Bruno Kuzuhara Explained

Bruno Kuzuhara (born 1 April 2004) is an American professional tennis player.^[1] He has a career-high singles ranking of No. 394 achieved on 22 July 2024. He won the 2022 Australian Open Juniors singles and doubles events.

Personal life

Born in Brazil, both his parents have Japanese heritage. They moved to the U.S. when he was a baby. He now lives in Coconut Creek, Florida. He has trained under Brian Baker at the national campus in Florida.^[2]

Career

He was given his ATP tour debut as a wildcard at the 2021 US Open in the mixed doubles alongside Elvina Kalieva.^[3]

As the top seed, he won the 2022 Australian Open in Boys singles defeating Czech Jakub Menšík. He also won the doubles event partnering Hong Kong player Coleman Wong. At 17 years old he became the fourth player from the US in the Open Era to claim the junior singles title, following in the footsteps of Andy Roddick, Donald Young and Sebastian Korda. He was also the first player since Czech Jiří Veselý in 2011 to sweep the singles and doubles events.^[4]

ITF World Tennis Tour finals

Singles: ITF 5 (3–2)

Finals by surface Hard (2–0) Clay (1–2) Grass (0–0) Carpet (0–0)

Result	W–L	Date	Tournament	Tier	Surface	Opponent	Score
Loss	0–1		M15 Antalya, Turkey	WTT	Clay	Luca Tomasetto	4–6, 1–6
Loss	0–2		M15 Antalya, Turkey	WTT	Clay	Rrezart Cungu	6–4, 3–6, 1–6
Win	1–2		M15 Punta del Este, Uruguay	WTT	Clay	Álvaro Guillén Meza	6–7(3–7), 6–1, 6–3
Win	2–2		M15 Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic	WTT	Hard	Facundo Mena	7–5, 7–5
Win	3–2		M15 Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic	WTT	Hard	Facundo Mena	6–1, 6–0

Doubles: ITF 6 (3–3)

Finals by surface Hard (0–2) Clay (3–1) Grass (0–0) Carpet (0–0)

Result	W–L	Date	Tournament	Tier	Surface	Partner	Opponents	Score
Loss	0–1		M15 Edwardsville, USA	WTT	Hard	Christian Langmo	Nathan Ponwith Reese Stalder	4–6, 4–6
Win	1–1		M15 Naples, USA	WTT	Clay	Abedallah Shelbayh	Johannes Ingildsen Duarte Vale	6–4, 6–1
Win	2–1		M15 Antalya, Turkey	WTT	Clay	Victor Lilov	Maks Kaśnikowski Jérôme Kym	Walkover
Loss	2–2		M25 Montauban, France	WTT	Clay	Iñaki Cabrera Bello	Ugo Blanchet Arthur Reymond	3–6, 3–6
Loss	2–3		M15 Monastir, Tunisia	WTT	Hard	Sun Fajing	James Frawley Christoph Negritu	4–6, 6–1, [6–10]
Win	3–3		M15 Weston, USA	WTT	Clay	Vasil Kirkov	Jiří Jeníček Daniel Pátý	6–2, 6–3

Junior Grand Slam finals

Doubles: 1 (1 title)

ITF World Tennis Tour Juniors

Singles: 10 (5 titles, 5 runner-ups)

Legend
Category JA (1–1)
Category J1 (1–3)
Category J2 (0–0)
Category J3 (0–0)
Category J4 (0–1)
Category J5 (3–0)

Result	W–L	Date	Tournament	Category	Surface	Opponent	Score
Win	1–0		III Copa Mangulina, Dominican Republic	Category G5	Clay	Alexander Zederbauer Lapentti	6–1, 3–6, 6–3
Win	2–0		Goombay Splash Bowl, The Bahamas	Category G5	Hard	Jacobi Bain	6–3, 6–3
Win	3–0		J5 Curitiba, Brazil	Category J5	Clay	Joaquim De Almeida	6–0, 5–7, 6–2
Loss	3–1		J4 Boca Raton, United States	Category J4	Hard	Jack Anthrop	4–6, 7–6(7–4), 1–6
Loss	3–2		J1 Lambaré, Paraguay	Category J1	Clay	Luciano Darderi	6–7(2–7), 1–6
Loss	3–3		J1 Salinas, Ecuador	Category J1	Hard	Shang Juncheng	2–6, 6–1, 2–6
Win	4–3		J1 Lambaré, Paraguay	Category J1	Clay	Pedro Boscardin Dias	6–4, 6–2
Loss	4–4		J1 Porto Alegre, Brazil	Category J1	Clay	Leo Borg	6–3, 4–6, 2–6
Loss	4–5		JA Plantation, United States	Category JA	Clay	Adolfo Daniel Vallejo	2–6, 3–6
Win	5–5		Australian Open, Australia	Category JA	Hard	Jakub Menšík	7–6(7–4), 6–7(6–8), 7–5

Doubles: 6 (1 title, 5 runner-ups)

Legend
Category JA (1–0)
Category J1 (0–2)
Category J2 (0–1)
Category J3 (0–0)
Category J4 (0–1)
Category J5 (0–1)

Result	W–L	Date	Tournament	Category	Surface	Partner	Opponents	Score
Loss	0–1		J4 Plantation, United States	Category J4	Clay	Jake Krug	Jameson Corsillo Hunter Heck	4–6, 6–7(4–7)
Loss	0–2		J5 Curitiba, Brazil	Category J5	Clay	João Pedro de Favari Engel	Joao Victor Couto Loureiro Gustavo Madureira	2–6, 4–6
Loss	0–3		J2 Montréal, Canada	Category J2	Hard	Victor Lilov	Joshua Lapadat Ilya Tiraspolsky	2–6, 3–6
Loss	0–4		J1 Salinas, Ecuador	Category J1	Hard	Victor Lilov	Alexander Bernard Dali Blanch	4–6, 7–6(11–9), [2–10]
Loss	0–5		J1 Traralgon, Australia	Category J1	Hard	Coleman Wong	Edas Butvilas Mili Poljičak	7–5, 2–6, [4–10]
Win	1–5		Australian Open, Australia	Category JA	Hard	Coleman Wong	Alex Michelsen Adolfo Daniel Vallejo	6–3, 7–6(7–3)

Notes and References

1. Web site: Bruno Kuzuhara Player Profile. www.usopen.org.
2. Web site: Roland Garros 2021: Bruno Kuzuhara returns to juniors as No. 2 seed after pro debut. www.usta.com.
3. Web site: Mixed Doubles: Dabrowski, Stefani set friendship aside. www.usopen.org.
4. Web site: Junior wrap: Top seeds deliver in the finals cauldron.