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]
Early life
Schnur 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
2011–13
In 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
At 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
In 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
Schnur 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
In 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.
(W) winner; (F) finalist; (SF) semifinalist; (QF) quarterfinalist; (#R) rounds 4, 3, 2, 1; (RR) round-robin stage; (Q#) qualification round; (P#) preliminary round; (DNQ) did not qualify; (A) absent; (Z#) Davis/Fed Cup Zonal Group (with number indication) or (PO) play-off; (G) gold, (S) silver or (B) bronze Olympic/Paralympic medal; (NMS) not a Masters tournament; (NTI) not a Tier I tournament; (P) postponed; (NH) not held; (SR) strike rate (events won / competed); (W–L) win–loss record.
To avoid confusion and double counting, these charts are updated at the conclusion of a tournament or when the player's participation has ended.
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