nov 2023 | M15 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia | World Tennis Tour | Hard | Yeongseok Jeong | 6–1, 6–7$^{(6–8)}$, 4–6 |
| Loss | 4–7 | Jul 2024 | Amersfoort, Netherlands | Challenger | Clay | Tomás Barrios Vera | 2–6, 1–6 |

### Doubles: 6 (2 titles, 4 runner-ups)

* Legend
* ATP Challenger Tour (0–0)
* ITF Futures/World Tennis Tour (2–4)
* Finals by surface
* Hard (1–4)
* Clay (1–0)
* Grass (0–0)
* Carpet (0–0)
| Result | W–L | Date | Tournament | Tier | Surface | Partner | Opponents | Score |
| Win | 0–0 | Sep 2019 | M15 Shymkent, Kazakhstan | World Tennis Tour | Clay | Alexander Igoshin | Timur Khabibulin Vladyslav Manafov | 6–4, 6–2 |
| Win | 0–0 | Oct 2019 | M25 Tây Ninh, Vietnam | World Tennis Tour | Hard | Rio Noguchi | Samuel Beren Billy Harris | 6–7$^{(5–7)}$, 6–4, [10–4] |
| Loss | 0–0 | Nov 2019 | M15 Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt | World Tennis Tour | Hard | Volodymyr Uzhylovskyi | Piotr Matuszewski Maciej Smoła | 2–6, 1–6 |
| Loss | 0–0 | Feb 2021 | M15 Saint Petersburg, Russia | World Tennis Tour | Hard | Artem Dubrivnyy | Andrew Paulson Patrik Rikl | 6–3, 6–7$^{(5–7)}$, [2–10] |
| Loss | 0–0 | Apr 2021 | M15 Saint Petersburg, Russia | World Tennis Tour | Hard | Naoki Tajima | Alexandr Cozbinov Simon Freund | 4–6, 5–7 |
| Loss | 0–0 | Apr 2021 | M15 Saint Petersburg, Russia | World Tennis Tour | Hard | Naoki Tajima | Alexandr Cozbinov Simon Freund | 6–7$^{(5–7)}$, 6–2, [6–10] |