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\n It all adds up for Khachanov: Top 10 goals and the rivalry that \u2018started everything\u2019<\/p>\n
World No. 12 speaks exclusively to ATPTour.com<\/p>\n
August 13, 2025<\/p>\n
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ATP Tour\/Getty Images<\/p>\n
It all adds up for Karen Khachanov.
\n By ATP Staff<\/p>\n
Karen Khachanov<\/a>‘s big hitting has brought him to the brink of a Top 10 return this North American summer. <\/p>\n After reaching his second ATP Masters 1000 championship match in Toronto, the 29-year-old is now into the quarter-finals at the Cincinnati Open<\/a>. where he will take on Alexander Zverev<\/a> on Wednesday. Should Khachanov triumph, he will take another major step towards returning to the Top 10 in the PIF ATP Rankings for the first time since June 2023, something he told ATPTour.com has been one of his biggest goals. <\/p>\n A seven-time tour-level titlist, Khachanov also broke down his favourite tennis rivalry in history and revealed how he pushed through adversity early in his career. <\/p>\n What is your favourite ATP Tour tournament to play and why? What is your favourite tennis rivalry? Who’s your greatest rival? What is the biggest thing you’ve been chasing? With regards to events, definitely it is a dream to win a Grand Slam. I still want to win a Masters 1000 one more time. But at the end of the day, if you put it in perspective, if you are in the Top 10 or even higher, you have definitely had good results in the bigger tournaments, so that is all connected. <\/p>\n It All Adds Up: Every moment means everything:\u00a0<\/p>\n What is the greatest difficult or adversity you have overcome? This moment was one of the toughest: to understand, to grow up, to be more mature and understand myself and tennis more. Even after that, it took me a few more years to get really good results in Grand Slams and at the Olympics. <\/p>\n What is the coolest thing you\u2019ve been able to do off the court purely because you’re a tennis player? \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Player Features It all adds up for Khachanov: Top 10 goals and the rivalry that \u2018started everything\u2019 World…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":80587,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[99,428],"class_list":{"0":"post-80586","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-sports","9":"tag-tennis"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80586","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80586"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80586\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/80587"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"It](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/1755121147_519_it-all-adds-up-banner.jpg\"\/)
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I would say Monte-Carlo is one of my favourites. The site, the hotel, the event, clay courts in spring. The only thing is sometimes we miss good weather there. Then Paris-Bercy, of course. [Winning the title] there was one of the greatest memories in my career. The centre court in the old arena was one of the nicest. The atmosphere was one of the best indoors. <\/p>\n
Definitely Rafa [Nadal] and Roger [Federer]. Everything started from them. Then Novak [Djokovic] stepped inside this duo and started to have crazy rivalries with both of them, but I think everything started from [Roger and Rafa]. I remember those matches in Rome and Madrid on clay, at Wimbledon<\/a> and Roland Garros<\/a>. Some really epic matches. <\/p>\n
With Novak I\u2019ve played quite a few matches and managed to beat him one time in this match in Paris when he was No. 1. I would also say [Daniil] Medvedev. We played this year a couple of times already and had good matches in the past. Always exciting, tough matches. <\/p>\n
My biggest goal is to try and be back in the Top 10, where I was able to break through two years ago before getting injured. Just right at the moment I got injured, and that affected me after I couldn\u2019t go out and compete for three and a half months. But that is not an excuse, it\u2019s a reality, and I think I\u2019m motivated, I\u2019m pumped to achieve my goals. I keep chasing. <\/p>\n
I would say having a little bit of success early. When I was 22, I won a Masters 1000, one of the biggest titles, against Novak, and I felt like, \u2018Whoa, I\u2019m there\u2019. Even though I\u2019m mentally strong in a way, I felt like the following year at the beginning of the year was not what I was hoping or thinking it would be. That pushed me away a little bit and showed me that I needed to settle, to keep working towards my goals and that not everything would just come from the sky. <\/p>\n
I would say just travelling. The Tour forces us to travel, which I\u2019m not complaining about. Tournaments in different cities and countries around the world. I would not travel as much if I wasn\u2019t doing what I am doing now. <\/p>\n