Bublik, the man who in one season went from retirement to reaching the Top Ten

With a balance of 37-22 during these eleven months, Alexander Bublik completed his best season as a professional tennis player. The titles in Halle, Gstaad, Kitzbühel and Hangzhou gave him the necessary consideration to “believe it.” Such was the rise that he reached position No. 11 in the world ranking, just 120 points below Jack Draper (tenth).

“I’m on the right track. My goal right now is to be Top 10. It would be a dream if I manage to reach this goal one day. Now I have the feeling that if I use my full potential, if I continue working with this concentration, I can really do it,” stressed the representative of Kazakhstan.

But not everything was “rosy” in 2025. “I ended up very dissatisfied with myself at the end of last season, even at the beginning of this one. In fact, I considered ending my career because I was worried about falling out of the Top 100, that would have changed everything. After Indian Wells, I went to Las Vegas for three days to unwind, but the truth is that I left quite worried. From then on, it was like starting a mission,” confessed before Tennis Magazine.

What was the click? “I gained a lot of self-confidence in the Challenger tournaments, fighting to get back up in the rankings. I improved my physical fitness, also a change of racket that was key, a much lighter model setting the weight at 291 grams. Suddenly I became much more stable. Also my training a little, for example, improving my forehand a lot, especially on clay,” he specified.