Beibit Zhukayev

Beibit Zhukayev
	Zhukayev in 2023
Country (sports)	Kazakhstan
Born	12 October 2000 (age 24); Aktau, Kazakhstan
Height	1.96 m (6 ft 5 in)
Plays	Right-handed (two-handed backhand)
Prize money	$208,193
Singles
Career record	4–5 (at ATP Tour level, Grand Slam level, and in Davis Cup)
Career titles	0
Highest ranking	No. 171 (20 May 2024)
Current ranking	No. 200 (9 September 2024)
Grand Slam singles results
Australian Open	Q2 (2024)
French Open	Q1 (2024)
Wimbledon	Q3 (2024)
US Open	Q2 (2024)
Doubles
Career record	0–1 (at ATP Tour level, Grand Slam level, and in Davis Cup)
Career titles	0
Highest ranking	No. 327 (3 October 2022)
	Last updated on: 10 September 2024.

Beibit Zhukayev (born 12 October 2000) is a Kazakh tennis player.^[1] He has a career high ATP singles ranking of world No. 171 achieved on 20 May 2024 and a doubles ranking of No. 327 achieved on 3 October 2022.^[2] He is the current No. 5 Kazakh player.^[3]

Career

Zhukayev made his ATP main draw debut at the 2022 Astana Open after receiving a wildcard for the singles and doubles main draws. He was then defeated by Botic van de Zandschulp in the first round.^[4]

Ranked No. 302, he made his debut in qualifying at a Masters 1000 level at the 2023 Rolex Shanghai Masters. He qualified for the main draw and won his first round match over qualifier Stefano Napolitano on his Masters debut. He lost to 13th seed Karen Khachanov.^[5] Following a quarterfinal showing at the 2023 Shenzhen Longhua Open he returned to the top 250 on 16 October 2023.

He reached the top 175 in the rankings on 6 May 2024 following three quarterfinals showings at two Challengers in Mexico and one in China in April.

ATP Challenger Tour finals

Singles: 2 (1 title, 1 runner-up)

Legend
ATP Challenger Tour (1–1)

Result	W–L	Date	Tournament	Tier	Surface	Opponent	Score
Loss	0–1	Jun 2023	Little Rock, USA	Challenger	Hard	Mark Lajal	4–6, 5–7
Win	1–1	Oct 2023	Charlottesville, USA	Challenger	Hard (i)	Aidan Mayo	6–3, 6–4

ITF World Tennis Tour finals

Singles: 5 (5 runner-ups)

Legend
ITF WTT (0–5)

Finals by surface
Hard (0–4)
Clay (0–0)
Grass (0–0)
Carpet (0–1)

Result	W–L	Date	Tournament	Tier	Surface	Opponent	Score
Loss	0–1	Sep 2019	M25 Almaty, Kazakhstan	WTT	Hard	Jurabek Karimov	5–7, 3–6
Loss	0–2	Oct 2019	M15 Qarshi, Uzbekistan	WTT	Hard	Khumoyun Sultanov	2–6, 1–6
Loss	0–3	Mar 2022	M25 Nur-Sultan, Kazakhstan	WTT	Hard (i)	Alibek Kachmazov	3–6, 7–6^(7–5), 6–7^(4–7)
Loss	0–4	Jul 2022	M25 Nur-Sultan, Kazakhstan	WTT	Hard	Sergey Fomin	4–6, 6–2, 4–6
Loss	0–5	Mar 2023	M25 Trimbach, Switzerland	WTT	Carpet (i)	Kacper Żuk	4–6, 4–6