Teymuraz Besikovich Gabashvili (; born 23 May 1985) is a Russian-Georgian former professional tennis player. He has a career-high singles ranking of World No. 43 achieved on 1 February 2016. He has reached the fourth round of the 2010 and 2015 French Open.
On 18 November 2021, Gabashvili was banned from competition for 20 months after testing positive for furosemide.
Tennis career 2001–2002: Juniors As a junior Gabashvili posted a singles win–loss record of 38–34 (47–29 in doubles) and reached as high as no. 33 in the junior world singles rankings (and no. 40 in doubles) in January 2002.
Junior Slam results:
Australian Open: 3R (2002) French Open: 1R (2001, 2002) Wimbledon: 1R (2002) US Open: 2R (2001)
2003–2006: ATP debut Gabashvili made his ATP tour debut in 2004 in Båstad, where he lost to Olivier Patience of France.
2007–2009 At Wimbledon, Gabashvili faced Roger Federer in the first round and lost.
In the first round of the 2007 US Open, Gabashvili defeated World No. 7 Fernando González in five sets. In the fourth set, Gabashvili served for the match at 5–4, but hit three consecutive double faults. He lost the game and the set, but came back in the fifth and final set to win the match.
2008 proved to be unimpressive for Gabashvili as he lost in the first round of his first four tournaments before breaking his right wrist, effectively ending his season.
In the first round of the 2009 US Open, he lost in straight sets to American Jesse Levine.
2010: French Open fourth round In the third round of the 2010 French Open, he beat Andy Roddick in straight sets. However, he was beaten in the fourth round by Austria's Jürgen Melzer in four sets.
At the 2010 US Open, Gabashvili played World No. 1 Rafael Nadal in the first round, and lost.
2011: Silver medalist at Summer Universiade Gabashvili represented his country at the 2011 Summer Universiade held in Shenzhen and won a silver medal. Despite being ranked below the top 100 in the ATP rankings, Gabashvili was still by far the highest-ranked player in the singles draw, and was thus a favorite to win Gold. He advanced all the way to the singles final without dropping a set before suffering a surprising defeat at the hands of Lim Yong-Kyu, a member of South Korea's Davis Cup team.
2012–2016: Second French Open fourth round, Top 50 debut and career-high ranking At the 2015 French Open, Gabashvili repeated his 2010's result and advanced to the fourth round without losing a set, defeating in order, 10th seed Feliciano López, Juan Mónaco and Lukáš Rosol. In the fourth round, he lost in straight sets to 5th seed Kei Nishikori.
At the 2015 Citi Open, Gabashvili upset two time Grand Slam champion and world No. 3 Andy Murray in the second round in three tight sets to claim only his fourth ever win against a Top 10 player, however he lost to Ričardas Berankis in the next round in two sets.
He finished the year 2015 ranked World No. 50 for the first time in his career. On 1 February 2016, he achieved his highest career singles ranking of World No. 43.
2021–2024: 20 months ban from competition, comeback In November 2021, he was banned for 20 months from competing for doping. He was ranked No. 270 on 15 November 2021. He returned to the ITF Tour in August 2023.
Personal life Gabashvili speaks Russian, Georgian, Spanish and English. He has a daughter Nicole.
In July 2010, Gabashvili changed the spelling of his given name with the ATP World Tour from Teimuraz to Teymuraz.
On 18 November 2021, Gabashvili was banned from competition for 20 months after testing positive for furosemide.
ATP career finals
Doubles: 2 (1 title, 1 runner-up) LegendGrand Slam tournaments (0–0)ATP World Tour Finals (0–0)ATP World Tour Masters 1000 (0–0)ATP World Tour 500 Series (0–0)ATP World Tour 250 Series (1–1)Titles by surfaceHard (0–1)Clay (1–0)Grass (0–0)Titles by settingOutdoor (1–1)Indoor (0–0)
ResultW–LDateTournamentTierSurfacePartnerOpponentsScoreLoss0–1Indianapolis Tennis Championships, USInternationalHard Ivo Karlović Juan Martín del Potro Travis Parrott6–3, 2–6, [6–10]Win1–1U.S. Men's Clay Court Championships, US250 SeriesClay Ričardas Berankis Treat Huey Scott Lipsky6–4, 6–4
Challenger and Futures finals Singles: 28 (15–13) Legend (singles)ATP Challenger Tour (10–10)ITF Futures Tour/World Tennis Tour (5–3)Titles by surfaceHard (6–8)Clay (9–5)Grass (0–0)Carpet (0–0)
ResultW–LDateTournamentTierSurfaceOpponentScoreWin1–0Spain F10, TenerifeFuturesHard Roman Valent6–2, 6–0Win2–0Georgia F1, TbilisiFuturesClay Jan Minář6–4, 6–1Win3–0Georgia F2, TbilisiFuturesClay Martin Slanar3–6, 6–2, 6–3Win4–0Russia F3, ZhukovskyFuturesClay Alexander Sikanov6–2, 2–6, 6–4Loss4–1Bukhara, UzbekistanChallengerHard Michal Mertiňák6–3, 4–6, 3–6Loss4–2Barcelona, SpainChallengerClay Sergio Roitman2–6, 3–6Win5–2Poznań, PolandChallengerClay Adrián García6–4, 6–2Loss5–3Reunion Island, RéunionChallengerHard Philipp Kohlschreiber2–6, 3–6Win6–3Telde, SpainChallengerClay Pablo Andújar6–4, 4–6, 6–1Win7–3Karlsruhe, GermanyChallengerClay Tobias Kamke6–1, 6–4Win8–3Milan, ItalyChallengerClay Diego Hartfield6–4, 4–6, 6–4Win9–3Mons, BelgiumChallengerHard (i) Édouard Roger-Vasselin6–4, 6–4Loss9–4Braunschweig, GermanyChallengerClay Óscar Hernández Pérez1–6, 6–3, 4–6Loss9–5Astana, KazakhstanChallengerHard Rainer Schüttler6–7(6–8), 6–4, 4–6Loss9–6Bordeaux, FranceChallengerClay Martin Kližan5–7, 3–6Win10–6Qarshi, UzbekistanChallengerHard Radu Albot6–4, 6–4Win11–6Samarkand, UzbekistanChallengerClay Oleksandr Nedovyesov6–3, 6–4Loss11–7Kenitra, MoroccoChallengerClay Dominic Thiem6–7(4–7), 1–5 ret.Loss11–8Tashkent, UzbekistanChallengerHard Dudi Sela1–6, 2–6Win12–8Karshi, UzbekistanChallengerHard Evgeny Donskoy5–2 ret.Win13–8Samarkand, UzbekistanChallengerClay Yuki Bhambri6–3, 6–1Win14–8Fergana, UzbekistanChallengerHard Alexander Kudryavtsev6–2, 1–0 ret.Loss14–9Gimcheon, South KoreaChallengerHard Thomas Fabbiano5–7, 1–6Loss14–10Egypt F11, Sharm El SheikhFuturesHard Lucas Miedler3–6, 5–7Win15–10Egypt F12, Sharm El SheikhFuturesHard Lucas Miedler6–2, 6–3Loss15–11Kazakhstan F5, ShymkentFuturesClay Denis Yevseyev2–6, 3–6Loss15–12M25 Kazan, RussiaWorld Tennis TourHard (i) Sanjar Fayziev3–6, 5–7Loss15–13Potchefstroom, South AfricaChallengerHard Jenson Brooksby6–2, 3–6, 0–6
Doubles: 21 (14–7) Legend (doubles)ATP Challenger Tour (10–6)ITF Futures Tour (4–1)Titles by surfaceHard (9–4)Clay (5–3)Grass (0–0)Carpet (0–0)
ResultW–LDateTournamentTierSurfacePartnerOpponentsScoreWin1–0Russia F2, SaranskFuturesClay Alexander Pavlioutchenkov Sergei Demekhine Ivan Syrov6–4, 7–6(7–3)Win2–0Spain F9, La PalmaFuturesHard Alexander Pavlioutchenkov Rafael Moreno-Negrín Ferran Ventura-Martell6–4, 6–4Win3–0Togliatti, RussiaChallengerHard Dmitri Vlasov James Auckland Ladislav Švarc6–3, 5–7, 6–4Win4–0Reunion Island, RéunionChallengerHard Stéphane Robert Ivan Cerović Petar Popović6–4, 6–3Win5–0Grenoble, FranceChallengerHard (i) Evgeny Korolev Thomas Oger Nicolas Tourte7–5, 6–4Win6–0Trnava, SlovakiaChallengerClay Grigor Dimitrov Jan Minář Lukáš Rosol6–4, 2–6, [10–8]Loss6–1Mons, BelgiumChallengerHard (i) Alejandro Falla Denis Istomin Evgeny Korolev7–6(7–4), 6–7(4–7), [9–11]Loss6–2Dortmund, GermanyChallengerClay Andrey Kuznetsov Dominik Meffert Björn Phau4–6, 3–6Win7–2Ostrava, Czech RepublicChallengerClay Radu Albot Adam Pavlásek Jiří Veselý7–5, 5–7, [10–8]Loss7–3Monza, ItalyChallengerClay Stefano Ianni Andrey Golubev Yuriy Schukin6–7(4–7), 7–5, [7–10]Win8–3Savannah, USAChallengerClay Denys Molchanov Michael Russell Tim Smyczek6–2, 7–5Win9–3Tashkent, UzbekistanChallengerHard Mikhail Elgin Purav Raja Divij Sharan6–4, 6–4Win10–3Gimcheon, South KoreaChallengerHard Marco Chiudinelli Ruan Roelofse Yi Chu-huan6–1, 6–3Loss10–4Russia F3, KazanFuturesHard (i) Roman Safiullin Alexander Pavlioutchenkov Evgenii Tiurnev4–6, 6–3, [6–10]Win11–4Egypt F12, Sharm El SheikhFuturesHard Lucas Miedler Marat Deviatiarov Vladyslav Manafov6–4, 6–0Loss11–5Samarkand, UzbekistanChallengerClay Sergey Fomin Gonçalo Oliveira Andrei Vasilevski6–3, 3–6, [4–10]Win12–5Portorož, SloveniaChallengerHard Carlos Gómez-Herrera Lucas Miedler Tristan-Samuel Weissborn6–3, 6–2Loss12–6Baotou, ChinaChallengerHard Sasikumar Mukund Nam Ji-sung Song Min-kyu6–7(3–7), 2–6Loss12–7Rennes, FranceChallengerHard Lukáš Lacko Tristan-Samuel Weissborn Antonio Šančić5–7, 7–6(7–5), [7–10]Win13-7Cary, United StatesChallengerHard Dennis Novikov Luke Bambridge Nathaniel Lammons7–5, 4–6, [10–8]Win14–7Oct 2023Telavi, GeorgiaFuturesClay Aleksandre Metreveli Grigoriy Lomakin Zura Tkemaladze6–4, 6–4
Career performance timeline
Singles Tournament2006200720082009201020112012201320142015201620172018W–LWin %Grand Slam tournamentsAustralian OpenA1RA1R1R1RAA3R1R1RQ1Q12–722.22French OpenA1RA2R4R1RQ1Q32R4R3R1RA10–855.56WimbledonA1RA1R2R1RQ21R1R1R1RQ3A1–811.11US Open2R2R1R1R1RA1RQ13R2R1RQ1A5–935.71Win–loss1–11–40–11–44–40–30–10–15–44–42–40–00–018–3136.73ATP World Tour Masters 1000 Indian Wells MastersA3RQ12RA1RAA2R1R1RQ1A4–640.00 Miami MastersA2RQ12RA2RAA2R2R1RQ1A5–645.45 Monte Carlo Masters1R1RQ1Q1Q2AAA2RA1RAA1–420.00 Rome Masters1R1RAQ2AQ1AAAA1RAA0–300.00 Hamburg MastersAQ2ANot Masters Series0–000.00 Madrid MastersAQ2A1RAQ1AA1RA1RAA0–300.00 Canada Masters1RQ2AQ1AAQ2Q1AAAAA0–100.00 Cincinnati MastersAQ2AQ1AAAQ11RAAAA0–100.00 Shanghai MastersNot Masters SeriesQ1Q2AA1RQ1AAA0–100.00 Paris Masters3R1RAQ1Q1Q1AAQ11RAAA2–340.00Win–loss1–43–50–02–30–01–20–00–03–61–30–50–00–012–2830.00Year-end ranking1121256510680138182766750138237368
Doubles Tournament20072008200920102011201220132014201520162017201820192020W–LWin %Grand Slam tournamentsAustralian OpenAAAA1RAA1R1R1RAAAA0–40%French Open1RA2RA3RAA2RA1RAAAA4–545%Wimbledon1RAAAAAQ12R2RAAAAA2–340%US Open2R1R1R1RAAA1R1RAAAAA1–614%Win–loss1–30–11–20–12–20–00–02–41–30–20–00–00–00–07–1838.88%Year-end ranking172279184237130307191165130326281448185152
Wins over top 10 players #PlayerRankEventSurfaceRdScore20071. Fernando González7US Open, New York, United StatesHard1R6–4, 6–1, 3–6, 5–7, 6–420102. Andy Roddick8Roland Garros, Paris, FranceClay3R6–4, 6–4, 6–220143. David Ferrer5Barcelona, SpainClay2R6–4, 6–220154. Andy Murray3Washington, D.C., United StatesHard2R6–4, 4–6, 7–6(7–4)
National participation Davis Cup (6–6)
Group membershipWorld Group (1–3)WG Play-off (1–3)Group I (4–0)Group II (0–0)Group III (0–0)Group IV (0–0)Matches by surfaceHard (5–4)Clay (0–2)Grass (0–0)Carpet (1–0)Matches by TypeSingles (6–4)Doubles (0–2) indicates the outcome of the Davis Cup match followed by the score, date, place of event, the zonal classification and its phase, and the court surface.