Began playing at age 6 Father, Kahor (deceased); mother, Madiya, is a teacher First coached by Veliev Setyaya and Alexander Piskunov,who helped him improve his game a lot as a junior Speaks Turkish, Uzbek, Russian and English Away from tennis, enjoys playing Playstation and favouritefootball team is Turkish club Fenerbahçe Idol growing up was Russian Yevgeny Kafelnikov His favourite shot is cross-court forehand and favouritesurface is hard court

The Turk has finished 6 of last 7 seasons in Top 200 (2009-11, 2013-15), highlighted by year-end No. 90 in 2010. Achievedcareer-high No. 77 on Mar. 2, 2015 after run to Dubai QF.Broke into Top 100 on Sept. 27, 2010 after reaching final ofIzmir, TUR Challenger (l. to Devvarman)

Advanced to 1st career ATP World Tour QF at 2015 Dubai as Q(d. A. Zverev and No. 13 F. Lopez, l. to No. 1 Djokovic).Winner of 3 Challenger titles, most recently at 2014 Kazan,RUS (d. Berrer). Also owns 14 Futures titles, 12 of which came on home soil in Turkiye

Reached 2R at all 4 Grand Slams, including 2015 Wimbledon(d. Janowicz, l. to Anderson) and 2015 US Open (d. Stepanek,l. to Paire). Made tour-level debut at 2009 US Open as Q afterfalling in 1R of qualifying at 5 prior majors (d. C.Rochus in 5 sets, l. to Isner in 2R). Also qualified at 2010Wimbledon, 2011 US Open,2014 Wimbledon and 2016 Roland Garros

Qualified and won 1R matches at 3 ATP Masters 1000 events: 2010 Miami (d. Cuevas, l. to Monaco), 2011 Miami (d. Kamke, l. toTroicki) and 2015 Rome (d. Mannarino, l. to No. 7 Nadal)

Posted career-high 12 tour-level wins in 2015 after goingcombined 0-5 in 2013-14. Owns records of 144-103atChallengers and 142-44 at Futures. Ten of 29careertour-level wins have come in Davis Cup Group II