Oliver Ojakäär
Oliver Ojakäär is an Estonian professional tennis player. He has a career-high ATP singles ranking of No. 869, achieved on 18 March 2024.
Ojakäär won the US Open boys' doubles title in 2023, playing alongside Max Dahlin. He reached an ITF junior combined ranking of world No. 10 on 5 June 2023.
Career
From Tartu, where he plays for Club MK Tennis, Ojakäär won his first junior ITF tournament in 2021 in Jūrmala, Latvia. He started 2023 with a junior ranking of world number 55.Coached by former junior grand slam champion Kenneth Raisma, he made his junior grand slam debut at the 2023 Australian Open. He reached the last-16 of the boys' singles and the quarter finals of the boys' doubles in Melbourne. He won the boys' doubles at the 2023 US Open alongside Max Dahlin, defeating Federico Bondioli of Italy and Joel Schwärzler of Austria) in the final by a score of 3-6, 6-3, 11-9 at Flushing Mesdow, New York. In doing so, Ojakääru became the fourth Estonian to triumph in a grand slam tournament after Toomas Leius at the 1959 Wimbledon junior tournament, Kaia Kanepi at the 2001 French Open, and Ojakääru's coach Kenneth Raisma who won junior Wimbledon with Stefanos Tsitsipas in 2016. By the conclusion of the 2023 season he had lowered his junior world ranking to tenth in the world. He played alongside his coach Kenneth Raisma at the Alexela Team Cup in Tallinn, Estonia in November 2023.
After making the step-up to the professional ranks, he was a finalist on the ITF Tennis Tour in Sharm-el-Sheikh, Egypt in February 2024, where he faced local player Mohamed Safwat, world ranked 361st, in the semi-finals, before losing in straight sets to Czech player Marek Gengel in the final.
Personal life
In November 2024, he agreed to attend the University of Texas in the United States, on a scholarship from the spring of 2025.ITF World Tennis Tour finals
Singles: 1 (runner-up)
| Result | W–L | Date | Tournament | Tier | Surface | Opponent | Score | |||||||||||||||
| Loss | 0–1 | M15 Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt | WTT | Hard |  Doubles: 2 (1 title, 1 runner-up)
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