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	Austin, TX, United States
Born	(1987-08-27) 27 August 1987 (age 35) Sofia, Bulgaria
Height	1.75 m (5 ft 9 in)
Turned pro	2005
Retired	2016
Plays	Right-handed (two-handed both sides)
Prize money	US$ 78,795
Singles
Career record	8–5 (at ATP Tour level, Grand Slam level, and in Davis Cup)
Career titles	0 0 Challengers, 2 Futures
Highest ranking	No. 293 (18 May 2015)
Doubles
Career record	2–2 (at ATP Tour level, Grand Slam level, and in Davis Cup)
Career titles	0 0 Challengers, 7 Futures
Highest ranking	No. 234 (10 August 2015)
Last updated on: 30 January 2021.

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

Challenger and Futures Finals

Singles: 11 (2–9)

Legend (singles) ATP Challenger Tour (0–0) ITF Futures (2–9)

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

Result	W–L	Date	Tournament	Tier	Surface	Opponent	Score
Loss	0–1	Oct 2009	U.S.A. F25, Austin	Futures	Hard	Michael McClune	6–7^(5–7), 3–6
Loss	0–2	Jun 2010	U.S.A. F13, Loomis	Futures	Hard	Michael Venus	6–7^(4–7), 6–1, 3–6
Loss	0–3	Apr 2011	U.S.A. F8, Oklahoma City	Futures	Hard	Arnau Brugués-Davi	5–7, 1–6
Win	1–3	Jan 2012	Turkey F3, Antalya	Futures	Hard	Steven Diez	6–3, 6–0
Loss	1–4	May 2013	Bulgaria F2, Varna	Futures	Clay	Kristijan Mesaroš	7–5, 4–6, 2–6
Loss	1–5	Jun 2013	Bulgaria F5, Stara Zagora	Futures	Clay	Roman Jebavý	5–7, 4–6
Loss	1–6	Aug 2013	U.S.A. F21, Decatur	Futures	Hard	Eric Quigley	6–7^(3–7), 4–6
Loss	1–7	Aug 2013	U.S.A. F22, Edwardsville	Futures	Hard	Jason Jung	2–6, 6–7^(5–7)
Loss	1–8	Mar 2014	Canada F1, Gatineau	Futures	Hard (i)	Daniel Smethurst	2–6, 3–6
Win	2–8	Mar 2014	Canada F2, Sherbrooke	Futures	Hard (i)	Edward Corrie	6–3, 4–6, 6–2
Loss	2–9	Oct 2014	U.S.A. F28, Mansfield	Futures	Hard	Liam Broady	6–1, 6–7^(2–7), 0–6

Doubles: 15 (7–8)

Legend (doubles) ATP Challenger Tour (0–0) ITF Futures (7–8)

Titles by surface Hard (4–5) Clay (2–2) Grass (0–0) Carpet (1–1)

Result	W–L	Date	Tournament	Tier	Surface	Partner	Opponents	Score
Loss	0–1	Jun 2010	U.S.A. F15, Chico	Futures	Hard	Jack Sock	Nima Roshan   Rubin Statham	3–6, 6–0, [8–10]
Win	1–1	Oct 2010	U.S.A. F27, Mansfield	Futures	Hard	Joshua Zavala	Andrea Collarini   Denis Kudla	6–3, 6–2
Win	2–1	Nov 2010	U.S.A. F30, Pensacola	Futures	Clay	Jack Sock	Devin Britton   Jordan Cox	5–7, 6–2, [10–8]
Loss	2–2	Nov 2010	U.S.A. F31, Amelia Island	Futures	Clay	Jack Sock	Mislav Hižak   Robbye Poole	2–6, 6–7^(3–7)
Loss	2–3	Jan 2011	U.S.A. F3, Weston	Futures	Clay	Jack Sock	Cho Soong-jae   Kim Hyun-joon	3–6, 4–6
Win	3–3	Feb 2011	U.S.A. F4, Palm Coast	Futures	Clay	Jack Sock	Blake Strode   Greg Ouellette	6–3, 3–6, [10–8]
Win	4–3	Jan 2014	Germany F1, Schwieberdingen	Futures	Carpet (i)	Jacob Adaktusson	Błażej Koniusz   Mateusz Kowalczyk	6–3, 1–6, [10–6]
Loss	4–4	Jan 2014	Germany F3, Kaarst	Futures	Carpet (i)	Uladzimir Ignatik	Nikoloz Basilashvili   Alexander Bury	6–4, 4–6, [6–10]
Loss	4–5	Aug 2014	Canada F7, Calgary	Futures	Hard	Dennis Nevolo	Brayden Schnur   Jack Murray	4–6, 6–3, [7–10]
Win	5–5	Aug 2014	Canada F8, Winnipeg	Futures	Hard	Saketh Myneni	Philip Bester   Marcus Daniell	7–5, 7–5
Win	6–5	Oct 2014	U.S.A. F27, Houston	Futures	Hard	Henrique Cunha	Jeff Dadamo   Evan King	6–4, 6–4
Loss	6–6	Oct 2014	U.S.A. F28, Mansfield	Futures	Hard	Henrique Cunha	Liam Broady   Dennis Novikov	6–4, 3–6, [7–10]
Win	7–6	Jan 2015	U.S.A. F2, Los Angeles	Futures	Hard	Dennis Novikov	Frederik Nielsen   James Cluskey	4–6, 6–1, [10–4]
Loss	7–7	Jan 2015	U.S.A. F4, Long Beach	Futures	Hard	Dennis Novikov	Nicolas Meister   Eric Quigley	3–6, 2–6
Loss	7–8	Apr 2015	U.S.A. F12, Harlingen	Futures	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 6 nominations with 6 ties played, his singles W/L record is 6–4 and doubles W/L record is 2–2 (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. . Archived from the original on 2012-03-19. Retrieved 2011-08-11.
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. . Archived from the original on 2013-01-23. Retrieved 2012-10-05.
4. "Димитър Кутровски прекрати кариерата си".

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