Yevgeny Kafelnikov

Yevgeny Aleksandrovich Kafelnikov (Russian: Евгений Александрович Кафельников Evgenij Aleksandrovič Kafel'nikov [ɪvˈɡʲenʲɪj ɐlʲɪˈksandrəvʲɪtɕ ˈkafʲɪlʲnʲɪkəf]; born 18 February 1974) is a Russian former world No. 1 tennis player. He won two Grand Slam singles titles, the 1996 French Open and the 1999 Australian Open. He also won four Grand Slam doubles titles, and the Men's Singles Gold medal at the Sydney Olympic Games in 2000. He also helped Russia win the Davis Cup in 2002. He is the last man to have won both the Men's Singles and Doubles titles at the same Grand Slam tournament, which he did at the 1996 French Open.

Since retiring, Kafelnikov cashed three times at the 2005 World Series of Poker. He also played golf on the European PGA tour at the 2005 and 2008 Russian Open. He stated that he was there not to make up the numbers, before finishing last by 20 odd shots in 2005, and second to last in 2008.

He now works as a commentator for Russian TV covering tennis. During the 2008 Miami Masters, Kafelnikov coached Marat Safin in the absence of Hernán Gumy.

He participated in the ATP Champions Tour in 2009 and beat Sergi Bruguera, Michael Chang and Pat Cash at the Chengdu Open in early November. In May 2011 he was ranked 7th on the Champions Tour.

Grand Slam: 8 (6-2)

Singles: 3 (2–1)

Outcome	Year	Championship	Surface	Opponent in the final	Score in the final
Winner	1996	French Open	Clay	Michael Stich	7–6(7–4), 7–5, 7–6(7–4)
Winner	1999	Australian Open	Hard	Thomas Enqvist	4–6, 6–0, 6–3, 7–6(7–1)
Runner-up	2000	Australian Open	Hard	Andre Agassi	6–3, 3–6, 2–6, 4–6

Doubles: 5 (4–1)

Outcome	Year	Championship	Surface	Partner	Opponents in the final	Score in the final
Winner	1996	French Open	Clay	Daniel Vacek	Jakob Hlasek Guy Forget	6–2, 6–3
Winner	1997	French Open	Clay	Daniel Vacek	Todd Woodbridge Mark Woodforde	7–6(7–1), 4–6, 6-3
Winner	1997	US Open	Hard	Daniel Vacek	Jonas Björkman Nicklas Kulti	7–6(10–8), 6–3
Winner	2002	French Open	Clay	Paul Haarhuis	Mark Knowles Daniel Nestor	7–5, 6–4
Runner-up	2003	French Open	Clay	Paul Haarhuis	Bob Bryan Mike Bryan	6–7(3–7), 3–6

Olympic Games

Singles: 1 (1 gold medal)

Outcome	Year	Championship	Surface	Opponent in the final	Score in the final
Winner	2000	Sydney Olympics	Hard	Tommy Haas	7–6(7–4), 3–6, 6–2, 4–6, 6–3

Year-End Championships

Singles: 1 (0–1)

Outcome	Year	Championship	Surface	Opponent in the final	Score in the final
Runner-up	1997	ATP Tour World Championships	Hard (i)	Pete Sampras	3–6, 2–6, 2–6

ATP Masters Series: 16 (7–9)

Singles: 5 (0–5)

Outcome	Year	Championship	Surface	Opponent in the final	Score in the final
Runner-up	1994	Hamburg Masters	Clay	Andrei Medvedev	4–6, 4–6, 6–3, 3–6
Runner-up	1996	Paris Masters	Carpet	Thomas Enqvist	2–6, 4–6, 5–7
Runner-up	1998	Stuttgart Masters	Hard (i)	Richard Krajicek	4–6, 3–6, 3–6
Runner-up	1999	du Maurier Open	Hard	Thomas Johansson	6–1, 3–6, 3–6
Runner-up	2001	Paris Masters	Carpet	Sébastien Grosjean	6–7(3–7), 1–6, 7–6 (7-5), 4–6

Doubles: 11 (7–4)

Outcome	Year	Championship	Surface	Partner	Opponents in the final	Score in the final
Runner-up	1994	Monte Carlo Masters	Clay	Daniel Vacek	Nicklas Kulti Magnus Larsson	6–3, 6–7, 4–6
Winner	1994	Rome Masters	Clay	David Rikl	Wayne Ferreira Javier Sánchez	6–1, 7–5
Winner	1995	ATP German Open	Clay	Wayne Ferreira	Byron Black Andrei Olhovskiy	6–1, 7–6
Winner	1995	du Maurier Open	Hard	Andrei Olhovskiy	Brian MacPhie Sandon Stolle	6–2, 6–2
Runner-up	1996	Paris Masters	Carpet	Daniel Vacek	Jacco Eltingh Paul Haarhuis	4–6, 6–4, 6–7
Winner	2000	Monte Carlo Masters	Clay	Wayne Ferreira	Paul Haarhuis Sandon Stolle	6–3, 2–6, 6–1
Runner-up	2000	Rome Masters	Clay	Wayne Ferreira	Martin Damm Dominik Hrbatý	4–6, 6–4, 3–6
Winner	2001	Indian Wells Masters	Hard	Wayne Ferreira	Jonas Björkman Todd Woodbridge	6–2, 7–5
Winner	2001	Rome Masters	Clay	Wayne Ferreira	Daniel Nestor Sandon Stolle	6–4, 7–6(8–6)
Runner-up	2002	Monte Carlo Masters	Clay	Paul Haarhuis	Jonas Björkman Todd Woodbridge	3–6, 6–3, 7–10
Winner	2003	Indian Wells Masters	Hard	Wayne Ferreira	Bob Bryan Mike Bryan	3–6, 7–5, 6–4

Singles: 46 (26–20)

Outcome	No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Opponent	Score
Winner	1.	10 January 1994	Adelaide, Australia	Hard	Alexander Volkov	6–4, 6–3
Winner	2.	7 March 1994	Copenhagen, Denmark	Carpet (i)	Daniel Vacek	6–3, 7–5
Runner-up	1.	9 May 1994	Hamburg, Germany	Clay	Andrei Medvedev	4–6, 4–6, 6–3, 3–6
Winner	3.	29 August 1994	Long Island, USA	Hard	Cédric Pioline	5–7, 6–1, 6–2
Winner	4.	20 February 1995	Milan, Italy	Carpet (i)	Boris Becker	7–5, 5–7, 7–6(8–6)
Winner	5.	27 March 1995	St. Petersburg, Russia	Carpet (i)	Guillaume Raoux	6–2, 6–2
Runner-up	2.	24 April 1995	Nice, France	Clay	Marc Rosset	4–6, 0–6
Winner	6.	17 July 1995	Gstaad, Switzerland	Clay	Jakob Hlasek	6–3, 6–4, 3–6, 6–3
Winner	7.	28 August 1995	Long Island, USA	Hard	Jan Siemerink	7–6(7–0), 6–2
Winner	8.	8 January 1996	Adelaide, Australia	Hard	Byron Black	7–6(7–0), 3–6, 6–1
Runner-up	3.	11 March 1996	Rotterdam, Netherlands	Carpet	Goran Ivanišević	4–6, 6–3, 3–6
Runner-up	4.	1 April 1996	St. Petersburg, Russia	Carpet	Magnus Gustafsson	2–6, 6–7(4–7)
Winner	9.	6 May 1996	Prague, Czech Republic	Clay	Bohdan Ulihrach	7–5, 1–6, 6–3
Winner	10.	10 June 1996	French Open, Paris, France	Clay	Michael Stich	7–6(7–4), 7–5, 7–6(7–4)
Runner-up	5.	24 June 1996	Halle, Germany	Grass	Nicklas Kulti	7–6(7–5), 3–6, 4–6
Runner-up	6.	22 July 1996	Stuttgart, Germany	Clay	Thomas Muster	2–6, 2–6, 4–6
Winner	11.	7 October 1996	Lyon, France	Carpet (i)	Arnaud Boetsch	7–5, 6–3
Runner-up	7.	4 November 1996	Paris, France	Carpet	Thomas Enqvist	2–6, 4–6, 5–7
Runner-up	8.	11 November 1996	Moscow, Russia	Carpet	Goran Ivanišević	6–3, 1–6, 3–6
Winner	12.	16 June 1997	Halle, Germany	Grass	Petr Korda	7–6(7–2), 6–7(5–7), 7–6(9–7)
Winner	13.	18 August 1997	New Haven, USA	Hard	Patrick Rafter	7–6(7–4), 6–4
Winner	14.	10 November 1997	Moscow, Russia	Carpet (i)	Petr Korda	7–6(7–2), 6–4
Runner-up	9.	17 November 1997	Year-End Championships, Hanover	Hard	Pete Sampras	3–6, 2–6, 2–6
Runner-up	10.	9 February 1998	Marseille, France	Hard (i)	Thomas Enqvist	4–6, 1–6
Winner	15.	2 March 1998	London, UK	Carpet (i)	Cédric Pioline	7–5, 6–4
Winner	16.	15 June 1998	Halle, Germany	Grass	Magnus Larsson	6–4, 6–4
Runner-up	11.	21 September 1998	Tashkent, Uzbekistan	Hard	Tim Henman	5–7, 4–6
Runner-up	12.	2 November 1998	Stuttgart, Germany	Hard (i)	Richard Krajicek	4–6, 3–6, 3–6
Winner	17.	16 November 1998	Moscow, Russia	Carpet (i)	Goran Ivanišević	7–6(7–2), 7–6(7–5)
Winner	18.	1 February 1999	Australian Open, Melbourne, Australia	Hard	Thomas Enqvist	4–6, 6–0, 6–3, 7–6(7–1)
Winner	19.	22 February 1999	Rotterdam, Netherlands	Carpet (i)	Tim Henman	6–2, 7–6(7–3)
Runner-up	13.	9 August 1999	Montreal, Canada	Hard	Thomas Johansson	6–1, 3–6, 3–6
Runner-up	14.	23 August 1999	Washington, D.C., USA	Hard	Andre Agassi	6–7(3–7), 1–6
Winner	20.	15 November 1999	Moscow, Russia	Carpet (i)	Byron Black	7–6(7–2), 6–4
Runner-up	15.	30 January 2000	Australian Open, Melbourne, Australia	Hard	Andre Agassi	6–3, 3–6, 2–6, 4–6
Runner-up	16.	28 February 2000	London, UK	Hard (i)	Marc Rosset	4–6, 4–6
Winner	21.	2 October 2000	Olympics, Sydney, Australia	Hard	Tommy Haas	7–6(7–4), 3–6, 6–2, 4–6, 6–3
Winner	22.	30 October 2000	Moscow, Russia	Carpet (i)	David Prinosil	6–2, 7–5
Runner-up	17.	27 November 2000	Stockholm, Sweden	Hard (i)	Thomas Johansson	2–6, 4–6, 4–6
Winner	23.	19 February 2001	Marseille, France	Hard (i)	Sébastien Grosjean	7–6(7–5), 6–2
Runner-up	18.	17 September 2001	Tashkent, Uzbekistan	Hard	Marat Safin	2–6, 2–6
Winner	24.	8 October 2001	Moscow, Russia	Carpet (i)	Nicolas Kiefer	6–4, 7–5
Runner-up	19.	5 November 2001	Paris, France	Carpet	Sébastien Grosjean	6–7(3–7), 1–6, 7–6(7–5), 4–6
Winner	25.	17 June 2002	Halle, Germany	Grass	Nicolas Kiefer	2–6, 6–4, 6–4
Winner	26.	16 September 2002	Tashkent, Uzbekistan	Hard	Vladimir Voltchkov	7–6(8–6), 7–5
Runner-up	20.	3 February 2003	Milan, Italy	Carpet	Martin Verkerk	4–6, 7–5, 5–7

Doubles: 41 (27–14)

Outcome	No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Partner	Opponents	Score
Runner-up	1.	7 February 1994	Marseille, France	Carpet	Martin Damm	Jan Siemerink Daniel Vacek	7–6, 4–6, 1–6
Winner	1.	11 April 1994	Barcelona, Spain	Clay	David Rikl	Jim Courier Javier Sánchez	5–7, 6–1, 6–4
Runner-up	2.	25 April 1994	Monte Carlo, Monaco	Clay	Daniel Vacek	Nicklas Kulti Magnus Larsson	6–3, 6–7, 4–6
Winner	2.	2 May 1994	Munich, Germany	Clay	David Rikl	Boris Becker Petr Korda	7–6, 7–5
Winner	3.	16 May 1994	Rome, Italy	Clay	David Rikl	Wayne Ferreira Javier Sánchez	6–1, 7–5
Winner	4.	24 October 1994	Lyon, France	Carpet	Jakob Hlasek	Martin Damm Patrick Rafter	6–7, 7–6, 7–6
Runner-up	3.	27 March 1995	St. Petersburg, Russia	Carpet	Jakob Hlasek	Martin Damm Anders Järryd	4–6, 2–6
Winner	5.	10 April 1995	Estoril, Portugal	Clay	Andrei Olhovskiy	Marc-Kevin Goellner Diego Nargiso	5–7, 7–5, 6–2
Winner	6.	15 May 1995	Hamburg, Germany	Clay	Wayne Ferreira	Byron Black Andrei Olhovskiy	6–1, 7–6
Runner-up	4.	26 June 1995	Halle, Germany	Grass	Andrei Olhovskiy	Jacco Eltingh Paul Haarhuis	2–6, 6–3, 3–6
Winner	7.	31 July 1995	Montreal, Canada	Hard	Andrei Olhovskiy	Brian MacPhie Sandon Stolle	6–2, 6–2
Winner	8.	23 October 1995	Lyon, France	Carpet	Jakob Hlasek	John-Laffnie de Jager Wayne Ferreira	6–3, 6–3
Runner-up	5.	26 February 1996	Antwerp, Belgium	Carpet	Menno Oosting	Jonas Björkman Nicklas Kulti	4–6, 4–6
Winner	9.	1 April 1996	St. Petersburg, Russia	Carpet	Andrei Olhovskiy	Nicklas Kulti Peter Nyborg	6–3, 6–4
Winner	10.	6 May 1996	Prague, Czech Republic	Clay	Daniel Vacek	Luis Lobo Javier Sánchez	6–3, 6–7, 6–3
Winner	11.	10 June 1996	French Open, Paris	Clay	Daniel Vacek	Jakob Hlasek Guy Forget	6–2, 6–3
Runner-up	6.	24 June 1996	Halle, Germany	Grass	Daniel Vacek	Byron Black Grant Connell	1–6, 5–7
Winner	12.	30 September 1996	Basel, Switzerland	Hard (i)	Daniel Vacek	David Adams Menno Oosting	6–3, 6–4
Winner	13.	14 October 1996	Vienna, Austria	Carpet	Daniel Vacek	Pavel Vízner Menno Oosting	7–6, 6–4
Runner-up	7.	4 November 1996	Paris, France	Carpet	Daniel Vacek	Jacco Eltingh Paul Haarhuis	4–6, 6–4, 6–7
Winner	14.	9 June 1997	French Open, Paris	Clay	Daniel Vacek	Todd Woodbridge Mark Woodforde	7–6, 4–6, 6–3
Winner	15.	14 July 1997	Gstaad, Switzerland	Clay	Daniel Vacek	Trevor Kronemann David Macpherson	4–6, 7–6, 6–3
Winner	16.	8 September 1997	US Open, New York	Hard	Daniel Vacek	Jonas Björkman Nicklas Kulti	7–6, 6–3
Winner	17.	23 February 1998	Antwerp, Belgium	Hard	Wayne Ferreira	Tomás Carbonell Francisco Roig	7–5, 3–6, 6–2
Runner-up	8.	2 March 1998	London, England	Carpet	Daniel Vacek	Martin Damm Jim Grabb	4–6, 5–7
Winner	18.	19 October 1998	Vienna, Austria	Carpet	Daniel Vacek	David Adams John-Laffnie de Jager	7–5, 6–3
Runner-up	9.	16 November 1998	Moscow, Russia	Carpet	Daniel Vacek	Jared Palmer Jeff Tarango	4–6, 7–6, 2–6
Winner	19.	19 April 1999	Barcelona, Spain	Clay	Paul Haarhuis	Massimo Bertolini Cristian Brandi	7–5, 6–3
Runner-up	10.	21 February 2000	Rotterdam, Netherlands	Hard (i)	Tim Henman	David Adams John-Laffnie de Jager	7–5, 2–6, 3–6
Winner	20.	24 April 2000	Monte Carlo, Monaco	Clay	Wayne Ferreira	Paul Haarhuis Sandon Stolle	6–3, 2–6, 6–1
Runner-up	11.	15 May 2000	Rome, Italy	Clay	Wayne Ferreira	Martin Damm Dominik Hrbatý	4–6, 6–4, 3–6
Winner	21.	16 October 2000	Vienna, Austria	Hard (i)	Nenad Zimonjić	Jiří Novák David Rikl	6–4, 6–4
Winner	22.	19 March 2001	Indian Wells, United States	Hard	Wayne Ferreira	Jonas Björkman Todd Woodbridge	6–2, 7–5
Winner	23.	14 May 2001	Rome, Italy	Clay	Wayne Ferreira	Daniel Nestor Sandon Stolle	6–4, 7–6(8–6)
Winner	24.	29 October 2001	St. Petersburg, Russia	Hard	Denis Golovanov	Irakli Labadze Marat Safin	7–5, 6–4
Runner-up	12.	22 April 2002	Monte Carlo, Monaco	Clay	Paul Haarhuis	Jonas Björkman Todd Woodbridge	3–6, 6–3, [7–10]
Winner	25.	10 June 2002	French Open, Paris	Clay	Paul Haarhuis	Mark Knowles Daniel Nestor	7–5, 6–4
Winner	26.	17 March 2003	Indian Wells, United States	Hard	Wayne Ferreira	Bob Bryan Mike Bryan	3–6, 7–5, 6–4
Runner-up	13.	9 June 2003	French Open, Paris	Clay	Paul Haarhuis	Bob Bryan Mike Bryan	6–7, 3–6
Runner-up	14.	21 July 2003	Stuttgart, Germany	Clay	Kevin Ullyett	Tomáš Cibulec Pavel Vízner	6–3, 3–6, 4–6
Winner	27.	4 August 2003	Washington, D.C., United States	Hard	Sargis Sargsian	Chris Haggard Paul Hanley	7–5, 4–6, 6–2

Singles

Doubles

2002 – Davis Cup winner with Russia

2000, 2001, 2002 - World Team Cup finalist with Russia

• He played exclusively with and endorsed racquets from Austrian company Fischer throughout his career.
• One of eight players to beat Roger Federer at Wimbledon; the other seven being Jiří Novák (1999), Tim Henman (2001), Mario Ančić (2002), Rafael Nadal (2008), Tomáš Berdych (2010), Jo-Wilfried Tsonga (2011), Sergiy Strakhovsky (2013) and Novak Djokovic (2014/15).
• In the episode of Sports Night "Shane", Dan and Jeremy spend over an hour recording and rerecording a ten-second commercial voiceover because Dan cannot say Yevgeny Kafelnikov.
• Kafelnikov is the only male player in the open era to have won two or more Grand Slam singles titles without also winning a Masters Series title, despite having reached five Masters Series finals.
• Kafelnikov owns the second-best career winning percentage against Roger Federer amongst those with more than four matches against him (Nadal having the best). Kafelnikov is 4–2 against Federer, joined by Àlex Corretja, Rafael Nadal & Novak Djokovic as the only players with winning records against Federer in more than four matches. See: Roger Federer career statistics.

• Kafelnikov is an avid supporter of Spartak Moscow FC.
• Kafelnikov is a professional golfer, he has won the Russian Championship of Golf in 2011.
• Kafelnikov starred in Virtua Tennis, an arcade tennis game. In the PlayStation 2 version, he has a strong backhand.

1994–2001

The Russian Cup in the nomination Male Player of the Year

2002

The Russian Cup in the nomination Team of the Year (with M. Safin, M. Youzhny, S. Leonyuk, B. Sobkin, A. Cherkasov, V. Okhapkin, S. Yasnitsky, A. Glebov)

Kafelnikov is the record holder of the most wins of the Russian Cup.