Alexandr Cozbinov

Alexandr Cozbinov
Country (sports)	Moldova
Residence	Las Vegas, Nevada, U.S.
Born	28 April 1995 (age 29); Chișinău, Moldova
Height	1.88 m (6 ft 2 in)
Plays	Right-handed (two-handed backhand)
College	UNLV
Prize money	$101,904
Singles
Career record	0–3 (at ATP Tour level, Grand Slam level, and in Davis Cup)
Career titles	0; 0 Challenger, 3 Futures
Highest ranking	No. 420 (21 August 2023)
Current ranking	No. 536 (22 April 2024)
Doubles
Career record	1–2 (in ATP Tour level, Grand Slam level, and in Davis Cup)
Career titles	0; 1 Challenger, 12 Futures
Highest ranking	No. 237 (8 August 2022)
Current ranking	No. 984 (22 April 2024)
Team competitions
Davis Cup	15–6
	Last updated on: 22 April 2024.

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

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[edit]

Singles: 4 (3–1)[edit]

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)[edit]

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[edit]

Davis Cup (10–5)[edit]

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)

indicates the outcome of the Davis Cup match followed by the score, date, place of event, the zonal classification and its phase, and the court surface.

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)	Andorra	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)	Kosovo	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)	San Marino	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)	Montenegro	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)	Luxembourg	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)	North Macedonia	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)[edit]

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)	Belgium	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)	Bulgaria	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)	Great Britain	Jamie Murray / Joe Salisbury	2–6, 3–6

References[edit]

^ "Alexandr Cozbinov Bio - University of Nevada Las Vegas Official Athletic Site". unlvrebels.com. Retrieved 6 June 2019.
^ "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.
^ "World No.818 gets his chance at ATP Cup". The Sydney Morning Herald. 2 January 2020. Retrieved 3 January 2020.
^ "Moldova anthem gaffe mars ATP Cup in Australia". Business Standard. 3 January 2020. Retrieved 3 January 2020.

External links[edit]

Alexandr Cozbinov at the Association of Tennis Professionals
Alexandr Cozbinov at the International Tennis Federation
Alexandr Cozbinov at the Davis Cup

Sporting positions
Preceded by Jakob Amilon	Mountain West Conference Player of the Year 2017-18	Succeeded by Zdenek Derkas

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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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v t e Association of Tennis Professionals Top Moldovan male singles tennis players
As of Apr 21, 2024
1. Radu Albot (133 6) 2. Alexandr Cozbinov (536 2) 3. Ilya Snitari (742 2)