Yegor Alekseyevich Gerasimov () or Yahor Alyakseyevich Herasimaŭ (; born 11 November 1992 in Minsk) is a Belarusian former professional tennis player. He has a career high ATP singles ranking of world No. 65, which he achieved on 24 February 2020. He also achieved a career high ATP doubles ranking of No. 263 on 2 March 2015.
Professional career 2014: ATP debut In 2014, Gerasimov made his ATP main draw debut in Shenzhen, where he received entry to the main draw as a wildcard entrant.
2017-2018: ATP Challenger success In May 2017 Gerasimov won the Karshi Challenger defeating Yuki Bhambri in the semifinals and Cem İlkel in the final.
In July 2018, Gerasimov recorded his first ATP match victory on the hardcourts of Los Cabos, defeating Bernard Tomic 6-4 6–3. He also beat the experienced big server Sam Querrey before facing defeat against world No. 4 Juan Martín del Potro.
2019-2020: Major debut and first win, Top 100, Maiden ATP final At the 2019 US Open, Gerasimov won his first Grand Slam match, defeating Lloyd Harris 7-5 7-6 7–6, having progressed through the qualifying rounds. His good form continued in St. Petersburg, where he advanced through qualifying to his first ATP semifinal. He finally lost a close match to world No. 4 and home favourite Daniil Medvedev in straight sets. This result catapulted Gerasimov into the top 100 at world No. 98 for the first time on 23 September 2019.
He reached his maiden ATP final at the 2020 Maharashtra Open where he was defeated by Jiří Veselý. Two weeks later, he reached a career-high singles ranking of No. 65 on 24 February 2020.
2021: ATP semifinal
Gerasimov made a strong start to the year, reaching the semifinals in Montpellier. He defeated wildcard, former world No. 1 Andy Murray in straight sets, Aljaž Bedene and Alejandro Davidovich Fokina before losing to eventual champion David Goffin in the semifinals.
2022-2024: Hiatus, back to Tour, top 300 and Masters level
He entered the 2023 Australian Open, the 2023 French Open, the 2023 Wimbledon Championships and the 2023 US Open qualifying using protected ranking where he lost in all, in the first round.
He also entered the qualifying competitions at the 2023 Chengdu Open and at the 2023 Astana Open using protected ranking. At the latter he qualified for his first ATP main draw in 2023 and he also received a wildcard in doubles with Mikhail Kukushkin. He won his first ATP match for the season and since April 2022, defeating Bernabe Zapata Miralles and moved back a couple of positions shy of the top 500. Next he reached the semifinals at the 2023 Shenzhen Longhua Open defeating Kazakh Beibit Zhukayev and moved more than 100 positions into the top 400. He also qualified for the next new tournament in China, the 2023 Shenzhen Luohu Challenger and defeated seventh seed Denis Yevseyev.
In May 2024, he reached the final of the 2024 Wuxi Open in China but lost to Bu Yunchaokete. As a result, he moved 45 positions up into the top 275 in the rankings on 20 May 2024. Ranked No. 304 at the 2024 Shanghai Masters, where as a qualifier, he entered the main draw of the tournament for the first time and only the second time in his career at a Masters-level since 2021, he lost to Taro Daniel.
Singles performance timelines
Current through the 2024 Rolex Shanghai Masters. Tournament2013201420152016201720182019202020212022 20232024 SRW–LWin%Grand Slam tournamentsAustralian OpenAQ1AQ2AAQ12R2R1R Q10 / 32–3French OpenAAAQ1AQ1Q11R1RQ2 Q10 / 20–2WimbledonAAAAQ1Q1Q1NH2RA Q10 / 11–1US OpenAQ1AQ1Q2Q22R2R1RA Q10 / 32–3Win–loss0–00–00–00–00–00–01–12–32–40–10 / 95–9ATP Masters 1000Indian Wells MastersAAAAAAQ2NH1RQ10 / 10–1Miami MastersAAAAAAQ1NHAQ10 / 00–0Monte Carlo MastersAAAAAAANHQ10 / 00–0Madrid MastersAAAAAAANHQ10 / 00–0Italian OpenAAAAAAAQ1Q10 / 00–0Canada MastersAAAAAAANHA0 / 00–0Cincinnati MastersAAAAAAAQ1Q10 / 00–0Shanghai MastersAAAAAAANH Q11R0 / 10–1Paris MastersAAAAAAQ2AQ10 / 00–0Win–loss0–00–00–00–00–00–00–00–00–10–00–00–10 / 20–2Career statisticsTournament201320142015201620172018201920202021202220232024 SRW–LWin%Tournaments010002792481153Titles00000000000Finals00000001001Overall win–loss1–12–25–13–03–05–510–713–1016–244–8 1–10–10 / 5363–60Win%50%50%83%100%100%50%59%57% Year-end ranking2532681882971491579878113282366334 $2,091,386
ATP career finals Singles: 1 (1 runner-up) LegendGrand Slam ATP Masters 1000 ATP 500 Series ATP 250 Series (0–1)Titles by surfaceHard (0–1)Clay (0–0)Grass (0–0)Titles by settingOutdoor (0–1)Indoor (0–0)
ResultW–LDateTournamentTierSurfaceOpponentScoreLoss0–1Feb 2020Maharashtra Open, India250 SeriesHard Jiří Veselý6–7(2–7), 7–5, 3–6
ATP Challenger and ITF Tour finals Singles (9–13) Legend (singles)ATP Challenger Tour (6–3)ITF Futures Tour (3–10)Titles by surfaceHard (9–11)Clay (0–2)
ResultW–LDateTournamentTierSurfaceOpponentScoreLoss0-1Kazakhstan F1, AlmatyFuturesHard (i) Alexey Kedryuk3–6, 6–1, 0–6Loss0-2Kazakhstan F2, Nur-SultanFuturesHard (i) Alexey Vatutin6–7(1–7), 2–6Loss0-3Kazakhstan F6, AlmatyFuturesHard Illya Marchenko4–6, 2–6Win1-3Belarus F1, MinskFuturesHard Andrey Rublev 7–6(7–2), 4–6, 6–4Win2-3Belarus F3, MinskFuturesHard Stefan Seifert6–3, 6–4Loss2-4Egypt F34, Sharm el SheikhFuturesClay Marc Giner DefaultLoss2-5Spain F15, Palma del RioFuturesHard Eduardo Struvay4–6, 6–7(4–7)Loss2-6Turkey F27, IstanbulFuturesHard Aleksandre Metreveli3–6, 3–6Loss2-7Belarus F1, MinskFuturesHard Denys Molchanov4–6, 5–7Loss2-8Russia F8, VsevolozhskFuturesClay Mikhail Elgin3–6, 3–6Win3-8Bratislava, SlovakiaChallengerHard (i) Lukáš Lacko 7–6(7–1), 7–6(7–5)Loss3-9Bergamo, ItalyChallengerHard (i) Pierre-Hugues Herbert3–6, 6–7(5–7)Win4-9Saint Brieuc, FranceChallengerHard (i) Tobias Kamke7–6(7–3), 7–6(7–5)Win5-9Uzbekistan F1, BukharaFuturesHard Dmitry Popko6–1, 7–5Loss5-10Uzbekistan F2, QarshiFuturesHard Sanjar Fayziev6–7(4–7), 7–5, 6–7(5–7)Win6-10Qarshi, UzbekistanChallengerHard Cem İlkel6–3, 7–6(7–4)Win7-10Nur-Sultan, KazakhstanChallengerHard Mikhail Kukushkin7–6(11–9), 4–6, 6–4Win8-10Qarshi, UzbekistanChallengerHard Sergey Betov7–6(7–3), 2–0 Ret.Win9-10Recanati, ItalyChallengerHard Roberto Marcora 6–2, 7–5Loss9–11M25 Hong Kong, Hong KongWTTHard Coleman Wong6–4, 4–3 ret.Loss9–12Wuxi, ChinaChallengerHard Yunchaokete Bu4–6, 1–6Loss9–13M15 Astana, KasachstanWTTHard Petr Bar Biryukov4–6, 6–7(7–9)
Doubles (7–5) Legend (singles)ATP Challenger Tour ITF Futures Tour Titles by surfaceHard (4–3)Clay (3–2) ResultW–LDateTournamentTierSurfacePartnerOpponentScoreLoss 01. August 2011 Lithuania F1 FuturesFutures Clay (O) Nikolai Fidirko Hans Podlipnik-Castillo Andrei Vasilevski 2–6, 2–6Loss 02. November 2011 Kazakhstan F7 FuturesFutures Hard (I) Yaraslav Shyla Vitaliy Kachanovskiy Sergei Krotiouk 6–7(1–7), 1–6Win 03. March 2012 Kazakhstan F1 FuturesFutures Hard (I) Andrei Levine Vitaliy Kachanovskiy Alexander Pavlioutchenkov 6–1, 6–2Loss 04. June 2012 Poland F2 FuturesFutures Clay Dzmitry Zhyrmont Guillermo Hormazábal Grzegorz Panfil 2–6, 7–6(7–4), [5–10]Win 05. June 2012 Russia F9 FuturesFutures Clay Andrei Vasilevski Ivan Nedelko Anton Zaitcev 6–4, 6–4Loss 06. March 2013 Russia F2 FuturesFutures Hard (i) Andrei Vasilevski Antal Van der Duim Boy Westerhof 6–7(8–10), 3–6Loss 07. October 2013 Kazan Kremlin Cup, RussiaChallenger Hard (i) Dzmitry Zhyrmont Radu Albot Farrukh Dustov 2–6, 7–6(7–3), [7–10]Win 08. March 2014 Croatia F5 FuturesFutures Clay Dzmitry Zhyrmont Dino Marcan Antonio Šančić 6–4, 4–6, [10–6]Win 09. May 2014 Russia F3 FuturesFutures Clay Stanislav Vovk Denis Matsukevich Andrey Rublev 2–6, 6–4, [10–8]Win 10. February 2015 Delhi Open, India Challenger Hard Alexander Kudryavtsev Riccardo Ghedin Toshihide Matsui 6–7(5–7), 6–4, [10–6]Win 11. August 2015 Belarus F1 FuturesFutures Hard Ilya Ivashka Artur Dubinski Volodymyr Uzhylovskyi 6–3, 6–4Win 12. August 2015 Belarus F2 FuturesFutures Hard Ilya Ivashka Daniil Medvedev Zhang Zhizhen 6–1, 6–3
Record against other players Wins over top 10 players Gerasimov has a record against players who were, at the time the match was played, ranked in the top 10. Season 2020 Total Wins 1 1
#PlayerRankEventSurfaceScore20201. David Goffin10Marseille, FranceHard2R6–4, 7–6(7–5)72
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