Otto Virtanen

 ( 2001 Births ) 

Otto Virtanen (born 21 June 2001) is a Finnish professional tennis player. He has a career-high ATP singles ranking of world No. 91, achieved on 11 November 2024 and a doubles ranking of No. 243, achieved on 19 June 2023. He is currently the No. 1 singles player from Finland.

Virtanen represents Finland at the Davis Cup where he has a W/L record of 10–10.

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Career

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2018: Juniors Virtanen won the Boys' Doubles title in the Wimbledon Championships in 2018. In December 2018 Virtanen won the singles tournament, the Orange Bowl.

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2022: First Challenger title Virtanen won his first Challenger title at the 2022 Trofeo Faip–Perrel and reached the top 200 at world No. 195 on 7 November 2022.

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2023: Top 150 and Grand Slam debuts Following a second title at the 2023 Challenger Città di Lugano, he reached the top 150 at No. 139 on 20 March 2023, and a third title in Lille raised his ranking to No. 109 on 3 April 2023.

Virtanen made his Grand Slam debut at the 2023 US Open after qualifying into the main draw.

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2024: Roland Garros, Wimbledon debut and first win, top 100 Virtanen entered the main draw of the 2024 French Open as a lucky loser, making his debut at this major. He lost to fellow qualifier Filip Misolic in five sets.

Ranked No. 149, he qualified for the 2024 Wimbledon Championships making also his debut, and defeated Max Purcell for his first Major win. He lost to Tommy Paul in the second round. He also qualified for the 2024 US Open making his second consecutive appearance. He recorded his first win at this Grand Slam, defeating fellow qualifier Quentin Halys.

Following lifting his sixth challenger title (out of six finals) in Brest Challenger, France, after saving three match points, Virtanen reached the top 100 in the rankings on 28 October 2024. He became just the tenth player in Challenger history to win his first six final appearances and first since Alexander Bublik in 2019.

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2025: Masters debut and first win Virtanen recorded the biggest win of his career over top-30 player and fifth seed Sebastian Korda as a qualifier at the 2025 Open 13 Provence in Marseille.

Ranked No. 130, Virtanen made his Masters 1000 debut in Rome at the 2025 Italian Open after qualifying for the main draw and defeated Hamad Medjedovic recording his first Masters win.

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Performance timeline Current through the 2025 Italian Open.

Grand Slam tournaments
Australian Open	A	A	A	Q1	Q1	1R	0 / 1	0–1
French Open	A	A	A	Q2	1R	Q2	0 / 1	0–1
Wimbledon	NH	A	A	Q3	2R	A	0 / 1	1–1
US Open	A	A	A	1R	2R	Q2	0 / 2	1–2
Win–loss	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–1	2–3	0–1	0 / 5	2–5
National representation
Davis Cup	G1		G1	SF	QR		0 / 1	8–5
Masters 1000
Miami Open	A	A	A	A	Q2	Q1	0 / 0	0–0
Madrid Open	A	A	A	Q1	A	Q1	0 / 0	0–0
Rome Masters	A	A	A	Q1	A	2R	0 / 1	1–1
Shanghai Masters	A	A	A	A	Q1	A	0 / 0	0–0
Career statistics
Tournaments	0	0	0	3	4	6	Career total: 13
Overall win–loss	1–1	1–0	1–2	4–5	4–7	3–6	0 / 13	14–21
Year-end ranking	610	395	175	168	94

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Personal life Virtanen appeared in two videos on the Finland-based YouTube channel Pongfinity, one titled "Tennis Trick Shots" in July 2019, and another titled "Return a Pro Tennis Serve, Win $1000" in June 2022.

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ATP Challenger Tour finals

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Singles: 8 titles

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ATP Challenger Tour (8–0)

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Hard (7–0)

Grass (1–0)

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Win	1–0		Trofeo Faip–Perrel, Italy	Challenger	Hard (i)	Jan-Lennard Struff	6–2, 7–5
Win	2–0		Challenger Città di Lugano, Switzerland	Challenger	Hard (i)	Cem İlkel	6–4, 7–6(7–5)
Win	3–0		Play In Challenger, France	Challenger	Hard (i)	Max Purcell	6–7(3–7), 6–4, 6–2
Win	4–0		Open Pau–Pyrénées, France	Challenger	Hard (i)	Leandro Riedi	7–5, 7–5
Win	5–0		Challenger Città di Lugano, Switzerland (2)	Challenger	Hard (i)	Daniel Masur	6–7(4–7), 6–4, 7–6(7–3)
Win	6–0		Brest Challenger, France	Challenger	Hard (i)	Benjamin Bonzi	6–4, 4–6, 7–6(8–6)
Win	7–0		Birmingham Open, UK	Challenger	Grass	Colton Smith	6–4, 6–4
Win	8–0		Roanne, France	Challenger	Hard (i)	Hugo Gaston	6–1, 3–6, 6–3

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Doubles: 2 (1 title, 1 runner-up)

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ATP Challenger Tour (1–1)

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Win	1–0		Brest Challenger, France	Challenger	Hard (i)	Viktor Durasovic	Filip Bergevi Petros Tsitsipas	6–4, 6–4
Loss	1–1		Open de Vendée, France	Challenger	Hard (i)	Maxime Cressy	Julian Cash Robert Galloway	4–6, 7–5, 10–12

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ITF Futures/World Tennis Tour finals

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Singles: 9 (3 titles, 6 runner-ups)

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ITF Futures/WTT (3–6)

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Hard (3–3)

Clay (0–3)

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Loss	0–1		Finland F3, Helsinki	Futures	Clay	Karl Friberg	4–6, 1–6
Loss	0–2		M25 Aktobe, Kazakhstan	WTT	Hard (i)	Yuta Shimizu	4–6, 7–5, 3–6
Win	1–2		M15 Pärnu, Estonia	WTT	Hard (i)	Yan Sabanin	6–3, 6–0
Win	2–2		M15 Nur-Sultan, Kazakhstan	WTT	Hard (i)	Mats Rosenkranz	7–5, 6–3
Loss	2–3		M15 Brčko, Bosnia and Herzegovina	WTT	Clay	Eric Vanshelboim	3–6, 7–6(7–4), 0–6
Loss	2–4		M25 Muttenz, Switzerland	WTT	Clay	Jakub Paul	1–6, 5–7
Win	3–4		M25 Jönköping, Sweden	WTT	Hard (i)	Viktor Durasovic	6–4, 6–0
Loss	3–5		M25 Vilnius, Lithuania	WTT	Hard (i)	Denis Yevseyev	7–5, 3–6, 6–7(4–7)
Loss	3–6		M25 Kouvola, Finland	WTT	Hard	Ivan Nedelko	6–4, 3–6, 4–6

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Doubles: 3 (1 title, 2 runner-ups)

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ITF Futures (1–2)

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Loss	0–1		Sweden F1, Karlskrona	Futures	Clay	Louis Wessels	Markus Eriksson Fred Simonsson	1–6, 6–1, 5–10
Win	1–1		Finland F3, Helsinki	Futures	Clay	Patrik Niklas-Salminen	Hermanni Tiainen Ilari Vesanen	6–3, 6–3
Loss	1–2		Finland F4, Helsinki	Futures	Hard	Louis Wessels	Patrick Mayer Alexander Vasilenko	6–7(5–7), 3–6

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Junior Grand Slam finals

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Doubles: 1 (title)

Win	2018	Wimbledon	Grass court	Yankı Erel	Nicolás Mejía Ondřej Štyler	7–6(7–5), 6–4

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