Brayden Schnur (born July 4, 1995) is a Canadian professional tennis player. He reached a career-high ATP singles ranking of No. 92 in August 2019. Schnur was a part of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill tennis team from January 2014 to May 2016. He turned professional in July 2016 at the Rogers Cup.[1] Schnur was a member of the Canadian team that won the 2022 ATP Cup.[2]
Country (sports) | Canada |
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Residence | Grand Bahama, Bahamas |
Born | Pickering, Ontario, Canada | July 4, 1995
Height | 1.94 m (6 ft 4+1⁄2 in) |
Turned pro | 2016 |
Plays | Right-handed (two-handed backhand) |
College | North Carolina Tar Heels |
Coach | Raheel Manji |
Prize money | US$887,903 |
Singles | |
Career record | 4–19 |
Career titles | 0 |
Highest ranking | No. 92 (19 August 2019) |
Current ranking | No. 917 (14 August 2023) |
Grand Slam singles results | |
Australian Open | Q2 (2020) |
French Open | Q2 (2020) |
Wimbledon | 1R (2019) |
US Open | 1R (2019) |
Doubles | |
Career record | 1–6 |
Career titles | 0 |
Highest ranking | No. 251 (8 Mar 2021) |
Last updated on: 18 August 2023. |
Early life
editSchnur was born in Pickering, Ontario, to Chris Schnur and Anne-Marie Nielsen; he has a younger sister named Amanda.[3] He first started playing tennis at the age of eight, on public courts near his home in Pickering.[4] Schnur left home at the age of 14 and moved to Bradenton, Florida, where he trained with Heath Turpin.[3] He was part of Tennis Canada's National Training Centre from 2011 to 2013 under the guidance of Guillaume Marx.[5]
Tennis career
edit2011–13
editIn April 2011, Schnur won the first title of his career on the Junior Circuit at the G5 in Burlington.[6] He played his first professional tournament at the Futures in Indian Harbour Beach in June 2011 where he lost in qualifying.[7] In February 2012, Schnur and fellow Canadian Hugo Di Feo won the doubles title at the G2 junior tournament in La Paz.[8] The pair also won the junior doubles title at the GB1 in Tulsa in October 2012.[9]
In July 2013, Schnur reached his first professional singles final at the Futures in Kelowna but was defeated in three sets by compatriot Philip Bester.[10] A month later at the Futures in Calgary, Schnur won the first professional singles of his career with a revenge victory over Bester.[11] At the end of August 2013, he became the first Canadian man to win the G1 junior tournament in Repentigny.[12] In November 2013, Schnur won his first pro doubles title with a win over Alex Llompart and Finn Tearney.[13]
2014
editAt the Richmond Futures in June, Schnur made it to his second professional doubles final but lost to Rik de Voest and his partner.[14] Two weeks later at the Futures in Saskatoon, he captured the second pro doubles title of his career with a straight sets victory over Mousheg Hovhannisyan and Alexander Sarkissian.[15] In July, Schnur reached the semifinals in doubles of the 2014 Challenger Banque Nationale de Granby.[16] At the Rogers Cup in August, Schnur qualified for his first ATP main draw with wins over world No. 94 Matthew Ebden and 9th seed Yūichi Sugita.[17] He lost to world No. 51 Andreas Seppi in the first round.[18] In August at the Futures in Calgary, Schnur captured the third doubles title of his career with Tar Heels teammate Jack Murray after defeating Dimitar Kutrovsky and Dennis Nevolo.[19] In late October, Schnur captured the NCAA regional singles title, providing him with a bid into the 2014 National Indoor Championships in New York. Schnur then went on to take the 2014 Singles National Indoor Championships.[20]
2015–16
editIn June 2015 at the Richmond Futures, Schnur reached the third singles final of his career but fell in three sets to compatriot Philip Bester.[21] In July, he was part of the Canadian team at the 2015 Pan American Games in Toronto where he made it to the quarterfinals in singles.[22] In August at the 2015 Rogers Cup qualifying, Schnur upset world No. 98 Ruben Bemelmans in straight sets in the first round but was defeated by world No. 76 Lu Yen-hsun in the final round.[23]
Schnur captured his second pro singles title in September 2016 after defeating Tim van Rijthoven at the Calgary Futures.[24] Also in September 2016, he won the doubles title at the Niagara-on-the-Lake Futures with fellow Canadian Filip Peliwo and reached the final in singles.[25] In December 2016, he won his third Futures singles title with a victory over JC Aragone in Tallahassee.[26]
2017–18
editSchnur won the fourth ITF singles title of his career in April 2017at the 25K in Little Rock with a victory over compatriot Philip Bester.[27] He captured his second straight Futures title three weeks later in Abuja, defeating Fabiano de Paula in the final.[28]
In January 2018, at his first tournament of the season, he reached the final of his first ATP Challenger at the 75K in Playford, but was defeated by Jason Kubler.[29]
2019
editIn February 2019, the Canadian reached the singles final of the New York Open, where he lost to Reilly Opelka. After reaching the final, his ranking moved to a then career-high 107th in the world. Schnur made the men's singles draw of a Grand Slam for the first time at Wimbledon, when he replaced Borna Ćorić as a lucky loser after the Croatian player withdrew with an injury. He also entered at the US Open as a direct entry, his only other Major participation.
ATP career finals
editSingles: 1 (1 runner-up)
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Result | W–L | Date | Tournament | Tier | Surface | Opponent | Score |
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Loss | 0–1 | Feb 2019 | New York Open, United States | 250 Series | Hard (i) | Reilly Opelka | 1–6, 7–6(9–7), 6–7(7–9) |
Other finals
editTeam competitions: 2 (1 title, 1 runner-up)
editResult | Date | Tournament | Surface | Partners | Opponents | Score |
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Loss | Nov 2019 | Davis Cup, Madrid | Hard (i) | Denis Shapovalov Félix Auger-Aliassime Vasek Pospisil |
Rafael Nadal Roberto Bautista Agut Pablo Carreño Busta Feliciano López Marcel Granollers |
0–2 |
Win | Jan 2022 | ATP Cup, Sydney | Hard | Félix Auger-Aliassime Denis Shapovalov Steven Diez |
Roberto Bautista Agut Pablo Carreño Busta A Davidovich Fokina Albert Ramos Viñolas Pedro Martínez |
2–0 |
Challenger and Futures finals
editSingles: 12 (5–7)
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Result | W–L | Date | Tournament | Tier | Surface | Opponent | Score |
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Loss | 0–1 | Jul 2013 | Canada F3, Kelowna | Futures | Hard | Philip Bester | 7–6(11–9), 6–7(6–8), 3–6 |
Win | 1–1 | Aug 2013 | Canada F5, Calgary | Futures | Hard | Philip Bester | 7–6(7–5), 3–6, 7–6(7–4) |
Loss | 1–2 | Jun 2015 | Canada F3, Richmond | Futures | Hard | Philip Bester | 6–3, 4–6, 6–7(4–7) |
Win | 2–2 | Sep 2016 | Canada F6, Calgary | Futures | Hard | Tim van Rijthoven | 6–3, 3–6, 6–3 |
Loss | 2–3 | Sep 2016 | Canada F9, Niagara-on-the-Lake | Futures | Hard (i) | Adam El Mihdawy | 6–4, 5–7, 4–6 |
Win | 3–3 | Dec 2016 | USA F40, Tallahassee | Futures | Hard (i) | JC Aragone | 7–5, 3–6, 6–2 |
Win | 4–3 | Apr 2017 | USA F13, Little Rock | Futures | Hard | Philip Bester | 7–6(7–4), 6–1 |
Win | 5–3 | May 2017 | Nigeria F1, Abuja | Futures | Hard | Fabiano de Paula | 7–6(7–2), 6–4 |
Loss | 5–4 | Jan 2018 | Playford, Australia | Challenger | Hard | Jason Kubler | 4–6, 2–6 |
Loss | 5–5 | Jan 2019 | Newport Beach, USA | Challenger | Hard | Taylor Fritz | 6–7(7–9), 4–6 |
Loss | 5–6 | Jul 2019 | Winnipeg, Canada | Challenger | Hard | Norbert Gombos | 6–7(3–7), 3–6 |
Loss | 5–7 | Nov 2019 | Charlottesville, USA | Challenger | Hard | Vasek Pospisil | 6–7(2–7), 6–3, 2–6 |
Doubles: 6 (4–2)
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Result | W–L | Date | Tournament | Tier | Surface | Partner | Opponents | Score |
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Win | 1–0 | Nov 2013 | Mexico F17, Quintana Roo | Futures | Hard | Hugo Di Feo | Alex Llompart Finn Tearney |
6–4, 5–7, [10–8] |
Loss | 1–1 | Jun 2014 | Canada F3, Richmond | Futures | Hard | Hans Hach | Rik de Voest Matt Seeberger |
7–5, 5–7, [5–10] |
Win | 2–1 | Jul 2014 | Canada F5, Saskatoon | Futures | Hard | Hans Hach | Mousheg Hovhannisyan Alexander Sarkissian |
6–2, 6–3 |
Win | 3–1 | Aug 2014 | Canada F7, Calgary | Futures | Hard | Jack Murray | Dimitar Kutrovsky Dennis Nevolo |
6–4, 3–6, [10–7] |
Win | 4–1 | Sep 2016 | Canada F9, Niagara-on-the-Lake | Futures | Hard (i) | Filip Peliwo | Iván Endara Nicolás Jarry |
6–3, 6–3 |
Loss | 4–2 | Feb 2021 | Potchefstroom, South Africa | Challenger | Hard | Peter Polansky | Marc-Andrea Hüsler Zdeněk Kolář |
4–6, 6–2, [4–10] |
Singles performance timeline
editW | F | SF | QF | #R | RR | Q# | P# | DNQ | A | Z# | PO | G | S | B | NMS | NTI | P | NH |
Current through the 2022 Australian Open.
Tournament | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | SR | W–L |
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Grand Slam tournaments | ||||||||||||
Australian Open | A | A | A | A | Q1 | Q1 | Q2 | Q1 | Q1 | A | 0 / 0 | 0–0 |
French Open | A | A | A | A | A | A | Q2 | Q1 | A | A | 0 / 0 | 0–0 |
Wimbledon | A | A | A | A | Q3 | 1R | NH | Q2 | A | A | 0 / 1 | 0–1 |
US Open | A | A | A | Q1 | A | 1R | A | Q1 | A | 0 / 1 | 0–1 | |
Win–loss | 0–0 | 0–0 | 0–0 | 0–0 | 0–0 | 0–2 | 0–0 | 0–0 | 0–0 | 0 / 2 | 0–2 | |
National representation | ||||||||||||
Davis Cup | A | A | A | PO | A | A | RR | A | A | 0 / 1 | 0–3 | |
ATP World Tour Masters 1000 | ||||||||||||
Indian Wells Masters | A | A | A | A | A | A | NH | Q1 | A | A | 0 / 0 | 0–0 |
Miami Open | A | A | A | A | A | A | NH | Q1 | A | A | 0 / 0 | 0–0 |
Canadian Open | 1R | Q2 | Q1 | 1R | Q1 | 1R | NH | 1R | A | Q2 | 0 / 4 | 0–4 |
Shanghai Masters | A | A | A | A | A | Q1 | NH | A | A | 0 / 0 | 0–0 | |
Win–loss | 0–1 | 0–0 | 0–0 | 0–1 | 0–0 | 0–1 | 0–0 | 0–1 | 0–0 | 0 / 4 | 0–4 | |
Career statistics | ||||||||||||
Tournaments | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 8 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 15 | ||
Titles | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
Finals | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | ||
Overall win–loss | 0–1 | 0–0 | 0–0 | 0–3 | 0–1 | 4–8 | 0–1 | 0–3 | 0–0 | 4–17 | ||
Year-end ranking | 608 | 663 | 545 | 217 | 172 | 106 | 208 | 238 | 909 | 876 | $874,128 |
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