Dimitar Kutrovsky

Dimitar Kutrovsky (Bulgarian: Димитър Кутровски; born 27 August 1987,) is a retired tennis player from Bulgaria. On 18 May 2015, he reached his highest ATP singles ranking of 293 whilst his best doubles ranking was 234 on 10 August 2015.

Dimitar Kutrovsky
Димитър Кутровски

Dimitar Kutrovsky at the 2011 Davis Cup
Country (sports)	Bulgaria
Residence	Sofia, Bulgaria
Born	(1987-08-27) 27 August 1987 Sofia, Bulgaria
Turned pro	2005
Retired	January 2016
Plays	Right-handed (two-handed both sides)
Prize money	$75,797
Singles
Career record	8–5 (at Grand Slam-level, ATP World Tour-level, and in Davis Cup)
Career titles	0 ATP, 2 ITF
Highest ranking	No. 293 (18 May 2015)
Current ranking	No. 332 (18 January 2016)
Doubles
Career record	2–2 (at Grand Slam-level, ATP World Tour-level, and in Davis Cup)
Career titles	0 ATP, 7 ITF
Highest ranking	No. 234 (10 August 2015)
Current ranking	No. 336 (2 November 2015)
Last updated on: 31 January 2016.

As a junior, he played for CSKA. In 2003 he was №28 in the rankings of the European Tennis Association for boys under 16 years old. In 2005 he reached №69 in the ITF's rankings for boys under 18 years old. He is also a doubles champion from the Indoor national championships in 2008, where he was partnering with Martin Shishkov.

He graduated his secondary education in the sport school "General Vladimir Stoychev" in Sofia. After that he also finished his higher education in the University of Texas at Austin, where he played for the American College championships (NCAA). With his 230 wins in singles and doubles, he became the best tennis player in the history of the university.[1] From 2008 to 2010 he was a three-times winner of the annual award "All-American" in singles, which is given to the tennis players with the best results in USA.

After graduating in 2010 Kutrovsky started playing actively in ITF Futures and ATP Challenger tournaments. In singles he played four finals of ITF Futures tournaments and he won one of them. In 2012 he played his second ATP tournament at the 2012 SAP Open and won five matches and reached the quarter-finals, where he lost 1–6, 4–6 to Ryan Harrison. In doubles he has three titles and three lost finals.

After investigations of allegedly using prohibited stimulant methylhexaneamine at the 2012 SAP Open on 14 February 2012 he was found guilty by the International Tennis Federation on 15 May and retroactively banned for two years dating back from the said tournament.[2]

On 5 October 2012 it was announced that the Court of Arbitration for Sport has partially upheld the appeal by Dimitar Kutrovsky against the decision of the independent tribunal dated 15 May 2012. The panel's decision was that the appropriate period of ineligibility should be fifteen months and the Bulgarian will be eligible to participate on 14 May 2013.[3]

As of May 2013 Kutrovsky is back to playing after his ban expired. He reached the final of the clay-court Futures event in Varna, which was his first tournament after the ban, but there he lost 7–5, 4–6, 2–6 to Kristijan Mesaroš.

In January 2016, Kutrovsky announced his retirement from professional tennis.[4]

Year-end rankings

Year	2005	2006	2007	2008	2009	2010	2011	2012	2013	2014	2015
Singles	1231	1045	1479	1572	828	566	519	714	485	360	317
Doubles	-	1476	-	-	-	598	744	-	1487	401	342

Futures and Challenger finals: 26 (9–17)

Singles: 11 (2–9)

Legend

ATP Challengers (0–0)

ITF Futures (2–9)

Outcome	No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Opponent in the final	Score in the final
Runner-up	1.	18 October 2009	Austin, USA ITF Futures $10,000	Hard	Michael McClune	6–7^(5–7), 3–6
Runner-up	2.	13 June 2010	Loomis, USA ITF Futures $15,000	Hard	Michael Venus	6–7^(4–7), 6–1, 3–6
Runner-up	3.	3 April 2011	Oklahoma City, USA ITF Futures $15,000	Hard	Arnau Brugués-Davi	5–7, 1–6
Winner	1.	29 January 2012	Antalya, Turkey ITF Futures $10,000	Hard	Steven Diez	6–3, 6–0
Runner-up	4.	26 May 2013	Varna, Bulgaria ITF Futures $10,000	Clay	Kristijan Mesaroš	7–5, 4–6, 2–6
Runner-up	5.	30 June 2013	Stara Zagora, Bulgaria ITF Futures $10,000	Clay	Roman Jebavý	5–7, 4–6
Runner-up	6.	4 August 2013	Decatur, USA ITF Futures $10,000	Hard	Eric Quigley	6–7^(3–7), 4–6
Runner-up	7.	11 August 2013	Edwardsville, USA ITF Futures $10,000	Hard	Jason Jung	2–6, 6–7^(5–7)
Runner-up	8.	9 March 2014	Gatineau, Canada ITF Futures $15,000	Hard (I)	Daniel Smethurst	2–6, 3–6
Winner	2.	16 March 2014	Sherbrooke, Canada ITF Futures $15,000	Hard (I)	Edward Corrie	6–3, 4–6, 6–2
Runner-up	9.	19 October 2014	Mansfield, USA ITF Futures $15,000	Hard	Liam Broady	6–1, 6–7^(2–7), 0–6

Doubles: 15 (7–8)

Legend

ATP Challengers (0–0)

ITF Futures (7–8)

Outcome	No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Partner	Opponents in the final	Score in the final
Runner-up	1.	27 June 2010	Chico, USA ITF Futures $15,000	Hard	Jack Sock	Nima Roshan Jose Rubin Statham	3–6, 6–0, [8–10]
Winner	1.	24 October 2010	Mansfield, USA ITF Futures $15,000	Hard	Joshua Zavala	Andrea Collarini Denis Kudla	6–3, 6–2
Winner	2.	14 November 2010	Pensacola, USA ITF Futures $10,000	Clay	Jack Sock	Devin Britton Jordan Cox	5–7, 6–2, [10–8]
Runner-up	2.	21 November 2010	Amelia Island, USA ITF Futures $10,000	Clay	Jack Sock	Mislav Hižak Robbye Poole	2–6, 6–7^(3–7)
Runner-up	3.	30 January 2011	Weston, USA ITF Futures $10,000	Clay	Jack Sock	Soong-Jae Cho Hyun-Joon Kim	3–6, 4–6
Winner	3.	6 February 2011	Palm Coast, USA ITF Futures $10,000	Clay	Jack Sock	Blake Strode Greg Ouellette	6–3, 3–6, [10–8]
Winner	4.	11 January 2014	Schwieberdingen, Germany ITF Futures $10,000	Carpet (I)	Jacob Adaktusson	Błażej Koniusz Mateusz Kowalczyk	6–3, 1–6, [10–6]
Runner-up	4.	25 January 2014	Kaarst, Germany ITF Futures $15,000	Carpet (I)	Uladzimir Ignatik	Nikoloz Basilashvili Alexander Bury	6–4, 4–6, [6–10]
Runner-up	5.	15 August 2014	Calgary, Canada ITF Futures $15,000	Hard	Dennis Nevolo	Brayden Schnur Jack Murray	4–6, 6–3, [7–10]
Winner	5.	24 August 2014	Winnipeg, Canada ITF Futures $15,000	Hard	Saketh Myneni	Philip Bester Marcus Daniell	7–5, 7–5
Winner	6.	10 October 2014	Houston, USA ITF Futures $15,000	Hard	Henrique Cunha	Jeff Dadamo Evan King	6–4, 6–4
Runner-up	6.	19 October 2014	Mansfield, USA ITF Futures $15,000	Hard	Henrique Cunha	Liam Broady Dennis Novikov	6–4, 3–6, [7–10]
Winners	7.	9 January 2015	Los Angeles, USA ITF Futures $15,000	Hard	Dennis Novikov	Frederik Nielsen James Cluskey	4–6, 6–1, [10–4]
Runner-up	7.	16 January 2015	Long Beach, USA ITF Futures $15,000	Hard	Dennis Novikov	Nicolas Meister Eric Quigley	3–6, 2–6
Runner-up	8.	12 April 2015	Harlingen, USA ITF Futures $15,000	Hard	Philip Bester	Deiton Baughman Jeremy Hunter Nicholas	3–6, 6–7^(3–7)

Davis Cup

Dimitar Kutrovsky debuted for the Bulgaria Davis Cup team in 2011. Since then he has a 6–4 singles record and a 2–2 doubles record (8–6 overall).

Singles (6–4)

Edition	Round	Date	Surface	Opponent	W/L	Result
2011 Europe/Africa Zone Group II	R1	4 March 2011	Hard (I)	Sergey Betov	W	7–5, 6–4, 2–6, 7–6^(7–2)
		6 March 2011		Uladzimir Ignatik	L	6–3, 2–6, 1–6, 4–6
	RPO	8 July 2011	Carpet (I)	Philippos Tsangaridis	W	6–0, 6–2, 6–2
		10 July 2011		Marcos Baghdatis	L	3–6, 6–3, 6–7^(3–7), 5–7
2014 Europe/Africa Zone Group II	R1	31 January 2014	Hard (I)	Micke Kontinen	W	6–4, 6–2, 6–1
		2 February 2014		Jarkko Nieminen	L	6–4, 1–6, 6–2, 4–6, 3–6
	RPO	4 April 2014	Clay	Theodoros Angelinos	W	6–4, 6–3, 1–6, 6–3
		6 April 2014		Charalampos Kapogiannis	W	5–7, 6–0, 6–1
2015 Europe/Africa Zone Group II	R2	19 July 2015	Clay	Ugo Nastasi	W	6–4, 6–2
	PPO	18 September 2015	Clay	Péter Nagy	L	4–6, 0–6, 3–6

Doubles (2–2)

Edition	Round	Date	Partner	Surface	Opponents	W/L	Result
2011 Europe/Africa Zone Group II	RPO	9 July 2011	Todor Enev	Carpet (I)	Marcos Baghdatis Rareş Cuzdriorean	L	2–6, 2–6, 6–3, 6–4, 4–6
2014 Europe/Africa Zone Group II	R1	1 February 2014	Tihomir Grozdanov	Hard (I)	Jarkko Nieminen Henri Kontinen	L	3–6, 2–6, 6–3, 2–6
	RPO	5 April 2014	Grigor Dimitrov	Clay	Alexandros Jakupovic Markos Kalovelonis	W	7–6^(7–4), 6–2, 6–4
2015 Europe/Africa Zone Group II	R2	28 July 2015	Grigor Dimitrov	Clay	Gilles Kremer Mike Scheidweiler	W	6–3, 6–4, 6–4

• RPO = Relegation Play–off
• PPO = Promotion Play–off

References

1. Profile from the Texas University's website
2. AP (15 May 2012). "Dimitar Kutrovsky banned two years for doping". TENNIS.com. Santa Monica, CA , USA: Miller Sports Group LLC. Retrieved 15 May 2012.
3. CAS decision in the case of Dimitar Kutrovsky
4. "Димитър Кутровски прекрати кариерата си".

External links

• Dimitar Kutrovsky at the Association of Tennis Professionals
• Dimitar Kutrovsky at the International Tennis Federation
• Dimitar Kutrovsky at the Davis Cup