Karen Khachanov

A Russian tennis player, a silver medalist at the Tokyo Olympics and a winner of ATP singles titles, a father, a husband, and a big coffee lover. Karen Khachanov started playing tennis at the age of 3, while he was still in kindergarten. He grew up watching the games of Evgeni Kafelnikov, Igor Andreev, Andrey Chesnokov, Nikolay Davydenko, and Igor Kunitsyn, whose matches the tennis player attended annually at the Kremlin Cup. Karen also looked up to Marat Safin and Juan Martín del Potro. Khachanov turned professional in 2013 and has since won 7 ATP tournaments, including the Paris Masters in singles and the Madrid Open in doubles with Andrey Rublev. The Russian tennis player also played in the semifinals of Grand Slam tournaments twice — at the 2022 US Open and the 2023 Australian Open. In his interviews, Karen has said more than once that if it weren’t for tennis, he would have played basketball. Khachanov’s favorite team is the Miami Heat, and his favorite basketball player is LeBron James.