Alexandr Cozbinov

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Alexandr Cozbinov (born 28 April 1995) is a Moldovan tennis player.

Alexandr Cozbinov
Country (sports) Moldova
ResidenceLas Vegas, Nevada, U.S.
Born (1995-04-28) 28 April 1995 (age 29)
Chișinău, Moldova
Height1.88 m (6 ft 2 in)
PlaysRight-handed (two-handed backhand)
CollegeUNLV
Prize money$101,904
Singles
Career record0–3 (at ATP Tour level, Grand Slam level, and in Davis Cup)
Career titles0
0 Challenger, 3 Futures
Highest rankingNo. 420 (21 August 2023)
Current rankingNo. 574 (6 May 2024)
Doubles
Career record1–2 (in ATP Tour level, Grand Slam level, and in Davis Cup)
Career titles0
1 Challenger, 12 Futures
Highest rankingNo. 237 (8 August 2022)
Current rankingNo. 979 (6 May 2024)
Team competitions
Davis Cup15–6
Last updated on: 6 May 2024.

Cozbinov has a career high ATP singles ranking of 420 achieved on 21 August 2023. He also has a career high ATP doubles ranking of 237 achieved on 8 August 2022.

Cozbinov represents Moldova at the Davis Cup, where he has a W/L record of 15–6.

Cozbinov played college tennis at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas between 2015 and 2018.[1] He won the Mountain West Conference Tennis Player of the Year in 2018.[2]

In January 2020, he participated at the ATP Cup as a member of the Moldovan team.[3] Before his match against Belgian Steve Darcis the organisers played the wrong national anthem, they played the Romanian anthem instead of the Moldovan one.[4]

Future and Challenger finals

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Singles: 4 (3–1)

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Legend (singles)
ATP Challenger Tour (0–0)
ITF World Tennis Tour (3–1)
Titles by surface
Hard (2–1)
Clay (1–0)
Grass (0–0)
Carpet (0–0)
Result W–L    Date    Tournament Tier Surface Opponent Score
Win 1–0 Jul 2019   M15 Pittsburgh, United States World Tennis Tour Clay   Simon Freund 2–6, 6–2, 6–1
Win 2–0 Sep 2022   M15 Cancún, Mexico World Tennis Tour Hard   Tristan McCormick 6–3, 6–1
Loss 2–1 Sep 2022   M15 Cancún, Mexico World Tennis Tour Hard   Bernard Tomic 6–7(5–7), 3–6
Win 3–1 Jun 2023   M15 Monastir, Tunisia World Tennis Tour Hard   Adrien Gobat 6–1, 6–4

Doubles 19 (13 titles, 6 runners-up)

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Legend (doubles)
ATP Challenger Tour (1–0)
ITF Futures Tour (12–6)
Titles by surface
Hard (11–6)
Clay (2–0)
Grass (0–0)
Carpet (0–0)
Result W–L    Date    Tournament Tier Surface Partner Opponents Score
Loss 0–1 Jun 2018   United States F17, Tulsa Futures Hard   Trevor Allen Johnson   Alexandru Gozun
  Emil Reinberg
6–7(6–8), 3–6
Win 1–1 Sep 2018   United States F26, Fountain Valley Futures Hard   Maxime Cressy   Alec Adamson
  Conor Berg
6–2, 6–2
Win 2–1 Jan 2019   United States M25, Los Angeles World Tennis Tour Hard   Maxime Cressy   Emilio Gómez
  Luis Patiño
6–4, 6–2
Win 3–1 May 2019   Mexico M15, Cancún World Tennis Tour Hard   Austin Rapp   David Fox
  Isaac Stoute
6–2, 4–6, [10–1]
Win 4–1 Jun 2019   United States M25, Wichita World Tennis Tour Hard   Brandon Holt   Jacob Dunbar
  David Fox
7–6(7–5), 6–3
Loss 4–2 Jul 2019   United States M15, Norman World Tennis Tour Hard   Ricardo Rodríguez   David Fox
  Mark Whitehouse
4–6, 6–3, [7–10]
Loss 4–3 Aug 2019   United States M25, Memphis World Tennis Tour Hard   Harrison Adams   Ian Dempster
  Korey Lovett
2–6, 1–6
Loss 4–4 Feb 2021   Russia M15, St. Petersburg World Tennis Tour Hard (i)   Marat Deviatiarov   Andrew Paulson
  Patrik Rikl
6–4, 4–6, [8–10]
Win 5–4 Apr 2021   Russia M15, St. Petersburg World Tennis Tour Hard (i)   Simon Freund   Naoki Tajima
  Alexey Zakharov
6–4, 7–5
Win 6–4 Apr 2021   Russia M15, St. Petersburg World Tennis Tour Hard (i)   Simon Freund   Naoki Tajima
  Alexey Zakharov
7–6(7–5), 2–6, [10–6]
Win 7–4 May 2021   Israel M15, Jerusalem World Tennis Tour Hard   Marat Deviatiarov   Julian Cash
  Felix Corwin
w/o
Win 8–4 May 2021   Finland M15, Kouvola World Tennis Tour Hard   Francesco Vilardo   Luca Castelnuovo
  Yannik Steinegger
6–2, 6–3
Win 9–4 Jun 2021   North Macedonia M15, Skopje World Tennis Tour Clay   Gijs Brouwer   Aziz Ouakaa
  Jean Thirouin
6–1, 6–2
Win 10–4 Jul 2021   Portugal M15, Idanha-a-Nova World Tennis Tour Hard   Simon Carr   Gilbert Klier Júnior
  João Lucas Reis da Silva
6–3, 2–6, [10–5]
Win 11–4 Sep 2021 Istanbul, Turkey Challenger Hard   Radu Albot   Antonio Šančić
  Artem Sitak
4–6, 7–5, [11–9]
Win 12–4 Apr 2022   United States M15, Sunrise World Tennis Tour Clay   Ruan Roelofse   Alec Deckers
  Alex Knaff
6–4, 6–4
Win 13–4 Jun 2022   United States M15, Rancho Santa Fe World Tennis Tour Hard   August Holmgren   Abraham Asaba
  Mitchell Harper
6–4, 6–7(7–3), [21–19]
Loss 13–5 Aug 2022   Mexico M15, Cancun World Tennis Tour Hard   Marco Brugnerotto   Ignacio Buse
  Jorge Brian Panta
2–6, 6–7(5–7)
Loss 13–6 Apr 2023   Egypt M25, Sharm El Sheikh World Tennis Tour Hard   August Holmgren   Sergey Fomin
  Alibek Kachmazov
2–6, 3–6

National participation

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Davis Cup (10–5)

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Group membership
World Group (0–0)
WG Play-off (0–0)
Group I (0–0)
Group II (0–0)
Group III (4–5)
Group IV (6–0)
Matches by surface
Hard (1–1)
Clay (9–4)
Grass (0–0)
Carpet (0–0)
Matches by type
Singles (5–4)
Doubles (5–1)
Rubber outcome No. Rubber Match type (partner if any) Opponent nation Opponent player(s) Score
 3–0; 2 March 2016; Tere Tennis Centre Tallinn, Estonia; Europe Zone Group III Round Robin; Hard (indoor) surface
Victory 1 I Singles   San Marino Pietro Grassi 6–0, 6–0
 0–2; 5 March 2016; Tere Tennis Center, Tallinn, Estonia; Europe Zone Group III Promotional Play off; Hard (indoor) surface
Defeat 2 I Singles   Estonia Kenneth Raisma 2–6, 4–6
 3–0; 22 June 2021; Tennis Club Jug-Skopje, Skopje, North Macedonia; Europe Zone Group IV Round Robin; Clay surface
Victory 3 II Singles   Andorra Èric Cervós Noguer 6–0, 6–0
Victory 4 III Doubles (with Ilya Snitari) (dead rubber) Èric Cervós Noguer / Damien Gelabert 6–1, 6–1
 3–0; 24 June 2021; Tennis Club Jug-Skopje, Skopje, North Macedonia; Europe Zone Group IV Round Robin; Clay surface
Victory 5 II Singles   Kosovo Fresk Sylhasi 6–0, 6–1
Victory 6 III Doubles (with Maxim Cazac) (dead rubber) Granit Bajraliu / Fresk Sylhasi 6–0, 6–3
 3–0; 25 June 2021; Tennis Club Jug-Skopje, Skopje, North Macedonia; Europe Zone Group IV Round Robin; Clay surface
Victory 7 II Singles   San Marino Marco De Rossi 6–3, 3–6, 6–3
Victory 8 III Doubles (with Ilya Snitari) (dead rubber) Marco De Rossi / Stefano Galvani 4–6, 6–3, 6–3
 2–1; 22 June 2022; Tennis Club Bellevue, Ulcinj, Montenegro; Europe Zone Group III Round Robin; Clay surface
Defeat 9 II Singles   Montenegro Rrezart Cungu 6–4, 4–6, 2–6
Victory 10 III Doubles (with Ilya Snitari) Rrezart Cungu / Petar Jovanović 3–6, 6–3, 6–2
 1–2; 23 June 2022; Tennis Club Bellevue, Ulcinj, Montenegro; Europe Zone Group III Round Robin; Clay surface
Defeat 11 II Singles   Luxembourg Alex Knaff 6–2, 6–7(5–7), 2–6
Defeat 12 III Doubles (with Ilya Snitari) Alex Knaff / Chris Rodesch 1–6, 3–6
 2–1; 24 June 2022; Tennis Club Bellevue, Ulcinj, Montenegro; Europe Zone Group III Round Robin; Clay surface
Victory 13 II Singles   North Macedonia Gorazd Srbljak 6–2, 6–4
Victory 14 III Doubles (with Ilya Snitari) Kalin Ivanovski / Gorazd Srbljak 6–4, 6–1
 0–3; 25 June 2022; Tennis Club Bellevue, Ulcinj, Montenegro; Europe Zone Group III Promotional playoff; Clay surface
Defeat 15 II Singles   Cyprus Petros Chrysochos 1–6, 2–6

ATP Cup (1–5)

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Matches by surface
Hard (1–5)
Clay (0–0)
Grass (0–0)
Matches by type
Singles (0–3)
Doubles (1–2)
Rubber outcome No. Rubber Match type (partner if any) Opponent nation Opponent player(s) Score
 1–8; 3–7 January 2020; Ken Rosewall Arena, Sydney, Australia; Group stage; Hard surface
Defeat 1 I Singles   Belgium Steve Darcis 4–6, 7–6(7–4), 5–7
Defeat 2 III Doubles (with Radu Albot) Sander Gillé / Joran Vliegen 7–6(7–5), 6–7(4–7), [9–11]
Defeat 3 I Singles   Bulgaria Dimitar Kuzmanov 1–6, 5–7
Victory 4 III Doubles (with Radu Albot) Grigor Dimitrov / Alexandar Lazarov 6–4, 7–6(7–4)
Defeat 5 I Singles   Great Britain Cameron Norrie 2–6, 2–6
Defeat 6 III Doubles (with Radu Albot) Jamie Murray / Joe Salisbury 2–6, 3–6

References

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  1. ^ "Alexandr Cozbinov Bio - University of Nevada Las Vegas Official Athletic Site". unlvrebels.com. Retrieved 6 June 2019.
  2. ^ "UNLV's Alexandr Cozbinov Selected as Men's Tennis Player of The Year; All-Conference Singles and Doubles Announced". themw.com. 25 April 2018. Retrieved 6 June 2019.
  3. ^ "World No.818 gets his chance at ATP Cup". The Sydney Morning Herald. 2 January 2020. Retrieved 3 January 2020.
  4. ^ "Moldova anthem gaffe mars ATP Cup in Australia". Business Standard. 3 January 2020. Retrieved 3 January 2020.
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Sporting positions
Preceded by Mountain West Conference Player of the Year
2017-18
Succeeded by