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Petro Kuzmenok
- Height:
- 6-3
- Class:
- Senior
- Hometown:
- Fairfield, Connecticut
- High School:
- Fairfield Warde
HONORS
2025-26 (Junior)
Finished the season with a 20-9 singles record and a 25-5 doubles record… Posted a 12-6 singles record and a 15-2 doubles record in dual matches… Was named the American Conference Player of the Year and to the All-Conference singles and doubles teams… He and partner Santiago Navarro won the conference doubles title and represented the conference at the ITA Conference Masters… Was named the ITA Texas Region Arthur Ashe Leadership & Sportsmanship Award recipient and an ITA Scholar-Athlete… Earned a spot on the CSC Academic All-District Team.
2024-25 (Sophomore)
Named to both the AAC All-Conference Singles and Doubles teams after a breakout sophomore season ... Finished the year with a 21-11 singles and 21-6 doubles record, including marks of 13-7 and 16-3 in duals matches ... Was the clincher against LSU at the No. 1 position on Feb. 7 ... Won six-straight singles matches between Feb. 7 (LSU) and March 8 (Abilene Christian) ... Went unbeaten in seven of his final eight singles matches of the season, including a stretch of going undefeated in singles during the AAC Tournament ... Also did not lose a doubles match with partner Santiago Navarro after March 18.
2023-24 (Freshman)
Went 17-9 and 13-6 in singles and doubles, respectively, with dual match records of 13-5 and 8-4... Posted a season-best winning streak of eight consecutive matches, part of a stretch of 11 wins out of 12 matches that included a pair of wins at the fourth position against opponents from Presbyterian and Creighton... Earned the clinching point in four matches, including the 4-3 win at Charlotte plus wins over Cal Poly, Wichita State and UAB, clinching the team title at the Ralph O'Connor Invitational with his win against the Blazers... Went 6-3 in doubles at the No. 2 position playing alongside senior Trinity Grear, including a 6-3 win over Alabama's Filip Planinsek and Andrii Zimnokh, then-ranked 35th in the ITA rankings... Posted a 6-2 singles mark against AAC opponents... Went 14-4 in matches decided in straight sets.
Fairfield Warde/Juniors
Three-time state CIAC singles champion for coach John Harvey and ranked as a five-star recruit by Tennis Recruiting.net… Trained under coach Brian Barker who also trained former Harvard star and World #4 singles player James Blake… Has a pair of USTA Level 3 tournament titles to his credit as well as the 2022 & 2023 USTA New England Summer Sectionals… Reached the quarterfinals of the USTA U18 National Indoor Championship in November of 2022… Ranked 20th nationally in the U18 age group.
Personal
Born: June 14 at Kharkiv, Ukraine... Parents: Vladimir and Ekaterina Kuzmenok… Family emigrated to the US in 2011… One brother.
Sid Richardson College
- 2026 American Conference Player of the Year
- 2026 American All-Conference Doubles
- 2026 American All-Conference Singles
- 2026 ITA Texas Region Arthur Ashe Leadership & Sportsmanship Award
- 2026 ITA Scholar-Athlete
- 2025-26 CSC Academic All-District Team
- 2025 AAC All-Conference Singles
- 2025 AAC All-Conference Doubles
- 2024-25 CSC Academic All-District
- 2023-24 AAC All-Academic Team
2025-26 (Junior)
Finished the season with a 20-9 singles record and a 25-5 doubles record… Posted a 12-6 singles record and a 15-2 doubles record in dual matches… Was named the American Conference Player of the Year and to the All-Conference singles and doubles teams… He and partner Santiago Navarro won the conference doubles title and represented the conference at the ITA Conference Masters… Was named the ITA Texas Region Arthur Ashe Leadership & Sportsmanship Award recipient and an ITA Scholar-Athlete… Earned a spot on the CSC Academic All-District Team.
2024-25 (Sophomore)
Named to both the AAC All-Conference Singles and Doubles teams after a breakout sophomore season ... Finished the year with a 21-11 singles and 21-6 doubles record, including marks of 13-7 and 16-3 in duals matches ... Was the clincher against LSU at the No. 1 position on Feb. 7 ... Won six-straight singles matches between Feb. 7 (LSU) and March 8 (Abilene Christian) ... Went unbeaten in seven of his final eight singles matches of the season, including a stretch of going undefeated in singles during the AAC Tournament ... Also did not lose a doubles match with partner Santiago Navarro after March 18.
2023-24 (Freshman)
Went 17-9 and 13-6 in singles and doubles, respectively, with dual match records of 13-5 and 8-4... Posted a season-best winning streak of eight consecutive matches, part of a stretch of 11 wins out of 12 matches that included a pair of wins at the fourth position against opponents from Presbyterian and Creighton... Earned the clinching point in four matches, including the 4-3 win at Charlotte plus wins over Cal Poly, Wichita State and UAB, clinching the team title at the Ralph O'Connor Invitational with his win against the Blazers... Went 6-3 in doubles at the No. 2 position playing alongside senior Trinity Grear, including a 6-3 win over Alabama's Filip Planinsek and Andrii Zimnokh, then-ranked 35th in the ITA rankings... Posted a 6-2 singles mark against AAC opponents... Went 14-4 in matches decided in straight sets.
Fairfield Warde/Juniors
Three-time state CIAC singles champion for coach John Harvey and ranked as a five-star recruit by Tennis Recruiting.net… Trained under coach Brian Barker who also trained former Harvard star and World #4 singles player James Blake… Has a pair of USTA Level 3 tournament titles to his credit as well as the 2022 & 2023 USTA New England Summer Sectionals… Reached the quarterfinals of the USTA U18 National Indoor Championship in November of 2022… Ranked 20th nationally in the U18 age group.
Personal
Born: June 14 at Kharkiv, Ukraine... Parents: Vladimir and Ekaterina Kuzmenok… Family emigrated to the US in 2011… One brother.
| Singles | Overall | Tour | Dual | #1 | #2 | #3 | #4 | #5 | #6 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023-24 | 17-9 | 4-4 | 13-5 | - | - | - | 2-0 | 10-5 | 1-0 |
| TOTAL | 17-9 | 4-4 | 13-5 | - | - | - | 2-0 | 10-5 | 1-0 |
| Doubles | Overall | Tour | Dual | #1 | #2 | #3 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023-24 | 13-6 | 5-2 | 8-4 | - | 7-4 | 1-0 |
| TOTAL | 13-6 | 5-2 | 8-4 | - | 7-4 | 1-0 |
Sid Richardson College
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