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Kenneth Raisma

Kenneth Raisma
Country (sports) Estonia
ResidenceTallinn, Estonia
Born (1998-04-03) 3 April 1998 (age 27)
Tartu, Estonia
PlaysLeft-handed (two handed-backhand)
Prize money$29,148
Singles
Career record1–2 (at ATP Tour level and Grand Slam level)
Career titles0
Highest rankingNo. 676 (8 May 2017)
Grand Slam singles results
Australian Open JuniorQF (2016)
French Open Junior1R (2015)
Wimbledon Junior1R (2015, 2016)
US Open JuniorQF (2016)
Doubles
Career record3–2 (at ATP Tour level and Grand Slam level)
Career titles0
Highest rankingNo. 720 (28 January 2019)
Grand Slam doubles results
Australian Open JuniorQF (2016)
French Open Junior1R (2015)
Wimbledon JuniorW (2016)
US Open Junior2R (2016)
Team competitions
Davis Cup14–5
Last updated on: 11 July 2022.

Kenneth Raisma (born 3 April 1998) is an Estonian tennis player. Raisma has a career high ATP singles ranking of 676, achieved on 8 May 2017. He also has a career high ATP doubles ranking of 720, achieved on 28 January 2019. Raisma has won 1 ITF singles and 5 doubles titles. Playing for Estonia in Davis Cup, Raisma has a win–loss record of 14–5. [1]

Playing career

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He made his Davis Cup debut for Estonia in 2014, winning the only rubber he played that year. In 2015, Raisma again played the one rubber, this time in doubles, but again he was victorious.[2] He gained his first ATP Point in 2015 at the Estonian Open, where Raisma defeated Italian Giorgio Ricca 6-3, 7-5.[3]

By 2016, he was established as Estonia’s No. 2 player behind Jurgen Zopp and played in three of Estonia’s four ties in Europe Zone Group III of the Davis Cup. He won all three singles rubbers he played, without dropping a set as Estonia sealed promotion into Europe/Africa Zone Group II for 2017.[2]

Raisma won the 2016 Wimbledon Championships – Boys' doubles title alongside Greek player Stefanos Tsitsipas. In doing so, he became the third Estonian to triumph in a grand slam tournament after Toomas Leius at the 1959 Wimbledon junior tournament, Kaia Kanepi at the 2001 French Open.[4]

In 2017, his coaching staff was joined by the Italian head coach of the Jarkko Nieminen Academy, Frederico Ricci.[5]

Coaching career

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In 2023, he coached Oliver Ojakäär as he made his junior grand slam debut at the 2023 Australian Open, and later that year when he won the boys' doubles at the 2023 US Open alongside Max Dahlin of Sweden, at Flushing Mesdow, New York.[6][7][8]

Junior Grand Slam finals

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Boys' doubles

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Result Year Tournament Surface Partner Opponents Score
Win 2016 Wimbledon Championships Grass Greece Stefanos Tsitsipas Canada Félix Auger-Aliassime
Canada Denis Shapovalov 		4–6, 6–4, 6–2

Future and Challenger finals

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Singles: 3 (1–2)

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Legend (singles)
ATP Challenger Tour (0–0)
ITF Futures Tour (1–1)
Titles by surface
Hard (0–1)
Clay (0–1)
Grass (0–0)
Carpet (1–0)
Result W–L    Date    Tournament Tier Surface Opponent Score
Win 1–0 Oct 2016 Estonia F2, Tartu Futures Carpet (i) Estonia Vladimir Ivanov 6–4, 6–3
Loss 1–1 May 2018 Hungary F2, Zalaegerszeg Futures Clay Hungary Máté Valkusz 2–6, 1–6
Loss 1–2 Nov 2020 M15 Tunisia, Monastir World Tennis Tour Hard Turkey Ergi Kırkın 6–1, 4–6, 1–6

Doubles 11 (5–6)

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Legend (doubles)
ATP Challenger Tour (0–0)
ITF Futures Tour (5–6)
Titles by surface
Hard (3–4)
Clay (2–1)
Grass (0–0)
Carpet (0–1)
Result W–L    Date    Tournament Tier Surface Partner Opponents Score
Win 1–0 Nov 2015 Estonia F3, Tallinn Futures Hard (i) Netherlands Niels Lootsma Russia Alexander Vasilenko
Russia Anton Zaitcev 		4–6, 6–4, [10–8]
Win 2–0 Nov 2015 Estonia F4, Pärnu Futures Hard (i) Netherlands Niels Lootsma Estonia Anton Pavlov
Estonia Martin Valdo Randpere 		6–4, 6–3
Loss 2–1 Oct 2016 Estonia F2, Tartu Futures Carpet (i) Estonia Vladimir Ivanov Russia Alexander Vasilenko
Belarus Dzmitry Zhyrmont 		5–7, 2–6
Loss 2–2 Nov 2016 Estonia F4, Pärnu Futures Hard (i) Estonia Vladimir Ivanov Ukraine Marat Deviatiarov
Russia Alexander Vasilenko 		WO
Loss 2–3 Mar 2017 France F6, Poitiers Futures Hard (i) Estonia Vladimir Ivanov France Antoine Hoang
France Grégoire Jacq 		4–6, 4–6
Win 3–3 Mar 2018 Portugal F6, Lisbon Futures Hard Finland Emil Ruusuvuori Canada Steven Diez
Spain Bruno Mardones 		7–6(7–2), 6–2
Win 4–3 May 2018 Hungary F1, Zalaegerszeg Futures Clay Finland Emil Ruusuvuori Australia Adam Taylor
Australia Jason Taylor 		6–4, 6–4
Win 5–3 May 2019 M15 Bosnia and Herzegovina, Brčko World Tennis Tour Clay Estonia Daniil Glinka France Pierre Faivre
France Maxime Tchoutakian 		6–4, 5–7, [10–3]
Loss 5–4 Jul 2019 M15 Estonia, Pärnu World Tennis Tour Clay Estonia Jürgen Zopp Estonia Vladimir Ivanov
Russia Maxim Ratniuk 		6–3, 4–6, [5–10]
Loss 5–5 Nov 2020 M15 Tunisia, Monastir World Tennis Tour Hard Estonia Kristjan Tamm Tunisia Anis Ghorbel
Tunisia Aziz Ouakaa 		w/o
Loss 5–6 Oct 2021 M15 Estonia, Pärnu World Tennis Tour Hard (i) Estonia Vladimir Ivanov Sweden Filip Bergevi
Finland Patrik Niklas-Salminen 		6–4, 6–7(4–7), [8–10]

Davis Cup

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Participations: (14–5)

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Group membership
World Group (0–0)
WG play-off (0–0)
Group I (0–0)
Group II (4–4)
Group III (10–1)
Group IV (0–0)
Matches by surface
Hard (8–4)
Clay (6–1)
Grass (0–0)
Carpet (0–0)
Matches by type
Singles (6–3)
Doubles (8–2)
Rubber outcome No. Rubber Match type (partner if any) Opponent nation Opponent player(s) Score
Increase3–0; 9 May 2014; Gellért Szabadidőközpont Szeged, Hungary; Europe Zone Group III round robin; clay surface
Victory 1 I Singles San Marino San Marino Diego Zonzini 6–3, 6–2
Increase3–0; 17 July 2015; City of San Marino, San Marino; Europe Zone Group III round robin; clay surface
Victory 2 III Doubles (with Mattias Siimar) (dead rubber) Montenegro Montenegro Rrezart Cungu / Ivan Saveljić 6–1, 6–2
Increase3–0; 2 March 2016; Tere Tennis Centre, Tallinn, Europe Zone Group III round robin; hard (indoor) surface
Victory 3 I Singles Liechtenstein Liechtenstein Gian-Carlo Besimo 6–1, 6–3
Victory 4 III Doubles (with Jürgen Zopp) (dead rubber) Robin Forster / Timo Kranz 6–0, 7–6(7–2)
Increase3–0; 4 March 2016; Tere Tennis Centre, Tallinn, Estonia; Europe Zone Group III round robin; hard (indoor) surface
Victory 5 I Singles Greece Greece Christos Antonopoulos 6–1, 6–0
Increase2–0; 5 March 2016; Tere Tennis Centre, Tallinn, Estonia; Europe Zone Group III Promotional play off; hard (indoor) surface
Victory 6 I Singles Moldova Moldova Alexander Cozbinov 6–2, 6–4
Decrease1–4; 3-5 February 2017; Irene Country Club, Centurion, South Africa; Europe/Africa Zone Group II first round; hard surface
Defeat 7 III Doubles (with Mattias Siimar) South Africa South Africa Raven Klaasen / Ruan Roelofse 7–6(7–4), 3–6, 4–6, 5–7
Increase3–2; 7-9 April 2017; Tere Tennis Centre, Tallinn, Estonia; Europe/Africa Zone Group II relegation play-off; hard (indoor) surface
Victory 8 II Singles Monaco Monaco Lucas Catarina 6–3, 6–0, 6–4
Victory 9 III Doubles (with Mattias Siimar) Romain Arneodo / Benjamin Balleret 4–6, 6–1, 6–2, 7–6(9–7)
Decrease1–3; 3-4 February 2018; Šiauliai Tennis School, Šiauliai, Lithuania; Europe/Africa Zone Group II first round; hard (indoor) surface
Defeat 10 II Singles Lithuania Lithuania Ričardas Berankis 5–7, 6–7(3–7)
Defeat 11 III Doubles (with Mattias Siimar) Ričardas Berankis / Laurynas Grigelis 6–2, 4–6, 6–7(4–7)
Increase3–2; 7-8 April 2018; Tere Tennis Centre, Tallinn, Estonia; Europe/Africa Zone Group II relegation play-off; hard (indoor) surface
Defeat 12 II Singles Tunisia Tunisia Malek Jaziri 4–6, 6–7(9–11)
Victory 13 III Doubles (with Jürgen Zopp) Moez Echargui / Malek Jaziri 6–3, 6–4
Increase3–0; 11 September 2019; Tatoi Club, Athens, Greece; Europe Zone Group III Pool B round robin; clay surface
Victory 14 I Singles North Macedonia North Macedonia Dimitar Grabul 6–2, 6–4
Victory 15 III Doubles (with Jürgen Zopp) (dead rubber) Luka Ljuben Andonov / Berk Bugarikj 6–0, 6–2
Increase3–0; 12 September 2019; Tatoi Club, Athens, Greece; Europe Zone Group III Pool B round robin; clay surface
Victory 16 III Doubles (with Vladimir Ivanov) (dead rubber) Montenegro Montenegro Mario Aleksić / Igor Saveljić 6–7(5–7), 6–2, 6–4
Increase2–1; 13 September 2019; Tatoi Club, Athens, Greece; Europe Zone Group III Pool B round robin; clay surface
Victory 17 III Doubles (with Jürgen Zopp) Latvia Latvia Jānis Podžus / Mārtiņš Podžus 7–6(10–8), 6–4
Decrease0–2; 14 September 2019; Tatoi Club, Athens, Greece; Europe Zone Group III promotional playoff; clay surface
Defeat 18 I Singles Poland Poland Kamil Majchrzak 0–6, 2–6
Increase4–0; 4-5 March 2022; Forus Tenniscenter, Tallinn, Estonia; Europe Zone Group III Pool B round robin; clay surface
Victory 19 III Doubles (with Jürgen Zopp) Pacific Oceania Pacific Oceania Brett Baudinet / Colin Sinclair 6–4, 6–2

References

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  1. ^ "Kenneth Raisma | Overview | ATP Tour | Tennis". ATP Tour. Retrieved 20 May 2024.
  2. ^ a b Woodward, Max. "2016 DAVIS CUP AWARDS - ONES TO WATCH". Daviscup.com. Retrieved 20 April 2025.
  3. ^ "Kenneth Raisma earned his first ATP point". err.ee. 28 July 2015. Retrieved 20 April 2025.
  4. ^ "Fourth Estonian grand slam winner Ojakäär: I haven't gotten it yet". err.ee. 11 September 2023. Retrieved 20 April 2025.
  5. ^ "Kenneth Raisma collaborates with a famous Italian coach". Delfi.ee. 16 September 2017. Retrieved 20 April 2025.
  6. ^ "Estonian Ojakäär, Sweden's Dahlin crowned US Open junior doubles champs". err.ee. 10 September 2023. Retrieved 20 April 2025.
  7. ^ Seema, Kristofer (28 January 2023). "Tennisetalent elu esimesest slämmiturniiri kogemusest: kõik on korraldatud nii, et saad keskenduda ainult mängimisele". Postimees (in Estonian). Retrieved 8 September 2023.
  8. ^ "Tennis hopeful Oliver Ojakäär continues his career at a US university". Delfi.ee. 27 November 2024. Retrieved 20 April 2025.
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