Rudolf Molleker


Rudolf Molleker is a German tennis player. He was born in Sieverodonetsk in Ukraine to Roman and Tanja Molleker and moved to Oranienburg in Germany when he was three years old. He is of Russian–German descent.
Molleker achieved a career high ATP singles ranking of world No. 146 in July 2019.
He trains at Patrick Mouratoglou Academy in Sophia Antipolis since 2018.

Tennis career

2017

Molleker made his ATP main draw debut at the German Open after defeating Casper Ruud and Leonardo Mayer in the qualifying rounds.

2018

Molleker won his first ATP Challenger Tour title as a wild card at the Heilbronner Neckarcup, defeating Jiří Veselý in the final.
He won his first match at ATP-level at the Stuttgart Open, defeating compatriot Jan-Lennard Struff in the first round.
At the German Open he beat former world No. 3 David Ferrer in the first round.

ATP Challenger and ITF Futures finals

Singles: 4 (1–3)

ResultW–LDateTournamentTierSurfaceOpponentScore
Loss0–1Tunisia F25, HammametFuturesClay Elliot Benchetrit4–6, 0–2 ret.
Loss0–2Turkey F15, AntalyaFuturesClay Nino Serdarušić5–7, 2–6
Win1–02018 Heilbronner Neckarcup – Singles|Heilbronn, GermanyChallengerClay Jiří Veselý4–6, 6–4, 7–5
Loss1–12019 Poznań Open – Singles|Poznan, PolandChallengerClay Tommy Robredo7–5, 4–6, 1–6

Doubles: 1 (1–0)

ResultW–LDateTournamentTierSurfacePartnerOpponentsScore
Win1–0Tunisia F25, HammametFuturesClay Elliot Benchetrit Aziz Dougaz
Anis Ghorbel
7–5, 6–3

Junior Grand Slam finals

Doubles: 1 (1 runner-up)

Singles performance timeline

Current through the 2019 ATP Tour.