Valery Rudnev
Valery Yuryevich Rudnev (; born 16 February 1988, in Saint Petersburg) is a Russian tennis player. Tennis career. Rudnev has a career high ATP singles ranking of 210 achieved on 21 July 2014. He also has a career high ATP doubles ranking of 490 achieved on 22 March 2010. Rudnev has won a total of 7 ITF singles titles on the futures circuit as well as 1 ITF doubles title. As a junior, Rudnev reached the boys' doubles final of the 2006 French Open with his partner Artur Chernov, where they lost to Emiliano Massa and Kei Nishikori 6 -2, 1-6, 2-6. Rudnev made his ATP main draw debut at the 2009 St. Petersburg Open where he received entry to the main draw as a wildcard entrant into the doubles event partnering Pavel Chekhov. The pair lost an all Russian first round encounter, losing to Igor Andreev and Mikhail Youzhny, 7–6, 4–6, [5–10].