Alexander Bublik’s Racquet – Player Profile

Updated 18 September, 2024
An exciting player that many people have their eyes on is Alexander Bublik from Kazakhstan. Let’s look a bit closer at his biography, stats and also, what racquet does Bublik use?

Alexander (Sasha) Bublik came into the spotlight when he faced Andy Murray in Wimbledon in 2017. Bublik had said some comments to the press (the Daily Mail) that angered a lot of tennis fans. Such as when he said that watching the likes of Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal bores him: ‘They’re rallying for, like, 45 shots, you’re sitting there thinking: “Can I quit tennis please?”‘

He apparently also said. “I never had idols in my life. I never watched anyone play. If you ask me how many titles Federer has won, I will not know.”

And: “Last year I was only doing trick shots. Even if I was playing against good guys, top 100 or whatever, I wasn’t interested. I would make 100 drop shots to try to win the match.”

Nick Kyrgios two years ago or so comes to mind. Or Bernard Tomic any year. But let’s disregard this as youthful spunk to rally tennis fans and stir up some controversy. It sounds pretty much like baloney any way. The question here is what racquet Bublik is using, because on a good day, this youngster can play.

Alexander Bublik’s racquet

Bublik was playing with a Wilson Six One 95 in a Wilson Pro Staff 97 paint job in the pic above, but much has happened in recent years. Firstly, he went to Yonex for a while and the Yonex Ezone 98. Yonex did not like him breaking so many racquets and they had a falling out. Then he went to the HEAD Gravity Pro, but that did not quite work for him either.

Now, he is using the Tecnifibre Tfight ISO 305, a racquet growing in popularity among pros on all levels. It is also used by Daniil Medvedev and the Tfight 300 is used by Iga Swiatek.

Bublik is currently using the following unstrung specs and has his racquets tuned by DC customizing in Belgium:

Weight: 319 grams (add about 25g for strings and overgrip 344 approx)
Balance: 31.7 cm (should be about 32.5 cm with strings and overgrip)
Swing weight: 304 SW (add 30 pts with strings for 334 SW)

You can check out the Tfight 305 from our friends at Tennis Warehouse, Tennis Warehouse Europe and Tennis Only.

Biography and Career

Alexander Bublik, the current Kazakhstani No. 1 player, was born born 17th June 1997. He began playing tennis at a very early age and had some success on the junior tour where he reached a career-high ranking of no 19. On the ITF junior circuit he won six singles and five doubles titles.

Bublik turned professional in 2016 when he started as world no 964. The following year he debuted in Top 200, Top 150 and Top 100.

2018 was a tough year for Bublik, but in 2019 he managed to fight his way into the top 50 and reached two ATP Finals (Newport and Chengdu).

Alexander has during the years proven himself as a great doubles player and in 2020 he reached his first Grand Slam doubles semifinal, with Kazakh Mikhail Kukushkin.

His first top 10 victory came against Gaël Monfils at the French Open in the same year.

Up until today, Alexander Bublik has four ATP titles, one ATP 500 event in Halle and three ATP 250 (Montpellier x 2 and Antwerp).

Stats / Info

• Currently ranked 27 in the world
• Achieved career-high no 17 in May 2024
• Favourite surface is hard and grass court
• Favorite shot: serve
• Coach: Artem Suprunov
• Biggest win: Beating Alexander Zverev in the 2022 Montpellier final for his first ATP title

Follow Alexander Bublik

Fans of Bublik can follow him on Instagram @bublik where he has 672K followers or on his X profile with 2600 followers.

Below you can watch his famous “best shot that never counted” against Ben Shelton.