Alexander Cozbinov

Alexander Cozbinov

Country (sports)	Moldova
Residence	Las Vegas, United States
Born	(1995-04-28) 28 April 1995 Chișinău, Moldova
Height
Plays	Right-handed (two-handed backhand)
College	UNLV
Prize money	$65,814
Singles
Career record	0–3 (at ATP Tour level, Grand Slam level, and in Davis Cup)
Career titles	0 0 Challenger, 1 Futures
Highest ranking	No. 635 (22 November 2021)
Current ranking	No. 697 (27 June 2022)
Doubles
Career record	1–2 (in ATP Tour level, Grand Slam level, and in Davis Cup)
Career titles	0 1 Challenger, 10 Futures
Highest ranking	No. 255 (21 March 2022)
Current ranking	No. 274 (27 June 2022)
Team competitions
Davis Cup	10–5
Last updated on: 27 June 2022.

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

Cozbinov has a career high ATP singles ranking of 635 achieved on 22 November 2021. He also has a career high ATP doubles ranking of 255 achieved on 21 March 2022.

Cozbinov represents Moldova at the Davis Cup, where he has a W/L record of 1–1.

Cozbinov plays college tennis at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas between 2015–2018. He won the Mountain West Conference Tennis Player of the Year in 2018.

In January 2020, he participated at the ATP Cup as a member of the Moldovan team. Before his match against Belgian Steve Darcis the organisers played the wrong national anthem, they played the Romanian anthem instead of the Moldovan one.

Future and Challenger finals

Singles: 1 (1–0)

Legend (singles) ATP Challenger Tour (0–0) ITF World Tennis Tour (1–0)

Titles by surface Hard (0–0) 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

Doubles 15 (11 titles, 4 runners-up)

Legend (doubles) ATP Challenger Tour (1–0) ITF Futures Tour (10–4)

Titles by surface Hard (10–4) Clay (1–0) 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 Joao 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]

National participation

Davis Cup (7–1)

Group membership World Group (0–0) WG Play-off (0–0) Group I (0–0) Group II (0–0) Group III (1–1) Group IV (6–0)

Matches by surface Hard (1–1) Clay (6–0) Grass (0–0) Carpet (0–0)

Matches by type Singles (4–1) Doubles (3–0)

• 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)		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)		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)		Marco De Rossi / Stefano Galvani	4–6, 6–3, 6–3

ATP Cup (1–5)

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)		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)		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)		Jamie Murray / Joe Salisbury	2–6, 3–6

External links

• Alexander Cozbinov at the Association of Tennis Professionals
• Alexander Cozbinov at the International Tennis Federation
• Alexander Cozbinov at the Davis Cup

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