Petr Nesterov

Petr Nesterov
Country (sports)	Bulgaria
Residence	Varna, Bulgaria
Born	7 March 2003 (age 21); Moscow, Russia
Turned pro	2019
Plays	Right-handed (two-handed backhand)
Prize money	US$ 55,290
Singles
Career record	1–1 (at ATP Tour level, Grand Slam level, and in Davis Cup)
Career titles	0
Highest ranking	No. 384 (28 October 2024)
Current ranking	No. 384 (28 October 2024)
Grand Slam singles results
French Open Junior	1R (2021)
Wimbledon Junior	1R (2021)
US Open Junior	QF (2021)
Doubles
Career record	2–3 (at ATP Tour level, Grand Slam level, and in Davis Cup)
Career titles	0
Highest ranking	No. 267 (28 October 2024)
Current ranking	No. 267 (28 October 2024)
Grand Slam doubles results
French Open Junior	QF (2021)
Wimbledon Junior	2R (2021)
US Open Junior	F (2021)
	Last updated on: 30 October 2024.

Petr Nesterov (Bulgarian: Пьотр Нестеров, born 7 March 2003) is a Bulgarian tennis player.^[1] He has a career-high ATP singles ranking of world No. 384 and a doubles ranking of No. 267 achieved on 28 October 2024. Nesterov reached the final of the 2021 US Open Junior doubles with Ukrainian Viacheslav Bielinskyi.^[2]^[3]^[4]

Junior career

As a junior, Nesterov won three singles and four doubles titles and achieved a career-high ranking of World No. 15. ^[5] His biggest junior success came in 2021 at the US Open, where he reached the quarterfinals in singles and his first Grand Slam final in doubles with Viacheslav Bielinskyi, but lost 3–6, 7–5, [1–10] to Max Westphal and Coleman Wong in the championship match. Earlier in the year the Bulgarian-Ukrainian duo came close to another doubles final at the French Open, but lost out in the semifinals to eventual champions Arthur Fils and Giovanni Mpetshi Perricard.^[2]

Professional career

2019–2023: Early years, turning pro, ATP debut and first wins

Nesterov made his professional debut at the age of 16, when he received a wildcard for the ITF tournament in Burgas in 2019. Although he lost his first singles match, Petr reached his debut ITF final in doubles with compatriot Simeon Terziev, but the Bulgarian duo couldn't go all the way, losing 3–6, 3–6 to Luca Gelhard and Kai Wehnelt.

A year and a half later, after the end of his junior career, Nesterov started playing regularly on the ITF men's tour. In 2022 he made his debut for Bulgaria Davis Cup team in the World Group II Play-Off tie with Paraguay, but was forced to retire in the third set against Daniel Vallejo.

After reaching two semifinals as a qualifier at the M25 and M15 events in Pirot and Novi Sad, Nesterov made his debut in the top 1000 of the ATP rankings as well as reaching his second doubles final with Simon Anthony Ivanov at the tournament in Novi Sad.

In September, Nesterov made his ATP singles qualifying debut at the 2022 Sofia Open after receiving a wildcard for the qualifying draw of his home tournament. The Bulgarian did not waste this opportunity and scored his biggest win to date, overcoming World No. 270 Salvatore Caruso in straight sets 7–6(4), 6–4. Ultimately he could not seal his spot into the main draw after a loss to Dragoș Nicolae Mădăraș in the second round.

Nesterov made his main draw ATP doubles debut with Yanaki Milev at the 2022 Sofia Open, where they reached the quarterfinals defeating Jack Vance and Jamie Vance before losing to eventual champions Rafael Matos and David Vega Hernández.

He also received a wildcard for the 2023 Sofia Open with Yanaki Milev and also reached the quarterfinals defeating Spanish duo Íñigo Cervantes and defending champion David Vega Hernández.

Year-end ATP ranking

Year	2019	2020	2021	2022	2023
Singles	-	-	1692	819	558
Doubles	1514	1584	2418	550	423

Challenger and ITF World Tennis Tour finals

Singles: 6 (4–2)

Legend (singles)
ATP Challenger Tour (0-0)
ITF World Tennis Tour (4–2)

Titles by surface
Hard (2–1)
Clay (2–1)
Grass (0–0)
Carpet (0–0)

Result	W–L	Date	Tournament	Tier	Surface	Opponent	Score
Win	1–0	Oct 2023	M15 Al Zahra, Kuwait	World Tennis Tour	Hard	Gonçalo Oliveira	4–6, 6–4, 6–3
Win	2–0	Nov 2023	M15 Al Zahra, Kuwait	World Tennis Tour	Hard	Tomáš Láník	6–4, 7–6^(7–5)
Loss	2–1	Mar 2024	M15 Aktobe, Kazakhstan	World Tennis Tour	Hard (i)	Evgeny Karlovskiy	7–6^(7–1), 1–6, 2–6
Win	3–1	May 2024	M15 Bucharest, Romania	World Tennis Tour	Clay	Niels Lootsma	6–3, 4–6, 7–6^(8–6)
Win	4–1	May 2024	M15 Bucharest, Romania	World Tennis Tour	Clay	Elliot Benchetrit	6–1, 6–2
Loss	4–2	Oct 2024	M25 Santa Margherita di Pula, Italy	World Tennis Tour	Clay	Pol Martín Tiffon	2–6, 6–7^(5–7)

Doubles: 16 (7–9)

Legend (doubles)
ATP Challenger Tour (0–1)
ITF World Tennis Tour (7–8)

Titles by surface
Hard (2–2)
Clay (5–7)
Grass (0–0)
Carpet (0–0)

Result	W–L	Date	Tournament	Tier	Surface	Partner	Opponents	Score
Loss	0–1	Oct 2019	M15 Burgas, Bulgaria	World Tennis Tour	Clay	Simeon Terziev	Luca Gelhard Kai Wehnelt	3–6, 3–6
Loss	0–2	Jul 2022	M15 Novi Sad, Serbia	World Tennis Tour	Clay	Simon Anthony Ivanov	Viktor Jović Marat Sharipov	3–6, 4–6
Loss	0–3	Oct 2022	M15 Sozopol, Bulgaria	World Tennis Tour	Hard	Yanaki Milev	Maks Kaśnikowski Olaf Pieczkowski	3–6, 5–7
Win	1–3	Oct 2022	M15 Sozopol, Bulgaria	World Tennis Tour	Hard	Yanaki Milev	Adriano Dhzenev Anthony Genov	6–3, 6–2
Win	2–3	Mar 2023	M15 Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt	World Tennis Tour	Hard	Alec Beckley	Alex Knaff Jakob Schnaitter	3–6, 6–3, [10–8]
Loss	2–4	Jun 2023	M15 Constanța, Romania	World Tennis Tour	Clay	Olaf Pieczkowski	Ignacio Carou João Victor Couto Loureiro	3–6, 6–7^(5–7)
Loss	2–5	Jun 2023	M25 Skopje, North Macedonia	World Tennis Tour	Clay	Yanaki Milev	Sascha Gueymard Wayenburg Antoine Hoang	1–6, 2–6
Loss	2–6	Dec 2023	M15 Zahra, Kuwait	World Tennis Tour	Hard	Aleksandre Bakshi	Dax Donders Sidané Pontjodikromo	6–3, 6–7^(3–7), [8–10]
Loss	2–7	Dec 2023	M15 Antalya, Turkey	World Tennis Tour	Clay	Bogdan Bobrov	Jay Clarke James MacKinlay	1–6, 2–6
Win	3–7	May 2024	M15 Bucharest, Romania	World Tennis Tour	Clay	Ilya Snițari	Tomás Lipovšek Puches Juan Bautista Otegui	6–7^(5–7), 6–4, [10–7]
Win	4–7	May 2024	M15 Bucharest, Romania	World Tennis Tour	Clay	Ilya Snițari	Simone Agostini Matteo De Vincentis	7–6^(7–4), 6–2
Win	5–7	Jun 2024	M25 Satu Mare, Romania	World Tennis Tour	Clay	Vladyslav Orlov	Miloš Karol Michael Shaw	6–4, 6–2
Loss	5–8	Jul 2024	Verona, Italy	Challenger	Clay	Yanaki Milev	Marcelo Demoliner Guillermo Durán	7–6^(8–6), 6–7^(3–7), [13–15]
Loss	5–9	Sep 2024	M25 Satu Mare, Romania	World Tennis Tour	Clay	Vladyslav Orlov	Tim Ruehl Louis Wessels	6–7^(6–8), 3–6
Win	6–9	Oct 2024	M25 Santa Margherita di Pula, Italy	World Tennis Tour	Clay	Yanaki Milev	Alessandro Spadola Matteo Vavassori	7–6^(7–4), 6–3
Win	7–9	Oct 2024	M25 Santa Margherita di Pula, Italy	World Tennis Tour	Clay	Yanaki Milev	Massimo Giunta Mariano Tammaro	6–3, 6–3

National participation

Davis Cup (1 win, 4 losses)

Petr Nesterov debuted for the Bulgaria Davis Cup team in 2022. Since then he has 6 nominations with 4 ties played, his singles W/L record is 1–2 and doubles W/L record is 0–2 (1–4 overall).

Group membership
World Group (0–0)
WG Play-off (0–0)
Group I (1–1)
Group II (0–3)
Group III (0–0)
Group IV (0–0)

Matches by surface
Hard (1–2)
Clay (0–2)
Grass (0–0)
Carpet (0–0)

Matches by type
Singles (1–2)
Doubles (0–2)

indicates the result of the Davis Cup match followed by the score, date, place of event, the zonal classification and its phase, and the court surface.

Rubber result	No.	Rubber	Match type (partner if any)	Opponent nation	Opponent player(s)	Score
3–1; 4–5 March 2022; Sport Hall Sofia, Sofia, Bulgaria; World Group II Play-Off; Hard (i) surface
Defeat	1	IV	Singles	Paraguay	Daniel Vallejo	6–7^(8–10), 7–6^(7–2), [5–10]
3–1; 4–5 February 2023; Wilding Park, Christchurch, New Zealand; World Group I Play-Off; Hard surface
Defeat	2	III	Doubles (with Alexander Donski)	New Zealand	Artem Sitak / Michael Venus	4–6, 6–3, 3–6
1–3; 3–4 February 2024; Tennis Center Avenue, Burgas, Bulgaria; World Group I Play-Off; Hard (i) surface
Victory	3	IV	Singles	Bosnia and Herzegovina	Andrej Nedić	4–6, 6–2, [10–8]
3–2; 14–16 September 2024; Tennis Club Lokomotiv, Plovdiv, Bulgaria; World Group II; Clay surface
Defeat	4	I	Singles	El Salvador	Marcelo Arévalo	3–6, 3–6
Defeat	5	III	Doubles (with Alexander Donski)	El Salvador	Marcelo Arévalo / César Cruz	7–5, 6–7^(4–7), 3–6

Junior Grand Slam finals

Doubles: 1 (0–1)

Result	Year	Tournament	Surface	Partner	Opponent	Score
Runner-Up	2021	US Open	Hard	Viacheslav Bielinskyi	Max Westphal Coleman Wong	3–6, 7–5, [1–10]

References

^ "Petr Nesterov | Overview | ATP Tour | Tennis".
^ ^a ^b "Junior Wrap: Robin Montgomery, Daniel Rincon win US Open singles titles". 11 September 2021.
^ "While Britain celebrated Emma Raducanu, a Hong Kong teenager made US Open tennis history too". 13 September 2021.
^ "Photos: Boys' Doubles Final at the 2021 US Open". September 11, 2021.
^ "ITF Tennis – Pro Circuit – Player Profile – NESTEROV, Petr (BUL)".

External links

Petr Nesterov at the Association of Tennis Professionals
Petr Nesterov at the International Tennis Federation
Petr Nesterov at the Davis Cup

[1] "Petr Nesterov | Overview | ATP Tour | Tennis".

[USOpen-2] "Junior Wrap: Robin Montgomery, Daniel Rincon win US Open singles titles". 11 September 2021.

[3] "While Britain celebrated Emma Raducanu, a Hong Kong teenager made US Open tennis history too". 13 September 2021.

[4] "Photos: Boys' Doubles Final at the 2021 US Open". September 11, 2021.

[5] "ITF Tennis – Pro Circuit – Player Profile – NESTEROV, Petr (BUL)".

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v t e Association of Tennis Professionals Top Bulgarian male singles tennis players
As of Nov 3, 2024
1. Grigor Dimitrov (10 1) 2. Adrian Andreev (208 1) 3. Dimitar Kuzmanov (380 2) 4. Petr Nesterov (410 26) 5. Yanaki Milev (487 13)
6. Iliyan Radulov (699 2) 7. Alexander Donski (739 ) 8. Gabriel Donev (968 1) 9. Nikolay Nedelchev (1,013 4) 10. Simon Anthony Ivanov (1,076 2)