Valery Yuryevich Rudnev (; born 16 February 1988) is a Russian former tennis player.
Tennis career Rudnev has a career high ATP singles ranking of 210 achieved on 21 July 2014. He also has a career high ATP doubles ranking of 490 achieved on 22 March 2010. Rudnev has won a total of 7 ITF singles titles on the futures circuit as well as 1 ITF doubles title.
As a junior, Rudnev reached the boys' doubles final of the 2006 French Open with his partner Artur Chernov, where they lost to Emiliano Massa and Kei Nishikori 6–2, 1–6, 2–6.
Rudnev made his ATP main draw debut at the 2009 St. Petersburg Open where he received entry to the main draw as a wildcard entrant into the doubles event partnering Pavel Chekhov. The pair lost an all Russian first round encounter, losing to Igor Andreev and Mikhail Youzhny, 7–6(7–4), 4–6, [5–10].
ATP Challenger and ITF Futures finals
Singles: 14 (7–7) Legend (singles)ATP Challenger Tour (0–1)ITF Futures Tour (7–6)Finals by surfaceHard (3–1)Clay (4–6)Grass (0–0)Carpet (0–0)
ResultW–LDateTournamentTierSurfaceOpponentScoreLoss0–1Russia F1, Sergiyev PosadFuturesClay Alexey Kedryuk1–6, 4–6Win1–1Italy F26, AvezzanoFuturesClay Luca Vanni6–2, 2–6, 7–6(7–5)Win2–1Russia F6, MoscowFuturesClay Evgeny Kirillov6–4, 6–1Win3–1Iran F6, Kish IslandFuturesClay Antonio Veić7–6(6–2), 4–6, 7–5Loss3–2Turkey F2, AntalyaFuturesClay Ivan Sergeyev3–6, 1–6Loss3–3France F9, ToulonFuturesClay David Guez4–6, 6–7(4–7)Loss3–4Russia F3, MoscowFuturesClay Guillaume Rufin2–6, 4–6Loss3–5France F8, BloisFuturesClay Jonathan Eysseric4–6, 6–4, 6–7(1–7)Win4–5Israel F1, EilatFuturesHard Henri Laaksonen6–1, 6–1Win5–5Russia F2, TyumenFuturesHard Mikhail Ledovskikh5–6, 6–2, 6–4Win6–5Turkey F50, IstanbulFuturesHard Lorenzo Frigerio6–4, 6–3Win7–5Russia F9, BalashihaFuturesClay Victor Baluda6–3, 6–3Loss7–6Kazan, RussiaChallengerHard Sergiy Stakhovsky2–6, 3–6Loss7–7Russia F13, TaganrogFuturesClay Mikhail Biryukov6–7(4–7), 6–7(4–7)
Doubles: 6 (1–5) Legend (singles)ATP Challenger Tour (0–2)ITF Futures Tour (1–3)Titles by surfaceHard (0–0)Clay (1–4)Grass (0–0)Carpet (0–1)
ResultW–LDateTournamentTierSurfacePartnerOpponentsScoreWin1–0Iran F3, Kish IslandFuturesClay Alexey Kedryuk Attila Balázs György Balázs7–6(7–3), 7–5Loss1–1Russia F8, SochiFuturesClay Sergei Demekhine Mikhail Fufygin Vitali Reshetnikov2–6, 1–6Loss1–2Russia F1, MoscowFuturesCarpet Pavel Chekhov Konstantin Kravchuk Lukáš Lacko2–6, 4–6Loss1–3Poland F1, KatowiceFuturesClay Denis Matsukevich Jerzy Janowicz Mateusz Kowalczyk3–6, 3–6Loss1–4Samarkand, UzbekistanChallengerClay Ivan Sergeyev Kaden Hensel Adam Hubble5–7, 5–7Loss1–5Brașov, RomaniaChallengerClay Aslan Karatsev Daniele Giorgini Adrian Ungur6–4, 6–7(4–7), [1–10]
Junior Grand Slam finals Doubles: 1 (1 runner-up)
ResultYearTournamentSurfacePartnerOpponentScoreLoss2006French OpenClay Artur Chernov Emiliano Massa Kei Nishikori6–2, 1–6, 2–6
Personal life In June 2023, Rudnev married singer Tatiana Bulanova.
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